Ben Long

#ASPBPlantPhysMonday #ICYMI

Finally drew a stupid comic I have been making in my head over the past week after seeing one too many 'bogan moth' comments on social media lol

Quite a fascinating read, at last an article on Quantum Biology that actually 'makes sense' to the non-physicist. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Come and join our cluster @ceplas.bsky.social @hhu.de We are looking for new colleague W2-Professorship in Root-Microbiome Interactions

As expected, the Godzilla El Niño is increasing outgoing longwave radiation as the planet heats up, temporarily reducing the Earth Energy Imbalance. In other words, over the past 12 months the Earth has been heating at an average rate of about 1.15 million Hiroshimas per Day.

📣 Professorship (W2) in Root-Microbiome Interactions. Joint appointment between @hhu.de and @leibnizipk.bsky.social @ceplas.bsky.social Looking for candidates who investigate the mechanisms that govern the attraction, colonization and proliferation of root microbial communities.

Heat killed ‘staggering’ 50,000 people in Europe’s cities this summer, scientists warn People succumbed to heat at highest rates in Malta, Italy and Hungary, with health issues, loneliness and poverty exacerbating toll www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I’m very excited to share the first big project from my PhD (my first proper-first, yay!) where we use cryoET and a fun new flavour of CLEM to study the re-organisation of photosynthetic machinery of cyanobacteria growing beyond the red limit of light. doi.org/10.64898/202...

🌱 RESEARCH 🌱 A Heat-Inducible Rubisco Activase Safeguards Photosynthesis via Multilevel Regulation and Dual Function - Cao, Zhang, Qu et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/pbi.... #plantscience

"'Behemoth' El Niño to upend global weather, UN warns" by @dinahvp.bsky.social & Doyle Rice for @usatoday.com: www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Speeding up NPQ relaxation can boost crop yield. In 🍅, KEA3 KOs and overexpressors changed NPQ a lot… but biomass and yield? Barely a blip. PsbS seems to set tomato vs Arabidopsis differences, and our model suggests it 🍅. New preprint by out Armbruster lab @hhu.de thx to @dfg.de #GoPMF #Plantscience

From seawater to pyrenoid: the molecular architecture of the diatom CO2-concentrating mechanism (Ginga Shimakawa , Onyou Nam , Alexander F Schober , Oliver Mueller-Cajar , Luke C M Mackinder , Yusuke Matsuda) doi.org/10.1093/plph... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

AI Is Killing Higher Ed. Here’s How to Save It.What university administrators must do about rampant cheating with ChatGPT openquestionsblog.substack.com/p/ai-is-kill...

🌱 ICYMI... 🌱 Watch back last week's webinar with @globalplantgpc.bsky.social on their YouTube Channel now 👉 youtube.com/live/w7_Urc5...

Is a daily global surface temperature anomaly more than 2.0°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline coming by the end of next week? All the stars will be at the big event. Even the Climate 8-Ball will be there. Don't miss out! Source: www.karstenhaustein.com/climate

Professorship (W2) of Computational Plant Systematics (6 years/tenure track). New job offer in our biology department @lmu.de 👇. Please apply and help to spread the word. www.nature.com/naturecareer... #PlantSciJob #PlantScience

Come be my colleague! UNL has an open-rank position in Plant Metabolism. See more details in the link below. #botany #botanyjobs employment.unl.edu/postings/102...

Eat The Rich For Tax Purposes

Ig Nobel winning work from Saul Newman exposed failings in blue zone research. I love this stuff. Congrats Saul on the recent book.

Talking about us the reamining staf... "They're doing more with less, covering subjects they didn't design, supervising students they didn't recruit, watching their colleagues disappear"... because of 'leaderships' agenda, who disappeared with golden hamshakes to fuck something else up...

🍃 EDITORIAL 🍃 Strengthening the future of science: Why joining a scientific society has never been more important 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/pbi.... This #BiologyWeek we're giving a big shout-out to our society owners: @aabiologists.bsky.social and @sebiology.bsky.social! Consider joining a society today!

Last call for abstract submission and earlybird registration for the Australian Nitrogen Fixation Conference with the deadline tomorrow!

Intrigued how #biomolecularcondensates evolve? Want to work with a condensate system that has a global impact? We’re recruiting a 4-year PDRA to explore the evolution of CO2-fixing pyrenoids: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTE394/r... Please repost. #pyrenoids #photosynthesis

From RT Furbank Jnr.

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 12, 2026 ~ Last February. "accurate projections of when global warming will exceed the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 °C threshold are essential for effective climate policy. Existing estimates place this exceedance in the early 2030s..." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌱 RESEARCH 🌱 Inhibiting SAL1 phosphatase with V20 enables on-demand activation of chloroplast signalling via PAP, a sulfur metabolism-derived metabolite, enhancing stress-responsive gene expression and oxidative stress tolerance- Khin et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Last month renewable energy generated more electricity in the national grid than fossil fuels.  It's only the second time in Australian history that this has occurred, the first being last year.  We've come a long way, and there's a lot more to do.

I'm excited. Five more days until this job closes. Come do plant evolution here at Davis! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07777?utm...

Structural insights into the coupling mechanism of vectorial CO2 uptake by DAB1 From the amazing @savagecatsonly.bsky.social ! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Anyone brave enough for an adventure in the uncharted waters of plant immunity and cell biology? We have a PhD studentship available as part of the NRP DTP - join us! biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...

Oh no... @vsauce.bsky.social is discussing placebos on The Rest Is Science this week. Expecting a quality hot take from @mikehall314.bsky.social

October Issue. Read FREE: Women in plant science around the world; Waterlilies illuminate angiosperm evolution and inspire crop improvement; A new framework for plant NO metabolism?; Revealing the secret jobs of plant metacaspases & much more www.cell.com/trends/plant... #plantscience

🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE - CLOSING SOON 🚨 🔬 Reactive Species in Plants 📝 Edited by Francisco J. Corpas, José M. Palma, Rosa Rivero & Ann Cuypers 📅 Closing date: 31 October 📇 Got a suitable manuscript? Contact the JXB office: bit.ly/JXBissues #PlantScience 🧪 #JXBspecialissues

Yall wanna write a community paper on Ai + 3D printing for biology with meeeee? All are welcome 💚

This is an excellent podcast. I highly recommend.

Two out of the three Nobel Prize winners are members of @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

Asgard archaea can actively crawl, using protrusions that are filled with an actin-based "cytoskeleton". Speed in the range of µm / s. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ARC has given some details of how new Explore scheme will run ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/news-and-pub... ❗️There's a lottery❗️ Peer review yields 3 categories: highly competitive, competitive, uncompetitive. After funding highly competitive apps, competitive ones enter a lottery for remaining $.

If you’ve always been curious about how algae fix carbon, @phaips.vd.st, @cellarchlab.com and I have put together the quickest route into pyrenoids. And if you don’t feel like reading at all, we have an accompanying poster doi.org/10.1242/jcs....

Records come and records go. But this is one for the ages. The preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly is now at a record 3.23°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. This crushes the previous daily record set in 1982 by over 1.14°C. The Climate 8-ball is looking up.

📣 NEW ISSUE 📣 Our October issue is out now! 🔍️ On the cover: Golden Rice–like pigmentation associated with enhanced seed carotenoid accumulation in prime edited rice (Kim et al doi.org/10.1111/pbi....) Read it in full 👉️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14677652... #plantscience

👏 Dr Loraine Rourke delivering her talk at Combio 2026. The Cl- dependent bicarbonate transporter SbtA2 expressed in the chloroplast IEM of tobacco.