Lovely day sharing ideas with fellow botanic garden directors at Birmingham Botanical Gardens today - and the plants were spectacular too!

✨ Cambridge Botanic Lights ✨ ❤️ A wonderful opportunity to take some time out and spend an evening with friends and family ❤️ Make memories at Cambridge University Botanic Garden 🌿 Buy your tickets at botanic.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-botanic-lights-2025 #CUBG #winterlights #Cambridge #botanicgarden

Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science Dept. of Plant Sciences | Permanent | Closes on Monday 17 November 2025 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell... #plantsciences #plantscijobs #academicjobs

Communications Assistant @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social ✍️ This role will support the Botanic Garden’s marketing activities and event promotion, encouraging new and returning visitors. Apply before 22 June 👇 bit.ly/4kE2iS4

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Apply now for a four year Research Fellowship at Kew. £41,020 per annum Closing Date 20/04/2025 opportunity to become an independent researcher with some startup funds for research and travel. careers.kew.org/internal/vac...

We are delighted to have been voted ‘Best Tourist Attraction’ in the Cambridge Edition People’s Choice Awards 2025! What a lovely day to celebrate in the sun 🌞 Thank you to everyone who voted! Plus congrats to the Fitzwilliam Museum who were voted as ‘Best Arts & Cultural Venue’🏆

Such an amazing time at the UK plant biomechanics meeting. Big thanks to the organisers @yoselin.bsky.social and Finn Box. And all the amazing speakers and poster presenters.

Flowering cherries @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social are even better today with blue sky above them

❤️ The flowering cherries are out @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social

🌿 Mountain Magic! Step inside our Mountains House, where high-altitude plants thrive. Here are some of today’s stars including some wild & rare plants in our collection... 🌸 Paeonia cambessedesii 🌟 Fritillaria eduardii 🔵 Muscari heldreichii 💜 Hyacinthus orientalis #MondayMood #MountainBlooms

Looking for guidance teaching #Microscopy? 🔬🌱 Chris' latest article also featured in @associationscied.bsky.social School Science Review is available here with a presentation to download: www.saps.org.uk/growth-hub/t... #plantsci @chrisgraham.bsky.social @stemlearning.bsky.social

Plants & their pollinators🌼🐝 Plants can’t move but they still need a mate. How do they do it? Our Director @beverleycubg.bsky.social joined @bbcradio4.bsky.social In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg, Jane Memmott & @larschittka.bsky.social for a fascinating discussion bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 👋Bluesky!

Great to see our paper on the front cover @natureecoevo.bsky.social, with the tropical displays in our glasshouse range! With thanks to all 50+ co-authors. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Nice editorial on the issues facing a variety of ex situ plant collection. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Botanic gardens are more than peaceful retreats or collections of catalogued plants - they’re vital in the fight against biodiversity loss. Great article by Samuel Brockington in The Conversation: tinyurl.com/4yekcz84 @docbroc.bsky.social @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social @theconversation.com

Wonderful visit to @mnhn.fr

Want to work in another country? The HFSP postdoc fellowship supports proposals for frontier, potentially transformative research in the life sciences and cross-disciplinary. high-risk projects are encouraged LOI opens March 13, 2025 #neuroskyence #academicsky 🧪🧠🪰🌱🧬 www.hfsp.org/funding/hfsp...

Looking forward to visiting @mpipz.bsky.social tomorrow- lots of exciting science to hear about!

Loving the raspberry ripple ice cream swirls on these Oxalis versicolor flowers in the mountains house at Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Please share! A 4-year position to work on genome duplication and evolution in Bath, part of our BBSRC sLOLA project determining the extent and effects of rediploidisation across eukaryotes! www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

Please Repost! We are offering a three-year fully funded doctoral researcher position to study how floral meristem patterning in woodland strawberry, and how it implicates the diversification in floral ground plans in Angiosperm flowers. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsini-...

We’re looking for 3 postdocs to join our lab and work on engineering plant gene expression, metabolism and growth. If you have enthusiasm & skills in synthetic biology or metabolic engineering, apply by Jan 31. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49767/ www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49773/ www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49769/

Closing date 19th December - just over a week to apply!

We are advertising two fabulous jobs at the Cambridge University Herbarium. Collection Manager: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49404/ Collections & Digitisation Assistant: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49378/ Incredible collection of 1.1 million specimens including most of Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle material.

We are looking for 2 postdocs and a technician to join our team studying evolution and development of complex flowers. Please get in touch if you’d like to discuss. Details here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/?unit=u0...

Please repost! #PlantSciencesJobs Singh lab is expanding and still time to apply online. 2xPDRAs (postdocs) vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... 1 Research Assistant vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... Please email if you have informal inquiries.

We are recruiting leading scientists in the Biological Sciences to join our interdisciplinary and innovative research community at the University of Cambridge! Find out more about the positions and the School: bit.ly/4fMTBmF Apply by 26 January 2025!

Enjoyed sneak preview of #Cambridge #Botanic Gardens winter lights courtesy of @beverleycubg.bsky.social . Me next to a time lapse of Linneas' floral clock, right next to the #circadian beds, part of the circadian trail. Come to Cambridge and learn all about #plant clocks. Enjoy the winter lights. 🧪

My first post here! We’re looking for an enthusiastic plant developmentalist to join our team as a postdoc working on how this wonderful plant builds sexually deceptive flowers. Link here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49334/

Experience Postgrad Life Sciences- paid 8-week internships for undergrads in their penultimate year at a UK/Irish university. For talented students who might not otherwise feel they can easily access summer research opportunities. @blackinneuro.bsky.social www.exppg.lifesci.cam.ac.uk

How does cytokinin (CK) regulate and coordinate cell proliferation, differentiation and expansion? Help us find out! Join Neha Bhatia's new research group to work on unravelling how CK is shaping plant aerial organs Apply by 11 December www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49272/ #PlantScience #PlantsatCambridge