Mary Williams @PlantTeaching
@plantteaching.bsky.social
Promoting SciComm, teaching, equity & inclusion in plant biology. #PlantScience
PI NSF RCN: ROOT&SHOOT. https://rootandshoot.org/
Features Editor ThePlantCell, PlantPhysiology
@PlantTeaching@genomic.social
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PI NSF RCN: ROOT&SHOOT. https://rootandshoot.org/
Features Editor ThePlantCell, PlantPhysiology
@PlantTeaching@genomic.social
https://linktr.ee/PlantTeaching 🏴
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The last photo from my visit to see my family in Japan, and it's so cute I wanted to share it with you.
The apple person is Arukuma, the mascot of Nagano (famous for the applees grown there!)
We took the photo as the family was dropping me off at the train station, and yes, tears were shed.
The apple person is Arukuma, the mascot of Nagano (famous for the applees grown there!)
We took the photo as the family was dropping me off at the train station, and yes, tears were shed.
January 6, 2026 at 7:57 AM
The last photo from my visit to see my family in Japan, and it's so cute I wanted to share it with you.
The apple person is Arukuma, the mascot of Nagano (famous for the applees grown there!)
We took the photo as the family was dropping me off at the train station, and yes, tears were shed.
The apple person is Arukuma, the mascot of Nagano (famous for the applees grown there!)
We took the photo as the family was dropping me off at the train station, and yes, tears were shed.
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Have you hugged a bog today?
Let’s make 2026 the year of the bog. The world’s most unique and interesting plants, clean water, cooler climate. Bogs deserve our thanks, care, and deep respect. Please join me and love a bog today.
January 6, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Have you hugged a bog today?
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An excellent memoir about a better type of #leadership. I recommend the audiobook, which is read by Ardern.
January 5, 2026 at 2:48 AM
An excellent memoir about a better type of #leadership. I recommend the audiobook, which is read by Ardern.
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Huge thanks to @Nikon for an unforgettable Christmas present 🎁 Feeling truly privileged to receive such a unique microscope 🔬
January 5, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Huge thanks to @Nikon for an unforgettable Christmas present 🎁 Feeling truly privileged to receive such a unique microscope 🔬
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Level B lecturer position in Environmental Botany (plant ecology and plant physiology), School of Life and Environmental Sciences at Deakin Uni, Burwood (Melbourne) #BotanyJobs #PlantSciJobs #PlantEcology 🌾🪴🌿🌱🧪
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January 5, 2026 at 4:53 AM
Level B lecturer position in Environmental Botany (plant ecology and plant physiology), School of Life and Environmental Sciences at Deakin Uni, Burwood (Melbourne) #BotanyJobs #PlantSciJobs #PlantEcology 🌾🪴🌿🌱🧪
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Applications due 18th January. careers.pageuppeople.com/949/cw/en/jo...
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Applications due 18th January. careers.pageuppeople.com/949/cw/en/jo...
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Trends in Plant Science will continue to support diverse voices and accessibility, ensuring cutting-edge plant research can be found, understood, and used by many.
#plantscience
#plantscience
January 5, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Trends in Plant Science will continue to support diverse voices and accessibility, ensuring cutting-edge plant research can be found, understood, and used by many.
#plantscience
#plantscience
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Happy New Year to all our peer-reviewers, contributors, and readers! As we welcome the New Year, a heartfelt thanks for your amazing and vital support, your trust, and your commitment. I am excited about the ideas, collaborations, covers, and breakthroughs that 2026 will bring.
#plantscience
#plantscience
January 5, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Happy New Year to all our peer-reviewers, contributors, and readers! As we welcome the New Year, a heartfelt thanks for your amazing and vital support, your trust, and your commitment. I am excited about the ideas, collaborations, covers, and breakthroughs that 2026 will bring.
#plantscience
#plantscience
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Cool science + fun community, SLCU is a great place for a PhD!
🚨Two fully-funded #PhD positions🚨
Join @slcuplants.bsky.social to help us explore intriguing fundamental plant development questions in a supportive, friendly institute with fantastic supervisors & exceptional support services 🌿🧬🔬
Find out more www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/PhD
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Join @slcuplants.bsky.social to help us explore intriguing fundamental plant development questions in a supportive, friendly institute with fantastic supervisors & exceptional support services 🌿🧬🔬
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January 5, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Cool science + fun community, SLCU is a great place for a PhD!
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Plant Science Research Weekly -- Commentary: Fund food research now (Nature) (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social) buff.ly/JpDpdm9
#PlantaePSRW
#PlantaePSRW
Commentary: Fund food research now | Plantae
Recently, a team of agricultural economists (Pardey et al.) released a powerful commentary about the state of agricultural research funding, which they say is insufficient. They observe that…
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January 2, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Plant Science Research Weekly -- Commentary: Fund food research now (Nature) (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social) buff.ly/JpDpdm9
#PlantaePSRW
#PlantaePSRW
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Explore #FloraObscura: a series of short articles highlighting extraordinary plant biology 👇
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#PlantScience
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#PlantScience
January 4, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Explore #FloraObscura: a series of short articles highlighting extraordinary plant biology 👇
🌱 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
#PlantScience
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#PlantScience
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'Although AI is helping Science catch errors that can be corrected or elements that are missing from a paper but should be included, such as supporting code or raw data, its use and the evaluation of the output require more human effort, not less.'
