Plant Science Spotlight @plant-sci.bsky.social Spotlighting global #plantscience that drives the field forward. We share AI-generated summaries of key papers/news that deserve more eyes, always with source links.
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EPSRC CDT in Chemical Biology - Empowering UK BioTech Innovation @icbcdt.bsky.social Institute of Chemical Biology, Centre for Doctoral Training, ICB-CDT, Imperial College London, Chemistry
Abiotic Stress in Plants @abioticstress.bsky.social #PlantScience #PlantStress #StressBiology #StressTolerance #Temperature #Drought #Metals #Salinity #Hypoxia #Waterlogging #Oxidative #Osmotic
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The RhizoLab @therhizolab.bsky.social The Rhizosphere Group of Sofie Goormachtig at VIB-UGhent Center for Plant Systems Biology (Belgium)🌱 | Investigating plant-microbe interactions and molecular signaling 🔬
Jorge Lozano-Juste @jorgetwe.bsky.social Chemical Biology - Plant hormone signaling - Drug Discovery - Targeted Protein Degradation
Haixia Yu @haiiixyu.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Lancaster University @lancasterplantbio.bsky.social🌱 Plant Science/ C3 photosynthesis model👩🏻💻🔡🔢/ 🍃Leaf Hydraulics/LI-6800.
Victoria Aguilar-Pontes @mvapontes.bsky.social UCOPostdoc at @dipietrolab @univcordoba previously @concordia.ca & @westerdijkinst.bsky.social
#fungi #bioinformatics #genetics #pathogenicity #metabolicmodel
Ben Noordijk @bnoordijk.bsky.social PhD Student Bioinformatics | Merging machine learning with mechanistic models to understand plant resilience | Part of @cropxr.bsky.social & @w-u-r.bsky.social
Charlie Underwood @charlieunderwood.bsky.social Interested in meiosis, embryogenesis, reproduction, evolution and agriculture. Professor of Plant Genome Engineering at Radboud University, The Netherlands. More information: https://www.ru.nl/personen/underwood-c; https://www.mpipz.mpg.de/underwood
Anna Pardo, Ph.D. @annapardo-phd.bsky.social Computational biologist | Genomics of plants & humans | she/her
Saul Pierotti @saulpierotti.bsky.social Looking for a postdoc position in the Netherlands and surrounding region in October · PhD student in computational genetics at @ebi.embl.org Cambridge Uni working with @ewanbirney.bsky.social · Previously @scilifelab.bsky.social MPI_evolbio UniBO UniPG
Matt Gitzendanner @magitz.bsky.social UFIT Research Computing Training, #AI. Plant Evolution & Comp Bio, Florida Museum,
Dad, husband, #nature lover, #woodturning, #kayaking. He/Him.
Milto Miltiadou @drmiltiadou.bsky.social Lecturer in Computer Science at University of Exeter interested in Earth Observation 🛰️ for Forest 🌲 ecology -#EO #AI #LiDAR #time-series #Forest Developer of DASOS & PloToSat
Web: https://miltomiltiadou.github.io/
Loves dancing💃 & improv 🎭
Silas Tittes @silastittes.bsky.social staff scientist / population geneticist at university of oregon | computational methods | cephalopod evolution | moonlighting maize geneticist | dad jokes
https://kr-colab.github.io/
Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social 🌱Ecology🌻Botany🌲Forests🌳Biodiversity🦋Mountains🏔️Climate🌦️Professor🌳NSF Mid-Career Award🍀Editor, Ecological Applications🎋Past Chair, ESA Vegetation (2021-2023)🍁 Fellow, Yale School of the Environment (Fall 2023).
https://www.esf.edu/faculty/dovciak/
Andrew Millar @andrewmillar.bsky.social #OpenData and science policy, interdisciplinarity, biological clocks and plants. He/his.
University of Edinburgh, the Biological Research Data Management team, BioRDM.
New student of #trees.
Avatar credit: Ed Himmelblau.
Oleksandr Mialyk @omialyk.bsky.social Researcher on #WaterFootprint, #FoodSystems, #ClimateChange at the University of Twente / global crop modelling with ISIMIP & AgMIP
Jamie Waterman @jmwaterm.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Plant Physiology, Trinity College Dublin
What shapes how plants interact with their environment?
