“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!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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/...

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 ). Please apply!!

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

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...

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 🙂

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PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.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...

For no reason at all, my brain has started parsing "Bluesky" as "Blues-key". I kinda like it.

"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...

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...

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

It's time for Canada to Lead www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

(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/...

(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.

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

Howard University is now a R1 university, the first HBCU with a research one designation. H-U definitely knows!

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...

#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-...

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.

Unpopular opinion: Not all research needs to be 'groundbreaking'. Small, incremental advancements are just as valuable.

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...

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

it should be against the science rules to release a new version of genome annotations without an id conversion table from the old version.

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

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.

Tenure-track position focused on temperature stress. Come join me at VT! careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us...

My lab is also on Twitter (mostly)! Give @gykim.bsky.social @clr24.bsky.social and @ellliieee.bsky.social a follow!

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

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

#FluorescenceFriday #PlantScience #stomata #wheat

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)!

The Department of Biology at Howard University is searching for a new Chair! Please share and consider applying! jobs.chronicle.com/job/37542311...

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 😬

Spread the word, and please apply! www.newphytologist.org/awards/tansl... 🌾 🪴🧪 🧬 🖥️

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!

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.

This can't be said loud enough or often enough.

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

Some thoughts on poster presentations (leafingthroughbiology.wordpress.com/2023/09/28/t...) and an example, from Vicky Howe. #PlantScience

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 💚🌾 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Chris Anderton is currently offering a post doc position #MS-Imaging: x.com/the_anderpla...

In case you missed it: We've posted the recording of yesterday's Plant Physiology "Cell Polarity" webinar, featuring talks from Sabine Müller, Arif Ashraf, and David Ušák. plantae.org/plant-physio... #PlantScience

How I log into journal websites: Journal website>sign in using Clarivate>sign in using ORCID>sign in using Google>sign in using Institutional ID>should be logged in (but needed 2FA using my personal cell phone this morning). There's gotta be an easier way?

Hidden curriculum tip - many grad programs have fee waivers available *if you ask* (including at UMass Amherst IDGPs!). Why not just make it free to begin with? Excellent question. Short answer - bureaucracy.