Annie Shelton, PhD student @alexwebblab.bsky.social, was one of 5 Gates Cambridge Scholars to present at the Future of Humanity symposium last week. She talked about issues to do with eating in space – from eating in zero gravity to growing edible plants in space. Read more: tinyurl.com/mpkm8ytr

Choosing which models best explain photoperiodic time measurement mechanisms in plants by Takato Imaizumi doi.org/10.1038/s443... via npj Biol Timing Sleep #PlantScience

My annual reminder that "diurnal" means day active. As in "humans are diurnal organisms, whereas mice are nocturnal". The correct term for the 24 h light/dark cycle is "diel".

#UCD is hiring an assistant prof for #plantpathology! #jobs #plantjobs jobs.plantae.org/jobs/ja/2179...

A new preprint from the lab by @cbuckley.bsky.social in collab with @adaevo.bsky.social #plantsci #circadian 🌱 ⏰

If you want to read about a strong tuneable promoter in a diatom, see our publication: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... It was a team effort! So thank you, Patrick Hickland, Alison Smith, and the rest of the Plant Met lab at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Great to see this blog from @johninnescentre.bsky.social on work involving @camplantsci.bsky.social's Epidemiology & Modelling group - building global defences against wheat rust. @camplantepidem.bsky.social

Plants @ Cambridge brings together partners in the University of Cambridge and our partners at NIAB to form one the largest groupings of plant scientists in Europe. From molecules to ecosystems. We have a new video youtu.be/4kl0XNYOA4Q?... . 🧪 #plantresearch

Job opportunity! We are recruiting got a Horticultural Technician: - Crop Science Centre - Fixed term - Closes on Friday 31 October www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/horticu... #plantscijobs #plantsciences

"Postdoctoral and research assistant positions, Plant and Microbe Interaction at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan *Application Deadline: 11/30/2025" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20251007_AS.pdf #PlantSciJobs

"Assistant Professor, Biology at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA *Application Deadline: 11/17/2025" Read more here: https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307414 #PlantSciJobs

"Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Plant Physiology at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA *Application Deadline: 11/1/2025" Read more here: https://careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/job/528462/assistant-professor-plant-physiology #PlantSciJobs

🍀🔬 MSL10 is a high-sensitivity mechanosensor in the tactile sense of the Venus flytrap @natcomms.nature.com from Toyota lab. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Super excited to share that our most recent work in the Davies Lab (@camplantsci.bsky.social) has been published in @newphyt.bsky.social... check it out 👉 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/ZNKWEJ... #plantscience #plantresearch #calcium

Some good news, tempered with a need for USA and EU to keep up www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A really nice man. Always wanted to talk with students and worked in the lab well in to his retirement. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new... 🧪

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob 2 PhD positions in Plant Cell Biology: Role of vacuole in amplification of long-distance Ca2+ Signals @UniWuerzburg www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science Dept. of Plant Sciences | Permanent | Closes on Monday 17 November 2025 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell... #plantsciences #plantscijobs #academicjobs

Turbocharging fundamental science translation through controlled environment agriculture #plantscience

@camplantsci.bsky.social here in Cambridge is wonderful place to work. Great colleagues. Some very good science and a vibrant city. If you are a world-leading crop scientist wanting to lead a thriving centre, we would like you to join us www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell...

A new opinion article produced with my colleagues at @plants4space.bsky.social We argue controlled environment agriculture is a good launch pad to translate fundamental research in to agricultural practice. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪 #plants

@camplantsci.bsky.social newest Associate Professor Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert has published her interesting paper about changes to Amazon forest structure

Join us at 14:00 BST on 30 September to hear from 2024 #TansleyMedal winner Matthew Naish! Matthew will be talking about unravelling plant centromeres in the telomere-to-telomere era. Registration is free: www.newphytologist.org/events/2025-... #PlantScience

A fascinating review. Thoughtful analysis. Much to discuss. Should ABA be reverted to dormin? My only big disagreement is that the author does not consider ion channels as potential receptors. Comparison to other kingdoms shows that ion channels can be hormone receptors. Great for journal clubs

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Gene therapy saving lives again. The results look so wonderful, I hope they stand up to full scrutiny and larger scale studies. It seems likely they will 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41... "drinking alcohol sometimes improves a person’s ability to speak in a foreign language".

