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.
Inbox us a paper link or tag us to be featured. #plantsci
Dr Anjana Khatwa @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social Earth Scientist, Writer, Presenter. ๐ #WhispersOfRock, 4 Sept Little Brown (UK), 4 Nov Basic Books (US). Own views. Likes โ Endorsement.
Agents: ๐บ Knight Ayton Management ๐ C&W
Pre Order Whispers of Rock here:
https://linktr.ee/jurassicg1rl
International Rice Research Institute @irriofficial.bsky.social Our mission is to reduce poverty and hunger, improve the health of rice farmers and consumers, and ensure that rice production is environmentally sustainable.
International Food Policy Research Institute @ifpri.org The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition. IFPRI is a CGIAR research center (@cgiar.org). www.ifpri.org 
International Potato Center @cipotato.org International Potato Center (CIP) conducts agriculture research to improve food & nutrition security, livelihoods & climate resilience.
UN Land and Drought @unccd.bsky.social The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification is the global voice for land. We champion healthy, productive and accessible land for all #UNited4Land
https://www.unccd.int/
Wellcome Trust @wellcometrust.bsky.social Supporting research to transform life, health and wellbeing. Weโre taking on three urgent health challenges: mental health, climate change & infectious disease.
UCL Genetics Institute @ugiatucl.bsky.social UCL Genetics Institute (UGI) is a multi-faculty Centre dedicated to the analysis of Big Genetic Data based at University College London.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/gee/ucl-genetics-institute
Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com Your story. Your platform. Follow our live coverage on aljazeera.com
Stefan Milosavljevich @stefanmilo.bsky.social Archaeology videos on YouTube
https://youtube.com/@stefanmilo
Pooja Swali @poojaswali.bsky.social Pathogen evolution, Ancient DNA & Scicomm ๐งฌ๐๐ฆ
Postdoc at @ugiatucl.bsky.social van Dorp Group UCL
Previously @crick.ac.ukโฌโฌ ๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ป
Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social Scientific illustrator, biologist (PhD)
๐ต๐ฑ in ๐ซ๐ฎ
Drawing to explain and inspire
Commissions open
https://linktr.ee/dorotdesigns
she/her
Jiawen Chen @jiaaawen.bsky.social Postdoc at University of Amsterdam studying green leaf volatiles in potato ๐ฅ previously PhD at JIC on starch metabolism ๐ฑ Plant Physiology AFE 2023/2024๐พ
Plants, People, Planet @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social Peer-reviewed journal publishing innovative research at the interface between plants, society, and the planet.
Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social Natee Himmapaan (Puttapipat). Illustrator. Londoner.
Art, literature, history, natural history, food, handwriting.
Depression, anxiety, & all that jazz.
Fatigued by and bitter about social media.
Non-binary (they/them). ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
https://linktr.ee/himmapaan
University of East Anglia (UEA) @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social This is the official UEA account, Norwich UK.
๐ข Bringing you the latest campus news and updates from our world-leading research (REF 2021)
We're online Monday - Friday, 9am-5pm.
Justin Brower @naturespoisons.bsky.social Forensic Toxicologist, PhD Organic Chemist & Prince of Poisons. Writing NATURE'S POISONS, the science & history of nature's most vicious creations (WW Norton, 2025). Also into gardening, fountain pens, photography, and 3D printing. NaturesPoisons.com
KhongSam Chia @khongsamchia.bsky.social Postdoc at @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social @WeigelWorld . MPMI | Arabidopsis | NLRs
CGIAR @cgiar.org The world's largest public agricultural innovation network. https://cgiar.org
Marina Millรกn Blรกnquez @blanquezmarina.bsky.social Postdoc at the RDP, ENS-Lyon | Exploring maize pollen development & forever fascinated by wheat female fertility.
Sam Bruty @samsscience.bsky.social PhD Student in the Arora lab at the John Innes Centre. Studying pea genetics, rhizosphere microbiomes and domestication.
AmirAli Toghani @amiralito.bsky.social Biologist @thesainsburylab.bsky.social. Currently doing a PhD with @kamounlab.bsky.social
Curious about plant immune receptors, molecular evolution, and other stuff. ๐ฟ๐ป #evoMPMI
Find out more here:
amiralito.github.io
Anne @doctoranneg.bsky.social Scientist with a passion for beating cardiovascular complications of diabetes and training postgraduate biologists to help them change the future world. Obsessed with beautiful shiny silver jewellery and aspire to make one off pieces using my basic skills.
