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The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago The domestic cat (Felis catus) descends from the African wildcat Felis lybica lybica. Its global distribution alongside humans testifies to its successful adaptation to anthropogenic environments. Unc...

“Analysis of 87 ancient & modern cat genomes suggests that domestic cats did not spread to Europe with Neolithic farmers. Conversely, they were introduced to Europe around 2000 years ago, probably from North Africa....“ De Martino et al in @science.org. Ancient DNA + cats = science purrfection. 🧬🐱🧪

Gone, Gone...And Gone: The IUCN Drops Its 2025 Species Extinction List Yes, this grim roll call of vanished species comes with a side serving of climate chaos and human meddling.

Your 'moment of doom' for Nov. 25, 2025 ~ and he is us

"the species extinction rate is estimated to be between 1 000 and 10 000 times higher than natural extinction rates – the rate of species extinctions that would occur if we humans were not around.”

www.2oceansvibe.com/environment-...

Image Text: Plantae Presents - Figuring It Out: Creating Figures That Communicate Science. Featuring Eva Birtell, Helena K. Jambor, and Alicja Barbara Kunkowska. Featuring the Plantae logo and image of a plant and some scientific figures.

📣 Join us for the upcoming Plantae webinar on Wednesday, December 17, 9:00 am Eastern time, hosted by the 2025 Plantae Fellows.🌱

👉 Free registration at buff.ly/w6HBivf

#PlantScience

Job posting. We look for a Full Professor (W3) of Stress Resilience of Plants at the RWTH Aachen.

We are looking for a colleague to join us at RWTH Aachen University:

🌱 Full Professor in Stress Resilience of Plants (W3 tenured)

📌What are we looking for? Someone working with us strategically at the interface of plant biology/ physiology/ resilience

#academicjobs #facultyjobs #PlantJobs

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#ASPBPlantCellTuesday #ICYMI

We’re Touching 1.9°C - And It’s Only 2025 Real time data coming out of the world’s climate measurement systems should be stopping us in our tracks. The latest estimate by climate scientist Dr Karsten Haustein shows that, this week, the Earth ...

Real time data coming out of the world’s climate measurement systems should be stopping us in our tracks. The latest estimate shows that, this week, the Earth is 1.9°C warmer than before we began burning fossil fuels.
#climatecrisis #ClimateEmergency #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/we-re-t...

These ancient bumblebees were found with their pollen source Insects have long pollinated plants, but evidence of ancient pairing is rare. Fossils now show bees and linden trees goes back 24 million years.

Scientists just found several fossil bumblebees covered in pollen that directly matches fossil flowers nearby.

The 24-million-year-old discovery reveals the oldest known evidence connecting pollinators to the pollinated.

#Paleontology #NationalFossilDay

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New at @sciencenews.bsky.social

The winners of rising stars in plant sciences 2025 #Editorial #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

The Authorship Integrity Toolkit - UK Research Integrity Office The Authorship Integrity Toolkit Practical resources to support responsible authorship in research UKRIO is pleased to present the Authorship Integrity Toolkit – a new collection of resources to help ...

UKRIO @ukrio.bsky.social is introducing an Authorship Integrity Toolkit:
a set of practical, adaptable resources designed to support both individual researcher contributors in their day-to-day practice and organisations in developing policies and managing projects.
ukrio.org/resources/th...

Wildlife advocate, primate expert Jane Goodall dies at 91 Scientist and global activist Jane Goodall, who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, died on Wednesday at the age of 91, the institute she founded said.

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
www.reuters.com/business/env...

Promotional image for the PCA Imaging Workshop Webinar Series: FIJI Basics for Visualizing and Quantifying Plant Images. The promo has a purple and green plant cell graphic with a black background. It also includes the details for the webinar including the date/time: Wednesday September 24, 2025 9:30am CT/10:30am ET/7:30am PT, the Zoom Link, and the Organizers: Ivan Radin, Kirk Czymmek, and Daniel Kierzkowski.

Don't forget to register for this 90-minute workshop on FIJI Basics for Visualizing and Quantifying Plant Images!

This workshop will be held in TWO WEEKS on Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 7:30am PT/9:30am CT/10:30am ET.

Register Now! bit.ly/45zJE7V

How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals The company found its own toxic compounds in human blood—and kept selling them.

