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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Hey, what are you gonna get for the office secret Santa?
For your mother in law who loves her bird feeder?
For your niece who loves whales?
For your dad who literally has no hobbies and you’re like “shit wtf do I get this guy”?
Get a love notes from nature calendar!
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For your mother in law who loves her bird feeder?
For your niece who loves whales?
For your dad who literally has no hobbies and you’re like “shit wtf do I get this guy”?
Get a love notes from nature calendar!
squidfacts.net
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Hey, what are you gonna get for the office secret Santa?
For your mother in law who loves her bird feeder?
For your niece who loves whales?
For your dad who literally has no hobbies and you’re like “shit wtf do I get this guy”?
Get a love notes from nature calendar!
squidfacts.net
For your mother in law who loves her bird feeder?
For your niece who loves whales?
For your dad who literally has no hobbies and you’re like “shit wtf do I get this guy”?
Get a love notes from nature calendar!
squidfacts.net
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A fun finale for the #nudivember festivities! Isn't it pretty? And it does look just like it has a leaf for a cape!
Alt text for article photo: A black sea slug has a flat deeply veined bright green leaf-like appendage unfurled along its back.
#SeaSlugs #nudibranchs #CanadianCritters
Alt text for article photo: A black sea slug has a flat deeply veined bright green leaf-like appendage unfurled along its back.
#SeaSlugs #nudibranchs #CanadianCritters
A rare photosynthesizing sea slug has been found off N.S. Here's why scientists are excited | CBC News
Researchers believe Elysia chlorotica holds promise for medical advances, but it's been too elusive to study.
www.cbc.ca
November 29, 2025 at 3:50 AM
A fun finale for the #nudivember festivities! Isn't it pretty? And it does look just like it has a leaf for a cape!
Alt text for article photo: A black sea slug has a flat deeply veined bright green leaf-like appendage unfurled along its back.
#SeaSlugs #nudibranchs #CanadianCritters
Alt text for article photo: A black sea slug has a flat deeply veined bright green leaf-like appendage unfurled along its back.
#SeaSlugs #nudibranchs #CanadianCritters
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My lab website is now live! My lab feels a bit real now 🥺. Website: www.jasonzhanglab.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:54 AM
My lab website is now live! My lab feels a bit real now 🥺. Website: www.jasonzhanglab.com
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👏🏼Great talk by @annbot.bsky.social handling editor Casper van der Kooi
🌼Flower optical properties evolve with pigment type & amount shaping hue & saturation. Flowers reflect 20-50%, nocturnal ones more. Glossy flowers reduce color discrimination but enhace visibility.
#ibc2024
🌼Flower optical properties evolve with pigment type & amount shaping hue & saturation. Flowers reflect 20-50%, nocturnal ones more. Glossy flowers reduce color discrimination but enhace visibility.
#ibc2024
July 25, 2024 at 2:53 PM
👏🏼Great talk by @annbot.bsky.social handling editor Casper van der Kooi
🌼Flower optical properties evolve with pigment type & amount shaping hue & saturation. Flowers reflect 20-50%, nocturnal ones more. Glossy flowers reduce color discrimination but enhace visibility.
#ibc2024
🌼Flower optical properties evolve with pigment type & amount shaping hue & saturation. Flowers reflect 20-50%, nocturnal ones more. Glossy flowers reduce color discrimination but enhace visibility.
#ibc2024
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I am very excited to announce that a fully funded PhD position is available in my group.
Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia
Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates.
Deadline: 11.01.26
More info:
shorturl.at/f1TuF
Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia
Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates.
Deadline: 11.01.26
More info:
shorturl.at/f1TuF
November 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I am very excited to announce that a fully funded PhD position is available in my group.
Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia
Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates.
Deadline: 11.01.26
More info:
shorturl.at/f1TuF
Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia
Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates.
Deadline: 11.01.26
More info:
shorturl.at/f1TuF
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Come work with us!! 2.5 year postdoc on HGT in plants.
Please share and get in touch if interested
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ418/r...
Please share and get in touch if interested
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ418/r...
Research Associate: Horizontal Gene Transfer at University of Sheffield
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Research Associate: Horizontal Gene Transfer opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.
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November 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Come work with us!! 2.5 year postdoc on HGT in plants.
Please share and get in touch if interested
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ418/r...
Please share and get in touch if interested
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ418/r...
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🌿Excited to share our new study in New Phytologist! 🌿
Polyploidy is a major force in plant evolution, but is understudied in the tropics. We find that polyploidy evolved multiple times in Inga, a characteristic Neotropical tree radiation (1/n) 🧵.
Full paper🔗: tinyurl.com/msnffhs8
Polyploidy is a major force in plant evolution, but is understudied in the tropics. We find that polyploidy evolved multiple times in Inga, a characteristic Neotropical tree radiation (1/n) 🧵.
