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Andrea Paterlini (he/him)

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Plant Molecular Biologist 🌱 Lecturer in Genetics Education at the University of Edinburgh. Tweets are my own 🌈

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Juliet Coates @julietccoates.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We have reached 10% of our target! Please share and donate if you can 💚
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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Begonia possesses remarkable diversity in leaf size and shape. Lucy Turnbull shared her research at #SLS26 investigating leaf morphogenic variation through transcriptomic analyses. #PlantScience
Lucy Turnbull presenting at #SLS26Begonia leaf diversity - images of huge varieity of begnia leaf shapes among species.
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Andrea Paterlini (he/him) @apaterlini.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Very excited to have Nadia Radzman, from @slcuplants.bsky.social, open our Monday Seminar Programme for this academic year! We’ve learned so much about plant peptides and neglected legume crops in her talk! 🫛🫘 Check out her www.broadnmind.com project! @instmolplantsci.bsky.social
Nadia Radzman presenting behind the podium
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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Our project, The Roots of Plant Science, will fund a specialist consultant to assess our unique history of science archive, providing advice on its future management and use.    Learn more about this project here: okt.to/8W0Y5f
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The Roots of Plant Science - John Innes Foundation
This September, the John Innes Historic Collections was awarded a competitive scoping grant from the Archives Revealed programme. Archives Revealed is the only grant programme in the United Kingdom dedicated to cataloguing and unlocking archival collections. The programme is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Pilgrim Trust, the Wolfson Foundation and The National Archives.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's not just that we had two wasted years under Keir Starmer - years in which, with a vast majority and quite a lot of goodwill - he could have turned this country around. On crucial issues, we had two years of spiralling backwards, towards a very dark place. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Ed Miliband to acknowledge Labour’s former stance on Palestine fell short
Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026
We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans
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John Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky
I am writing to let you know that, unfortunately, your application was not successful.

Review process

As part of the initial triage of the 179 proposals submitted to this call, each was assessed using an AI-based review. Every proposal was read independently by several different AI models against the same seven criteria used to shape this call (including cyber security relevance, research quality and novelty, importance of the problem addressed, feasibility of the project plan, likely outputs and impact, value for money, and responsible research practice), with each model asked to give a score and a written justification with supporting quotations from the text. To guard against any one model's idiosyncrasies, we also ran a second, independent process in which different AI models debated the merits and weaknesses of each proposal before reaching a judgement, again against the same criteria. Scores from both processes were combined to produce an overall ranking. 

This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review.  Projects selected for funding were drawn from those that progressed to the full human review stage. We recognise that AI-assisted assessment is a new and evolving part of the review process, and we are continuing to evaluate how well it aligns with the judgements of human reviewers on this call. We will soon produce a document detailing our method, so that others can build upon it and improve it.

