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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · 7h

🧬 How can simple gene circuits create complex cell behaviours? James Locke’s team shows how a common genetic circuit, combining positive & negative feedback loops, can be tuned to produce a wide range of gene-expression patterns 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s414... 🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/how-sim...

Schematic of the general mixed positive/negative feedback loop model. Here, a single component (σ) both activates and deactivates its own production. The activation depends on the presence of an input, and the deactivation is subject to a time delay. 10 line graphs showing Simulations for 10 different parameter sets, demonstrating the 10 different behaviours the model can achieve. Initially, the system remains inactive; upon triggering the input (marked by the red dashed lines), distinct behaviours emerge: a No activation. b Stochastic pulsing. c Oscillation. d Stochastic anti-pulsing. e Homogeneous activation. f Heterogeneous activation (three different simulations displayed). g Stochastic switching. h Stable bistability. This panel depicts two simulations. The first (dark blue) is initiated at the initial (inactive) state at the same time as the simulations in the other panels. The second (purple) is initiated at the time of the input (dashed red line) in the active state. There is no intrinsic way for the system to switch between these two states (however, it could happen by e.g., the addition of exogenous σ). i Single response pulse. j Intermediate activation. Source code used to generate this figure can be found in the provided GitLab repository.

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André Marques @amarques.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Out today in Nature: sex without crossovers. Rhynchospora tenuis makes pollen, fertilises and sets seed, yet 0 crossovers in 10,997 pollen nuclei. Chromosome drive and ~87% seed abortion rebuild the mother's genotype, so the offspring are clones. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Wolfram Pönisch @wolframponisch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

One week left to apply!

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Margot Smit @likeyoda1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

📣 Job alert! 2 Positions starting 2027. PhD position with me and @bayerlab.bsky.social on Robustness of embryonic and stomatal development, part of @greenrobust.de Postdoc position on the regulation of cell state, following up on some exciting snRNAseq dat! Apply now or share! #PlantSciJob

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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We would love to find a plant biologist to fill this role at TAIR. Tell your friends, think about it for yourself! We’re a very friendly bunch at a non-profit with a great mission. 🌱 #arabidopsis #plantscijobs #biocuration

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

If you’re struggling to get hold of special eclipse glasses, then you can always look at the shadow it produces through a colander. This worked well for us last time.

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James Dinneen @jamesdinneen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Firefighters in Oregon, Spain, and now France (?!) are battling wildfires big enough to generate pyrocumulonimbus clouds. These fire storms are treacherous on the ground. But scientists are concerned about the *planetary* consequences of injecting so much smoke into the upper atmosphere...🌍🔥🧵

This image shows a pyrocumulonimbus cloud rising from the 2022 Mosquito Fire, burning near the Middle Fork American River and Foresthill, California, taken in the afternoon of September 08, 2022.

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Adrienne Roeder Lab @roederlab.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Ever stretch a plastic bag until it wrinkled? Keeping a thin sheet flat while it rapidly expands is surprisingly difficult. So how do growing plant leaves remain flat as they rapidly grow? Check out our new @currentbiology.bsky.social review, How to Grow a Flat Leaf www.cell.com/current-biol...

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How to grow a flat leaf

Peng et al. review mechanisms driving lamina expansion, including gene expression, auxin-mediated proliferation, and microtubule-directed growth, linking disrupted coordination to morphological defect...

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Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

🌾 Every grass leaf shares the same repeating short-long cell pattern in its epidermis. Our new #preprint identifies the protein that builds it. 🔬🧬 📄 preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵⬇️ 1/11

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Marie Monniaux @mariemonniaux.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I am the plant editor at Biology Open, and they have been experimenting with a new reviewing system called Fast&Fair, in which reviewers are PAID (not a joke) and the reviews come back in 7 days (1/2)

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

"Why paying peer reviewers works" Very cool initiative by @biologyopen.bsky.social and EiC Daniel Goerlick. Paying vetted(!) peer reviewers increased turnaround time & quality of #PeerReview! I continue to be a big fan of the Company of @biologists.bsky.social & their work. 👍 #SciPub

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Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief

A biology journal that paid peer reviewers found that the approach cut the time to a first editorial decision by 85% and maintained high-quality reviews.

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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Plant cell sculptures, hand-woven by @jodiearmand.bsky.social These are some of the coolest bio-inspired and bio-accurate works I've seen. Go check out her work!!

