Check out our new work published in Plant Physiology utilizing an optimized BONCAT approach to understand Arabidopsis protein production! Outstanding work led by graduate student Nick Hassan. The work promises exciting new opportunities for plant science! academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

This week we held our 2025 C-SPIRIT Stakeholder Board Annual Summit: research updates, trust mapping, and big conversations on stakeholder engagement. Our in-person crew also enjoyed dinner & two building tours! See more pics: c-spirit.org/events/photos/ Learn more: c-spirit.org #plantscience

We are hiring‼️ Two cool projects in my group for a PhD student in plant immunity and for a Postdoc in plant microbiota research 🌿🧫🚀🚀

Launching a new @genomejournal.bsky.social special collection “Early Leads: Plant Biology Side Projects with Big Potential”. ☘️ Short studies with big impact! 👍ECRs encouraged to submit 🧬 Open Access, No publication fees ➡️Deadline: July 31, 2026 Reach out to me or @oli-wilkins.bsky.social

📢 Lancement d’une nouvelle collection spéciale dans @genomejournal.bsky.social : “ Early Leads: Plant Biology Side Projects with Big Potential” ☘️ Date limite : 31 juillet 2026 👍 Chercheurs en début de carrière bienvenus ! 🧬 Libre accès, sans frais Contactez moi ou @oli-wilkins.bsky.social

Such a neat idea for a special collection! New insights / side projects, consider submitting here.

New @genomejournal.bsky.social special collection “Early Leads: Plant Biology Side Projects with Big Potential”. We’re looking for short, self-contained studies with big impact. Deadline July 31st, 2026. OA, no pub. fees, ECRs! Questions? Reach out to us (Olivia and @zoejolylopez.bsky.social)

UMass Amherst Biology is recruiting a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of Plant Physiology. Deadline Nov 1. Please spread the word and apply! careers.massachusetts.edu/mob/en-us/jo...

Fantastic PhD opportunity to join myself, Nicola Patron and @lichmanlab.bsky.social in uncovering the biosynthesis and function of lettuce sesquiterpene lactones. 4-year fully-funded combining molecular & engineering biology, & plant pathology. Deadline Nov 25th www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Our September newsletter is out! 🌿 Inside: 🔹Blogpost on C-SPIRIT’s role in the bioeconomy 🔹Spotlight on the National Institute of Agricultural Sciences 🔹Member publications 🔹Upcoming events ...and more! 👉 Read: createsend.com/t/y-23A65796... ✉️ Subscribe: forms.gle/Wkz3TgNQ2wJZ... #plantscience

Before this #PlantBio2025 thread closes: two exciting opportunities now open for early-career plant scientists. 1. Plantae Fellows program, apply by Aug 31 plantae.org/2026fellowsa... 2. @theplantcell.bsky.social Assistant Features Editor program, apply by Sep 15. blog.aspb.org/the-plant-ce...

🚨 A postdoc position is open in the Wilkins Lab (@oli-wilkins.bsky.social) at @umanitoba.bsky.social! Join C-SPIRIT, a global research center advancing sustainable agriculture through plant & microbe science! (c-spirit.org) 📬 Apply here: viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/DEFAULT.ASPX... #PlantScience

Kenyon is hiring a TT microbiologist! Please share widely. I’m the search chair & am happy to answer any questions. careers.pageuppeople.com/695/cw/en-us...

Are you a PI in a biology field looking for postdocs? Here is a Starter Pack of early career biologists currently seeking postdoctoral positions! (Also if you are searching for a postdoc, let me know if you want to be added!) go.bsky.app/8zZNEGV

How plants sense injury in their barrier tissue, periderm? Painstakingly detailed and amazing work by post doc Hiroyuki Iida shows that wounding is sensed by the diffusion of two gases: ethylene and oxygen. @treebiocoe.bsky.social‬ @erc.europa.eu‬ 1/x 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Due to feedback from the community, our PCI Webinar Open Panel Discussion date has CHANGED to Sept. 16, 2025. This means that the last two webinars of this series have different dates than originally promoted. Check the flyer for details! To Register: bit.ly/PCAPCI_Webinar

One more week to apply for a postdoc in our group (patronlab.org) @Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge. This is a 3-year position to investigate regulatory sequences and engineer gene expression in plants with the aim of optimising yields from metabolic pathways. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49769/

The opportunities of AI in the plant sciences is vast. See how the future is bright with how AI can impact plant proteomics in a Trends in Plant Science Opinion with @uhriglab.bsky.social and Dr. Jennifer Geddes-McAlister www.cell.com/trends/plant...

🌿 Heat trials have started! Potatoes have been planted across 90 plots at MSU's Montcalm Research Center. Heat will be applied during key growth stages, testing how the plants respond to warmer air/soil. After they've grown, we'll analyze them to learn about heat stress resilience! #PlantScience

Great news - we will be searching for a tree physiologist (tenure track) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, UBC Forestry, later this year. Stay tuned! (Please share.)

Join us on MONDAY, May 5 for our next installment of the Plant Cell Identity Webinar! To Register: bit.ly/PCAPCI_Webinar

DON'T FORGET! The deadline is NEXT WEEK (April 30) to submit a poster abstract for the chance to present a short talk at the GRC Conference in Portland, Maine! All other applications for this conference are due July 13, 2025. To Apply: bit.ly/ApplyforGRC

We have a postdoc position that just opened up in the Brady lab on reprogramming tomato root system architecture in response to changes in nutrient availability - please consider applying! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07095

My university is accepting applications for the Visiting Researcher - Scholars at Risk Program, established to support scholars who are facing threats to their life, liberty or academic career, &/or have been forced to leave their academic position because of such threats. www.wlu.ca/academics/re...

