Dear PPRM community, we are pleased to invite you to the next PPRM meeting, 14-16 September 2026 in Freising, Germany. Registration opening soon!

Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

Absolutely delighted that our paper on epigenetic dynamics during plant aging is out today in Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Given the described activators of cambium growth, we reasoned repressors were needed to balance the system. Here they are! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Discovery: Xing, Jingyi, Emma, Riikka, Anne-Maarit, Julia, Qing, Hanan, Raluca, Joanna, Yuqi, Wiki #plantscience #plantdev

RICHeS Access fund is open for applications! Deadline Weds 8 April 2026. Up to £20,000. PhD students, heritage organisations are eligible as well as academics. Get in touch, we have a wide range of analytical capabilities and happy to discuss your ideas! www.riches.ukri.org/news-and-eve...

Lots of PhD opportunities for UK + international students involving my lab. Topics relate to metals & microbiology. First up: TonB-dependent receptors in commensal Neisseria in my lab at Durham, with @kjosts.bsky.social and @mattbashton.bsky.social. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below! Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage

Predicting epistasis across proteins by structural logic by the amazing Michelle Tang et al www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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It's finally out!... Using single-cell and spatial transcriptome data, and data imputation, we created BARVISTA, a website able to perform almost genome-wide information on gene expression profiles at single-cell resolution in barley spikes! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Paul Nurse demonstrating that irony isn't dead in todays Guardian www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

We're looking for a postdoc to join us in trying to map the routes by which different signals travel through plants and identify what information they carry. Link👇or get in touch! @johninnescentre.bsky.social #PlantSciJobs www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

🧪🌾VACANCY - Looking for a PhD in plant/forest science? Join the @hanneletuominen.bsky.social group at UPSC & the WIFORCE Research School and investigate nitrogen use efficiency and wood formation in trees! Read more and apply here👇: www.slu.se/en/about-slu... Deadline: 10 Feb 2026 #PlantSciJobs

Today, our Director, Gwyneth Ingram, received the CNRS Silver Medal. (👇see the post below👇) This award recognizes researchers for the originality, quality, and significance of their work, acknowledged at both national and international levels. 🌱Congratulations!🥂

Folks, our research group is looking for a new recruit. A research technician position is available (48 month contract). Please repost. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Durham has become a global @unesco.org Learning City – recognising outstanding commitment to education, learning and skills development for people of all ages. Find out more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

Researchers, galleries, libraries, museums and industry can access a new £2m facility at our Department of Archaeology to explore ancient and historical artefacts in greater detail. NEMCAS provides cutting-edge tools to support heritage science 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

The spines on Elaeis guineensis (African oil palm) petioles are the hardened midveins that remain after the lowermost leaflets senesce. Diabolical! 📷: Diane Bricmont CCBYNC4 #Arecaceae #spine #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

🎉 Congratulations to @cathbell62.bsky.social! 🎉 She has been awarded the Roséns Linnaeus Prize in Botany for her research on plant roots and carbon allocation, and for promoting international collaboration in science, especially the #INUPRAG collaboration.🧪🌾 Read more: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...

Apply for our Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs in #devbio and #stemcell research during the transition to their first group leader position: www.biologists.com/grants/devel... Application deadline: 2 February 2026.

I don't mind paying a little more tax to take 450,000 children out of poverty

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“The ZAT14 family promotes cell death and regulates expansins to affect xylem formation and salt tolerance in Arabidopsis”. Now out in @theplantcell.bsky.social led by Ming Feng and colleagues. A 🌱 thread 👇 1/x academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

I'm offering a PhD project together with Sarah McKim on temperature-controlled stomata formation within EASTBIO DTP www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #plantscience #plantscijobs Deadline 15 Feb. Please share/RP

Interested in plant development and/or cell walls? We (Sam Amsbury, Andrew Fleming and I) have three PhD positions at the University of Sheffield open for applications until 7th January. We offer a friendly, jointly-run lab, great facilities, an affordable city and proximity to the Peak District!

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Senior colleague lamenting not getting funded, "there's something wrong with that panel" (my teams grant was funded - yes he did know)

Don't forget to register for the Non-seed. The deadline is on Friday.

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