ERC penalize the applicants to reduce the number of applications while increasing the years post PhD to increase the number of applicants. There is nobody behind the wheel...

jobportal.ku.dk/administrati... We are soon to be headless.... So come be our new boss in lovely Copenhagen and lead a department with research interests from genes to ecosystems, and everything alive in between.

We spring forward this weekend, but changing the clocks is increasingly controversial - why? #circadian #dst #springforward #chronobiology #clockchange #SciComm🧪

MATERNAL AUTOPHAGY CONTRIBUTES TO GRAIN YIELD IN MAIZE https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.30.697098v1

May their words reach politicians‘ ears…

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

Curious about my main PhD work?!🔬🌱 Please have a look on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.04.686542v1 Connecting auxin-autophagy-development

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. 👇

My main work as postdoc @plantophagy.bsky.social lab in @gmivienna.bsky.social is out in @natplants.nature.com 🌱🎉 We asked how can protein complexes diversify without compromising their function and explored this question using the plant #exocyst complex. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences @unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳 Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

We are looking for a colleague to join us at RWTH Aachen University: 🌱 Full Professor in Stress Resilience of Plants (W3 tenured) 📌What are we looking for? Someone working with us strategically at the interface of plant biology/ physiology/ resilience #academicjobs #facultyjobs #PlantJobs 1/4

The University of Hamburg has opened 14 PhD positions focused on ecological and evolutionary research, including climate change impacts on aquatic populations. Details here: https://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung/grk2530/openpositions.html #phd

Tenure-Track Plant Biology Assistant Professor position at UT Austin MBS. Review of the applications starts Nov. 1! Please spread the words🤠🌱🌼🌽🫛🍃🌾 jobs.plantae.org/jobs/2176440...

It is out! A tandem of two papers showing TMK regulation of PIN-dependent auxin transport www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... (PIN2, Friml lab) and www.cell.com/developmenta... (PIN1, Xu lab)

Our department of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the field of Plant-Organism Interactions 🌱🐛🦠🍄! Application before November 30, 2025. See the official job ad for more details: tinyurl.com/mtxdcz6p

Interested in structural biology, membrane proteins, biophysics and working to understand hormone transport in plants?☘️🔬👩‍🔬🧪 We have an open PhD position: - 3 years fully funded. - Details and application link: www.linkedin.com/posts/plant-... Please repost 💚

Just planted in @jcellsci.bsky.social 🌳 😍 An A. thaliana mutant lacking all nine #ATG8 isoforms provides genetic evidence for functional specialization of #ATG8 in plants forest.biologists.com/landscape/?i...

Our Autumn PhD call is OPEN! 20+ fully funded positions across diverse life science disciplines. Explore projects in Cell & Chromosome biology + more 👉 www.vbcphd.at Apply by 10 Oct 2025

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

😺 to see this one out @jcellsci.bsky.social & have a 🌲 planted for it): journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... am sure more creative people will make better use of this resource 1/2

Photoexcited CRY1 physically interacts with ATG8 to regulate selective autophagy of HY5 and photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis (Lu Jiang , Shilong Zhang , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

Further evidence that sugar in the plates changes the plant biology you study. Best to avoid putting sugar in the agar, unless you want to study what sugar in the agar does to plants. This paper uses sugar in the agar to study what sugar does. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #plantresearch

Do plants ever feel, feel so paper-thin, like a house of cards, one stress from caving in? 🌱+🌊👉🃏 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... That’s the life of an autophagy mutant. We find that Autophagy degrades EIN3, keeping EIN3-dependent programs in check for smooth development and stress recovery.

WIND1 controls cell fate transition through histone acetylation and deacetylation during somatic embryogenesis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669221v1

Some experiments advance science. Others advance the reviewer’s sense of power. Guess which costs more. #FridayThoughts

“We conclude that the proposed cut-offs under which an NGT plant is considered equivalent to conventional plants do not align with what is observed in nature, conventional breeding and mutagenesis” 👇

Our latest artic, in which we address the differential contribution of BZR1 and BES1 to callus formation is out: www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Our most recent preprint. We identified a unique protein with NAT and MPK domains which is needed for proper development in Physcomitrium.

