Easily one of my favourite outreach activities. Engaging students and meeting other STEM professionals in short bursts in slots that you can work into your schedule fairly easily. Totally encourage anyone to apply!

This is fantastic to see! Looking forward to digesting this preprint (and the final form of the article as and when), congratulations @ccilelorrain.bsky.social and @iglavincheska.bsky.social ! 🥳 #ZymoPreprint #FungalGenetics

Excited to do a postdoc in beautiful Neuchatel / Switzerland🇨🇭? We have several postdoc positions open at the moment! Check our website for the full ads here: pathogen-genomics.org/jobs Happy to answer any question and please spread the word to anyone who might be interested!

Plenty of fantastic sunrises and sunsets lately. Photo doesn't quite capture the magic of daffodils dancing in the gentle breeze between setting sunbeams.

Hey friends, What's a reliable workhorse RT PCR machine you'd recommend? I'm asking for a researcher in Nigeria that won't be able to source it on the US used market. Any models to look out for or Ali Baba alternatives? I don't have much experience with those. TYIA! Please RT. 💚

Sharing to #PlantSciJobs #plantsciencejobs

The @bspp.bsky.social Undergraduate Vacation Bursary Scheme applications are open🎉 Delighted to see the fantastic projects on offer! (I'm a little more biased than usual this year 😉) 📅 Deadline: April 14th 🔗 buff.ly/ZDo4pfK 👩‍🔬🍄🔥

Sequencing the genomes of >100 liverworts has uncovered ancient plant adaptation mechanisms, with researchers pinpointing genes linked to temperature and rainfall changes. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Research summary www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/groundb... @dromius.bsky.social @davidjhoey.bsky.social

Read the full paper... bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A brilliant example of the tradeoffs between soil health and weed control when thinking about min till

Proud to say my PhD work has been published in PLOS pathogens and is accompanied with a short press release! Please have a read if you are interested in the use of transcriptomics for the control of fungal diseases 🌾🍄‍🟫👩‍💻👩‍🔬 www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/killer-...

Very interesting new paper on pop genomics of the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici by the @rstam.bsky.social lab in Kiel! Great to see this field growing!

🚨Job Alert PhD opportunity with Manchester Fungal Infection Group at University of Manchester looking at mycobiome in response to fungicides🍄‍🟫💊 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

We were delighted to see Stevie Thompson's art installation "Mycelium Network" made of glass fiber at Uppsala Light Festival 🍄🌲💚 #fungi #mushroom #fungifriends #mycology #art #scienceart

My department is hiring a fungal biologist! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01990

In case my lab/office mates wonder what I'm listening to on my ridiculous headphones. #podcasts Am impressed (and delighted) that @alwaysbecomedy.bsky.social made it as a recent-ish addition to the rotation 😊

Last days to apply for www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... #PhD The enemy of my enemy. Answers to "why does Zymoseptoria infect wheat but not wheat's worst weed blackgrass?" BBSRC #SWBioDTP studentship for 2025. Closing midnight 11th December 2024. @rothamsted.bsky.social @quietscientist.bsky.social

Been a while since I posted some of my photography. Dragonflies are my favourite annual challenge, and the small wildlife pond lets me get very close. #naturephotography #wildlife #dragonfly

Interesting work! #ZymoPapers

Happy World Soil Day! #WorldSoilDay #environment #science This links to a really fun bit of bakeoff themed science communication from C̶a̶p̶t̶a̶i̶n̶ ̶C̶a̶r̶b̶o̶n̶ Dr. Jonah Prout and the @rothamsted.bsky.social Comms team 💚💛 www.instagram.com/share/reel/B...

📜 Beyond Asexual: Genomics-Driven Progress in Unveiling Sexual Reproduction in Cereal Rust Fungi 🧑‍🔬 Shideh Mojerlou, Mareike Moeller, @schwessinger.bsky.social, Julian Rodriguez-Algaba 📕 Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 🔗 apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity

Here's the head of an ant imaged with scanning electron microscopy during my PhD (back in 2018 🥲) 🐜 🧪

Welsh pennies* on the go for the Rothamsted thanksgiving. *Smaller Welsh cakes (originally so the RRes kids could try without commitment) but dark chocolate chips instead of sultanas (because *I* am a child).

