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"It takes TOR to Tango" Today, @scourbier.bsky.social showed how TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN activity is involved in shade mediated hypocotyl elongation. Curious? Check out the pre-print doi.org/10.64898/202... 📆Oct 09 #PlantScience

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Juliet Coates @julietccoates.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Almost at 25% target - thank you for all donations so far 💚

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Juliet Coates @julietccoates.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We are just over 20% of target. Thank you to all who have donated so far. Please keep donating and sharing 💚

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Sarah Courbier @scourbier.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Congratulations, Wouter! I'm so happy I could catch you on your last day at WUR! Best of luck at Maastricht University, they're lucky to have you! 🙏🏼🥳

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Wouter Kohlen @wkohlen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

After 12 wonderful years at Wageningen University & Research, it’s time for a new chapter: I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining Maastricht University!

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Universität Freiburg @uni-freiburg.de · 02/10/2026

🎉✨ Großer Erfolg für Freiburg: Die #unifreiburg ist wieder #Exzellenzuniversität. Ab 2027 wird sie im Rahmen der #Exzellenzstrategie von Bund und Ländern institutionell gefördert. #ufrexu26 #wirsindexzellent ➡️ Mehr dazu: ufr.link/wir-sind-exz...

Eine große Gruppe Menschen steht dicht gedrängt in einem Saal, jubelt und streckt die Arme in die Höhe. Im Vordergrund halten mehrere Personen ein großes blaues Banner mit der Aufschrift „Exzellent. universität freiburg“. Von der Decke hängen zahlreiche bunte Luftschlangen.

Eine große Gruppe Menschen steht dicht gedrängt in einem Saal und jubelt mit erhobenen Armen. Im Vordergrund halten mehrere Personen ein großes blaues Banner mit der Aufschrift „universität freiburg“.

Grafik mit einem Farbverlauf in Blau, Grün, Rosa und Gelb. Links steht in weißer Schrift „Welcome to the Future Research University.“ Rechts unten steht „universität freiburg“.

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MAdLand @watertoland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Alisha Alisha from @plantphotobiology.bsky.social lab in Freiburg is focusing on investigating the role of FHY1 in phytochrome signaling in the moss Physcomitrium patens #MAdLand2026 #plantsci

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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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Sarah Courbier @scourbier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thank you so much for initiating this, it's such a thoughtful idea!

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IBMP | Institut de biologie moléculaire des plantes @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The global Plant Proteostasis community is gathering in Strasbourg for the 5th International Conference on Plant Proteostasis 2026 (Oct 14-16) at @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social ! 🌍🌱 🔗 proteostasis-26.sciencesconf.org #PlantScience #Proteostasis

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Laura Ragni @lauraragni.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Last Friday was a great opportunity to celebrate how fantastic are the @domps-ufr.bsky.social postdoc! Plus I had the privilege to introduce the new DOMPS logo.

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DOMPS @domps-ufr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy Postdoc Appreciation Week! 🎉 We are celebrating the postdocs who bring new ideas, expertise, and great energy to our DOMPS community! Next to that, let us take this opportunity to introduce our new logo. 💚🧬💙

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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Many of you may have heard the terrible news of Dr. Meng Chen's sudden death. I just found this tribute from UC Riverside cnas.ucr.edu/news/2026/09... and a beautiful review article he contributed to @plantphys.bsky.social earlier this year, "25 years of photobodies" doi.org/10.1093/plph... 💔

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Roman Ulm @romanulm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A redox-regulated RCC1-like protein controls catalase activity in Arabidopsis 🌱 by Zhoubo Hu et al. @zhoubo1234.bsky.social, @biology-unige.bsky.social - published final version now available, open access @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fQjnjegEfrua

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Elke Barbez @elkebarbez.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

How is CRISPR embedded in society—and how can it change agriculture? 🌱🧬 Ursula Franklin argued long before CRISPR-Cas that technologies are shaped by the systems around them: regulation, access and trust! rdcu.be/xuiHDM7EB5Ka #NGT @kleinevehnlab.bsky.social @cibss.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de

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Sarah Courbier @scourbier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Hiltbrunner lab is on its way to @ispphotobiology.bsky.social with the lab! We are very excited, see you in a few hours!

