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Professional plant nerd currently at Stanford.
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The Sainsbury Laboratory
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Ten days left to apply for our International Undergraduate Summer School 2026 with the
@johninnescentre.bsky.social
and
@earlhaminst.bsky.social
! A unique opportunity for global undergraduates to spend 8 weeks with us on Norwich Research Park 🧬🧪 ⏰ Deadline 16 January 2026
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International Undergraduate Summer School | John Innes Centre
The Undergraduate Summer School is a unique opportunity for undergraduates from all corners of the world to spend eight weeks at our internationally renowned research centre, partnering with fellow…
https://www.jic.ac.uk/training-careers/summer-schools/international-undergraduate/
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Annals of Botany
4 days ago
⏳ There’s still time to submit! The call for papers for the Special Issue Seedling Traits and Climate Change remains open until February 1, 2026 🗓 We look forward to your research on how early plant life stages respond to a changing climate 🌱 👉
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Another highly relevant review!
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3 days ago
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This goes for a lot of "health" tech as well -- many of them are not covered by
#HIPAA
! (Speaking as someone who used to have to get HIPAA training.)
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Anja Geitmann
3 days ago
OPPORTUNITY: McGill Plant Science is looking for an expert in plant pathology, plant breeding, or horticulture in the context of the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Program (senior established researcher). Contact:
www.mcgill.ca/plant/contact
Program:
lnkd.in/eavfNu7e
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LinkedIn
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Silvia Manrique
15 days ago
🧪🌱 Plant awareness is essential to stop climate change. Also, I really love plants and everything plant-related so I am really looking forward to reading this collection! 💚
#PlantScience
#PlantAwareness
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Not gonna lie, I have heard milder forms of "you should consider a career outside of science" before, and I have literally cried after I got home that day. Snapshot taken from this
#naturemagazine
article about
#peerreview
:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Finally found the time to do
#projectimplicit
by
@harvard.edu
! Strongly recommended for everyone, because the only way to solve a problem, whether it's biology or systemic bias, is to first know what the problem is.
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Have moved to
#Stanford
! This week has been a chaos of moving, grading, moving, manuscript, moving. Currently editing things while surrounded by boxes. Can't tell if I've had too much caffeine or not enough.
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Journal of Experimental Botany
26 days ago
🌱 RESEARCH 🌱 Under low-phosphorus conditions, mycorrhizal symbiosis can alter alfalfa root morphology and physiology. High-phosphorus efficiency genotypes show greater biomass, mycorrhizal responsiveness, and positive trait plasticity - Fan et al. 🔗
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching
26 days ago
And here's another resource to support undergraduate summer research placements, the
@aspbofficial.bsky.social
SURF program (summer undergraduate research fellowship)
aspb-surf.secure-platform.com/a
Final applications due Feb 6, so start looking now!
#PlantSci
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Sharing this because we're covering
#ecology
in class right now and the take-home message I'm trying to drill into everyone is MORE DIVERSITY = HEALTHIER COMMUNITY (for plants AND humans).
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Helen Czerski
about 1 month ago
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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My friend's paper came out! Go Mary-Francis! 🎉
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about 1 month ago
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Plugging a segment Leenna Keo, a student of mine, did on
#ferns
for
#KCRA
:
www.kcra.com/article/fols...
#plantoutreach
#folsomlake
#losrios😀
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A closer look at California's fascinating ferns | Explore Outdoors
Visitors to Folsom Lake State Recreation Area can explore a variety of ferns with the help of knowledgeable guides from California State Parks.
https://www.kcra.com/article/folsom-lake-ferns-explore-outdoors/69649854
about 1 month ago
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UCDavisPlants
about 1 month ago
🌳 From Planta: Advances in tissue culture, genome editing, and AI are accelerating Persian walnut propagation, improving efficiency and expanding breeding potential. (Charles A. Leslie, Abhaya M. Dandekar) ▶️
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#PlantScience
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Advancements in Persian walnut tissue culture and genetic engineering: bridging traditional methods with modern biotechnology - Planta
Main conclusion This review summarizes major advances in Persian walnut biotechnology, emphasizing progress in propagation, somatic embryogenesis, genome editing, and computational tools while outlini...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00425-025-04889-6
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Andrew Hipp
about 1 month ago
The
@mortonarboretum.bsky.social
NSF REU program is open for summer 2026! $7500 stipend + housing / travel. Apply by 31 Jan 2026 and share with your networks! Details at https://mortonarb.org/science/opportunities-in-science/research-experiences-for-undergraduates-program/
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Andrew Hacket-Pain
about 1 month ago
University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
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Journal of Experimental Botany
about 1 month ago
🧬 🍅 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🍅 🧬 MYB and WRKY transcription factors collaboratively regulate suberin biosynthesis in the tomato root exodermis. Antagonistic interactions may fine-tune suberization or act as a brake on overaccumulation - Jo et al. 🔗
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience
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ASPB-PUI.bsky.social
about 2 months ago
Please join us on Wednesday, Dec, 3, 2025, at 12 noon EST for our monthly virtual ASPB PUI Section networking session. Our topic is: Teaching Biology with Google NotebookLM Join the meeting at
spelman.zoom.us/j/9374821224...
