Interested in parasitology? Looking to do a PhD? Cone join me and @geordieparasit.bsky.social in Edinburgh as we try and work out how human parasites get their vitamins.

🪧 Upcoming Opportunities! We recently updated our website with some exciting opportunities. From scholarships specifically for Black students to PhD programmes across the country there are an incredible number of options. Head to our website for more details: buff.ly/uVvFtBk

Are you looking for female speakers in CryoEM for seminars and conferences? Are you a woman in CryoEM and not yet on the ‚woman in CryoEM‘ list? Find your speakers and add/update name and affiliation! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Pleased to see this collaboration with a great PhD student Pei Cing Ng, from Prof. Luning Liu's lab at Liverpool University published. Structure of the H. neapolitanus carbonic anhydrase and localisation in a mini-carboxysome: www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Are you looking for a PhD in Plant Science? Check our our project on barley canopy architecture. Combine genetics and physics to understand how awns influence barley grain development. Find out more here: lnkd.in/eWhWammJ Apply by 14th December. #PhDPosition #PlantSci @instmolplantsci.bsky.social

Check out this advertised professorship in Bern with my colleagues at the Institute of Plant Sciences! Please share widely to reach candidates from across the world and beyond our local academic bubbles. 🫧 #QueerInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #CarersInSTEM #AcademicSky #HigherED

The Wallace Lab is expanding in 2026, with five new Postdoctoral Research Associate positions now open. If you're passionate about engineering biology for sustainability, we'd love to hear from you! 🧬 ♻️ Deadline: 12th November 2025, details below ⬇️

Very excited to announce that our collaborative manifesto for 🌱 #PlantScience #Education has now been published! Educators from >10 countries and 30 institutions have contributed to it and we are incredibly proud of the final output. Here is a short thread 🧵1/4 doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...

Do you enjoy teaching biochemistry? The University of Virginia Department of Chemistry is hiring a teaching-track assistant professor to teach lecture and/or laboratory biochemistry courses. #chemjobs #facultychemjobs More details in the link below: apply.interfolio.com/175929

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to give a seminar at the Fellows Conference, which will be held on 10 March 2026. Candidates who win Fellowships will be offered a Tenure Track Group Leader position from the outset, initially for 5 years. Find out more: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...

Fully-funded #PhDposition in my lab @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social Apply before 🗓️ 2nd Dec 2025 👉 biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/mak... Making Drugs Out of Sunlight and "Thin Air" ☀️🌿🧬⚗️ with secondary supervision from Prof. Anne Osbourn @johninnescentre.bsky.social 🥼 #SynBio #OrgChem #PhD

Obsessed with this Journal of Immaterial Science article 🔥

If you can't see sidechains, can you really call the resolution 3.3 Å..? 👀 And if you can't see sidechains, how do you know the helical symmetry is right..?

The proliferation of tools to generate predictive protein structures just underscores how important CASP is. There is no better way to allow unbiased & fair comparisons between tools! predictioncenter.org/index.cgi Such a shame NIH didn't renew funding

Apple is entering the protein folding arena. SimpleFold: Folding Proteins is Simpler than You Think arxiv.org/abs/2509.18480 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/apple/ml-sim...

Ever wondered where your paracetamol comes from? Spoiler: crude oil. In this study – led by Nick Johnson from our lab in collaboration with @astra-zeneca.bsky.social – we show how biology and chemistry can work together to create a more sustainable alternative. (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Plant Shape Lab is hiring! Are you interested in supporting cutting edge cereal research? We are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated technician to join us for 2 years, setting up and running cereal transformation. Find out more, and apply here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

If you're on LinkedIn, you'll probably want to switch this toggle to 'off'.

📢Deadlines fast approaching for the BiPS Conference 2025! Join us for a day of connection and celebration where we'll be hearing from the renowned academics Nicola Patron and Kevin Cox. With workshops on a variety of topics and a chance for you to build your community. Register: buff.ly/J9PM0Wj

I supervise an excellent postdoc who's looking for a postdoc or associate position in < 1 yr. Highly skilled in chem biol and biochem (peptide synthesis, native chem ligation, bacterial expression, purification, intein-based splicing, crystallography, interaction assays). Contact me if interested.

SULSA is running an Industry Academia conference on 28th & 29th October. Looks fantastic for researchers working in Scotland- particularly good for students interested in learning more about industry & working on skill development! sulsa.ac.uk/indac/

Food for thought here for anyone not working at TRUE atomic resolution…

I had no idea about this! Amazon owns AbeBooks!

If this is true, it’s abysmally shortsighted for #NIH. The new tools nurtured by the long series of #CASP challenges probably contribute far more in one year to the scientific and industrial economies than the entire funds that have supported it.

Just learned that Frank Stahl (of the Meselson and Stahl DNA replication experiment ("the most beautiful experiment in biology") died at the beginning of April, to no fanfare. Here's a lovely video of them reminiscing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-tn...

