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The Plant Cell @theplantcell.bsky.social · 1d

Editing of rice PSEUDO-ETIOLATION IN LIGHT microProtein genes promotes chloroplast development (Heebak Choi, Tae Gyu Yi, Yun-Shil Gho, Ki-Hong Jung, Sun-Hwa Ha) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

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Wolfgang Busch @rootstrapping.bsky.social · 1d

🌿 Amazing opportunity for scientists from any field to move into plant biology! I might host a fellow in the area of root-microbe or root-environment interactions (DM me). 👉 simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology

#PlantScience #ClimateChange #HarnessingPlants

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation

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Dubcovsky Lab @dubcovskylab.bsky.social · 1d

Our Genome Biology paper on wheat spike development integrating single cell and spatial transcriptomics is now published! Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1186/s130... and enjoy the beautiful pictures (including our 44 supplementary figures)! Be sure to check out some of our tools below!

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Daniel Durocher @durocher1.bsky.social · 4d

9 days to go:
* 2 x open positions!
* Exceptional environment, competitive start-up package
* University of Toronto appointments
* Toronto has great (and peaceful) quality of life!

Daniel Durocher @durocher1.bsky.social · Aug 28

JOB ALERT 🚨 We are hiring TWO principal investigators in cell, molecular, systems, or chemical biology in Toronto, Canada at @sinaihealth.bsky.social. We provide a generous startup, fully funded salary and academic appointment at U of Toronto.

www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Please repost!

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 5d

The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders

- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology

Deadline 27 Nov

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Early career group leaders

We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.

www.crick.ac.uk

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 4d

Congrats, Joe Ecker @salkinstitute.bsky.social, to receiving the McClintock Prize! Joe has been a visionary leader of the field of genetics and genomics – not only for plants – for decades
www.salk.edu/news-release...

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bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · 4d

The Spirogyra genome: signatures of shared and divergent division and differentiation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.09.681428v1

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Katherine Brown @katherine-brown.bsky.social · 7d

Very saddened to hear of John Gurdon’s passing. I’ve been lucky enough to interact with him at multiple points through my career - from undergrad lectures, through his position as former Chair of @biologists.bsky.social’s Board of Directors, and as an author at @dev-journal.bsky.social.

Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Gurdon dies aged 92

It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the Gurdon Institute.

www.cam.ac.uk

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University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 7d

It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social

Read our tribute to the visionary Nobel Laureate and watch an interview from 2012, just after he won: https://bit.ly/4mM8o3r

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Xander Jones @xanderjones.bsky.social · 11d

Only a few days left to apply!

My group is looking for a postdoc to engineer and deploy new tools to precisely manipulate and decode how auxin coordinates plant morphogenesis.

@starmorph-syg.bsky.social

Research Associate - Reprogramming Development (closes 7 October 2025)

www.cam.ac.uk

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 10d

And look at this graphic abstract….. 😱🤯

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Pallavi Singh @thepallavisingh.bsky.social · 11d

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Pallavi Singh Lab is looking for two Postdocs to join our team studying how plants balance carbon, water, and resilience in a changing climate.

PlantPlug PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

REVOLUTION PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

Deadline: October 15.

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Katie Field @katiefield4.bsky.social · 11d

If you’re looking for a PhD studentship in some really exciting areas of plant science 🌿 take a look at this year’s Sainsbury PhD studentships - you could come and study orchid mycorrhizas 🌸🍄 with me & @garethphoenix.bsky.social! www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

FindAPhD : Prestigious Sainsbury PhD Studentships in plant sciences at Gatsby Charitable Foundation

Apply for a PhD: Prestigious Sainsbury PhD Studentships in plant sciences at Gatsby Charitable Foundation

www.findaphd.com

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Facundo Romani @fromani.bsky.social · 11d

Glad to see Eftychis CRISPR multiplexing pipeline published now in Journal of Experimental Botany #plantsciences #marchantia academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

A tRNA-gRNA multiplexing system for CRISPR genome editing in Marchantia polymorpha

Abstract. The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha is a widely used model organism for studying land plant biology, which has also proven to be a promising test

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 13d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci.bsky.social · 14d

Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science

Dept. of Plant Sciences | Permanent | Closes on Monday 17 November 2025

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell...

#plantsciences #plantscijobs #academicjobs

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 14d

Meet the 2025 cohort of @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence fellows

Read about the scientific visions of eight dev bio post-docs entering the academic job market

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Pathway to Independence: a forecast for the future of developmental biology

ABSTRACT. In 2022, Development launched its Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, aimed at supporting postdocs as they transition to their first independent position. In 2025, we welcome our third c...

journals.biologists.com

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Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · 16d

Become my colleague @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social !
2 Associate Professorships in the areas of
- prokaryotic/eukaryotic microbiology
- metabolism

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Job Details

my.corehr.com

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Johan Duchêne @johanduchene.bsky.social · 15d

⚠️ Half of commercial antibodies miss their target!
So how do you pick the right one for your experiment?

Here’s the solution 👉
Antibody characterization data (all tested in KO cells) are now available at:
🔗 onlygoodantibodies.co.uk

Tested by @ycharos.bsky.social & @oga-community.bsky.social

OGA - Only Good Antibodies Community

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GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · Sep 9

📢 A Junior Professorship (W1, tenure track) is open at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology at Uni Tübingen (@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social) — to work on plant protein biochemistry (composition, structure, dynamics, or regulation of protein complexes). 🌱 Great opportunity — Apply by Oct 17th!

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Dr. Jennifer Glass (she/her) @methanojen.bsky.social · 17d

A reminder to please support non-profit publishers.

It’s good for science and scientists.

It’s a responsible use of taxpayer dollars.

It requires resisting peer pressure to submit to Nature journals.

Thanks @bacteriality.bsky.social for this helpful slide for microbiology journals.

Slide with text “Support Society Journals:
Society-based journals help build and advocate for our scientific communities” showing the logos for non profit publishers ASM, ACS, ASBMB. microbiology society, Science, and ISME. Underneath “for-profit journals do not” showing logos for Nature, Elsevier, Frontiers, CellPress, and MDPI.

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Agristok @agristok.bsky.social · 17d

Professorship in Plant Genetics at Kiel University, Germany

The Botanical Institute at Kiel University invites applications for a W2 Professorship in Plant Genetics. Focus: stress responses, epigenetics, and plant-environment interactions. Apply by 19 October 2025.

Professorship in Plant Genetics at Kiel University, Germany

The Botanical Institute at Kiel University invites applications for a W2 Professorship in Plant Genetics. Focus: stress responses, epigenetics, and plant-environment interactions. Apply by 19 October 2025.

agristok.net

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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · 18d

Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Bioinformatics in the Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco
usfca.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USF_Fu...

Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Department of Biology, University of San Francisco

Job Title: Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Department of Biology, University of San Francisco Job Summary: The Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco invites applications for a fu...

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 20d

HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾 @janelangdale.bsky.social · 20d

I have always said that the best thing that you learn when doing a PhD is how to bang your head against a brick wall and feel no pain. No matter what you go on and do afterwards you are resilient!

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