Last week we held the 2nd @blackinplantsci.bsky.social conference in Leeds, full of 🌱science, 🌸art, African crops, careers & mentorship and talent. Highlight was seeing the impacts of our Research Excellence Awards & Studentships. So proud to honour and promote the excellence in our community 💓

Excited to welcome speakers and delegates to Black In Plant Science 2025, today in Leeds! Thanks @newphyt.bsky.social & other sponsors! @blackinplantsci.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @yoselin.bsky.social

I can't stress it more. This conference has been designed for us by us. Support @blackinplantsci.bsky.social conference at the University of Leeds funded by the SEB, Faculty of Biological Science at Leeds, the Grow More and New Phytologist foundations and Gastby. Join us on 24/10, details below.

📌 C-SPIRIT Institutional Feature 14: University of Cambridge Nicola Patron (@nicolabiologist.bsky.social) & Konstantina Beritza support Aim 4 through synthetic pathway engineering, compound optimization, & detection strategies. We are lucky to have them! 🔗 c-spirit.org/research #PlantScience

Call for Papers: 2027 Focus Issue on Specialized Metabolites. This focus issue aims to provide a forum to improve our understanding of plant specialized metabolism. Submission Deadline: 05/2026. academic.oup.com/plcell/pages... #plantscience

#JustIn on Plantae — Embracing Curiosity: Advancing in Plant Science by Asking Questions In this recent piece, ASPB Plantae Editors Dennis Baffour-Awuah and Rajarshi Sanyal discuss how curiosity and the practice of asking meaningful questions drive progress in #plantscience.

How amino acids are transported in plants | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release... @hhu.de @franzikuhnert.bsky.social @weberlab.bsky.social @ceplas.bsky.social

#PaperAlert Why do scientific societies matter now more than ever? Members of GPC board explore how societies support researchers, foster global collaboration, & shape the future of science. A must-read for all career stages 👍 🔗 buff.ly/YW2XUN3 #plantscience #science

Just a few days left to apply! (closes Aug 25)

Hey, calling all Natural Products and Secondary Metabolism people! @jgi.doe.gov is looking for feedback prior to reorganizing data structures and portals. #secmet is underrepresented right now. Hit the link if you want to share your ideas or complaints! Even (especially) if you don't use our stuff!

Meet our director Sarah O'Connor, @oconnorlab.bsky.social, a presence to be reckoned with in the plant science community! Read the latest interview with @newphyt.bsky.social ‬to learn about her passion for plant science and the scientists who inspired her: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌿 Black in Plant Science Conference 2025 🌿 Join us for a powerful celebration of Black excellence in plant research! 🗓️ Registration & Poster Submission Deadline: 28 Sept 2025 📍 Connect with researchers, share your work, and grow your network. 🎟️ Register now: 🔗 buff.ly/ax54FQ4

Super proud of @honghaosu.bsky.social for this award at #terpnet25 👏 @nrpdtp.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social

Our story on the biosynthesis of anti-inflammatory triterpenes from pot marigold is published ☺️ We had a lot of fun working on this beautiful & interesting species. Well done team marigold! 🌼 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 A postdoc position is open in the Wilkins Lab (@oli-wilkins.bsky.social) at @umanitoba.bsky.social! Join C-SPIRIT, a global research center advancing sustainable agriculture through plant & microbe science! (c-spirit.org) 📬 Apply here: viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/DEFAULT.ASPX... #PlantScience

Excited that our paper with @bradylabs.bsky.social on conservation and divergence in nitrogen regulatory networks is finally published. This was a fun & rewarding collaboration that will continue in new projects to engineer 🍅 N responses academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

NAASC is thrilled to announce Jade Bleau - University of Dundee - is the early career recipient of the 225 Arabidopsis Community Impact award! @blackinplantsci.bsky.social #ICAR2025

If you haven't already - make sure to save the date to the Black in Plant Science Conference taking place on Friday 24 October at the University of Leeds. Registration will soon be opening so make sure to save the date to avoid disappointment.