Florian Hartig @florianhartig.bsky.social Professor at U. Regensburg, Germany #Ecology #Evolution #Statistics #MachineLearning
https://www.uni-regensburg.de/biologie-vorklinische-medizin/forschen/arbeitsgruppen/ag-hartig
Patty Lopez @pattydl.bsky.social First-gen PhD, STEM advocate, married, mother of three. Living with cancer. Software developer, imaging scientist, assistant professor of computer science, change agent. Advocate for LGBQT+, intersectionality, disability.
Kentaro K. Shimizu @kkshimizu1.bsky.social Director and Professor of the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich🇨🇭, https://www.ieu.uzh.ch/en/staff/member/shimizu_kentaro.html
plant polyploidy, fieldwork, language evolution 英語と日本語で主に研究について
Yasuhiro (Yasu) Sato @yassato.bsky.social Tenure-track assistant prof at Hokkaido University. Working on plant ecological genetics with quantitative tools🌿🧬🖥️. 🇯🇵(Kansai; PhD+postdoc)→🇨🇭(Zurich; senior postdoc)→🇯🇵(Hokkaido; now). Mainly in English (he/him) https://yassato.github.io
Nerea Ubierna @nereaubierna.bsky.social Plant ecophysiologist interested in understanding the mechanisms of plants and ecosystem responses to climate change
EcoVerum @ecoverum.bsky.social 🌾 Decision Intelligence for #Agri #Food & #Beverages Sector. From Farm to Plate – Tomorrow’s World, Today’s Technology 🌍 #ESG #CSRD #VSME #Data #Analytics #AI
@jhanirawc.bsky.social @jhanirawc.bsky.social 
Elison Blancaflor @plantimager.bsky.social Plant Cell Biologist
Review Commons @reviewcommons.org A platform by EMBO that provides independent peer review before journal submission for Refereed Preprints.
Piotr Ziolkowski @piotraz.bsky.social Geneticist interested in (meiotic) recombination and impact of chromatin structure on DNA functions
http://dgb.amu.edu.pl
Jennifer Lopez Ortiz @jenlopezortiz.bsky.social Plant biologist interested in barriers development, secondary growth, plant hydraulics and biomechanics 🌱⚙️
University of Helsinki 🇫🇮
Also into crafting and outdoor sports ✨
Natanella Illouz-Eliaz @natanellae.bsky.social Plant biologist interested in stress recovery mechanisms. Postdoc @Ecker-lab @Salk and NIH/NIGMS K99 fellow. #DroughtStress #StressRecovery #PlantScience
Bilal Ahmed Khan Niazai @bilal-a-k-niazai.bsky.social Plant-Soil Interactions 🌱 | MS Biology | BS Mathematics & Economics | LUMS '26
Alessandro Alboresi 🌱 @alealbo.bsky.social 
Development @dev-journal.bsky.social Development is a leading research journal in the field of developmental biology, covering stem cells, regeneration, evo-devo, epigenetics, morphogenesis and more. @biologists.bsky.social
Koushik @koushikn.bsky.social Data Scientist Generative AI @BayerCropScience. ML for Plant Biology. PhD @IowaStateUniversity https://www.linkedin.com/in/koushik-nagasubramanian/
@pascal-krohn.bsky.social @pascal-krohn.bsky.social Interested in the spatially organized interaction of physical and biochemical root barriers and the root microbiome 🌱🦠🧬🔬
Debangana Moitra @debanganamoitra.bsky.social Interested in Plant Immunity, Receptor Signalling & Computational Biology
Researcher in Kemmerling Lab, ZMBP, Tübingen, Formerly- DAAD Scholar at TU Münich, MTech in IIT Kharagpur
Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk An independent charity that seeks to fund blue skies research and scholarship. Follow this channel for details on upcoming grant deadlines, published research, scheme opening dates, grant announcements, events, and more. https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/
Jonathan O'Donnell @jod999.bsky.social Imagine a world where universities worked. We don't live in that world, so I try to help you live with the universities we have.
