Jessica C. Huss
@j2huss.bsky.social
Scientist 🌵 interested in plants, materials, ecology & climate
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Jessica C. Huss
@j2huss.bsky.social
· Oct 8
One day in the lab, we accidentally discovered that the spines of a cactus 🌵 straighten when exposed to fog. I was intrigued and so were my collaborators. How does this work and what can be gained from it? Here are some of the answers in our new preprint:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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High #temperature acclimation of #photosystem II in land plants
#TansleyReview by @bposch.bsky.social et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@hultinelab.bsky.social #PlantScience #photosynthesis
#TansleyReview by @bposch.bsky.social et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@hultinelab.bsky.social #PlantScience #photosynthesis
November 4, 2025 at 5:19 AM
High #temperature acclimation of #photosystem II in land plants
#TansleyReview by @bposch.bsky.social et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@hultinelab.bsky.social #PlantScience #photosynthesis
#TansleyReview by @bposch.bsky.social et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@hultinelab.bsky.social #PlantScience #photosynthesis
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One of today's winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is UC Berkeley professor Omar Yaghi. Last year I wrote about Yaghi and Atoco, the startup he founded to commercialize his scientific breakthrough with a device that extracts water from air using just sunlight.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Startups Are Racing to Make Water Out of Thin Air
Materials that are bigger on the inside than the outside provide a futuristic solution to supply water to an increasingly arid planet.
www.bloomberg.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
One of today's winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is UC Berkeley professor Omar Yaghi. Last year I wrote about Yaghi and Atoco, the startup he founded to commercialize his scientific breakthrough with a device that extracts water from air using just sunlight.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
One day in the lab, we accidentally discovered that the spines of a cactus 🌵 straighten when exposed to fog. I was intrigued and so were my collaborators. How does this work and what can be gained from it? Here are some of the answers in our new preprint:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
October 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
One day in the lab, we accidentally discovered that the spines of a cactus 🌵 straighten when exposed to fog. I was intrigued and so were my collaborators. How does this work and what can be gained from it? Here are some of the answers in our new preprint:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Reposted by Jessica C. Huss
Halfway to I2K is BACK, friends of all kinds! Last year, 650 people attended 30+ TOTALLY FREE image analysis workshops of all kinds, across many timezones.
If you make image analysis software and want to teach it, workshop submissions are open now! We'd love to have your tool highlighted.
If you make image analysis software and want to teach it, workshop submissions are open now! We'd love to have your tool highlighted.
#HappyFluorescenceFriday!
#microscopycommunity- want to learn open source image analysis or share your knowledge to help others? We’ve got a FREE virtual workshop Nov 17-19! Now accepting workshop session applications!
Learn more & sign up: buff.ly/esGIotD
#microscopycommunity- want to learn open source image analysis or share your knowledge to help others? We’ve got a FREE virtual workshop Nov 17-19! Now accepting workshop session applications!
Learn more & sign up: buff.ly/esGIotD
September 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Halfway to I2K is BACK, friends of all kinds! Last year, 650 people attended 30+ TOTALLY FREE image analysis workshops of all kinds, across many timezones.
If you make image analysis software and want to teach it, workshop submissions are open now! We'd love to have your tool highlighted.
If you make image analysis software and want to teach it, workshop submissions are open now! We'd love to have your tool highlighted.
Reposted by Jessica C. Huss
Here‘s a rare and excellent career opportunity for outstanding physical oceanographers at the Potsdam Institute (PIK) and the University of Potsdam, in beautiful surroundings just outside Berlin. Tell qualified friends or colleagues! 🌊
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Full Professorship (W3) for Physics of the Oceans - Potsdam-Mittelmark, Brandenburg (DE) job with Universität Potsdam | 12844582
Founded in 1991, the University of Potsdam has firmly established itself in the scientific landscape and has become an outstanding economic factor ...
www.nature.com
September 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Here‘s a rare and excellent career opportunity for outstanding physical oceanographers at the Potsdam Institute (PIK) and the University of Potsdam, in beautiful surroundings just outside Berlin. Tell qualified friends or colleagues! 🌊
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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What a statement... (see screenshots)
Great article by @derekseveri.bsky.social et al. on the importance of including "real world" conditions in #PlantScience work, to ensure that one is actually studying plant biology and not just plant behavior in a lab environment.