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

🌺 How does a hibiscus flower pattern its petals? A new computational model reveals hidden "boundary" cells can spontaneously emerge during flower development, helping to create stable petal patterns. Prediction confirmed experimentally! 🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/how-hib... #PlantsInTheSpotlight

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

As Editor of @dev-journal.bsky.social I get asked "What are you doing about your impact factor?" In our new editorial we say: Ask not what Dev can do for the impact factor. Ask what you can do for Dev's IF The IF is about how we all cite, review & assess each other's work doi.org/10.1242/dev....

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The elephant in the room: impact factor

Summary: This Editorial offers an honest look at impact factor trends in developmental biology, explains how Development serves its community, and makes the case that sustaining developmental biology ...

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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

“Mechanistic” must be the most abused word in research. Everyone want “mechanistic insights” but it means very different things for a geneticist vs a structural biologist or cell biologist.

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Marie the Cat's Dramatic Sigh

ALT: Marie the Cat's Dramatic Sigh

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Toby Andrews @tobyandrews.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Don't miss this online session on Monday! I'll be talking about our lab's new directions on oxygen sensing in heart plasticity and diversity 🫀🌬️ and @zoenahas.bsky.social will tell us all about shoot branch architectures in plants 🌱 Looking forward to it!

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Zoe Nahas @zoenahas.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Tune in this coming Monday on zoom! I'll be presenting work from my PhD @slcuplants.bsky.social on how plants regulate their shoot branching architecture via auxin, strigolactone, and BRC1.

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Jim Rowe @botanicaljim.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Wonderful team, mentor and place to work. Apply!

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Diana Gómez De La Cruz @dianagdlc.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

So proud to see this story finally out!🎉 We added new data since our previous preprint—transgenic barley plants with an engineered immune receptor that fights off two fungal pathogens at once. Short 🧵 and link to the original preprint thread on X👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Molecular mimicry of a pathogen virulence target by a plant immune receptor

Plants and animals respond to pathogen attack by mounting innate immune responses that require intracellular nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) proteins. These immune receptors detect pathog...

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Mechanical forces & cell shape guide how plant stomata form🥬👄 @leoserra.bsky.social & Euan Smithers from @robinsonsci.bsky.social's team uncover how the interplay between cell shape & mechanical stress influences the orientation of stomata doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/mechani...

Time-lapse images of adaxial side of PM-YFP cotyledons showing new stomatal divisions occurring between 1 and 2 days after germination (DAG). Newly formed stomata are highlighted in magenta at 2DAG. Imaging by Leo Serra.

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Andrea Paterlini (he/him) @apaterlini.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Delighted to see this piece in The Biologist, the magazine from @rsb.org.uk. Tried to capture themes that emerged from valuable conversations with many great 🌱 colleagues. Thank you @tomireland.bsky.social for the opportunity to contribute!

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Berta Verd @bertaverd.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

New Pre-Print Alert! Evolving initial conditions: an alternative developmental route to morphological diversity with Shannon Taylor and @jamesehammond.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Wolfram Pönisch @wolframponisch.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Interested in stochastic tissue morphodynamics in development and disease? Join us at HT @humantechnopole.bsky.social We are recruiting a postdoc for a project combining image analysis, morphometrics, and modelling in collaboration with experimentalists. More information: tinyurl.com/3kc7s4rz

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Postdoc Pönisch Lab

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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Absolutely ❤️ this slide from Olivier Hamant about the role of inefficiency in biological robustness. Thx @maizel-lab.org for bringing him to @cosheidelberg.bsky.social

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Meroz Lab @merozlab.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

New preprint 🌱 Segment plants in time-series images using foundation model SAM2 - without training a model 🪩. Magician Alex Abbey! 💡SAP works across species, scales, and even z-stacks. From single cells to whole plants→ quantitative growth & dynamics . tinyurl.com/3raedtvm @biosofttau.bsky.social

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Andrea Gómez-Felipe @andreagomezfe.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Happy to see this paper out!

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Enrico Sandro Colizzi @escolizzi.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

How common is multicellularity in bacteria? And archaea? And how does it evolve? We wrote a short review "On the architecture and evolution of prokaryotic multicellularity". Preprint link: bit.ly/4ta06Gq Sharing and comments are much appreciated. 1/4

An overview of bacterial multicellular formations: biofilms, filaments, free-floating aggregates, motile collectives and fruiting bodies. For each form, we mention an analogous eukaryotic multicellular form (respectively animal epitelia, filaments in fungi, Volvox, Dictyostelium/social animals, Dictyostelium and other slime moulds)

