Stefan A. Rensing

Then again, being a generalist might be metabolically more costly. Otherwise, why be a specialist?

Freshly appointed @simonelsasser.bsky.social presenting his research @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social - welcome @uni-freiburg.de !

Now attending the @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social event where @archaellum.bsky.social presents diversity of the faculties research

Congratulations to the winners of @uni-freiburg.de liga soccer tournament; great day full of sports organized by Hochschulsport

Big fun with @bahn.de yesterday and today on my way to Hamburg and back: 2h+3h delays. New record, yeehah.

@dfg.de assembly with a view

Plant Evolution Join the conversation

🌿🧬 Plant Evolution Starter Pack from @barkerms.bsky.social‬
Scientists researching the evolution of plants and plant diversity - including population genetics, plant genome evolution, plant speciation, plant systematics, and macroevolutionary patterns of plant diversification.

To make the statement that it is generizable in the sense of a common/shared trait one should have a broad sampling - so the first to find it in one species usually can't make the claim. ;)

🎉✨ Congratulations for the 70 newly @dfg.de -funded #ClustersOfExcellence ✨🎉

and especially for the
4 #PlantSci 🌿 🧬 🔬 🌱 🍀 clusters

Those are (1/5):

A profile picture of Douglas Prasher from Martin Chalfie's Nobel Lecture

Do you know who Douglas Prasher is? Many don't, even though he is the person who cloned the original #GFP gene in the late 1980s. In my short history of plant light #microscopy I also cover a bit of his story - & why he is relatively unknown today, despite the importance of his work. See this 🧵👇

Special Issue: Plant Engineering — Advances, Bottlenecks, and Promise: The Plant Journal Click on the title to browse this issue

𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞!
🌱Plant engineering: advances, bottlenecks, and promise
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
Focused Reviews & Technical Advances
🌿Plant transformation tech
🧬Gene editing & synthetic biology
🔧Emerging engineering strategies
breakthroughs & challenges
🧵⬇️

How bibliometric analysis can help to specify and track interdisciplinary research areas: A term-based analysis approach Inter- and transdisciplinary research is carried out with increasing frequency and intensity. Bibliometric analysis of disciplinary research is aided by i) classical topical categories that are used b...

How can we track interdisciplinary research using bibliometry?
Here we tested a term-based approach using word frequencies from papers published in the field. Comments welcome!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@watertoland.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de

Cheers folks! @transcription.bsky.social @isabelmonte.bsky.social @kmerchante.bsky.social

Land plants comprise seed plants, but also non-seed plants, that do not develop seeds, like mosses or ferns.

Excited to host the UK NonSeed Plant Meeting in Norwich this year on Friday December the 12th. It’s a great community and these meetings are always fun and informative. Whether you’re a seasoned expert or a newbie looking to diversify your research, please consider joining us!

„Eine Technologie mit großem Potential für mehr #Nachhaltigkeit [in der #Landwirtschaft] ist die [moderne] #Gentechnik, mit der gewünschte Pflanzeneigenschaften gezielter+schneller entwickelt werden können“, schreibt Agrarökonom Matin Qaim
in @faznet.bsky.social
zeitung.faz.net/faz/wirtscha...

@uni-freiburg.de retreat at Herzogenhorn in Black Forest on strategic concepts relevant to collaborative research, great crowd, thanks to all involved and for good discussions!

May the 4th be with y'all

Multicellularity under pressure

Butterflies on a blue sky

THREAD

The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter

In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X.

By quite a lot.

Release the Kraken...

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
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Gene networks are conserved across reproductive development between the fern Ceratopteris richardii and the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana How plants first invented seeds is a longstanding unresolved evolutionary question. Seed-bearing plants arose from within seedless vascular plants, with ferns as their closest relatives, but how the s...

It's been a long time coming but I'm very happy to share this preprint with folks. 🙂 Thanks again to the Royal Society for funding this research.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#Plantscience
#Plantevolution
#Fernbiology

Credit: Margot Riggi (@margotriggi.bsky.social), Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry (@mpibiochem.bsky.social)

Asgard archaea have actin - but what about microtubules? Where do they come from? 🧐 Our new paper www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... by @xujwet.bsky.social & @florianwollweber.bsky.social, in collaboration with the Schleper & Wieczorek labs, describes tiny Asgard microtubules! #TeamTomo #ArchaeaSky 1/6

YouTube video by National Conservatism J.D. Vance | The Universities are the Enemy | National Conservatism Conference II

"we have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country" - keynote address by JD Vance at the second National Conservatism Conference 2021
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FR6...
Thanks to SIRIS academic for pointing to the video.

Most of my papers are open access, but it also lists those that are not.

These historical threads by @somssich.bsky.social‬ about various fundamental aspects of plant biology, and the long process of discovery, linking papers from a century ago to very recent publications, are such a joy to read, every single time.

Widespread slow growth of acquisitive tree species - Nature Under field conditions, acquisitive tree species generally grow slowly, whereas conservative species show generally higher realized growth, owing to their ability to tolerate unfavourable environmenta...

Michael Scherer-Lorenzen and colleagues share new work in @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Annotated phylogenetic lineage illustrates genomic evidence suggesting that sex chromosomes may not be conserved within liverworts. Re-evolution of dioicy in the genus Riccia may have occurred with probable de novo establishment of a new sex chromosome from the autosome, and the m-chromosomes have evolved independently from chromosomes in the Marchantiales.

In a new #OpenAccess study of dioicy–monoicy transitions in an ancient #liverwort haploid-dominant plant lineage, Fu et al. find evidence for #evolution of a new sex #chromosome within the haploid-dominant Marchantiales.🔓👇
doi.org/10.1111/jipb...
#PlantScience

openRxiv has arrived!

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences.
openrxiv.org/introducing-...

#openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv

Very impressive tour of @cern.bsky.social with members of @uni-freiburg.de - thanks a lot to Karl Jakobs, Marco Gersabeck, Brian Moser and all others involved!

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