I enjoyed thinking about some of the people who have been important to me at different points of my academic journey for this Q & A in Current Biology. I hope some of you enjoy it too! authors.elsevier.com/a/1muUD3QW8S...

I'll focus on What is needed to build a fulfilling career in academia How to navigate the current job market What constitutes a “successful” academic application package from a search committee’s perspective Strategies for balancing research program success with teaching and service expectations

1 year technician position in the Roeder lab on how sepal morphogenesis is robust to environmental perturbations. Great position for a postbac. jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...

This looks fab!

If you're studying #Agriculture #PlantBreeding and would be interested in #IndustryPlacement experience, there is an opportunity at our @kwsgroup.bsky.social Breeding Station in Thriplow, Cambridgeshire: jobs.kws.com/job/Thriplow... #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceUK #outdoorclassroom

We are really excited that Euro Evo Devo will take place here in Scotland from the 9th-12th June, at the University of Glasgow! Deadline for Early Bird Registration and Abstract Submission are rapidly approaching in March so do register soon! www.evodevoconference26.com/important-da...

📣 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. 🧬

JOB ALERT! We are excited to announce that we are recruiting three new academics at lecturer level! Click the link below for more info on how to apply, and don’t forget to explore our research themes too! We look forward to receiving your applications! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Were hiring! We have 3 new open positions on our academic staff, more details on the link below. It’s an open call, and we would love to boost the diversity of our staff, so if you think there might be a good scientific fit, do apply! I am happy to take enquiries. www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Brilliant to see these guys graduating today and to attend my first UoB ceremony. Huge congratulations to Dr Liu, Dr Greiff and Dr Jeal, and look forward very much to hearing about the difference you make in the future!

A new 2 year post in our team at the Milner Centre in Bath - single cell transcriptomics, non-coding RNA, stomatal physiology and evolution, all rolled into one. Really exciting project and excellent collaborators in Sheffield too! Please share, details here: www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

Are you a researcher looking to help the next generation of plant scientists gain valuable experience? Then consider applying to host a Plant Health Undergraduate Studentship this summer! 📆Apply by Tues 10 March Find out more: www.rsb.org.uk/plant-health... #PlantHealth

It was good to catch up on my reading for this dispatch in Current Biology. Sjoerd Woudenberg in the Weijers lab, Wallner et al. In the Dolan lab and Flores Sandoval et al. In the Bowman lab have done a great job! Evolution and development: What makes a merry stem?: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Love this really cool method for gene editing briwn algae- greens or lycophytes next? www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Thursday is the last chance to apply for a NERC GW4 funded PhD to work with me and James Clark at Bath on roles for WOX genes in the evolution of plant life histories. The project builds on prior work showing a divergence in function after duplication in mosses. www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...

🧬 Fancy a fully funded PhD at the cutting edge of parasitology? 🦠✨ We’re recruiting outstanding students to join an exciting 4-year, fully funded PhD programme in Molecular & Cellular Parasitology – home & international students welcome 🌍

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL OF YOU!🎄✨

Happy to share my lab’s first venture into the world of wheat from an enjoyable collaboration with Chris Burt at RAGT Seeds and Keith Edwards. My team members Katie Jeal and Sophie Carpenter did a terrific job of the bioinformatics and starting the lab work. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Friends, I hardly ever get to post this… Bryophyte faculty job!!! botany.ubc.ca/job-postings...

Fabulous opportunity for early career folk, great place, great colleagues and a salary bump!

Led by Professor Jane Langdale @biology.ox.ac.uk, the C4 Rice Project builds on decades of interdisciplinary research working to ensure global food security. Discover the incredible story of the multi-decade battle to make better rice ⬇️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3RY0vxzFpg

Very proud of my PhD alumnus George Greiff for passing his viva and submitting his corrections last week. Not to mention all the other things, a new job at the Cardiff Museum, paper submission and a new house all in the last few weeks! Huge congrats and loved the celebrations 🥳😁.

Very excited to advertise 15 plant engineering biology PhD projects @biologyatyork.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @slcuplants.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social & University of Bristol. 🪴 🥬 🔧 🧬 Come join this new Plant BioDesign community! www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...

The origin and evolution of root mucilage Nazari et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Pleased to be able to advertise a NERC GW4+ PhD studentship to be cosupervised by James Clark at Bath on the evolution of WOX gene function. More info on the project and application process here: www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/projects-202... Happy to take informal questions too.