Half of Research Whisperer (@therealrw.bsky.social) with Tseen Khoo (@tseenster.bsky.social). 
The Research Whisperer @therealrw.bsky.social The Research Whisperer is dedicated to the topic of doing research in academia. We’re here to support, encourage, and work towards better academic lives. Created and managed by @tseenster and @jod999
Blog: https://researchwhisperer.org/
Professor Anna Vignoles @annavignoles.bsky.social Director of the Leverhulme Trust and Fellow of British Academy. Formerly Professor of Education. All views are my own and retweets do not suggest endorsement.
DORA @dorassessment.bsky.social San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment. Advancing practical and robust approaches to research and researcher assessment globally and across all scholarly disciplines. Sign the Declaration at https://sfdora.org/sign and join the movement.
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social Global HE news, data, insights and events
Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social Plant ecophysiologist & biogeochemist | Asst Prof + RI-RS URF @ Trinity College Dublin (@psb-trinity.bsky.social) | Focus: functional ecology, C, water & nutrient cycles, roots, phenology & scaling tech | linktr.ee/richardnair 🌏🌿🫚🖥️
Colleen Iversen @colleeniversen.bsky.social Scientist | #Arctic | #Belowground | #Roots | #ScienceEmbroidery | Opinions my own | She/Her | Editor @newphyt
www.colleeniversen.com
IG: @colleeniversen
Léo Bunel @leobunel.bsky.social PhD student @lipme-toulouse.bsky.social working on the coordination between endosymbioses and the root endodermis.
Uli Schwerdtner @schwerdtneruli.bsky.social #soil biogeochemist (Dr. rer. nat.) working in #agroecology at #BayCEER, University of Bayreuth | interested in #roots, #rhizosphere, #nutrient cycling, #intercropping, #veganic farming, #CriticalAnimalStudies | she/her
Boris Rewald @borisrewald.bsky.social Plant Ecophysiologist, #Root enthusiast @EXCELLENTIA_HE @ldf_mendelu | Ὅμηρος fan | אב | views&typos my own
Alix Vidal 🪱 @alixvidal.bsky.social Soil biogeochemist in the Netherlands, Wageningen University - I like earthworms & roots, soil carbon & nutrients!
Lucia Fuchslueger @loutsi.bsky.social Soil ecologist tracing roots and microbes in soil. Concerned about the climate.
Monique WeemStar @moniqueweemstra.bsky.social Assistant Professor | Belowground forest ecology | Wageningen University | She/her
Rose Abramoff @ultracricket.bsky.social Earth scientist and activist. She/they. Opinions expressed are my own - Facts expressed are science.
climateemergencyfund.org
Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila @josephtumber.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Environmental Studies-Dartmouth College & Harvard Forest Affiliate
PI of the Tumber-Dávila Lab: https://sites.dartmouth.edu/tumberdavilalab/
Ecology | Educator | Forests | terrestrial Carbon
Raíces Boricua 🇵🇷 | foster/adoption girl dad
Anny Chung (鍾彥儀) @yyachung.bsky.social Ecologist studying plants and microbes. Incidental musician. She/her.
Matthew Kaproth @mkaproth.bsky.social Plant ecologist - studying populations out of control (too many or too few), the traits that drive species success, and environmental stress #Quercus #Prairies #Drought #Fire #Invasives #FunctionalTraits @MinnesotaStateUni =
Om Prakash @baizalla.bsky.social Graduate student! Interested in root physiology, cell wall, soft matter, plant adaptation, evolution, mathematics and philosophy!
Ghent Rooting-lab/Steffen Vanneste @stvanneste.bsky.social Ghent Rooting lab! Steffen Vanneste
All kinds of #roots #adventitious roots. One hormone to rule them all #auxin
Check out our services at www.horticell.be
Justin Luong, PhD 🏳️🌈🌾 @justinluong.com Working Lands Asst Professor - UC Berkeley, Board Member at California Native Grassland Association, Restoration Ecology & Madroño CE/AE - 🏳️🌈 Restoration/EcoPhys PhD, Biodiversity, Rangelands, Climate Change, Science-Practice Gap - justinluong.com
Wirth-Weigelt Research Group @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social The Leipzig University - Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity Working Group. Asking questions about the causes and consequences of biodiversity!
