This bird’s greed delights me

Happy to be featured on the latest Niab Landmark. I’m grateful for the opportunity to share our work in precision breeding and how it’s shaping the future of crops. 🌱

Not sure if I agree with (the feasibility of) everything, but very compelling points were raised.

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

Fantastic oppurtunity for a PhD project centred around the activity and regulation of my personal favourite enzyme Rubisco, with an awesome supervisor @ecarmosilva.bsky.social, and supported by the Gatsby Foundation. @sci-tech-lancaster.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social

The lack of proper authorship acknowledgement is an important issue. Initiatives like those proposed in the Science article can help. I recently participated in the UKRIO workshop that set up the guidelines they’re soon launching - its worth checking out: ukrio.org/news/registr...

Best practices in plant fluorescence imaging and reporting: A primer (Kirk J Czymmek , Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso , Tessa Burch-Smith , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

I have a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position starting in January to study the evolution of seed gene networks using the fern Ceratopteris! Interested? More info here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU179/r... Closing date 31st July. 🙂 #PlantScience #PlantSciencejobs

Are you a Portuguese-speaking scientist? Native Scientists are looking for volunteer mentors to run workshops in Portuguese on your field of research to kids (6-12yo). Great chance to increase science awareness! 🗓️ 10/5 - Oxford 🗓️ 7/6 - Cambridge DM me for details! www.nativescientists.org

Applications are currently open for UNIQ 2025. UNIQ helps support UK state-school students from underrepresented backgrounds prepare for university, with support through the application process to help take those first steps to university life. www.uniq.ox.ac.uk

Happy to share our latest publication on @newphyt.bsky.social! Big thanks to reviewers and editor, and a special shoutout to all the amazing authors involved. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/KNJADW...

Had an inspiring day at #XAIB2024 at the Wellcome Genome Campus, exploring the transformative role of AI in human health and genomics. Would have loved to see more insights on how these approaches can also advance knowledge in plant biology.

Come work with us! Please repost! We are looking for a Research Assistant to provide new insights into the holistic understanding of water use in global crop staple, rice. Apply online before Nov. 3. vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.

If you are teaching Genetics right now, I highly recommend incorporating a day on eugenics and scientific racism. 🧬🧪 Not only is it very relevant to the news (👀), it was very impactful for my students last semester. www.genome.gov/about-genomi...

Today's Data Insight is written by my colleague @bastianherre.bsky.social. Many young people are not making use of their right to vote. This year, there are almost 100 elections worldwide. I'd love to see more young people get out to vote and contribute to political change.

Happy to see this work out! 🥳 Here we created hap3H mutants in rice and showed they have more tillers, panicles and higher ETR and PhiPSII when grown in field. We develop an AI tool to quantify chloroplasts in BS cells, and showed that loss of Oshap3H increased chloroplast occupancy in those cells.

Sad to hear Golden Rice's commercialisation has been delayed yet again, but I'm happy to learn the decision is likely to be overturned. Also it's nice the Guardian actually went and talked to scientists, rather than just Greenpeace www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A week left to apply! 🚨 I’m looking for a research technician to join us @oxfordbiology.bsky.social and to help set up an efficient transformation pipeline in the C4 species Gynandropsis gynandra. Come work with us on leaf anatomy and photosynthesis! 🌱🪴 Find out more 👇 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

WiP6 paper now published - thanks to the reviewers for making it better than the preprint. We have engineered altered venation in rice leaves www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

ggPlantmap github.com/leonardojo/g... Convert Icy-traced Plant images into ggPlot Integrable with bulk or sc-RNAseq data Generate .svg for Plant eFP viewer @jxbotany.bsky.social 2024 academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

A surprising discovery - a role for lineage in leaf development. Great work by @chiaraperico.bsky.social

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happy solstice, everyone we're halfway out of the dark

Very pleased to have finally got this out there - many years work by the team - primarily Dana Vlad. Discovered that large vein ranks are actively repressed to allow smaller veins to develop. All grasses we looked at are the same. Allowed us to change patterns in rice - not quite C4 rice but closer

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First ever recycling for hidden plastic lab waste www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Mentorship is one of the most important structures that determine success, yet we leave it to chance. We're starting a project to raise the bar through training, awareness, and culture change in #PlantScience. Join us in creating the program! Several levels of engagement.

Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not — w are all losing out because of this. 👇 An article I wrote for Our World in Data: ourworldindata.org/talent-is-ev...

it should be against the science rules to release a new version of genome annotations without an id conversion table from the old version.

OTD in 1880, Charles #Darwin published The Power of Movement in Plants. D believed that plants are active agents in the world: “A radicle may be compared with a burrowing animal such as a mole, which wishes to penetrate perpendicularly down into the ground.” 🧪🌱🐋 #philsci #histsci 🦋🦫

I saw “Killers of the Flower Moon” yesterday and found it very powerful and necessary. But interesting points raised in the article, specially from Natives’ perspective. In any case, great work by Scorsese and cast. www.theguardian.com/film/2023/no...

This was a surprise - for years we thought GLK1 must function to regulate chloroplast development in mesophyll cells of maize given its expression profile - but it doesn’t. Great work by Julia Lambret (not yet on bsky)

Happy to be joining @bsky.app ! 😉