🔥Fantastic paper!🔥
TE with a role in vegetative phase change and gametogenesis, mediated by 24-nt siRNAs acting in trans to a wide range of genes. Found by GWAS in A. thaliana 🌱. Congratulations to the authors! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
#epigenetics #plantscience
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Mutant alleles that affect pollen fitness can generate spatial inheritance patterns on maize ears – see the article by Ruggiero et al. Top Left: Maize pollen grains germinated on a silk, with pollen tubes (stained with aniline blue) growing into the silk interior. Image Credit: Caity Smyth. Bottom Left: Unpollinated maize ear with silks arranged to show that silks derived from ovules at the base of the ear are longer than silks from ovules at the ear apex. Image Credit: Elyse Vischulis. Right: Ear projection from a mature ear pollinated with the pollen from a plant heterozygous for the bag1*::Ds-GFP insertion, oriented apex-to-base top-to-bottom (as in bottom left ear/silk image). The GFP-marked bag1* allele is associated with a spatial pattern of fewer fluorescent kernels towards the base of the ear – i.e., kernels generated following pollen tube growth down the longest silks.
Very pleased to see this work from the group out in The Plant Journal - led by PhD student Diana Ruggiero from the Leiboff group, a truly collaborative project, addressing the question: how often does pollen genotype influence spatial patterns of inheritance? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
"AI is here to stay...From writing to reviewing...It is essential to engage with it [&] develop use cases that benefit the community...The clear winning option is use of AI review by authors prior to submission.” link.springer.com/article/10.1... via @tlemberger.bsky.social @odedrechavi.bsky.social
Deadline reminder ⏰ Only a few days left to apply! Submit your application by 16 March 2026 (via the appropriate national authorities).
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Mich ebenfalls — weil (nicht obwohl) ich baden-württembergisches #FDP Mitglied bin!
Ein historischer Moment: 65 Jahre nachdem der erste türkische Gastarbeiter nach Deutschland kam, wird mit @oezdemir.de erstmals ein türkeistämmiger Deutscher Ministerpräsident von Baden-Württemberg.
Das erfüllt mich mit Stolz auf dieses Land. Glückwunsch an Ba-Wü und Cem!
a blurry dance floor of international women (and men) dancing
dancing in Berlin,
for #internationalwomensday
🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics!
My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026.
We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems.
#Postdoc #EcoEvo
Pls RT!
“My wish is that this will provide a positive message to the young girls who would like to follow the path of science and to show them that women in science can also have an impact through their research.”
Emmanuelle Charpentier, Nobel Prize winner and since this year ERC Scientific Council member.
![Mary Somerville [Fairfax]. Lithograph after J. Phillips.
A lithograph portrait of Mary Somerville shown from the chest up, in early 19th-century dress. She has elaborately styled curly hair piled high with ringlets framing her face. She wears a ruffled white lace collar and a dress with feathered or fur trimming at the shoulders, fastened with a circular brooch. Her expression is calm and self-possessed, her gaze slightly averted.
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Mary Somerville [Fairfax]. Lithograph after J. Phillips. A lithograph portrait of Mary Somerville shown from the chest up, in early 19th-century dress. She has elaborately styled curly hair piled high with ringlets framing her face. She wears a ruffled white lace collar and a dress with feathered or fur trimming at the shoulders, fastened with a circular brooch. Her expression is calm and self-possessed, her gaze slightly averted. https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/9200579/mraqxra2
Maria Gaetana Agnesi. Line engraving by E. Conquy after M. Longhi. A line engraving portrait ofMaria Gaetana Agnesi shown bust-length within a softly shaded oval vignette. She has powdered or light curly hair loosely styled, small drop earrings, and wears a fur-trimmed garment over a light dress with a ribbon bow at the shoulder. Her expression is composed and direct. https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/9200579/pmfug8sg
A portrait from the Welsh Portrait Collection at the National Library of Wales. Depicted person: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne – English aristocrat, prolific writer, and scientist. By George Kellaway A stipple or line engraving portrait of a woman shown from the chest up against a densely cross-hatched dark background. She has long, loosely curled hair falling to her shoulders, a small decorative crown or coronet at the top of her head, and wears a pearl necklace and a low-cut dress with a draped sash. Her expression is placid and direct. The caption below reads Margaret, D. of Newcastle. The engraver's name Kellaway sc. appears at lower right. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Margaret,_D._of_Newcastle_(4670217).jpg
Happy International Women's Day! To celebrate it, Project Gutenberg created a new bookshelf titled Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/books...
