✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/7) A circadian transcriptional subnetwork and EARLY FLOWERING 3 control timing of senescence and grain nutrition in bread wheat nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Hello 👋 We're the official #UniMelb account! Follow us for news, updates and information about UniMelb. For now, enjoy the blue skies over our Parkville campus 💙

[Reminder] ASPS social media update: X account being phased out, Facebook shutting down. Follow us on LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/australia...) and BlueSky for plant science news and community updates. #PlantScience #SocialMediaUpdate

This would be amazing for collaboration with Europe. But ‘started exploratory talks for possible association’ does not instil confidence 😶

Well done to @franciskuang.bsky.social on delivering his PhD Completion Seminar today. A fantastic talk on a great project spanning biochemistry 🧪 and plant science 🌱

It's great to see you PHD takeoff and what a way to fly, read @c-reynoldsuk.bsky.social first paper from his PHD www.nature.com/articles/s41... It is also a nice collaboration with Ant Dodd at the JIC @antdodd.bsky.social @nrpdtp.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social

Nine years ago today...

5. Then you get other people saying (in fact this theme now dominates discussions): "Look at my regenerative farming model. It's conserving soil and killing less wildlife." Great. But your yields have fallen by 75%. So either someone else must intensify or more land must be used to grow food.

Cool 🌱

𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 Circadian rhythms -24h internal clocks- regulate nearly all biological processes This review traces -history -molecular basis -tissue-specific roles -and potential for boosting crop resilience in a changing climate. ✍️Stacey Harmer @ucdavis.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70275

Super Decibel scales.

Our latest work found that homoeolog expression bias is inherited for ~26% of triads in wheat. Intriguingly we found that new patterns of homoeolog expression bias are more frequent when one of the parents is a landrace. Read more in Genome Biology: rdcu.be/eokf2 @johninnescentre.bsky.social

📣The Melonek lab is hiring! We have two post doc positions @scienceanu.bsky.social in beautiful Canberra. 🦘 Are you interested in plant RNA-binding proteins, mitochondria & hybrid crops? 🌱🌾Apply now! More info: jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/search 🔬 Position 559075 🔬 559070 🗓️ Application deadline: 18 June🍀

Pleased to have finally got this method to work in wheat! Find out how you can identify direct targets of transcription factors in wheat using protoplasts and the TARGET method: dx.doi.org/10.17504/pro... A very useful method for our group to use! borrilllab.com

The School of BioSciences at the University of Melbourne is recruiting a female-identifying genomicist in a teaching and research academic role. Come and work with us! jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/92007...

🌿 SAVE THE DATE: ASPS Conference 2025! Join us 24-27 November at Flinders University, South Australia! Registration opens in June. Stay tuned for program details and abstract submission information. www.asps.org.au/asps25 #ASPS2025 #PlantScience #Conference

Membrane-permeable trehalose 6-phosphate precursor spray increases wheat yields in field trials - @rothamsted.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @rosfrankinst.bsky.social go.nature.com/4lQs4nC

Hi Bluesky 👋 ! The Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS) promotes #PlantScience in Australia, and provides professional contact within our community. Tag us using #plants #ozplants

📣We're hiring 2 postdocs @ MSU! Help us share widely 🙏 Rhee Lab – high-throughput screens + multi-omics 🔗: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc... Skirycz Lab – small-molecule discovery + metabolomics 🔗: careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc... Join the global C-SPIRIT team! 🌿 #Postdoc #PlantScience #CSPIRIT

Save the date for the 2025 ASPS conference! @asps-oz.bsky.social

📢Excited to share TWO ERC-funded postdoc positions!🧪Are you passionate about molecular mechanisms and marine microbial interactions?🌊🔬Join us in dissecting antagonistic diatom-bacteria interactions, by the sea! tiny.cc/xlfe001 @thembauk.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social Please msg to hear more!

I'm looking for a postdoc to work for 3 years on the function of #circadian clock proteins in wheat. I also have a full-funded PhD opportunity. #plantscience Postdoc applications close on 2 April. jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91954...

I'm looking for a postdoc to work for 3 years on the function of #circadian clock proteins in wheat. I also have a full-funded PhD opportunity. #plantscience Postdoc applications close on 2 April. jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91954...

Now up to 70 users, including @asps-oz.bsky.social go.bsky.app/AiLTKHH

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...

Congrats, @williamsanu.bsky.social

Wow 👍👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Are you an early/mid career grain crop researcher interested in visiting Australia? 👇👇👇

Thanks Lucas for the invitation!

To celebrate @asps-oz.bsky.social joining Bluesky, here is a starter pack of Aussie Plant Scientists. 🎉🌾🌱🪴🥳 Let me know if you or someone you know should be added. go.bsky.app/AiLTKHH

Yay!

The School of BioSciences at the University of Melbourne is recruiting a continuing academic (level B/C) in Biotechnology. This is a research and teaching role. Come join us! jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91875...

Make no mistake about it, the goal of attacking DEI is to ensure that those who have power keep it and those that don't keep quiet. If you've been lifted up through DEI initiatives, speak out so people can see the real impact of these efforts, and show what will be lost if we despair and give in.

About time I reshared this. Over 50 on the list now but so many still missing from the old place. Spread the word. go.bsky.app/AiLTKHH

Make no mistake, colleagues: the exclusion of humanities & social science research from national competitive funding could easily happen here in Australia. The signs & actors are already clear. We let it happen at our collective peril.

Yikes! The last paragraph is terrifying. How could anyone think that is a sensible action?!

We’re so grateful to GRDC for supporting our research investigating heat resilience in wheat - great collaboration with @hikemaydon.bsky.social and Sunita Ramesh 👉 bit.ly/3AVR8ag

This reminds me. I have some things to finish 😂

This is great to see. The other thing I noticed was an apparently higher proportion of successful EMCRs (in plant science, at least).

The most important thing in writing is to finish. A finished thing can be fixed. A finished thing can be published. A finished thing can be made into a movie. An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough. So finish the thing.

Hello, since the requests to be added to the #PlantScience Research #StarterPack keep coming, I have created a 2nd Pack. So, here are Part 1: go.bsky.app/8Zfmwf7 Part 2: go.bsky.app/3NcqRCE

Here is a starter to a starter pack for the Aus plant science community. Let’s rebuild. #plantscience Let me know if you want to be added. Help me find more. go.bsky.app/AiLTKHH

With the massive uptick in activity here, I've now updated the circadian clock feed. Please use the hashtags #circadian #chronobiology #chronomedicine #chronoculture #phenology @nphuffeldt.bsky.social perhaps you could add this to your starter pack?

Here is a starter to a starter pack for the Aus plant science community. Let’s rebuild. #plantscience Let me know if you want to be added. Help me find more. go.bsky.app/AiLTKHH

Interested in chronobiology and biological rhythm research? Here’s some folks to follow! Want to be added? Reply here go.bsky.app/Sw8L4aS 🧪 🌍 🦑 #EvoBio

Our Dean wants to recruit a bunch of superstars (or emerging superstars) in ANY area of research broadly aligned with the Faculty of Science www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... #circadian

For the first time in 22 years since starting my Honours project, I no longer have a lab bench of my own ☹️ Time to hand the pipettes over…

Academic job in #genomics at beautiful melbourne Come and play with us!

Post-doc opportunity in my lab at the John Innes Centre. Hiring someone with computer science/computational biology/maths expertise to work on circadian clocks and growth in plants under natural conditions. Collab with Hiroshi Kudoh at Kyoto University #circadian www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...