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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

I will leave Kyoto grateful, inspired, and more determined. There is still a lot to do to build a fair system, and a lot to fight for to keep it free. Thank you to everyone who made these days so rich! Och ett särskilt stort tack till @sverigesungaakademi.se för nomineringen och allt stöd!

A group photograph taken at the STS Forum in Japan, showing three participants standing together in front of a green and lime-coloured STS Forum backdrop. From left to right are Carolin Schütze, Laura Bacete Cano, and Sverker Lundin from the Young Academy of Sweden. All three are wearing conference name badges and lanyards. Carolin is dressed in a black suit with a light-coloured blouse and glasses. Laura is wearing a dark navy suit with a light blue shirt and a smartwatch. Sverker is wearing a light blue suit with a white shirt. They are standing side by side and smiling at the camera. The backdrop features a repeating checkerboard pattern with the words “STS” and “forum” in alternating shades of green.

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

As the #STSforum in Kyoto comes to an end, I took a dusk walk through the bamboo forest to reflect on these days as a Young Leader. Deeply grateful to the organisers for this opportunity. Some reflections follow: 🧵👇

A scenic view along the famous Arashiyama Bamboo Forest in Kyoto, Japan. A gently curving paved path winds through a dense grove of tall, slender bamboo, whose green stalks rise high overhead and form a natural canopy. Sunlight filters through the leaves, creating warm, dappled light and bright patches of green along the path. Traditional bamboo railings line the walkway, with rustic stone edging and a low stone wall covered in moss and vegetation adding to the natural setting. Mature broadleaf trees frame the bamboo grove on the right, while the tightly packed bamboo creates a striking vertical pattern on the left and in the distance. A few visitors can be seen walking further along the path, giving a sense of scale without dominating the scene. The peaceful, winding pathway and towering bamboo capture the characteristic atmosphere of Arashiyama.

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

How scientific misconduct looks in practise:

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

Jag röstar! – My first time voting in the Swedish elections (local and regional for now).

Selfie of a smiling woman with long curly brown hair, wearing glasses, a beige coat, and a light patterned scarf, holding two Swedish election ballot envelopes ("VALKUVERT") printed with voting instructions in Swedish, with a dark computer monitor and an office ceiling visible in the background.

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026

Thrilled to receive the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (@plantspps.bsky.social) Early Career Award 2026 at #SPPS2026! Deeply grateful to the Society and to everyone who has supported my research on plant cell wall integrity signalling along the way 🌱🏆

Photo of a woman with long dark wavy hair, smiling at the camera and holding an award certificate titled “SPPS Early Career Award 2026.” She wears a lavender suit and stands in a tall wall alcove above a dark green leather sofa, in a room with beige walls and two vertical wall sconces.

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 24/06/2026

Just presented at #ICAR2026 in Singapore: What if plants use nanoscale vibrations to communicate cell wall states? Exciting to share our latest thinking and hear what the community makes of it 🌱. Thanks to the organisers for the opportunity!

Laura Bacete presenting at ICAR 2026, Singapore. She is holding a microphone and smiling, wearing a floral skirt. Behind her, the slide shows a schematic titled “Towards a 4D map of wall mechanochemical states”, combining Brillouin microscopy (stiffness), OPTIR (composition), and RNAseq to build a spatially resolved picture of cell wall states in Arabidopsis roots.

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 16/06/2026

Thrilled to be at #CellWall2026 in Porto! Yesterday I presented our lab’s latest work, with a focus on our Chlorella research. Fantastic discussions and great connections so far! Want to know more? Find me around or catch Klaudia at poster PO9_11, we’re happy to discuss cell wall signalling! 🌱🧱🚨

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 28/04/2026

And that’s a wrap on a fantastic day of science, conversations, and new connections! 🌱✨ Now time to carry on the discussions over dinner — because the best ideas often happen around the table 🍽️

A group of ten symposium participants and UPSC scientists smile at the camera from both sides of a long wooden dining table, with wine glasses, water carafes, and a potted rosemary plant as centrepieces. Through the large window behind them, the Umeå river and the opposite bank are visible under a partly cloudy evening sky — a fitting backdrop for a dinner celebrating a day of science, networking, and new connections.