Full paper🔗: tinyurl.com/msnffhs8
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
🌿Excited to share our new study in New Phytologist! 🌿
Polyploidy is a major force in plant evolution, but is understudied in the tropics. We find that polyploidy evolved multiple times in Inga, a characteristic Neotropical tree radiation (1/n) 🧵.
Full paper🔗: tinyurl.com/msnffhs8
Polyploidy is a major force in plant evolution, but is understudied in the tropics. We find that polyploidy evolved multiple times in Inga, a characteristic Neotropical tree radiation (1/n) 🧵.
Full paper🔗: tinyurl.com/msnffhs8
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With this working, as a first test we took two plasmids, identical save for 8 point mutations changing the color, and competed them against one another. Here’s a video of what it looked like when we activated the recombinase. You can see the two compete in real time: 4/
November 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
With this working, as a first test we took two plasmids, identical save for 8 point mutations changing the color, and competed them against one another. Here’s a video of what it looked like when we activated the recombinase. You can see the two compete in real time: 4/
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Hot off the press! Our latest paper led by @fernpizza.bsky.social, understanding how plasmids evolve inside cells. These small, self-replicating DNA circles live inside bacteria and carry antibiotic resistance genes, but also compete with one another to replicate. 1/
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Intracellular competition shapes plasmid population dynamics
From populations of multicellular organisms to selfish genetic elements, conflicts between levels of biological organization are central to evolution. Plasmids are extrachromosomal, self-replicating g...
www.science.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Hot off the press! Our latest paper led by @fernpizza.bsky.social, understanding how plasmids evolve inside cells. These small, self-replicating DNA circles live inside bacteria and carry antibiotic resistance genes, but also compete with one another to replicate. 1/
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Finally joined Bluesky, so to kick things off I will share my most recent publication on the resurrection of Cyrtandra kipahuluensis! Such a fun find and story to tell 🌱 phytokeys.pensoft.net/article/1554...
Resurrection of Cyrtandra kipahuluensis (Gesneriaceae)
Recent fieldwork has revealed multiple populations in several localities that correspond morphologically to the type of Cyrtandra kipahuluensis H. St. John, collected by C.N. Forbes in 1919. Since the...
phytokeys.pensoft.net
November 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Finally joined Bluesky, so to kick things off I will share my most recent publication on the resurrection of Cyrtandra kipahuluensis! Such a fun find and story to tell 🌱 phytokeys.pensoft.net/article/1554...
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A new #ScienceAdvances study finds glossiness helps flowers attract bumblebees from a distance—but at a cost to color up close. https://scim.ag/4oe2JUv
November 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
A new #ScienceAdvances study finds glossiness helps flowers attract bumblebees from a distance—but at a cost to color up close. https://scim.ag/4oe2JUv
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Gave a talk on “Computational Approaches to Unraveling Biosynthetic Pathways in Plants” at the 6th Annual Meeting of the @denbi.bsky.social Industrial Forum 2025.
If you see potential for collaboration or want to discuss ideas, feel free to get in touch!
Event info: www.denbi.de/de-nbi-event...
If you see potential for collaboration or want to discuss ideas, feel free to get in touch!
Event info: www.denbi.de/de-nbi-event...
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Gave a talk on “Computational Approaches to Unraveling Biosynthetic Pathways in Plants” at the 6th Annual Meeting of the @denbi.bsky.social Industrial Forum 2025.
If you see potential for collaboration or want to discuss ideas, feel free to get in touch!
Event info: www.denbi.de/de-nbi-event...
If you see potential for collaboration or want to discuss ideas, feel free to get in touch!
Event info: www.denbi.de/de-nbi-event...
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I like my wild-type wild and my experiments controlled. Messy blooms are the story of my life.
November 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I like my wild-type wild and my experiments controlled. Messy blooms are the story of my life.
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Exploring herbicide-free selection of transgenic tissue using just RUBY and my eyes has been so interesting. Way more phenotypes of intensity at the callus stage. Currently teasing this promising lump of red in this otherwise bright green chamomile. Replating my darlings. 💚
November 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Exploring herbicide-free selection of transgenic tissue using just RUBY and my eyes has been so interesting. Way more phenotypes of intensity at the callus stage. Currently teasing this promising lump of red in this otherwise bright green chamomile. Replating my darlings. 💚
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To my fellow old farts: amplify junior PIs debuts. All of ‘em 🙌🏻👏🏻 all the best Maik, go get it.
So excited to share this as a new junior PI:
My brand-new lab website! 🎉🪰🌀
www.bischofflab.com
Please pass it on to young, motivated researchers looking for PhD positions 😊
And for the #FluorescenceFriday community: don’t miss the SciArt Gallery!
#CellBio #DevBio #PhDjob #PhDposition #Science
My brand-new lab website! 🎉🪰🌀
www.bischofflab.com
Please pass it on to young, motivated researchers looking for PhD positions 😊
And for the #FluorescenceFriday community: don’t miss the SciArt Gallery!
