Hiring 3 postdocs in ecological resilience @biology.ox.ac.uk for my @erc.europa.eu CoG ResIntegrate project. Deadline May 29th. Details below. Pls share @salgoteam.bsky.social @evoldir.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @ecolsocaus.bsky.social

Profile of Noni Franklin‐Tong nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Join @robynemm.bsky.social at the #SEBconference in Florence. Register now ⬇️ www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a... Check out our Plant sessions ⬇️ www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a... Book your place now ⬇️ www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a... Early bird registration deadline is 15 May 2026

If you want to read more about our recent work on how gene body methylation buffers noise in gene expression academic.oup.com/nar/article/... , @jamespblloyd.bsky.social has a excellent spotlight in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social.

I wanted to share my new Spotlight in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social that highlights a terrific paper linking gene body methylation with noise in gene expression: Silencing the noise with gene body methylation doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

We're hiring! 🌱 The RO2T Respiration Group is looking for a PhD student and a postdoc to work on root oxygen biology! Please spread the word! #plantscijobs

Only 1 month left to secure your spot at the #SEBconference Florence 2026 with early bird rates! Don’t miss your chance to join scientists from around the world. Register now: www.sebiology.org/resource/seb-conference-florence-2026-early-bird-registration-closes-in-one-month.html

My lab and @smarino0111.bsky.social lab are currently looking for 2 PDRAs on a 3-year @bartscharity.bsky.social funded project. The posts will be based in Blizard Institute within Queen Mary Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. Check out the details and apply here: qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

Germ cells have their own versions of core transcription factors and fertility depends on them. We're hiring a PhD student to figure out how! 📢 Fly genetics + proteomics + genomics. Fully funded. Aarhus University 🇩🇰 Deadline May 1 👇 Please share with anyone who might be interested!

We are pleased to announce the launch of the BBSRC-funded UK Plant Epigenetics Network (UK-PEN) with our inaugural meeting (it is free!): 🌱 “Plant Epigenetics: From Model to Crop Species” 📅 11–12 June 2026 University of Dundee (hybrid event) We look forward to welcoming you!

🌱 We’re excited to launch the BBSRC-funded UK Plant Epigenetics Network (UK-PEN) with our inaugural workshop (free!): “Plant Epigenetics: From Model to Crop Species” 📅 11–12 June 2026 📍 Uni of Dundee (hybrid) We look forward to welcoming you! Feel free to repost to help us reach the community

In October 2026 we held our second Black in Plant Science (BiPS) Conference at the University of Leeds. We asked the members of our community why BiPS is important to them, and here is what they had to say: buff.ly/OClLBP3 Thank you to everyone who contributed to this video.

🚨 Happening TOMORROW! 🚨 Don’t miss this FREE webinar on the use of AI in higher education. Discover practical tools, insights & strategies for educators and researchers. Register now: www.sebiology.org/events/ems-e...

Do you (or have you ever) worked with natural history collections? Are you trans or non-binary? If you said "yes" to both of those, @rin-krichilsky.bsky.social and I want to hear from you! Please consider filling out our survey and please share with others! 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐛🦕🦴🌿 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Registration for the 13th PhD School on Plant Development is open! 🌾 🔬 🌺 🧬 🌵 🧪 Deadline: June 30, 2026 Link to registration form forms.gle/tbmUxaw2vmEn... Cost: €350.- (incl. board, lodging and social event) For details re payment and abstracts see form or homepage raissiglab.org/plantdevosch...

🚨 FINAL CALL: Abstract submission deadline is TODAY for the #SEBconference 2026 in Florence! Don't miss your chance to present your research and join scientists from around the world. Submit your abstract now ⬇️ www.sebiology.org/resource/seb... Share widely

Only two weeks left to submit your abstracts for the SEB meeting in Florence! There will be two sessions on plant epigenetics - don't miss this great opportunity to showcase your research and network with a fab community 😀

📣 Applications are currently open for a @blackinplantsci.bsky.social Summer Studentship working with @cgrandel.bsky.social and the Earlham #Biofoundry team. 🌱 This is a great opportunity for Black undergraduate students to gain experience in #automation and #syntheticbiology in plants. 🧬

🪧Join the Annual Meeting of @sebiology.bsky.social , which includes a dedicated Plant Section🌱🪴🌵🌾☘️. Session P8 🧬is organized by @anna-amtmann61.bsky.social , one of our @episeedlink.bsky.social External Advisors. 📌A great opportunity to connect with leading experts in the field

Hot off the press, our latest publication on the functional role of gene body methylation (gBM). academic.oup.com/nar/article/... Work spearheaded by Jakub Zastapilo with help from @robynemm.bsky.social and Liudmila Mikheeva and co-led by Marco Catoni and @ubechtold.bsky.social 1/3

🚨📢📄 Article in press in Genome Biology doi.org/10.1186/s130... We introduce panREPET, a reference-free pipeline to detect shared transposable element (TE) insertions across pangenomes and retrace their evolutionary dynamics #TEsky 🧵👇

All together now 🗣️🗣️ : mitochondrial dynamics are vital *even in plants*! 🗣️🗣️ Fantastic work looking looking at the prime candidate for the mysterious & elusive plant mito fusion factors: MIRO1 The momentum for plant mito dynamics is picking up 💪🏻 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This week, an X user created an AI video of me being chloroformed and prepared for rape. Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason. But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇 jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...

