Jennifer Mach (she/they)
@jennifermach.bsky.social
Science writer and editor for Plant Editors (planteditors.com). Based in Chicago.
Lake forever, problems for now.
February 16, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Lake forever, problems for now.
Rollicking enough to leave these spray cans around…
February 15, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Rollicking enough to leave these spray cans around…
Wild relatives of crucial #crop species are vital #genetic resources for breed improvement.
Hu et al.'s work on wild Medicago finds that structural variation drives rhizome innovation and adaptive divergence in sister spp.
doi.org/10.1111/jipb...
@WileyLifeSci
#PlantSci #OpenAccess
Hu et al.'s work on wild Medicago finds that structural variation drives rhizome innovation and adaptive divergence in sister spp.
doi.org/10.1111/jipb...
@WileyLifeSci
#PlantSci #OpenAccess
February 15, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Wild relatives of crucial #crop species are vital #genetic resources for breed improvement.
Hu et al.'s work on wild Medicago finds that structural variation drives rhizome innovation and adaptive divergence in sister spp.
doi.org/10.1111/jipb...
@WileyLifeSci
#PlantSci #OpenAccess
Hu et al.'s work on wild Medicago finds that structural variation drives rhizome innovation and adaptive divergence in sister spp.
doi.org/10.1111/jipb...
@WileyLifeSci
#PlantSci #OpenAccess
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🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE - FINAL CALL 🚨
📅 💧 The Interdrought VIII special issue closes on 28 February 💧📅
🌎 Guest edited by Mark Cooper, Carlos Messina, Karine Chenu & Amelia Henry 🌎
📇 Got a manuscript? Contact us: bit.ly/JXBissues
#PlantScience 🧪 #JXBspecialissues
📅 💧 The Interdrought VIII special issue closes on 28 February 💧📅
🌎 Guest edited by Mark Cooper, Carlos Messina, Karine Chenu & Amelia Henry 🌎
📇 Got a manuscript? Contact us: bit.ly/JXBissues
#PlantScience 🧪 #JXBspecialissues
UPCOMING SPECIAL ISSUE
💧 Interdrought VIII: Pathways from understanding drought responses of plants to on-farm impact
🌎 Guest edited by Mark Cooper, Carlos Messina, Karine Chenu & Amelia Henry
📅 Deadline 28 Feb 2026
📣 Got a manuscript? Contact us: bit.ly/JXBissues
#PlantScience 🧪
💧 Interdrought VIII: Pathways from understanding drought responses of plants to on-farm impact
🌎 Guest edited by Mark Cooper, Carlos Messina, Karine Chenu & Amelia Henry
📅 Deadline 28 Feb 2026
📣 Got a manuscript? Contact us: bit.ly/JXBissues
#PlantScience 🧪
February 12, 2026 at 11:57 AM
🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE - FINAL CALL 🚨
📅 💧 The Interdrought VIII special issue closes on 28 February 💧📅
🌎 Guest edited by Mark Cooper, Carlos Messina, Karine Chenu & Amelia Henry 🌎
📇 Got a manuscript? Contact us: bit.ly/JXBissues
#PlantScience 🧪 #JXBspecialissues
📅 💧 The Interdrought VIII special issue closes on 28 February 💧📅
🌎 Guest edited by Mark Cooper, Carlos Messina, Karine Chenu & Amelia Henry 🌎
📇 Got a manuscript? Contact us: bit.ly/JXBissues
#PlantScience 🧪 #JXBspecialissues
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🧬⚡ Call for abstracts & participants | GRC 2026 ⚡🧬
Together with Vamsi Mootha, I’m chairing the 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Mitochondria & Chloroplasts (July 19 - 24, 2026). We’d love to see your application.
Thread 🧵👇
Together with Vamsi Mootha, I’m chairing the 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Mitochondria & Chloroplasts (July 19 - 24, 2026). We’d love to see your application.
