Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... Get in touch if you want to chat!

We are advertising a PhD project investigating a cellular mechanism that ensures protein quality control during mRNA translation in plants. Please get in touch on here or via email if you are interested and I can provide further details! Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...

We have a project available for 2026 NRP Doctoral Training Partnership entry (i.e. PhD studentship opportunity!) How do cells communicate when it's hot? Don't know? Me either! Come work with us @johninnescentre.bsky.social and figure it out biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...

Check out our new review in JXB: tinyurl.com/yta6fd5b @pablidopsis.bsky.social and I write about the cell's decision between division and differentiation. 🌱 What factors promote one or the other in different cell types? 🤔 Are they really mutually exclusive?

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob Group Leader Position Crop plant biology, development, and/or physiology, ideally leveraging genome editing approaches @ School of Life Sciences @TU Muenchen in Freising-Weihenstephan www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/stellenangeb...

Nice idea @eddavey.libdems.org.uk, except universities were encouraged to cross-subsidise UK students with international student fees in a contracting market. Visa rules then tightened leading to universities in debt, recruitment freezes and redundancy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm recruiting a post doc and a research assistant for a 30 month project “ZHOUPI genes, cell death and the evolution of plant endosperm” funded by a Research Project grant from the Leverhulme Trust @Leverhulme.ac.uk. Application details are on the Opportunities page at biology.ed.ac.uk/goodrich

@theguardian.com, please stop reporting the charlatans at collosal as "news". Three edits is no more dire wolf, than pigeon tissue culture is a dodo. This is risible www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Q: Are the university's travel insurance approval, travel risk assessment template, security information to populate the risk assessment in the same place? A: Of course not. Security info via procurement, the risk assessment is via health and safety, approval forms are their own thing. SharePoint.

Am crashing on Kid1's floor during #PPRM2025. She's a doctoral student in Edinburgh.

An updated history of TDIF‐PXY signalling: a study in cell fate and tissue patterning #TansleyReview by He, et al. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience @peteretchells.bsky.social

*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University* We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5 su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

I tend to think the peer review process works as well as possible alternatives might. But seeing other reviewers shift to add another six months work for a marginal gain to an already really good manuscript is maddening.

Time flies when you are having fun. In 2016 we wrote a review marking 10 years of TDIF-PXY. Group members Qing and Agnieszka wrote an update, out today in @newphyt.bsky.social. Do have a read. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I am very excited to share my first publication from my PhD work: A FLOE-related protein regulates the two-dimensional to three-dimensional growth transition in the moss Physcomitrium patens url: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

A reminder you/your lab can support FlyBase at Cambridge through the following link. Every bit helps. Please share if you yourself can't donate. www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

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Plants "bleed" too, but through gases! When wounded, ethylene leaks out and oxygen seeps in. This gas shift acts as an alarm, triggering self-repair to seal the breach. Excited to share our new collaborative work uncovering this clever plant mechanism! Excellent summary here, indulge! #plantscience

X Rays and Barley Mutants! A brief introduction to a cool biosciences led project I’m working on at the moment, with PI @peteretchells.bsky.social castlesandcoprolites.blogspot.com/2025/07/x-ra...

That arch is apparently *the first pointed arch ever*(!) Durham Cathedral was built from East to West, by the Normans. The arches are all semi-circular...until that first major one in the nave: that's where pointed arches were devised. You can just see that the arches get pointier towards the West.

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Stochastic gene expression, an ordinary part of multicellular life (Nature Comms.) @roederlab.bsky.social‬ (Summary by Kes Maio) buff.ly/uY8A6hZ #PlantaePSRW

🚨 Calling all plant modelling enthusiasts! Plant Computational Biology Workshop Open to researchers at all levels Workshop is free. Participants cover own travel, food & accommodation 📅 8-12 Sept | 💻 Talks, tools & hand-on sessions 🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa... #ComputationalBiology #PlantSci

🎯 I scored 6/10 on #DiscoverOrMDPI — can you beat me? pagoba.shinyapps.io/publi_guess/, #ResearchIntegrity #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky

The cytochrome P450 enzyme MpCYP78E1 inhibits meristem initiation and activity in Marchantia polymorpha www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to see this story out! 🎉 Big congrats to @leoniekraska.bsky.social, @tonnigrubeandersen.bsky.social, and the whole team. More coming soon on the role of our favorite MYBs in cork suberization—stay tuned!

Group leader position at the University of Helsinki, Institute of Biotechnology. Plant biologists eligible as well. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

We're looking for a new PhD candidate to join the lab. Please share 🌱😄

From a colleague:

We are hiring for a research technician in our NWO-XL project BarrierFates! If you are interested in working with root barriers and their role for plant fitness, more info here: www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #PlantScience 🌱🌽🔬

The power of university collections to educate 🙂 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tune into this podcast episode to hear our domestication detective story on an important mutation in corn!

I am marking. The suffering from the constant repetition of the marginally rephrased Google AI overview in the opening statements is real. It is so lacking in originality, so boring. FFS.

Flowers unfold with surprising precision, despite unruly genes news.cornell.edu/stories/2025... Nice article in the Cornell Chronicle about our @natcomms.nature.com article rdcu.be/emNVQ @cornellcals.bsky.social

Join us for the 🪴 🌵 Plant Peptide Receptor Meeting 2025 ☘️ 🪴 in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 8th-10th September #plantsignaling #PlantScience #plantsci pprm2025.events.kdmeventsportal.co.uk @pprm2025.bsky.social A thread 🧵 (1/n)

Choose Science. Choose Europe. In 2025, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions will invest over €1.25B, supporting more than 10,000 researchers. A new Choose Europe for Science pilot will promote stable research careers across the EU. Explore the calls ↓

Really enjoyed my visit to ZMPB in Tubingen today. Thanks to @likeyoda1.bsky.social for hosting and to all for the interesting discussions. I also took the obligatory bus stop photo.

🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations! These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs. Save and share the post!

The website for abstract submission and registration for #PPRM2025 is now online. We have a great lineup of speakers and we look forward to meeting you in #Edinburgh. pprm2025.events.kdmeventsportal.co.uk/registration

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Took the off road route to work this morning

📜 CLAVATA signalling shapes barley inflorescence by controlling activity and determinacy of shoot meristem and rachilla 🧑‍🔬 @isaiavardanega.bsky.social, @simonrdg.bsky.social, et al. 📔 @natcomms.nature.com 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #Barley #PlantStemCells

Come and join us at @biologists.bsky.social!

We have a postdoc position that just opened up in the Brady lab on reprogramming tomato root system architecture in response to changes in nutrient availability - please consider applying! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07095

PhD opportunity in my lab @johninnescentre.bsky.social, on circadian interactions between plants and bacteria. Fully funded. Part of @microclockerc.bsky.social in collaboration with @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social @marthamerrow.bsky.social #chronobiology #ERCSyG www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Our lab's first review article written with @yadhusankar.bsky.social and @vijayalakshmi.bsky.social is out now in The Plant Journal! 🎉🌱 We discuss temporal regulation of (plant) development. When and how do plants control organ and cell identity progression? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Start line of the Coniston 14 mile race. While @camillalm.bsky.social and our older son are running, the rest of us have found a nice cafe to enjoy some pies 😁.