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Great article by @derekseveri.bsky.social et al. on the importance of including "real world" conditions in #PlantScience work, to ensure that one is actually studying plant biology and not just plant behavior in a lab environment.
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
August 22, 2025 at 5:29 AM
What a statement... (see screenshots)
Great article by @derekseveri.bsky.social et al. on the importance of including "real world" conditions in #PlantScience work, to ensure that one is actually studying plant biology and not just plant behavior in a lab environment.
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Great article by @derekseveri.bsky.social et al. on the importance of including "real world" conditions in #PlantScience work, to ensure that one is actually studying plant biology and not just plant behavior in a lab environment.
www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
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Registration for the EMBO workshop ‘Plant evolution: from origins to diversification on land’ closes on 25th August. Don’t miss it! More details can be found here: meetings.embo.org/event/25-pla... 🌱 😀
Plant evolution: from origins to diversification on land
The evolution of plants – photosynthetic eukaryotes resulting from the endosymbiosis of a cyanobacterium and a non-photosynthetic host cell – transformed the earth system by reducing the amount of CO…
meetings.embo.org
August 12, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Registration for the EMBO workshop ‘Plant evolution: from origins to diversification on land’ closes on 25th August. Don’t miss it! More details can be found here: meetings.embo.org/event/25-pla... 🌱 😀
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🚨Don’t miss out! Last weeks left to register for the Plant Computational Biology Workshop 2025, sponsored by @cambup-lifesci.cambridge.org 🌱
📆Deadline 31 July - www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...
#ComputationalBiology #PlantSci
📆Deadline 31 July - www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...
#ComputationalBiology #PlantSci
July 23, 2025 at 8:14 AM
🚨Don’t miss out! Last weeks left to register for the Plant Computational Biology Workshop 2025, sponsored by @cambup-lifesci.cambridge.org 🌱
📆Deadline 31 July - www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...
#ComputationalBiology #PlantSci
📆Deadline 31 July - www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...
#ComputationalBiology #PlantSci
Reposted by Jessica C. Huss
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
Reposted by Jessica C. Huss
This is a great article by @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social on @dev-journal.bsky.social about color choice in #DataViz, thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali..., also check out his super useful #DataViz tools at huygens.science.uva.nl 🧪🧬💻
June 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
This is a great article by @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social on @dev-journal.bsky.social about color choice in #DataViz, thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali..., also check out his super useful #DataViz tools at huygens.science.uva.nl 🧪🧬💻
Reposted by Jessica C. Huss
Climate.gov, a major US government website supporting public education on climate science, will likely shut down after almost all of its staff were fired. What would be worse is if the website were co-opted to publish climate denial content.
Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired
Exclusive: Climate.gov, which supports public education on climate science, will soon no longer publish new content
www.theguardian.com
June 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Climate.gov, a major US government website supporting public education on climate science, will likely shut down after almost all of its staff were fired. What would be worse is if the website were co-opted to publish climate denial content.
Reposted by Jessica C. Huss
People who can’t handle criticism are unfit to lead.
Weak leaders fear dissent as a threat to their power. They silence their critics to shield their egos.
Strong leaders welcome dissent as an opportunity for growth. They silence their egos to learn from their critics.
Weak leaders fear dissent as a threat to their power. They silence their critics to shield their egos.
Strong leaders welcome dissent as an opportunity for growth. They silence their egos to learn from their critics.
March 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
People who can’t handle criticism are unfit to lead.
Weak leaders fear dissent as a threat to their power. They silence their critics to shield their egos.
Strong leaders welcome dissent as an opportunity for growth. They silence their egos to learn from their critics.
Weak leaders fear dissent as a threat to their power. They silence their critics to shield their egos.
Strong leaders welcome dissent as an opportunity for growth. They silence their egos to learn from their critics.
Reposted by Jessica C. Huss
SPS - Summer School 2025 on Advanced Plant Imaging – API : From super-resolution to fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy 🔬🌱 in Versailles 👑🇨🇵
For enthusiastic PhD students or young postdoctoral researchers !
Only one week left to apply 👇
eng-saclay-plant-sciences.hub.inrae.fr/teaching-and...
For enthusiastic PhD students or young postdoctoral researchers !
Only one week left to apply 👇
eng-saclay-plant-sciences.hub.inrae.fr/teaching-and...
February 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
SPS - Summer School 2025 on Advanced Plant Imaging – API : From super-resolution to fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy 🔬🌱 in Versailles 👑🇨🇵
For enthusiastic PhD students or young postdoctoral researchers !