Feedback on your application

Your application was not selected to progress beyond the AI triage stage.  To provide transparency on the outcome of this assessment, we are sharing below the scores (out of 5) from each of the two AI review processes described above, together with the mean score across the two processes.
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Highly recommended long read. (If opened in Substack app, should be automatically translated into English.) florianaigner.substack.com/p/die-ruckke...
Screenshot // The Return of Racial Theory
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Martina De Angelis @martinadeangelis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So many inspiring talks today at #SLS26! It was great to present my and @tadseymour.bsky.social work on carpel development and have many interesting chats. Thank you so much, looking forward to tomorrow!
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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What's new with TAIR12? The TAIR curatorial team is hard at work integrating the latest TAIR12 updates into the live TAIR database and toolset. 🧪 #PlantScience #PlantBiology #Arabidopsis #TAIR #TAIR12
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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Two seemingly unrelated sides of our lab collided today in the AWESOME new Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system poster: flowers 🌸 and phylogenomics 🧬 Need a new genome? Just pick up the phone and “dial-a-genome” 📞🧬 @getgenome.bsky.social www.tudelft.nl/en/hortus-bo...
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David Hoey @davidjhoey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Introducing PhyloDig: a small command-line tool I am developing to make comparative phylogenetic analyses easier. github.com/davidjhoey/P...
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GitHub - davidjhoey/PhyloDig: PhyloDig is a command line pipeline for automated homology mining across collections of protein and coding sequence databases. It combines HMMER searches, optional Pfam d...
PhyloDig is a command line pipeline for automated homology mining across collections of protein and coding sequence databases. It combines HMMER searches, optional Pfam domain filtering, and sequen...
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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A beautiful, honest, devastating article. My daughter is the same age as Hannah-Jones’ daughter, and we’ve had related, though significantly smaller (and whiter), experiences with schools in St. Louis and in Portland. The tension between living your values and helping your kid get ahead is real.
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Spoel Lab @spoel-lab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Excited to be part of the @aria-research.bsky.social funded £2.5m project IMPULSA: Tree Immunisation Platform for Urgent Landscape-Scale Adaptation. Led by @drelunadiez.bsky.social, IMPULSA will protect forests by accelerating the ability of trees to adapt to the rapidly changing environment.
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Marco Castellani @holocastellani.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So proud of this! Once again great teamwork and a great story from a very unusual model!!! Check it out!!!!
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Biochemist Dr. Ida Stephens Owens mapped how human genes control drug metabolism. The first Black woman to earn a PhD from Duke (1967), she spent ~50 years at NIH. She identified the UGT1A gene complex, decoding how enzymes detoxify drugs & harmful toxins. She was born #OTD in 1939.🧵 #WomenInSTEM
A charming photograph of American biochemist Dr. Ida Stephens Owens (1939–2020), renowned for her groundbreaking research on drug-detoxifying enzymes and human genetics, posing in a laboratory setting. Standing from the waist up, she is turned slightly to the right, looking forward with a warm, confident smile that lights up her face. She has short, curly black hair and wears a delicate gold chain necklace with a small round pendant, and a ring on her finger. She is dressed in a casual, short-sleeved beige knit top. Her forearms rest on a surface in the foreground, with one hand loosely holding a pink folder or pamphlet. Behind her, a brightly illuminated laboratory reveals her research environment, featuring a tall shelf tightly packed with colorful textbooks, alongside structured racks holding assorted glass beakers and scientific equipment. The overall composition balances her approachable, dignified expression with the busy backdrop of her historic, decades-long career at the National Institutes of Health.
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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Live confocal imagining of cellular touch responses upon local quantifiable mechanical stimulation in plant cells www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 13/09/2026
Ten years ago Tami, Roy, and I released a movie we made of antibiotic resistance evolving in real time. I thought maybe a couple thousand people tops would see it. I couldn't have imagined it would be seen millions of times, and be taught from middle school through the graduate level worldwide
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Botany One @botany.one · 12/09/2026
Director of Horticulture // Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh www.bgci.org/job/director... RBGE is seeking to appoint an inspiring and forward-thinking Director of Horticulture. Reporting to the Regius Keeper, role will shape the future of horticulture across our four gardens. #BotanyJobs
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Director of Horticulture - Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh | Botanic Gardens Conservation International
Full-time - Permanent- closing date 16 October 2026
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Gladfelter Lab @gladfelterlab.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
You're probably already doing science advocacy — you just might not call it that. Our new commentary (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) makes the case that every scientist has a role, and that advocacy takes many forms. Find and embrace yours! @natcellbio.nature.com @vfarm15.bsky.social
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Every scientist has a role in advocacy - Nature Cell Biology
In this Comment, we call on scientists to share their stories. Through casual conversation or prepared presentations, with images or essays, scientists can advocate for their research and reach taxpay...