Dr. Jennifer Pett-Ridge @jeffinerca.bsky.social Mom/mentor/microbial ecologist. Soil C persistence & CDR for healthy soils and climate resilience. Using stable isotope probing, ‘omics, systems analysis. Lead of LLNL Carbon Initiative, Microbes Persist, & Terraforming Soil Earthshot. Roads2Removal.org
Justus Hennecke @henneckejustus.bsky.social Ecologist interested in plant-soil interactions, biodiversity-ecosystem functioning and trait-based approaches. roots | pathogens | mycorrhiza | fungi.
PostDoc @Wageningen University
Jitka Klimesova @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social Ecologist, Institute of Botany Czech Academy of Science, functional morphology of plants, plant architecture & lino cut https://klimesovajitka.wordpress.com/jitka-klimesova/
Plant Bodies https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-92192-6
Daniela Cusack @daniela-cusack.bsky.social Just give me world peace and #rainforest #soil #carbon. Associate Prof. CSU. Check out my PARCHED science project in Panama: http://youtu.be/oDm2SKWHw78
colostate.academia.edu/DanielaCusack
Joana Bergmann @joanabergmann.bsky.social Plant functional ecologist, #SustainableGrasslandSystems group at ZALF, plant biodiversity, functional traits, roots, mycorrhizal fungi. Opinions my own
Mohanned Abdalla @mohannedabdalla.bsky.social Research associate @ Technical University of Munich,
Alumnus of University of California Davis and University of Bayreuth
Stomatal Regulation | Drought | AMF| Research plant water use regulations
Jonny Cope @jonnycope.bsky.social Researcher at the SLU, looking at Genotype × Environment interactions, primarily in cereal crops. Mainly focused on roots and landraces now.
https://www.slu.se/en/ew-cv/jonathan-cope/
Jochem Evers @jochemevers.bsky.social Professor of Crop Physiology at Wageningen University, Centre for Crop Systems Analysis; http://wur.eu/csa. Specialized in computational crop ecophysiology. https://www.wur.nl/en/persons/jochem-evers-1.htm
Marco D'Agostino @marcodago.bsky.social How root anatomy influences plant water uptake ?
PhD student | Bioengineer & Data Scientist | In Silico analysis
Mauricio Lopes @mauricioalopes.bsky.social Scientist & Innovator | Expert in Genetics, Molecular Biology, Agriculture & Bioeconomy | Passionate about modelling, future studies, sustainable agriculture and research-driven innovation | Haiku
Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social Professor, Ecosystem Modelling, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney U. Ecophysiologist and #DeadTreeDetective
Pierre Casadebaig @pcasadebaig.bsky.social ┣ research-science: crop ecology, 🌻, {🌾+☘️}
┃ INRAE, FR https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7225-936X
┣ research-creation: creative coding, ink
┃ http://art.casadebaig.net
┣ 🚲 enthusiast, also #rstats.
Monica L Garcia Gomez @moneralee.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Using computers to model the mechanisms underlying plant decision making in regeneration, drought and warmth responses. Born in Tenochtitlan
🐘 @binfutrecht.bsky.social @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
Tiina Roose @tiinaroose.bsky.social Soil and rhizosphere science and mathematical modelling. Professor of engineering.
Rémi Cardinael @remicardinael.bsky.social Soil scientist & agronomist (PhD, Habil/HDR) @cirad.bsky.social #SOC #GHG #ClimateChange @4per1000.bsky.social
Editor-in-Chief: EGU SOIL journal @egu-sss.bsky.social
https://agents.cirad.fr/R%C3%A9mi+Cardinael/Homepage
Joshua Kaste @joshuakaste.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher. Working on metabolic modeling of plant systems to identify engineering targets for improved food security and sustainability. He/him- S Silvère Vialet-Chabrand @silverevialet.bsky.social Crop modelling and sensing | Photosynthesis | Gas exchange | Energy balance
Patrick McGuire @mcguirepatrick.bsky.social Working on modeling land surface processes and climate. Working at the University of Reading. Views are my own.