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PM Delaux @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

[⚠️JOB ALERT⚠️] We are looking for a Research assistant (IE for those familiar with the French system) in molecular biology to run DAPseq in the lab. 18 months contract (to start) Start date: October 1st. Exprience in library prep., in vitro transcription/translation system or DAPseq is a must.

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CIBSS – Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies @cibss.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

🌱 Plant roots decide which way to grow much earlier than expected. #CIBSS researchers revealed how the SGR9 protein helps young lateral roots sense gravity & set their growth angle at a surprisingly early phase of development. 🔗 kurzlinks.de/yi3a #PlantScience #RootArchitecture

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Sarah Courbier @scourbier.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Enjoying a glass of wine from #PEM2026 as a reminder of a fantastic conference! Huge thanks again to the organizers for the invitation and the warm welcome. It was a pleasure engaging with the community and having so many inspiring conversations (as always). Thank you and see you in 2 years!🍷😍

A glass of wine just poured out of the bottle as a reminder of the PEM2026 conference in Montpelier.

Beautiful vineyard venue for the gala dinner of PEM2026

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COST Action PlantWallK @plantwallk.org · 20/07/2026

📢 Two postdoc positions available in @mc-caillaud.bsky.social's group (RDP lab, ENS de Lyon), part of an ERC Consolidator. Project: how plant cells orient their division, combining cell biology, molecular genetics, and mechanical modelling. 📅 Deadline: 1 Oct 26 | Start: Nov 26 onwards Details 🧵👇

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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

#plantbio2026 Come see me at my poster tonight 000-018 and learn about the Assistant Features Editor program of @theplantcell.bsky.social & @plantphys.bsky.social 💚

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"The best thing that ever happened to me"

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The BioStimulaTOR Lab @meyerchrisscience.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Our fantastic PhD student Samuel Laurent received the award for the best talk by a young scientist at the Plant Energy Management meeting in Montpellier (PEM26)🤗. So proud and so glad !! By the way it was really a great meeting with an open minded and nice community! Thanks to the organizers !!🙏

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Silvia Manrique @tank-silvia.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

@pem2026.bsky.social is starting! 🌱I work on plant reproduction, so I’m here to learn more about #PlantEnergyManagement and how it influences reproductive processes. Excited for the talks, conversations, and new perspectives to bring back to my project! #PlantReproduction #EnergyManagement

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The Sainsbury Laboratory @thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

📣 VACANCY: Scientist/Senior Scientist - Innovation Pilot Lead with @kamiljwitek.bsky.social in the 2Blades Group This position offers an exciting opportunity to identify and address market-driven challenges in crop protection and trait development. ⏰ Apply online by 3 Aug 2026 buff.ly/YR73ZY4

A Scientist/Senior Scientist - Innovation Pilot Lead position is available to join the 2Blades Group at The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

🍅☀️ RESEARCH ☀️🍅 Light perception influences the way tomato fruits build their protective skin, affecting water loss and disease resistance after harvest - Fernandes et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Fig. 6 (shortened, full legend in paper): Proposed regulatory model for SlPHYB1/B2-mediated control of fruit cuticle deposition. Upon red light absorption, activated SlPHYB1/B2 (Pfr form) represses the downstream positive regulators SlPIF3/4 and SlBBX28, which otherwise physically interact to activate the expression of cuticle-related genes. Concurrent down-regulation of genes from pathways related to the biosynthesis and activation of fatty acids (FAs) likely reduces the pool of activated FAs feeding into cutin and wax biosynthetic pathways, thereby constraining cuticle formation and resulting in a thinner protective layer over the fruit epidermal cells (left). By contrast, conversion of SlPHYB1/B2 to the inactive Pr form under far-red-enriched light conditions relieves this repression, leading to increased cuticle load (right).