Thread 🧵👇
February 12, 2026 at 11:23 AM
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🚨 Positions available in Plant Science! Please share. We’re hiring:
1. Postdoc
2.PhD (UK applicants only)
Focus: root oxygen dynamics, developmental signalling. Come help us uncover how O2 shapes root development.
More info here-
sites.google.com/view/root-re...
#plantscijobs #plantscience
1. Postdoc
2.PhD (UK applicants only)
Focus: root oxygen dynamics, developmental signalling. Come help us uncover how O2 shapes root development.
More info here-
sites.google.com/view/root-re...
#plantscijobs #plantscience
February 11, 2026 at 3:18 PM
🚨 Positions available in Plant Science! Please share. We’re hiring:
1. Postdoc
2.PhD (UK applicants only)
Focus: root oxygen dynamics, developmental signalling. Come help us uncover how O2 shapes root development.
More info here-
sites.google.com/view/root-re...
#plantscijobs #plantscience
1. Postdoc
2.PhD (UK applicants only)
Focus: root oxygen dynamics, developmental signalling. Come help us uncover how O2 shapes root development.
More info here-
sites.google.com/view/root-re...
#plantscijobs #plantscience
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More and more of my colleagues are finally starting to realize what we knew: Reforms are not enough. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.
February 8, 2026 at 8:29 PM
More and more of my colleagues are finally starting to realize what we knew: Reforms are not enough. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.
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the congresswoman should have a lot more followers on here! please follow and share.
More and more of my colleagues are finally starting to realize what we knew: Reforms are not enough. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.
February 11, 2026 at 11:35 PM
the congresswoman should have a lot more followers on here! please follow and share.
I just want to shout out @somssich.bsky.social for making the lovely set of #PlantScience feeds––I think he's one of the reasons we have such good engagement in our particular 🌱community here.
Why do some scientists say "Bluesky is dead. I have no engagement. I have more engagement on X"? My TL is full of cool science, queer art, weird history facts, politics and whimsy. You're just not doing it right, man. Plus the fascism
February 11, 2026 at 12:13 PM
I just want to shout out @somssich.bsky.social for making the lovely set of #PlantScience feeds––I think he's one of the reasons we have such good engagement in our particular 🌱community here.
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How state transitions balance photosynthetic electron transport in plants – a quantitative study
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Hoochak et al.
@WIleyPlantSci #PlantScience
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Hoochak et al.
@WIleyPlantSci #PlantScience
February 10, 2026 at 6:09 PM
How state transitions balance photosynthetic electron transport in plants – a quantitative study
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Hoochak et al.
@WIleyPlantSci #PlantScience
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Hoochak et al.
@WIleyPlantSci #PlantScience
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Lake forever, problems for now
February 10, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Lake forever, problems for now
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Remember if you watch this show or buy this merch, no trans person will like or trust you ever again. Sorry but those are the rules.
Hasbro and Warner Bros. Discovery have signed a multi-year deal starting in 2027 to produce Harry Potter film and television series dolls, role play, action figures, collectibles, interactive plush, board games, and more to be revealed later this year - bwnews.pr/45UKdKL
February 10, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Remember if you watch this show or buy this merch, no trans person will like or trust you ever again. Sorry but those are the rules.
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Join Marco at the #SEBconference in Florence.
Submit your abstract now ⬇️
www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
Check out our Plant sessions ⬇️
www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
Book your place now ⬇️
www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
Submit your abstract now ⬇️
www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
Check out our Plant sessions ⬇️
www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
Book your place now ⬇️
www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
February 10, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Join Marco at the #SEBconference in Florence.
Submit your abstract now ⬇️
www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
Check out our Plant sessions ⬇️
www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
Book your place now ⬇️
www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
Submit your abstract now ⬇️
www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
Check out our Plant sessions ⬇️
www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
Book your place now ⬇️
www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a...
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THIS.
Life is only hard for trans/queer kids because bigots MAKE it hard. You accept your kid, fight for them, and you'll make it BETTER.
