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Hannah Rae Thomas @hannahraethomas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Big thanks to Blake Meyers for visiting this week. It was a great honor to host him 10 years since I worked in his lab. This REU solidified my desire to become a plant scientist! His contributions to the field are incredible and its always fantastic to get to attend one of his lectures.

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Hannah Rae Thomas @hannahraethomas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Here, my postdoc, Kaili Mao and I, propose a hypothesis that could explain the diverse types of observed graft incompatibilities: that the naturally selected for balance between regeneration and immunity has been co-opted for the anthropogenic act of grafting. www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...

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Hannah Rae Thomas @hannahraethomas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Trying to make a point to my lab about keeping things tidy...anyone willing to send me a picture of your lab today? 🫠

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Hannah Rae Thomas @hannahraethomas.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Prepping assignments for my class this semester, Scientific Writing. This activity is all about using a figure to write a results section. Hey hey, look at those GIANT starch granules! @rosemcn.bsky.social 😛

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Plant Physiology @plantphys.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

📣 We are now accepting applications to join the Plant Physiology Assistant Features Editor (AFE) program. These are two-year appointments, starting either in January 2027 or 2028. 👉 Learn more and apply now: blog.aspb.org/plantphys_af.... #PlantSci #PlantScience

Plant Physiology banner announcing a call for Assistant Features Editors, with green wave graphics and the deadline for applications: September 8, 2026.

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Hannah Rae Thomas @hannahraethomas.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Our first research paper out of my group is available on @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social !! We showed that incompatible tomato grafts overaccumulate salicylic acid which triggers various defense responses in the plants, such as PTI! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Kelsey J.R.P. Byers @plantpollinator.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

. #Botany2025 My institution (JIC in Norwich, UK) is hiring for a tenure-track Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences - see more here: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr... Let me know if you have questions!

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Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences | John Innes Centre

The John Innes Centre (JIC) seeks a visionary Group Leader to lead research on Discovery Plant Science.

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Emilie Knight @emilieknight.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Pleased to have finally got this method to work in wheat! Find out how you can identify direct targets of transcription factors in wheat using protoplasts and the TARGET method: dx.doi.org/10.17504/pro... A very useful method for our group to use! borrilllab.com

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Hannah Rae Thomas @hannahraethomas.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Interested in how abiotic factors regulate plant #grafting? Check out our new review in Planta! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

** UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE ** Plasmodesmata Editors: Tessa Burch-Smith & Jake Brunkard Deadline: 1st Feb 2025 Manuscripts of any format welcomed, please contact the JXB office (bit.ly/JXBissues) #JXBspecialissues 🌱 🔗 🌿 🧪 #plantscience @pdchristine.bsky.social @tinaschreier.bsky.social (1/2)

Front cover of a postcard to promote an upcoming special issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany titled "Plasmodesmata". The issue will be edited by Tessa Burch-Smith and Jacob Brunkard. The images show the following. Above: silencing signals move out from veins through plasmodesmata in a Nicotiana benthamiana leaf (Jacob Brunkard); Centre: fluorescent Protein moves from a central transformed cell to neighbors through plasmodesmata (Jacob Brunkard); Far right: electronic microscopy reveals nanoscopic structure of plasmodesmata, shown in gray (top) or blue (bottom) (Tessa Burch-Smith; Tina Schreier).

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Hannah Rae Thomas @hannahraethomas.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I'm planning to attend #PlantBio2025 with a few first time US visitors. What #Milwaukee -based or nearby sites would you prioritize for a few days of fun?

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Gabby Palomo, PhD @gabspalomo.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Ok people. I’m drawing silhouettes this afternoon. If you have a paper coming up and you are in need of a #silhouette please let me know and I will have it ready today. As always I upload all my silhouettes to phylopic.org I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.

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PhyloPic

PhyloPic is an open database of free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses. Download silhouettes for use in educational materi...

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Hannah Rae Thomas @hannahraethomas.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I'm so excited about my new #orchid. What are some tips to make sure I don't kill it?

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Dax Kellie @daxkellie.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

If you missed my talk but still want to learn how to make your R code more reproducible, my slides are here 🙂: daxkellie.quarto.pub/will-your-co... All the links to packages and resources I mentioned are there, so hopefully this can be a nice reference, too! #ESAus2024 #rstats #quartopub 🧪🌏

Title slide: Will your code run again? Tips for making code reproducible in R

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 03/12/2024

Amye Kenall, VP Product, Data & Analytics Hub, Digital Science, said: “Bluesky has become a favored social media channel for research communications professionals and academics. Indeed, in our own research we found over 22% of researchers were using Bluesky over any other social media channel."

Devito meme where he's shooting and saying "So anyway I started Blasting". Image modified to haver the Altmetric badge in front of Devito's head, and the caption now reads "So anyway I started Tracking Bluesky". The date is given as the 3rd December 2024

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Hannah Rae Thomas @hannahraethomas.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

When the first experiments in the lab worked! And... the data was significant. 💃💃💃#newPI

Single photon imaging of three capsicum leaves. Leaf 1 is a control. Leaf 2 and 3 are harboring a bioluminescent bacteria growing under different conditions.