#CellBio #DevBio #PhDjob #PhDposition #Science
November 27, 2025 at 8:37 AM
To my fellow old farts: amplify junior PIs debuts. All of ‘em 🙌🏻👏🏻 all the best Maik, go get it.
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So excited to share this as a new junior PI:
My brand-new lab website! 🎉🪰🌀
www.bischofflab.com
Please pass it on to young, motivated researchers looking for PhD positions 😊
And for the #FluorescenceFriday community: don’t miss the SciArt Gallery!
#CellBio #DevBio #PhDjob #PhDposition #Science
My brand-new lab website! 🎉🪰🌀
www.bischofflab.com
Please pass it on to young, motivated researchers looking for PhD positions 😊
And for the #FluorescenceFriday community: don’t miss the SciArt Gallery!
#CellBio #DevBio #PhDjob #PhDposition #Science
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
So excited to share this as a new junior PI:
My brand-new lab website! 🎉🪰🌀
www.bischofflab.com
Please pass it on to young, motivated researchers looking for PhD positions 😊
And for the #FluorescenceFriday community: don’t miss the SciArt Gallery!
#CellBio #DevBio #PhDjob #PhDposition #Science
My brand-new lab website! 🎉🪰🌀
www.bischofflab.com
Please pass it on to young, motivated researchers looking for PhD positions 😊
And for the #FluorescenceFriday community: don’t miss the SciArt Gallery!
#CellBio #DevBio #PhDjob #PhDposition #Science
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The Koalas are starting to look like they're in the right habitat now! #drawing #koala #wildlifeart #australia
November 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
The Koalas are starting to look like they're in the right habitat now! #drawing #koala #wildlifeart #australia
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Look we all love a nuns having fun calendar, but @megstampede.bsky.social and I would like to suggest something a little different for next year.
The love notes from nature calendar has animal facts for every month *and* a way to help those animals!
Get em at SquidFacts.net!
The love notes from nature calendar has animal facts for every month *and* a way to help those animals!
Get em at SquidFacts.net!
November 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Look we all love a nuns having fun calendar, but @megstampede.bsky.social and I would like to suggest something a little different for next year.
The love notes from nature calendar has animal facts for every month *and* a way to help those animals!
Get em at SquidFacts.net!
The love notes from nature calendar has animal facts for every month *and* a way to help those animals!
Get em at SquidFacts.net!
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A huge effort finally coming to fruition for B and their group. So excited to give this a whirl esp now that my cloning projects have ramped up substantially. Check this out 👇👇
Delighted to report that our group's passion project over the last 6+ years to make DNA cloning more accessible, efficient, and scalable using a software-assisted workflow called CloneCoordinate is now out in ACS Synbio!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
CloneCoordinate: Open-Source Software for Collaborative DNA Construction
Custom DNA constructs have never been more common or important in the life sciences. Many researchers therefore devote substantial time and effort to molecular cloning, aided by abundant computer-aide...
pubs.acs.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
A huge effort finally coming to fruition for B and their group. So excited to give this a whirl esp now that my cloning projects have ramped up substantially. Check this out 👇👇
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And shoutout to @amberhall.bsky.social the marker artist behind all these flower designs!
October 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
And shoutout to @amberhall.bsky.social the marker artist behind all these flower designs!
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And that's a wrap! Big thanks to marker ninja @amberhall.bsky.social for her amazing drawings every week :)
If you enjoyed please like & retweet and comment what you'd like to see next ✨
If you enjoyed please like & retweet and comment what you'd like to see next ✨
November 21, 2025 at 9:59 AM
And that's a wrap! Big thanks to marker ninja @amberhall.bsky.social for her amazing drawings every week :)
If you enjoyed please like & retweet and comment what you'd like to see next ✨
If you enjoyed please like & retweet and comment what you'd like to see next ✨
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After 10 Fridays, 10 flowers, and 100+ drawings, the Florédex is complete! ✨
Come take a tour of the design and science behind 10 iconic flowers 🌺🧵
Come take a tour of the design and science behind 10 iconic flowers 🌺🧵
November 21, 2025 at 9:59 AM
After 10 Fridays, 10 flowers, and 100+ drawings, the Florédex is complete! ✨
Come take a tour of the design and science behind 10 iconic flowers 🌺🧵
Come take a tour of the design and science behind 10 iconic flowers 🌺🧵
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With the 50-year rise of Arabidopsis as the most studied plant, is it time for its downfall?
Let’s investigate it’s history and outlook 🧵
Let’s investigate it’s history and outlook 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
With the 50-year rise of Arabidopsis as the most studied plant, is it time for its downfall?
Let’s investigate it’s history and outlook 🧵
Let’s investigate it’s history and outlook 🧵
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My academic phase transitions.
Emo botanist phase was a mood 😂
Emo botanist phase was a mood 😂
November 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM
My academic phase transitions.
Emo botanist phase was a mood 😂
Emo botanist phase was a mood 😂