Cameron Stern
@plantpolyploidy.bsky.social
PhD student @MacquarieUni. Aspiring ornamental plant breeder studying biochemistry and genetics of Anigozanthos flower color (blue). MSc @AucklandUni. BSc @Cornell. Science, creativity, education, daylilies, and plants. He/Him
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I know I'm spamming you all with the world's largest flower this week but look at THIS! A rare glimpse inside Rafflesia arnoldi!
November 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I know I'm spamming you all with the world's largest flower this week but look at THIS! A rare glimpse inside Rafflesia arnoldi!
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I *love* flowers so much. Look at my lil Alice goooooo. Proud dad. 🥰💚
November 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I *love* flowers so much. Look at my lil Alice goooooo. Proud dad. 🥰💚
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Congrats to Andrea Calhau from @rdplab.bsky.social for winning the Best Talk Award at "Seed 2025", the 10ᵉ edition of the French Seed Network Conference! 🌱
This year’s colloque, held in Nantes, brought together scientists around the theme Seeds & the agroecological, climatic, and food transitions.
This year’s colloque, held in Nantes, brought together scientists around the theme Seeds & the agroecological, climatic, and food transitions.
November 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Congrats to Andrea Calhau from @rdplab.bsky.social for winning the Best Talk Award at "Seed 2025", the 10ᵉ edition of the French Seed Network Conference! 🌱
This year’s colloque, held in Nantes, brought together scientists around the theme Seeds & the agroecological, climatic, and food transitions.
This year’s colloque, held in Nantes, brought together scientists around the theme Seeds & the agroecological, climatic, and food transitions.
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Alyssa Tapley was 13 when doctors told her she was going to die.
She was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia and had endured a year of failed treatments, including chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, when her doctors said they had run out of options. cbsn.ws/47xc0lB
She was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia and had endured a year of failed treatments, including chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, when her doctors said they had run out of options. cbsn.ws/47xc0lB
Potentially lifesaving advances at risk when federal funding to universities is cut, researchers say
Federal research funds are at risk as the White House pushes policy changes at universities. Researchers warn the cuts put breakthroughs in medicine, technology and national defense at risk.
cbsn.ws
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Alyssa Tapley was 13 when doctors told her she was going to die.
She was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia and had endured a year of failed treatments, including chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, when her doctors said they had run out of options. cbsn.ws/47xc0lB
She was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia and had endured a year of failed treatments, including chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, when her doctors said they had run out of options. cbsn.ws/47xc0lB
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I heard y'all like cells...
Petunia leaf disk cells undergoing swelling due to exogenous phyohormones. Quite the departure from the jigsaw puzzle piece shape of normal plant leaf cells.
Petunia leaf disk cells undergoing swelling due to exogenous phyohormones. Quite the departure from the jigsaw puzzle piece shape of normal plant leaf cells.
November 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I heard y'all like cells...
Petunia leaf disk cells undergoing swelling due to exogenous phyohormones. Quite the departure from the jigsaw puzzle piece shape of normal plant leaf cells.
Petunia leaf disk cells undergoing swelling due to exogenous phyohormones. Quite the departure from the jigsaw puzzle piece shape of normal plant leaf cells.
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Friday Flower 010: Rosa hybrida ✨
Roses come in a range of colors, often blending into beautiful gradients due to their anthocyanins.
In 2004, Florigene created the world’s first “blue rose,” using delphinidin biosynthesis to achieve a hue long thought impossible.
Roses come in a range of colors, often blending into beautiful gradients due to their anthocyanins.
In 2004, Florigene created the world’s first “blue rose,” using delphinidin biosynthesis to achieve a hue long thought impossible.
November 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Friday Flower 010: Rosa hybrida ✨
Roses come in a range of colors, often blending into beautiful gradients due to their anthocyanins.
In 2004, Florigene created the world’s first “blue rose,” using delphinidin biosynthesis to achieve a hue long thought impossible.
Roses come in a range of colors, often blending into beautiful gradients due to their anthocyanins.
In 2004, Florigene created the world’s first “blue rose,” using delphinidin biosynthesis to achieve a hue long thought impossible.
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By radiating plants, one begins to unlock new floral forms, enabling our understanding of the underlying patterns written in their DNA and developmental programs.