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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Happy Friday everyone! Here are some cool Arabidopsis mini trees🌴 Arabidopsis arenosa hypocotyls can undergo extensive secondary growth and the rosettes that develop on top make them look like palm trees 🤯I wonder if this can be engineered in thaliana..

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Hannah Rae Thomas @hannahraethomas.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Spending time here on the blue place has been so nice lately. 🥹

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Hannah Rae Thomas @hannahraethomas.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Im totally baffled and hoping the collective mind might have some ideas! 🙏

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Hannah Rae Thomas @hannahraethomas.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

We have a crispr line w/ 5bp del and phenotype. We can see the edit in gDNA seq, but reads mapped + RT-PCR levels are normal, and the protein can be detected at (we think) full protein mass. In the OE, reads are higher but phenotype look like crispr pheno? What could be going on. Any thoughts? 🤡

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Aaron Rashotte @aaronrashotte.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

TAIR is and has been an amazing indispensable website, which I still use weekly if not daily to go look up gene function or something else. 🐐 #plantscience

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Hannah Rae Thomas @hannahraethomas.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Posting again! I'm hiring a postdoc to study grafting!

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

OK, I’m doing this. I’m relaunching my sporadic series of threads on fun corn facts. Fun #CornFax science by me, cool logo by Andi Kur.

A colorful cartoon of a fax machine printing out a piece of paper with an ear of corn on it and the words CORN FAX.

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Sam Mugford @samtmugford.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

We’re delighted to share our latest preprint from the Hogenhout lab (@saskiahogenhout.bsky.social) on the molecular mechanisms on plant-aphid interactions. Here we show how the aphid Mp10 effector protein acts as a local anaesthetic to suppress the plant perception of aphid attack

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Hannah Rae Thomas @hannahraethomas.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

You end up with a lot of interesting gifts working in a Horticulture department. Here are a few of my recent favorites.

Buddha's hand, an ornamental citrus species.

Gifts from student courses on floriculture.

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

"The community mourns the passing of 𝗝𝗼𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘆, renowned scientist, beloved mentor, founding NAASC member & Arabidopsis lifetime achievement awardee" www.arabidopsiscommunity.org/news-events/... #Obituary from NAASC

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Mourning the loss of Joanne Chory, Arabidopsis pioneer — Arabidopsis Community as supported by NAASC

NAASC remembers the legacy of Dr. Joanne Chory (Salk Institute), Arabidopsis pioneer and climate change champion.

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Tora Økland 🌱 @receptora.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Ohhhh yes ! Here’s a summary of the menu at our #PlantMicrobeJC

An edited version of a common comic strip format from XKCD comics titled “types of scientific paper”. This one focuses on plant-microbe papers, and the titles of the papers are:
- why the zig zag model isn’t entirely true
- FERONIA is at it again
- we found a mutant with a different X and did some ROS
- we looked at a billion genomes and found these genes in more plants and algae
- we swapped parts of this protein with something else and it does new stuff
- stop extrapolating things from arabidopsis
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- sorry but you need to remember all your cell biology for this one
- we have cool results but check out our microscopy
- phosphoproteomics! Any questions?
- this microbe is both good and bad
- look what we can do with alpha gold!

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Hannah Rae Thomas @hannahraethomas.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I attended my first conference since moving to China, the 8th Horticultural Society's Young Scholar Symposium. Thanks to the organizers for a chance to talk about grafting! I also ate delicious Yangzhou food.

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

The Salk Institute shared the sad news that Prof. Joanne Chory passed away yesterday due to complications from Parkinson’s disease. She was one of the most influential biologists of our time. And this is how I will remember Joanne, expertly guiding us on where to go. Joanne, we will miss you! ❤️

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Hannah Rae Thomas @hannahraethomas.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

I'm trying to get a head start on the content for my class next semester. Is anyone willing to share their syllabus or favorite textbooks for teaching plant cell biology (or related courses like plant physiology, anatomy, genetics)? 🥰

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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

I have been upgraded to the rank of Assistant Research Scientist in the Department of Crop & Soil Sciences at University of Georgia. As a non-tenure-track research faculty, my new title will allow me to submit grants as the PI.

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Anny Chung (鍾彥儀) @yyachung.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

New opportunity to join our lab! I'm looking for a postdoc in spatial modeling of plant-soil feedbacks to start in Aug. To apply: www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/371... Our lab: chunglab.franklinresearch.uga.edu 🌎🌾🧪

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecological Modeling

This project will investigate mechanisms underlying the role of microbes in shrubland-grassland ecotonal dynamics. The prospective postdoc will lead the development of spatially-explicit models of pla...

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Margaret Frank @margografts.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

I'm super excited to have this story up on BioRxiv. The entire paper was led from start to finish by former PhD student, Hannah Thomas! @hannahraethomas.bsky.social

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

📜 Graft incompatibility between pepper and tomato can be attributed to genetic incompatibility between diverged immune systems 🧑‍🔬 Hannah Rae Thomas, Margaret H. Frank, et al. 📔 @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #Grafting #PlantDevelopment

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Graft incompatibility between pepper and tomato can be attributed to genetic incompatibility between diverged immune systems

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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