What terrible news. My condolences to friends and family.

I made a whole BBC TV series (2020) about the remarkable resilience of the people of Iran and their culture over centuries of threat and callous rule. You can watch it right here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A two year post-doc in synthetic chemistry is available - working on plant alkaloids and terpenoids. The post is based with @unsworthchem.bsky.social as part of a close collaborations with my group and Prof Grogan in YSBL. Apply NOW, the deadline is the 9th April! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Excellent news and I am excited for our future @rothamsted.bsky.social under Martin’s leadership

CRUK goes green [OA] news.cancerresearchuk.org/2026/04/01/w...

Apply before April 23rd to join us as Associate Professor at Leeds jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job opportunity! Research Associate An opportunity to join our team to work on a set of single cell technologies which be used to investigate the interplay between nutrient and symbiosis signalling at cellular resolution in rice. Apply by Friday 17 April 2026: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

This is a great read. A 3 min Thesis brought to Bluesky. Congratulations.

BLOG - Green Horizons: plant science careers for a food-secure future The Delivering Sustainable Wheat virtual training course recently returned with renewed energy, offering university students an opportunity to engage directly with modern plant science www.jic.ac.uk/blog/green-h...

The 6th Annual @socobiodtp.bsky.social Conference took place last week at the University of Sussex. 3-days of science talks, networking and inspiring talks from guest speakers Dr Mahmoud Bukar Maina, Prof Catherine Green OBE, industry speakers from Edward Vinson Ltd, Helus, AstraZeneca, and Barfoot

How does wheat tell time?🌾🕰️ New model by @abhibiotech.bsky.social with @alexwebblab.bsky.social & James Locke reveals the flexibility of plant circadian clocks. Unlike Arabidopsis, wheat ELF3 peaks at dawn, model suggests TOC1 repression drives this shift doi.org/10.1098/rsif... @royalsociety.org

How microalgae use phytochrome to sense the ocean’s light #TansleyInsight by Duchêne et al. @afalciat.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #plantscience

I'm excited to share *Stoic*, a method for fast and accurate protein complex stoichiometry prediction directly from sequence. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵👇(1/10)

Please RP 🕊️: Postdoc position in my budding group at OIST. Looking for a colleague to work at the interface of chloroplast biology, evo-devo, and synthetic biology. More info here 📃: www.oist.jp/careers/post...

Today’s the day! Science and Engineering Day is here 🔬Join us at @unisouthampton.bsky.social for a full day of discovery, creativity, and hands on science. 📍 Highfield Campus 🔍Tickets: www.sotsef.co.uk/SED #SOTSEF #WeAreUoS #BSW26

Great news that @ukri.org is substantially supporting @daphnejacksontr.bsky.social - an impactful scheme to re-start careers and access the skills of those who have taken career breaks.

PRESS RELEASE - Salad packs a healthy punch to meet a growing Vitamin B12 need 🌱🫛 A pioneering research-industry partnership has used advances in indoor farming technology to grow pea shoots fortified with #VitB12 www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas... 🧵 1/2

📣 VACANCY: Postdoc/Research Assistant in the Kamoun group @kamounlab.bsky.social Join the team to work on the biology and applications of plant immune receptors 🌱 Applications will be reviewed from 16 March 2026 onwards www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t... #PlantSciJobs #PlantScience #STEMJobs

Remembering Barbara McClintock on International Women's Day! She discovered that genes aren't static, they can actually "jump" around on a chromosome. Her discovery of transposons ("jumping genes") fundamentally changed how we understand evolution and the complexity of DNA! 🧬🌽 #WomenInScience

I would not be a scientist without Lynn Margulis. I never would have gotten a PhD or developed a curiosity for the research topics I currently work on if I didn’t read her book, “Symbiotic Planet” when I was 21. So many male scientists I’ve worked with knew her and many say things like…(1/2)

Are you a postdoc in a plant-related field such as🌿 Plant Biology 🌿 Agriculture & Crop Sciences 🌿 Ecology & Environment 🌿 Plant Pathology & Protection or 🌿 Biotechnology ? We invite you to join a community of 700+ postdoctoral researchers from around the world at www.plantpostdocs.com

ViroiDoc MSCA Doctoral Network announces workshop: What: Don’t Perish! A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Paper When: Thursday, 2 April 2026, 9:30–12:30 CET Where: online, Webex This event in English is open free of charge. Registration will open soon. www.viroidoc.eu/b/dont-peris...

Job opportunity! Research Assistant / Research Associate An opportunity to join our team working on the generation of a completely engineered chloroplast genome (= synplastome). Apply by Thursday 02 April 2026: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54695/

Another great article by @mastroianni.bsky.social on the current #SciencePublishing system. Don't publish with for-profit publishers like Elsevier, Springer Nature, et al. It's really simple. There are so many cool #PlantScience society journals. #SciPub See also: bsky.app/profile/soms...