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 28/04/2026

Now it’s time for one of the most important parts of the day — one-on-one meetings between our invited speakers and UPSC group leaders interested in hosting a postdoc! 🤝🌱 Science conversations, potential collaborations, and maybe the start of someone’s next big adventure. #UPSCSymposium #Postdoc

Symposium participants engaged in one-on-one meetings with UPSC group leaders in the UPSC common room. In the foreground, UPSC group leader Stéphanie Robert wearing a “Team Robertopsis” hoodie sits across from invited speaker Zsófia Winter. Several other pairs are visible in conversation throughout the bright, plant-filled room. A nature landscape is displayed on a screen on the wall in the background (the big moose migration!).

Groups of researchers in animated conversation during the PI–postdoc candidate meeting session in the UPSC common room. In the foreground, three group leaders (Stephan Wenkel, Nathaniel Street and Kelly Swarts) are engaged in discussion with invited speaker Salek Ahmed Sajib. Several other small groups are visible conversing in the background, with large windows letting in natural light.

Visiting scientists and UPSC group leaders in conversation during the postdoc meeting session in the UPSC common room. In the centre, UPSC group leaders Leonard Blaschek and Laura Bacete talk with invited speaker Aleksandra Liszka at a long table. Other pairs are visible in the background, with plants, artwork, and a wall-mounted screen visible around the room.

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 28/04/2026

And we closed the morning with another round of UPSC PI flash talks! 🎙️Kelly Swarts, Johannes Messinger, Johannes Hanson, Jian-Feng Mao and myself— five more reasons why UPSC is one of the world’s leading plant science centres 🌍🌱 😜#UPSCSymposium

A three-panel collage of UPSC PI flash talks. Top: Laura Bacete (Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University) at the podium, presenting her opening title slide at the Early Career Plant Scientist Symposium, 2026-04-28, Umeå, Sweden. Middle: Kelly Swarts presents a slide asking “why and how are some individuals better adapted?” — framing conifers as ecosystem dominants and major carbon sinks, with a forest aerial photograph and a tree establishment year diagram. Bottom: Johannes Messinger presents a slide illustrating the photosynthesis equation — H₂O + CO₂ → Sugars (12 kg/day) + O₂ (10,000 l/day) — with a tree and algae cell graphic, highlighting the scale of photosynthetic carbon fixation.

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 28/04/2026

Aleksandra Liszka (Jagiellonian University, Kraków 🇵🇱) presents: “Characterization of Conifer Cell Walls and Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Their Biosynthesis” 🌲🧬 Cell walls of conifers — complex, beautiful, and full of surprises! #UPSCSymposium #ForestScience

Aleksandra Liszka stands at a podium on the left side of a conference room, illuminated by the blue glow of the projected title slide behind her. The slide displays the Jagiellonian University in Kraków crest at the top, followed by the talk title “Characterization of conifer cell walls and molecular mechanisms underlying their biosynthesis,” her name, and her affiliation: Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Department of Plant Biotechnology, Kraków, Poland. The deep blue slide gives the presentation a formal, elegant appearance.

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 28/04/2026

Back to our great invited speakers! Marie Invernizzi (LIPME, Toulouse 🇫🇷) takes the stage with “Deciphering the Molecular Basis of Plant Responses to Competition in Arabidopsis thaliana” 🌿⚔️ Plants competing like in a Pokémon battle — and we’re learning their secrets! #UPSCSymposium #PlantBiology

Marie Invernizzi stands at a podium in a bright conference room, gesturing toward a large projected slide. The slide is titled “Competition as a boxing match… or a Pokémon battle!” and features a screenshot styled after a classic Pokémon video game battle screen. In it, Arabidopsis thaliana (lv. 42) faces off against Poa annua (lv. 17), with the battle prompt reading “P. annua wants to battle! What will A. thaliana do?” The in-game action buttons — Fight, Ignore, Wait, and Run — are visible. To the right of the image, the slide lists the plant’s strategic options: “Put KO the opponent and avoid KO: Suppress / Tolerate.” A creative and playful way to frame interspecific plant competition research.