Postdoctoral position in Forest Monitoring available. Know your way around spatial datasets? Join us to help monitor changes in Australia's precious forest estate! @westsyduhie.bsky.social jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...

📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social Apply by October 17th Please spread the word! More info 👇 uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

Hey @microsoft.com I am a big boy now. I can work out if I want autosave on or not. Sometimes I do. Sometimes I don't. You don't need to nag me every time I open a file.

IN BRIEF: Sugar, we’re going down: PRC2-mediated epigenetic repression of sucrose metabolism promotes phototrophy during seedling establishment (Rory Osborne) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

European Biological Society Meeting 2025 was amazing. The chronobiology community are diverse and supportive. Discussions about what the circadian pacemaker is, chronomedicine for cancer and asthma, the benefit of clocks for insects, modelling and lovely plant clocks.

Further evidence that sugar in the plates changes the plant biology you study. Best to avoid putting sugar in the agar, unless you want to study what sugar in the agar does to plants. This paper uses sugar in the agar to study what sugar does. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #plantresearch

In beautiful Lubeck, Germany. Today I am presenting at the training day for the European Biological Rhythms Society 2025 meeting. I hope at least one of the ECR are interested in plant clocks, or I will have a lonely afternoon. Thursday I will present Basi Teng's nice models of entrainment.

The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is Hiring! We are searching for a Director of the Oregon State University Herbarium and applications are welcomed at the ranks of assistant, associate, or full professor.

My department has open positions at Level B (Lecturer) or Level C (Senior Lecturer), - one position in Genomics and two in Ecology. #PlantSciJobs Applications close on Thursday 7 August Aussie time careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

I have just discovered that salt and vinegar crisps were invented when I was two years old. I had assumed that they were a staple of English life dating back to Victorian England. I am not sure how I feel about being the same vintage as salt and vinegar crisps.

it never gets old. Basi Teng can put Dr in front of his name very soon . Thanks @antdodd.bsky.social and Ray Goldstein for their hard work as examiners

This is amazing. Engineered broad disease resistance #plantscience 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Botanicon 2025 - the 3rd annual Plants @ Cambridge conference bringing together plant scientists from across Cambridge to share their work and ideas. @camplantsci.bsky.social @cropscicentre.bsky.social @niab-uk.bsky.social @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social #PlantsAtCambridge

Food for thought. Field trials are undoubtedly valuable for assessing the real-world performance of crop lines and give confidence that findings are useful? In biomedical science, a paper would rarely have full clinical trials for new mechanistic drug discoveries. rdcu.be/enXn4 #plantscience

Visiting Oxford. Wanted to see what it is like in the dark blue zone. They really do punt from the wrong end. I always thought that was a joke but here is the evidence.

Aleks from Vertical Future looking a little concerned before his parabolic flight tomorrow with our autonomous agriculture unit designed for ISS. This is an outcome of a grant from @ukspaceagency.bsky.social which I had the joy of participating with many partners in @plants4space.bsky.social

Our latest video arising from UK Space Agency Bilateral Funding describing gravity effects and how plants can grow in space. @plants4space.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTwU...

Great article on Annie Shelton - Gates Cambridge scholar who joins Alex Webb's lab in September. Her PhD will look at how to improve agriculture in extreme environments on Earth & in space. tinyurl.com/2jmmuwaw @alexwebblab.bsky.social @gatescambridge.bsky.social @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social

Loving this white board in the Plant Sciences library here in Cambridge. The undergrads showing very impressive knowledge and skills and cuteness all in one place. DNA analysis pipeline (?), molecules and cute cats "meow"

Forgot to tag #plants 🧪

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Really enjoyed this collaboration between my lab and James Locke lab. We show plant circadian oscillators can have a flexible architecture. Our computational models suggest that dawn-expression of ELF3 in wheat occurs due to repression of the ELF3 promoter by TOC1.

Survey reporting the effects of clock changes 🧪 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is very pleasing. He has done a lot that is good www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...