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Dr. Tyler A. Elliott @transposableman.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

#TEsky Blinded by the lights? Re-examining the adaptive role of transposable elements in plants with population genomics doi.org/10.1016/j.pb...

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Saima Shahid @psaima.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Managed to get some Cuscuta plants started in Sheffield just in time for student projects next year- glad that the seeds germinated despite all the challenges during lab move from USA to UK!

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Thanvi Srikant @thanvisrikant.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

How can plants maintain their genomic identity while also responding to the environment? @hajkdrost.bsky.social and I propose an "epigenetic toolkit" – a suite of epigenetic regulators that mediate the physiology-epigenome-genome crosstalk for adaptation. Read more here: www.cell.com/trends/plant...

A conceptual model summarizing how the balance between environmental fluctuations and the epigenetic toolkit can affect plant homeostasis.

A draft network of 33 epigenetic toolkit proteins, whose encoding genes repeatedly occur as candidates under selection in different contexts in various plant studies.

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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

We are looking for undergrads to visit us over the next summer! If you study in the UK, USA, or Canada, you might be eligible for the DAAD-RISE program 🇩🇪🧬 Learn more 👉 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#DR Do excellent science in Bonn next summer! @puckerlab.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social

Undergrads visiting @PuckerLab during the summer of 2025. Details: https://www.pbb.uni-bonn.de

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Olga Rosspopoff @orpsf.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Thrilled to share our new review in Current Opinion in Genetics & Development on TE driven innovation in gene regulation🤘. I am honored to be part of this with two major TE aficionados @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social and @trono-lab.bsky.social #TEsky #TEworldwide authors.elsevier.com/c/1m6MC,LqAZ...

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The EMBO Journal @embojournal.org · 13/11/2025

piRNA-directed DNA methylation may not be a mammalian invention, but can already be found in the germline of axolotl salamanders Donal O’Carroll and coworkers www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

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Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

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Andrea Paterlini (he/him) @apaterlini.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Few Plant science programmes are left in the UK and they are critical to train the next generation. This move by @uniofnottingham.bsky.social goes against recommendations made in the recent PS Education manifesto. Big mistake! Sign the petition! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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A manifesto for plant science education

Plants provide oxygen, food, shelter, medicines and environmental services, without which human society could not exist. Tackling pressing and global challenges requires well-trained plant scientists...

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Pierre Bourguet @p-bourguet.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

How is epigenetic information inherited? We found that CDCA7 proteins are critical players in the inheritance of DNA methylation at CG sites in plants, and this is true both in the lab and in the wild. How does this work? 🧵👇

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Sebastian Schornack @dromius.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Plz RP. Come join us at @slcuplants.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk to study effector-targeted plant processes impacting plant cell biology and development. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/post-do... www.schornacklab.net

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Daniel Croll @danielcroll.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

@tobybarilbio.bsky.social and I are very excited to release MycoMobilome! A very extensive effort to discover, QC and annotate TEs across the fungal kingdom. 👉 Ready-to-use for your own genome with a simple tutorial! 👉 Metadata about TEs discovered in your genome! 👉 Contribute and get recognition!

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Hey Yaniv Brandvain is not on Bluesky but his most recent biostats ebook is live ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/. His stats resources have been so helpful to me as I develop my own stats course, so check it out. Github repo here: github.com/ybrandvain/b...

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Applied Biostatistics

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plasmidsaurus @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

🦖 Something HUGE just hatched. Plasmidsaurus now offers RNA sequencing for gene expression analysis: • As fast as 3 day turnaround • $50/sample for academia, $80 for industry • Up to ~10M unique transcript 3’ end reads per sample • Interactive results Explore Plasmidsaurus RNA-Seq today.

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Dr Radu Zabet @raduzabet.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

This work was led by Young Jun Kim, a very talented student in the lab. If you have ONT data and want to investigate DNA methylation, DMRcaller would be able to provide you more information than what was previously possible.

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Saima Shahid @psaima.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

It was a pleasure to be part of this collaboration with the amazing @benebachelot.bsky.social and Parker Bartz, excited for the next manuscript stemming from this study!

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Lancaster Plant Biology @lancasterplantbio.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

New #PhD opportunities! NorthWestBio projects now online for 2026! Including a #photosynthesis project w/ @marjorielundgren.bsky.social looking at how photosynthetic diversity may affect future crop nutrient quality. Plant projects and the full set of projects available here: tinyurl.com/529yz4jd

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FindAPhD : NorthWestBio Fully Funded Doctoral Training Programme Studentship 2026 at University of Glasgow

Apply for a PhD: NorthWestBio Fully Funded Doctoral Training Programme Studentship 2026 at University of Glasgow

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Saima Shahid @psaima.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Great to have Mike Axtell at Sheffield for a fantastic PPS cluster seminar on Cuscuta trans-species microRNAs- looking forward to seeing more exciting research from Mike’s group! #parasitic_plants

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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

🚀 Today is the day! Excited to talk about our nanopore sequencing activities in Freiburg 🌱🧬 Including our plant genome sequencing workflow 👉 www.doi.org/10.20944/pre... @puckerlab.bsky.social @pietzenuk.bsky.social

Title slide of nanopore sequencing talk. More details: https://www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news

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Javier Santoyo @jsantoyo.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

TEtrimmer: a tool to automate the manual curation of transposable elements. #TransposableElements #ManualCuration #Genomics #Bioinformatics @natcomms.nature.com 🧬 🖥️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Julius Brennecke @juliusbrennecke.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

PIWI clade Argonautes are essential for transposon silencing. Without them, animals are sterile due to massive transposon activity. But how does piRNA-guided target interaction translate into silencing? PhD student Júlia Portell Montserrat has an intriguing answer www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

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eric lai @lucksmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

"Honey, what did Bastian @frommlab.bsky.social and Eric do to the miRNAs?!?" +special shout-out @katsutomookamura.bsky.social for initiating this work in 2011. as always, everything Katsutomo did was way ahead of its time. read about giant miRNA hairpin precursors here! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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Saima Shahid @psaima.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Happy to see the preprint out - really nice work!

