And when I (finally) grow up I want to be as amazing a scientist as @bkoskella.bsky.social, who gave not one but two entirely separate inspirational talks about her science whilst visiting us at Uob!

We had a stellar end to #NGS2025 today! 🎉 Thank you to everyone for coming, it was a pleasure to host you at the University of Birmingham. A massive thank you to the local committee and especially the New Phytologist Foundation for making this work. 🙂 All the best for next year's NGS! #PlantScience

Today was Careers focused at #NGS2025 Thank you so much to all our panellists for their time and for sharing their varied experiences and views with our delegates. 🙂 #PlantScience

Advances in understanding seed formation could be crucial for future food security. Dr. Duarte Figueiredo explains why studying the molecular mechanisms behind reproduction matters and shares advice for aspiring botanists. wp.me/pdRZhH-mgq #Botany #PlantScience

New Phytologist next generation scientists 2025 starts very soon - at 13:30 BST (UTC+1)! Join in for free online via the livestream: www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent... #PlantScience #Botany

We've had a great first day of the New Phytologist Next Generation Scientists Symposium, with fantastic talks from delegates and a lively panel discussion on publishing. Looking forward to tomorrow! #PlantScience #NGS2025

I have a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position starting in January to study the evolution of seed gene networks using the fern Ceratopteris! Interested? More info here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU179/r... Closing date 31st July. 🙂 #PlantScience #PlantSciencejobs

I was extremely flattered to be asked to contribute to this Voices piece. Hope folks find it interesting and that it tempts you to try working with new models. 😁 #PlantScience

📣#PlantBio2025 daily highlight: Plant Reproduction: From Sporogenesis to Seed Formation Under Normal and Stress Conditions Concurrent Session!🌱 buff.ly/GOvIDIt #plantscience

We have another opportunity to join the lab! We and @jmhibberd.bsky.social are looking for a technician to focus on the development of a NAM population in the orphan crop and C4 model species, G. gynandra 🌱☀️ Includes collaborations with partners at NIAB, Wageningen 🇳🇱 and in Cotonou (Benin) 🇧🇯

Great start to the final day of #ICIPS2025 with a talk by @dromius.bsky.social showcasing the work of @davidjhoey.bsky.social about genetic control of marchantia reproductive strategies

Day 3! Into the mysteries of double fertilization... #ICIPS2025

Happy to see our latest paper by @drosborneplantsci.bsky.social et al out today in Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social! We identify a role for VRN2-PRC2 in regulating light-responsive growth in Arabidopsis through the conditional epigenetic repression of PIF signalling. tinyurl.com/swbyff24

Great work Zoe! 🙂

Scientists unveil the first architectural model of hazelnut trees, studying 104 shoots over two years to understand growth patterns. This could revolutionize cultivation of the world's third most popular tree nut. Story at wp.me/pdRZhH-lQp Paper at doi.org/pdj5 #Botany #PlantScience 🧪

Another preprint! I was privileged to be asked to be involved with this project. Well done to everyone, particularly the first author, Hannah McConnell of Veronica di Stilio's lab at UW, who's tenacity and hard work really shines through 🙂 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Plantscience #Fern #LEAFY

About to start day 2 of the International ICIPS Symposium focussed on the evolution of plant reproduction. I'm going to learn so much! #Plantscience #ICIPS2025

The international ICIPS Symposium is starting NOW !

A great first day at the International ICIPS Symposium here in Berlin. Thank you @icips.bsky.social for organising!

Really looking forward to the start of this conference today 🙂.

It's been a long time coming but I'm very happy to share this preprint with folks. 🙂 Thanks again to the Royal Society for funding this research. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Plantscience #Plantevolution #Fernbiology

🎊We are very pleased to announce that our paper investigating what we think Prototaxites, the mysterious giant of the Devonian landscape, actually was is now available as a pre-print on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Exciting #FossilFriday as our preprint on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social was picked up by @newscientist.com! You can read the prepint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Reposting for the #Plantscience feed.

"PhD Opportunity, Sporopollenin at University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada *Application Deadline: 3/15/2025" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20250220_USASK.pdf #PlantSciJobs

www.unesco.org/en/days/wome... #Plantscience #Science #STEM

What can 5,000-year-old trees teach us about climate change? Scientists find that ancient trees like Methuselah hold epigenetic secrets to environmental adaptation. https://botany.one/2025/02/can-you-teach-an-old-log-new-tricks/ #Botany #PlantScience

This evening we enjoyed the inaugural lecture of Professor Eugenio Sanchez Moran. Congratulations Eugenio, well-deserved! 🙂 #UoBBiosciences #Plantscience

🚨Job alert: We are looking for a #phd student to join us @unil.bsky.social to study evolution & function of gene regulatory sequences in the context of crop domestication using genome editing and imaging 🌱🍅🧬. #plantscience #scijobs #plantscijobs. Apply here: tinyurl.com/mrdpm5yf

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-...

A reminder to all plant (and plant-adjacent) ECRs, the New Phytologist Next Generation Scientist symposium will be at Birmingham this summer. We'd love to see you there! 🙂 Application deadline is Monday: www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent... #Plantscience #newphytologist

One week left to apply for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work with us on a fascinating plant-insect interaction in tropical Borneo:

The plants are abed. Shutdown time. Merry Christmas, one and all!

Oh dear. You and me both, sister/brother... #climatechange #bewildered

So happy to see another Ceratopteris development talk at #nonseedUK24 ! ❤️

Very exciting first session of #nonseedUK24. #Plantscience

Looking forward to today's meeting of the UK Genetics Society Non-seed plant Special Interest Group in Cambridge. 🙂 We were already sharing contamination woes over drinks last night. The joys of keeping things in sterile culture... #nonseedUK24 #Plantscience

We had a fascinating seminar at UoB Biosciences this week by Prof Yiliang Ding of the John Innes Centre. There's still so much left to learn about something as fundamental as RNA structure!

Very cool opportunity! Reposting for #Plantscience in case it's not found its way there yet.

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/

It was a Saturday before Christmas, and all through the Undercroft, a lone scientist stood as Storm Darragh tried to blow the building aloft... o.O"

Have you ever wondered how plants pattern their dehiscence zone when they don't have components of the Arabidopsis network? We tried to find out in California poppy and...., SEEDSTICK is not involved! But required to restrict endocarp growth. tiny.cc/ythzzz #PlantScience #EvoDevo #Ranunculales

Christmas has come to UoB Biosciences 🙂

We're going to have to replace our poor old lab autoclave (who naturally I've nicknamed 'Audrey'). But I've just realised that, logically, this means our new autoclave will be Audrey2... 🤨😅 This is where working Saturdays can take you... #LittleLabOfHorrors

#Plantscience #PhD

Just had our first joint UoB-Warwick Plant Sciences away day. Thanks to @mojganrabiey.bsky.social and @djgibbs.bsky.social for organising! 🙂

centa.ac.uk/studentship/... I also have an oak(!) PhD opportunity in my group via the CENTA DTP 😅. What drives oak's slow ageing, and can this be changed to allow fast breeding? If you know anyone who's interested please do let them know! Deadline 8th January. Thank you! 🙏 #Plantscience #PhD

warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... I have a fern PhD opportunity in my group with the MIBTP DTP to study the evolution of epigenetic regulation in seed-based reproduction. If you know of anyone who is interested please do let them know. Deadline 16th January. Thank you! #Plantscience #PhD