Juliet Coates
@julietccoates.bsky.social
Mum, Plant Science 🌱, Biology, Inclusion, Social Justice, Neurodiversity, Wellbeing 💚. Compassionate & trauma-informed education. Delivers consultancy & training based on the nervous system & biology of behaviour. She/her.
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Elevated atmospheric CO2-induced reprogramming leads to decreased seed protein and nutritional quality in forest trees (Barbara Karpinska, Rosa Sanchez-Lucas, Andrew Plackett, A Rob MacKenzie, Christine Helen Foyer) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
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November 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Elevated atmospheric CO2-induced reprogramming leads to decreased seed protein and nutritional quality in forest trees (Barbara Karpinska, Rosa Sanchez-Lucas, Andrew Plackett, A Rob MacKenzie, Christine Helen Foyer) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial
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🌱✨ Excited to share our latest work exploring the role of CYCP3s and style morphology in Arabidopsis thaliana. Our findings offer a new step forward in understanding the fundamental mechanisms that shape plant reproduction and organ development.
@jamileqra.bsky.social
More soon—stay tuned! 🌿🔬
@jamileqra.bsky.social
More soon—stay tuned! 🌿🔬
Thrilled to share that my PhD research is now published!
Read it here:
dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj.... Grateful to everyone who supported this work.
dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj.... Grateful to everyone who supported this work.
Cytokinin‐responsive P‐type cyclins control Arabidopsis radial style morphology
The master regulator SPATULA (SPT) suppresses cytokinin (CK)-induced cell proliferation to ensure carpel fusion, acting through a coherent feed-forward loop (FFL) that converges on the cell cycle reg...
dx.doi.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
🌱✨ Excited to share our latest work exploring the role of CYCP3s and style morphology in Arabidopsis thaliana. Our findings offer a new step forward in understanding the fundamental mechanisms that shape plant reproduction and organ development.
@jamileqra.bsky.social
More soon—stay tuned! 🌿🔬
@jamileqra.bsky.social
More soon—stay tuned! 🌿🔬
Thanks for the online option too! Fantastic talks today 🌱💚
This year’s @embo.org Workshop is held at the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social. Open to 120 participants, it is over-enrolled with 180 attendees! Thank you to the organizers @isabelmonte.bsky.social, Aino Komatsu, @moodytomato.bsky.social, and Liam Dolan for making this event possible. #EMBOplantEvo
November 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Thanks for the online option too! Fantastic talks today 🌱💚
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Very happy to share that this paper is now online on @currentbiology.bsky.social !! 🥳🧪 Check out the final published verion here: www.cell.com/current-biol...
#mimuluspropaganda
#mimuluspropaganda
November 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Very happy to share that this paper is now online on @currentbiology.bsky.social !! 🥳🧪 Check out the final published verion here: www.cell.com/current-biol...
#mimuluspropaganda
#mimuluspropaganda
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Have you heard of US painter Ida O'Keeffe? Her work was largely overshadowed by that of her much more known older sister Georgia.... #womensart
November 21, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Have you heard of US painter Ida O'Keeffe? Her work was largely overshadowed by that of her much more known older sister Georgia.... #womensart
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It’s finally out! 🎉
Work led by former PhD student @wei-xiao-botany.bsky.social , in collaboration with @bayerlab.bsky.social and @bertderybel.bsky.social
AINTEGUMENTA phospho-switch regulates bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth.
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#PlantSciences
Work led by former PhD student @wei-xiao-botany.bsky.social , in collaboration with @bayerlab.bsky.social and @bertderybel.bsky.social
AINTEGUMENTA phospho-switch regulates bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth.
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#PlantSciences
An AINTEGUMENTA phosphoswitch controls bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth | PNAS
Plant stem cells have the remarkable ability to give rise to distinct tissues and
organs throughout development. Two concentric cylinders of active...
www.pnas.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
It’s finally out! 🎉
Work led by former PhD student @wei-xiao-botany.bsky.social , in collaboration with @bayerlab.bsky.social and @bertderybel.bsky.social
AINTEGUMENTA phospho-switch regulates bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth.
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#PlantSciences
Work led by former PhD student @wei-xiao-botany.bsky.social , in collaboration with @bayerlab.bsky.social and @bertderybel.bsky.social
AINTEGUMENTA phospho-switch regulates bilateral stem cell activity during secondary growth.
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#PlantSciences
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Scientists have identified a protein in poplar that, when turned off, results in increased growth, stronger cell walls and trees that are more disease-resistant.
More: jgi.doe.gov/user-science...
@jbei.lbl.gov @axelvisel.bsky.social @biosci.lbl.gov @berkeleylab.lbl.gov
More: jgi.doe.gov/user-science...
