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Sergio Perez Limon describing in #Zeavolution his MexMagic population to study local adaptation in maize. Pointing out that you can't make popcorn garlands with the reference genome 😂 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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I am happy and excited to share that graduate student, @ohazel.bsky.social Olivia's first author research article is published now @newphyt.bsky.social

We are grateful to editor, reviewers, and @newphyt.bsky.social to help us to improve the story

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I would like to congratulate Grammarly’s lawyers for belatedly realizing their shitty AI product was gonna get them class-action yeeted into the sun.

I would also like to encourage Grammerly to eat shit forever and ever amen.

Registration is OPEN for #Botany2026 – Biodiversity at the Boundaries, August 1-5 in Tucson, AZ!

– Early-Registration Deadline: Apr 30
– Abstract Deadline: Apr 13
– BSA Travel Awards Deadline: Mar 15
– BSA Sectional Student Travel Awards Deadline: Apr 1

www.botanyconference.org
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Just discovered this wonderful adaptation of our maize moving map (figshare.com/articles/fig...) by @andikur.bsky.social .

The mechanical properties of Arabidopsis thaliana roots adapt dynamically during development and to stress Brillouin microscopy reveals in vivo dynamics of mechanical properties during plant development and response to stress.

How do plants actually sense water?🤔

This "simple" question is central to plant survival & crop resilience

In a new Science Advances paper, our NTNU team uncovers new insights into the mechanisms plants use to detect changes in water availability & translate them into stress signals

@science.org

The University of Illinois Just Released a Popcorn So Good It Doesn’t Need Butter — FOOD & WINE A crop scientist and two brewers spent nearly a decade breeding a better popcorn — and you can taste the difference.

“The University of Illinois Just Released a Popcorn So Good It Doesn’t Need Butter

A crop scientist and two brewers spent nearly a decade breeding a better popcorn — and you can taste the difference.”

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This is really beautiful work by PhD student Alexandre Porcher Fernandes (@alefern.bsky.social) on the evolution of reproductive strategies. I'm really keen to see where we can take this framework next!

Interactive XKCD 🔗

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One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “From peptides to DNA: All required steps can be catalyzed.” Explore the article here: https://ow.ly/Pa4q50YrSfY

For more trending articles, visit https://ow.ly/jUm050YrSg0.

Introgression and parental conflict shape repeated occurrences of postzygotic isolation in Mimulus Postzygotic reproductive isolation is often thought to accumulate as a byproduct of neutral divergence. Yet it frequently evolves rapidly, in line wit…

I am SO THRILLED to share our first fully-lab lab paper!!!!!! Led by @hybridzones.bsky.social & @hagarsoliman.bsky.social, w/ a major assist from @pfschwarz.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read more below, if you're curious (you should be- it's AWESOME!!!!!!!)

link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Probably a reach here but I'm looking for someone (early career maybe) who would be willing to mentor me as I navigate the post-PhD life. I feel lost on a lot of things and would be grateful to bounce ideas and experiences with someone who's been through a couple of years post-PhD. 😭

Putting solar panels on farms sounds like a possible win-win, but the mixed use of space can create competition for access to sun. A modeling study identifies semiarid places in the Midwest where the panels would help by mitigating heat and water stress. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/HJmF50YrTTu

Unseasonably warm temperatures, driven by #ClimateChange, are increasing severe storm risk across parts of the Midwest today.

What features are required to shape hypoxic niches enclosing meristems? We @viktoriiavoloboeva.bsky.social in collab @pieterverboven.bsky.social found that a combination of cuticle barrier, densely packed tissue and metabolic activity all uniquely contribute to maintain shoot apical meristem hypoxia

Congrats all!! Been fun watching this work come together from afar!

Very pleased to see this work from the group out in The Plant Journal - led by PhD student Diana Ruggiero from the Leiboff group, a truly collaborative project, addressing the question: how often does pollen genotype influence spatial patterns of inheritance? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How to choose a sweet cherry tree. All of these are self fertile, hardy, and decent on disease/cracking resistance.

Lapin - Highest yield and more 'rich' flavor
Black Gold - Easy to grow, less yield than lapin, clean flavor
Sweetheart - Late season. Rich flavor
Stella - Early Season. Clean Flavor

Prof Marie Maynard Daly, Biochemist Marie Maynard Daly was a biochemist who co-discovered the link between high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and the clogged arteries that can cause heart disease and strokes.

Marie Maynard Daly co-discovered the link between high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and the clogged arteries that can cause heart disease and strokes. She also studied the damage that cigarettes have on the heart & lungs. adalovelaceday.subst...

Common Plant Proteins Found to Calm the Immune System - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology A new study co-led by MCB’s Kazuki Nagashima and published in Science Immunology (PDF) identifies plant-derived molecules that help quiet the immune system, preventing inflammatory reactions to the […...

Common Plant Proteins Found to Calm the Immune System 🧪 🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @microbiometcell.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @rivaselenarivas.bsky.social @science.org @harvard.edu

I am also shocked by the lack of coverage of this fire. It’s so far only affecting the Union Street buildings, but one of those has partially collapsed, from what I can tell backwards into the station. And it’s not yet contained. This is major and more than halfway down BBC’s homepage.

🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics!

My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026.

We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems.

#Postdoc #EcoEvo

Pls RT!

As someone who is a chronic pacer as part of my writing process, leg injuries are THE WORST…

Remembering Barbara McClintock on International Women's Day!
She discovered that genes aren't static, they can actually "jump" around on a chromosome.

Her discovery of transposons ("jumping genes") fundamentally changed how we understand evolution and the complexity of DNA! 🧬🌽

#WomenInScience

#SpatialTranscriptomics

Optimizing Xenium In Situ data utility by quality assessment & best-practice analysis workflows

Must-read for Xenium user🔥

👉Segmentation
👉Spatially variable feature selection
👉Imputation
👉Spatial domain identification

#NatMethods 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔊A long time ago in a microscopic galaxy far, far away....

🎬Episode IV - A NEW MICROSCOPE 🔬
"It is period of cellular rebellion. Arabidopsis root cells have won first victory against the dark forces of DNA damage"

Thanks to @dvonwangenheim.bsky.social and new i3 spinning disk @the.3i.social

Excited to share this preprint that describes my latest work on using GPUs to accelerate processing of RNA-seq data.

The title says it all: "RNA-seq analysis in seconds using GPUs" now on biorxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... and github github.com/pachterlab/k...

Figure 1 shows they key result

HCR is gonna be such a fantastic technique for the field of developmental biology in the years going forward

Please check out our new preprint! Using single cell analysis paired with HCR to visualize transcript localization we have identified cell and tissue-specific expression of various genes encoding tubulins, kifs, and dyneins during neural crest development!

Ummm... Excuse me, can I help you find something?