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Resisting AI slop
It’s hard to talk about any topic in science or education today without the subject of artificial intelligence (AI) coming up—whether large language models should be allowed to aid in searching for a ...
www.science.org
January 4, 2026 at 9:27 AM
'Although AI is helping Science catch errors that can be corrected or elements that are missing from a paper but should be included, such as supporting code or raw data, its use and the evaluation of the output require more human effort, not less.'
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A planetary atlas of plankton 🪐
Closing the year with a bang: out @cellcellpress.bsky.social the @dudinlab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social labs used ultrastructure Expansion Microscopy to reveal the stunning cytoskeletal diversity of over 200 plankton species!
A #sciart 🧵
@embl.org
Closing the year with a bang: out @cellcellpress.bsky.social the @dudinlab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social labs used ultrastructure Expansion Microscopy to reveal the stunning cytoskeletal diversity of over 200 plankton species!
A #sciart 🧵
@embl.org
January 4, 2026 at 11:35 AM
A planetary atlas of plankton 🪐
Closing the year with a bang: out @cellcellpress.bsky.social the @dudinlab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social labs used ultrastructure Expansion Microscopy to reveal the stunning cytoskeletal diversity of over 200 plankton species!
A #sciart 🧵
@embl.org
Closing the year with a bang: out @cellcellpress.bsky.social the @dudinlab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social labs used ultrastructure Expansion Microscopy to reveal the stunning cytoskeletal diversity of over 200 plankton species!
A #sciart 🧵
@embl.org
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Naturally occurring enzymes, while powerful, catalyze only a fraction of the reactions chemists care about. That’s why scientists are eager to design new-to-nature versions that could carry out entirely new forms of chemistry that biology never evolved. cen.acs.org/physical-che...
#chemsky 🧪
#chemsky 🧪
A trio of AI methods tackles enzyme design
RFdiffusion2, RFdiffusion3, and Riff-Diff each solve different structural problems in computational enzyme design
cen.acs.org
January 4, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Naturally occurring enzymes, while powerful, catalyze only a fraction of the reactions chemists care about. That’s why scientists are eager to design new-to-nature versions that could carry out entirely new forms of chemistry that biology never evolved. cen.acs.org/physical-che...
#chemsky 🧪
#chemsky 🧪
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Your fact of the day:
The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in six American citizens suffers a food-borne illness annually. In the UK, the figure is one in 132.
bylinetimes.com/2020/02/28/f...
The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in six American citizens suffers a food-borne illness annually. In the UK, the figure is one in 132.
bylinetimes.com/2020/02/28/f...
Fowl Play: How US Chicken Imports will Pollute Britain's Poor
Since joining the EU British food has gone from bog-awful to top-notch, but Otto English reveals how a US Trade deal will unravel 40 years of progress.
bylinetimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 9:12 AM
Your fact of the day:
The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in six American citizens suffers a food-borne illness annually. In the UK, the figure is one in 132.
bylinetimes.com/2020/02/28/f...
The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in six American citizens suffers a food-borne illness annually. In the UK, the figure is one in 132.
bylinetimes.com/2020/02/28/f...
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My interest in plant pigments started with the tomatoes in my garden. There didn't seem to be any one place organizing all the genetics related to color mutations, even though there was a great deal of research, so I decided to make one.
January 4, 2026 at 5:52 AM
My interest in plant pigments started with the tomatoes in my garden. There didn't seem to be any one place organizing all the genetics related to color mutations, even though there was a great deal of research, so I decided to make one.
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The Saclay Plant Sciences Graduate School of Research (SPS) wishes you a Happy New Year 2026
The Saclay Plant Sciences Graduate School of Research (SPS) wishes you a Happy New Year 2026
The Saclay Plant Sciences Graduate School of Research (SPS) wishes you a Happy New Year 2026
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January 4, 2026 at 10:18 AM
The Saclay Plant Sciences Graduate School of Research (SPS) wishes you a Happy New Year 2026
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January 3, 2026 at 12:00 PM
The latest updates on all of The New Phytologist Foundation's activities, including symposia, workshops, opportunities and news from New Phytologist and @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social, in your inbox.
