Excited to start growing some hibiscus in the lab! 🌺

Pleased to be able to advertise a NERC GW4+ PhD studentship to be cosupervised by James Clark at Bath on the evolution of WOX gene function. More info on the project and application process here: www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/projects-202... Happy to take informal questions too.

The wonderful Rox Middleton and i have a #PhD project investigating how cuticles and extracuticular waxes protect #plants from environmental stress as they age. Developmental biology, genetics, environmental signalling and physics split between Bristol and Bath. Please get in touch for more details!

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...

Please share! Interested in floral development and evolution 🌺🔬? We have a PhD position available to join our lab! Open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

A few years ago I made a slide showing the top 10 results if you search Google Image for "cartoon scientist". In my slide, 10/10 are white men. Someone asked if this is still true, so I tried again. Here below you have 24 images. 20 are men, 4 are women (progress!). 23 are white, 1 is blue 🤔

Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD position in our lab @uofglasgow.bsky.social on Enhancing Climate-Resilient Crops by Innovative Priming Strategies. A network led by @goetheuni.bsky.social cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101227217 International applicants are eligible. Application form: pollenbiology.cz/page-2

I feel really privileged to have been part of such amazing session! Thank to the organisers for giving me this opportunity to talk about my work 🌸.

Here it is! Epidermal cells in the root can figure out if they are covered by the root cap or not using mechanical signals! Thanks to @ckirchhelle.bsky.social, @moritznowack.bsky.social, @nathan-german.bsky.social Annamaria Kiss and all the others!

🌿 Black in Plant Science Conference 2025 🌿 Join us for a powerful celebration of Black excellence in plant research! 🗓️ Registration & Poster Submission Deadline: 28 Sept 2025 📍 Connect with researchers, share your work, and grow your network. 🎟️ Register now: 🔗 buff.ly/ax54FQ4

I’m proud to present the main work from my postdoc, 3+ years in making from scratch, my ultimate #MimulusPropaganda up till now: The Moment That Symmetry Breaks. #plantscience #development #imaging #microscopy 🧪🌸🔬 w. Captain Yaowu & @biancatash.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

maize shoot apical meristems are the cutest! 😍 plasma membrane labeled with PIP2A-CFP

Incredible diversity of #pollen grains! Pollen autofluorescence acquired with @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social #superresolution Airyscan & color-coded for depth #microscopy #bioimaging #bioart #sciart #botany #plantscience #fluorescencefriday

Very enjoyable day talking roots, shoots and stomata @festofnature.bsky.social with @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Our #ICAR2025 workshop "Building a diverse community through effective teaching and mentoring" will take place in Ghent next week. We have just secured a Diversity in Science Grant from @biochemsoc.bsky.social (thank you so much!) so attendees should expect something extra special! Some clues: 👩‍🎨🎴📄

I am super excited to announce the first (brief) pre-print purely from my group: Start right to end right: authentic open reading frame selection matters www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... This marks a return to NMD research for me. NMD detects early stop codons but we need to find the true stop!

🌿Today we had the pleasure of hearing fascinating talks from the Plant Sciences community at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social – impressive research & great updates from across the labs! Ending the symposium on the roof terrace was perfect. Thanks to organisers @martinadeangelis.bsky.social & Tadd! 👏

It is out! CLAVATA in moss: not only meristems! Big thanks to @jillharrison.bsky.social , @ilichenmoss2.bsky.social and @newphyt.bsky.social

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...

Would you like to speak at an upcoming Development presents… webinar? We're looking for self-nominations from postdocs – based outside of the US and Europe – looking to transition to an independent position within the next year or so. #DevBio #StemCell #FuturePI @dev-journal.bsky.social

It's a cute coincidence that today I was imaging Marchantia gemmae looking a little like a heart. Happy Valentine's Day and #FluorescenceFriday !

Award for Excellence here

🚨 PhD Opportunity! 🌿 Join us in Bristol to study plant-pathogen interactions! 👨‍🔬 Supervised by me @pierrebuscaill.bsky.social & Prof Thomas Gorochowski @chofski.bsky.social 📅 Apply by January 6th 🔗 More info: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 📢 Please share! #PhD #PlantImmunity #Microbiology

It took me SEVEN years to figure out that you can save a ggplot as a vectorized .svg file ggsave("file.svg"). The svg file can be opened on pptx/ai/inkspace and it will be completely vectorized, even text are still recognized as text boxes! No more recreating plots on illustrator!!!!

Last few days to apply for a ROOT & SHOOT travel award to attend a 2025 plant confernce. Conditions apply, see the blog post for full details.

Plant biologists! We need you! We did set up a quick survey to study why people chose to study plant science. Please check here and shared widely: forms.gle/4X3FUwzxXBx3... #PlantSci

Recruiting With a 22nd November deadline, this is a project open to candidate inputs in the design. See the advert here and Apply www.findaphd.com/phds/project...