@jbei.lbl.gov @axelvisel.bsky.social @biosci.lbl.gov @berkeleylab.lbl.gov
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Scientists have identified a protein in poplar that, when turned off, results in increased growth, stronger cell walls and trees that are more disease-resistant.
More: jgi.doe.gov/user-science...
@jbei.lbl.gov @axelvisel.bsky.social @biosci.lbl.gov @berkeleylab.lbl.gov
More: jgi.doe.gov/user-science...
@jbei.lbl.gov @axelvisel.bsky.social @biosci.lbl.gov @berkeleylab.lbl.gov
Something carroty, some scabious and an oxeye daisy all hanging on for #WildFlowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
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November 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Something carroty, some scabious and an oxeye daisy all hanging on for #WildFlowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
🥕 🌼 🌺
🥕 🌼 🌺
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Absolutely happy to share our latest publication!🥳🎉
The first manuscript of the first PhD candidate of my team! 🥹🤩
Huge congratulations to our brilliant Asif Ahmed Sami for his excellent work! ✨️
academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
The first manuscript of the first PhD candidate of my team! 🥹🤩
Huge congratulations to our brilliant Asif Ahmed Sami for his excellent work! ✨️
academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
The phylotranscriptomic profile of angiosperm seed development follows a reverse hourglass pattern
Angiosperm seed development exhibits a reverse phylotranscriptomic pattern, with early and late stages showing greater conservation and mid-phase showing h
academic.oup.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Absolutely happy to share our latest publication!🥳🎉
The first manuscript of the first PhD candidate of my team! 🥹🤩
Huge congratulations to our brilliant Asif Ahmed Sami for his excellent work! ✨️
academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
The first manuscript of the first PhD candidate of my team! 🥹🤩
Huge congratulations to our brilliant Asif Ahmed Sami for his excellent work! ✨️
academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...
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Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Twists and turns in the story of learned avoidance
Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
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Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
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Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance
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November 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Twists and turns in the story of learned avoidance
Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
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Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
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The leaves of the moss Dicranodontium denudatum break off easily and act as vegetative propagules. They are very "sticky" too, at least when wet. Was perhaps an even more efficient method of dispersal when more large animals like deer, boar, and moose roamed our woodlands. @bbsbryology.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 AM
The leaves of the moss Dicranodontium denudatum break off easily and act as vegetative propagules. They are very "sticky" too, at least when wet. Was perhaps an even more efficient method of dispersal when more large animals like deer, boar, and moose roamed our woodlands. @bbsbryology.bsky.social
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Dang, hard disagree. The best papers to write and read are works of art, not merely a list of data and statements.
Don’t let LLMs take this away too, for gods sake.
Don’t let LLMs take this away too, for gods sake.
I honestly think we would all be a lot more productive if papers were bullet points with plots.
November 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Dang, hard disagree. The best papers to write and read are works of art, not merely a list of data and statements.
Don’t let LLMs take this away too, for gods sake.
Don’t let LLMs take this away too, for gods sake.
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This Black Friday - Every Course Must Go!
✅ 100% reduction of some subjects!
✅ Modules slashed!
Study them before it’s too late!
✅ 100% reduction of some subjects!
✅ Modules slashed!
Study them before it’s too late!
November 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This Black Friday - Every Course Must Go!
✅ 100% reduction of some subjects!
✅ Modules slashed!
Study them before it’s too late!
✅ 100% reduction of some subjects!
✅ Modules slashed!
Study them before it’s too late!
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Thanks for checking out the manuscript! I think this paper also suggests that we need more dissertations and people working on this topic.
The debate lives on!
The debate lives on!
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Thanks for checking out the manuscript! I think this paper also suggests that we need more dissertations and people working on this topic.
The debate lives on!
The debate lives on!
I’ve supervised final year dissertations on sponges vs ctenophores: this new paper will definitely mean new project titles are needed! 🪼🧬🪸
NEW pub in @science.org 🥳
Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?
For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.
We provide new evidence suggesting that...
🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?
For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.
We provide new evidence suggesting that...
🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I’ve supervised final year dissertations on sponges vs ctenophores: this new paper will definitely mean new project titles are needed! 🪼🧬🪸
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NEW pub in @science.org 🥳
Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?
For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.
We provide new evidence suggesting that...
🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?
For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.
We provide new evidence suggesting that...
🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
NEW pub in @science.org 🥳
Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?
For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.
We provide new evidence suggesting that...
🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?
For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.
We provide new evidence suggesting that...
🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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🧬 New article in @aobp.bsky.social reports a streamlined genetic transformation method for pearl and finger millet, achieving up to 18% efficiency and enabling CRISPR-based gene editing in seeds.
