Expressions of interest are open for our 2026 short courses! 🧠 Sleep Measurement Masterclass: www.scni.ox.ac.uk/study-with-u... 🕙 Circadian Rhythm Disorders Masterclass: www.scni.ox.ac.uk/study-with-u... These courses provide advanced, research-focused training in sleep and circadian science.

Let's round off this week with another wonderful Research Spotlight blog. Read all about Valentina Paz's research experiences and her work looking at circadian rhythms and mood. www.circadianmentalhealth.org/post/how-our... #ECRs #mentalhealthresearch

📣 Calling all senior microbiology postdocs! The University of St Andrews is inviting applications from outstanding visionary Research Fellow and Future Leader candidates to attend a Biomolecular Science Fellowship Day. Applications due by 12th Dec, see link for full details: tinyurl.com/4n3na8vn

Great talk today from Luis Larrondo on the remarkable circadian clock control exhibited by fungi and the exquisite light-sensing behaviour that possess, which can be evidenced by image capture using their hyphae as a canvas @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social

Incredible Friday Seminar today from Luis Larrondo- fungal circadian clocks, and can fungi see? @johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social #chronobiology

Thought-provoking seminar today from Andrew Millar - on open data, & the science/economics of Arrival - pivoting your science to address the most important threats to humanity. Hugely impressive, stimulating talk & discussion. @earlhaminst.bsky.social

Today is a big day as the Precision Breeding Act comes into force 🌱 @kamounlab.bsky.social: “This is a milestone for UK science and innovation. We now have the regulatory framework to translate discovery into impact — improving crops, strengthening food security, and benefiting society” 🌿

We are looking for a PhD student to work on an exciting plastid endosymbiosis in microbial eukaryotes. This position involves sampling, exciting microscopy such as CARDFISH, ExM and FIBSEM, single-cell transcriptomics and more. #protistsonsky 1/2

🌿 3 new PhD positions in the Ton lab @PPS_UoS. Part of the ERC project '#PlantMemo', exploring how plants remember & respond to stress. 🧬 PhD 1 (UK only)👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🦠 PhD 2 (UK & EU)👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🌱 PhD 3 (UK only)👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PhD

Yup www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Few Plant science programmes are left in the UK and they are critical to train the next generation. This move by @uniofnottingham.bsky.social goes against recommendations made in the recent PS Education manifesto. Big mistake! Sign the petition! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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

I am trying to find everyone working on plant genomics: go.bsky.app/NqARJ7V Please let me know who is already on @bsky.app, but missing in this #PlantGenomics starter pack

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

LUC activity. Apparently there are glow worms around Norfolk but never seen them www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🆕 Vacancy! We're looking for a Research Scientist to explore the impact of novel carbohydrate containing foods on the gut microbiome and on health. 💷 £37,500 to £45,350 🗓️ Apply by 30 November 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/CKyGwgD

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

saiu na Folha @folha.com

⏰ Closing soon! We’re looking for a Research Scientist to join the Laboratory of Dr Maria Traka in the Food & Nutrition National Bioscience Research Infrastructure programme. 💷 £37,500 to £45,350 🗓️ Apply by 6 November 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/1svFijc

The lab won the Halloween costume competition on Science Hill at UCSC 🎃💀 —such a terrific group!

Registration is open to take part in the Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026), which especially invites early career scientists to present their molecular #plantsci research www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...

When all your PCRs fail, except for the negative control 😱

Spooky season has arrived! 👻 We held our annual Pumpkin Carving Competition at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social —vote for your favourite carve! 🎃🕯️

The University of Hamburg has opened 14 PhD positions focused on ecological and evolutionary research, including climate change impacts on aquatic populations. Details here: https://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung/grk2530/openpositions.html #phd

🌱plantiSMASH 2.0💥 is now live! I’m very excited to share that the 2.0 version of plantiSMASH is now available online and as a preprint on bioRxiv 📄https://lnkd.in/dN4F56pf 🌱 What’s new in plantiSMASH 2.0? ⬇️

What is it with talk slides being requested ages in advance of conferences.

Elon Musk’s new competitor to Wikipedia says apartheid wasn’t that bad, cites the Kremlin, and gives legitimacy to “white-genocide theory.” Musk is constructing a parallel universe in his own image.