Familiar forms re-emerge, and evolutionary routes towards recognisable systems reveal themselves 👇
Familiar forms re-emerge, and evolutionary routes towards recognisable systems reveal themselves 👇
Freaky Flowers Volume 3!🌸🧬
Did you know that just a few mutations can transform the Arabidopsis flower into all kinds of forms? 🤯
Here’s a tour of 6 mutants that orchestrate floral development and architecture 🧵
Did you know that just a few mutations can transform the Arabidopsis flower into all kinds of forms? 🤯
Here’s a tour of 6 mutants that orchestrate floral development and architecture 🧵
November 16, 2025 at 11:58 AM
By radiating plants, one begins to unlock new floral forms, enabling our understanding of the underlying patterns written in their DNA and developmental programs.
Familiar forms re-emerge, and evolutionary routes towards recognisable systems reveal themselves 👇
Familiar forms re-emerge, and evolutionary routes towards recognisable systems reveal themselves 👇
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I was invited to Canada to give a talk many years ago. My host knew of my obsession with tardigrades, and made this for me as a gift. I have been very lucky.
November 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I was invited to Canada to give a talk many years ago. My host knew of my obsession with tardigrades, and made this for me as a gift. I have been very lucky.
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It feels like it’s been a bumper year for Triggerplants (Stylidium sp.) this year, so a few #Stylidium posts seems appropriate.
First up is Stylidium recurvum, which has put on an amazing display in the Perth Hills this year!
#ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #nature
First up is Stylidium recurvum, which has put on an amazing display in the Perth Hills this year!
#ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #nature
November 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
It feels like it’s been a bumper year for Triggerplants (Stylidium sp.) this year, so a few #Stylidium posts seems appropriate.
First up is Stylidium recurvum, which has put on an amazing display in the Perth Hills this year!
#ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #nature
First up is Stylidium recurvum, which has put on an amazing display in the Perth Hills this year!
#ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #nature
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A synthetic transcription cascade enables direct in planta shoot regeneration for transgenesis and gene editing in multiple plants #resource #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
A synthetic transcription cascade enables direct in planta shoot regeneration for transgenesis and gene editing in multiple plants #resource #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...
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I got the flower design job at Neoplants !!!! Gonna make very cool plants with da crew again. So very thankful for these folks believing in me, and my crazy ideas. What a huge relief in these so incredibly uncertain times. Gonna have real health insurance for once, lol.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I got the flower design job at Neoplants !!!! Gonna make very cool plants with da crew again. So very thankful for these folks believing in me, and my crazy ideas. What a huge relief in these so incredibly uncertain times. Gonna have real health insurance for once, lol.
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Oooooh, so it seems the plasmolysis buffer + vortexing, even without any whiskers or binding buffer, seems to be causing some necrosis.
MS NEG = MS media, no vortex
MS POS = MS media, yes vortex
PLAS NEG = plasmolysis, no vortex
PLAS POS = plasmolysis, yes vortex
Plot thickens!
MS NEG = MS media, no vortex
MS POS = MS media, yes vortex
PLAS NEG = plasmolysis, no vortex
PLAS POS = plasmolysis, yes vortex
Plot thickens!
November 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Oooooh, so it seems the plasmolysis buffer + vortexing, even without any whiskers or binding buffer, seems to be causing some necrosis.
MS NEG = MS media, no vortex
MS POS = MS media, yes vortex
PLAS NEG = plasmolysis, no vortex
PLAS POS = plasmolysis, yes vortex
Plot thickens!
MS NEG = MS media, no vortex
MS POS = MS media, yes vortex
PLAS NEG = plasmolysis, no vortex
PLAS POS = plasmolysis, yes vortex
Plot thickens!
And we as individuals are incapable of knowing everything, which is why we must rely on experts in their respective fields
I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
November 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
And we as individuals are incapable of knowing everything, which is why we must rely on experts in their respective fields
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Direct shoot regeneration using Arabidopsis WIND1 (35S:AtWIND1) + pAtESR:IPT. The idea is WIND1 both reprograms and activates ESR promter, and subsequently activates cytokinin synthesis via pESR:IPT for shoot regeneration. #PlantScience
From: www.cell.com/molecular-pl...
From: www.cell.com/molecular-pl...