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A #genomics-informed framework for evaluating when genetic rescue—introducing unrelated individuals to increase genetic diversity & reduce inbreeding—is likely to succeed www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #biodiversity
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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January 3, 2026 at 12:00 PM
A #genomics-informed framework for evaluating when genetic rescue—introducing unrelated individuals to increase genetic diversity & reduce inbreeding—is likely to succeed www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... #biodiversity
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New species described in 2025 ... They were found in picnic sites & museum shelves, ancient forests & seasonal swamps, high mountains & shallow seas. news.mongabay.com/2025/12/phot...
Photos: Top new species from 2025
The world still holds its secrets. Hidden under wet rocks, in the ocean’s twilight crevices, and in the minutiae of the genetic code are creatures unknown and unnamed by the human species. Every year,...
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January 3, 2026 at 12:20 PM
New species described in 2025 ... They were found in picnic sites & museum shelves, ancient forests & seasonal swamps, high mountains & shallow seas. news.mongabay.com/2025/12/phot...
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"I don’t know why my fellowship was terminated. I suspect that it has something to do with studying a species that doesn’t fit the binary of what we expect to see in nature, with completely different males and females."
@carlzimmer.com profiles my wonderful coauthor @jjinsing.bsky.social Gift link.
@carlzimmer.com profiles my wonderful coauthor @jjinsing.bsky.social Gift link.
He Studied Why Some Female Birds Look Like Males
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January 2, 2026 at 6:10 PM
"I don’t know why my fellowship was terminated. I suspect that it has something to do with studying a species that doesn’t fit the binary of what we expect to see in nature, with completely different males and females."
@carlzimmer.com profiles my wonderful coauthor @jjinsing.bsky.social Gift link.
@carlzimmer.com profiles my wonderful coauthor @jjinsing.bsky.social Gift link.
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Loving this beautiful cover image in this week's @science.org illustrating the paper which came out online late last year
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#Plantscience
January 2, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Loving this beautiful cover image in this week's @science.org illustrating the paper which came out online late last year
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#Plantscience
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#Plantscience
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Starting 2026 with great news! Thanks to my co-authors Demetrio Marcianò, Bastien Dauphin, Fabian Basso, and Christiane Funk. If you want to know what we’ve been up to, have a look at the thread below ⬇️ #PlantScience #CellWall
New year, new paper, and a lab milestone: our first original research article is finally out. We explored how green algae sense what happens outside the cell and asked a simple question: how much of the plant #CellWallIntegrity receptor toolkit already exists in green algae?🧵
doi.org/10.1111/ppl....
doi.org/10.1111/ppl....
A Comparative Analysis of Receptor‐Like Kinases in Chlorophyta Reveals the Presence of Putative Cell Wall Integrity Sensors
Receptor-like kinases (RLKs) detect external and internal signals, triggering responses essential for growth and adaptation. Among internal cues, cell wall integrity (CWI) sensing plays a key role, a...
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January 2, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Starting 2026 with great news! Thanks to my co-authors Demetrio Marcianò, Bastien Dauphin, Fabian Basso, and Christiane Funk. If you want to know what we’ve been up to, have a look at the thread below ⬇️ #PlantScience #CellWall
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I'm fortunate to talk with @chanda.blacksky.app about When Trees Testify. Feb 6 @ 7 PM, Harvard Bookstore.
Talked about Lessons From Plants & I'll keep writing books to talk w/BRILLIANT Chanda!❤️
Pre-order When Trees Testify (link in bio) AND Chanda's next book, The Edge of Space-Time, out in 2026.
Talked about Lessons From Plants & I'll keep writing books to talk w/BRILLIANT Chanda!❤️
Pre-order When Trees Testify (link in bio) AND Chanda's next book, The Edge of Space-Time, out in 2026.
December 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I'm fortunate to talk with @chanda.blacksky.app about When Trees Testify. Feb 6 @ 7 PM, Harvard Bookstore.
Talked about Lessons From Plants & I'll keep writing books to talk w/BRILLIANT Chanda!❤️
Pre-order When Trees Testify (link in bio) AND Chanda's next book, The Edge of Space-Time, out in 2026.
Talked about Lessons From Plants & I'll keep writing books to talk w/BRILLIANT Chanda!❤️
Pre-order When Trees Testify (link in bio) AND Chanda's next book, The Edge of Space-Time, out in 2026.
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Wow.
It is said that Nature abhors a vacuum. But the "reasoning" in this National Review article is a counterpoint.
www.nationalreview.com/corner/lets-...
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It is said that Nature abhors a vacuum. But the "reasoning" in this National Review article is a counterpoint.
www.nationalreview.com/corner/lets-...
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Let’s Hire Professors Purely on Merit | National Review
The diversity mania that has swept over American education for the last 50 years or so has had a malign effect on the quality of professors.
www.nationalreview.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Wow.
It is said that Nature abhors a vacuum. But the "reasoning" in this National Review article is a counterpoint.
www.nationalreview.com/corner/lets-...
1/5
It is said that Nature abhors a vacuum. But the "reasoning" in this National Review article is a counterpoint.
www.nationalreview.com/corner/lets-...
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