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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I remember having a Peters projection map of the earth on my wall as a student over 40 years ago. Incredible that it has taken that long for the UN to adopt a replacement for the very eurocentric and colonialist Mercator projection. Naturally the US opposed the change. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size
The Togo-sponsored resolution was backed by 164 nations - the US the only nation to vote against it.
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Tatsuya Nobori @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Great work by Ingram & Zipfel labs. Congratulations, everyone! An embryo-derived peptide signal directs endosperm polarity in Arabidopsis www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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An embryo-derived peptide signal directs endosperm polarity in Arabidopsis
Angiosperm seed formation requires the coordinated development of the products of double fertilization—the embryo and the endosperm. The endosperm mediates efficient nutrient transfer from surrounding...
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Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso @yoselin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This October I am joining this team of awardees to deliver a webinar on plant science and our progress leading the @blackinplantsci.bsky.social network. Join online via the link below
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Andrea Paterlini (he/him) @apaterlini.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Join us for the second iteration of the Plant Biology Education conference! 🌱📚 Save the date: Tuesday April 13th-Wednesday April 14th 2027 in Cambridge (UK) with hybrid options. More information in due course!
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Early Career Lecturers in Bioscience @ecl-hubs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
For our series of profiles of senior academics, this month we hear from Prof. @katharinehubbard.bsky.social from Buckinghamshire New University. She shares valuable tips for early-career staff. To read her interview, join our LinkedIn group: www.linkedin.com/groups/13191...
Katherine Hubbard smiles at the camera, wearing a purple cardigan over a blue polka-dot blouse, earrings, and a flower-shaped necklace, with bookcases in the background.
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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 31/08/2026
This has been a fun and interesting exploration of new frontiers, thanks to the @biozentrum.unibas.ch PhD Fellowship for enabling @daniil-litvinov.bsky.social to create a novel project between labs 🧪🤗 Now that we can predict complexes… Next up is Visual Proteomics 🔬. Daniil can do it, no sweat! 💪😅
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Nature Cell Biology @natcellbio.nature.com · 31/08/2026
☕This Review highlights advanced imaging methods and available biosensors that can be used to elucidate the composition and dynamics of membrane contact sites. 👉https://rdcu.be/4uDgJ3upkD1a www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Advanced imaging of membrane contact sites - Nature Cell Biology
The detailed study of membrane contact sites is challenging owing to their small size and highly dynamic nature. This Review highlights advanced imaging methods and available biosensors that can be us...
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Andrea Paterlini (he/him) @apaterlini.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
@enper2026.bsky.social in Sofia was great! Lovely community and lots of useful ideas for my project. I now also have an excuse to come back to Bordeaux in 2028 🍷
Screen showing that the next iteration of the ENPER conference will be held in Bordeaux (France) in 2028
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Yohann Boutté @yohannboutte.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
First talk from Yutaro Shimizu, post-doc in my team, at the @enper2026.bsky.social meeting from our DivFuse consortium in collaboration with Farhah Assaad at TUM and @mc-caillaud.bsky.social at ENS Lyon, the project addresses how cell plate insertion is coordinated in a spatio-temporal manner.
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Yohann Boutté @yohannboutte.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Second one of the DivFuse consortium from Samantha Moulin, PhD student in @mc-caillaud.bsky.social group, PI4,5P2 and TRAPPII interplay during cytokinesis.
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Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We have written a statement in support of Ghent Uni's decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. We resist attempts to frame this as a punishment for "whistleblowing" or censorship of "controversial research". We invite all academics who share our views to sign our letter. forms.gle/qwN8xzEM5C7Q...
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Open letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University
We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. With th...
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Andrea Paterlini (he/him) @apaterlini.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Hate speech is not free speech. Well framed letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University
***Version française en dessous*** We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decisio...
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Pau Formosa-Jordan @pauformosa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Our article “Time-dependent bistability leads to critical slowing down during floral transition in Arabidopsis” is now published in @natcomms.nature.com. Link: rdcu.be/fBZ3S. What an exciting collaboration with the Coupland lab! @mpipz.bsky.social @ceplas.bsky.social #PlantDevelopment #criticality
Top: Waddington/quasi-potential landscape cartoon illustrating a bistable transition. Bottom: Scheme of a simplified regulatory network underlying floral transition at the Arabidopsis shoot apical meristem. Adapted from Rodríguez-Maroto, Wang et al. (2026). Link: https://rdcu.be/fBZ3S
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Andrea Paterlini (he/him) @apaterlini.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Very excited to present at @enper2026.bsky.social! Looking forward to catching up with old friends and make new ones. First time in Bulgaria!