Seed and tuber collections are really, really, REALLY important. A short thread 🧵 1/5 🧪 #plantscience

Want to travel to Portland, Maine and present at the Gordon Research Conference on Single-Cell Approaches in Plant Biology? Short talk submissions are open until April 30, 2025. All other applications for this conference are due July 13th. To apply: bit.ly/ApplyforGRC (submit as a poster abstract)

Check out this exciting GRC on plant single cell bio! I’ll be speaking about our collaborative @hfspo.bsky.social moss project with @tevavernoux.bsky.social Yoan Coudert, Lidor Shara-Moshe, Richard Smith, Javier Jauregui-Lazo, Laure Mancini and more!

"Why don't you buy a new centrifuge" Because everyone knows that any appliances in that shade of yellow will outlive you and your entire family, look at it

This has been in the works for a while, and is not a response to recent events, but the timing couldn't be better: Canada now allows foreign students and postdocs to apply for more doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships! www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...

Another insightful webinar part of the wonderful @plantcellatlas.bsky.social Plant Cell Identity Webinar Series. This time @keikoutorii.bsky.social and @justinwwalley.bsky.social gave us a perfect ratio of biology and technology excitement! youtu.be/rE-JP2T0SoA?... #PlantScience #PlantPostdocs

Please share: We're hiring up to FIVE Postdocs or PhD students for a number of #plantsci #proteomics #genomics projects between my lab and that of Hervé Vanderschuren at @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social and @universitedeliege.bsky.social! Come join us in the land of 🍫 & 🍻 for some exciting science!

Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

Reposting because I forgot to tag the #PlantScience feed. Please spread the news about this postdoc opportunity *in the UK*

🍁Please repost 📣 3 tenure track positions @umanitoba.bsky.social Bio Sci. All positions are in cell and systems biology: 1 in syn bio or biochem 2 in aquatic organisms (🌿, 🐟, 🪱, …) Genetics, dev bio, cell bio, specialized metabolism… viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/default.ASPX...

Massively parallel characterization of transcriptional regulatory elements @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... As expected, core promoters have strand-orientation bias and are non-cell-type-specific, while enhancers are less orientation-dependent but more tissue-specific! 👏👏👏

New year, new paper! Now published in @nature.com. We identified and characterised diverse immune cell states in plants under pathogen attack. My postdoc work in the Ecker lab at @salkinstitute.bsky.social. A thread (0/n) #PlantScience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're recruiting: 1 PhD student, 2 postdocs and 2 lab assistants! Application deadlines in January. More details here: www.phytopathology.uni-kiel.de/en/open-posi...

Please share! Nominate your Arabidopsis community colleagues, trainees (or yourself) by January 31! Open to people working with Arabidopsis from all parts of the world. Only nominees that advance to round 2 are required to have a full nomination package submitted: bit.ly/3DtjNEi

The January 2025 Focus Issue of Plant Physiology spotlights research on hypoxia in plants Join us on Tuesday January 28 for a free webinar exploring the topic of hypoxia in plants. 👉

🧪🧬We're hiring for three new tenure-track positions🧪🧬 We're a friendly and collaborative department @umanitoba.bsky.social with lots of great research happening. Into genetics, dev bio, cell bio, specialized metabolism… we'd love to hear from you!! 🧪🧬🌎 viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/default.ASPX...

🍁Please repost 📣 3 tenure track positions @umanitoba.bsky.social Bio Sci. All positions are in cell and systems biology: 1 in syn bio or biochem 2 in aquatic organisms (🌿, 🐟, 🪱, …) Genetics, dev bio, cell bio, specialized metabolism… viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/default.ASPX...

Join our faculty! We have an opening for an ecosystem ecologist, through @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social. Open rank. Please help spread the word! careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...

Helpful papers for trainees #4: Pot size matters: a meta-analysis of the effects of rooting volume on plant growth This one is for the plant biologists. Experimental design matters! 🧪 🌱 🌏 #PlantBiology #AcademicSky Link: www.publish.csiro.au/fp/FP12049 #PapersForBeginningLearners

I am looking for a postdoc! Pls share #postdoc #genomics #insects #inversions genomicsofoutbreaks.com/?page_id=141

Are you a plant science researcher working towards a PhD or an early career researcher who completed their PhD no more than five years ago? Consider applying to the Next Generation Scientists 2025 meeting, sponsored by New Phytologist! #botany www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...

The second Plant Cell Identity webinar by PCA is coming next Tuesday (10th December)! It will be my pleasure the moderate the exciting talks from @rachelmshahan.bsky.social and Geoff Schiebinger. If you haven't signed up for the series yet, you can do so here: bit.ly/PCAPCI_Webinar

Please repost! #PlantSciencesJobs Singh lab is expanding and still time to apply online. 2xPDRAs (postdocs) vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... 1 Research Assistant vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... Please email if you have informal inquiries.

Come join us in Tucson!! I am excited to announce a tenure track faculty position on the genomics of resilience @uofa-eeb.bsky.social! Read more about the position in the updated link below! We will begin reviewing applications on December 9! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Anyone looking for an assistant professor position in biodiversity research? Not one but three positions available at Stockholm U: www.su.se/department-o...