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IBMP | Institut de biologie moléculaire des plantes @ibmp-cnrs.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

📢 PhD opportunity in plant molecular biology ! 🌱🔬 Study how TOR signaling drives translational reprogramming under genotoxic stress in Arabidopsis ! 📍 Strasbourg | 🗓️ Starts Oct 2026 | 💶 2300€/month gross 📅 Apply by 20 July 2026 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

In 2028, ICAR will be in Porto, Portugal July 10-14, 2028 #icar2026 #icar2027 #icar2028

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Sjon Hartman @hartman-plantlab.com · 02/07/2026

You know I love #plantscience but I really love watching these guys 😍😎

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Dr. Guada Fernandez Milmanda @gfmilmanda.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Happy to share my first postdoc collab. We had the chance to contribute to Olivier Van Acken's lab excelent research in the regulation of touch signaling. It's very exciting to see one of my big phosphodata sets out there 😄 contributing to the world of MAPKs rdcu.be/frwd0 @psb-vib.bsky.social

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A sequential MAP kinase cascade regulates mechanical signalling

Nature Communications - Mechanical stimulation by touch triggers rapid and widespread changes in protein phosphorylation in plants. Here the authors identify a MAPKKK3/4/5-MKK4/5-MPK3/6...

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Sarah Courbier @scourbier.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Super, Guada! Congratulations 😉

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Faculty of Biology - University of Freiburg @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

On Thursdays, you can now socialize and network in our Faculty's botanical gardens whilst enjoying a lovely (iced) coffee & cake from Johanna's Wagencafe ☕🧋🍪 See you there? Bonus: you may even spot the local grass snake (Natrix helvetica) in the ponds whilst viewing the rich diversity of flora. 🌾🐍💦

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Ralf Reski @reskilab.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

A bit more than a week to apply! W 3 Professorship for Plant Biotechnology. Freiburg, Germany. Great university, great faculty, awesome colleagues. Apply, if you want to be my successor. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

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Barbarasynbio @barbarasybio.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The Hypersphere - the rock band I am the singer of - will play at the Zelt-Musik-Festival Freiburg (ZMF) on 21st of July. We warmly invite all those living or finding themselves in the vicinity of Freiburg to join us for some happy energetic time with good rock music 🎶🤟🏼

This photo shows us, The Hypersphere, performing on stage not long ago. We are four rock music enthusiasts, 3 men and me, the only woman. This photo has nice warm colors like red and pink

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Isabel Lembke @isabellembke.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

My former supervisor and every day inspiration @scourbier.bsky.social has a preprint online 🥳 Go check it out, if you haven't already ;)

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Sarah Courbier @scourbier.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

So proud of you! Such a performance, ladies, well done! 💯

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Laura Ragni @lauraragni.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

And today at #B2Run Freiburg the female @uni-freiburg.de team defended the the title. @katrinheer.bsky.social . It was hot but a super nice event .

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Şuayb Üstün @suaybuestuen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

After 2 months of hard work by @shanshuo.bsky.social with huge support by @manuelgonzalezfuen.bsky.social,help by @nico-slz.bsky.social & a bit myself (😅) we did "finalise" our paper & are finally "𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸" 🤞 Here is the last version of our paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #openscience

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Autophagy acts as a spatial organizer of cell-type-specific plant immunity

Effective plant immunity requires precise spatial coordination of immune responses across cell-types to restrict pathogens while preventing tissue damage, yet the intracellular pathways that organize ...

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Sarah Courbier @scourbier.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Thank you so much, Mary! Your support during my AFE time (and beyond) surely helped to get there! 🥂

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Sarah Courbier @scourbier.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Thank you, Diane! Looking forward to catching up in a couple of weeks! ☺️

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Sarah Courbier @scourbier.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

A huge thank you to all my co-authors and everyone who contributed along the way. Your support means a lot!

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Sarah Courbier @scourbier.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

We also found evidence that shade-mediated TOR activation is conserved in tomato, suggesting this mechanism extends beyond Arabidopsis and may be relevant for crop adaptation to high density planting.

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