Interested in trying out life as a scientific #editor? Based in the UK? Background in #PlantScience? The @plosbiology.org crew is expanding (again!), so a place in our lovely team might be for you...

🧬 New toolkit for engineering Chlamydomonas plastomes! MoCloro brings Golden Gate modular cloning to algal chloroplasts — enabling fast, multigene integration & homoplasmy in 2 months 🌿 🔗 https://bit.ly/4jMNhfU ##SyntheticBiology #Chlamydomonas #Microalgae #Plantscience

This is wild! Engineering E. coli bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol (Tylenol) www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Always exciting when research from the lab is disseminated for the public! @theguardian.com have reported on @swallacelab.bsky.social paper turning plastic into paracetamol using engineered bacteria tinyurl.com/32hxnwsd (original publication rdcu.be/esYfF)

Would you like to write for New Scientist? We always work with freelancers, but occasionally I put out a call like this for new writers. I'm looking for 300-700 word news stories about new discoveries. Don't pitch us press releases or the big journals, we have those covered. Pay starts at 51p/word

the ERC has added a million euro for researchers moving to Europe.

Come join us as a postdoc! We have an open position in biochemistry of cyanobacterial CO2 fixation focusing on regulation of carboxysome function! Please help me spread the word and welcome to apply! www.blikstadlab.org/open-positio...

Fantastic piece in @natplants.nature.com uncovering an ancient mechanism controlling cell fate across land plants from Maize to moss- protein stability is key! Great work led by @mjprigge.bsky.social & coming out of the labs of @luciastrader.bsky.social & @drannisr.bsky.social rdcu.be/ehFgk

Oh fucking come on. A month after the Stena Immaculate collision in the North Sea too. As if we needed more incentive to reduce our reliance on petrochemicals

New from the lab in @jacs.acspublications.org - Microbes can catalyse P=S and P=Se bond formation via central sulfur metabolism! Sadly none of the authors seem to be on bluesky yet, but I'm working on it! #biotech #biochemistry #science

Congratulations to Isabel Faci @johninnescentre.bsky.social winner of the #Monogram2025 ECR excellence award! Fascinating talk on how decoupling environmental signals can induce aerial branching in wheat!

If you’re interested in doing a Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Postdoctoral Fellowship in carbohydrate chemical biology or glycobiology in the @robfieldlab.bsky.social group at @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social then get in touch. marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

Looking for a climate postdoc position? Exciting long-term role at UEA to help develop the widely used climate monitoring datasets CRUTEM and CRU-TS, working with @timosbornclim.bsky.social and others. Deadline: TOMORROW (Fri 28th March). vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/14...

Job alert ‼️ 2x professorships available @uniofmanchester.bsky.social - ecology www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... - organismal biology (inc genomics, evolution etc.) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI506/s...

Starting to build our lab's interactions on bluesky. It appears we've got a positional effect from the summer lab photo 😂... @delfidorussen.bsky.social @chen-ji.bsky.social @beccatesta.bsky.social ... but not for alumnus @glombikm.bsky.social (top left of photo) @johninnescentre.bsky.social

New to bluesky - would appreciate a "retweet" please, so I can find everyone from twitter.

Fantastic new tool published in @acs.org pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... Huge, user-friendly repository of bio-produced chemicals with titre, yield & rate data by species. Searchable & browseable www.synbiohealth.cn/biotry/

Opening for a permanent group leader position on the biology of cyanobacteria at the I2BC on the Paris-Saclay campus. www.i2bc.paris-saclay.fr/wp-content/u... #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs

In 2024, we hosted the first Black in Plant Science UK Conference at The Sainsbury Lab Cambridge University. Soon we’ll be sharing details for the next conference, keep your calendars open for October 2025 to join plant enthusiasts from across the UK to celebrate Black excellence in Plant Science.

Fun looking job for people interested in #Algae and #Biotech at Loughborough University. Work with a bunch of different engineers to make #NaturalProducts with scale-up an integral part! tinyurl.com/5d42pvsj

Interesting Postdoc at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg with Prof Dr. Edgar Peiter & an industrial partner to develop crop/plant growth enhancing tech using cellular, chemical and molecular approaches. Collaborating with Prof Marc Knight @ Durham university who is 💯 lnkd.in/e_Kh9Vtx

Please spread the word. We're looking at recruiting a structural biologist (any level) @KamounLab to study plant-pathogen protein complexes especially in the context of coevolution. Direct inquiries welcome. Please include a cover letter. medium.com/@kamounlab/2...

I am out of the boot! 8 weeks since tearing my achilles tendon I am officially recovered & on to physio! As any good scientist I immediately measured difference in leg size between injured and uninjured legs: above ankle (7.5% larger- swelling), calf max (3% smaller) and mid-thigh (6% smaller)

Come and joint us at @mrclmb.bsky.social ! We have an opening for a new group leader in the Structural Studies Division. We are very interactive and collaborative with amazing facilities and generous core funding. Get in touch with myself or @sjorsscheres.bsky.social if you have any questions.

I absolutely love Dan Olson's work. This is a fantastic documentary!