Life is only hard for trans/queer kids because bigots MAKE it hard. You accept your kid, fight for them, and you'll make it BETTER.
"I don't want my kid turning trans or queer."
Well, why not? What's wrong with that?
(mumbles something about "it makes life harder for them")
So you're going to make it even harder for trans and queer kids?
Well, why not? What's wrong with that?
(mumbles something about "it makes life harder for them")
So you're going to make it even harder for trans and queer kids?
February 9, 2026 at 5:31 PM
THIS.
Life is only hard for trans/queer kids because bigots MAKE it hard. You accept your kid, fight for them, and you'll make it BETTER.
Life is only hard for trans/queer kids because bigots MAKE it hard. You accept your kid, fight for them, and you'll make it BETTER.
So much love for the #grass in the #BadBunny half time show––brings joy to my #PlantNerd heart! 💚 #PlantAwareness 💚
February 10, 2026 at 2:19 PM
So much love for the #grass in the #BadBunny half time show––brings joy to my #PlantNerd heart! 💚 #PlantAwareness 💚
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I am quite sure that thie special issue could be relevant to quite a few in my circles here on BSky.
📣 Call for Papers 📣
RECROP: Plant Adaptations to Extreme Environments
Do you work on:
🌽 Crop stress resilience
🧂 Salinity 💧 Drought 🌡️ Heat
🦠 Plant-microbe interactions in extreme environments
🧪 Molecular, epigenetic & physiological mechanisms
Submit your paper now:
buff.ly/qJqmlaP
#plantscience
RECROP: Plant Adaptations to Extreme Environments
Do you work on:
🌽 Crop stress resilience
🧂 Salinity 💧 Drought 🌡️ Heat
🦠 Plant-microbe interactions in extreme environments
🧪 Molecular, epigenetic & physiological mechanisms
Submit your paper now:
buff.ly/qJqmlaP
#plantscience
February 10, 2026 at 11:09 AM
I am quite sure that thie special issue could be relevant to quite a few in my circles here on BSky.
Chicago, when?
Hello I have visited the pit that emits oracular vapors of restaurant trend prophesy and have had a vision that fried fish sandwiches (upscaleified Filets-o-Fish et al) are on the cusp of being a huge huge thing and are only gonna get huger
February 9, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Chicago, when?
Is there a hashtag for "This is well-written ALT text and we can all learn from and enjoy it"?
February 9, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Is there a hashtag for "This is well-written ALT text and we can all learn from and enjoy it"?
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📢 Call for registrations - Science:TBD
📍 Leipzig | 3–4 March 2026
Join us for an inspiring lineup of keynotes:
⭐Sheena F. Bartscherer
⭐Alice Hughes @achughes.bsky.social
⭐Wolfgang Forstmeier
⭐Ulrich Dirnagl
⭐Dietram A. Scheufele @dietram.bsky.social
Register now: www.idiv.de/science-tbd
📍 Leipzig | 3–4 March 2026
Join us for an inspiring lineup of keynotes:
⭐Sheena F. Bartscherer
⭐Alice Hughes @achughes.bsky.social
⭐Wolfgang Forstmeier
⭐Ulrich Dirnagl
⭐Dietram A. Scheufele @dietram.bsky.social
Register now: www.idiv.de/science-tbd
February 4, 2026 at 1:56 PM
📢 Call for registrations - Science:TBD
📍 Leipzig | 3–4 March 2026
Join us for an inspiring lineup of keynotes:
⭐Sheena F. Bartscherer
⭐Alice Hughes @achughes.bsky.social
⭐Wolfgang Forstmeier
⭐Ulrich Dirnagl
⭐Dietram A. Scheufele @dietram.bsky.social
Register now: www.idiv.de/science-tbd
📍 Leipzig | 3–4 March 2026
Join us for an inspiring lineup of keynotes:
⭐Sheena F. Bartscherer
⭐Alice Hughes @achughes.bsky.social
⭐Wolfgang Forstmeier
⭐Ulrich Dirnagl
⭐Dietram A. Scheufele @dietram.bsky.social
Register now: www.idiv.de/science-tbd