Contact Dr. Dongfang Wang at
[email protected]
, if link issues
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Journal of Experimental Botany
about 1 month ago
🍅 DARWIN REVIEW 🍅 Jaryal et al. discuss the role of four stress hormones, abscisic acid, ethylene, jasmonates, and salicylic acid, in the orchestration of signaling pathways that mediate tomato resilience and metabolism 📝 🔗
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience
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@alaingoossenspsb.bsky.social
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🎉🎉🎉 New paper going to be out soon!
#pistachio
#plantbiology
#anatomyisimportant
about 1 month ago
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That feeling when so many of the students make the same type of mistake on the same question that you double check your answer key and your slides to make sure you got it right.
about 2 months ago
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MSU Plant Resilience Institute
about 2 months ago
Among the cracked earth & blinding sunlight of California's Death Valley, one native plant not only survives — it thrives. Read the story of how this plant helped
@rheelab.bsky.social
scientists reveal a blueprint for engineering heat-resilient crops:
msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/11...
#PlantScience
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Shuxiao (Susan) Zhang
Association of Applied Biologists
about 2 months ago
✨ Flash Talk Fundamentals for Applied Biologists ✨ An interactive online workshop for early career researchers & professionals - perfect for anyone who wants to learn how to deliver a great conference flash talk or 3MT! 📆 12th December, 1pm GMT Register now 👉
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Shuxiao (Susan) Zhang
Journal of Experimental Botany
about 2 months ago
❄️🌱 RESEARCH 🌱❄️ Ice spreads in a predictable pattern through young L. tulipifera, governed by anatomy and vein architecture. Leaf lethality always involves damage to photosynthetic tissues and can involve air embolism - Johnson et al. 🔗
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience
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Colin Carlson
about 2 months ago
The only way we will win a better world is not only leftism for America, but internationalism. “Researchers who have anything to do with China should have their careers ended” is a bipartisan position, and it can’t be anymore. If we live in a fragmented world, it will burn in our lifetime
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Keith Stewart
about 2 months ago
Good that Canada joins coalition to fight against climate disinformation (so maybe don't weaken greenwashing law?)
www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...
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Countries commit to tackling climate disinformation at COP30
It is the first time states have formally committed to information integrity and fighting back against climate disinformation.
https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/11/13/cop-of-truth-countries-commit-to-tackling-climate-disinformation-at-un-climate-summit?utm_source=cbnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-11-13&utm_campaign=Daily+Briefing+GHG+emissions+hit+record+Climate+misinformation+to+be+tackled+SMR+nuclear+for+Wales
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Microbiology Society
about 2 months ago
It’s
#TransAwarenessWeek
🌈 This week, we’re celebrating trans and nonbinary people while also raising awareness of the challenges and discrimination that many still face. Check out our discussion with Rowan Casey:
microb.io/4hFL6vk
👈
#TransInSTEM
#TransInScience
#LGBTQSTEMDay
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Queer in Microbiology: A Conversation
18 Nov - Virtual, online
http://microb.io/3O96Ujs
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Shuxiao (Susan) Zhang
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
about 2 months ago
Some plants secrete brine from their leaves to cope with salty soil. Such plants use a subcuticular space to separate surface brine from secreting cells, a trick that could be useful for salt-tolerant crops or desalination devices. In PNAS:
https://ow.ly/Aich50Xr3Fl
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Annals of Botany
about 2 months ago
🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Dance with plants: Taylor Swift’s music videos as advance organizers for meaningful learning in botany
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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Journal of Experimental Botany
about 2 months ago
🌾💧 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌾💧 Zhen et al. discovered that the density of small openings—called stomata—located on barley stems is associated with whole-canopy water use much more than those located on the leaf blades 🌿🌾💧 🔗
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience
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Earlham Institute
2 months ago
Fully-funded
#PhDproject
at Earlham Institute in collaboration with
@ibers.bsky.social
, understanding genome regulation in hybrid Miscanthus for
#sustainable
#biomass
production. Join our supportive PhD and postdoctoral community!
#Genomics
#Bioenergy
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4-year NRPDTP PhD at Earlham Institute
Application deadline: 02 December 2025
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Shuxiao (Susan) Zhang
Annals of Botany
about 2 months ago
🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Convergent evolution of the developmental anatomy of leaf abscission: evidence from the arboreous lycopsid Sigillaria
doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
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jobs.plantae.org/jobs/ja/2180...
