Michelle Facette
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Plant biologist at UMass Amherst.
Bumping this and flagging some corny folks - anyone know the best place for PH207 seeds (and if there are RILs or NILs)?
@jefowlerjr.bsky.social
@jrossibarra.bsky.social
@carolynplants.bsky.social
@maizegdb.bsky.social
@maizezynskihi.bsky.social
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Arif Ashraf
15 days ago
Exciting news to share today! My grad student
@ohazel.bsky.social
Olivia received Linda Matsuuchi award! 🎉🍀🔬 She is the only grad student within the entire Faculty of Science from UBC
@science.ubc.ca
@ubcbotany.bsky.social
received the award this year!
www.ashraflab.com/mentees-succ...
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Okay maize folks- does anyone know if there are genetic resources for PH207 - specifically RIL or NIL lines? (And is GRIN the best place to get the PH207 parental line?)
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Jeremy Berg
19 days ago
Here is a graph with dollar amounts of funding committed. The curves look very similar to those based on the number of awards.
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Sarah Hörst
18 days ago
This is a hill I will absolutely die on.
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UBC Science
18 days ago
“We can’t stop heatwaves or snow storms,” said UBC botanist Dr. Arif Ashraf. “So we’re pinpointing genes that can help the plants recover from these events and still produce in time for harvest.”
@ubcbotany.bsky.social
@aribidopsis.bsky.social
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Plants pause, play and fast forward growth depending on types of climate stress
Plants pause their growth during stress, then press play when conditions improve, helping them recover and live on to produce food, according to a new study.
https://science.ubc.ca/news/2026-03/plants-pause-play-and-fast-forward-growth-depending-types-climate-stress
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Michael Raissig
23 days ago
Our Review "Development, Anatomy and Integrated Function of Grass Leaf Veins and Graminoid Stomata" is out
doi.org/10.1146/annu...
Alec Baird and I discuss the development and function of the anatomical structures that regulate water supply (leaf veins) and water demand (stomata) in the grass leaf.
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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)
23 days ago
Hiding in plain sight! 2.3M conserved non-coding sequences traced back 300M years across 284 plant species Ground-breaking study out in First Release
@science.org
from labs of
@madelaineb.bsky.social
,
@idane.bsky.social
& Zach Lippman ▶️
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/hiding-...
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Silvia Manrique
4 months ago
“A program with a 0.5% success rate is not elite. It’s wasteful. Thousands of highly trained scientists will sink dozens of hours into writing proposals with vanishing odds of success. This is not just inefficient — it’s disrespectful of scientific labour.” Very well said
@kamounlab.bsky.social
!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso
5 months ago
I am pleased to share this paper. A beautiful and useful collaboration between a group of researchers and lecturers who care about plant Science education. Thank you to all that contributed! Check it out!
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Come work with us!! We have a great group of plant biologists already, and there are FOUR searches for new plant biologists of different flavours across campus. We also have an outstanding group of animal physiologists (including
@mstager.bsky.social
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Nat Prunet
5 months ago
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
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
5 months ago
Brilliant use of gfp-tagged transposons & automated scoring of kernels, combined with differential style-lengths along maize ear, to screen for genes underlying pollen competition in maize. Diana gave a banger of a presentation on this in
#Zeavolution
this morning.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Alma Laney
8 months ago
My department is hiring a herbarium manager:
www.schooljobs.com/careers/uvu/...
It's a great place to work with a close knit botany group 🙂
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Herbarium Manager - Biology
The Department of Biology invites applications for a full-time Herbarium Manager position to begin as soon as September 2025. We seek an exceptional candidate with expertise in plant systematics, taxo...
https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/uvu/jobs/5047593/herbarium-manager-biology
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Tom Hollenstein
10 months ago
My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.
https://www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc/queens-special-us-doctoral-recruitment-initiative
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For no reason at all, my brain has started parsing "Bluesky" as "Blues-key". I kinda like it.
11 months ago
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching
11 months ago
"A teaching and training framework to promote findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) data generation in agriculture" Excellent, free, online curriculum!! This is so needed. Please share widely.
academic.oup.com/database/art...
