Mary Williams @PlantTeaching

Nice!

a cartoon koala bear is sitting in front of a dell laptop ALT: a cartoon koala bear is sitting in front of a dell laptop

I seem to have spent much of today trying to figure out what time it is in various parts of the US. They "sprung" ahead - so they are one hour less far behind us here in the UK, right? 🤯
And we have three weeks of the "new math" to deal with?

🌿 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!

I recorded this poem 10 years ago. Now is the right time to post it. It was written by the much missed Thich Nhat Hanh

'One year of failure.' The Lancet slams RFK Jr.'s first year as health chief In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

RNA-specific local translation is patterned by condensates for multinucleate cell growth - Nature Cell Biology Geisterfer, Jalihal et al. show spatially distinct effects of Whi3 condensates on target translation in Ashbya syncytia. In vitro, translation is enriched at condensate–solute interfaces but repressed...

Condensates are powerful ways to break symmetry and cells do remarkable things with them. Here we show that in a multinucleate fungus, a condensate regulates translation of a cyclin and a formin in distinct locations.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Common Alder male catkins and female cones below a dull red leaf bud. Lackford Lakes #Suffolk. @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social
#WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring

Alder catkins

Dogs mercury

Wood spurge

Red dead nettle

Alder catkins, dog’s mercury, wood spurge, red dead nettle #WildFlowerHour #SignsOfSpring @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Photos of what Prof Henslow and Babington would have called it Hyacinthus/Muscari racemosus between Cherry Hinton and the Gog-magog Hills.

Under Blackthorn & Alexanders (hence illumination with phone torch) here's Grape-hyacinth, Muscari neglectum, in the spot described by Prof Henslow in 1828 as 'under a hedge on the side of the hill between Hinton & the Gogs' (see ALT).
#WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring #Cambridge 🍒🏘️

Lots of primroses out on the warm, sunny Thursday last week #wildflowerhour

a twig of cherry plum blossom close up, with distant branches above and blue sky

long twig of cherry plum blossom close up, with distant branches above and blue sky

a twig of cherry plum blossom close up background of twigs and buds, back lit by low sun

looking up at a cherry plum tree in blossom, closer on right side is flowering current; sunny and blue sky

celandines, pussy willow are all showing - I saw blackthorn in flower in January! But I do love Prunus cerasifera ~ coeden goeg-geirios ~ cherry plum; such a bitter almond scent.
gogledd Sir Benfro north Pembrokeshire @bsbicymru.bsky.social
#WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring

Always feel happy when I spot my first bluebell (spotted in Hampshire) #signsofspring #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Bluebells

Wood anemones

Primrose

Lesser celandine

First woodland #SignsOfSpring today: bluebells, wood anemones, primroses, lesser celandine #WildFlowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

The very first of the Bluebells, Hyacinthoides non-scripta, are starting to flower here and there. This one was in Lesnes Abbey Woods. #SignsOfSpring #WildflowerHour

Cowslips flowering on Middle Farm Way verge, Poundbury. #wildflowerhour

Low angle close up of a bright yellow dandelion against blue sky, on the grassy margin of a field, looking as large as the distant tree beyond it.

A mighty dandelion in a Gloucestershire field this week. #signsofspring #wildflowerhour

Close up of blue speedwell flower growing low in a field, showing dark striations on petals and two stamens with black anthers and white filaments.

Speedwell in a Gloucestershire field this week. #signsofspring #wildflowerhour

Another gloomy morning, so I’m using these Cowslips to brighten my day up #SundayYellow

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling #WildflowerHour

Deep purple sweet violet in woods.

Sweet violet in the woods. #WildflowerHour

Purple flower with 4 petals & white centre.

Pink hooded flowers, heart shaped (mint like) leaves, with square stems.

Yellow flowers with 8 petals & yellow stamens.

Peacock butterfly with four “eyes” on the wings.

🚶‍♀️🚶🏻‍♂️ Snettisham to Dersingham, Norfolk

A glorious sunny day earlier in the week, with many flowers in the hedgerows.

• Common field speedwell
• Red Dead nettle
• Lesser celandine
• Peacock butterfly

#Wildflowerhour

A collage of spring blooms plus a Common Toad. Clockwise from top left: Common Toad, Hornbeam, Grey Poplar, Aspen, Goat Willow, White Poplar, Lesser Spearwort leaves, Hazel, Cherry-plum

Subtle spring flowers (plus a gratuitous toad) - catkins of willows and poplars outshone by drifts of sweetly-scented blossom

From top left: Common Toad, Hornbeam, Grey Poplar, Aspen, Goat Willow, White Poplar, Lesser Spearwort, Hazel, Cherry-plum...

#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

A large purple flowered, large leaf orchid growing in grassland.

A close-up photograph of an orchid flower.

It feels so strange seeing an orchid in flower in March, but here it is, a Giant Orchid (Himantoglossum robertianum) in Oxfordshire.
#WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring

delicate flowers beautifully exposed by appearing before the leaves. This was in Knightswood Park, Glasgow, in the first week of March

Wych elm is fairly common in Southern Scotland. It's flowers are pretty but it's leaves are beautiful. This is in Knightswood Park, Glasgow

Pretty but prickly, gorse produces plenty of little yellow flowers

Yellow flowers... it has to be a legume, right?

for #wildflowerhour: cherry plum, wych elm, gorse and gorse. At last there are signs of spring in #Glasgow. Winter has seemed so long but at last the grass is growing and flowers appear...

Awesome!! 💚

Nanodomain-localized formin gates symbiotic microbial entry in legume and solanaceous plants Colonization of plant roots by symbionts requires substantial morphodynamic reorganization. Examples are actin-scaffolded microcompartments called infection pockets formed during root nodule symbiosis...

Happy to share our latest work in collaboration with the lab of @pengbo10.bsky.social. Here, we describe that a formin protein mediates the polarity switch from root hair to infection thread growth during symbiotic interactions.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Join us at #WCRI2026 for a networking session for anyone working on #PaperMills and #GenAI on the context of #ResearchIntegrity. There'll be lightning talks, networking and probs drinks/ dinner afterwards. May 4, 6.00-7.30 pm, all welcome!

Kids, chickens and ducks out in force for #StandUpForScience_WA #StandUpForScience #Science

C'est la plus incroyable des chasses au trésor !

"Nous pensons que les lichens préfèrent les os fossilisés parce que leur composition calcaire et leur porosité offrent les bonnes conditions de croissance"
👉 https://l.sciencesetavenir.fr/3PI

Mechanical coordination of counter-gradient growth maintains organ curvature in the apical hook

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#plantscience

🤪🥴