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If you saw our new paper and thought "I didn't know aquatic plants use CAM!" boy do we have a fun project for you! Our lab is developing high throughput methods to screen plants for CAM. Do you work on, or know of, a plant that you think could be using CAM? Let us know! 👉 forms.gle/AyQc5KgzEYoM...
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Are your plants CAM suspicious?
Have you ever wondered if the plants you work on are... living a double life working the nightshift? We are too. Our lab is looking to identify and screen more plants for CAM activity. We are beginnin...
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Black In Plant Science- UK @blackinplantsci.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
📢Speaker Announcement: Dr. Tessa Burch-Smith We are delighted to finally announce that our international plenary speaker this year will be Dr. Tessa Burch-Smith. Join us for what will be an inspiring day and register now: bit.ly/BiPSConferen...
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
You're invited to play a puzzle created by mary. I love wordle, and found out I could make my own puzzle. Hint: It's a plant word! www.nytimes.com/games/create...
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Wordle Puzzle Created By mary
Choose a word for friends to guess, then share your own puzzle.
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
On the cover of our #LatestIssue: A hand-knitted wire sculpture of stomata on the epidermis of wheat, made by scientist and artist Dr Jodie Armand from a 3D confocal image of the wheat epidermis. Image courtesy of Dr Jodie Armand (University of Sheffield). #PlantScience
On the cover of New Phytologist volume 251, issue 6: A hand-knitted wire sculpture of stomata on the epidermis of wheat, made by scientist and artist Dr Jodie Armand from a 3D confocal image of the wheat epidermis.
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Spoel Lab @spoel-lab.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
#PlantProteostasis is maintained by #ubiquitin E3 ligases, especially during #PlantImmunity. We discovered that HECT-type ligases unexpectedly amplify their regulatory reach over the proteome by governing the stabilities of both E3 ligases and their substrates, thereby regulating immune activation.
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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
HECT-type ligases facilitate autoubiquitination and degradation of other ubiquitin ligases to activate plant immunity www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🔴 The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday The academic's coordinated targeting by an explicitly anti-black race science network did not come out of nowhere, reports @nafeez.bsky.social
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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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Black In Plant Science- UK @blackinplantsci.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
At BiPS we are deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Jason Arday who members of our community had the pleasure of knowing. We've added our name to the open letter calling for a public inquiry into the tragic death of Professor Jason Arday. Will you join us? goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A single genetic innovation at the origin of plant terrestrialization www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
What can peat fires tell us about the future of the Fens? Aland Chan & Johanna Schönecker from the Coomes' lab @camplantsci.bsky.social comment on the recent fires at Holme Fen on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk 🧪
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Dotty McLeod - Sue Dougan sits in (14/08/2026) - BBC Sounds
Sue and the team set you up to have the best day possible in Cambridgeshire.
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Torii Lab @stomata-tweets.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New paper! Amphibious plant, H. difformis, reprograms C3 to potential C4 photosynthesis underwater, highlighting its amazing plasticity of carbon assimilation machineries for aquatic environment. Congrats, Hongwei & the team🥳🌿🐸! academic.oup.com/hr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/hr/uhag230/8708086
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ProfKori @profkori.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This summer, Black scholars in THE NEW YORK TIMES and THE ATLANTIC have become spectacles. Meanwhile, white mediocrity remains OUT of the spotlight. Notice that and save your sanity! www.korithamitchell.com/seeing-black...
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Seeing Black Scholars Targeted, Noticing What Too Many Miss - Koritha Mitchell
The New York Times placed an ugly spotlight on a Black scholar in mid-July and on another (across the pond in England) a few weeks later. These stories revolved around Black individuals, but the frami...
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Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso @yoselin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
RIP Prof Jason Arday. The man was pure kindness, the hounding that precipitated his death is out. The community is hurting @blackinplantsci.bsky.social support every black scientist that perform above and beyond to gain a bit of respect. The truth; this fight is uneven and some are silenced #sad
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Ajeet Chaudhary @ajeetchaudhary.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Happy to see this story is finally out in @natplants.nature.com ! 🌱 It has special place in my heart. I started it in my PhD but could not solve the puzzle. Shoutout to very talented Rodion who uncover the intriguing mechanism of CBI signaling. Huge congrats! @kschneitz.bsky.social & collaborators
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A STRUBBELIG–NHL3 cell surface receptor complex mediates the response to cellulose deficiency in Arabidopsis - Nature Plants
This study shows that signalling by the multifunctional receptor kinase SUB in cell wall integrity involves two functionally distinct cell surface complexes whose activities are attenuated by sequenti...
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Dominique Bergmann @stanfordstomata.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Super cool exploration of stomatal bHLH gene evolution in ferns and gymnosperms. A decade ago Anne Vatén @stomagenesis.bsky.social already knew these plants were critical missing links -- now her group has functional studies in spruce! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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