A hectic couple of weeks with teaching, paper submission (soon in a biorXiv close to you) and promotion to associate professor.

Super excited to share our latest work on deciphering the #Ubiquitin Code “𝗨𝗯𝗶𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗼𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗞48 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗞63 𝘂𝗯𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀” @cp-molcell.bsky.social 1/8 www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

"PhD Position in Plant Regeneration at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden *Application Deadline: 4/7/2025" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20250311_SLU #PlantSciJobs

We are hiring! Are you interested in lateral root development and the cellular processes that accommodate these newly formed organs? If yes, apply! We are recruiting a Post-doc (from May 2025) and a PhD student (from September 2025). www.unine.ch/lbmc/jobs/

🌾🧪VACANCY - Are you expert in wood biology and would like to set up your research group in a great environment for this type of research? 🧬🖥️⚖️ Join us a @umeaplantscicentre.bsky.social! Read more here👇 and apply latest on Feb 28: slu.se/en/about-slu... #PlantSciJob #sciencejobs #hiring

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Have a look at our new story on how Bacterial Cellulose works miracles in plant wound healing by activating regeneration via concurrent activation of ROS, defense and cytokinin signalling. In collaboration with @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social @icmabcsic.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Today is a big day for our group. Jeppe is defending his PhD thesis regarding autophagy modulation of Ethylene and Auxin regulators

jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16... We are looking for a PhD student interested in autophagy and flooding. Come join us in wonderful Copenhagen!

edition.cnn.com/2025/01/28/t... 🙄

Thrilled to share our work lead by Di Fino in great collaboration with @Panosmoschou,@Hamann_lab, @GreenMechanobio, @RichardSmithLab published @Dev_Cell: Developmental Cell www.cell.com/developmenta...

😱 How to know that somebody used ChatGPT to apply to your lab: They refer to a study that does not exist but was hallucinated by the machine! #plantscience

Fantastic new paper in @naturecomms.bsky.social by the group of Alyona Minina about how "ATG8 delipidation is not critical for autophagy in plants" #autophagy #proteostasis #plantscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

**𝗪𝗘'𝗥𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗥𝗨𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚** JXB is looking for an assistant editor to join our friendly team based in Lancaster, UK. Come and work for a society-owned journal and support the #plantscience community. 🧪 More info: bit.ly/JXBAE24 @sebiology.bsky.social @cristobaluauy.bsky.social @giffordlab.bsky.social

A fan of #Bryophytes? You are (almost) not alone! #Bryophytes rule...they can grow almost anywhere, host a fascinating world of #microbes (incl. #nitrogen-fixing #Cyanobacteria), are key in #biogeochemistry, and hold huge potential for #biotechnology. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Beautiful Brassicaceae fruit-shape diversity. And here we tell you (part of) how it’s done! rdcu.be/d3i8x What a great collab it’s been! Thanks Yang Dong, @matmajda.bsky.social, Richard Smith and entire team. @natureplants.bsky.social @oxfordbiology.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social

NEW #Preprint on #ATG8 specialization in #autophagy in #plants: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #plantscience A short 🧵

The end of the year dinner from our group. Wishes another year of exciting research, education and camaraderie:)

New preprint from the Estelle lab! A subset of Aux/IAA repressors are regulated by CUL3-based ubiquitin ligases. Great work by two fantastic colleagues, Zhaonan Ban and Yueh-Ju Hou!

We got a nice return from our applications to the Danish research council this year. 2 grants awarded to study a) lateral root formation and b) how protein turnover impacts flooding tolerance. Check this space soon for 2 PhD positions.

DORA comes out strong in support of @elife.bsky.social, criticizing Clarivate, a multi-billion dollar multinational for-profit outfit, for holding the academic community "to ransom". sfdora.org/2024/11/25/c...