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A teaching and training framework to promote findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable data generation in agriculture
Abstract. Advances in agricultural genetic, genomic, and breeding (GGB) technologies generate increasingly large and complex datasets that need to be adequ
https://academic.oup.com/database/article/doi/10.1093/database/baaf034/8120069
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Dior Kelley
12 months ago
I’m so happy to share my official tenure!! Super grateful to my amazing research team (past & present), all the letter writers, my mentors, and the cheerleaders who helped me achieve this career goal 💯🌽🍾🤓
www.provost.iastate.edu/faculty-succ...
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2025-2026 Approved Faculty - Division of Academic Affairs
https://www.provost.iastate.edu/faculty-success/advancement/p-and-t/2025-2026
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Christine Faulkner
12 months ago
An important consequence of the analysis by Paajanen et al is that the 'cell-to-cell mobile RNA' user-defined description listed under Gene Ontology by TAIR is a classification based on flawed analyses. Be careful!
#PlantScience
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Brad Wouters 🇨🇦
12 months ago
It's time for Canada to Lead
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: Canada can be the global leader in medical research
As the U.S. slashes funding to its research initiatives, there is a chance for us to recruit the best talent from around the world
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-canada-can-be-the-global-leader-in-medical-research/
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Arif Ashraf
12 months ago
(1/6) The very first paper on actin-microtubule interactions and the collaboration between @Qiong_Nan Qiong's lab at Northwest A&F University and my lab is online now at @CytoskelJournal Cytoskeleton journal!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Arif Ashraf
12 months ago
(1/17) We are excited to share the Ashraf and Gallagher labs collaboration on cell cycle regulation during environmental stress recovery in Arabidopsis, Brachypodium, and ryegrass.
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Maizel lab
about 1 year ago
Delighted to unveil the poster and speakers list of the Mechanism of Plant Development meeting. 2 keynotes by
@bradylabs.bsky.social
&
@nikogeldner.bsky.social
to honour the legacy of P. Benfey & J. Chory. Congrats to
@minyaaa.bsky.social
for her beautiful Mimulus image. ➡️
tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a
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Nicole Symmonds, PhD
about 1 year ago
Howard University is now a R1 university, the first HBCU with a research one designation. H-U definitely knows!
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Howard University Receives “Research One” Carnegie Classification Indicating Highest Level of Research Production
The American Council of Education (ACE) today announced that Howard University has been conferred a Research One (R1) Carnegie Classification, indicating “very high research spending and doctorate pro...
https://thedig.howard.edu/all-stories/howard-university-receives-research-one-carnegie-classification-indicating-highest-level-research
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Liz Haswell
about 1 year ago
Did you know there is a great database of diverse plant scientists created and maintained by
@naascarabidopsis.bsky.social
? 🌱 Fantastic resource for inviting speakers, reviewers, and applications!
#PlantScience
🧪
#academicsky
rdale1.shinyapps.io/diversifypla...
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Diversify Plant Science
https://rdale1.shinyapps.io/diversifyplantsci/
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Yasin Dagdas
about 1 year ago
#plantproteolysis2025
cont'ing with another very talented grad student, Jodi Callwood from
@diorkelley.bsky.social
lab, giving a fantastic talk on
#ubiquitination
& quantitative
#proteomics
www.gdcb.iastate.edu/people/dior-...
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Dior Kelley
Dr. Kelley, Assistant Professor, received her B.S. in Chemistry from the University of California Santa Cruz in 2000, and her Ph.D. in Plant Biology from the University of California Davis in 2009. Dr...
https://www.gdcb.iastate.edu/people/dior-kelley
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Mishell Baker
about 1 year ago
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
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Academic Chatter
about 2 years ago
Unpopular opinion: Not all research needs to be 'groundbreaking'. Small, incremental advancements are just as valuable.
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The Bio Dept at UMass Amherst is hiring: a tenure track and continuing track (lecturer). TT: Eukaryotic genetics. Plant 🌱, fungal🍄, animal🐟, eukaryotic microbes 🦠 models all welcome!
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
CT: Genetic/Cell/Molecular Biology.
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
about 2 years ago
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Lena Maria Müller
over 2 years ago
We are recruiting postdocs for our new lab at the Salk Institute 🌱 receptors, peptides, and signaling 🍄 plant-fungus interactions 🍀 symbiosis 🤩 great team and amazing views Please check link for more info and how to apply:
tinyurl.com/yskywhvf
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Cedar Warman
over 2 years ago
it should be against the science rules to release a new version of genome annotations without an id conversion table from the old version.