#books #literature #womeninstem #womenhistoryMonth
A striking digital composite celebrating Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer. On the left is a vibrant, colorized restoration of her iconic 1838 portrait, showing her in a deep purple velvet gown with white lace accents and an elegant headdress. She gazes with sharp, visionary intelligence toward the right of the frame. Occupying the right side of the image is the intricate mechanical hardware of the Analytical Engine trial model - a complex assembly of vertical brass rods, interlocking gears, and polished metal dials. Floating subtly over the mechanical parts is a translucent overlay of her handwritten 1843 Bernoulli algorithm (Note G), showing the logical mathematical table that served as the world's first software. The composite beautifully illustrates the transition from 19th-century mechanical engineering to the birth of modern computing, representing Ada’s unique philosophy of "Poetical Science." The lighting unifies the historical portrait and the brass machinery into a single, cohesive moment of discovery. Credit: Seriously Scientific.
Remembering Ada Lovelace on International Women's Day!
A century before computers, she saw that machines could do more than just math.
By writing the first algorithm for the Analytical Engine, she became the world’s first programmer and predicted the digital age we live in today!💻
#WomenInScience
Happy International Women's Day! 🧪
The EMBO #WomenInScience Lectures address issues related to gender and #diversity in #science.
Find out more and apply here:
https://www.embo.org/funding/lecture-travel-and-childcare-grants/women-in-science-lectures/
#LifeSciences #funding
Happy International Women's Day! 🧪
Don't forget to send in your nominations for the FEBS | EMBO #WomenInScience Award.
Deadline: 15 May
Read more:
https://www.embo.org/the-embo-communities/febsembo-women-in-science-awardees/nominate-for-the-women-in-science-award/
#award
Indeed. Look out for an orthogonal study from the labs of Joy Bergelson and @fabriceroux7.bsky.social and my lab to appear soon on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social!
Works of the late David Lynch. Pace Gallery at the iconic Tankstelle in Berlin.
Impressive work from @saschalaubinger.bsky.social and colleagues, describing molecular and phenotypic footprints of climate in transcriptomes of native Arabidopsis thaliana.
#plantscience
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Heinrich-Mora & Feldman: "results suggest that mutation rate is systematically structured by chromatin state within functionally constrained genes and that evolutionary processes may act not only on expected mutation rate but also on its variability across loci."
arxiv.org/html/2603.03...
Ki-generierte Version
Originalbild mit dem die KI gefüttert wurde
Die Forschungsministerin freut sich auf Insta darüber, dass jetzt "Porträts" von Frauen der Geschichte in ihrem Haus hängen. Nur: Die sind mit KI erstellt. Und schleifen die Gesichter der Frauen gemäß moderner westlicher Schönheitsideale glatt.
Was für ein irres Projekt
Z.B.
Would love to host you — let me know!
Must read: Democratizing climate change mitigation pathways using modernized stabilization wedges
“Many of the strategies we identified require that individuals change their behavior and all require general public support.”
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) imposing caps on open access fees, so called Article Processing Charges (APCs). @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca quoted elsewhere that the cap will be ~5,000$.
www.science.org/content/arti...
When. Will you have time to visit Tübingen?
Excited to see our FML Research Group Leader
@luisapallares.bsky.social
in the latest Max Planck Research! 🎉
The article follows her journey from Colombia to Germany and her work on how genes and environment shape complex traits using fruit flies.
Read the full story: www.mpg.de/26180374/W00...
Nice one! Paradises everywhere!
Where @deutschebahn.com takes you!
Here you go
It really comes from the early days of developmental genetics, when quantitative measurements weren’t a thing yet.
I think it was Lewis Wolpert who said “Take the KO to the opera and if the mutant does not react differently in any way you can measure, maybe then it’s a case of true redundancy.”
Grab bag? Catch all? Or something more technical?
Would you call measurements of a handful of metabolites a metabolome?
More seriously: any claim to a pangenome should have evidence of likely a majority of common species-wide polymorphism being captured PLUS a workable framework for making use of that information.
We should all set aside our differences and recognize the true enemy: "super pangenome"
