🌱 Excited to advertise a new MRes+PhD in my group at Imperial! We'll grow plants in transparent 3D-printed soil mimics and watch root–soil interactions, combining X-ray micro-CT, additive manufacturing & metabolomics. 📅 Deadline: 21 May 2026 | 🌍 Home fee only 🔗 www.imperial.ac.uk/chemical-bio...

🌱 Excited to advertise a new MRes+PhD in my group at Imperial! We'll grow plants in transparent 3D-printed soil mimics and watch root–soil interactions, combining X-ray micro-CT, additive manufacturing & metabolomics. 📅 Deadline: 21 May 2026 | 🌍 Home fee only 🔗 www.imperial.ac.uk/chemical-bio...

🎓PhD opportunity | 2026 | Imperial College London Transparent 3D-printed soil: biophysics and metabolomics of root-soil interactions 💡Supervisors: Dr G. Sena, Dr I. Dunlop, Dr G. Larrouy-Maumus + Dr M. Johnston, Dr G. Depietra + Dr A. Mohammed 💡Sponsored by Syngenta ⏱️Apply by 21 May 2026

🎉 Imperial global leader! 🌍📈 We've climbed to 8th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, joining Oxford and Cambridge in the global top 10. Read more ⤵️ https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/latest/world-ranking

We received 80 abstracts and have >100 registered participants for the Mech. of Plant Development FASEB (Aug 24-28 in Southbridge MA USA). Time for us to select ~20 talks from those 😱 It will be an exciting meeting! FOMO? Still time to register! → tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a

Our new Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route provides a fast-track option for international mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK, providing up to £4m over a five-year period. Find out more: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/farad...

📢 Registration is OPEN for the 2025 edition of the European Research and Innovation Days #RiDaysEU! 📅 Join the ERC on 17 Sept for the session "Securing Europe’s place at the forefront of scientific discovery" 🔗 Register now 👉 t.co/nPQmG6ix1G for access & more info. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o50Y...

Join us for our Natural Sciences Research Showcase! Explore the latest research and PhD innovations from across our community. 📅Thursday 11 September 2025 📌South Kensington 🎟️🥂Free entry and drinks 🚨Register now! www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19397...

What are the most cutting-edge methods to image complex root systems in mature trees in field conditions? Ground-penetrating radar? X-ray CT? What resolution can we get? Anyone working on wilder techniques? #science #imaging #plantroots #plantscience #plantmethods #root #phenotyping #soil

📣We're very excited to be sponsoring the first ever #PlantScience #chronobiology meeting of its kind 🕓🌱 The clock is ticking, so register here 👇 (NB. early bird registration ends March 1st): plantclock.wixsite.com/2025

Two interesting conferences, both in UK, planned for exactly the same days… A pity! iop.eventsair.com/pol2025/ 100yearsconference.biologists.com

Delighted to announce the 18th #FASEB Mechanisms of Plants Development will take place Aug 24-28th. ‼️ Register before June 29th → tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a 🌱 🎁 Vote for the conference image by Jan 31st → tinyurl.com/2872w6vm The poster & speakers lineup will be announced in early Feb. Spread the word!

🚨PhD opportunities available! 🚨 I have two open #PhDpositions in my group: 1️⃣ For international EU students (deadline in 1 week!) 2️⃣ For home-UK students If you’re excited about synthetic cells, don’t miss out! 📄 Apply here: continilab.com/join-us/

This is an important concept to understand the dynamic interaction between plant roots and soil and among plant roots.

Excellent review on positional information in plant #RootDevelopment #RootBiology Good for thinking, teaching, or both! doi.org/10.1093/plph...

Calling all myconauts. Excited to have joined BlueSky to share our work on the structure, trade & nutrient flows of mycorrhizal networks. Video time lapse of root (red) & mycorrhizal network (light blue) over 300hrs

Image collection of bryophyte-rich plant communities provided by Richard Droker - highly browsable library of micro-environments www.flickr.com/photos/wande...

Submit your abstract to #ICAR2025 by the deadlines below! Abstract Submission deadline for 🌱Oral presentations is March 17th. Abstract submission deadline for 🌱Poster presentations is May 1st. Topics for Concurrent and Workshop sessions published! 📅 June 16-20 Ghent 🇧🇪 🕸️ icar2025.com

With Marie Cecile Caillaud and Isabelle Fobis-Loisy, we are organizing a concurrent session at ICAR next year #ICAR2025 (Gent, Belgium June 16-20 2025). - How do cells talk to each other? New frontiers in cell-to-cell communication web.cvent.com/event/448810...

A true milestone achieved by Sara Zenoni, her team at the University of Verona and EdiVite! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The concurrent sections and workshops for ICAR2025 are out! 🌟 bit.ly/4eUZOvf Excited to co-organize a section on Cell Wall Diversity in Development & Stress with @kaisakajala.bsky.social. We’ll select EC speakers from abstracts—submit yours! 🌱 #ICAR2025 #PlantScience

physiologiaplantarum.org/2024/11/20/t... #PlantScience organized by Physiologia Plantarum

Interview with Liam Dolan. Learn more about Liam's career so far, and his views on plant development, evolution, ecology, and biodiversity. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Reminder to update the "social links" in your ORCiD profile with your Bluesky handle:

📜 The whole and its parts: cell-specific functions of brassinosteroids 🧑‍🔬 @zivaardening.bsky.social, Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein, et al. 📔 Trends in Plant Science 🔗 www.cell.com/trends/plant... #️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment #Brassinosteroids #Phytohormones

And #PlantScience related ones can be found here: bsky.app/profile/soms...

Hello Bluesky! 👋 We're the UK Space Agency - we boost UK prosperity, understand the Universe, and protect our planet and outer space. 📈🔭🌍 You can also follow us over on: 🚀 x.com/spacegovuk 🚀 www.linkedin.com/company/uk-s... 🚀 www.instagram.com/spacegovuk/ 🚀 www.facebook.com/spacegovuk/

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

Starter Pack for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions go.bsky.app/H3986W6 #PlantImmunity #MPMI

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

Looking forward to attending the European Low Gravity Research Association #ELGRA28 symposium! On Thursday I will be giving a short talk on root electrotropism and its possible applications in microgravity conditions. Contact me if you go and want to chat about roots in space!

#PlantScience Do plant roots get habituated to external signals? Our latest paper on root #electrotropism and #bioelectricity by Maddalena Salvalaio, suggests they do. Dive into this fascinating topic: root response to long-term exposure to electric fields. doi.org/10.1093/plph...

Had just realized that this paper: www.cell.com/trends/molec... "Future medicine: from molecular pathways to the collective intelligence of the body" which we had marked to publish as open access was not in fact outside paywall. They just fixed it - should be accessible to everyone now.

The Moon and Venus. 9 November 2023. 🔭 🧪

Disturbing about AI and chatbots: “it is like chatting with a human”; but these LL Models simply try to “guess” the next word in a sentence, based on lot of stuff written by humans. So, is it how we talk to each other? Repeating what we have read or heard? AI shows how shallow our conversations are…

Open access for 30 days starting today: "Long Range Communication via Gap Junctions and Stress in Planarian Morphogenesis: A Computational Study" bit.ly/3RguOh9