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...

Another entertaining video output of Autonomous Agriculture our project funded by #UKRI #UKSpaceAgency with a lot of partners listed at end of video. #Plants #Plants4Space 🧪 youtu.be/xTo063Y0roY?...

A wonderful new animation about LED plant growth as one of the outputs of our Autonomous Agriculture project funded by #UKRI #UKSpaceAgency working with #Plants4Space and host of others listed at the end of the animation youtu.be/IoXap0_z530?...

After a lot of work, we are finally able to share this project about the cell cycle in Marchantia from the Haseloff lab. If you want to find out how cell division is controlled, you can’t miss out this one… #PlantScience #Synbio #EvoDevo www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧵 Thread on #SessilePlants: Plant Scientists: "As sessile organisms, plants [𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 "𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘥𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨" 𝘢𝘯𝘥/𝘰𝘳 "𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴"]. David Attenborough: "👇"

The Rowe lab is recruiting a #PlantScience PhD student for 2025! You'll use our new ABACUS FRET biosensors to map the leaf #AbscisicAcid accumulations at low humidity in Arabidopsis, wheat and rice to understand how ABA regulates stomatal dynamics. #PhDposition www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Very cool research by our neighbors #PlantScience #Synbio www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

I'm recruiting a 3-yr postdoc for an ARC-funded project on the interaction between circadian rhythms and grain quality in wheat. #plantsci #circadian We also have a fully-funded PhD position available. See Job Ad about Postdoc, email me about the PhD. jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91954...

Our new publication demonstrating role of GIGANTEA in wheat circadian clock. Provide evidence that effects of GI on flowering are likely dependent on floral regulator PPD1 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience (no idea why Wiley have that picture associated with the paper!) 🧪

open.spotify.com/track/6bbQuT.... >45 years old and still relevant

Time to label every reference to Twitter/X in the media as "US state-controlled social media platform". Why should international organisations continue to use it? It would be a powerful gesture if democratic governments all over the world would move their entire social media content to Bluesky.

Excited that the highly motivated Annie will be joining the lab

🍾Big Congratulations to my dear colleague Uli Schaffrath @rwth.bsky.social and collaborators! Beautiful work showing that plant pathogenic fungi hijack phosphate signaling with conserved enzymatic effectors www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #PlantSci #effectors #immunity #MolPlantPhys

The cleverest person I have met. Every time I had 10 minutes with John I learnt about my own research and got huge insight into areas of biology I did not know existed. from PhD onwards he wanted to know what I was doing, new data and ideas. Amazing.

“The European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities expresses grave concern over the escalating threats to academic freedom, both in the United States and beyond” 🧪 European academies have isssued a joint statement on what is going on in US here: allea.org/wp-content/u...

The British papers today.

The enemy within Europe is the one that is invading a European sovereign nation.

ASPB "remains committed to robustly supporting and strongly advocating for diversity and inclusion in the plant sciences, period." Read full statement 👉 https://blog.aspb.org/aspb-reaffirms-its-commitment-to-diversity-and-inclusion/.

#JSPP 2025 Awards Runner up of PCP best paper (4/4): Hairy times…! Ikeda et al. use sophisticated automated detection tools (with image analysis & machine learning) to uncover clock regulation of root hair elongation via long distance shoot-to-root signaling doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience

(2/2) Giant sex chromosomes were discovered in Silene latifolia more than 100 years ago. Two papers back to back now show the sequence of the 550 Mbp Silene Y chromosome helping to understand sex determination www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #plantscience

(1/2) Three #plantscience papers in @science.org this week: Scharwies et al find that ethylene, auxin and an arabinogalactan protein work together to control lateral root branching in response to water availability in maize www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📜 Abscisic acid receptors functionally converge across 500 million years of land plant evolution 🧑‍🔬 Gil Zimran, Assaf Mosquna, Yufei Sun, et al. 📔 @currentbiology.bsky.social 🔗 www.cell.com/current-biol... #️⃣ #PlantScience #Phytohormones #PlantEvolution #PlantEvoDevo

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