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Overexpression of #OsCAX2 in indica #rice reduces #cadmium accumulation in #grains without #yield loss
❇️https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jia.2025.08.011
#PlantScience #MolecularBiology @keaipublishing.bsky.social
❇️https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jia.2025.08.011
#PlantScience #MolecularBiology @keaipublishing.bsky.social
February 9, 2026 at 8:55 AM
Overexpression of #OsCAX2 in indica #rice reduces #cadmium accumulation in #grains without #yield loss
❇️https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jia.2025.08.011
#PlantScience #MolecularBiology @keaipublishing.bsky.social
❇️https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jia.2025.08.011
#PlantScience #MolecularBiology @keaipublishing.bsky.social
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🚨 Final day to register for Crop Production in Northern Britain 2026 🚨
Join us in Dundee 25- 26 February
👉️ cpnb.org
#plantscience #sustainableagriculture
Join us in Dundee 25- 26 February
👉️ cpnb.org
#plantscience #sustainableagriculture
February 9, 2026 at 9:30 AM
🚨 Final day to register for Crop Production in Northern Britain 2026 🚨
Join us in Dundee 25- 26 February
👉️ cpnb.org
#plantscience #sustainableagriculture
Join us in Dundee 25- 26 February
👉️ cpnb.org
#plantscience #sustainableagriculture
Reposted by Jennifer Mach (she/they)
Plants use cell-surface and intracellular receptors that collaborate to detect pathogens🦠. We discovered that a key #ubiquitin recognition event recruits both receptor types into an unexpected dual receptor complex that boost the translation of defence proteins and establishes robust #PlantImmunity👇🏾
February 9, 2026 at 9:57 AM
Plants use cell-surface and intracellular receptors that collaborate to detect pathogens🦠. We discovered that a key #ubiquitin recognition event recruits both receptor types into an unexpected dual receptor complex that boost the translation of defence proteins and establishes robust #PlantImmunity👇🏾
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🌱Wild barley handles drought better for a reason
Pan et al. identifies an 8-bp promoter deletion in HvNF-YB7 that enhances drought-induced expression and strengthens glutathione-based ROS detoxification via HvGSTF13.1.
https://bit.ly/4sMm96K
##PlantScience #Barley #Drought
Pan et al. identifies an 8-bp promoter deletion in HvNF-YB7 that enhances drought-induced expression and strengthens glutathione-based ROS detoxification via HvGSTF13.1.
https://bit.ly/4sMm96K
##PlantScience #Barley #Drought
February 9, 2026 at 10:00 AM
🌱Wild barley handles drought better for a reason
Pan et al. identifies an 8-bp promoter deletion in HvNF-YB7 that enhances drought-induced expression and strengthens glutathione-based ROS detoxification via HvGSTF13.1.
https://bit.ly/4sMm96K
##PlantScience #Barley #Drought
Pan et al. identifies an 8-bp promoter deletion in HvNF-YB7 that enhances drought-induced expression and strengthens glutathione-based ROS detoxification via HvGSTF13.1.
https://bit.ly/4sMm96K
##PlantScience #Barley #Drought
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peyton pears, painted by bertha heiges, 1898
February 9, 2026 at 11:18 AM
peyton pears, painted by bertha heiges, 1898
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The Chicago Public Library has a Bad Bunny reading list! www.chipublib.org/blogs/post/s...
Spanish Teen Reads for Bad Bunny at Super Bowl LX
Super Bowl LX goes beyond football as Bad Bunny headlines the halftime show. Celebrate the moment with Spanish-language books that…
www.chipublib.org
February 8, 2026 at 3:54 PM
The Chicago Public Library has a Bad Bunny reading list! www.chipublib.org/blogs/post/s...