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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you! It’s hard to elaborate on many things with a 2000 word limit but hopefully you find some interesting points. :)

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Heya I put together a bunch of things that i have been thinking about over the past a few years into this insight piece and look forward to any discussion this may lead to 🌸💚

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Aw thank you!! 💚💚💚😁😁😁

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Association of Applied Biologists @aabiologists.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#auxin2026 D2 progressing nicely. Great talk from @minyaaa.bsky.social about floral and leave development in Monkey-flower….

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Petal to the metal: The slow road to automating large-scale #phenology labeling for #herbarium specimens New in #AppsPlantSci by @er1ngrady.bsky.social, @djli.bsky.social, @rdinnager.bsky.social, Rob Guralnick, et al. doi.org/10.1002/aps3... @floridamuseum.bsky.social @usa-npn.bsky.social #botany

The heading reads: "Historical flowering data unlocked for over 2.9M herbarium specimens". The background image is a digitized herbarium specimen. In the center of the image is a bar chart showing the number of flowering records across the decades, from 1800 to 2020. The text at the bottom of the image reads: "Integrated in Phenobase", with the URL phenobase.org

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Haley A Branch @stressedbranch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New preprint out from my time as a postdoc in @jenncoughlan.bsky.social lab! In a range-wide survey of M. guttatus, we found a lack of stomatal regulation in response to drought, which led to our inability to draw predictions from other known trait-associations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Divergence in wilt tolerance across the range of Mimulus guttatus in the absence of stomatal regulation

Whether phenotypes and environments predict performance under stress is central to ecology and evolution and can reveal species' vulnerability to global change. We sampled Mimulus guttatus range-wide ...

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Philippe Batut @philippebatut.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🧬🔬 Why are enhancers transcribed and how does that impact gene regulation? I’m really excited to share our new paper in @science.org showing that noncoding RNAs control the timing of gene activation in embryos. With Mike Levine #ScienceResearch @columbiamed.bsky.social A few highlights below... 🧵👇

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Noncoding transcription controls the developmental dynamics of long-range gene regulation

The genomic regions regulating gene expression are often themselves transcribed into a variety of noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs). However, the regulatory roles of this noncoding transcription remain largely ...

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Philippe Batut @philippebatut.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

2/ To see this with our own eyes, we turned to live imaging – and to the HOX genes. We visualized, in real time, the transcription of an endogenous eRNA (magenta spots) produced by a distal enhancer of the HOX gene Scr (green, in trans) in individual nuclei (grey) of live fly embryos:

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Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Feeling proud of where SpliceCraft is at right now. Still got more details to add and UI jank to solve, but powerful af and open source. Made, with love, for this community. Enjoy. SpliceCraft.bio

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SpliceCraft — the in-terminal plasmid workbench

Design, clone & mutate plasmids in a mouse-friendly terminal workbench. Everything runs on your own computer — no cloud, no account.

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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Excited to share our new paper is out in TPJ! 🌱 "Out of the blue: family-wide loss of anthocyanin biosynthesis in Cucurbitaceae" We explore the anthocyanin biosynthesis gene loss through comparative genomics: doi.org/10.1111/tpj.... @nancy-choudhary.bsky.social @puckerlab.bsky.social #Evolution

Synteny analysis supports the loss of crucial genes in the anthocyanin biosynthesis across Cucurbitaceae. Details and figure reference: https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.71136

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Marie Monniaux @mariemonniaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We have written a review on MADS-box genes expression in developing floral organs, which has been under-explored as compared to their early role to specify floral organ identity. Congrats to Emma Désert for her first review article as a PhD student! #proudPI @rdplab.bsky.social

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"embrace AI to reveal the hidden beauty in your data." or embrace AI to hallucinate data

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🌿 Congratulations to our 2026 Katherine Esau Award recipients, Angelique Acevedo (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and Andrea Appleton (Harvard University), for their outstanding presentations in developmental & structural botany at Botany 2026! #BSA2026AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist #PlantPeopleFTW

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You know what's also interactive? Reading the paper. Talk to your colleagues about the paper you just read. Tell them why you loved it. Tell them why you hated it. And even better: invite the authors to talk about their paper 🧪

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Steven Ray Morris @stevenraymorris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Nausicaä and @science-irl.bsky.social both LOVE PLANTS. We look at this 1984 Hayao Miyazaki classic and chat about when PLANTS FIGHT BACK and more on See Jurassic Right. It’s Summer Flicks With Scientists. youtu.be/nQC3O5wx8ps

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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Activation of anthocyanin biosynthesis in Utricularia gibba depends on nitrogen starvation and light exposure #FlavonoidFriday doi.org/10.64898/202... & shorturl.at/Be9T2

Utricularia gibba traps exhibiting red coloration, presumably due to anthocyanin accumulation. Reference: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.08.27.747637

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

'Our findings show how a single flower can integrate two contrasting pollination strategies—deception and mutualism—to exploit two very different pollinators,' said author Aroonrat Kidyoo. www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #PlantScience

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New group pic for the new semester! My one-year old lab is growingggggg! #newpi

group picture of 10 of us sitting on a stone gate in front of our building.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Today’s rally to save the academy of natural sciences was incredible. Hundreds of people turned out. This is only the beginning. Follow along with save-the-academy.org

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Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My Alice petunia explants already undergoing shoot organogenesis after just 13 days from plating leaf disks. So fast!

