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Reconsider the potential suspension of Plant Biology Courses at UoN - Sign the Petition! c.org/p5jy2GXHcX via @UKChange

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Illuminating plant immunity: a live sensor to watch salicylic acid in action (Science) @bijuntang.bsky.social @xanderjones.bsky.social @botanicaljim.bsky.social @philcarella.bsky.social (Summary by Ching Chan) buff.ly/SF8nZ9R #PlantaePSRW

PhD opportunity in plant developmental biology for UK based students of Black heritage! How do they know when to grow up? Join us at the University of Bristol to find out. Application deadline Jan 6th www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PlantSciencePhDs @blackinplantsci.bsky.social

Interested in learning about the latest and greatest research in how plants respond to excess salt, too little or too much water? Come to the GRC in Salt and Water Stress in Switzerland. Lots of opportunities for all career levels. www.grc.org/salt-and-wat.... Please repost!

What a glorious day--waking up to see this lovely preprint that does it all--a comprehensive scRNAseq atlas of leaf development, hints at the txn of new cell types, and great hypotheses about how GRNs may differ among related TFs (and in other news, some hope for American Democracy)

Yay, looks like the macrocarrier disks for gene guns is just 2mil kapton film. Both read 50um and made of same polyimide material. One consumable down, two to go!

#PlantScience Research Weekly (2/2) plantae.org/plant-scienc... Salicylic acid fluorescent sensor; Sucrose transporter connects plant/fungus/bacteria; Exotoxin differentiates foe from friend; Phylogenetic distribution of poricidal "buzz-pollinated" flowers; A manifesto for plant science education.

Enzyme/GO overlap note of the week. Plant Glutathione-S-transferases might have more biosynthetic functions than ROS detoxification functions. Also, CYP450s are listed as redox genes but are almost all biosynthetic. So if you see ROS/Redox terms, take a glance to make sure it isn't biosynthesis.

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

Last week we held the 2nd @blackinplantsci.bsky.social conference in Leeds, full of 🌱science, 🌸art, African crops, careers & mentorship and talent. Highlight was seeing the impacts of our Research Excellence Awards & Studentships. So proud to honour and promote the excellence in our community 💓

There's still just about time to apply for this postdoc position - a super cool project and I can highly recommend working with Caspar! Deadline 02/11/25

Big shout to all authors, including @lizalvey.bsky.social @plantteaching.bsky.social @plantpollinator.bsky.social @spoel-lab.bsky.social @discontinuedap.bsky.social @yoselin.bsky.social @katharinehubbard.bsky.social @gomollonsara.bsky.social @gpsep.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social

Very excited to announce that our collaborative manifesto for 🌱 #PlantScience #Education has now been published! Educators from >10 countries and 30 institutions have contributed to it and we are incredibly proud of the final output. Here is a short thread 🧵1/4 doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...

Lunch today halfway around the world in Hangzhou and met a new asst professor who was very thankful for this resource. Please help out folks like them and other early career scientists with examples of job apps. Submit yours! github.com/RILAB/statem...

Are you an early career plant scientist with 3-5 years' post-PhD experience? Tell the world about your research with the New Phytologist #TansleyMedal! Time is running out - apply for the 2026 competition by 1 November 2025. Find out more: www.newphytologist.org/grants-award... #PlantScience

Ah yes, the university provided laptop for the conference trip I'm going on has no MS office, no way to install it, and kicks out so much heat that I'm considering using it to replace my heating.

New opportunity to undertake a PhD in my group ⁦‪at the John Innes Centre - if you’re interested in plant immunity and evolution check out the link!

Really cool story on a FRET biosensor by Bijun Tang @bijuntang.bsky.social and an amazing team, now published @science.org I’m so proud of your PhD work at @slcuplants.bsky.social Below is the lockdown time in 2020 when you spent long hours screening your FRET biosensor, now known as SalicS1!

I was tremendously lucky to be in @xanderjones.bsky.social's lab to watch @bijuntang.bsky.social move from technician to PhD to Postdoc and produce this magnum opus. #SalicS1 is the just reward for years of brilliance and hard work.Well done Bijun, Xander, Jing, and everyone involved! #SalicylicAcid

Salicylic acid biosensor, SalicS1, tracks the plant immune hormone salicylic acid in real time - revealing propagation of hormone surge during plant pathogen advance Latest biosensor from @xanderjones.bsky.social team In Science doi.org/10.1126/scie... Summary www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/new-bio...

Only a few days left to apply! My group is looking for a postdoc to engineer and deploy new tools to precisely manipulate and decode how auxin coordinates plant morphogenesis. @starmorph-syg.bsky.social Research Associate - Reprogramming Development (closes 7 October 2025)

Happy to share slightly late that the main work of my PhD is now published! How do plants regulate the number + location of growing branches 🌳🌲? We used experiments and mathematical modelling to study how local and systemic signals are integrated during shoot branching regulation. A thread:

#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