Only one week left to apply 👇
eng-saclay-plant-sciences.hub.inrae.fr/teaching-and...
For enthusiastic PhD students or young postdoctoral researchers !
Only one week left to apply 👇
eng-saclay-plant-sciences.hub.inrae.fr/teaching-and...
Reposted by Jessica C. Huss
Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research
fraudsters have infiltrated the academic publishing industry
Frederik Joelving, Cyril Labbé,
Guillaume Cabanac
theconversation.com/fake-papers-...
fraudsters have infiltrated the academic publishing industry
Frederik Joelving, Cyril Labbé,
Guillaume Cabanac
theconversation.com/fake-papers-...
Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research
‘Paper mills’ are contaminating the world’s scholarly output with fake papers that hinder research. Lifesaving biomedical fields are especially hard hit.
theconversation.com
January 31, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research
fraudsters have infiltrated the academic publishing industry
Frederik Joelving, Cyril Labbé,
Guillaume Cabanac
theconversation.com/fake-papers-...
fraudsters have infiltrated the academic publishing industry
Frederik Joelving, Cyril Labbé,
Guillaume Cabanac
theconversation.com/fake-papers-...
Reposted by Jessica C. Huss
American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12
January 28, 2025 at 3:58 AM
American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12
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📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: Plant-Herbivore Interaction GRC🌱
👉https://eventform.plantae.org/plantae.calendar/detail/1363/1739077200000
#PlantScience
👉https://eventform.plantae.org/plantae.calendar/detail/1363/1739077200000
#PlantScience
Plant-Herbivore Interaction GRC
Sun 9 Feb - Fri 14 [EST]: The Plant-Herbivore Interaction GRC is a premier, international scientific conference focused on advancing the frontiers of science through the presentation of cutting-edge…
eventform.plantae.org
January 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
📅New #PlantSciEvents Event Added: Plant-Herbivore Interaction GRC🌱
👉https://eventform.plantae.org/plantae.calendar/detail/1363/1739077200000
#PlantScience
👉https://eventform.plantae.org/plantae.calendar/detail/1363/1739077200000
#PlantScience
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If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control.
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
The billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.
www.newsweek.com
December 25, 2024 at 3:54 AM
If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control.
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...
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New collection: "Diffusion barriers in plants" nature.com/collections/...
Biogenesis of diffusion barriers like Casparian strip, suberin lamellae or root exodermis. Primarily focused on root diffusion barriers, but homologous structures were recently discovered in trichomes.
Biogenesis of diffusion barriers like Casparian strip, suberin lamellae or root exodermis. Primarily focused on root diffusion barriers, but homologous structures were recently discovered in trichomes.
December 19, 2024 at 10:50 AM
New collection: "Diffusion barriers in plants" nature.com/collections/...
Biogenesis of diffusion barriers like Casparian strip, suberin lamellae or root exodermis. Primarily focused on root diffusion barriers, but homologous structures were recently discovered in trichomes.
Biogenesis of diffusion barriers like Casparian strip, suberin lamellae or root exodermis. Primarily focused on root diffusion barriers, but homologous structures were recently discovered in trichomes.
Reposted by Jessica C. Huss
Scientists are expected to do peer reviewing but no one tells you HOW. After talking with several folks about this today at #AGU24 , it seems a good time to link to this presentation I made several years ago -- feel free to use/share! docs.google.com/presentation...
Effective, efficient, and fair peer reviewing 2023
Effective, efficient, and fair peer reviewing Ben Bond-Lamberty Based on a presentation at the AGU Early Career Scientist Workshop, 2019 1
docs.google.com
December 12, 2024 at 10:18 PM
Scientists are expected to do peer reviewing but no one tells you HOW. After talking with several folks about this today at #AGU24 , it seems a good time to link to this presentation I made several years ago -- feel free to use/share! docs.google.com/presentation...