Summer Studentship 2025 - Meet Our Students! We are pleased to introduce you to Hamda Hassan and Noir Tucker who tell you more about themselves on our website - buff.ly/jBvClog. We can't wait to hear all about what they get up to at our conference on Friday 24 October 2025. Registration now open!

How does immunisation establish durable disease resistance in plants? Mobile immune signals released upon immunisation boost effectiveness of the defence hormone salicylic acid by ten times!😲 This results in higher immune gene expression and systemic acquired resistance against infection.

One more week to apply for a postdoc in our group (patronlab.org) @Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge. This is a 3-year position to investigate regulatory sequences and engineer gene expression in plants with the aim of optimising yields from metabolic pathways. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49769/

🌱 It’s Biodiversity Day! At C-SPIRIT, we work with the diversity of plants and microbes to find bioactive compounds that help crops thrive and soils stay healthy. Science across five countries, powered by the natural chemistry of plants and microbes. 🌾 #BiodiversityDay #PlantScience

Want to travel to Portland, Maine and present at the Gordon Research Conference on Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology? Short talk submissions are open until April 30, 2025. All other applications for this conference are due July 13th. To apply: bit.ly/ApplyforGRC (submit as a poster abstract)

Submissions to present a short talk at the Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology Gordon Research Conference are open now. Hope to see you in Portland, Maine, August 10-15, 2025! To apply: bit.ly/ApplyforGRC

Deadline for BiPS summer studentships coming up - 31st March

Undergraduate students can now apply to our Summer Studentship scheme, supported by @theplantjournal.bsky.social and the Gatsby Foundation. For more information, head to our website: blackinplantscience.org/2025/01/17/b...

📢We are now inviting labs that are able to host the successful candidate of the 2025 BiPS Summer Studentship to share the projects that they are working on so that we can match the student with the lab. Supported by @ThePlantJournal Info here: forms.gle/YWkza3HDn4hN...

Not long left to apply….

Some fascinating Engineering Biology presentations here from @nicolabiologist.bsky.social & many more #SynBio luminaries www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeBz...

🍁Please repost 📣 3 tenure track positions @umanitoba.bsky.social Bio Sci. All positions are in cell and systems biology: 1 in syn bio or biochem 2 in aquatic organisms (🌿, 🐟, 🪱, …) Genetics, dev bio, cell bio, specialized metabolism… viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/default.ASPX...

📢Job alert! #joboffer #plantscijobs Are you interested in plant gene regulation and synthetic biology? I have two open #postdoc positions in my #EmmyNoether group @hhu.bsky.social. See below for more information (or visit www.synthetic-biology.hhu.de/available-po...). Please share!

1. #postdoc position (m/f/d, TV-L E13, 100%, 3 years) in plant synthetic biology to design and characterize inducible transgene expression cassettes. This is a collaborative project with @nicolabiologist.bsky.social (University of Cambridge) and Christine Queitsch (University of Washington)

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/

Last few days to apply!

Please share! Nominate your Arabidopsis community colleagues, trainees (or yourself) by January 31! Open to people working with Arabidopsis from all parts of the world. Only nominees that advance to round 2 are required to have a full nomination package submitted: bit.ly/3DtjNEi

The 2025 Black in Plant Science Excellence Awards are now open to submissions from UK-based Black early career researchers. Closing Date Jan 31. 🎉🎉 blackinplantscience.org/2024/12/05/r...

DNA prompt engineering is a fun idea. Ginkgo just released Promoter-0, an AI framework using prompt engineering to predict promoter activity. ai.ginkgo.bio/resources/wh...

My best Bluesky-linked discovery so far has been this zine from @lycomorpha.bsky.social Really cool way to mix art, video games and botany knowledge. Beautiful illustrations and very interesting commentary about how they came up with the fictional field notes. Check out their etsy page!

Really proud of this one. Nothing speaks more true to my sentiments on the value of open source and accessible hardware. Hoping it can be a guide for fellow researchers. Look out for my next collab with @sarraceniamason.bsky.social, hopefully this coming year! pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

The New Phytologist “next generation scientists 2025” meeting will be held at the University of Birmingham, 4th-7th August 🌱🌳 This is a free event aimed at early career plant scientists. For details of the meeting, eligibility, and how to apply, click here : www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...