Elizabeth Neilson

🌱🧪 So thrilled to have contributed to this manifesto for #PlantScience #Education, published in @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social, and instigated by the visionary and enthusiastic @katharinehubbard.bsky.social and co-led by @apaterlini.bsky.social and @lizalvey.bsky.social 🧶 1/3

I find it stings less after a couple of days, but it always stings!

Pleased to share our latest work on is up on bioRxiv. Read for insights into how barely specialized metabolism is affected by biotic stress. We show serotonin and novel 2-oxo-tryptamine are produced and speculate on what they do 🌱

Want to know more about how the important YUCCA family has diversified in plants? We introduce a new classification system in our recent study, now available on bioRxiv 🌱

Finding a balance between small kids and an impeding grant deadline…
#academiclife #motherhood

4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel

🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨

WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.

4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.

Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

Poster displaying a coffee cup. The text reads: ECLBio Coffee & Chat on the 29th of May from 10.30am to 11am. It will be on Teams (Meeting ID: 336 266 473 870 2 Passcode: VL9FK9S2). Full link available in post.

If you are an early career lecturer/fellow, we'd love to hear what you are up to (and how we can support you)! 📚 Join us for a quick & friendly chat on Thursday 29th May (10.30-11am) on Teams: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
Bring along your favourite hot beverage ☕️ and share with colleagues!

Social media postcard that says: Are you an early-career researcher within five years of your first appointment to a faculty position? You could be eligible for our new grants for junior faculty staff The Journal of Experimental Biology logo is in the bottom left corner. The Kickstart grant logo, two hands shaking, is in the bottom right corner.

If you're a new PI within 5 years of your first faculty position, here are two fantastic grants to help develop your research: the Kickstart Travel Grant and ECR Visiting Fellowships Find out more at biologists.com/grants/#jeb The next application deadline is 6 June

Please repost

Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic - Nature Warming temperatures and interactions between plants are the main drivers of changes in Arctic plant communities in response to climate change, and there is no evidence of overall biotic homogenizatio...

A new study reveals the diversity dynamics of plants across the Arctic. Quantification of temporal changes in species richness and composition showed that temperature and plant-plant interaction are the main drivers of directional change👇🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Bacterial community-emitted volatiles regulate Arabidopsis growth and root architecture in a distinct manner from those from individual strains Short summary: This study reveals that the effects of bacterial community-produced volatiles on Arabidopsis growth and root architecture are an emergent property beyond the sum of effects by individua...

Finally, I am thrilled to share our long-term volatile project is out in Plant Communications! 🥳

Bacterial community-emitted volatiles regulate Arabidopsis growth and root architecture in a distinct manner from those from individual strains: Plant Communications www.cell.com/plant-commun...

#ASPBPlantCellTuesday #ICYMI

This paper is aimed at 🐟 🐡 🐠 researchers, but has some useful info for 🌱 people too!

Thanks for sharing!

📣We're hiring 2 postdocs @ MSU! Help us share widely 🙏

Rhee Lab – high-throughput screens + multi-omics
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Skirycz Lab – small-molecule discovery + metabolomics
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Join the global C-SPIRIT team! 🌿

#Postdoc #PlantScience #CSPIRIT

That attitude is shifting in Denmark - a lot investment into entrepreneurial ventures, especially within biosolutions and biotech

Meta stealing copyrighted books for its AI-training isn’t just criminal, it’s dangerous. Several of my older or out of print stolen titles have outdated medical info in them, now being fed into its maw to eventually poo out wrong AI info on critical women’s health, baby safety advice, etc.

Opinion | Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds? (Gift Article) Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nation’s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.

Seed and tuber collections are really, really, REALLY important.

A short thread 🧵 1/5

🧪 #plantscience

Line chart showing cereal yields from 1961 to 2022, measured in tonnes per hectare. Maize, rice, wheat, and barley yields have significantly increased, with maize reaching about 6 t/ha and rice around 5 t/ha by 2022. In contrast, millet and sorghum yields have remained relatively stagnant at around 1 t/ha. Data source: Food and Agriculture Division of the United Nations, via Our World in Data.

Global cereal yields have increased a lot, but millet and sorghum lag behind

Image text: ASPB President’s Update: Standing Up For Plant Science: We are Stronger Together. Featuring ASPB logo.

“…it is clear: the time to stand up for science is now, and we are stronger together.” – Kent Chapman, ASPB President-Elect

Read more 👉 buff.ly/RbEf80w

#plantscience #WeAreASPB

The Plant Cell Call for Papers. 2027 Focus Issue on Specialized Metabolites. Submission deadline: May 2026. Featuring The Plant Cell logo and a scientific image.

Call for Papers: 2027 Focus Issue on Specialized Metabolites. This focus issue aims to provide a forum to improve our understanding of plant specialized metabolism. Submission Deadline: 05/2026. academic.oup.com/plcell/pages...

#plantscience

You can freely access all PubMed records at Europepmc.org - I just checked and it's up and running.

It is true. Global vandalism on an epic scale.

The Marchantia polymorpha pangenome reveals ancient mechanisms of plant adaptation to the environment - Nature Genetics Pangenome analyses of 133 wild accessions of the model bryophyte Marchantia polymorpha identify adaptive features and provide insights into the mechanisms of plant adaptation to the terrestrial enviro...

The #Marchantia polymorpha pangenome reveals ancient mechanisms of plant adaptation to the environment
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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I also worked with @kathrynemmerson.bsky.social on VOCs emitted from E tereticornis just outside Sydney at EucFace in summer and autumn. The paper was delayed but it’s in the pipeline..!

Happy to email you the paper Mike!

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Out now in Nature Human Behaviour: Our 68-country #survey on public attitudes to #science 📣
It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social
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Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations | PNAS Disparities continue to pose major challenges in various aspects of science. One such aspect is editorial board composition, which has been shown t...

Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...