Andy Plackett
@seedrevolutionlab.bsky.social
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Researcher into the reproduction, developmental genetics and evolution of plants
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Silvia Ramundo
12 days ago
Still buzzing from
#NonSeedUK2025
@gensocuknonseed.bsky.social
Organizing energy: calm and cool (
@philcarella.bsky.social
) And the questions were flying — no holding back, just pure curiosity. Loved it! Edinburgh 🏰 next year? Absolutely, UK-based or not 🙃!
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PM Delaux
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Huge congratulations
@puginiercamille.bsky.social
for receiving the Prix Locoq from the French Academy of science
@academiesciences.bsky.social
!!
@lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social
www.univ-tlse3.fr/actualite-de...
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Une doctorante de l'université récompensée par l'Académie des sciences pour sa thèse sur les lichens - Université de Toulouse
https://www.univ-tlse3.fr/actualite-de-la-recherche/une-doctorante-de-luniversite-recompensee-par-lacademie-des-sciences
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Yesterday's
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meeting fot me thinking 'what about lichen, how do they fit in?' and lo and behold. Fascinating 🙂
#Plantscience
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Today's the day! Thanks so much to Phil Carella of JIC for hosting this meeting at Norwich.
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Hiro Nakagami
27 days ago
International Marchantia Workshop 2026 Nov. 27th – 29th, 2026 Kobe, Japan
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Marchantia Workshop 2026
News
https://sites.google.com/view/marchantiaworkshop2026
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Had a blast at the
@embo.org
workshop 'Plant evolution: from origins to diversification on land' hosted by the Gregor Mendel Institute Vienna. Would 100% recommend. Thank you so much to the organisers incl
@isabelmonte.bsky.social
and
@moodytomato.bsky.social
for all their hard work!
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I also have a plant evo-devo PhD opportunity open to study the evolutionary origins of female meiosis with me ^^. Deadline Thursday 27th November, so if you know anyone who might be interested, please do let them know!
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A postdoc position is open in my group for a bioinformatician with expertise in RNA-seq as part of our tree speedbreeding project with
@forest-protection.bsky.social
. If interested in speeding trees, please apply, deadline Dec 2nd 🙂
#Plantscience
#Plantscijobs
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Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) at University of Birmingham
An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI115/research-fellow-postdoctoral
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Fame at last^^
#Plantscience
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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!
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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
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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. 🙂
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Botany One
5 months ago
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
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New Phytologist
5 months ago
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
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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
5 months ago
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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
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Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) at University of Birmingham
An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU179/research-fellow-postdoctoral
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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
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6 months ago
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American Society of Plant Biologists
7 months ago
📣#PlantBio2025 daily highlight: Plant Reproduction: From Sporogenesis to Seed Formation Under Normal and Stress Conditions Concurrent Session!🌱
buff.ly/GOvIDIt
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Kromdijk Lab
9 months ago
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) 🇧🇯
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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
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Day 3! Into the mysteries of double fertilization...
#ICIPS2025
9 months ago
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Dan Gibbs 🌱🧬
9 months ago
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
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VRN2-PRC2 facilitates light-triggered repression of PIF signaling to coordinate growth in Arabidopsis
Osborne et al. show that the angiosperm-specific PRC2 subunit VRN2 is enriched in hypoxic regions of the Arabidopsis shoot, where it is required for stable deposition of H3K27me3 in key PIF4 target ge...
https://tinyurl.com/swbyff24
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Great work Zoe! 🙂
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Botany One
9 months ago
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
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Cracking the Code of Hazelnut Tree Architecture
A new model of hazelnut enhances our understanding of its growth and development.
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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
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LEAFY demonstrates ancestral reproductive functions in the gametophyte and not the sporophyte of the fern Ceratopteris richardii
Flowers are a key reproductive innovation of the angiosperms. They evolved as a modification of the ancestral plant life cycle whereby the haploid gamete-producing generation (gametophyte) became encl...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.21.644678v1
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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
9 months ago
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Evolution of Plant Sexual Reproduction (DFG_ICIPS)
9 months ago
The international ICIPS Symposium is starting NOW !
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A great first day at the International ICIPS Symposium here in Berlin. Thank you
@icips.bsky.social
for organising!
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Really looking forward to the start of this conference today 🙂.
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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...
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#Plantevolution
#Fernbiology
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Gene networks are conserved across reproductive development between the fern Ceratopteris richardii and the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana
How plants first invented seeds is a longstanding unresolved evolutionary question. Seed-bearing plants arose from within seedless vascular plants, with ferns as their closest relatives, but how the s...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.18.643782v1
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Laura Cooper
9 months ago
🎊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...
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Sandy Hetherington
9 months ago
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...
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Reposting for the
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10 months ago
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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR)
10 months ago
"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
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#Plantscience
#Science
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International Day of Women and Girls in Science
11 February
https://www.unesco.org/en/days/women-girls-science
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Botany One
11 months ago
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
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This evening we enjoyed the inaugural lecture of Professor Eugenio Sanchez Moran. Congratulations Eugenio, well-deserved! 🙂
#UoBBiosciences
#Plantscience
11 months ago
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Sebastian Soyk
11 months ago
🚨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
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Teng Zhang | 张腾
11 months ago
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-...
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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
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Exeter Mechanical Ecology Lab
12 months ago
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:
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The plants are abed. Shutdown time. Merry Christmas, one and all!
about 1 year ago
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Oh dear. You and me both, sister/brother...
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So happy to see another Ceratopteris development talk at
#nonseedUK24
! ❤️
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about 1 year ago
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Very exciting first session of
#nonseedUK24
.
#Plantscience
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about 1 year ago
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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
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about 1 year ago
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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!
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