Ajay Siluveru @ajaysiluveru.bsky.social Research Assistant at JIC ๐ฟ๐งช๐พ
https://www.jic.ac.uk/people/ajay-siluveru/
Kes Maio @kesmaio.bsky.social PhD student at the John Innes Centre
๐Studying leaf morphogenesis ๐
Pablo Gonzรกlez-Suรกrez @pablidopsis.bsky.social ๐ฌ Strongly caffeinated postdoc (ZMBP Tรผbingen)
โ๏ธ Assistant Features Editor (The Plant Cell)
๐ University of Tรผbingen (DE)
๐ https://www.pablidopsis.com
Hannah Blyth ๐โ๐ซ๐ฉโ๐ฌ @hrblyth.bsky.social Early career researcher. #ZymoLife climate change and a fungal wheat pathogen ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐๐พ๐ฉโ๐ฌ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ (she/her)
Previously On Twitter as @StellaRemnant :-)
Royal Society of Biology @rsb.org.uk The Royal Society of Biology is the membership organisation for biologists and biology enthusiasts worldwide. www.rsb.org.uk
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations @fao.org Working for a secure #FutureofFood for all.
Follow ๐ @faodg.fao.org | @faoarabic.bsky.social | @faoenespanol.bsky.social | @faoenfrancais.bsky.social
Angela Feechan @feechana.bsky.social Molecular Plant Pathologist
Zoe Bernasconi @zoebernasconi.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher ๐ฟ bioinformatics | plant pathology | wheat resistance | genetics of fungal pathogens
@ University of Zurich
Sujit J Karki @sjkarki.bsky.social Plant pathology, fungal diseases, plant immunity
Liza Downie @lizadownie.bsky.social Botany, cycling
Molecular Plant & Plant Communications @mplantpcom.bsky.social Journals Publishing Exciting Research in Plant Sciences.
https://www.cell.com/molecular-plant
https://www.cell.com/plant-communications
Sebastian Samwald (Basti) he/him @samwalds.bsky.social Fascinated by what I can "squeeze" out of plant cells under microscopes spiced up with synthetic biology. ๐ฌ
PhDone ๐ฑ at JIC (UK), now a postdoc at the MPIPZ (Cologne, Germany). Sometimes too sarcastic. ๐ช๐บ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ he/him
https://linktr.ee/samwalds
Saskia Hogenhout @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social Scientist at the John Innes Centre. Molecular Plant-Microbe-Insect Interactions. Loves travelling, reading and hiking. Location : Norwich, UK. Website: https://www.jic.ac.uk/people/saskia-hogenhout/ 
Niab @niab-uk.bsky.social Niab is a leading crop science organisation, with capabilities in plant genetics, agronomy, farming systems and data science, the largest national field trials capability, and strong research links with industry, Government, and academia.
British Society of Plant Pathology @bspp.bsky.social BSPP supports the global plant pathology community through research, education, funding & policy work. Founded in 1981, we champion plant health to protect ecosystems & food security. ๐๐ฟ www.bspp.org.uk
Plant-Microbe Interactions @utrechtpmi.bsky.social @Utrecht University
https://www.uu.nl/en/research/plant-microbe-interactions 
Mark McMullan @mcmullan0.bsky.social Evolutionary biologist -population genomics -wild-agricultural pathogen evolution, invasion and adaptation (Wheat & Beets)
@croptrust.bsky.social @croptrust.bsky.social 
Adam Bentham @adamrbentham.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Durham University
BenthamLab.org
Centre for Programmable Biological Matter: @cpbm-heddlelab.bsky.social
Structural biologist
Protein design in plant systems
Engineering disease resistance
Views are my own
He / Him ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฌ๐ง
SEBiology @sebiology.bsky.social The Society for Experimental Biology aims to promote, and increase the influence of Experimental Biology within the scientific community and Society.
www.sebiology.org
Dr Emma Yhnell ๐งฌ๐ฌ๐งช๐ง ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ @emmayhnell.bsky.social (Neuro)scientist ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ฌ โข Academic โข Educator (PFHEA / NTF) ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ซ โข Science Communicator โข STEMinist โข EDI Advocate โข Change-Maker โข Trustee of National Museums Wales โข Keynote Speaker ๐คโข Presenter โข Host โข Writer โข (she/her)
Katharine Hubbard @katharinehubbard.bsky.social (She/her) Director of the Teaching Excellence Academy at Buckinghamshire New University. NTF, PFHEA, still a biologist/plant scientist at heart https://www.bucks.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/katharine-hubbard katharinehubbard.blog
Phil Carella @philcarella.bsky.social Exploring the evolutionary diversity of plant-pathogen interactions. Group Leader at the John Innes Centre. ๐จ๐ฆ in ๐ฌ๐ง
Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social Or just โLiโ |
Assist. Prof. @ Plant Bio, Michigan State U. |
Also post data visualization |
Lab: https://cxli233.github.io/cxLi_lab/ |
GitHub: https://github.com/cxli233
Isako Di Tomassi @isakoditomassi.bsky.social she/her #Phytophthora #PotatoPathology #SciPol #SciComm
#PhD student #CornellPPPMB plant pathology - #fungi & #oomycetes
studied agroecology - fungi - soil @ #PennState
Board member @ local non-profit org Ithaca Community Gardens #Leguminati
Bob Downie @geomannie.bsky.social Sometime geologist, fascinated by bicycles, cycling & digital map data, Twitter refugee. Lives happily on top of a drumlin, Glasgow.
