Net zero is one of the many areas where commentators are out-of-touch with public opinion in Britain. There is still broad support for cutting carbon emissions - except from among Reform supporters, who are the outliers.

"staffers at number 10 have been leaving DVD copies of Love Actually in prominent positions in the PM's office"

Eine Elefantenspitzmaus 😁

Trump and his cronies have the BBC in their sights. Leaders can’t stay silent while one of our great institutions is attacked. We must defend its independence, end political appointments, and remove Robbie Gibb from the Board.

I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme. So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”

why is the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society published by Oxford when it could have been Random House

We wrote a review 📖 on hydathode immunity! Learn how bacteria exploit hydathodes to access the vasculature and open questions for future research. 📣 If you are curious about this topic, please consider applying for two open positions in my lab (until Nov23)! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I had a dream I asked an AI to write a medical text book and chapter 52 was "how to ghost your cat"

My main work as postdoc @plantophagy.bsky.social lab in @gmivienna.bsky.social is out in @natplants.nature.com 🌱🎉 We asked how can protein complexes diversify without compromising their function and explored this question using the plant #exocyst complex. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“she asked if she had been contacted “because of my expertise in the subject matter or because of my reproductive organs” that is precisely why the men were always asked, historically.

When all your PCRs fail, except for the negative control 😱

... Some might doubt about the ability of owls to build a shelter, but they're very empathetic and caring animals. I reckon they could do it, if they put their mind to it. bsky.app/profile/dj-a...

He’s been! He’s been! Old Father Time has been, and he’s left me an extra hour!

Our Plant Proteins meeting has begun! Starting the day with his 2025 Early Career Research Award Lecture, Dr Tatsuya Nobori discussed the development of PHYTOMap, a novel method for multiplexed single-cell 3D spatial gene expression analysis in whole-mount plant tissues.

Dr Juan Carlos De La Concepcion presented the 2026 Early Career Research Award Lecture on structure-guided approaches to engineer novel resistance against destructive plant pathogens — a major biotechnological milestone for agriculture! #PlantProteinsMeeting

Showcasing her outstanding contributions to the field of oxidative signalling throughout her career so far, congratulations to Professor Christine Foyer, who receives the 2026 Biochemical Society Award for Sustained Excellence at our Plant Proteins meeting today!

Presenting the 2025 Research Support Award, congratulations go to Sam Mugford who discussed his latest insights into the molecular mechanisms of plant immune suppression by virulence factors in aphid saliva! #BiochemAwards

I had the honour of giving a talk at the Biochemical Society conference and finally received the medal. Grateful once again to everyone who made this possible! #BiochemEvent

And @newphyt.bsky.social continues it's great series of Profiles with this one on @pdchristine.bsky.social: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #PlantImmunity #PlantLuminaries

Sumo stars goofing about at tourist locations seems a more fun way to celebrate England than any number of flags.

New pre-print from the team! The manuscript is @emma-raven.bsky.social's PhD work showing that whether a leaf is a carbon sink or a carbon source influences how they execute immune responses. Have a read! #PlantScience @johninnescentre.bsky.social

Save the Date: #PPATH2026, Norwich, 8–10 September 2026 @BS_PP

New PhD opportunity in my group @thesainsburylab.bsky.social through the BBSRC NRP DTP Programme - see details of host to apply below biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/van...

1/13 Thankfully, both you and your plants have a lot of sophisticated ways to fight off invading pathogens. In our new preprint, we describe a new way in which animals and plants share a common strategy to ward off harmful bacteria. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

Every time Sisyphus gets the boulder to the top of the hill, he collects tickets that can be exchanged for stickers to accessorize the boulder

Thanks to London’s bold action, almost 10 million people are now breathing cleaner air. That means fewer children will grow up with stunted lungs and fewer people will have to suffer from asthma, dementia and heart disease.

I think I saw Black Nectar and Iron Gall Ink playing at Download Festival last year nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I had so much fun sharing my love and awe of plant with the students and teachers and staff at the Norwich Biosciences Institutes Accessible Science Talks event. I hope I inspired a few students to apply their talents to plant science!

#NBIAST2025 Designer flowers for art and education @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social Combining art, design, and science.

Today is the day! 🌟🥼🧪 We’re thrilled to be kicking off the NBI Accessible Science Talks, in collaboration with @earlhaminst.bsky.social , @quadraminstitute.bsky.social and @thesainsburylab.bsky.social Thank you in advance to everyone for joining us - whether in-person or online! #NBIAST2025

Fantastical flowers, synthetic biology, and storytelling. Giving an accessible science talk tomorrow at 10:40 UK time... come join! Register here for the link 👉 jic.link/NBIAST2025

"What is the biological relevance?"

VACANCY - Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions We’re inviting applications from outstanding researchers who either hold, or wish to apply for, Independent Research Fellowships. APPLICATION DEADLINE: 10 November 2025 Click here to apply: jic.link/Fellows

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

This. Is. Why. I. Paint.

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team! They will work on homeolog-informed approaches to tackle cold tolerance in wheat @johninnescentre.bsky.social Please find out more and apply here: jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?... #plantsciences #plantscijobs

We're preparing the name badges for the 10th Norwich Biosciences Institutes #accessiblescience event on Tuesday, expecting 250 people in the @johninnescentre.bsky.social conference centre including students from local schools (and their teachers including @dewhurst-ben.bsky.social )

just make it exist first you can make it crab later

😮 “There are dozens, possibly hundreds, of different sorts of galls on oak trees. In Britain alone, more than 70 species of gall wasps are responsible, and each one creates a distinct structure.”

THE MEME IS REAL

This preprint title for the win! "The First of Us: Ophiocordyceps use a novel scramblase-binding peptide to manipulate zombie ants" doi.org/10.1101/2025... Science is cool too! Authors use #celegans to identify the targets... #cilia and scramblases

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

For the actual, whole, and entire sake of fuck.

Meet "Little Flower". A genetically engineered flower, frozen in time and blown up over 150X. Here's the story (1/6 🧵)

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Sir!! You can’t do that!! Aaaah!!