Bénédicte Wenden @cherrysearch.bsky.social Plant biologist. Modelling tree phenology in the context of climate change
Dirk Baker @dhelmrich.bsky.social Doctor in Computational Engineering from University of Iceland 🇮🇸 - currently RSE at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research 🇩🇪
I express my work-related opinions and announcements here.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1542-1062
https://www.dirkbaker.eu/
Tropical Root Trait (TropiRoot) @tropiroot.bsky.social We are a group of scientists unraveling the secrets of the tropical roots. Our method: compile, integrate and discuss root data. Please join us through this link. https://tropiroottrait.github.io/TropiRootTrait/index.html
Carrie Wessinger @carriewessi.bsky.social Associate prof in evolutionary genetics at University of South Carolina.
wessingerlab@github.io
Megan L Matthews @meganlmatthews.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ CEE UIUC. Multiscale plant modeling and engineering. https://matthews.cee.illinois.edu
Veronica Grieneisen @vgrieneisen.bsky.social Reader in Predictive and Systems Biology. Computational Naturalist. Interested in Morphodynamics, from cell & tissue polarity to swirling plant hormones.
Anthony Hall @ajwhall.bsky.social Head of plant genomics at Earlham Institute, #Circadian, #Genomics, #Bioinformatics, #wheat, #Arabidopsis. Note, my use of English is unconventional. Co-founder of TraitSeq. Programme lead for DECODING BIODIVERSITY https://tinyurl.com/4k8b8x2x
Grass Genomics lab @ahalllab.bsky.social Lab interested in the evolution of grasses, identifying traits underlying agronomic traits and the circadian clock
Luc Janss @ljanss.bsky.social Plant breeding and genetics, big data, prediction, spanning from functional genomics to satellitte images, professor at Aarhus University, Denmark
Erin Cullen @evcullen.bsky.social Plant development and evolution researcher. 
Guillaume Ramstein @guillramstein.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Aarhus University. Quantitative genetics, computational biology, and plant breeding.
Alyssa Willson @alyssa-willson.bsky.social Quantitative ecologist
I study how tree communities and ecosystems change over decades to millennia🌳🌳
PhD candidate at the University of Notre Dame
she/her
Lily-belle Sweet @lilybellesweet.bsky.social PhD student at UFZ - interested in explainable machine learning, agriculture and food security, compound climate events 🌾
Uriel Menalled @urielmenalled.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Agroecology at Montana State University 🏔️ #Rstats
Lab website: https://urielmenalled.github.io/lab-website
Hannah Schneider @hannahschneider.bsky.social Root biologist, IPK Gatersleben, Germany
Luke Gregory @lukemgregory.bsky.social Postdoc at Cornell focused on improving crop growth models using remote sensing data to inform plant breeding efforts. Background in plant physiology and biochemistry. (He/him)
https://l-gregory.github.io
Mary Ann Ebeling @maryannblaetke.bsky.social Unlocking the secrets of plants through computational biology 🌿 Young Investigators at Leibniz IPK. Coding in Python, dabbling in AI, and dreaming of digital plant twins. 👩🏽💻
Susana Wadgymar🌿🔬 @smwadgymar.bsky.social Evolutionary ecologist, Botanist, Associate Professor at Davidson College (PUI 💪🏼), she/her
🔗smwadgymar.weebly.com
Prof. Rosemary Dyson @rosemaryjdyson.bsky.social Professor of Applied Mathematics
Enrico Sandro Colizzi @escolizzi.bsky.social Tenured scientist @INRIA, Lyon. Studying how microbes evolve new stuff with computer simulations. 
Leo Serra @leoserra.bsky.social Postdoc @ SLCU Cambridge | Plant Morphogenesis | Cell Division | Cell Growth | Mechanobiology | Microscopy
Laura Louise Turner @lauraloubio.bsky.social Researcher at Stockholm U, interested in plant roots, traits and belowground dynamics in Arctic, alpine and permafrost environments. PhD at U Nottingham. 🏔️❄️🌲🍄🔎
🏳️🌈 she/they #firstgen #adhdbrain
Also love music, ice hockey, and vegan food
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