How did 3M’s “forever chemicals” end up in all of us? The inside story of the corporate scientists who discovered—then helped to conceal—the dangers of its chemicals.

Ancient hybridization underlies tuberization and radiation of the potato lineage Genomic and functional analyses reveal that the potato lineage originated from a homoploid interspecific hybridization event between the Tomato and Etuberosum lineages 8–9 million years ago. The alter...

Some magic happened in Andes mountains 9 mln years ago so we can eat fries now :D

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

If the data did not support conclusions how were those papers published in Science hint he first place?

Eight simple actions that individuals can take to save insects from global declines | PNAS Eight simple actions that individuals can take to save insects from global declines

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The last step in a long process on arsenic life A note from me and Executive Editor Valda Vinson about the retraction of the "arsenic life" paper

holdenthorp.substack.com/p/the-last-s...

REM transcription factors and GDE1 shape the DNA methylation landscape through the recruitment of RNA polymerase IV transcription complexes - Nature Cell Biology Wu et al. demonstrate that REM transcription factors and GDE1 guide RNA polymerase IV to specific genomic loci, establishing a DNA sequence-dependent mechanism for siRNA biogenesis and DNA methylation...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats to all co-winners! ☺️

John Innes Foundation Internship in Plant Science

If you want to gain skills and experience in #plantsciences and #bioengineering take a look at our 12-month #Internship in the Earlham #Biofoundry:

I hear that picture.....

UF study traces complex history of the strawberry If you eat fruits or vegetables, how often do you think about their history? Former University of Florida post-doctoral researcher Zhen Fan did, as he traced the strawberry back over centuries. In a ...

Modern strawberries are a hybrid between two wild species that were intentionally crossed 300 years ago. But the history of strawberries stretches back much further than that and is a lot more complicated.

🍓 Story:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/uf-s...

🍓 Study: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

MYB68 regulates radial endodermal differentiation and suberin patterning In this study, Kraska et al. identify MYB68 as a novel regulator of endodermal suberization, linked to the formation of distinct identities in the xylem-pole-associated endodermis. The research uncove...

Time for another paper from our lab!
This time it’s about passage cells. This work originated from a collaboration with @lauraragni.bsky.social and was spearheaded by the super-talented @leoniekraska.bsky.social Below you will find a thread that explains our findings.
www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Talk title: Data Visualization against Fascism

Sneap peak #DataVisAgainstFascism
#physiologicalirrelevantconference #woodstockofbiology

CU in June 💜 ☮️ 🌈 📊

Microscopy Training Grants Supporting microscopy training for early-career researchers in cell biology Apply for a grant of up to £1,000 Application dates: 6 June 2025 5 September 2025 7 November 2025

If you would like to attend a #microscopy or #bioimageanalysis training course in the next 6 months but don’t have funding, check out our Microscopy Training Grant from @jcellsci.bsky.social and @focalplane.bsky.social.

Next deadline: 6 June 2025

www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...

#Training

Phytoform Labs | Careers Help us make agriculture more sustainable.

We are hiring at Phytoform Labs! Seeking two Senior Scientist roles (sponsorship options) and one technician. Check out the job descriptions/application at the link below. If you're interested or know someone who might be a great fit, please apply or share the word! www.phytoformlabs.com/careers

Norwich Single-Cell and Spatial Symposium Now in its eighth year, and extended to a two-day event, the Norwich Single-Cell and Spatial Symposium at Earlham Institute covers single-cell and spatial genomics technologies and their application…

Register for the #SingleCell and #Spatial Symposium in June! With keynotes, invited speakers, and plenty of time to discuss and share the latest research and applications across microbial, plant, animal, and human health and disease.

📆 Registration closes 04 May!

@biouea.bsky.social

Surprising discovery in world’s most studied plant can make seeds bigger An overlooked “gate” governs nutrient transport to seeds and might one day boost harvests

Surprising discovery in world’s most studied plant can make seeds bigger | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR - Seeing is believing: Whole-cell electron tomography models of vacuole morphology and formation in the early-stage root cortex of Arabidopsis (Yong Cui, Jiayang Gao, Yanbin Li, Hai Zhang, et. al.) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria discovered in technician’s garden The molecule targets bacteria in a way that other drugs don’t.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...