Interested in a #PhD at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social and identify as coming from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background? Why not apply for the 2026 AMPlify applicant mentoring programme? (NB. applicants must have Home fees status) www.nottingham.ac.uk/bbdtp/equali...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… 🎄

Functional divergence of the Arg/N-degron pathway between the crop Brassica rapa and the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.04.692320v1

Great to see @nro-group.bsky.social launched. This alliance represents 35 of UK's research institutes and research bodies who deliver curiosity-driven and focussed full-time research in areas critical for the nation, supporting innovation, health and economic growth.

Huge congratulations to my @rothamsted.bsky.social colleague, Martin Broadley- a very worthy recipient of the Rank Prize for Nutrition, together with David Salt 🥂

If you're interested in cross-kingdom #proteostasis and like the idea of a conference in a beautiful Sicilian palace with some excellent science, registration is now open for proteintermini.org/meeting/

We (Nordborg & Weigel labs) need input on the next generation of genome browsers & data download modes for the #Arabidopsis #1001GenomesPlus project. We have now a curated collection of over 500 long read genomes. Please help us by filling out this questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Beautiful new paper from @annebertolotti.bsky.social lab at LMB

Reconsider the potential suspension of Plant Biology Courses at UoN - Sign the Petition! c.org/p5jy2GXHcX via @UKChange

Watching @britishbakeoff.bsky.social final 🎂 Going to be sad when it’s all over. Love that the last showstopper of the season is basically an outlandishly giant cake ❤️

This Halloween, we have a spooky evolutionary story for you. The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇

Last week we held the 2nd @blackinplantsci.bsky.social conference in Leeds, full of 🌱science, 🌸art, African crops, careers & mentorship and talent. Highlight was seeing the impacts of our Research Excellence Awards & Studentships. So proud to honour and promote the excellence in our community 💓

Amused to report that I was just energetically mixing some cake batter and my Apple watch announced that I had closed my exercise ring for the day 😆🍰🏅

Another great meeting to consider: @ukbspr.bsky.social is coming to Cambridge in 2026 for all things #proteomics. A great sense of community, excellent engagement from industry and cross-kingdom science. #BSPR2026

A conference about #proteostasis in a palazzo in Palermo; inclusive, affordable, and organised by the marvellous @giglionelab.bsky.social - what’s not to like? Oh, and there is a fantastic lineup of talks plus slots to spare #ProteinTermini2026

Lemon curd cupcakes (and the last rose from my garden this year) for this morning's bake sale. All in aid of suicide prevention charity theolliefoundation.org a very worthwhile cause.

The resilience of youth 🍃What makes young Arabidopsis leaves survive flooding longer than their seniors? We tried to find out - check out our new preprint to know what we discovered @freddietheodoulou.bsky.social @leeggangers.bsky.social @hans-van-veen.bsky.social @uuplants.bsky.social

How does leaf age affect flood resilience? 🌿🌊 New preprint from @rsasidharan.bsky.social with a little help from us www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thank you to everyone who attended our #BiologyWeek Networking and Awards Ceremony last night! Congrats to all the awardees for their achievements, including those who entered our creative & careers awards, & the winners of the President’s Medal. Read the full story: www.rsb.org.uk/biology-week...

A Fairer Feast- How can technological breakthroughs work for everyone? Looking forward to this ARIA event at Venture Café London next week to celebrate #WorldFoodDay. venturecafelondon.org

Had my head in proteomics data spreadsheets all day but pleased to have whipped up this offering tonight ☺️🍰

Happy to share that our multi-omic analysis comparing two Arabidopsis accessions is now published 🌿 The first story from our @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa #plant #proteostasis project. A great collaboration between @rothamsted.bsky.social @richardmott.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk and Kathryn Lilley at Cambridge.

Hello to all my floodie friends currently in Nagoya! 🌾🌊👋 I'm so sorry I couldn't make it to #ISPLORE2025JP this time: will be following the posts from @isplore.bsky.social and feeling wistful all week. Hope you have a great meeting ☺️

Great to be sharing exciting progress with #PrecisionBreeing in our #GreenEngineering BBSRC institute strategic programme @rothamsted.bsky.social Several valuable traits in the pipeline @ukri.org #PBO #GeneEditing

It's been far too long since my last baking post, so I wanted to announce a recent acquisition: a cake dome which I am launching with a grown up but still childish slab of cake. Dark chocolate icing with sprinkles tasted better than it looks!

I can't stress it more. This conference has been designed for us by us. Support @blackinplantsci.bsky.social conference at the University of Leeds funded by the SEB, Faculty of Biological Science at Leeds, the Grow More and New Phytologist foundations and Gastby. Join us on 24/10, details below.

🚨Job Alert!! Assistant professor vacancy ‘plant abiotic stress resilience’ in our group @uuplants.bsky.social Come for the science, stay for the amazing colleagues 😀More details here www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please share!!

👏 Great to see plant scientists among the ERC StG winners 🌿 congrats all!

Stunning double rainbow @rothamsted.bsky.social this evening 🌈

Job opportunity: come join the excellent and friendly #ProteostasisUK community!

Had to look up an old paper to get the doi. It still completely boggles my mind that TWO Nobel prizes have been given for small RNAs and this work wasn't recognized by either. Abstract is literally like "yeah, we found these tiny antisense RNAs and think they're probably causing gene silencing"

Epic structure paper from @clausenlab.bsky.social @dangrabarczyk.bsky.social and collaborators providing mechanistic insight into how the UBR4 complex (=BIG in plants 🌿😊) fulfils apparently disparate roles in protein turnover 🤩

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Left myself a message for tomorrow morning

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Join us Thursday July 17 for a discussion on "Numeracy, Realism & Relevance in Plant Science", featuring Steven Burgess, Samuel Lovat, Jonathan Napier, & Claudia Vickers discussing how to "run the numbers" to identify realistic solutions to today's problems. blog.aspb.org/july-17-plan...

Sorry to be missing this!

Happy to fly the flag for #plant #proteomics @ukbspr.bsky.social this afternoon 🌿

Exited to be in Liverpool for my first ever British Society for Proteome research meeting #BSPR2025

🎉We're pleased to announce that our very own Jade Bleau has been awarded the NAASC Earlier Career Community Impact Award. We would also like to extend our congratulations to the other winners: 💐Joanna Friesner, Jose Dinneny, Dawn Nagel, Natanella Elouz-Elias, Nick Provart and Anna Stepanova.

Dear #Plantscience ISPLORE enthusiasts 🌱 🌊 The early registration deadline for the ISPLORE 2025 meeting has been extended to the end of June. We hope this gives everyone more flexibility to plan their participation. sites.google.com/view/isplore...

If you have ever felt bad about a failed experiment (who hasn't?), this great 🧵 from @plantylisasmith.bsky.social should inspire you not only to try something ambitious, but also not to give up hope in science.

Great science and great people at the joint @ukproteostasis.bsky.social and Autophagy meeting in sunny Dundee

Morning of my conference talk. Awoke from a feverish dream in which I made a complete fool of myself and then attempted to save the day by preparing kippers and scrambled eggs for the audience.

Make way auxin 😉 There's a new player in town. #plantscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Huge congratulations to plant science colleagues Julian Hibberd, Phil Poole, Wenbo Ma, Miltos Tsiantis & Jenny McElwain on election to the Royal Society 👏

Great to see a much needed tool for #plant science- a chemical probe for #hypoxia 🌿 Congrats @emilyflashman.bsky.social @daanweits.bsky.social!

Looking forward to the @ukbspr.bsky.social meeting in July!

Unanimous vote in the House of Lords tonight to approve final legislation on the New Genetic Technologies (Precision Breeding) Regulation 2025 (England). Great debate to watch. Still work to do be done to build consumer confidence, but good to see science evidence supporting the final vote.