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One for #WildFlowerHour by my local river: is this corn marigold, marsh ragwort or a garden escape? @wildflowerhour.bsky.social . Also with a pollinator if you zoom in. 💛💚

Central plant with yellow daisy-like
Flowers against a shallow river; riverbank with grass,foliage and rocks in the foreground. Foliage on the far bank.

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Juliet Coates @julietccoates.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Favourite time of year for my Callicarpa bush #Autumn #Anthocyanin 🍁🍇

Purple small berries top right above a yellow-green dicot leaf with purple vein pattern.

Purple berries centre with partial leaves top and bottom, purple veins on browny orange leaf. Green foliage in background.

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Juliet Coates @julietccoates.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We are crowdfunding for a bench in a peaceful spot at Winterbourne Botanic Garden in Birmingham in memory of Philippa Borrill. Please share widely. Please email me or @drelunadiez.bsky.social for more details. 💚🌾🌿🌳 If you would like to contribute, the link is below ⬇️.

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Philipp Radler @radler92.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The first paper of my PostDoc in Christa Schlepers group (@archaea-vienna.bsky.social) on the dynamics of Asgard archaea is now out in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41... This was a great team effort and I am looking forward to uncover the complex behavior of these cells further!

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Dynamic protrusions mediate crawling motility in Asgard archaea - Nature

Anoxic live-cell imaging shows actin-dependent crawling motility and dynamic protrusions in Asgard archaea, providing insights into cellular innovations that may have contributed to eukaryotic evoluti...

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a significant step. Homeless people are made Clinically Vulnerable due to their circumstances and should have always qualified for these vaccines. www.england.nhs.uk/2026/10/nhs-...

People experiencing homelessness can now get free flu and pneumococcal vaccinations as part of a new NHS programme.

Vaccines will be offered through outreach teams, hostels, pop-up clinics and mobile vans.

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Juliet Coates @julietccoates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We have reached 15% of target so please keep donating and sharing. Thank you 💚

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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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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

When will universities & scientists take a stance against genAI? Where is the promised democratisation of knowledge, the innovation in research? We have been warning about the destruction of knowledge & the deskilling of humans. #resistAI irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

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AI slop and the destruction of knowledge

Cite as: van Rooij, I. (2025) AI slop and the destruction of knowledge. This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curio…

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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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Juliet Coates @julietccoates.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So cool 🆒 ⬇️💚🧬🧫🧪#Evolution

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I just published: How do we recognize world-class science? Not by the journal it appeared in What I told early-career researchers about prediction, rigour, failure, priors — and the tyranny of bar graphs. kamounlab.medium.com/how-do-we-re...

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How do we recognize world-class science? Not by the journal it appeared in

What I told early-career researchers about prediction, rigour, failure, priors — and the tyranny of bar graphs.

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Kazuhiro Maeshima @kazu-maeshima.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Is euchromatin really “open”? 🧬 Using super-resolution imaging🔬 our new study @natgenet.nature.com reveals: Euchromatin forms condensed domains in live cells. Cohesin constrains them and prevents domain mixing for proper transcriptional insulation🚧 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/2)

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026

Please share these guidelines for trans-inclusive fieldwork as far as you can. Sharing this thread is great but the biggest impact would be sending inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans directly to your colleagues, networks, professional societies, journalists, and friends. Thank you! 🏳️‍⚧️

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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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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Delicate crocheted/embroidered leaf sculptures by UK artist Susanna Bauer #womensart ##AutumnEquinox 🍃

Two real brown leaves joined by delicate white embroidery, all against a white background

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The Plant Cell @theplantcell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

DELLA proteins interact with HAC1 and control plant growth via transcriptional regulation of the growth repressor gene ERF2 (Hiroki Ando , Akira Nozawa , Hidetaka Kosako , Tatsuya Sawasaki , Yohsuke Takahashi , Jutarou Fukazawa) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

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Juliet Coates @julietccoates.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For some journals the AI toolbar is so big it makes it impossible to actually read the paper on the screen too and there’s no way to minimise or remove it. Also utterly ironic to plaster it all over plant science journals publishing articles about alleviating the climate crisis 😡

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🚨If you have a moment, respond to this consultation on reducing NHS Covid data. www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/st... We have added some thoughts which might be helpful... 1/🧵

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Bantshire University @bantshireuni.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Our AI-powered timetabling system has become self-aware and resigned from its position with immediate effect.

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Juliet Coates @julietccoates.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So many to choose from but my #FavouritePlant this year may have been this gorgeous Bryum #moss from February #UrbanPlants #WildFlowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #ISeeMoss

Bright green moss sporophyte capsules on brown stalks above leafy moss foliage

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Juliet Coates @julietccoates.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I cannot wait until 2029! 🔬🦠🧬⚗️🪱🪰🦆🌱🔭 Great thread 🧵 below:

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Juliet Coates @julietccoates.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

So, 25 years ago I bought 10 green “classroom trays” to grow my first Arabidopsis. About 6 of them are still going strong, and I just bought some more (plus some taller ones!) for doing submergence and waterlogging assays. #PlantScience #QuarterCentury. the little things bring joy 🪴🌱💚

Stack of old green plastic trays, a bit, battered with “Juliet” written in capitals on the front

Bottom of an old green tray with “25 years of plant science in this tray”
Written in black sharpie

Stack of shiny new classroom trays, green, with my name on

Stack of 6 TALL classroom trays with “Juliet” written on next to a drawing of a leaf.

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Juliet Coates @julietccoates.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

ARABIDILLO1 strikes again as its alternative moniker FBX5 🌿💚🌱- great paper!

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#Viewpoint: The incredible vulnerability that reproduction poses for plant species in a warming world Denney & Taylor et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience @derekdenney.bsky.social @emjo.bsky.social @davidlowry.bsky.social @msupri.bsky.social

Fig. 1 Generalized plant responses to heat stress across whole-plant and reproductive scales.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Part of petrichor, the delish earthy smell released when rain hits parched ground, is geosmin,a compound from soil bacteria-human👃s can detect it in lower concentrations than sharks can detect blood in water. Seeking out water on dry plains was essential for our ancestors. Here’s a geosmin molecule:

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

#TansleyReview: The evolutionary origins of streptophyte multicellularity de Vries et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience @jandevries.bsky.social @caeciliafkunz.bsky.social

Fig. 1 Phylogeny of streptophytes and the deep origin of branching filamentous growth.

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We did this in a search I was on last year and it did wonders! We had worries that whether this will create a group of over prepared candidates that we can't get genuine responses, and we were WRONG.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

...held on Saturday 29th is here👇 A repost would really really help but understandably v few people will see to the end of the thread (hoping a few will). workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bota...

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I relaunched my online w'shops last night after my breakdown but no takers yet.They used to be the majority of my income so it's scary tbh. I've taught creative & mental health classes on BBC Countryfile,the V & A,Bronte Parsonage & even Highgrove. 🧵cont'd.. workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bota...

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Juliet Coates @julietccoates.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Blame and shame reflect your nervous system physiology in the moment- sympathetic activation vs shut-down life threat response!

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Juliet Coates @julietccoates.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

to my knowledge the over-80 rule will apply from autumn 2027 😞 Thank you for all you do! 🙏

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