NERC GW4+ PhD: Genome duplication, extinction and diversification in the evolution of flowering plants, supervised by Phil Donoghue, James Clark and Ilia Leitch. Deets soon but get in touch with @phil-donoghue.bsky.social if interested. Jan 8 application deadline @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social

PhD opportunity in plant developmental biology for UK based students of Black heritage! How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out. Application deadline Jan 6th www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social

Hey plant developmental biologists! Want to do great science with a great guy in a great place? @oconnord.bsky.social is looking for a postdoc to join his lab at Colorado State: oconnorlab.colostate.edu/wp-content/u... #devbio #plantscience #botany #bioimaging #microscopy

Please share! Interested in floral development and evolution 🌺🔬? We have a PhD position available to join our lab! Open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

New #PhD opportunity in the Uauy lab @johninnescentre.bsky.social. Can we increase grain number in wheat by studying genes controlling organ identity? #wheat #spikelet #development biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/ide...

Here's 123 new bryophyte genomes for you! Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm recruiting a post doc and a research assistant for a 30 month project “ZHOUPI genes, cell death and the evolution of plant endosperm” funded by a Research Project grant from the Leverhulme Trust @Leverhulme.ac.uk. Application details are on the Opportunities page at biology.ed.ac.uk/goodrich

Really excited to be kicking off this series of Palaeobotany evening lectures at the Oxford University Botanic Garden. All are online and free to attend 👇👇

Oxford Biology is growing 📢 We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in: 🌱 Plant Sciences 🦉 Animal Behaviour 🔬 Molecular Cell Biology 3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology. Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7 Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3

So pleased that my student Wei Liu successfully defended her PhD thesis yesterday. Joining my lab from Wuhan in 2019, she had a bumpy ride and has shown tremendous tenacity and resilience in taking it over the line. I take my hat off to you Dr Liu! 👏🏻🥳🍾🥂

So very proud of my student George Greiff for winning the David Hanke Medal for the best student talk at this year’s Gatsby Plant Science network meeting in Oxford. Well deserved at the end of a busy and productive PhD 👏🏻💕.

Here it is! Epidermal cells in the root can figure out if they are covered by the root cap or not using mechanical signals! Thanks to @ckirchhelle.bsky.social, @moritznowack.bsky.social, @nathan-german.bsky.social Annamaria Kiss and all the others!

Interesting new piece in the 3D growth puzzle journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Thinking of friends, collaborators and colleagues who will be at the wonderful FASEB mechanisms in plant development meeting this week. Hoping very much that you will be posting about the latest exciting news and advances, and your favourite new results (with permission!). Happy travels☺️!

📢 To all molecular mossers 📢 The Moss Workshop will be held in (not always as sunny as this) Oxford next year (30th June until 2nd July 2026). More details will follow soon, but in the meantime please make a note of the dates 😃 👍

🌿 Black in Plant Science Conference 2025 🌿 Join us for a powerful celebration of Black excellence in plant research! 🗓️ Registration & Poster Submission Deadline: 28 Sept 2025 📍 Connect with researchers, share your work, and grow your network. 🎟️ Register now: 🔗 buff.ly/ax54FQ4

OrthoFinder just dropped a major update It’s faster, more accurate, and ready for thousands of genomes Let’s break it down (1/10) github.com/OrthoFinder/... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We visited the beautiful RHS garden at Rosemoor on the way back from Croyde yesterday. Many trees with unusual habits, wonderful formal planting, a Mediterranean garden and masses of Roses in bloom. The students enjoyed the raised herb and veg beds in the education centre 🫛🥬🥕🍓!

Enjoying teaching this year’s Croyde field course on plant biodiversity, ecology and evolution with my great colleagues Andy Bailey, Sue Holwell and Daniela Dietrich. Fab students and so many Orchids at Braunton Burrows UNESCO biosphere reserve. Great to see Gary Foster too ☺️

It is out! CLAVATA in moss: not only meristems! Big thanks to @jillharrison.bsky.social , @ilichenmoss2.bsky.social and @newphyt.bsky.social

Very happy to be visiting Chris Whitewoods @slcuplants.bsky.social this week- thanks Chris 🙏😁. Imaging mutants from Chris and George Greiff’s PhDs. Are there CLV/WOX interactions in moss…? @ilichenmoss2.bsky.social

Another great job opportunity @BristolBioSci. This one is a lectureship in evolutionary biology, and we are looking for an academic lead to our MSc in bioinformatics, so genomics and phylogenetics will be strong cards to play!