Behind the scenes with the BBC’s The One Show 🎥🌿 Presenter Chris Hull visited the Garden while filming for the RHS Pocket Garden Makeover Prize, exploring meadow planting, native flowers and wildlife-friendly ideas for smaller spaces. Tune in to BBC One from 7pm tonight to see the feature 🌼🐝

Happy 100th birthday Sir David Attenborough! 💚 In 2020, we were honoured to welcome him to the Garden while filming The Green Planet! Read more about his visit: https://bit.ly/48Fk5VI Watch the episode here: https://bbc.in/4d2qZpa 📸 BBC Studios

Save the date 🌿 Saturday 6 June Festival of Plants is almost here 🌼 Join us to celebrate the Garden in full bloom with tours, talks, hands-on activities, live music, food and more. Bring friends & family – children up to 16 go free 💚 🎫 https://bit.ly/49hMOju

Where could a PhD in Plant Sciences take you? Holly Astley shares how her time at @cam.ac.uk shaped her path from PhD to to a dynamic career in biotech. Read Holly's story: tinyurl.com/yeypt5vv @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social @yourscambridge.bsky.social

Plant scientist @sebastianevda.bsky.social is using AI & genetics to develop potatoes that resist nematode pests without using harmful chemicals. Read more about the Cambridge network involved in one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century: tinyurl.com/4m22zbw2 @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social

🌱🌾🌍🌺🌳🌲🌿🐡🌴🖌️ Another team writes about their #BUC2026 experience in the on-line contest. This time, Cambridge, who are in the live semifinal in August. @camplantsci.bsky.social Read more at: botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/

Gap year role: temporary technician www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/technician An opportunity for a student to gain experience in laboratory techniques and working in a scientific environment. Please note this is for a local Cambridge area-based sixth former who's gap year will start this September.

Job opportunity! Research Lab Phenotyping & Horticulture Tech An opportunity to provide support focusing on the phenotypic characterisation of rice and maize with the care of plant material in the controlled environmental rooms and glasshouse. Apply by Wednesday 20 May 2026: tinyurl.com/2yzrjm4m

From showy flowers to attract pollinators to pollen released from subtle catkins, read about the ingenious pollination strategies used by trees in our Head of Horticulture, Sally Petitt's column in the May issue of Cambridge Edition magazine: bit.ly/3OGcMGw

Dr Edwin Rose will talk on 'A Surplus in the Sciences? Printing, Publishing and Distributing Cambridge's First Scientific Journal, 1821–1928'. Wed 6th May at 5.30pm in the Friends of Peterhouse Seminar Room, Peterhouse. Please email the Secretary to attend: [email protected]

James Costa and Elizabeth Yale will be giving a talk about their new book: Annotated Edition of The Descent of Man. Wed, 13 May at 5.30-6.30pm. Department of Zoology. @camzoology.bsky.social BOOK NOW: www.eventbrite.com/e/1985662082...

MpERF14/GEMMIFER paper now published in Current Biology. Congratulations Go and Yuki for leading such a nice piece of research. #PlantSciences www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We’re #GettingCurious about #CarnivorousPlants this #NationalGardeningWeek. See them in the new display by the Glasshouse Range, including pitcher plants (Sarracenia), Venus flytraps (Dionaea) & sundews (Dosera). All with ingenious ways to attract, trap, and digest prey to fuel their growth.

Nudibranchs, sea slugs and statistics: Cambridge Natural Sciences students reflect on this year’s Evolutionary Biology field course in Pembrokeshire this April. Read more: tinyurl.com/eweaz8hx @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk @camzoology.bsky.social @yourscambridge.bsky.social 🧪

Congratulations to Uta Paszkowski whose election to the US National Academy of Sciences was formally recognised last week, marking her official induction as an International Member of one of the world’s most prestigious scientific institutions: tinyurl.com/ufw9e7pa @paszkowskilab.bsky.social 🧪

The last paper of my PhD work in Argentina. We dig deeper into the Marchantia MpC1HDZ transcription factor. Many experiments, but my favourite: in addition to its role in oil body cell differentiation, it is also important for another cell type! #PlantScience academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

Highlighting our help to bees this Earth Day 🐝 The bee hotels by the Glasshouse Range are helping solitary bees by providing a home for them to nest and raise young, so they can continue their vital work. #OurPowerOurPlanet #EarthDay #CUBG

Fantastic dale @fieldstudiesc.bsky.social Dale Fort looking with our first years @camzoology.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social exploring rocky shores

Liverworts as laboratories: new study highlights the role of transporter MpABCG1 for sequestering terpenes in liverwort oil bodies - enhancing our understanding of how we could produce high-value medicines like anti-cancer drugs using sustainable plant-based factories. tinyurl.com/v9umnkvh

Latest research from @jimhaseloff.bsky.social's lab @camplantsci.bsky.social sheds new light on the evolution of plant cell division & could unlock new ways to engineer crop growth. 👉 tinyurl.com/5n7h2n58 @fromani.bsky.social @ignacybo.bsky.social @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social 🧪

The final version of our Marchantia cell cycle paper is now published. A much improved version compared to the preprint. Cyclins, repressors, and more. Thanks to co-authors and reviewers. #PlantScience. academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

This Plant Appreciation Day, we’re celebrating the British bluebell 💙🌿 Together with colleagues from Cambridge University Herbarium, @camplantsci.bsky.social and @slcuplants.bsky.social, we explore the science behind this much-loved native plant. Read more: https://shorturl.at/Iauxq @cam.ac.uk