This is a really thoughtful and interesting article on our current #PeerReview system in #AcademicPublishing by Adam Mastroianni. Absolutely worth the read. And you can then spend even more time reading the really interesting follow-up articles. #Science #SciencePublishing #ResearchPublishing

Stunning new structural analysis and mechanism for Tmn anti-phage defense by @fnobrega.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Probably the most unique and aesthetic lab website I’ve seen! I hope other labs find inspiration in this to make their own cool site ✨

Huge news 🌍🧬 The Protist 10,000 Genomes Project is joining the Earth BioGenome Project. Protists may represent the majority of eukaryotic diversity — yet only a tiny fraction have reference genomes. Time to change that. 🚀✨ Learn more 👉 ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/p10k/ #EBP #Protists #Genomics #TreeOfLife

Totally this. The rightwing hate “journalists” are spinning Muslims voting for a woman in a party led by a gay Jewish man as Islamist sectarianism.

Please consider attending this conference in the Swiss Alps meetings.embo.org/event/26-pla... . Exciting science & great venue, lots of opportunities for selected talks from abstracts. Join the conversation on Bluesky with #EMBOispp2026

I have a PhD student and a post-doc position available in my lab to work on plant photobiology. Please use the links below to postulate. Please RT, many thanks career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree... career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

From moss to humans in one paper - very cool indeed! Congratulations!

Gonna post it again... Please give it some exposure. It might not result in anything even if it got 100K signatures, but if it doesn't get any it definitely won't and we're seeing more and more evidence rather than conjecture around these murky, opaque orgs. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🧪🌳🐝 Where to study degrees focusing on plants in UK and Ireland? Teams in #BUC2026 made single image of BSc/Masters/PhD opportunities at their 32 institutions. Great to get so much information about plant degrees together. (Also plants at some other places without a team this year!)

Join us on March 10, 2026 at Kyoto University 🇯🇵 for a day celebrating my long-time friend and collaborator Prof. Ryohei Terauchi. "Kyoto Mini-Symposium on Plant–Microbe Interactions"

New research shows that by 2050 global yield losses linked to extreme heat at flowering could rise by about one-third. By 2090, those losses could increase by more than 75%. Full story👇 https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/extreme-heat-and-drought-flowering-could-put-future-wheat-harvests-risk

OryzaNet is a new BBSRC-funded rice research network launching Spring 2026. We are inviting researchers, social scientists, stakeholders & innovators to register interest ahead of launch. www.oryzanet.com

David Squires on … Jim Ratcliffe’s comments and his need for some home truths

Apply to be a Rising Star in Plant Science! Organized by Molecular Plant and Plant Communications. www.cell.com/cemps/rsps-a... Applications close March 31, 2026 #PlantScience

@hanhtkvu.bsky.social @embl.org & we are looking for a #postdoc to study #regeneration x #autophagy across kingdoms of life. Pls spread the word & get in touch if you are interested www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunitie...

Ya que lo he hecho para Instagram y que me he comido los mocos con la visibilidad, os lo comparto por aquí que sí que sabéis apreciarlo 😭

We’re hiring! Postdoctoral Researcher / Research Assistant @KamounLab “Biology and Applications of Plant Immune Receptors” www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...

Join us 4 #SOTSEF👇😀! with Masters students & Secret Life of Organoids, Inner working of Cells, Health Innovations 🏃‍♂️ @clarkinbonebiol.bsky.social @fnobrega.bsky.social 🦠 @nelani.bsky.social Microbes, Mood & Murals 🎨 @jt8teeling.bsky.social & Sci of Jurassic Park 🦖! @neilgostling.bsky.social #BSW26

If your one true love is plant photobiology, then we have the symposium for you! 💚🌱 This Valentine’s Day, register for YRSPP 2026 and make it official ✨ 🔗 yrspp.github.io/register

Were hiring! We have 3 new open positions on our academic staff, more details on the link below. It’s an open call, and we would love to boost the diversity of our staff, so if you think there might be a good scientific fit, do apply! I am happy to take enquiries. www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

UK wheat faces a serious new threat: yellow rust has overcome Yr15 resistance in major varieties. A BBSRC /DEFRA Rapid Response led by JIC with Niab and RRes as partners is hunting new resistance genes to protect harvests. 🌾 www.niab.com/news-views/n...

🚨 Positions available in Plant Science! Please share. We’re hiring: 1. Postdoc 2.PhD (UK applicants only) Focus: root oxygen dynamics, developmental signalling. Come help us uncover how O2 shapes root development. More info here- sites.google.com/view/root-re... #plantscijobs #plantscience

Help us map science history for #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience. We've launched a new interactive map of landmarks across the UK connected to women from science history, and we want your suggestions. Explore the map and submit your landmark now: royalsociety.org/news-resourc...

This is fun. I found myself, as expected, in plant scientists and biologists, but this group is much nearer to Italian progressive intellectuals than molecular and cell biology researchers, which sounds both cool and slightly disconcerting at the same time!

Ever wondered whether it is a good idea to run abiotic stress experiments in controlled conditions? Here's an evidence-based answer: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @plantdirectj.bsky.social @wheatinitiative.bsky.social