#HappyFluorescenceFriday! #microscopycommunity- want to learn open source image analysis or share your knowledge to help others? We’ve got a FREE virtual workshop Nov 17-19! Now accepting workshop session applications! Learn more & sign up: buff.ly/esGIotD

I can't stress it more. This conference has been designed for us by us. Support @blackinplantsci.bsky.social conference at the University of Leeds funded by the SEB, Faculty of Biological Science at Leeds, the Grow More and New Phytologist foundations and Gastby. Join us on 24/10, details below.

Saddened to hear about the passing of Steve Long. His work had a profound impact on plant science. A true loss to the scientific community. @ripeproject.bsky.social emails.illinois.edu/newsletter/4...

OK--fluorescent protein friends. We want an antibody to TagRFP that works in immunofluorescence. Any suggestions? Re-post please

🚨New Preprint with Old Pals showing a PIF4-CAT2-H2O2 loop in thermomorphogenesis

Incredibly honoured & excited to be awarded one of the @royalsociety.org's new Faraday Discovery Fellowships - this means SO much, huge thanks to everyone who has contributed, supported, & encouraged. Loads of mycorrhizal research @sheffielduni.bsky.social to come!🤩 royalsociety.org/news/2025/08...

Your research brings together fundamental plant biology & applied research to enhance crop traits? 🌱🌾🎓🏭 Join us as professor in 'Molecular Crop Improvement' @uni-muenster.de & @fraunhofer.bsky.social Please PM if you got questions. stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/d...

Occasionally, you'll get good science news on a Friday at 4pm.

Checkout our new starter pack: Academics to follow on BlueSky to keep up to date with cutting edge discoveries in the world of plant science! go.bsky.app/5CYhV8v

Organised by Alex Johnson and Joe McKenna, who we have had the pleasure of working with at the Gatsby Plant Science Summer School, this is a great opportunity not to be missed! Just 2 more days to apply for a funded place if you are an ECR

Our latest on brassinosteroid signaling: Ligand binding spectrum, specificity & selectivity of all BR receptors in Arabidopsis. By @albertocaregnato.bsky.social , @hmchen93.bsky.social and our great chemistry collaborators Mirek Kvasnica, Jana Oklestkova and Mirek Strnad.

🍀🔬 CSLD5-mediated cell wall remodelling regulates tissue mechanics and shoot meristem growth @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Movies: Cell division orientation in wild-type (attached) and csld5 (comment) shoot apical meristem.

The final version of our paper showing VRN2-PRC2 mediated control of PIF4 signalling is now published in the latest issue of Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social. Many thanks to Zhe Wu for writing an accompanying Preview piece summarising the work, here: www.cell.com/developmenta...

Before this #PlantBio2025 thread closes: two exciting opportunities now open for early-career plant scientists. 1. Plantae Fellows program, apply by Aug 31 plantae.org/2026fellowsa... 2. @theplantcell.bsky.social Assistant Features Editor program, apply by Sep 15. blog.aspb.org/the-plant-ce...

📢 Final hours to register for the Plant Computational Biology Workshop 2025! 📢 Don’t miss your chance to take part in talks and hands-on sessions with other plant modelling enthusiasts🪴 Deadline tomorrow (31 July) - www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa... #ComputationalBiology #PlantSci

🎙️ Tune in today 11–11:50am to BBC Radio Cambridgeshire as our Director, Professor Beverley Glover (@beverleycubg.bsky.social), chats to Chris Mann about her inspiring journey in botany, her passion for plants and their pollinators and the evolving role of Cambridge University Botanic Garden.

Delighted to see our wheat stomatal work featured in the fabulous #Futureoffood exhibition #ScienceMuseum. Congratulations to @jessdunn.bsky.social @jodiearmand.bsky.social

Our new free interactive exhibition, Future of Food, is now open! Exploring how food must change in the future to protect our planet and featuring objects ranging from cricket burgers to bird-flu resistant chicken, be the first to visit this family-friendly summer treat. Open until 4 January 2026.

I’m very grateful and excited to start our ARIA-funded project on redesigning plant immunity!

Come and work with us! We are hiring a research assistant/associate @slcuplants.bsky.social to work on the RESYDE project (www2.hu-berlin.de/resyde/) using ML for multi-scale data and modelling to understand and engineer flower development! Details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52116/

Do you want to know about using Golden Gate cloning for yeast transformations? 🧫 This blog from Postdoc Researcher Anna will guide you through the whole process, including using Benchling, designing custom guides, and tagging proteins of interest. 🔗 buff.ly/iG0NYNE 🧪

Brassinosteroid controls leaf air space patterning non-cell autonomously by promoting epidermal growth https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.14.664710v1

Registrations are open for our conference: The 'Black in Plant Sciences conference' with amazing speakers, opportunities to network and to grow as a community. Apply for travel awards and Join us as indicated below or visit our link @blackinplantsci.bsky.social

Join us this September in Wageningen/Ede to discuss and learn about Plant Development 🌱💚

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/3) Evolution of petal patterning: blooming floral diversity at the microscale nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The "reproducibility crisis" in science constantly makes headlines. Repro efforts are often limited. What if you could assess reproducibility of an entire field? That's what @brunolemaitre.bsky.social et al. have done. Fly immunity is highly replicable & offers lessons for #metascience A 🧵 1/n

@xanderjones.bsky.social from STARMORPH was also presenting at #IPGSA2025! We were well represented and enjoyed this fantastic meeting! @erc.europa.eu

Really kicking myself for not getting a virtual ticket to @sebiology.bsky.social #SEBconference. Looks like they've reached capacity :-(.

