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Over its multimillion-year history, multiple planetary cooling mechanisms working together were required to push Earth into 'icehouse' conditions and to form ice caps. See our new paper on this here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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The GMI announces a new EMBO workshop titled "Plant evolution: from origins to diversification on land" - right here in Vienna. The hybrid event will be held on November 25-27 at the Vienna BioCenter. Register by August 25 at meetings.embo.org/event/25-plant-evolution.

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Hello Bluesky! This is the account of the Cereal Symbiosis Lab run by Prof. Uta Paszkowski at @cropscicentre.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social, researching arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in cereal crops 🍄🌾🌽 Looking forward to reconnecting with the mycorrhiza community on this new platform!

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Awesome to have you back in Edinburgh @elsa-panciroli.bsky.social, and congratulations on the NERC IRF!

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Very excited to see this paper out! Huge congrats to @chloe-beaulieu.bsky.social, @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social, and all other authors. The Marchantia pangenome has already shown itself to be a great resource for the Marchantia community!

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Delighted to unveil the poster and speakers list of the Mechanism of Plant Development meeting. 2 keynotes by @bradylabs.bsky.social & @nikogeldner.bsky.social to honour the legacy of P. Benfey & J. Chory. Congrats to @minyaaa.bsky.social for her beautiful Mimulus image. ➡️ tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a

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It’s been fun to welcome the most recent visitor to the lab this week! Kicking off the data collection from fossil stomata in the Rhynie chert as part of a @leverhulme.bsky.social project to investigate stomatal evolution #fossilfriday

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My pick for In Other Journals this week: Prime editing facilitates engineering of large indels in plants www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... doi.org/10.1038/s414... #PlantScience

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This fossil plant is hands down the best fossil I've come across in the wild 🌿 Both @geologyjohnson.bsky.social and I squealed with excitement at this fossil find! Look at the detail 😍 Whitby plant beds, Ravenscar group Middle Jurassic (aalenian stage) #FossilFriday #paleontology #geology

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New round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for tenure track group leaders in @maxplanck.de institutes opened today -- please consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists. Because diversity increases excellence! www.mpg.de/lise-meitner...

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PRESS RELEASE - Professor Uauy appointed as Director of the John Innes Centre Following an international search, we are delighted to announce that Professor @cristobaluauy.bsky.social has been appointed as the next Director of the John Innes Centre. www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas... @ukri.org

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🌳 Researchers receive NERC grants pioneering environmental research 🐝 @reecelab.bsky.social @susanjohnston.bsky.social @sandyheth.bsky.social #AlexTwyford edinburgh-infectious-diseases.ed.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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🌿 The Michael Cichan Paleobotanical Research Grant, presented by the BSA Paleobotanical Section, is open! 🌿 Up to $2500 for post-docs or non-tenure track positions to support researching paleobotany. Apply by March 15, 2025: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSAawards #IamaBotanist

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It’s been a pleasure hosting Haru Nishida, Aya Kubota, Nao Kawagoe and Andrew Scott in the lab this week. Thanks for some brilliant palaeobotanical discussions! Topped off with a great #FossilFriday trip to see the Early Carboniferous rocks by Oxroad Bay!

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Plants can also "wear their hearts on their leaves". This is a woodcut image of incensaria from the Hortus Sanitatis (1491). The heart shapes were probably intended to remind readers that the plant's leaves were initially heart shaped.

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(1/2) Three #plantscience papers in @science.org this week: Scharwies et al find that ethylene, auxin and an arabinogalactan protein work together to control lateral root branching in response to water availability in maize www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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A single-cell and spatial wheat root atlas with cross-species annotations delineates conserved tissue-specific marker genes and regulators: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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(Need a mental break - apologize for my shaky camera movement, but) please appreciate this perfect geometry of Kalanchoe delagoensis. 🌱 #plantscience #iamabotanist #plantjoy

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Proud to share our latest published work on moisture responsive root development-a process we call hydropatterning! We find that this process has been under differential selection during maize breeding and the gaseous hormone ethylene prevents branching in air. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

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I am happy to announce that I will be starting an Emmy Noether group in March at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt, working on the macroevolution and biogeography of fossil plants. I am already looking for a doctoral student (ad below!) and will be looking for another one soon, so stay tuned!