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David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I am currently searching for a postdoc to work on the evolution of adaptations, cold acclimation, and freezing tolerance in switchgrass. The position entails lab, growth facility, bioinformatics, and fieldwork. careers.msu.edu/jobs/postdoc...

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Postdoctoral Scholar-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Position Summary The Lowry Lab at Michigan State University is searching for a postdoctoral research associate to conduct field and laboratory experiments to understand the causes of genetic variation...

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Botany One @botany.one · 30/08/2026

*Adenophora triphylla* www.botany.one/adenophora-t... A plant with an unusual number of names. #Botany #PlantScience

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*Adenophora triphylla*

A plant with an unusual number of names.

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

After ~30 years of transforming Agro with the freeze-thaw method, I finally directly compared resuspending in CaCl2 versus LB. LB aliquots gave ~3x as many colonies.

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Now you mentioned it, I kinda see it 🙈

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

And if you know why those donuts exist, please let me know!!

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Happy #FluorescentFriday! Here's some autofluorescence of #Mimulus trichomes on tiny leaves and I saw something very interesting - the brightest cells appears to be a small "neck" cell connecting the long stalk and the head of the trichome! No idea why but they look like cute tiny shiny donuts 😋🍩🔬🌱

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We hope you've enjoyed today's YOUR Journey — OUR Story theme for A Day for BSA! Thank you to everyone who celebrated, shared, & gave to the Endowment. This campaign runs through Aug 31, & small gifts add up. If all members gave $10, we'd raise $30,000! Donate Here: day-for-bsa.botany.org/2026

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🌿 Midday joy break! "Plant People for the Win" is a brand-new music video celebrating plant people everywhere, made just for us by Doc Martine and the Botaneers. Turn it up and yell PLANT PEOPLE! 🌱 Watch here: youtu.be/wlyVPuerA0U #DayforBSA #PlantPeopleFTW #IamaBotanist

Thumbnail for the music video "Plant People for the Win" by Doc Martine and the Botaneers. Large hand-lettered white text over a lush green forest reads "PLANT PEOPLE FOR THE WIN," with a comic-style burst reading "PLANT PEOPLE!" and a red YouTube play button. Below the title: "By Doc Martine and the Botaneers." The lower half is a grid of joyful photos of botanists of all ages out in the field, smiling, holding plants, and working together in forests and greenhouses around the world.

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My home society that helped me to grow from a baby grad student to now 💚 After serving on the board, my appreciation for BSA only increased bc I saw firsthand how strongly the society values its students, community & mission. An amazing community of and for plant people! #DayforBSA #plantpeopleFTW

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Delighted to share our latest greenhouse surprise. Plant inset interaction was no part of my research program but I guess it is now. ☠️💀🪦🤬 #newpi

caterpillars growing on our mimulus plants

lots of black caterpillar poop on our plant

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

NSF just announced its GRFP solicitation due in October - deadline varies by field: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... Now for the bad news... * NSF estimates they will issue 1,500 awards, down from 2,500+ last year. * NSF removed STEM Education and Learning Research as a Major Field.

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Discussed an idea with my student, I asked “what do you think?” She said “I subscribe to it!” I was too busy thinking “this is what young people say now????” and missed my golden opportunity of responding “please like and turn on the notification bottom”. Aiyaiyai!

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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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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 19/08/2026

the purpose of AI systems is to produce texts that are statistically indistinguishable from human-authored texts. a program that *could* distinguish the two would be more powerful than any extant model and would be used to train the *next* most powerful model, and so on to infinity

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 17/08/2026

AI RANT Following the cancellation of three major debut book deals over AI suspicions, I decided to put my own (needless to say, 100% human-written) prose to the test. My detector of choice was Originality AI, and the results proved to be jarring, to say the least. 🧵1/5

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Madison Plunkert (she/her) @madisonplunkert.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

See our new paper examining how monkeyflowers handle salt spray landing on their leaves! Salt spray lands on plant leaves in coastal habitats around the world, yet we know little about how plants survive this stress.

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Joe Brennan @biologyjoe87.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Looking for sci comm opportunities? Join us as a writer for American Naturalist press releases! These write-ups are primarily written by graduate students and other early-career scientists. No experience required; we have editors to help along the way. Apps due Sept 1. Please share widely :D

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Looking for Press Release Writers & Editors for The American Naturalist

Sign up for the opportunity to write and/or edit for The American Naturalist! We are seeking authors to write press releases for new journal articles. See examples of recent press releases here. We a...

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Our great sister department is recruiting!

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Dominique Bergmann @stanfordstomata.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

1/9 🧵New preprint from the lab! A midpoint in a long journey to understand specificity among bHLH transcription factors in plants. Part IV: how does an accessory domain guide specificity of heterodimerizing bHLHs? #PlantSci #TranscriptionFactors #stomata www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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Jorge Hernández-García @jorgehg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Our latest views on deep ARF evolution are finally out in New Phytologist! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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AUXIN RESPONSE FACTORs: from transcription factors to auxin effectors

Molecular evolution of AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR (ARF) effector function.

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School of Integrative Biology at Illinois (SIB) @ibioillinois.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Congrats to Angelique Acevedo, Plant Biology grad student, for winning the Katherine Esau Presentation Award! Her curiosity and bold questions earned her a well-deserved honor for her outstanding research and presentation skills. #PlantBiology #CuriosityDrivesImpact #UIUC

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