Reposted by Jessica C. Huss
We're used to seeing holly leaves depicted as exclusively spiny, but most wild holly plants have spiny and smooth leaves
Common holly (I. aquifolium) *changes its gene expression* to produce spines in response to damage by herbivores. Each pair here is from the same plant
📷 Herrera & Bazaga 2013
Common holly (I. aquifolium) *changes its gene expression* to produce spines in response to damage by herbivores. Each pair here is from the same plant
📷 Herrera & Bazaga 2013
December 15, 2024 at 8:01 PM
We're used to seeing holly leaves depicted as exclusively spiny, but most wild holly plants have spiny and smooth leaves
Common holly (I. aquifolium) *changes its gene expression* to produce spines in response to damage by herbivores. Each pair here is from the same plant
📷 Herrera & Bazaga 2013
Common holly (I. aquifolium) *changes its gene expression* to produce spines in response to damage by herbivores. Each pair here is from the same plant
📷 Herrera & Bazaga 2013
Reposted by Jessica C. Huss
Join us in the second UK Plant Biomechanic conference at Leeds. Organised together with the Institute of Physics. Registration closes on Jan 12th!
And why not finish the week off strong and sign up to the🌿UK Plant Biomechanics Conference on 28 March 2025 in Leeds. Don’t miss out on this exciting one-day event! Details & registration: iop.eventsair.com/ukpbc2025/ #UKPBC2025
Home - UK Plant Biomechanics Conference 2025 - University of Leeds
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December 8, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Join us in the second UK Plant Biomechanic conference at Leeds. Organised together with the Institute of Physics. Registration closes on Jan 12th!
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In the past years, I've found using comic-inspired color palettes super helpful when creating figures for my papers. Just came across this one and I’m definitely using it next!
💡Any comic recommendations with cool color palettes?🌈
#AcademicSky @academic-chatter.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social
💡Any comic recommendations with cool color palettes?🌈
#AcademicSky @academic-chatter.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social
November 24, 2024 at 7:29 PM
In the past years, I've found using comic-inspired color palettes super helpful when creating figures for my papers. Just came across this one and I’m definitely using it next!
💡Any comic recommendations with cool color palettes?🌈
#AcademicSky @academic-chatter.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social
💡Any comic recommendations with cool color palettes?🌈
#AcademicSky @academic-chatter.bsky.social @thephdplace.bsky.social
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ÅNGSTRÖM-RESOLUTION FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY.
Can we do structural biology with an optical microscope? Yes!
Check out how we resolved *single bases of DNA* and much more using fluorescence microscopy, out on 24.05.2023 in Nature! @natureportfolio.bsky.social
[re-post from Twitter]
Can we do structural biology with an optical microscope? Yes!
Check out how we resolved *single bases of DNA* and much more using fluorescence microscopy, out on 24.05.2023 in Nature! @natureportfolio.bsky.social
[re-post from Twitter]
Ångström-resolution fluorescence microscopy - Nature
The authors introduce a single-molecule DNA-barcoding method, resolution enhancement by sequential imaging, that improves the resolution of fluorescence microscopy down to the Ångström scale using off...
www.nature.com
November 27, 2024 at 9:47 AM
ÅNGSTRÖM-RESOLUTION FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY.
Can we do structural biology with an optical microscope? Yes!
Check out how we resolved *single bases of DNA* and much more using fluorescence microscopy, out on 24.05.2023 in Nature! @natureportfolio.bsky.social
[re-post from Twitter]
Can we do structural biology with an optical microscope? Yes!
Check out how we resolved *single bases of DNA* and much more using fluorescence microscopy, out on 24.05.2023 in Nature! @natureportfolio.bsky.social
[re-post from Twitter]
Reposted by Jessica C. Huss
Hot off the press
A super fun collaboration and paper. All you ever wanted about the squirting cucumber but never dared to ask.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A super fun collaboration and paper. All you ever wanted about the squirting cucumber but never dared to ask.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Uncovering the mechanical secrets of the squirting cucumber | PNAS
Rapid movement is rare in the plant kingdom, but a prerequisite for ballistic seed
dispersal. A particularly dramatic example of rapid motion in pl...
www.pnas.org
November 26, 2024 at 6:44 AM
Hot off the press
A super fun collaboration and paper. All you ever wanted about the squirting cucumber but never dared to ask.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A super fun collaboration and paper. All you ever wanted about the squirting cucumber but never dared to ask.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Jessica C. Huss
Understanding water flow, particle size distribution, and water chemistry can help you brew the perfect cup of coffee.
Using Chemistry To Get The Perfect Cup Of Coffee
How understanding water flow, particle size distribution, and water chemistry can help you brew the perfect cup of coffee.
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November 23, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Understanding water flow, particle size distribution, and water chemistry can help you brew the perfect cup of coffee.