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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Riverside hit 100°F today; still 93° at sunset.

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today was my first commute on mine (this exact model). So far, so good (except for carrying it up and down my stairs).

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Career MLB HR leader among UCSD alumni Shay Whitcomb!

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Learning Safari's "Open in News" trick may have prevented me from getting frustrated and giving up on Apple News for like the 5th time.

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

After counting colonies, it was only 2.3×. I thought the LB comp cell protocol version came first, so I assumed there must have been a reason to make it more complicated and freeze in CaCl2. Or maybe LB is only better if using the (less common) lower-salt LB[Lennox] recipe?

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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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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

All I knew about IRN BRU was that it can be used in biochem labs to stain protein blots. Alas, that dye (Ponceau 4R) is banned in US foods, so the imported version doesn't work.

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Plant Physiology @plantphys.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A conserved role of EIN3 in the development of rooting structures in land plants (Dongdong Kong , Jie Meng , Yidong Wang , Jiao Liu , Wenxiu Cui , Legong Li , Chuanli Ju) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

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A conserved role of EIN3 in the development of rooting structures in land plants

The ethylene signaling transcription factor EIN3 regulates rooting structure development in a conserved manner in land plants.

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

ApE users: Does anyone know a work-around for opening the .ab1 files from some whole-plasmid sequencers? ApE can open files from @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social but not two others. (Other apps can open them all, but can't align them like ApE.)

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

After my PhD advisor spoke at the Arabidopsis meeting about the early-flowering mutant screen that yielded elf3 and tfl1, a very senior PI walked up and said "stressed plants flower" and walked away.

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

When Roombas are outlawed, only outlaws will have Roombas.

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Seeing your post and a few others finally got me to sit down and submit my own comment.

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

It will air in the US on PBS/Nova starting October 14

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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Hormone-dependent receptor docking controls calcium channel activity in plants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

All I knew was that the weirdest Arabidopsis thaliana accession, Cvi-0, came from there

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I was in the same situation. I started using the one integrated into the pdf manager I use, papersapp. Getting the Word integration working took a few tries, but it is working okay so far. Has anyone else used it?

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Czechia has been pronounced as “Chechnya” by three people at NBC4-LA in their sports coverage. I’m thinking the last guy was finally corrected as he said “Czech Republic” when they returned to him. Ooof.

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George R. L. Greiff @ilichenmoss2.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Happy to announce our study that has just been published from work done during my PhD at the University of Bristol working in Prof. Jill Harrison's lab. It's about WOX genes and sporophyte development in the model moss, Physcomitrium patens. Take a look 🧵👇

A wild-type shoot with a single apical sporophyte (left) beside a Ppwox13lc mutant with three sporophytes on the same shoot (right).

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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Here is some weekend reading for you 👉 www.cell.com/current-biol... Our special green issue, chokeful of reviews and short-format introductory pieces on plant #evolution! 🌱🌿🌵🍃 #Plants

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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Rational design of T-DNA vectors enables predictable, single-copy integration in Arabidopsis thaliana www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Wolfgang Busch @rootstrapping.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

We know a lot about how roots grow but far less about why they stop, decline and die. In our recent @theplantcell.bsky.social review, Feng Qin connects the biology of root growth and root aging, highlighting opportunities to extend root function, enhance crop productivity, and increase soil carbon.

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This work was a collaboration with Nick Morffy and the Strader lab and had help from Wes Neher in the Muroyama lab. Notably, this work features Mark's return to the bench with his first PCR and first Arabidopsis transformation via dipping!

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Zhaonan's Arabidopsis follow-up to our previous paper on moss and maize Class B ARFs is out! She focused on AtARF2 and ETTIN/AtARF3. Mutational analyses of an instability domain reveal its conserved role in the regulation of class-B ARF levels in Arabidopsis | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I can’t wait for this election to be over. A local candidate for the state senate spent a lot of money running an extremely disturbing TV ad consisting of bodycam audio of him (a former cop) calmly shooting a guy.