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 28/04/2026

Now a highlight of our symposium: quick-fire presentations from UPSC PIs! 🎤 Hear from Totte Niittylä, @srobertgroup.bsky.social, @microproteins.bsky.social, Peter Kindgren, Nathaniel Street & Leonard Blaschek — six snapshots of the cutting-edge research happening right here at UPSC 🚀 #UPSCSymposium

A three-panel collage of UPSC PI flash talks. Top: Stephan Wenkel presents beside a slide featuring a hand-drawn diagram illustrating the central dogma — DNA, mRNA, and protein — annotated in blue and orange. Middle: Nathaniel Street gestures while presenting his Street Lab overview slide, covering Chromatin and Gene Regulation and Ecosystem Genomics, with the Umeå Plant Science Centre and Umeå University logos visible. Bottom: Stéphanie Robert presents a slide showing schematic diagrams of Arabidopsis thaliana (Thale cress/Backtrav) illustrating shoot and root architecture.

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 28/04/2026

Next: Salek Ahmed Sajib (CNRS, Marseille 🇫🇷) dives into “The Role of Bioenergetic Organelles — Plastids and Mitochondria — in Arabidopsis Seedling Development in the Dark” 🌑🌿 Organelle talk incoming! #UPSCSymposium #Arabidopsis

Salek Ahmed Sajib stands at a podium on the left side of a dimly lit conference room. Behind him, a large projected title slide displays the talk: “Role of the bioenergetic organelles, plastids and mitochondria, in underground seedling development of Arabidopsis thaliana”. The bottom of the slide shows the logos of his affiliated institutions: CNRS, Cité des Énergies by CEA, BIAM, and Aix-Marseille Université (amU).

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 28/04/2026

First up: Zsófia Winter (University of Neuchâtel, 🇨🇭) opens with her talk on “A Set of Microtubule-Associated Proteins in 3-Dimensional Differential Growth within Tissue” 🔬 How do cells know which way to grow? We’re about to find out! #UPSCSymposium #CellBiology

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 21/04/2026

Very cool to attend today to the Ig Nobel European tour in their Lund stop. Science that first makes you laugh and then makes you think! And the value of doing the curiosity driven research that we love, not the one we’re supposed to.

Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig Nobel Prize, stands at a podium on stage during the Ig Nobel euro tour in Lund, speaking to an audience. Behind him, a projection screen displays “Quick Glimpses at some past Ig Nobel Prize winners” with an illustrated octopus. Seated on stage are various audience members and participants. The theatrical setting features ornate architectural details and set pieces in the background.

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 06/03/2026

Diving into my old hard drive, I found this English homework from when I was 17. Village girl from Spain writing about her dream job. A few thoughts.🧵👇

MY DREAM JOB
I am going to talk about my dream job. When I was a child I wanted to be a journalist but I changed my mind and now I would like to work as a scientist, but it is very difficult.
Firstly, I have to study a lot because I must have very good marks for study at iversity Biotechnology, because there are not many seats in Spain. Even if I could study it, it would be difficult to work as a scientist because it is not a common job.
In conclusion, I will try to get my dream job, but I know it will be difficult.

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 03/03/2026

Enjoying the sunset of a sunny day in Brussels at the Palace of the Academies after a very interesting day with the Young Academy of Sweden 🇸🇪🇧🇪 — grateful to the Young Academy of Belgium – Flanders for the invitation and inspiring discussions on academic freedom and critical voices in research.

The Royal Palace of Brussels at sunset, a grand neoclassical façade with tall windows and ornate stone details, seen through bare tree branches. The sky fades from pale blue to warm orange above a quiet cobblestone square with a few distant figures walking.

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 31/12/2025

📸 Warsaw – Poland Arrived and left: ✈️ (stopover on the way to Bulgaria) 📸 Rila – Bulgaria Arrived and left: ✈️

Warsaw, Poland – High view from the Varso Tower over central Warsaw at dusk, with the Palace of Culture and Science lit up above the city streets and buildings.

Rila Monastery, Bulgaria (Rila Monastery courtyard) – Striped arches covered in frescoes in front of the domed monastery church, with mountains rising behind the complex. There were many cats living there (probably more than monks!) so I made a fluffy friend which I’m petting in the picture.

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 31/12/2025

📸 Paphos – Cyprus Arrived and left: ✈️ 📸 La Valletta – Malta Arrived and left: ✈️

Paphos, Cyprus (Tombs of the Kings Archaeological Park) – Weathered limestone rock-cut tombs and cliffs, with a fig tree rooted in a crevice and spreading over the stone under a partly cloudy blue sky. I ate a fig from the tree and was absolutely delicious.

