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International Society for Plant Low Oxygen Research @isplore.bsky.social · 5h

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Short-term experimental flooding impacts soil biogeochemistry but not aboveground vegetation in a coastal forest | PNAS

Rising sea levels and intensifying storms increase flooding pressure on coastal forests, triggering tree mortality, ecosystem transitions, and chan...

www.pnas.org

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Juliet Coates @julietccoates.bsky.social · 15h

Mean aisle, surely….

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Juliet Coates @julietccoates.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know about pollinators but I’ll keep my eyes peeled this winter! 👀 🐝 🐜

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Juliet Coates @julietccoates.bsky.social · 1d

Ours flower much later into winter!

Spiky Blooms of yellow witch hazel Hamermelis x intermedia blooming in early Feb 2025 against a backdrop of dark green foliage and brown soil

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Peter Sketch @petersketch.bsky.social · 1d

More from Snettisham yesterday - Viper's Bugloss, the last few flowers still hanging on. #WildflowerHour

A mix of pink and blue flowers on the same plant.

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Ian Senior @ians4ad.bsky.social · 1d

Bladder campion #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Carolyn B @kylenano.bsky.social · 1d

Ivy flowering next to the River Soar, Leicester, this morning, before the fog cleared. #WildflowerHour

Lower half of the photo, foreground, shows ivy flowers growing on the bank of the River Soar, Leicester. In the background the river and a former textile factory are shrouded in fog.

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 2d

Feeling unwell?

If you have COVID symptoms, TEST
If you test positive, ISOLATE
If you can’t test, MASK

Protect yourself and others (especially high-risk people) - it still matters!

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Alessandro Alboresi 🌱 @alealbo.bsky.social · 7d

Everyone wants a NAS! 🌿🦟

Leon Dirick & Bernard Goffinet uncovered the surprising history of NAS genes shaped by horizontal gene transfer, we revealed NAS key role in Physcomitrium patens.
👉 nature.com/articles/s41...
#Mosses #HorizontalGeneTransfer

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Wheat Initiative @wheatinitiative.bsky.social · 4d

🌾 Explore our video collection in durum wheat! The Virtual Durum Meetings of the Expert Working Group on Durum Wheat feature global experts discussing topics from genomic selection to disease resistance. Catch up here:
🔗 www.wheatinitiative.org/virtual-duru...

#WheatConnect #DurumWheat

VDM-Videos — Wheat initiative

VDMs are video conferences organised around topics related to durum wheat, where short presentations are given per session followed by time for discussion.

www.wheatinitiative.org

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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 2d

Artificial Soil (ArtSoil): recreating soil conditions in synthetic plant growth media https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.09.681539v1

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Juliet Coates @julietccoates.bsky.social · 2d

Important piece from @cjdenial.bsky.social on the use (or not) of Generative AI in the classroom.

Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 2d

Food for though. I've struggled to balance genAI use in my classes. I've allowed it, required it, and banned it in different contexts. I found this op-ed useful for thinking through what is gained & lost and how we can make space for learning through other means #AcademicBluesky
tinyurl.com/ybbkp333

Why I'm Saying No to Generative AI

There is no value-add to using generative AI for historical work

theimportantwork.substack.com

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Juliet Coates @julietccoates.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, COOL 💚

Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · 3d

Very happy and proud to share the #Spirogyra genome: 50 Mbp small, lacking almost all plastid division proteins and many transcription factors. Kudos to all the many people involved in this multi year project!
@jandevries.bsky.social
@watertoland.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Juliet Coates @julietccoates.bsky.social · 3d

Fantastic talk from @viktri08.bsky.social on how metabolism can underpin multicellular embryo patterning and aggregative multicellularity. Some really key themes emerging in #multicellverse #EMBO 🧬🔬

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Juliet Coates @julietccoates.bsky.social · 3d

I will absolutely continue to hang out! I didn’t start my science life in plants which is why I love all multicellular development so much.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 3d

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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Mark English @markemuk.bsky.social · 3d

Covid jabs are free in Belgium for everyone covered by Belgian social security and €18 for other residents/long-term visitors. I believe it is similar in France. Why is UK approaching this so differently?

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 3d

🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌱

🔬 ECLIPSE is a potential adaptor protein that links ubiquitinated inner nuclear membrane proteins to the CDC48 complex, facilitating their degradation and maintaining nuclear membrane integrity in plants - Calvanese et al.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

#PlantScience 🧪

Fig. 1 (shortened, full legend in paper): ECLIPSE is closely associated with plant INMAD components. (A) Schematic diagram illustrating the identification of potential INMAD components using proximity labeling with SUN1 and PUX5 as baits. SUN1, a substrate of the INMAD pathway, undergoes polyubiquitination by unidentified E3 ligases. The ubiquitinated SUN1 is recognized by a potential adaptor protein, which facilitates the recruitment of CDC48 for subsequent retrotranslocation and degradation of SUN1. PUX5 is a previously reported negative regulator of the INMAD pathway, which interacts with CDC48 and functions to prevent SUN1 degradation. (B) Reanalysis of previously published MS data obtained from proximity labeling proteomics using HA-BioID2-SUN1 and PUX5-BioID2-HA transgenic plants. Specific proteins probed by each bait were identified using biotin mock-treated transgenic plants as controls.

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Juliet Coates @julietccoates.bsky.social · 3d

Managed to catch half of @wcratcliff.bsky.social talk at #EMBO #multicellverse before i went to teach some plant science but I did bring up with my students how cool multicellular evolution is and the pros and cons of model systems 🌱🧬🔬🪼🍄‍🟫. Looking forward to catching up on the recording.

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Paige Byerly, PhD @paigebyerly.bsky.social · 4d

Big year for large conglomerations of mushrooms

A large cluster of of mushrooms on a rotten log

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Juliet Coates @julietccoates.bsky.social · 4d

100% this: we need to make scientific writing accessible to all researchers, teachers and students. #accessibility #inclusion
Reviewers need to be aware of this. Clear communication is not “immature” or “frivolous”.

Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 5d

Fantastic editorial on #ScientificWriting. 👇

Malick Mbengue @malick-mbengue.bsky.social · 5d

I wished I could have written something like this. Rude, fun and meaningful.
static1.squarespace.com/static/686d9...

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Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (IBE) @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social · 5d

📣The #EMBOWorkshop hosted by @multicellgenome.bsky.social Lab has begun!

🔬Three days filled with talks from international experts exploring the #evolution and origins of #multicellularity🦠🧬

#Multicellverse #UnravellingEvolution #DiscoveringLife

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Juliet Coates @julietccoates.bsky.social · 5d

Great talk from @phil-donoghue.bsky.social on when #multicellularity arose in algal, plant and animal lineages #multicellverse @embo.org 🔬🌱🍄‍🟫🪼

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Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo @multicellgenome.bsky.social · Sep 10

Less than a month away! 📣 Our lab is so excited to co-host the #EMBOWorkshop on the evolution of #multicellularity.
Get ready to dive deep into the origins of multicellular life across all kingdoms. 🔬See you in Barcelona (or online) soon!

@prbb.org @csic.es

Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (IBE) @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social · Aug 20

📣The #EMBOWorkshop is almost here!

🔬 Learn all about the evolution and origins of multicellularity 🦠🧬 from October 9–11, ONLINE🤩

🗓️ Register by September 5 ➡️ https://meetings.embo.org/event/25-multicellularity

#UnravellingEvolution #DiscoveringLife

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Juliet Coates @julietccoates.bsky.social · 5d

looking forward to the @embo.org meeting #multicellverse #hybrid #sustainability #inclusion #accessibility 🧬🔬

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