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I also donated TIR1-mOrange2, AFB1-mECFP, AFB3-mEGFP, AFB5-mCherry, and iaa6-C78R lines

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

FYI: The bpm single/double/triple mutants, BPMx-GFP lines, and degron reporter lines are now available at ABRC

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Wow, a story on plant genome duplications made it into NPR's 5 minute News Now summary! It even includes a sound bite from a plant biologist, @yvdp.bsky.social! (7PM EDT episode) www.npr.org/podcasts/500...

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I think you watched the wrong show; each episode is only 15 minutes long.

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Zymo’s kit is the fastest/easiest and cheaper than Qiagen. You can do a few in 20 minutes with vacuum. I begrudgingly stuck with them even after pictures of their Zymo-branded Cybertruck circulated right as DOGE was destroying everything.

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Jess Foster 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 🧪 she/her @jfplantstuff.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

this is not my ideal way of seeing my lab published in Science magazine, but, here we are. Roger is well known as a devoted life-long plant scientist, but he is also an incredible human being who shows constant kindness and encouragement to everyone around him. this is simply not fair.

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Oh wow! I heard something about it, but this is way worse than I understood!

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

In honor of his election today, today's @grammargirl.bsky.social podcast shared that the word "ear" in human and maize-ian contexts arose from completely different origins

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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

REVOLUTA regulates cell fate and wall patterning in the fruit endocarp www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I hope none of the former Estelle lab members wanted to rescue their old boxes of seeds and plasmids! Also, I learned today that metal paper clips cannot go in biohazard waste, so I'm slightly annoyed with the many large boxes in which every envelope was paper clipped. Luckily, have help.

Picture of 55-gallon biohazard bin filled with packets of seeds with a gallon of paper clips that were removed perched on top.

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

My mom worked at the bubble school in the upper right!

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Daniel Kierzkowski @kierzkowskilab.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Do you want to know how to build an organ from a single cell? Check out our paper about phyllid development in moss by Weney Lin @irbv.bsky.social Colaboration with Yoan Couder @ensdelyon.bsky.social and and Richard Smith @johninnescentre.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Sergey Kryazhimskiy @skryazhi.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

It looks like there will be an open postdoc position in my lab soon. I'll be looking for someone with substantial wet-lab experience in microbiology / microbial ecology / evolution / physiology. If everything goes well, an ad will be coming. But if you know someone, ask them to reach out already.

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

The last gel in the long history of the Estelle lab just became the penultimate gel when I got distracted and ran it too far.

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Belén Borniego @belenborniego.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

🚨📢 Excited to share our back-to-back publications in @natcomms.nature.com! 🧬🌡️ In a fantastic collaboration between @casallab.bsky.social and @luciastrader.bsky.social, we’ve showed how plants "re-tune" the auxin pathway to regulate growth in response to warmth. 🌡️🌱 🧵 rdcu.be/fayYC, rdcu.be/fay0X

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Thermosensory reconfiguration of the auxin transcriptional pathway to drive root cell growth

Nature Communications - While auxin typically inhibits root cell growth, elevated temperatures reconfigure the auxin transcriptional pathway to promote elongation. This study reveals how plants...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/03/2026

Leaf That Came Out Too Early Cold As Shit

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I’m waiting for the late showing right now

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Okay, I’ll probably list v3/v6/v7 IDs for genes in these papers for now.

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

As far as I know, the v7 assembly and annotations are only available to download for local BLAST databases and genome browsers. Am I missing a server?

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Michael Prigge @mjprigge.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I'm going through and updating my moss genes' GeneIDs to the Ppv7 annotations. After all of the gaps in v3 and the occasional sequence jumbles in v6, v7 is perfect as far as I can tell! I only wish it was more easily available.

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PM Delaux @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

⚠️⚠️ @jacquet-chris.bsky.social and I are organizing the 2nd "non seed plant" French meeting. As for the one in 2025, the goal is to better structure our emerging community across French institutes. It will take place in Toulouse, June 24th-25th. Registration 🔽 nonseedplants26.sciencesconf.org

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Annual non-seed plant meeting 2026 - Sciencesconf.org

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