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Plant Biologists in St. Louis. Trying to understand why plants get jet lag. Applying that knowledge to improve intermediate oilseed crops. Nusinowlab.org
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I think the R01 is basically a non-starter at NIGMS now. Data from NIH Reporter for new and competing awards, comparing number of R01s issued relative to R35s (MIRA). This has major ramifications for basic science and basic science investigators that are not yet in the MIRA pool
September 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I think the R01 is basically a non-starter at NIGMS now. Data from NIH Reporter for new and competing awards, comparing number of R01s issued relative to R35s (MIRA). This has major ramifications for basic science and basic science investigators that are not yet in the MIRA pool
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Color changing flowers 🧬🎨- attempt #2
Older flowers (bottom) show dark red/ orange tints whereas young buds (top) display strong fuchsia color. Getting closer..
Older flowers (bottom) show dark red/ orange tints whereas young buds (top) display strong fuchsia color. Getting closer..
September 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Color changing flowers 🧬🎨- attempt #2
Older flowers (bottom) show dark red/ orange tints whereas young buds (top) display strong fuchsia color. Getting closer..
Older flowers (bottom) show dark red/ orange tints whereas young buds (top) display strong fuchsia color. Getting closer..
Once the AI gets a hold of this we will become its avatar in real life! Welcome to the realiverse.
🧟🐜 Zombie Ant Research🚨
I can finally share my flagship research project characterizing the first ever Ophiocordyceps behavioral effector as an open access preprint!
This international, interdisciplinary research approach involved many amazing collaborations! 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I can finally share my flagship research project characterizing the first ever Ophiocordyceps behavioral effector as an open access preprint!
This international, interdisciplinary research approach involved many amazing collaborations! 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Once the AI gets a hold of this we will become its avatar in real life! Welcome to the realiverse.
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🧟🐜 Zombie Ant Research🚨
I can finally share my flagship research project characterizing the first ever Ophiocordyceps behavioral effector as an open access preprint!
This international, interdisciplinary research approach involved many amazing collaborations! 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I can finally share my flagship research project characterizing the first ever Ophiocordyceps behavioral effector as an open access preprint!
This international, interdisciplinary research approach involved many amazing collaborations! 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
🧟🐜 Zombie Ant Research🚨
I can finally share my flagship research project characterizing the first ever Ophiocordyceps behavioral effector as an open access preprint!
This international, interdisciplinary research approach involved many amazing collaborations! 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I can finally share my flagship research project characterizing the first ever Ophiocordyceps behavioral effector as an open access preprint!
This international, interdisciplinary research approach involved many amazing collaborations! 🧪
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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A PLETHORA transcription factor shapes cucumber shoot architecture https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.18.677013v1
September 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
A PLETHORA transcription factor shapes cucumber shoot architecture https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.18.677013v1
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Did you even pass your dissertation proposal if someone didn’t suggest collecting $100k worth of data????
(This is my official announcement: I passed my dissertation proposal).
(This is my official announcement: I passed my dissertation proposal).
September 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Did you even pass your dissertation proposal if someone didn’t suggest collecting $100k worth of data????
(This is my official announcement: I passed my dissertation proposal).
(This is my official announcement: I passed my dissertation proposal).
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Scientists:
Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/
September 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Scientists:
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Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
September 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
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Molecular genetic characterization of CASEIN KINASE 1-LIKE 12 in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.17.676859v1
September 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Molecular genetic characterization of CASEIN KINASE 1-LIKE 12 in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.17.676859v1
Some new tools for monocots, and the plasmids are available at Addgene! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Remote sensing of endogenous pigmentation by inducible synthetic circuits in grasses
Plant synthetic biology holds great promise for engineering plants to meet future demands. Genetic circuits are being designed, built, and tested in plants to demonstrate proof of concept. However, de...
www.biorxiv.org
June 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Some new tools for monocots, and the plasmids are available at Addgene! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Happy Equinox friends and cousins.
Together is the only way we build liveable todays and tomorrows.
Together is the only way we build liveable todays and tomorrows.
It's Autumnal Equinox day for us here in the southern hemisphere (and the vernal equinox for friends in the north).
We will reach the equinox at exactly 20:01 AEDT this evening, where the Sun will be directly over the equator crossing from south to north.
A little thread ... 👇
📸 time and date
🔭🧪
We will reach the equinox at exactly 20:01 AEDT this evening, where the Sun will be directly over the equator crossing from south to north.
A little thread ... 👇
📸 time and date
🔭🧪
March 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Happy Equinox friends and cousins.
Together is the only way we build liveable todays and tomorrows.
Together is the only way we build liveable todays and tomorrows.
Something we have been working on. Built off the work of the unforgettable Dr. Joanne Chory. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Loss of PIF7 attenuates shade and elevated temperature responses throughout the lifecycle in Pennycress
Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) is under development to be grown as a winter annual intermediate oil seed bioenergy crop in the Midwest during typical fallow periods. Crucial work remains to domesticate ...
doi.org
March 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Something we have been working on. Built off the work of the unforgettable Dr. Joanne Chory. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
I thought the matrix was going to be more interesting than this: gizmodo.com/this-35000-c...
This $35,000 Computer Is Powered by Trapped Human Brain Cells
A company is selling what it calls the world’s first “code deployable biological computer.”
gizmodo.com
March 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I thought the matrix was going to be more interesting than this: gizmodo.com/this-35000-c...
