It's #FossilFriday! Great time to check out our new paper if you haven't yet. #Palaeobotany #JurassicPlants

Excited to share our recent paper @newphyt.bsky.social where we describe evidence of a Jurassic nurse log from Scotland! Great work led by @anajusagasti.bsky.social Sophie Burne and @jeremywyman.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social 🧵 👇 1/6 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New Postdoc position (2yrs) available in our #EvoMPMI lab @JohnInnesCentre. Come and work with on harnessing the diversity of immune mechanisms to protect plants. jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?va…

Leverhulme Trust invests £100m in ‘challenged’ research sector. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

📣The Plant Cell is recruiting Assistant Features Editors. The application period opens now and runs through September 15, 2025!🌱 👉Application information can be found at this link: blog.aspb.org/the-plant-ce... #plantscience

*Paid internship opportunity* @biologists.bsky.social is looking for a 3-month intern this summer to work across the Node, @prelights.bsky.social and @focalplane.bsky.social If you're interested in #SciCommm & #publishing, and have the right to work in the UK, apply by 5 June 👇

🌿 Excited to share our latest preprint! We tracked how plasmodesmata numbers evolved across the path from C₃ → C₄ photosynthesis in Flaveria - and found a stepwise increase in cell-to-cell connectivity. Thoughts or feedback are most welcome 😊 #PlantScience

Exciting news! The Genetics Society & BBSRC are teaming up to launch Research Access Placements (RAPs), offering fully paid summer research internships for undergrad students from underrepresented backgrounds. Deadline for applications: 14 April. genetics.org.uk/grants/resea...

🎊We are very pleased to announce that our paper investigating what we think Prototaxites, the mysterious giant of the Devonian landscape, actually was is now available as a pre-print on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Looking for a job in #DevBio, #StemCell (or related fields)? Or looking to advertise your open positions? Check out our Jobs Board ⬇️ thenode.biologists.com/jobs/ Recent adverts include positions from @vidigaljoana.bsky.social @sarabiz86.bsky.social @jetteleng.bsky.social @harrymcnamara.bsky.social

The most extraordinary leaf I ever saw was a titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) shooting out of the earth like a rocket in the Sumatran rainforest. This one is a bud: up, up, up it goes, and when it's ready, it will unfurl like an enormous leafy parasol.

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...

Rafael @rafadscruz.bsky.social and I are excited to share our new paper about fern fiddlehead evolution @currentbiology.bsky.social Read the paper at www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thanks @palaeojules.bsky.social for the wonderful reconstructions!

Nicolas Svetec, David Begun, and I wrote a review article about de novo genes. If you are interested in this topic please take a look at this final open-access version at AnnualReviews www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Absolutely wonderful Evo-Devo work from Madelaine Bartlett's group @slcuplants.bsky.social on the evolution and development of awns, the tiny, bristle-like extension on grass florets. Including awnless mutants in my favorite grass Brachypodium distachyon!! doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Look who's here @pnas.org ✔️ @science.org ✔️ @naturecellbiology.bsky.social ✔️ @natrevgenet.bsky.social ✔️ @naturebiotech.bsky.social ✔️ @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social ✔️ @naturechemistry.bsky.social ✔️ @genesdev.bsky.social ✔️ @cellchembiol.bsky.social ✔️ @genomeresearch.bsky.social ✔️ @jcellbiol.bsky.social ✔️

Dionysia janthina Primulaceae Yazd province, Iran March 2023 Elevation: 2440m We drove about 900 kilometres (round trip) to photograph this beautiful species.

Now that’s something to aspire to - being formally recorded as a badass woman in science!!

"Missed Wednesday's Development presents… July webinar on plant development? 🌱 The recordings of the talks by Martina Cerise, Vicky Spencer, and @gwenkirschner.bsky.social are now available." 🎥Catch up on the webinar: thenode.biologists.com/catch-up-on-... Original post: x.com/the_Node/sta...

We start reviewing applications only after Aug 19, so there is still time to apply to join us in beautiful Bern

I’ve been a scientist for 30 years and I learned this TODAY!!!!! Source: www.some.ox.ac.uk/eminent/mary...

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...

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our lab. If you're interested in plant development and cell fate regulation please apply! Please RT 📢 Check out our website for info about our research 🌱⏱️: tinyurl.com/fkf2wukn

Excited to share the updated version of our manuscript on the evolution and function of plant immune receptor domains. A great collaboration with @kamounlab.bsky.social @dromius.bsky.social and Joe Walker lab. Full 🧵 from 1st author @khongsamchia.bsky.social coming tomorrow. Stay tuned!!

Easter rainbow 🌈

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...

We're hiring! We've got two research positions, one perfect for post-bacs tinyurl.com/26mc6r9y and one for MA/PhD level scientists tinyurl.com/msrbd7bv to study plant development: from details of cell polarity and gene regulation, to the impact of changing climate on leaf form and function.

Women in Science: 6 Pioneers in Plant Photobiology To celebrate the “International Day of Girls and Women in Science”, Botany One highlights six exceptional female researchers who greatly contributed to shed new light on Plant Photobiology. botany.one/2024/02/wome...

Spatial transcriptomics reveals distinct lineage identities for major and minor vein initiation during maize leaf development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.05.578898v1

CYCLOIDEA paralogs function partially redundantly to specify dorsal #flower development in #monkeyflower New #AJB research by Taryn Dunivant, Vibhuti Singh, Kaylee Livingston, Jack Ross & Lena Hileman bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #botany #evolution

[Please RT‼️] Mendel Early Career Symposium registration is open! Great speakers, small meeting, affordable & in Vienna. Great opportunity for #ECRs to network and get feedback. Please spread the word!!! #Mendel_ECR_24

Amazing interactive poster on the evolution of land plants #WaterToLand follow the link and click in it! 🖱️ madland.science/greening.php

Plug-in (maat Lisbon) by Joana Vasconcelos. The tree is made of 140,000 hand embroidered leaves and 354 branches - really beautiful and impressive! Definitely one of my favourite ever art exhibits 🎨 🌳 🍂