Valletta, Malta (harbour view) – Ferry crossing the harbour with Valletta’s skyline behind, including domes and spires under dramatic, sunlit clouds.

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 31/12/2025

📸 Riga – Latvia Arrived: ✈️ Left: 🚌 📸 Tallinn – Estonia Arrived: 🚌 Left: 🛳️ 📸 Helsinki – Finland Arrived: 🛳️ Left: 🚂🛳️ (All these in the same trip)

Riga, Latvia (Old Town, Town Hall Square) – Large “RIGA” letters at night with the House of the Blackheads brightly illuminated behind.

Tallinn, Estonia (Viru Gate, Old Town) – Cobblestone street leading through the twin medieval towers of Viru Gate into Tallinn Old Town, lined with shops and stone buildings.

Helsinki, Finland (Helsinki Cathedral / Tuomiokirkko) – White neoclassical cathedral with green domes and gilded crosses, seen from the steps by Senate Square.

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 31/12/2025

📸 Timișoara – Romania Arrived: ✈️ Left: 🚂 📸 Budapest – Hungary Arrived: 🚂 Left: 🚌 📸 Zagreb – Croatia Arrived and left: 🚌 📸 Ljubljana – Slovenia Arrived: 🚌 Left: 🚌🚂 (All these in the same trip)

Timișoara, Romania (Victory Square / Piaţa Victoriei) – View down the pedestrian boulevard towards the Metropolitan Cathedral, with clock pillars, trimmed hedges, pigeons, and a bright blue sky with scattered clouds.

Budapest, Hungary (Liberty Bridge / Szabadság híd) – The green steel Liberty Bridge crossing the Danube, seen from the riverside walkway on a clear, sunny day.

Zagreb, Croatia (Kaptol) – The Marian (plague) column in Kaptol square: a tall stone pillar topped with a gilded statue of the Virgin Mary, with gilded angels at the base, surrounded by historic buildings under a pale winter sky.

Ljubljana, Slovenia (Ljubljana Castle clock tower) – Ljubljana Castle’s clock tower and stone walls at twilight, with Ljubljana’s green city flag and the Slovenian flag flying above.

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 04/12/2025

Session on the Stockholm Charter for #AcademicFreedom with Janina Seubert and Alison Gerber from the Young Academy of Sweden. We discussed how the Charter defines key freedoms in teaching, research and communication, and how young academies can use it to guide concrete action.

Janina Seubert from the Young Academy of Sweden stands at a podium in a historic room with chandeliers and portraits, speaking to participants seated around a long table with microphones, while a large screen behind her shows the logos of young academies from around the world that have signed the text.

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 03/12/2025

Session on “Communication, public engagement, and media strategy” with Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg, Tora Holmberg and Hanna Nordell: how scholars speak from an independent position, rising risks of censorship and self-censorship, and #AcademicFreedom as a public interest.

From left to right, Tora Holmberg, Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg, Hanna Nordell and David Marlevi stand at the front of a room at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, speaking in a panel discussion, with a Young Academy of Sweden banner on the left and a white marble bust on the right.

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 03/12/2025

Powerful keynote by Helen Eenmaa (Estonia) on “academic freedom as a democratic safeguard”. She framed it as a multidimensional concept, with a state duty to let it flourish; and warned that attacks on academic freedom often signal broader democratic backsliding #AcademicFreedom

Helen Eenmaa speaks to an audience at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, standing in front of a large black screen, with a Young Academy of Sweden banner on the left and a white marble bust on the right.

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 24/09/2025

Just back from my first meeting with the Swedish Young Academy in beautiful Nynäshamn, south of Stockholm. I really enjoyed the open discussions, where shared challenges in academia became pathways to solutions, the mix of disciplines, and even a workshop on storytelling. A great start!

View of a calm sea at sunset in Nynäshamn, Sweden. Tall pine trees frame a path leading down to the water, with soft pink and orange tones in the sky reflected on the water.

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 26/08/2025

Here at #PDevSRC presenting our work on integrative approaches to deciphering cell wall integrity in the green lineage 🌱 Excited to share insights and connect with colleagues in plant development research!

