Job alert 🚨 Technician post in soil carbon at the University of Sheffield @sheffieldpps.bsky.social supporting natural capital assessment in South Yorkshire, UK jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...

Plants remember stress! The PlantMemo project, led by ‪@jurriaanton.bsky.social‬, has secured an ERC Advanced Grant for an exciting project decoding how stress “memories” boost plant resilience—paving the way for hardier crops. 🔗 www.sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/... #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #ERC

Fantastic news for PPS Sheffield! Huge congratulations to jessdunn.bsky.social and Alex on winning prestigious #BBSRC Fellowships! Excited to see the innovative work they produce over the next few years! bit.ly/3RRbh6f @sheffielduni.bsky.social #Fellowship #Research #Bioscience #Sheffield

Applications open for our International Dual PhD Awards in Plant & Soil Sciences! Train in world-class labs across @sheffieldpps.bsky.social and @westsyduhie.bsky.social and spend time at both institutes. bit.ly/4375M8D #PhDopportunity #PlantScience #SoilScience #Sustainability #AcademicSky

Fantastic talk by Catherine Nuttgens at Futurebuild on the importance of urban trees, supported by research carried out within the Urban Tree Observatory @sheffieldpps.bsky.social

Finally! After a lot of hard work our paper on tethering FNR to PSI in Chlamy is out in @theplantcell.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social @profmattjohnson.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

I have a PAID 6 weeks undergraduate summer internship in my lab. You'll use #FRET #biosensors, #confocal #microscopes, and #RaspberryPi to try to discover how low humidity affects leaf development. @sheffieldpps.bsky.social @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social Project 5: www.rms.org.uk/community/ne...

Our review paper “Browning events in Arctic ecosystems: diverse causes with common consequences” is out in @plosclimate.org journals.plos.org/climate/arti... @sheffieldpps.bsky.social, @robertgbjork.bsky.social, @scootjd.bsky.social, @thissideofthearctic.org, @arctic-carolina.bsky.social

SEB 2025 keynote speakers confirmed! SEB president Tracy Lawson, University of Essex Lecturer John Ferguson and BBSRC Discovery Fellow Lorna McAusland will all give talks in #stomata session P5. @casparchater.bsky.social www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a.... Abstract deadline March 7th. Please RT!

A reminder that I currently have a fully funded PhD advertised to work on plant reproduction! Sheffield is a great environment in which to study - friendly, supportive colleagues, LOTS of plant research going on @sheffieldpps.bsky.social, and close to the Peak District for hikes and climbing.

Jamie Howe giving a great talk at #BES2024 about his MRes research on pollen, w/Upuli Wickramaarachchi & Heather Walker, @sheffieldpps.bsky.social! #polleneaters.

Steph Glendinning talks about her PhD work in the lab, on resilience of urban pollinators at #BES2024! f/t colleagues Jill Edmondson and Luke Tilley! @royentsoc.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social #pollinators

Molly Moseley @entomollygy.bsky.social presents work from her MBiolSci @sheffieldpps.bsky.social and the Sheffield Undergrad Research Experience at #BES2024. (w/ Upuli Wickramaarachchi!). More pollinator #chemicalecology to come as Molly is staying on in the lab for a PhD! #SURE

Know someone looking for a PhD? Two newly funded Doctoral Training Programmes (DTPs) with projects starting Oct2025! BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience DTP (YBDTP) https://buff.ly/4i7G6PV and NERC ACCE+ DTP: https://buff.ly/4i8K4I1 Lots of projects based within PPS– see thread for details #plantscience

🥳New cryo tomography Preprint ☀️🌱🔬Molecular architecture of thylakoid membranes within intact spinach chloroplasts. doi.org/10.1101/2024.1… Proud to be part of this great work with @cellarchlab.com @wojwie.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social

PPS are excited to be visited by Alicia Gomez Fernandez for a seminar today to learn about Crop Trait Evolution and Ecological Characterization of Crop Wild Progenitors. Hosted by @colinplants.bsky.social

We've created a pack to make it easy to find all our PPS researchers. Check it out and follow them. Let us know if you are a PPS researcher who wants adding to the pack #plantbiology #plantscience #soil #photosynthesis go.bsky.app/FFHrMQ9

Hot off the press today in @currentbiology.bsky.social, our very latest on Mucoromycotina ‘fine root endophyte’ #mycorrhizas! led by Nathan Howard, we show N source preference and exogenous C metabolism by #MFRE: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... short 🧵

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Great to see our paper on tethering FNR to PSI in Chlamydomonas out as a preprint @sheffieldpps.bsky.social

Please repost! #PlantSciencesJobs Singh lab is expanding and still time to apply online. 2xPDRAs (postdocs) vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... 1 Research Assistant vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... Please email if you have informal inquiries.

Great to host @thepallavisingh.bsky.social today @sheffielduni.bsky.social talking about “Enhancing water use efficiency in crops”

Come work with us! We're hiring two postdoc research fellows working broadly on nature-based climate solutions, including mitigation and natural sinks. If you'd like to chat about these, please get in touch. tinyurl.com/mt8stvmr @sheffieldpps.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social

New Editorial: "Scorched Earth" rdcu.be/dzrla The destructive consequences of catastrophic wildfires frequently hit the front pages of newspapers worldwide. But scientific attention is increasingly turning towards understanding changes in wildfire regimes. #PlantScience

The February issue is now complete and fully online: www.nature.com/nplants/volu...

Standing room only for Merlin Sheldrake’s talk today - lots of love for soil fungi here in Sheffield @sheffieldpps.bsky.social

Merlin Sheldrake giving a PPS external seminar today to a packed room on how fungi make our world. #PlantScience #Fungi

🥳This paper from Besiana Sinanaj’s PhD on role of diverse symbiotic 🍄 in plant nutrition was published in @funecology.bsky.social today: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... It's her last day with us in Sheffield so this is a lovely farewell & thanks! short 🧵…

Thank you to @jxbotany.bsky.social and T. Shikanai for highlighting our recent paper on photosynthetic oscillations in the pgr5 mutant. academic.oup.com/jxb/article/...

A Saturday mycorrhizal treat - I'm so pleased to share our latest findings from our research into the interactions between plants, mycorrhizal fungi and parasitic nematodes in @NatureComms, open access link to the article here: rdcu.be/dw3NU