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Mike Moore
over 2 years ago
The Oberlin College Biology Department is hiring! We seek a Visiting Assistant Professor in Organismal Biology for three semesters, starting February 1, 2024. Details are below--come join us!
jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/14655
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, organismal biology
The Department of Biology at Oberlin College invites applications for a full-time non-continuing faculty position in the College of Arts and Sciences. Appointment to this position will be for a term o...
https://jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/14655
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Karolina Heyduk
over 2 years ago
Love me some Peperomia leaf cross sections. Look at that chonky epidermis*! *I don't know off the top of my head if this succulent tissue is really derived from epidermis or ground tissue, but I always thought epi. Either way it's juicy.
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Courtney Leisner
over 2 years ago
Tenure-track position focused on temperature stress. Come join me at VT!
careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us...
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Karolina Heyduk
over 2 years ago
My lab is also on Twitter (mostly)! Give
@gykim.bsky.social
@clr24.bsky.social
and
@ellliieee.bsky.social
a follow!
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Amelia Neely
over 2 years ago
Botany 2024 Workshop Submission Deadline is November 1, 2023! Share your expertise at this vibrant conference with hands-on sessions like software demos, data analysis tutorials, botanical drawing, and more. For details, visit:
botanyconference.org
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Dan Koenig
over 2 years ago
So excited to announce our search for an Assistant Professor focused on understanding plant response to climate change! Come join us at UC Riverside
aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01827
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Jim Rowe
over 2 years ago
#FluorescenceFriday
#PlantScience
#stomata
#wheat
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Journal of Experimental Botany
over 2 years ago
Hello! JXB is now on Bluesky. Please reconnect if you knew us from Twitter. Interested in the latest plant science research? Please give us a follow. If you know another researcher who would like our botany posts, we would be grateful if you tag them in the comments below (if they wouldn't mind)!
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Stacy Farina
over 2 years ago
The Department of Biology at Howard University is searching for a new Chair! Please share and consider applying!
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37542311...
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Chair, Department of Biology - Washington D.C.
Howard University invites applications and nominations for the position of Chair of the Department of Biology.
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37542311/chair-department-of-biology/
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Dr. Sarah Parcak
over 2 years ago
You really have no idea how much we (lady) professors serve as mental health pit stops for our students. It is so damn exhausting- far worse for my black and Indigenous and openly LGBTQ+ colleagues. I am not qualified for that part of my job 😬
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John Stinchcombe
over 2 years ago
Spread the word, and please apply!
www.newphytologist.org/awards/tansl...
🌾 🪴🧪 🧬 🖥️
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Tansley Medal - Awards
New Phytologist Tansley Medal, awarded in recognition of an outstanding contribution to research in plant science by an individual in the early stages of their career
https://www.newphytologist.org/awards/tansleymedal
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Charlie Anderson
over 2 years ago
Hello Bluesky! Excited to share a new story in which we collaborated with Joe Turner's group to use 3D nanoindentation of stomatal guard cells to determine their anisotropic cell wall mechanics and turgor pressure simultaneously:
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
. Check it out!
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Corny folks: if you have made/used a fluorescent protein reporter line IN MAIZE other than the Jackson/Sylvester lines, can you reply or DM me. I'm makin' a list.
over 2 years ago
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This can't be said loud enough or often enough.
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over 2 years ago
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bioRxiv Plant Bio
over 2 years ago
An updated model of shoot apical meristem regulation by ERECTA family and CLAVATA3 signaling pathways https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.29.560237v1
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An updated model of shoot apical meristem regulation by ERECTA family and CLAVATA3 signaling pathways https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.29.560237v1
The shoot apical meristem (SAM) gives rise to above-ground organs. The size of the SAM is relatively
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.29.560237v1
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Rüdiger Simon
over 2 years ago
Some thoughts on poster presentations (
leafingthroughbiology.wordpress.com/2023/09/28/t...
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Michael Raissig
over 2 years ago
Forward genetics screen with infrared imaging in #Brachypodium identifies chill1, which disrupts a MAP kinase that is involved in regulating stomatal aperture in response to changing CO2 concentration - power of genetics, the NaN mutant population and #Brachypodium 💚🌾
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Edu Chicano
over 2 years ago
Chris Anderton is currently offering a post doc position #MS-Imaging:
x.com/the_anderpla...
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