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Some of my postdoc work has been "exposed" today in @theplantjournal.bsky.social! 😁🎉🔬 We developed ExPOSE - a method to perform expansion microscopy in plant protoplast systems. Here's a quick🧵of the details: @meter76.bsky.social @lily-oconnor.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
ExPOSE: a comprehensive toolkit to perform expansion microscopy in plant protoplast systems
This method provides a robust approach for performing expansion microscopy in plant protoplasts for imaging single-cell and subcellular compartments at greatly enhanced resolution.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Some of my postdoc work has been "exposed" today in @theplantjournal.bsky.social! 😁🎉🔬 We developed ExPOSE - a method to perform expansion microscopy in plant protoplast systems. Here's a quick🧵of the details: @meter76.bsky.social @lily-oconnor.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Big paper out from @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social! source.washu.edu/2025/03/brin...
Bringing expansion microscopy to plants
Biologist Kevin Cox, in Arts & Sciences, has discovered a low-cost way to more easily study the detailed makeup of plant cells. The ultimate goal is to help grow better crops, improving food security.
source.washu.edu
March 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Big paper out from @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social! source.washu.edu/2025/03/brin...
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These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.
These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.
You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.
You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
January 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.
These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.
You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.
You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
It’s that time of year again!
December 18, 2024 at 1:57 AM
It’s that time of year again!
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Now hiring:
Are you a technician? Do you enjoy the lab? Plants 🌱? DNA 🧬? Microscopes 🔬?
We are looking for you! We are looking for a Biological Technical Assistant for the new molecular botany lab at @rwth.bsky.social Aachen. Please apply!
www.biologie.rwth-aachen.de/cms/biologie...
Are you a technician? Do you enjoy the lab? Plants 🌱? DNA 🧬? Microscopes 🔬?
We are looking for you! We are looking for a Biological Technical Assistant for the new molecular botany lab at @rwth.bsky.social Aachen. Please apply!
www.biologie.rwth-aachen.de/cms/biologie...
Technische*r Assistent*in in der Molekularen Botanik (w/m/d) - RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY Fachgruppe Biologie - Deutsch
www.biologie.rwth-aachen.de
December 6, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Now hiring:
Are you a technician? Do you enjoy the lab? Plants 🌱? DNA 🧬? Microscopes 🔬?
We are looking for you! We are looking for a Biological Technical Assistant for the new molecular botany lab at @rwth.bsky.social Aachen. Please apply!
www.biologie.rwth-aachen.de/cms/biologie...
Are you a technician? Do you enjoy the lab? Plants 🌱? DNA 🧬? Microscopes 🔬?
We are looking for you! We are looking for a Biological Technical Assistant for the new molecular botany lab at @rwth.bsky.social Aachen. Please apply!
www.biologie.rwth-aachen.de/cms/biologie...
Has anyone seen these criminal biologists? I didn’t even like plants back then, but knew that Barbara was the bomb.
December 7, 2024 at 4:32 AM
Has anyone seen these criminal biologists? I didn’t even like plants back then, but knew that Barbara was the bomb.
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**SAVE THE DATE**
JXB turns 𝟕𝟓 in 2025.
Come and celebrate with us in Edinburgh 🏴 17-19th Sept 🎉 🥳🍾
Featuring fantastic speakers, a program for early/mid career researchers, a conference dinner, posters, networking, workshops...
More info soon...🌱 🌾 🌳
@sebiology.bsky.social 🧪 #plantscience
JXB turns 𝟕𝟓 in 2025.
Come and celebrate with us in Edinburgh 🏴 17-19th Sept 🎉 🥳🍾
Featuring fantastic speakers, a program for early/mid career researchers, a conference dinner, posters, networking, workshops...
More info soon...🌱 🌾 🌳
@sebiology.bsky.social 🧪 #plantscience
December 6, 2024 at 3:06 PM
**SAVE THE DATE**
JXB turns 𝟕𝟓 in 2025.
Come and celebrate with us in Edinburgh 🏴 17-19th Sept 🎉 🥳🍾
Featuring fantastic speakers, a program for early/mid career researchers, a conference dinner, posters, networking, workshops...
More info soon...🌱 🌾 🌳
@sebiology.bsky.social 🧪 #plantscience
JXB turns 𝟕𝟓 in 2025.
Come and celebrate with us in Edinburgh 🏴 17-19th Sept 🎉 🥳🍾
Featuring fantastic speakers, a program for early/mid career researchers, a conference dinner, posters, networking, workshops...
More info soon...🌱 🌾 🌳
@sebiology.bsky.social 🧪 #plantscience
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"Kennedy's 'cures' involve reversing some of the greatest scientific breakthroughs in history: pasteurization, vaccines, and the scientific method of determining truth."
RFK Jr. Is a One-Man Plague
It’s not just that he’s misinformed. It’s the way his mind works that’s dangerous.
www.thebulwark.com
December 6, 2024 at 8:00 PM
"Kennedy's 'cures' involve reversing some of the greatest scientific breakthroughs in history: pasteurization, vaccines, and the scientific method of determining truth."
Yesterday the incredible Toby Kellogg received the Danforth Award for Plant Science. I got to learn a lot about science, discovery, and the power of “I don’t know.” Great remarks from the equally remarkable Becky Bart and Bethany Zolman
December 7, 2024 at 4:26 AM
Yesterday the incredible Toby Kellogg received the Danforth Award for Plant Science. I got to learn a lot about science, discovery, and the power of “I don’t know.” Great remarks from the equally remarkable Becky Bart and Bethany Zolman
Same
December 7, 2024 at 4:18 AM
Same
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I saw this somewhere in Montreal... love it.
December 7, 2024 at 1:37 AM
I saw this somewhere in Montreal... love it.