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Adam Hannan Parker @adamahp.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Very excited to finally share the main findings from my PhD, now out as a preprint! We developed an epigenetic system to understand how plants remember and forget past infections - a phenomenon known as immune memory 🌱🧬🧠 Highlights below! 1/9 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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From recall to reset: the role of DNA (de)methylation in modulating plant immune memory

Epigenetic reprogramming is increasingly recognised as a driver of plant immune memory, yet its molecular basis remains poorly understood. Using a chemically inducible transgene in Arabidopsis, we tra...

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Dan Kliebenstein @spicybotrytis.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

The first in a coming array of papers looking at the co-transcriptome of 72 Botrytis genotype in 10 different host plants is out. Summary is the pathogen uses a combination of general virulence and host specific plasticity (not new genes) to infect dicots. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Combined generalist and host-specific transcriptional strategies enable host generalism in the fungal pathogen Botrytis cinerea

How generalist pathogens infect phylogenetically diverse hosts remains a central question in plant-pathogen biology. In particular, the extent to which broad host range is enabled by genetic variation...

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Saima Shahid @psaima.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I’m missing out on the amazing science at #Botany2025, but super happy that my student Megan Adler is giving her first talk! July 29, TUE, 9 AM (PDT): “Dynamic DNA (de)methylation underpins parasitic #Cuscuta-host plant communication” If you are attending, don’t miss Megan’s talk!

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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

This is a great program. We started in in 2016 and it just gets better and better! Check out some past fellows who are on Bluesky: @philcarella.bsky.social @mattbnt.bsky.social @psaima.bsky.social @fromani.bsky.social @sjb287.bsky.social @aribidopsis.bsky.social @cavycavs.bsky.social

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

⏱️ T - 7 days to go ⏱️ Only 1 week left to submit an abstract and apply for a travel grant to attend #JXB75 in Edinburgh in September 🌱 Don’t miss your chance - apply today! 🌱 #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social

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Petr Svoboda @svobodalab.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

#Argonautes2025 - argonautes.img.cas.cz Join us in Prague 27-30/8/2025 for the next edition of the Argonaute meeting #miRNA #siRNA #piRNA & #PIWI Abstract submission for talk selection deadline is 30/6! Please, spread the word @rnasociety.bsky.social @rti-umasschan.bsky.social

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Miguel Branco @brancolab.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Congratulations @emiliebrasset.bsky.social and colleagues! Great work.

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Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

#NoCass2025 registration now open! If you're a student or post-doc at Norwich or Cambridge, join us at the Norwich-Cambridge Science Symposium on 4-5 September - a great chance to share research & form collaborations. Find out more & register: lnkd.in/eH3We78t @nocassofficial.bsky.social

NoCass 4th to 5th September 2025 - registration now open!

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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

#ICAR2025 attendees! Stop by @theplantcell.bsky.social booth next week to learn about the Assistant Features Editor (AFE) program blog.aspb.org/the-plant-ce... 6pm Tuesday, meet the Editor-in-Chief, Pablo Manavella. 6pm Wednesday, meet the rest of the editors, including some current AFEs! See you!

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The Plant Cell is accepting applications for Assistant Features Editors | Plant Science Today

Are you an early career researcher passionate about plants and science communication? The Plant Cell is accepting applications for new Assistant Features Editors (AFEs) to begin in 2026 and 2027.

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Saima Shahid @psaima.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I rarely have the energy to paint or draw now, but I still had fun making these figures for a paper using biorender. Although icons are made by biorender, it’s was quite a lot of work by @benebachelot.bsky.social and myself to come up with the final version- I am pleased with the look!

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The Global Plant Council @globalplantgpc.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Scientists have found a way to trick parasitic weeds into germinating when no host is present, causing them to die. Using engineered microbes, they’re producing key plant hormones to potentially turn this natural system into a powerful defense. buff.ly/4SvbjZP v @ucriverside.bsky.social #Science

Image: UCR student Annalise Kane, co-first author of the study. Credit: Claudia Sepulveda/UCR

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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I remember seeing this in the preprint version

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Doug Orr @doug-orr.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Excited to share that I'll soon be recruiting a 3 year postdoc to join the lab @lancasterplantbio.bsky.social to work with me on Rubisco biochemistry and engineering. Official advertising details to be released very soon, watch this space! Please spread the word. 😀🌱🧪🥼

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Anne Simon 🧪🌱🐴🦠🍊🇨🇦🇺🇦 @annealiz1.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

A wonderful scientist and a wonderful person. We should all strive to be remembered that way

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Robin Allshire 🇮🇪 🇪🇺✊🏿 ⬆️ Zak’s favourite nucleosome: K9me @allshire-lab.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Epigenetics Gordon Research Conference. Consider joining us for what will be an excellent, exciting meeting and will be held in Europe for the first time: 10-15 Aug25 Barcelona, Spain. Please repost and apply early - this meeting is popular! www.grc.org/epigenetics-...

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2025 Epigenetics Conference GRC

The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Epigenetics will be held in Castelldefels, Barcelona Spain. Apply today to reserve your spot.

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Team Thomma @teamthomma.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Today we celebrate a wide diversity in plant sciences at the Symposium of our institute at @unicologne.bsky.social with support from @ceplas.bsky.social & @trr341.bsky.social #PlantScience

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