Full #openaccess
👉 doi.org/qb94
#PlantScience
Full #openaccess
👉 doi.org/qb94
#PlantScience
November 13, 2025 at 7:07 AM
🧬 New article in @aobp.bsky.social reports a streamlined genetic transformation method for pearl and finger millet, achieving up to 18% efficiency and enabling CRISPR-based gene editing in seeds.
Full #openaccess
👉 doi.org/qb94
#PlantScience
Full #openaccess
👉 doi.org/qb94
#PlantScience
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If a student is struggling, the university asks: Why aren’t they working harder?
But the real question is: Why isn’t the system working better?
🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾🔬 👩🏼🔬 👩🏾🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #TimesUpHigherEd
But the real question is: Why isn’t the system working better?
🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾🔬 👩🏼🔬 👩🏾🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #TimesUpHigherEd
November 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
If a student is struggling, the university asks: Why aren’t they working harder?
But the real question is: Why isn’t the system working better?
🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾🔬 👩🏼🔬 👩🏾🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #TimesUpHigherEd
But the real question is: Why isn’t the system working better?
🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾🔬 👩🏼🔬 👩🏾🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #TimesUpHigherEd
Lush 🌱🪴
Very happy that my PhD student can grow such happy plants! It's a simple thing that is very underappreciated and very important.
November 11, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Lush 🌱🪴
Worth noting also that ”neurotypical” is a colonial and patriarchal concept that has changed over time. @drrobertchapman.bsky.social book Empire of Normality covers this in depth.
'What autistic people – and those with ADHD and dyslexia – really think about the word ‘neurodiversity’
New research by @draimeegrant.bsky.social,
@dramypearson.bsky.social
& Jennifer Leigh
theconversation.com/what-autisti...
New research by @draimeegrant.bsky.social,
@dramypearson.bsky.social
& Jennifer Leigh
theconversation.com/what-autisti...
What autistic people – and those with ADHD and dyslexia – really think about the word ‘neurodiversity’
A new UK survey of more than 900 neurodivergent adults has revealed strong feelings about the language of neurodiversity.
theconversation.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Worth noting also that ”neurotypical” is a colonial and patriarchal concept that has changed over time. @drrobertchapman.bsky.social book Empire of Normality covers this in depth.
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How fast do plants actually grow? And which growth processes matter most for organ size?
We dived into 176 papers, extracted and re-analyzed the data so you don’t have to!
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@newphyt.bsky.social @virajalim.bsky.social @elvisbranchini.bsky.social
We dived into 176 papers, extracted and re-analyzed the data so you don’t have to!
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@newphyt.bsky.social @virajalim.bsky.social @elvisbranchini.bsky.social
A multiscale growth atlas of Arabidopsis: linking cell dynamics to organ development
Plant development depends on coordinated growth at cellular and organ scales, yet comparative analyses are hindered by inconsistent reporting of growth across studies. We conducted a meta-analysis o.....
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
How fast do plants actually grow? And which growth processes matter most for organ size?
We dived into 176 papers, extracted and re-analyzed the data so you don’t have to!
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@newphyt.bsky.social @virajalim.bsky.social @elvisbranchini.bsky.social
We dived into 176 papers, extracted and re-analyzed the data so you don’t have to!
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@newphyt.bsky.social @virajalim.bsky.social @elvisbranchini.bsky.social
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Hydrogen sulfide modulates plant hypoxic responses through the persulfidation of Plant Cysteine Oxidases https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.05.686772v1
November 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Hydrogen sulfide modulates plant hypoxic responses through the persulfidation of Plant Cysteine Oxidases https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.05.686772v1
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Few Plant science programmes are left in the UK and they are critical to train the next generation.
This move by @uniofnottingham.bsky.social goes against recommendations made in the recent PS Education manifesto. Big mistake! Sign the petition! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
This move by @uniofnottingham.bsky.social goes against recommendations made in the recent PS Education manifesto. Big mistake! Sign the petition! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Few Plant science programmes are left in the UK and they are critical to train the next generation.
This move by @uniofnottingham.bsky.social goes against recommendations made in the recent PS Education manifesto. Big mistake! Sign the petition! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
This move by @uniofnottingham.bsky.social goes against recommendations made in the recent PS Education manifesto. Big mistake! Sign the petition! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Reconsider the potential suspension of Plant Biology Courses at UoN - Sign the Petition! c.org/p5jy2GXHcX via
@UKChange
@UKChange
Sign the Petition
Reconsider the potential suspension of Plant Biology Courses at UoN
c.org
November 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Reconsider the potential suspension of Plant Biology Courses at UoN - Sign the Petition! c.org/p5jy2GXHcX via
@UKChange
@UKChange
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'Saguaro Dusk' by contemporary US Impressionist style painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 AM
'Saguaro Dusk' by contemporary US Impressionist style painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt