Postdoc position in my lab in Cologne starting early next year or latest in spring to get this exciting project started. jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

Very excited to finally share my PhD paper, about advancing #chloroplast #synbio through high-throughput plastome engineering of #Chlamydomonas. Huge thanks to the whole team! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nominations for the Darbaker Prize close TOMORROW, November 1! This joint award from the Botanical Society of America and the Phycological Society of America recognizes excellence in research on microscopic algae. 💰 Award increased to $2500! botany.org/home/awards/... #BSAwards

Seemingly everyone in my extended friendship and social circles: Getting married, buying an apartment/house, and/or having babies. Versus me, telling them my exciting news: “So, I’m making this really cool set of plasmids…” 🙃

If you’re fed up with MacOS, here’s a really nice Linux version that runs on recent Macs. Super easy installation. Run in terminal: curl alx.sh | sh

Please repost: What are the current costs of kit-based RNA extractions per sample? Qiagen quoted my grad student a "discount" that came to $10/sample. That seemed /way/ too high

Imagine: you are visiting a colleague's office, or a conference room, and you want to explain something. You turn to the chalkboard and <GASP> you are struck by the sight of this. CAN YOU EVEN DO SCIENCE WITH THIS? Unlikely. Better to be prepared.

The automatic assumption from Adobe Acrobat that I would like to have their AI "help" me read paper PDFs has driven me slightly mad. Thankfully, it is simple to turn it off. (Even if I would prefer that one would need to actively turn it on, instead of off.) helpx.adobe.com/uk/acrobat/u...

JOB ALERT! We are looking for a LAB MANAGER (7-year position!) to help us build the MOLECULAR BIODIVERSITY lab in our @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Are you a NGS wet lab expert, and you like the idea of supporting research on natural biodiversity, then apply! Please re-post!

New pre-print from the team! The manuscript is @emma-raven.bsky.social's PhD work showing that whether a leaf is a carbon sink or a carbon source influences how they execute immune responses. Have a read! #PlantScience @johninnescentre.bsky.social

Want to do a PhD in biology? Our projects for 2026 are now live! If you're considering a PhD, or know someone who is, we have projects that span the biosciences to serve as inspiration. Reach out to our academics to discuss these or more options if you have an idea of your own 👇 bit.ly/dphilbio25

🦖 Something HUGE just hatched. Plasmidsaurus now offers RNA sequencing for gene expression analysis: • As fast as 3 day turnaround • $50/sample for academia, $80 for industry • Up to ~10M unique transcript 3’ end reads per sample • Interactive results Explore Plasmidsaurus RNA-Seq today.

🌿 Amazing opportunity for scientists from any field to move into plant biology! I might host a fellow in the area of root-microbe or root-environment interactions (DM me). 👉 simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology #PlantScience #ClimateChange #HarnessingPlants

Excited to share DupyliCate - our new tool for discovery and characterization of gene duplications: "DupyliCate - mining, classifying, and characterizing gene duplications" doi.org/10.1101/2025... #Bioinformatics #Python #Genomics #Evolution @puckerlab.bsky.social

If you're on the job market and are working in any area of Plant Molecular Biology, check this out. We have a very strong group: Jeff Dangl, Joe Kieber, Greg Copenhaver, Jason Reed, Zack Nimchuk, and an incoming new assistant professor starting in January bio.unc.edu/people/facul...

The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders - Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers - Support for up to 12 years - Access to our core facilities - Competitive salary - Fantastic colleagues - All areas of biology Deadline 27 Nov www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Look I know we're called Skype a Scientist but this semester the reality has been Zoom an Archaeologist lmao

Look I know it'll shock you to know this, but we are almost out of archeologists AGAIN. Do you know any archeologists? Are they willing to be matched with a LEGO team? Please send 'em our way we need all hands on deck (STILL!) We have had 585 requests for archeologists 🫠 forms.gle/PU3x7oayXGr3...

The latest #AlphaFold DB update is out! We synchronised with UniProt release 2025_03, predicted protein isoforms across all species, and provide MSAs used to generate each prediction. Proud of the team at the PDBe for the hard work that went into this. Grateful to play my part in it!

Excited to participate and talk about how quantitative imaging analyses using #MorphographX helped see things that I didn’t know! #MGX 🌱🧪

What is really happening with Bluesky and its moderation? A thread. First, let’s use the accurate word to describe what Jay Graber (the CEO) and others at Bluesky have been receiving: it’s not criticism, it’s *harassment* I’ve seen some of them being harassed for months by deranged people 1/

NEW ARTICLE FROM THE LAB 🎉🍀🧫 Groundbreaking work performed by @hueihsuantsai.bsky.social and all! Please, go have a read! Congrats to making it to the cover!!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The new ggplot2 4.0.0 is here! 🎉 This major update includes a foundational rewrite of S7 and user benefits such as smarter labeling and a revamped theming system. Check the details: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... BONUS: Join the release party on Oct 3, 3pm ET. bit.ly/join-gg-extenders #RStats

EXCITING NEWS!! We're searching for a new professor colleague at the Biozentrum🇨🇭. Ideal candidates are exploring novel biological questions with structure, biophysics, or high-resolution imaging. 🧪 🧶🧬 🔬 The call closes Nov 3. Please get in touch if you would like more information. Come join us! 👩‍🔬🤓

We are incredibly excited & proud: our first publication is out in eLIFE! "Making conferences in the plant sciences more inclusive through community recommendations" elifesciences.org/articles/106... This project was a team effort involving contributors from seven professional societies. #PlantSci

📣Magnifying a new initiative from MASC (Multi-national Arabidopsis Steering Committee) to support colleagues in need tinyurl.com/MASC-initiat... Please read the document and return comments to Thorsten Hamann ([email protected]) by Oct. 15th. Please share. #arabidopsis #community #plantscience

Okay, so how are people feeling about MDPI having their own preprint server (www.preprints.org)? I'm assuming they are doing it as a direct competition to bioRxiv/arXiv and to allow even more direct funnelling of preprints towards their paper publication pipelines? 🤔

Bringing these shirts back for the fall, shipping in early November 🫡 squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/bina...

🚨 Calling all #PlantScience ECRs! 🚨 JXB is now inviting applications for its 2026 Editorial Internships 🌱✍️ 🧪 ✨ You’ll gain: 🌿 Behind-the-scenes publishing experience 📝 Write commentary pieces 🤝 Join our 2026 Editorial Board meeting 👩‍💻 🗓️ Deadline: 30 Sept 👉 bit.ly/jxbinterns @sebiology.bsky.social

We have an open Assistant Professor position in Evolutionary Cell and Molecular Biology in the @weillinstitute.bsky.social at Cornell University. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607

Very excited to share new work out today in @natchembio.nature.com on a new approach - FACES - for selectively imaging of phospholipids and other biomolecules at spatial resolutions down to individual membrane leaflets (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nominate your amazing colleagues! 💚

I'm making a collage of Arabidopsis habitats for a seminar. If you have photos to share, such as these iconic ones from @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social & @coevolution.bsky.social, please send to [email protected]. Please let me also know how to attribute them. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

@UniBasel is setting up a new endowed professorship at the Biozentrum to make fundamental discoveries at the interface between biophysics and climate-relevant environmental biology www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...

These four pin designs are the absolute super heroes of my store. The profits from these ones offset the losses from my other designs while I wait for them to break even. I'm really thankful to everyone who's bought one and helped me make new cool art! canopyrobin.etsy.com

Please can I encourage UK colleagues to participate in this survey?

This is absolutely beautiful! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @arisadanandom.bsky.social

🚨 We're hiring, please share! The FMI seeks a tenure-track Group Leader (Assistant Prof) in Structural Biology 🔬 Innovative scientists in genome regulation, RNA metabolism, or protein homeostasis—especially using cutting-edge approaches—apply now at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

Register here: forms.gle/rsbwq6vmTQEK... Dr. Callie R. Chappell (Department of Biology, Stanford University) joins us for this month’s SynBio4ALL Africa webinar! Join us on this date to learn more about community bio labs and share with us how the labs in your community look like

Six years ago, I started at the MPIPZ with a head full of ideas. What a journey. I’m thrilled to share that, from Jan 2026, I will be moving to Zurich as a chaired associate professor at the University of Zurich. A new chapter, and plenty of roots still to grow. Can’t wait for the adventure ahead!

👉 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Join us and be part of shaping the future of #plantscience at Oxford as we move to the new Life and Mind Building lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/home (recognised for its potential to change the World edition.cnn.com/2025/01/01/s...) @biology.ox.ac.uk www.biology.ox.ac.uk

Attention plant proteomics specialists: We are looking for a Head of our new Proteomics Unit at our international and dynamic Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology. @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social Applications are welcome until 30. Sept 2025: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/8...

Job alert 📣 Our faculty looks for a Junior Professor W1 with tt to W2 in Membrane Biology! We are looking for #ECRs working on membrane biogenesis,contact sites,composition & other aspects of membranes in 🌱 and other organisms! DM me if you need more details! jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f...

Great opportunity! #PlantScience PLOS Biology hiring full-time Associate Editor. Requires PhD+2 years postdoc experience "Expertise in molecular cell biology is required, preferably in context of plant science" job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/plos/jobs/46... I know folks who should apply to this!

Remembering a fun interview with Laur from Plants in Jars where I get a chance to explain the core thesis of Flowers For Everyone and various aspects of my biology practice. I love her channel and highly recommend following her work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAaj...

I really appreciate and love people who deposit their plasmids on Addgene to make them accessible. 👍Everyone is ✨ But gosh, can people please also annotate the actual regions of interest in their plasmid maps, so I can figure out how they cloned their stuff and what is what? Please 🙏