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Botany One @botany.one · 01/10/2026

Why does a wound feel like winter? 🧵 Cut a leaf and the wound turns cold, and it turns out the plant is reading that chill as an instruction. botany.fyi/winterwound

A thermal image of a leaf. Two cuts on the plant show up as striking cold purple against the warm orange of the leaf.

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Camilla Hörsch @camillahorsch.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The postponed soapbox finally happened on Sunday and was worth the wait. I got to talk about Crispr in crop breeding, answered amazing questions and got to hear all the other inspiring and fantastic talks! 💚 @berlin-soapbox.bsky.social

Picture of the entrance to Holzmarkt with the poster advertising the Soapbox Science event in the lower left corner

Person standing on a wooden box in a lab coat presenting in front of a small audience.

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Camilla Hörsch @camillahorsch.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This sunday I’ll be on a soapbox 📦 in record Berlin heat, talking about crop breeding! 🌾🧪 Spoiler: crops hate this weather too 🌡️ & we are going to dive into what science can do about that! Come join us @berlin-soapbox.bsky.social. Free & with a whole lineup of brilliant talks! 📍Holzmarkt 25 3-7pm

Program for Soapbox Science Berlin on a yellow background, listing four groups of talks:
Group 1 (15:00–16:00): Nadezhda Evtushenko, Max Delbrück Center 'Can the Spinal Cord Sense Itself - and Why Would It?'; América Torres-Boy, Fritz-Haber-Institut 'Decoding Molecular Messages with Light!'; Yalei Zang, Charité 'The Matrix Inside You: Your Body's Secret Superpower.'
Group 2 (16:00–17:00): Anushka Pahuja, Freie Universität Berlin & Zuse Institute 'Outsmarting the Painkiller Killers: Engineering Endomorphins That Survive'; Dr. Amalie 'Amy' Vang Høst, Bielefeld University 'Tiny Enzymes, Big Problems: Building Plastics with Biology'; Camilla Hörsch, Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ) 'Mutation, Method, and Myth: A Conversation About Crop Breeding.'
Group 3 (17:00–18:00): Sheetal Samal, University of Cologne 'Sea to Sand: Shells that Help Us Understand'; Dr. BV Aditi Prasad, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology 'Cornered: How Small Populations Outlast the Extinction Odds'; Alea Joachim, University of Potsdam 'Decoding Volcanoes: From Eruptions in Iceland to the Signals That Hold Their Secrets.'
Group 4 (18:00–19:00): PhD Carolina Doran & PhD Franziska Stressmann, European Citizen Science Association 'Everybody Can Be a Researcher, Including You. Let's Discover the Citizen Scientist in You!'; Katarina Ninkovic, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics 'Genes That Jump: How Transposons Define a Species'; Anna-Lisa Poser, Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Polymer Research 'The Wonderfully Versatile World of Shape-Memory Polymer Foams.'

Promotional flyer for Soapbox Science Berlin on a bright green background. Soapbox Science was founded in 2011 in London by scientists Nathalie Pettorelli and Seirian Sumner, inspired by Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park. The event invites female, non-binary and underrepresented scientists (this includes cis and trans women, queer and non-binary persons, and Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) to stand on a soapbox and present their research to the public, free of charge and open to anyone.

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Camilla Hörsch @camillahorsch.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Just had the most lovely zoom meeting with preschoolers from Tampa, FL through @skypeascientist.bsky.social 🌱🔬💚 Can’t recommend it enough if you want to do some #scicomm and get the sweetest questions about your topic!

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Robert Hoffie @forscherrobert.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Angeführt von Demeter, haben viele Organisationen aus der Anthroposophie und Biolandbau-Bubble gerade eine neue Aktion gegen #Gentechnik gestartet. Anlass ist die letzte Abstimmungsphase zu einem jahrelang diskutierten EU-Gesetzentwurf zur Regulierung sog NGT-Pflanzen. Wir gucken uns das mal an: 1/

Screenshot von der Startseite zur Kampagne "geschwärzte Zutaten". Es wird behauptet, dass bald nicht mehr ersichtlich wäre, ob sich "gentechnisch veränderte DNA in unseren Lebensmitteln" befindet.

Die Kampagne setzt vor allem auf Weiterleitung der Share Pics und Videos bei WhatsApp und anderen Messengern.

Screenshot einiger Logos der beteiligten Organisationen, vor allem Demeter und andere Bio-Verbände

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Soapbox Science Berlin @berlin-soapbox.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

📣 Call for Speakers! Are you a woman or non-binary scientist ready to share your research with the public? Then, apply to be a speaker at Soapbox Science Berlin 🧪🌍🔭💻🦊🧠 📍 Holzmarkt | 🗓 June 28 ⏰ Applications close Feb 23 👉 Apply now! docs.google.com/document/d/1... #WomeninSTEM #scicomm #wisskomm

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

🌸 FLOWERING NEWSLETTER REVIEW 🌸 González-Suárez et al. review how temperature regulates reproductive development in seasonal contexts, focusing on molecular factors controlling meristem transition from vegetative growth to the end of flowering 🌼 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

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Sourav Mukherjee @souravbiotech.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

🌿 Excited to chair a session on "Temperature sensing in plants" at #ICAR2025 in Ghent, Belgium!🌡️🌱 🗓️ June 20, 2025 🕘 9 AM Don't miss talks from amazing speakers on how plants perceive & adapt to temperature. #ICAR2025 #PlantBiology #TemperatureSensing #ClimateResilience

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