New Postdoc position (2yrs) available in our #EvoMPMI lab @JohnInnesCentre. Come and work with on harnessing the diversity of immune mechanisms to protect plants. jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?va…

1/8 🧵 Update on the Pocket #Spectrometer project. Been working on upgrading from the AS7341 to AS7343 sensor. The #AS7341 worked well but only had 9 channels. The #AS7343 offers 12 channels which should be better for #colorimetric analysis. #OpenSource 💡

Last day of measurements at the Pallavi Singh Lab! Wrapping up an intense experiment exploring how grafting rice with millets can improve water use efficiency 🌾💧 #PlantScience #CropResilience #WUE

How do plants notice loss of structural barriers (e.g. the periderm, which prevents water loss and pathogen infection) to regenerate them? Work @nature shows that plants sense damage to barrier integrity from diffusion of gases such as ethylene and oxygen. shorturl.at/FIhJ8 & N&V shorturl.at/u7PYs

📢Awesome job alert!📢 @plosbiology.org are hiring for a full-time editor (12-month position). They particularly want people with a #plantsci background! Immediate start so apply now! job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/plos/jobs/46... 🧪🌿

Please RT: 🌾 Open PhD Position @TUM (Phytopathology, Freising, Germany) Join our team and help us to decode the molecular mechanisms driving plant cell remodeling during fungal infection. Focus: RIC proteins in Barley–Blumeria hordei interaction 🔬 CRISPR, microscopy, proteomics & more! #PlantScience

And now Sebastian Moreno on ABA, stem cells and shoot organogenesis. #icar2025 does not dissapoint.

#ICAR2025 attendees! Stop by @theplantcell.bsky.social booth next week to learn about the Assistant Features Editor (AFE) program blog.aspb.org/the-plant-ce... 6pm Tuesday, meet the Editor-in-Chief, Pablo Manavella. 6pm Wednesday, meet the rest of the editors, including some current AFEs! See you!

Out First Release in @science.org today, nice work finding that redox regulates multimerisation of Aux/IAA proteins during root xerobranching: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

PhD students during a thesis crunch often think they 'don't have time' for exercise or hobbies that keep them sane. They do. Spending 2 hours a week exercising etc will not meaningfully cut into your writing time, but it will make you sleep better, feel happier, more efficient and more productive.

Intracellular pathogens can form extensive hyphal structures. Here, the pathogen Phytophthora palmivora (magenta) produces invasive hyphae in a living epidermal cell of a Nicotiana root. The plant surrounds the invader by an 'extra-invasive hyphal membrane' (yellow)📸 @alexguyon.bsky.social

#PlantScience Come join us on this exciting workshop #ICAR2025 icar2025.com in Ghent in less than two weeks!, Great speakers and panel discussion!. Organized by myself @cragenomica.bsky.social along with @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social , Katarina Heldesova and Hantao Zhang

New ‘How to’ post on FocalPlane 🔬💻 Lea Kabjesz shares a step-by-step guide to get you started annotating 2D and 3D images in Cellpose, including video tutorials. focalplane.biologists.com/2025/06/05/a... #bioimageanalysis #cellpose #imaging #HowTo

Every time I try to decide what plasmids kits to buy, I get lost and end up putting everything in my Addgene basket... Then I look at the cost and the sea of part replication... and go back to the beginning. There has to be a better solution.

On the side-table in my hotel room 🤓

#biabob 0.28.0 is out and it comes with support for OpenAI's codex-mini model. I also enabled its vision-support. With this, you can turn screenshots of user-interfaces into functional code - directly within your Jupyter notebook 🤯 github.com/haesleinhuep...

🎉 We’ve hit a major milestone — 2 MILLION plasmids shared worldwide! Thank you to our incredible community of scientists driving discovery and collaboration every day. Here’s to the next million! 💡🧬🌍 #ScienceForAll #PlasmidPower #OpenScience

RSPS2025 | Finalist: Dr. Tonni Grube Andersen | Presentation: Jun 4 13:00-13:30 (GMT) | Of bricks and gateways: Rewriting the rules of root barriers | FREE to Watch the Live Streaming via YouTube (youtube.com/@molecularpl...) / WeChat (MolPlant Channel)

🚨 We welcome the EU & UK’s plans for a Common SPS Area to ease agri-food trade! 🤝 Crucial step to remove trade barriers, reduce admin burdens and streamline supply chains - while maintaining high standards for food safety, plant health and consumer protection. 🌱 euroseeds.eu/news/eu-and-...

How did oxygen-sensing evolve in plants? In collaboration with @syno2xis.bsky.social Great work from @lauradc.bsky.social et. al. #plantscience @leverhulme.ac.uk “ERFVIIs as transducers of oxygen-sensing in the evolution of land plant response to hypoxia” www.cell.com/molecular-pl...

Ok guys **nobody open any more issues** 😂

One more week to apply for a postdoc in our group (patronlab.org) @Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge. This is a 3-year position to investigate regulatory sequences and engineer gene expression in plants with the aim of optimising yields from metabolic pathways. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49769/