Are you, or do you know someone that is excited to do a PhD in plant biology. We are happy to offer a position to explore physiology, gene regulatory networks and wild species. Come join our team in a stimulating scientific environment at the University of Groningen! werkenbij.rug.nl/vacature/phd...

If you are a masters or early stage PhD student interested in evolutionary biology, consider applying for a place on Guarda Summer School. Based in the Swiss alps, this was one of the best experiences of my PhD! Application deadline: 20 Jan 2026 tb.ethz.ch/education/gu...

So happy to see this work finally online! In this Research Review, I discuss the emerging roles of H3K27me3 writers (the enzymes that lay it down) and erasers (the enzymes that remove it) in controlling plant adaptation 🌿🌡️❄️🦠 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... 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! #Plantscience

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI115/r... 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

Research question for the #epigenetics community: Anyone on here tested using NEB's EM conversion with Illumina Infinium microarrays and want to share there experiences? Please share 🙏

My students have set up a petition to persuade the University of Nottingham not to close our Plant Biology BSc course c.org/VPhzVVrHPS Please consider signing

Happy to share our latest paper on a new method iNOME-seq that acts as an in vivo bookmarking system to measure open chromatin and other features in plants rdcu.be/eMh36. Project started several years ago with Prof Jose Gutierrez-Marcos and a great collaboration with @plantevolution.bsky.social.

If you’re looking for a PhD studentship in some really exciting areas of plant science 🌿 take a look at this year’s Sainsbury PhD studentships - you could come and study orchid mycorrhizas 🌸🍄 with me & @garethphoenix.bsky.social! www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

New #PhD opportunities! NorthWestBio projects now online for 2026! Including a #photosynthesis project w/ @marjorielundgren.bsky.social looking at how photosynthetic diversity may affect future crop nutrient quality. Plant projects and the full set of projects available here: tinyurl.com/529yz4jd

🚨 Hurry! Only 3 days remaining to submit your session proposals for SEB Florence 2026. Deadline: Wednesday, 1 October 2025 — time is almost up! 🔬 Organise a session, share your expertise, and help shape the future of experimental biology. Apply now: www.sebiology.org/resource/ses...

DNA methylation contributes to plant acclimation to naturally fluctuating light 📖 buff.ly/3QP9OJ5 by Emmerson et al. @robynemm.bsky.social @raduzabet.bsky.social @ubechtold.bsky.social @proftlawson.bsky.social #PlantScience

We are looking for a Postdoc with expertise in plant molecular/synthetic biology, or single-cell/spatial transcriptomics to join the UKRI-FLF funded project focused on understanding and improving water-use efficiency in rice. Apply online before 15/10/2025: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... RP

We are looking for a PDRA for the PlantPlug project, turning parasitic plants into programmable bio-modules! Using mistletoe as a novel chassis, we are exploring the frontiers of inter-species communication. Apply online by 15/10/2025. *RP* #PlantSciencesJobs vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

Excited to see our story on epigenetic mediated aclimation of plants to fluctuating light patterns out today in doi.org/10.1111/nph..... This work started 6 years ago co-supervised with the amazing @proftlawson.bsky.social and led by the brilliant @robynemm.bsky.social. 1/2

I'm so pleased this is out, I loved my PhD project so much! We found that natural fluctuations in light impacts both DNA methylation and gene expression, and identified a possible candidate (MCCA) for further exploration. Check it out ⬇️

I can't stress it more. This conference has been designed for us by us. Support @blackinplantsci.bsky.social conference at the University of Leeds funded by the SEB, Faculty of Biological Science at Leeds, the Grow More and New Phytologist foundations and Gastby. Join us on 24/10, details below.

Thank you to our brilliant delegates, mentors, speakers, the organising committee and our hosts at the University of Birmingham for making New Phytologist next generation scientists 2025 a great success!

I really enjoyed writing this with Marco! If you're interested in the possible consequences of transposon movement and viral infection on plant genome plasticity, check it out ⬇️

📣 NEW SPECIAL ISSUE 📣 Epigenetic Plasticity: From Model Plants to Crops 📘 Edited by Marco Catoni, Tamara Lechon Gomez, and Aline Probst 📸 Cover image by Yihan Dong 🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb... #JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social @alineprobst.bsky.social‬

⚠️ SEB MEMBERS: This is for you. Don’t let your research live and die in a PDF. Bring it to life in the SEB Spring 2025 Magazine. Contact us now: 🔗 www.sebiology.org/resource/promote-your-work-in-our-spring-2025-magazine.htm

⏳ Just one month left to grab your Early Bird ticket for #SEB2025 in Antwerp! Save money, plan ahead, and get ready for a fantastic conference. Register now 👉 www.sebiology.org/events/seb-annual-conference-antwerp-2025/registration.html

Radu is an amazing supervisor, I would highly recommend!

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

Join our lab in @kent.ac.uk Paid summer #studentship for #BAME students to study #seaweed as biostimulant in #crops Application: blackinplantscience.org/2025/01/17/b...

Want to do a #PhD in Molecular #Plantscience / Plant Epigenetics? We are recruiting through two currently open Freiburg graduate school program calls by @mpi-ie.bsky.social and SGBM of @uni-freiburg.de! Consider to apply: www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/IMPRS-PhD-Pr... www.sgbm.uni-freiburg.de/node/1847