#plantjobs
#jobs
Assistant prof of crop production position opening in
#UCD
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Assistant Professor of Vegetable Crop Production in Davis, CA for University of California Davis
Exciting opportunity in Davis, CA for University of California Davis as a Assistant Professor of ...
http://jobs.plantae.org/jobs/ja/21807989/&utm_source=BTI_JOB_ALERT&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=BTI_JOB_ALERT
2 months ago
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Journal of Experimental Botany
2 months ago
⚙️ SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW ⚙️ Iron is essential to plants, and molecular mechanisms controlling iron uptake and concentration are affected by other essential nutrients such as zinc, copper, phosphorus, and nitrogen 🧲 🌿 📝 Wairich et al. 🔗
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience
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Maddy Seale
2 months ago
My pick for In Other Journals this week: A MYB transcription factor regulates lignin deposition on thorn tips: My summary here:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Paper here:
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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In Other Journals
Editors’ selections from the current scientific literature
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aed6117
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Plantae.org
2 months ago
#JustIn
on Plantae — Balancing Teaching and Research Careers: Insights and Strategies. In this new piece, ASPB Plantae Fellow Irene Ikiriko explores the options available to get the best of both research and teaching careers.
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#PlantScience
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Balancing Teaching and Research Careers: Insights and Strategies | Plantae
An academic career is multifaceted. Academics combine research and teaching with mentoring, grant-writing, publishing, community service, and administrative roles. One of the first questions aspiring…
https://buff.ly/Bg4tye7
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#UCD
is hiring an assistant prof for
#plantpathology
!
#jobs
#plantjobs
jobs.plantae.org/jobs/ja/2179...
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Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology in Davis, CA for University of California Davis Health System
Exciting opportunity in Davis, CA for University of California Davis Health System as a Assistant...
https://jobs.plantae.org/jobs/ja/21792144/&utm_source=BTI_JOB_ALERT&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=BTI_JOB_ALERT
2 months ago
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r1z
3 months ago
The last of the Rosa Rugosa on the dunes. 🌱
#gardening
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UCDavisPlants
3 months ago
🌳From Annals of Botany: Urban forests hold untapped potential as genetic reservoirs for threatened tree species, offering a powerful tool to advance global conservation goals. (Alessandro Ossola) ▶️
academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...
#PlantScience
#Conservation
#Ecology
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Genetic diversity in urban forests and their potential role in conserving the world’s threatened tree species
AbstractBackground. Plant species diversity is threatened worldwide, and urgent conservation action is needed. Emerging evidence demonstrates that urban fo
https://academic.oup.com/aob/advance-article/doi/10.1093/aob/mcaf238/8285732?login=true
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At this point may I just say that NO one is prepared for the Canvas issue today.
#teaching
3 months ago
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching
3 months ago
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 🤔
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UCDavisPlants
3 months ago
🌱From Ecology: Invasive annuals show strong local adaptation to aridity, but not to nitrogen deposition, highlighting climate as a key driver of evolutionary response. (Justin M Valliere, Mayra J Hernández) ▶️
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
#PlantScience
#InvasiveSpecies
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks
3 months ago
Whoop, whoop! The new queer wildlife documentary 'Second Nature,' narrated by the inspirational Elliot Page, will premiere in New York on Saturday. 🐠🏳️⚧️🐧🌈🐘 It looks awesome; check out the teaser. Hopefully it will be available in the UK soon.
www.secondnaturedoc.com
#lgbtq
#nature
#film
#PrideInSTEM
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Second Nature — A documentary about everything you didn’t learn in high school biology.
Debunking myths that females are “inferior” and being queer is “unnatural,” Second Nature follows trailblazing trans Evolutionary Biologist Dr. Joan Roughgarden as she meets other groundbreaking scien...
https://www.secondnaturedoc.com/
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Biology LGBTQ+ Journal Club
3 months ago
In our session this week, we will be joined by the amazing
@penguinacho.bsky.social
for a discussion on penguin sexuality and the documentary Animal Pride: Nature's Coming Out Story! 🐧💬
#QueerStem
#QueerAcademia
#GayPenguins
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napari
3 months ago
napari 0.6.6 is out! 🚀 This is a bugfix release following up 0.6.5: if something in your napari workflow unexplicably broke, you might want to update ;) Also, with the new bundle you can now "open files with > napari"! Check out the full release notes on the website:
napari.org/stable/relea...
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napari: a fast, interactive viewer for multi-dimensional images in Python
view and explore 2D, 3D, and higher-dimensional arrays on a canvas;, overlay derived data such as points, polygons, segmentations, and more;, annotate and edit derived datasets, using standard data st...
https://napari.org/dev/release/..
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Ivan Radin
3 months ago
Here are some “leaf” or phyllid cells from moss Physcomitrium patens gametophore. Cells are expressing a green fluorescence marker that labels the vacuolar membrane. Chloroplasts' autofluorescence is in magenta. Can you spot dividing chloroplasts?
#microscopymonday
#moss
#plantcells
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Artologica aka Michele Banks
3 months ago
Painted some xylem for a thing. Pretty pleased.
#sciart
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