A synthetic transcription cascade enables direct in planta shoot regeneration for transgenesis and gene editing in multiple plants
This work presents an in planta system for inducing transgenic and gene-edited de
novo meristems via the wounding pathway. By combining the transcriptional regulator
WIND1 with developmental regulator...
www.cell.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Direct shoot regeneration using Arabidopsis WIND1 (35S:AtWIND1) + pAtESR:IPT. The idea is WIND1 both reprograms and activates ESR promter, and subsequently activates cytokinin synthesis via pESR:IPT for shoot regeneration. #PlantScience
From: www.cell.com/molecular-pl...
From: www.cell.com/molecular-pl...
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New preprint out today! A really fun collaboration with @shchurch.bsky.social and Robin Hopkins in which we study flower color variation in Monarda fistulosa using iNaturalist data. We process >40,000 images and use them to phenotype flower color in >16,000 observations: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
May 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
New preprint out today! A really fun collaboration with @shchurch.bsky.social and Robin Hopkins in which we study flower color variation in Monarda fistulosa using iNaturalist data. We process >40,000 images and use them to phenotype flower color in >16,000 observations: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Available now in @asn-amnat.bsky.social ! Taking on some big-scale natural history: processed >40k @inaturalist.bsky.social images of Monarda fistulosa using computer vision to query for flower presence and phenotype flower color: doi.org/10.1086/739413
November 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Available now in @asn-amnat.bsky.social ! Taking on some big-scale natural history: processed >40k @inaturalist.bsky.social images of Monarda fistulosa using computer vision to query for flower presence and phenotype flower color: doi.org/10.1086/739413
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Gettin amongst the sedges now, this is #Mesomelaena preissii, which lacks the usual second long inflorescence bract that give the genus the name semaphore sedge!
November 15, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Gettin amongst the sedges now, this is #Mesomelaena preissii, which lacks the usual second long inflorescence bract that give the genus the name semaphore sedge!
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Two more yellow-legged hornet queens found in Aukland's Glenfield brings total to nine
Two more yellow-legged hornet queens found in Aukland's Glenfield brings total to nine
Yellow-legged hornets are an invasive predator species, and a danger to local honey and wild bees.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 15, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Two more yellow-legged hornet queens found in Aukland's Glenfield brings total to nine
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Daily dose of micro-rose propaganda ✨
November 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Daily dose of micro-rose propaganda ✨
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No road in sight but there is a roadside tea tree #Leptospermopsis erubescens! I mean I feel like this stunning species needs a better common name! It’s an extremely widespread species and I never fail to be amazed by the display a shrubland of them can put on!
November 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
No road in sight but there is a roadside tea tree #Leptospermopsis erubescens! I mean I feel like this stunning species needs a better common name! It’s an extremely widespread species and I never fail to be amazed by the display a shrubland of them can put on!
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Come and join us here in Cambridge! Applications open for a new faculty position, for a researcher in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...
Faculty Position in Computational Biology
Applications are invited for an Assistant/ Associate Professorship in Computational Biology to commence on 1 April 2026 or shortly thereafter. This is a joint post between the Department of Applied
www.cam.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Come and join us here in Cambridge! Applications open for a new faculty position, for a researcher in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...
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Single Cell Multiomics of Potato Stolons Reveals Parallels to Shoot Apical Meristems in Arabidopsis
From: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience
From: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience
November 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Single Cell Multiomics of Potato Stolons Reveals Parallels to Shoot Apical Meristems in Arabidopsis
From: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience
From: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience
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Congratulations on a PhD to Dr. Swapna Subramanian!!
November 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Congratulations on a PhD to Dr. Swapna Subramanian!!
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Antirrhinum flower shape: unravelling gene expression across developmental axes and boundaries https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.10.687484v1
November 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Antirrhinum flower shape: unravelling gene expression across developmental axes and boundaries https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.10.687484v1
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Don't mess with Karenia cristata. She's bad news, like her sister in Florida. #HAB 🐟 🌊 🔬 🦠 www.science.org/content/arti...
Australia’s unprecedented toxic algal bloom has a surprise culprit
A relatively unknown species is producing a notorious neurotoxin, devastating sea life
www.science.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Don't mess with Karenia cristata. She's bad news, like her sister in Florida. #HAB 🐟 🌊 🔬 🦠 www.science.org/content/arti...