Soil fungi remain active and invest in storage compounds during drought independent of future climate conditions - Nature Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54537-y

Join us! BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience DTP #PlantSciPhD studentship using genomics/genetics to improve cowpea & amaranth for 🇿🇦 smallholders. Collaboration with 🇿🇦 Agricultural Research Council. Work on large-scale datasets and have real world impact. Deadline 6 Jan 2025 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The Future of Food! 🌱 Open Rank Faculty Position @Stanford crop-focus or formal engineering training not required. Know someone? Encourage them to apply. facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49... #FoodSystems

📢 SWBio DTP PhD Opportunity - The enemy of my enemy… why does Zymoseptoria infect wheat but not wheat’s worst weed blackgrass? 📄 Full details: www.swbio.ac.uk/agriculture-... Apply www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗓️ Closing Date: Midnight, Wed 11 Dec #PhD #PlantPathology #WeedScience #AgriResearch

How much of phenotypic variation is due to transcriptional variation? We are starting to think about it in relation to stress response doi.org/10.1094/MPMI... so I was really happy to see a preprint on this topic from @jrossibarra and colleagues doi.org/10.1101/2023...

🎉we've made some public APIs for @rothamsted.bsky.social North Wyke Farm Platform! The platform has >100million data points covering 🌦️🐑🐄🚜🌱 data from 3 different farming systems in Devon, UK, collected since 2010. Jupyter demos are available here: github.com/North-Wyke-F.... Would love feedback

Happy Friday! The pond wildlife and I were alarmed by this visitor earlier in the year. Of course, I was then primarily thrilled! #birds #photography #greyheron

TAIR is and has been an amazing indispensable website, which I still use weekly if not daily to go look up gene function or something else. 🐐 #plantscience

ScienceWrite, a UK scheme for aspiring STEM writers from minoritised backgrounds, is open for 2025 applications! The 3rd year @romatheengineer.bsky.social & I are running this, with support from @royalsociety.bsky.social & I am SO EXCITED Deadline 3rd Jan #SciComm 🧪 www.sciencewrite.co.uk

Tagging #PlantPathology #PlantScience and #MicroSky - and I nearly forgot, the first author of this work is here on Bluesky now, so congrats to @williamkay.bsky.social on the publication of this paper!

📄 NEW PUBLICATION: Activation of plant immunity through conversion of a helper NLR homodimer into a resistosome @amiralito.bsky.social @mpcontreras.bsky.social @kamounlab.bsky.social @m_selvaraj @mhz1989 @HsuanPai1 www.tsl.ac.uk/publications... journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

📄 NEW PUBLICATION: A peptide-receptor module links cell wall integrity sensing to pattern-triggered immunity @jackrhodes.bsky.social Cyril Zipfel lab www.tsl.ac.uk/publications... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

From December 2017, when nearly all of my PhD cohort lived in Rothamsted Manor. Waking up to this was simply magical. And yes, we did have a snowball fight on the front lawn (pictured) and made a giant snowman in the garden. ❄️

We’re delighted to share our latest preprint from the Hogenhout lab (@saskiahogenhout.bsky.social) on the molecular mechanisms on plant-aphid interactions. Here we show how the aphid Mp10 effector protein acts as a local anaesthetic to suppress the plant perception of aphid attack

Hello Blue Sky! We are the world's longest running agricultural research institute. We have cutting edge expertise in soils, crop breeding, insect populations and livestock systems - with a mission to deliver a more sustainable farming future. Follow us for more!

A two-photo story from April 2023 at the RSPB Newport Wetlands. Taken 2 seconds apart. #wildlife #otters #naturephotography

Many cool SWBio DLA PhD projects now advertised, including this one with me, John Love, David Studholme and Jon Ellis: Engineering Optogenetic Systems in Rice Blast Fungus to Elucidate the Role of Timing in Effector Delivery. Get in touch if you're interested! #fungi #biotechnology #plantpathology

I really like data visualization. It allows us to craft messages that transcend words using just lines, shapes, and colors. Truly magical when you think about it that way.

A two-photo story from April 2023 at the RSPB Newport Wetlands. Taken 2 seconds apart. #wildlife #otters #naturephotography

📣NEWS: Imagine a plant immune system that's been protecting plants since the time of dinosaurs 🦖🌴. Sounds fascinating, right? @KamounLab & colleagues delve into the evolutionary history of plant immune receptor ZAR1 and uncover some intriguing findings. www.tsl.ac.uk/news/the-anc...

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

Evidence for widespread thermal acclimation of canopy photosynthesis - Nature Plants

🎉 PhD studentships 🎉 @rothamsted.bsky.social is advertising some fantastic South West Bio DTP projects this year. Take a look, closing date 11 December #phd #fundes #SWBioDTP #PhDposition #AgriResearch

Happy Friday, Bluesky 😊 I realised I take lots of photos and then don't do much with them, so here are some of Red Kites.🪶🦅

What happens when you add many different kinds of microplastic particles into soil? A recent paper shows what happens with antibiotic resistance genes in soil, and this newsletter post talks about this result. open.substack.com/pub/matthias...

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JOB CLAXON! I am recruiting a post-doctoral researcher on a BBSRC-funded project (36 months) on the genetics and functional genomics of vancomycin resistance in enterococci. Further details here: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Please DM or email me if you want to discuss this post.