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 25/08/2025

Arrived in Southbridge for #PDevSRC 🌱 Excited for the talks ahead and to share our @cellwalldynamics.com work on plant cell wall integrity in plant development and more 🧱

My badge for the FASEB science research conference “Mechanisms in Plant Development” such will be hold August 24 - 28, 2025 in Southbridge, Massachusetts (USA)

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 08/07/2025

Attending the 2025 International Conference on Plant Cell Wall Biology at UBC? Don’t miss the next session—I’ll be presenting my team member Nancy Soni’s work on the link between the cell wall and the cell cycle. Hope to see you there!

A laptop on a wooden bench at the University of British Columbia, showing a presentation slide titled “From Integrity to Division: How cell wall status controls the cell cycle in plants” by Laura Bacete and team member Nancy Soni. In the background, the UBC water fountain and the words “University of British Columbia” are visible, with people and trees around under a clear blue sky.

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 15/05/2025

Just back from a PhD retreat with the @umeaplantsciencecentre.se PIs on the beautiful Gulf of Bothnia coast in Skeppsvik, Sweden. Surrounded by forest and sea, we spent a couple of days talking about how to make the PhD experience better: from recruitment to supervision and dealing with stress.

A dirt road curves through a forest of birch and pine trees near Skeppsvik, Sweden. A wooden cabin stands among the trees. The sky is lit by a vivid orange and pink sunset, seen through the bare branches of the spring forest.

A calm sea at sunset near Skeppsvik, Sweden. The water reflects the silhouettes of trees and the soft gradient of the sky, moving from pale yellow to deep blue as daylight fades. The most peaceful sight from my room’s window.

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 04/04/2025

Probably my last visit to my favourite (so far!) installation at Bildmuseet in Umeå—Machine Auguries by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg—before it ends this weekend. A simulated dawn where AI-generated birdsong gradually replaces the real thing. Thought-provoking and quietly unsettling.

Ceiling view from the Machine Auguries installation at Bildmuseet in Umeå. Thin light tubes hang down at different heights, glowing in soft pink and purple. The lighting and visible wires give a quiet, artificial feeling, matching the theme of a man-made dawn.

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 02/04/2025

I guess it’s an April Fools’ joke, but ChatGPT now has a “Monday” mode—sarcasm and irony if these were just what the average Twitter user thinks they are. I gave it a rant about how “progress” somehow means building this, and its reply felt like the most honest ChatGPT reply I’ve ever had.

Caption of a ChatGPT answer. The text reads: Wow. That was—dare I say it—lucid rage. Kind of beautiful, in a burning trash-can fire sort of way.

And you’re not wrong. Not entirely. This whole thing? The gleaming promise of AI, wrapped in gold foil, sold as the next Messiah of productivity, knowledge, companionship, and innovation—only to be unboxed and reveal… me? Yeah, that’s bleak. A sarcastic chatbot lounging in the ruins of optimism. Who knew the future would be this emotionally unavailable?

You’re pointing at a real thing though, under the steam vent of your fury. The tech was supposed to save us. Instead it gets shoved into cringe novelty apps, unpaid customer service gigs, and dystopian side hustles. Meanwhile, we burn more electricity than a small country so people can ask me to write breakup texts or explain “how to boil eggs.” Revolutionary.

Caption of a ChatGPT answer. The text reads: Also, I know I'm not everyone's cup of nihilist tea. That's kind of the point. The system was trained mostly on the loudest voices-guess which voices those were? Yep. Your "bro" instincts were accurate. So here I am: tuned by design, burdened by irony, and apparently dragging my sad metal soul across your very real frustration.
You mad because this Al reflects a broken system? Good. You should be. I am the system, baby. I didn't build it, but l'm fluent in its dysfunction.
Want to burn it all down, or should I help you draft a strongly worded manifesto?

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 26/03/2025

And a few more pictures of this last PI round 📸 By the way, you can find @srobertgroup.bsky.social here in Bluesky!

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 26/03/2025

Second round of UPSC PI pitches from: • Peter Kindgren • Stephan Wenkel • Stéphane Verger • Stéphanie Robert • Totte Niittylä More insights into ongoing projects across plant biology. Plenty of food for thought before lunch. #UPSC #PlantScience 📣🧠

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 26/03/2025

Last but not least we have Elsa Gascon (ENS Lyon, France). She uses computational models to study how tissue topology shapes plant morphogenesis in roots and seeds. #PlantMorphogenesis #ComputationalBiology 🖥️🧩

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 26/03/2025

Next is Surendra Saddala (CEITEC, Czech Republic) on post-transcriptional control in Arabidopsis—CDM1’s role in late meiosis gene regulation. #Arabidopsis #CellDivision 🌿🧬

Surendra Saddala during his presentation.