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

#PlantScienceClassics #20: Kinetin & Cytokinins. In 1955 Carlos Miller, Folke Skoog & co-workers describe the first #Cytokinin and its role in promoting cell division and growth promotion. #Phytohormones #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1... pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

The authors of the two papers. Carlos O. Miller standing on the left, looking down upon a couple of glass beakers. Opposite him, from the back to the front, are Malcolm H. van Saltza, Francis Shigeo Okumura, Folke K. Skoog and Frank M. Strong. Below the photo are the headers of their two papers describing kinetin, the first cytokinin: “Kinetin, a cell division factor from desoxyribonucleic acid” by Carlos O. Miller, Folke K. Skoog, Malcolm H. van Saltza and Frank M. Strong, and “Structure and synthesis of kinetin” by Carlos O. Miller, Folke K. Skoog, Francis Shigeo Okumura, Malcolm H. van Saltza and Frank M. Strong. Both published in 1955 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

PHOTOTROPIN-mediated blue light signaling orients the asymmetry of Marchantia polymorpha spores www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Femke de Jong @plantenzo.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

A recent comment made me wonder which studies have you done, or come across that are now neglected, orphaned, or otherwise ignored and you now feel can do with a little bit of love and attention. #PlantScience #Botany #Science

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Enrico Sandro Colizzi @escolizzi.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Curious about the origin of development during the transition to multicellularity? A very belated preprint alert: bit.ly/4rr2mHU Reproduction emerges from ecological interactions at the onset of multicellularity. A short 🧵 with lots of videos...

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Michael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Registration for the 13th PhD School on Plant Development is open! 🌾 🔬 🌺 🧬 🌵 🧪 Deadline: June 30, 2026 Link to registration form forms.gle/tbmUxaw2vmEn... Cost: €350.- (incl. board, lodging and social event) For details re payment and abstracts see form or homepage raissiglab.org/plantdevosch...

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Laboratory of Plant Morphodynamics @plantmorpho.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

ERC-funded PhD position: auxin in plant morphogenesis! Come to our team to study molecular mechanisms downstream of auxin signaling that control morphogenesis in plants! ueb.cas.cz/en/news/?id=...

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Hugues Renault @huguesrenault.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

#JobAlert #PhD 🌱 We are offering a PhD project to explore how transcription factors have shaped the evolution of plant protective barriers. We will support suitable candidates in applying to the @unistra.fr Graduate School competition. Interested? Please get in touch for more information!

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Impressive work from @saschalaubinger.bsky.social and colleagues, describing molecular and phenotypic footprints of climate in transcriptomes of native Arabidopsis thaliana. #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Hallou Lab @halloulab.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

🚨3-year Postdoc Position @halloulab.bsky.social (Kennedy Institute, Oxford) - on Spatial Biology & Bioinformatics of Fibrosis🚨 An exciting project combining #SpatialTranscriptomics & #Mechanobiology👇: shorturl.at/LLS5r Deadline: 16 March - Please RT 📢! @kiroxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

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Sandy Hetherington @sandyheth.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

We are really excited that Euro Evo Devo will take place here in Scotland from the 9th-12th June, at the University of Glasgow! Deadline for Early Bird Registration and Abstract Submission are rapidly approaching in March so do register soon! www.evodevoconference26.com/important-da...

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10th European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology Meeting 2026

The European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology is delighted to welcome you to the 10th biennial meeting, to be held at the University of Glasgow from June 9th - 12th in 2026.

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Christian Fankhauser @chfankhauser.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Please consider attending this conference in the Swiss Alps meetings.embo.org/event/26-pla... . Exciting science & great venue, lots of opportunities for selected talks from abstracts. Join the conversation on Bluesky with #EMBOispp2026

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Guillermina Ramirez-SanJuan @guille-rochelle.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Excited to share our new preprint exploring how Paramecium achieves diverse flow functions, i.e. feeding and swimming, simultaneously. This work was spearheaded by our ExM expert, PhD student Daphne Laan @daphnelaan.bsky.social : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Really happy to see this one out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Alibek's drive & great coll w/ friends @gekaragoz.bsky.social & E. Hallacli resulted in a cool story that starts with our beloved #Marchantia and ends with iPSC-derived neurons 🤩🤪 A short 🧵

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Schneeberger Lab @labschneeberger.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

🌾 We have an open postdoc position in Plant Genomics in our group at HHU Düsseldorf! If you enjoy computational biology, asking big questions, and the satisfaction of code working on the first try, check out schneebergerlab.org/career/ Apply by Mar. 31 | 3-year postdoc | German skills required

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Career – Schneeberger Lab

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