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The Afterlife of Alice Wong The disability justice activist’s life proved that anger can be an act of care.

In case you missed it.

An elderly Labrador standing on a park path, greeting people and dogs.

Old Labrador smiling at people and dogs in the park.

Old Labrador sitting and watching people in the park.

I feel your pain! Our old Lab kept going with liberalla & paracetamol for a good "bonus" year, but it was never easy. He still wanted to socialize & sniff, so we drove him to parks with friendly dogs, helped him exit the car & let him say hellos for a bit. Try not to let the dog overdo if possible 💕

All Your Faces Victims and perpetrators of violent crime meet up in a prison as part of a restorative justice group to talk and heal from their trauma. French drama with English subtitles.

I've been curious about the idea of restorative justice for a while, and today stumbled onto a film on the BBC iPlayer, All Your Faces (Je verrai toujours vos visages). It's fascinating and worth watching! Free in UK.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Brilliant, thanks for sharing! Nice acting by the alien 😊.
It's fascinating that we both decided a good way to get people interested in plants is by asking them to consider how an alien would perceive them; reveals how challenging it is to engage folks who have already decided "plants are boring" 🤔

YouTube video by Catballers Plant Evolution 3A - plants from an alien perspective

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Here's my intro to plants video for students!
youtu.be/21ossgFhqu8

Ooh, you must have been good this year!

Are you interested in using synthetic approaches to promote arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis? Then our PostDoc position may be for you: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/b...

Screenshot of the weather forecast. The same forecast all morning; seven degrees and 60% chance of rain from 8am until noon.

I guess it doesn't really matter what time I take the dog out 🤔

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sunshine on the blue sea breaks luminous greens that crash to boiling foamy whites

last week in california I saw the pacific ocean do this
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YouTube video by Les Baladidous Ô grand Saint-Nicolas patron des écoliers - chanson de Noël - HD

Happy St. Nicholas Day!
I grew up in Belgium so this song is part of my heritage 🍪🥿🐑.
I wonder if there are sweets in my shoes today?
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Fig. 2 (shortened, full legend in paper): Perturbations of SlMYB41, SlMYB92, and SlWRKY71 expression affect the suberization of tomato exodermis. (A) Percentage of cross-sections showing a non-suberized, an early suberized (suberin in <50% of exodermal cells), or a late suberized (suberin in >50% of exodermal cells) exodermis phenotype in hairy root cultures of the control (empty vector), CRISPR knockout lines [Slmyb41-ko, Slmyb92-ko, Slwrky71-ko(4), and Slwrky71-ko(5)], and overexpressing lines (SlMYB41-OX, SlMYB92-OX, and SlWRKY71-OX). The number above the bars represents the number (n) of individual roots examined in each genotype. Asterisks denotes statistically significant differences between each line in comparison with the empty vector control, whereas n.s. indicates no significant differences (P<0.05, χ2 test).

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MYB and WRKY transcription factors collaboratively regulate suberin biosynthesis in the tomato root exodermis. Antagonistic interactions may fine-tune suberization or act as a brake on overaccumulation - Jo et al.

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Is Fanny Osborne our most impressive forgotten artist? The mother of 13 lived on Great Barrier Island and did exquisite watercolour paintings of native plants in the early 1900s.

Fanny Osborne's stunning watercolours including the only colour depiction of the extinct Adams mistletoe... a Great Barrier Island special edition.

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Finding balance: the dynamic interplay between H3K27me3 writers and erasers in regulating environmental plasticity and memory Subject to an ever-changing world, plants must respond to harmful conditions and environmental fluctuations. Their evolutionary success can be attributed to their plasticity in both perceiving and in...

So happy to see this work finally online!

In this Research Review, I discuss the emerging roles of H3K27me3 writers (the enzymes that lay it down) and erasers (the enzymes that remove it) in controlling plant adaptation 🌿🌡️❄️🦠

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Delighted to share that the 2026 Rank Prize for Nutrition has been awarded to Professor David E. Salt & Martin Broadley! 🏆👏 Congratulations both!

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✨AAB Wrapped ✨

Our 2025 year in review!

💚 Our biggest membership ever - thank you to everyone in the applied biology community for your support this year!

Read more in our December Newsletter out today: buff.ly/ZS086xb

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Left: micrographs showing chlorophyll fluorescence from the isolated algal photobiont. Right: photograph showing the yellow-colored lichen growing on the surface of a tree.

Plant Science Research Weekly Dec 5, 2025 (2/2) plantae.org/plant-scienc...
Hormone-independent plant regeneration through TFs;
How salt-extruding halophytes avoid drying out;
Insights from a lichen photobiont genome;
New tools to study an old mycorrhiza.

Diagram showing how root exudates shape the rhizosphere microbiome. Exuded primary and secondary metabolites have both positive and negative effects on soil microbes, so the composition of the rhizosphere is different from that of bulk soil.

Plant Science Research Weekly Dec 5, 2025 plantae.org/plant-scienc...
Review: Complete guide to metabolomics
Review: Root exudates and rhizosphere microbiome; Perspective on polyploidy in crops;
Soybean evolution insights from 8105 genomes; (1/2)

Seedling growing in the forest

University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳
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Dominique Bergmann, Stanford University (USA) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (USA).

"I am grateful that plant science is so international and so full of people who are really motivated to try to improve the world for many living things."

In #Profile: Dominique Bergmann
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Going to CellBio25? Don’t miss the Mentoring Keynote honoring Dr. Margaret Werner-Washburne, a trailblazing scientist, advocate for women in STEM, and champion for diversifying science through mentoring. Sat, 8:45 a.m. rm 126A. #outinstem #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #queerinstem #cellbio #cellbiology #ascb

Plants, People, Planet is 7 today! Plants, People, Planet celebrates the seventh anniversary of the publication of its first issue with highlights from 2025.

Plants, People, Planet is 7 today! 🎂

We've shared some highlights from our seventh year 👇
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Can tinkering with plant pores protect crops against drought? It’s not an open-and-shut case. But researchers are finding out plenty by genetically altering the numbers of these openings, as well as simulating future atmospheres, and more.

“Though we cannot hear it, plants are constantly emitting and absorbing gases through millions of little mouths on the surface of their leaves and stems.”

👉 By @timvernimmen.bsky.social for @knowablemag.bsky.social

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