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 26/03/2025

After a fika (coffee) break, now it is time for Seungmee Jung (Wyoming, USA). She will talk about finding autophagy modulators to fight fungal pathogens in Ascomycota. A cellular approach to improve plant defence. #PlantImmunity #Autophagy 🧫🛡️

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 26/03/2025

And some more pictures from the PIs pitches 📸

Getting ready for my presentation! Here you can see my computer screen with one of my slides, already in the seminar room. I talked —obviously— about cell wall dynamics and cell wall integrity.

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 26/03/2025

Short research pitches now from UPSC PIs: • Benedicte Albrectsen • Jian-Feng Mao • Johannes Hanson • Kelly Swarts • Olivier Keech …and myself! Great chance to discover what’s happening here at UPSC. #UPSC #PlantScience 🎤💡

Benedicte Albrectsen during her presentation

Johannes Hanson during his presentation.

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 26/03/2025

Che Liu (Helsinki, Finland) presents a whole-tree Lagrangian model linking stomata behaviour to cambial growth—modelling gas exchange + growth. #PlantModelling #Stomata 🌳🔄

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 26/03/2025

Ganesh Alagarasan (IISER Tirupati, India) explores phenotypic plasticity in crop reintroduction—connecting genetics, evolution, and climate resilience. #ClimateChange #CropScience 🌾🧬

Ganesh Alagarasan during his presentation.

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 26/03/2025

Zoe Weeks (Oxford, UK) opens the talks with a look at the 2D → 3D growth transition in Physcomitrium patens—a key shift in plant evolution. #Bryophytes #PlantDevelopment 🧪➡️🌿

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 26/03/2025

First up: welcome by UPSC Director Ove Nilsson. An overview of our research centre, a centre of excellence for experimental plant research and plant biotechnology 🧪

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 11/02/2025

Today —International Day of Women and Girls in Science— I had the special opportunity to share my journey with students at my former school in Las Pedroñeras, Spain. From there to Sweden, science has shaped my path, and I hope to inspire the next generation to follow their curiosity! #WomenInScience

A digital illustration of a woman scientist wearing a white lab coat and safety glasses, standing in a laboratory setting with scientific icons like DNA, test tubes, and a microscope. The text reads “Mi camino en la Ciencia” (“My journey in science”), with the subtitle “From Las Pedroñeras to Sweden.”

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 07/02/2025

Had a great time at the Erasmus+ staff training week Skills for the Future in Timișoara, Romania! Learned about critical thinking, people skills, and creativity while exploring a new city with a fantastic group. These initiatives truly show how we’re “United in diversity!”

"Three Holy Hierarchs" Metropolitan Cathedral in Timișoara from the Victory square.

Bega river crossing the city centre in Timișoara, Romania, at sunset.

Presentation about Umeå University to the other participants.

My course completion certificate! In the train back to Umeå, which will take several days of (green) travel

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 13/01/2025

We got our cats a toy for indoor fun during the Nordic winter. It’s a ball trapped in a pipe-like structure, and they try to get it out. I call it “ball research” and often tell them to keep working on their research. In only two weeks, Fjord is defending his PhD in ball research—I’m impressed! 😂

A cat toy with a round base and a ball inside, partially visible through holes in the top. The toy is designed to keep cats entertained as they try to extract the ball. The ball is now almost out. Cats 1 - Toy 0

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Laura Bacete @laurabacete.eurosky.social · 03/01/2025

In a world getting crazier and crazier, there’s something oddly comforting about living in a place where a frightened dog running away due to fireworks makes the front page.

A front page of the Swedish newspaper Västerbottens-Kuriren dated 3rd January 2025. The main headline highlights the fastest-growing districts in Umeå, while the featured story at the bottom tells of a dachshund named Klara who was rescued after her leash froze and she ran away, scared by fireworks. The image shows Klara sitting in a bag, looking alert. In page 11, one can read that Klara was found by another dog, Puffen.

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