Juliet Coates

I started to work on MscS-Like proteins 20 years ago, dreaming that they were involved in plant mechanotransduction. And it is becoming more & more clear that they are!
#plantscience 🧪
"DmMSL10 is crucial for mechanosensing, facilitating AP firing by generating a receptor potential (RP) amplitude."

Forgotten Children: Lasting Harms to Children in Clinically Vulnerable Families Published 1 October 2025 This October, Clinically Vulnerable Families (CVF) is releasing our latest report capturing the voices and experiences of children and young people growing up in households ...

www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/childre...

#CovidIsAirborne

Evidence today
🇬🇧 COVID Inquiry
Clinically Vulnerable Families
Children &
Young People's Voices
@cvcev.bsky.social

No child should ever choose between
#educationANDlives

#CleanIndoorAir
Access and equity to #SaferIndoorAir and
Safe Learning is A #Humanright

Painting with a view of trees with orange leaves and twisted branches in a landscape

Autumn painting by US modern impressionist Erin Hanson #WomensArt

Sculpture of stylised vividly coloured plant with spotty blossoms sited in a gallery space

Yayoi Kusama, Flowers That Bloom at Midnight, 2009 #WomensArt

And consider intersectionality too: those who are also marginalised by disability, ethnicity, or other protected characteristics will be most penalised.

Petition: Fund NHS COVID boosters for Clinically Vulnerable people – keep covid boosters 'Protect the NHS' and 'Save Lives' by continuing to fund NHS COVID boosters for Clinically Vulnerable people, including most previously shielded as CEV, rather than limiting them to over-75s, care hom...

Sadly, there are 13 million people missing vaccines - and there is no chance there will be 13 million leftovers. We need people to be invited for vaccines.

#KeepCovidBoosters

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

@cvcev.bsky.social

Sign the Petition Release the Leftover COVID Vaccines to Those Who Want Them

Please help out by signing and sharing!
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FindAPhD : Prestigious Sainsbury PhD Studentships in plant sciences at Gatsby Charitable Foundation Apply for a PhD: Prestigious Sainsbury PhD Studentships in plant sciences at Gatsby Charitable Foundation

If you’re looking for a PhD studentship in some really exciting areas of plant science 🌿 take a look at this year’s Sainsbury PhD studentships - you could come and study orchid mycorrhizas 🌸🍄 with me & @garethphoenix.bsky.social! www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

Random mutagenesis, targeted mutagenesis, and transgenesis breeding approaches and their differing regulations in Australia. Random mutagenesis and SDN-1 mutagenesis approaches are unregulated, whereas transgenesis involving the insertion of novel DNA, SDN-2 mutagenesis involving the use of a template to make small mutations, and SDN-3 mutagenesis involving the use of a template to make large insertions are regulated as GM in Australia.

🌾 New article in @aobp.bsky.social exploring the future of GM and genome-edited wheat in Australia. The review explores biotech opportunities, regulatory challenges, and stakeholder roles in shaping adoption.

Full #openaccess
👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobp...

#PlantScience

Gibberellin transport affects lateral root growth through HY5 in response to far-red light Gibberellin translocation from shoot to root conveys a plant-plant competition signal that leads to a reduction in lateral root growth.

My latest paper, a postdoc project of mine from the @ronaldpierik.bsky.social lab is finally out in the Plant Cell all its formatted glory! doi.org/10.1093/plce...
Many thanks also to my co-authors and especially Kyra van der Velde who did a lot of work.

Crows are amazing 🐦‍⬛

...and 10 new phylogenetically diverse hornwort genomes here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@fernway.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social

Image of a nativity scene drawn by a child in a school prayer book. "Jesus" is labeled in the manger and "mar" next to him. The donkey and kings are outside, and there are 2 stars in the sky. "Wensday 8 december 2021 dear god, Please let my family survive covid. We hope we could make it thruot through covidand Bring peace to every one." [sic]

💙💜💗 If you believe in our work, we urgently need your support 💙💜💗

🌬 We have been fighting for #CleanAir since we were founded in 2020.

👪 We want to raise the voices of children facing extreme challenges.

1/2 🙏 PLS RT 🙏

Clinically Vulnerable Families | Support | Work School & Lives Clinically Vulnerable Families provides information and support for people who are clinically vulnerable to Covid-19 and those in their households. The group is scientific / evidence-based. There is a...

Help us raise these children's voices.

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Children must NEVER choose between EDUCATION and LIVES.

Both are human rights.

#EducationANDlives

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Donate if you can, share if you can't.

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Clinically Vulnerable Families at the start of the Children and Young People’s module this morning.

Support us if you can! I will be here on Wednesday to speak. Tickets are available.

Seren is a young person who lives in a really vulnerable household.

Everyone should listen to her story.

💙💜💗 #educationANDlives

Clinically Vulnerable People at Risk #KeepCovidBoosers SAVE LIVES Images: person behind a cracked shield, Clinically Vulnerable Families logo

💔 Clinically Vulnerable Families, including children, are still being left behind.

We're fighting for clean air, vaccines, antivirals, legal recognition etc. - but we can’t keep going without your help!

Every £ supports our work.
Please donate if you can🙏 & share if you can't.

Thank you!

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Glistening inkcaps #fungi

A fascinating review. Thoughtful analysis. Much to discuss. Should ABA be reverted to dormin? My only big disagreement is that the author does not consider ion channels as potential receptors. Comparison to other kingdoms shows that ion channels can be hormone receptors. Great for journal clubs

Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.

Here's 123 new bryophyte genomes for you!
Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Transposable elements are vectors of recurrent transgenerational epigenetic inheritance DNA methylation loss at transposable elements (TEs) can affect neighboring genes and be epigenetically inherited in plants, yet the determinants and significance of this additional system of inheritan...

Transposable elements are vectors of recurrent transgenerational epigenetic inheritance | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

CVF are proud supporters of the other important event at the UN today highlighting the need for "Clean Indoor Air".

It is of vital importance to *everyone*, but especially for Clinically Vulnerable people.

Thank you @drbronking.bsky.social
💙💜💗

Great work by France, too!

"We must pool resources to ensure that everyone everywhere in the world can breathe clean air inside their home, school, workplace or ---"

France has already (2023) invested in improving air quality in schools and nurseries.

"Clean air for every child in every classroom is a right, not a privilege."

"This is why for Montenegro, improving air quality in schools is not a secondary concern. It is a fundamental responsibility. A matter of safeguarding the next generation."
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"Something as simple as breathing in shared indoor spaces has become a barrier to accessibility and inclusion for millions of people, and it's time to change that!"

great blog. The things we need in education settings are feasible and possible. I know of one FE provider who delivers safety and reasonable adjustments - so all schools, FE and HE could follow suit if they chose.