I post mostly on Mastodon but can be followed directly in BSky via @geomannie.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy .
Plant Physiology @plantphys.bsky.social Plant Physiology-international journal devoted to physiology, biochemistry, cellular and molecular bio, genetics, biophysics, and environmental bio of plants
https://academic.oup.com/plphys
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactionsยฎ (MPMI) @mpmijournal.bsky.social MPMI, a gold open access journal published by The American Phytopathological Society, features research on plant interactions with microbes, insects, nematodes, and parasitic plants.
Clare Stevenson @cemstevenson.bsky.social Head of Directorate at John Innes Centre. Passionate about recognising the hidden roles in research and innovation.
Dr Penny Hundleby CSci FRSB @pennyhundleby.bsky.social Senior Scientist at the JohnInnesCentre ๐ฌ๐ง. Hon. Fellow University of East Anglia, Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB). Chartered Scientist. Research Partnerships and the Healthy Plants, Healthy People, Healthy Planet, Hub Lead for JIC/TSL.
Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com Publishing the best of biotech science and business. Find us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram. Part of @natureportfolio.nature.comโฌ.
@2blades.bsky.social @2blades.bsky.social Discovering, advancing, and delivering agricultural innovations from the lab to the field
Brande Wulff @brandewulff.bsky.social Wheat biotechnology, cereal disease resistance, Associate Professor in KAUST
Katie Long @katielong.bsky.social Developmental biologist, wheat enthusiast, and Sainsbury PhD student at the John Innes Centre. (she/her)๐พ๐ฌ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social International journal publishing novel and rigorous research in all areas of plant science, managed by the Annals of Botany Company, a not-for-profit educational charity.
bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social 
Ksenia Krasileva @kseniakrasileva.bsky.social Associate Professor UC Berkeley, puzzle-solver interested in comparative immunology ๐ฑ๐โ๐ซ๐งฌ and computational biology ๐ป
Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social Promoting SciComm, teaching, equity & inclusion in plant biology. #PlantScience
PI NSF RCN: ROOT&SHOOT. https://rootandshoot.org/
Features Editor ThePlantCell, PlantPhysiology
@PlantTeaching@genomic.social
https://linktr.ee/PlantTeaching ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
Jonathan D G Jones aka JJ @jonathandgjones.bsky.social plant scientist - discovering and deploying plant immune receptor genes to protect crops from disease with biology, not chemistry
Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social Science integrity consultant and crowdfunded volunteer, PhD.
Ex-Stanford University. Maddox Prize/Einstein F Award winner
NL/USA/SFO.
#ImageForensics
@MicrobiomDigest on X.
Blog: ScienceIntegrityDigest.com
Support me: https://www.patreon.com/elisabethbik
University of Nottingham Research @uonresearch.bsky.social The University of Nottingham conducts world-leading research, bringing about real change and shaping our future. Ranked 7th in the UK for research power by THE.
Adam Gauley @agauley.bsky.social Plant Scientist at AFBI, leads programs on climate resilience and variety testing in plants
Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci.bsky.social News, research and updates from the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge.๐ฑ๐ฌ ๐พ
https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/
Cรฉsarรฉe Morier-Gxoyiya @cesaree-mg.bsky.social PhD student | Plant disease epidemiology | John Innes Centre, UK
Loizos @loizo.bsky.social Bioinformatician ๐งฌ
Swathy Babu @swathy-babu.bsky.social Post doctoral Scientist @john Innes Centre
Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences (SBS) - U. of Edinburgh @instmolplantsci.bsky.social Research by IMPS staff addresses the global challenges of food security, green technology and climate change. Account run by the IMPS Outreach committee
Catherine Famelton @cathplantsci.bsky.social Postdoc at Rothamsted Research ๐wheat, sugars and sustainable agriculture ๐พ gardener ๐ท bookworm ๐she/her
Jennifer Mach (she/they) @jennifermach.bsky.social Science writer and editor for Plant Editors (planteditors.com). Based in Chicago.