Our new publication on HOBIT, a software tool for polyploid gene expression analysis. Compared with our previous method HomeoRoq (2014), HOBIT enables direct and higher-quality analysis of complex allohexaploid species such as bread wheat.

Aaarrgh the A47

Just listened to this fascinating interview with chronobiologist @chrono-bob.bsky.social on the science of circadian rhythms and how they impact health. [From 2022] #Chronobiology #CircadianRhythms #Cancer creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

We had such a great time at the XVIII Latin American Symposium on Chronobiology in Maceio, BR 🕓🌱🌳. I thank the organizers for the excellent meeting and New Phytologist for the support. @newphyt.bsky.social

Are you an early career plant scientist with 3-5 years' post-PhD experience? Tell the world about your research with the New Phytologist #TansleyMedal! Time is running out - apply for the 2026 competition by 1 November 2025. Find out more: www.newphytologist.org/grants-award... #PlantScience

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Sugarcane has the most complex genome of all crops. New genomics paper reveals origins including mysterious unknown ancestors. ‘The genomic footprints of wild Saccharum species trace domestication, diversification, and modern breeding of sugarcane’ Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... #plantscience 🧪

The New Phytologist Foundation is delighted to support this year's @blackinplantsci.bsky.social conference! #PlantScience

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...

📢4-year fully funded #PhD on seasonal timing of egg overwintering insects 🦋🦗🪳 🔬Identify universal mechanisms underlying #insect egg developmental time under #ClimateChange 📌@niooknaw.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social ℹ️ vacatures.knaw.nl/job-invite/2... ❗Application deadline: 7 December 2025

Presenting the 2025 Research Support Award, congratulations go to Sam Mugford who discussed his latest insights into the molecular mechanisms of plant immune suppression by virulence factors in aphid saliva! #BiochemAwards

Looking forward to the Latin American #chronobiology meeting!

Chromosome replication and cell division cycles are not synchronized in Staphylococcus aureus, with cells exhibiting two segregated origins of replication at the start of the cell cycle #bacteria #microbiology

@cbuckley.bsky.social and I wrote this Pursuit article about our wheat research #chronoculture #circadian #plantsci pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the...

CAKE Club: Autumn plant swap (and hummus tasting!) 🪴🫘 Today was the autumn edition of our bi-annual #plant swap: a chance for colleagues across the JIC to come together, connect and swap/rehome plants and seeds over tea, coffee and…you guessed it, cake! 🍰

New pre-print from the team! The manuscript is @emma-raven.bsky.social's PhD work showing that whether a leaf is a carbon sink or a carbon source influences how they execute immune responses. Have a read! #PlantScience @johninnescentre.bsky.social

If you're less than 10 years post PhD and have translated your research commercially, you have until Nov 1st to apply for the Science and BII essay prize for bioinnovation. $10-25k prizes and your essay published in @science.org www.science.org/content/page... 🧪

📣 New PhD student position opening in my lab! Soils are full of microbes, but how many are active? Surprisingly, we still lack reliable methods to answer this. If you are interested in microbial dormancy and are fascinated by the Alps and glacier forefields, contact me. 🏔️ 🦠 💤 🧬 🎓

Three Bicentenary research fellowships on offer at @officialuom.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social for exceptional ECRs with <3y postdoc experience 3yrs salary + £30k pa research expenses Do you have a great idea & want to join @mermanchester.bsky.social? www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/research/sup...

Applications are now OPEN for the JIF Rotation PhD Programme This prestigious 4-year #PhD programme trains graduate students in Plant and Microbial Sciences at the JIC, @thesainsburylab.bsky.social and @earlhaminst.bsky.social. 🗓️ Closing date - 13 November 2025 www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...

Find out what the UK #chronobiology community has been up to and how we're working to bring science out of the lab in our newsletter: heyzine.com/flip-book/a3...

“If we didn’t have plants, we’d still be fish!” 🐠🌍 Our keynote @plantteaching.bsky.social about the importance of plants, from photosynthesis to evolution and development... through aliens! 🌱🛸 @johninnescentre.bsky.social @quadraminstitute.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social #NBIAST2025