We've put one of the UK's most beloved plants under the microscope for International Plant Appreciation Day! 💚🌱 🔬 🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/bluebells-th... Thank you Cambridge University Botanic Garden, Cambridge University Herbarium & @camplantsci.bsky.social for collaboration #bluebells #plantsci

Fantastic gap-year opportunity for a local 6th-form student - we are looking for a temporary technician to help with undergraduate practical classes from September 2026 to March 2027. Find out more & apply: www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/technician Application deadline: 22 May 2026. Please share 🧪

From Plant Sciences Part II to painting the road verges of Britain – in the latest of our alumni stories, award-winning botanical painter Nessie Ramm shares how her time at @cam.ac.uk inspired her art & community work. tinyurl.com/3ucac5eh @yourscambridge.bsky.social @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social

CPS President Professor John Carr with Cambridge Natural History Society President Jim Woodhouse at the opeing of the The 107th Conversazione and NatHistFest. Open today only! Details here: www.cnhs.org.uk/107th-conver...

The Norwich Cambridge Science Symposium is back this summer! Save the date (13th-14th August). Check out our updated website : nocass.org, and follow @nocassofficial.bsky.social for upcoming updates on keynote speakers, panelists and workshops! (Registration opens 1st June).

Watch highlights from this year's photosynthesis hackathon in Ghana: tinyurl.com/dz8ca9ud @cam.ac.uk @openjii.bsky.social @rwth.bsky.social @cambridgeafrica.bsky.social @cgiar.org @plantphys-cam.bsky.social

Very sorry to hear this sad news about Philippa Borrill - a former student and much valued friend and collaborator at @camplantsci.bsky.social.

Following our international Spatial Omics in Plants workshop (January 2026), we’re continuing the momentum with a new online seminar series to keep this growing community connected.

Great article about Anoop Tripathi’s recent field trip to Namibia for research on cross-hybridisation to develop climate-resilient crops. Read more: tinyurl.com/24vr9ezm @anoop333pathi.bsky.social

New Preprint! Engineering quantitative root disease resistance in barley by targeting conserved SCAR susceptibility genes without compromising seed yield or mycorrhizal symbiosis. This work has been led by @binebrumm.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our Rock Garden is packed with beautiful & resilient alpine plants-built to thrive in extreme cold, wind & poor soils. Be inspired to grow them at home by our Head of Horticulture, Sally Petitt, in the April issue of Cambridge Edition magazine: https://bit.ly/4bSlpFd

"People are underpinning all of our success and I think making more of those people is key" - Dame Ottoline Leyser @slcuplants.bsky.social spoke with @stephaniemswarbre.bsky.social on career insights and cultivating a diverse, inclusive research environment at #Monogram2026 #WomeninSTEM

New episode of The Naked Scientist featuring @jenbromley.bsky.social - @camplantsci.bsky.social alumna & plant sciences researcher at Churchill College, Cambridge - talking about reviving ancient seeds: www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/int...

Hacking photosynthesis for a food-secure future - global teams use AI / ML to find genetic links for climate-resilient crops in Africa at hackathon in Ghana: tinyurl.com/3uuu6c9d @openjii.bsky.social @rwth.bsky.social @cambridgeafrica.bsky.social @cgiar.org @plantphys-cam.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk

Job opportunity! Research Associate An opportunity to join our team to work on a set of single cell technologies which be used to investigate the interplay between nutrient and symbiosis signalling at cellular resolution in rice. Apply by Friday 17 April 2026: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

We’re excited to feature on BBC Radio 4’s Open Country with Martha Kearney. Martha met our Deputy Curator, Dr Ángela Cano, to uncover the story behind the daffodil. Tune in to hear what she discovered! 🏵️ 2 April, 3pm 4 April, 6:07am https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002tc07

We’ve received some great abstracts so far for #SLS26. However, we’ve heard from a few of you that you need a bit more time over the Easter break to finalise submissions, so we're extending the deadline to 20 April! Reviews are underway & we will let you know results on 4 May www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/sls

The 107th Conversazione and NatHistFest starts on 10th April in the David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, off Pembroke Street, Cambridge and runs until the 11th April. @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social Details can be found below: www.cnhs.org.uk/107th-conver...

Due to increased interest we are extending the submission deadline for poster abstracts to 10 April! ⬇️ Download poster submission form: www.engbio.cam.ac.uk/files/engbio...

A critical gap in botanical education will be eased with the Garden’s new Certificate in Botany – with the help Henslow’s historic teaching materials. The course reconnects core skills with modern plant science. Read more: https://shorturl.at/4ULU3

With beautiful old glass houses

Wonderful photos from the botanic garden in Padova by Sebastian Schornack @dromius.bsky.social 👇

Preserved for 200 years, these watercolour illustrations used by Darwin’s mentor, John Henslow, have been featured for the first time in today’s Guardian. And they will soon be used again as teaching materials in the Garden’s new Certificate in Botany course. Find out more: https://shorturl.at/SxCej

How does wheat tell time?🌾🕰️ New model by @abhibiotech.bsky.social with @alexwebblab.bsky.social & James Locke reveals the flexibility of plant circadian clocks. Unlike Arabidopsis, wheat ELF3 peaks at dawn, model suggests TOC1 repression drives this shift doi.org/10.1098/rsif... @royalsociety.org

Jade vine looking incredible in the Tropics House 💚 Meet the ‘sassy ceiling swinger’, part of our Talking Plants exhibition 🌿 Scan the QR code and ask about its unusual pollination and celebrity status! More: https://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/talking-plants/ #JadeVine #TalkingPlants #CUBG

Engineering Biology Symposium & Forum - Register and submit your abstract for a chance to win up to £500 to support conference registration and expenses. More information: www.engbio.cam.ac.uk/events/engbi...