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! New paper ! First endocarp record of Miquelia (Icacinaceae) from the late Miocene of northern Vietnam and its phytogeographical and paleoecological implications doi.org/10.1016/j.re... #Paleobotany #Fossil #Asia

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A wonderful opportunity- can’t recommend highly enough 👇👇👇

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🆕 Our #LatestIssue is online now! 📚 https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14698137/2024/245/6 🌱 Genomic secrets of invasive #plants 🌱 Pot vs field #experiment trade-offs 🌱 Centromere #diversity: impact on plant karyotypes & reproduction Read more 👇🧵

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'What excites me is the chance to work with incredible scientists from all over the world, some of whom are just starting their scientific journey.' In #Profile: Charlotte Grossiord 👇 📖 https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.20404 #LatestIssue #PlantScience

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This year marks 100 years of the Leverhulme Trust. Enabling talented researchers across the arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences to undertake blue skies, interdisciplinary, ambitious and risky research. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/what-we-do

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Early career scientist looking to move abroad to the UK for a couple years should look into this excellent opportunity. Deadline is 18 March. 🧪 I'm happy to help develop projects with photosynthesis researchers to come to Lancaster University. Contact me directly, if interested.

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Our study on #lichen #symbiosis is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! How can multiple microbes create a large, 3D, and structurally complex organism? To answer this question, we used #metagenomics, #metatranscriptomics, and a bit of protein structure modeling 🧵1/7 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🦠 🧫 #SymbioSky

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#FossilFriday at Wardie Bay with @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social geoscience students. We found Stigmaria roots, fossil coprolites, some fern leaves, and even a fish! The weather was nice and all.

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If you're a non-UK scientist who wants to come to the UK for a postdoc, this year's Newton Fellowships are now open. You'll need a lab to host you (which could be me, but truly, could be any PI, so get in touch with someone you'd like to work with!) royalsociety.org/grants/newto...

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Great visit to The Lyell Centre today. Thanks Babette Hoogakker for the invite! Especially liked seeing some fossil plants on display too!

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I'm quoted in this article on UKRI doctoral student numbers - it's not the full quote so I'll add that here for completeness (and to highlight the key point around NPIF funding) www.researchprofessional.com/0/rr/news/uk...

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There are just a few days left to apply to come and work with us as an Assistant Editor. We're looking for someone to manage our special issue program and social media accounts. bit.ly/JXBAE24 🌱🌳🌾 The advert closes at the end of the day on Friday. #plantscience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social

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Yerba mate makes the third-most popular caffeinated drink in the world, but it’s unrelated to tea and coffee. The first reconstruction of its genome is helping us understand how multiple species have evolved to synthesise caffeine. https://buff.ly/4jnWk82

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Very proud and happy to have contributed to this amazing story led by @priyaramakrishna.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nature.com 🧪

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For #FossilFriday meet Fletcheriana triassica - this is a ~245 million year old extinct relative of the cicadas. This fossil is ~8 cm long, and its body was covered with bristles in life. It probably fed on fluids from plants as living cicadas do. ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

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We are proud to announce the Vascular Development 2025 meeting as a satellite to the ICAR2025 in Ghent this summer! All info via icar2025.com

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🤩 For #suberin lovers A single-nuclei transcriptome census of the Arabidopsis maturing root identifies that MYB67 controls phellem cell maturation www.cell.com/developmenta... #plantsciences

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Meet our new fossils: Punk and Emo (their real names) New Silurian aculiferans that look like nothing else; the anti-authoritarian, anti-establishment, non-conformist molluscs out now in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41... @sgn.one @oceanspecies.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

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New Phytologist next generation scientists 2025 takes place on 4–7 August at the University of Birmingham! Don't miss your opportunity to join this unique meeting of early career plant scientists! Apply to attend by 27 January: www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent... #PlantScience #npnextgen

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Fun to read some palaeontology @economist.com Christmas special! One palaeobotanical addition is to add that the Triassic holds the first fossil evidence of Ginkgo-like plants which have remained an iconic part of our terrestrial flora. Well worth a read! www.economist.com/christmas-sp...

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Scientists have long sought ways to help plants turn more CO₂ into biomass, which could boost crop yields & combat climate change. Recent research suggests that a group of unique, often overlooked plants called #hornworts may hold the key. news.btiscience.org/245722-tiny-... @fernway.bsky.social

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