Malcolm Macaulay @malcolmacaulay.bsky.social Barley researcher at The James Hutton Institute and International Barley Hub: Genetics, Genomics, Genotyping, Germplasm, Diversity, STEM, cereal cyclist
Miriam @mirischreiber.bsky.social Hiker, Bioinformatics, Border Terrier
PlantEcoHutton @plantecohutton.bsky.social Plant Ecophysiology team at The James Hutton Institute, Dundee ๐พ
Erika Kroll @erikakroll.bsky.social Erika Kroll ๐ต๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ช|
Bioinformatician working at Rothamsted Research as part of the Delivering Sustainable Wheat ISP ๐พ๐พ
Rachel Rusholme Pilcher @swansaswimming.bsky.social Molecular plant person turned bioinformatician. Post-doctoral researcher at @earlhaminst.bsky.social. Plant genomics, pan-genomics, wheat, plant development, gene regulation. Church wanderer and part-time quilter.
Dylan Larkin @dylarkin.bsky.social Ph.D. | Wheat breeder and โHeirloom Mixologistโ for the PNW region with Limagrain Cereal Seeds. #GoBeavs #GoCougs #WPS. From Monroe, OR. ๐พ๐๐ Opinions are my own.
Michel McElroy @michelmcelroy.bsky.social Plant breeder: wheat @ CรROM, hemp @ PhytoGene Inc. Views are my own // Sรฉlectionneur vรฉgรฉtal: blรฉ au CรROM, chanvre ร PhytoGene Inc. Les opinions exprimรฉes ici sont uniquement les miennes.
Harsimar Gill @harsimargill.bsky.social Postdoctoral Associate at University of Minnesota | Small Grain Breeding and Genetics
Maya_Looking_at_Soil @looking-at-soil.bsky.social Environmental Chem. PhD- #soil #wheat #rhizosphere #microbiome explorer
@JohnInnesCentre by day. Globetrotter, bunny hugger, art
@instagram minos_atelier
Oscar Gonzalez @skar85.bsky.social 
Annis Richardson @drannisr.bsky.social Senior Lecturer & head of The Plant Shape Lab (www.theplantshapelab.org) at the University of Edinburgh. Fascinated by how grasses get their shape. Advocate for First-In-Gen-STEM, Women in Science, STEM Mental Health, equality and diversity in STEM.
Alison Bentley @alisonrbentley.bsky.social Deputy Director, Science in Agriculture & Food at CSIRO. Women in Crop Science
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social evolutionary genomics of maize and wild relatives. erstwhile ethnobotanist. purveyor of bad puns. dad. prof and HPC director at UC Davis. not actually a cool cow from 1994. rilab.ucdavis.edu. views, especially bad ones, mine only (he/him)
James Schnable @szintri.bsky.social Plant biologist and computer geek. Prof. at University of Nebraska.
Barley Planet @barleyplanet.bsky.social Retired barley geneticist interested in applied research for better crop production. Interest in all cereals, especially in their utilisations. Long term/suffering Wolves supporter. Spent my career in Scotland but now living in Glorious Gloucestershire
@abakinghouse.bsky.social @abakinghouse.bsky.social 
Javier Sรกnchez-Martรญn @javicheztin.bsky.social Plant scientist. Crop molecular genetics, disease resistance, genomics, old-school phenotyper...and salmantino
Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social Biologist @ The Sainsbury Lab; passionate about plant pathogens & evolution; open science advocate; loves travel, food and sports; nomad and hunter-gatherer. Web http://kamounlab.net | Medium https://medium.com/@kamounlab | GetGenome http://getgenome.net- S Sophie Harrington @sophpos.bsky.social
Marc Jones @marcjones.bsky.social Originally from Powys, Wales, Marc now resides in Cambridgeshire and is a Scientific Software Engineer at Synthace
Enjoys lawn bowls and game development
(manicmoleman.itch.io)
Clรฉmence Marchal @clemmar.bsky.social Group leader at @ipbhalle.bsky.social
Plant - Microbe Interactions ๐ฑ๐ฆ ๐
She/her
Thepiercy @thepiercy.bsky.social I make bread, tell stories and help people talk about their science
thepiercy.co.uk
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
Antony Dodd @antdodd.bsky.social circadian rhythms | cell signalling | plants and microbes | @microclockerc.bsky.social | Head of Cell and Developmental Biology @ John Innes Centre UK | Views my own.
Cristobal Uauy @cristobaluauy.bsky.social Geneticist at John Innes Centre
Nikolai Adamski @nikolaiadamski.bsky.social Senior Post-doc in Cristobal Uauy's lab at John Innes Centre. Studying plant development in wheat.
Views are my own.
He/him.
https://www.jic.ac.uk/people/nikolai-adamski/
Sadiye Hayta @sadiyehayta.bsky.social Wheat Transformation and Gene Editing