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Alex Webb Lab @alexwebblab.bsky.social · 1d

Plants @ Cambridge brings together partners in the University of Cambridge and our partners at NIAB to form one the largest groupings of plant scientists in Europe. From molecules to ecosystems. We have a new video youtu.be/4kl0XNYOA4Q?... . 🧪 #plantresearch

Plants at Cambridge : growing the future

YouTube video by Cambridge University

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Dan Gibbs 🌱🧬 @djgibbs.bsky.social · 1d

We are advertising a PhD project investigating a cellular mechanism that ensures protein quality control during mRNA translation in plants. Please get in touch on here or via email if you are interested and I can provide further details!

Lab website: sites.google.com/site/danielg...

Daniel Gibbs Lab

Welcome to the lab website of Professor Daniel Gibbs @ University of Birmingham

sites.google.com

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Matthew Terry @mjtplantbiology.bsky.social · 1d

Politicians, please take note!

Nature @nature.com · 1d

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.

go.nature.com/4hj9NNV

Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.

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Ivan Radin @radinbio.bsky.social · 1d

Here are some “leaf” or phyllid cells from moss Physcomitrium patens gametophore. Cells are expressing a green fluorescence marker that labels the vacuolar membrane. Chloroplasts' autofluorescence is in magenta.
Can you spot dividing chloroplasts?
#microscopymonday #moss #plantcells

The image shows several elongated rhomboid-shaped cells, filled with ovoid chrooroplasts in magenta, as well as a network of bubble-like vacuoles.

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Philippa Borrill @philippaborrill.bsky.social · 2d

The mystery of redundancy between homoeologs continues! Knocking out one homoeolog in wheat doesn't cause the other homoeologs to be upregulated... nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Great work led by @delfidorussen.bsky.social with @emilieknight.bsky.social @simmojsimmo.bsky.social

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 3d

Let’s be real - this is a bit inconvenient but not a big deal in the long run. The big deal with Brexit is the economic destruction it inflicted and the xenophobia monster it unleashed.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 3d

UK travellers should expect "four-hour queues" as new EU border system comes into force. Brexit really is the gift that keeps giving

www.itv.com/news/2025-10...

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Henryk Straube @hstraube.bsky.social · 4d

🌿 Postdoc in Algae Biochemistry – University of Copenhagen

Join the Algae Biochemistry Group to explore molecular biology, synthetic biology & metabolomics in eukaryotic microalgae.

📅 Apply by 1 Nov 2025

🔗 employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=164971

#Postdoc #Algae #Biochemistry #SyntheticBiology

Postdoc in Algae biochemistry

employment.ku.dk

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Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · 5d

The job of a reviewer is getting beyond exhausting these days.... but there is *so much* nonsense floating about that peer-review is the only remaining frontline when a journal title becomes *the* metric of trust and nobody reads papers anymore 1/n 🧵

a cat is laying on its back on a wooden floor next to a wall .

ALT: a cat is laying on its back on a wooden floor next to a wall .

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Matthew Terry @mjtplantbiology.bsky.social · 5d

As if there isn't enough to worry about already!

James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 5d

That England has had its three worst harvests on record inside the past five years really should be being treated as a much bigger cause for concern than is currently the case. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520171...

'This is what farming with climate change looks like': England endures second worst harvest on record

New analysis confirms three of the five worst harvests on record have occurred in the past five years on the back of extreme heat, drought, and rainfall

www.businessgreen.com

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Eirini Kaiserli @ekaiserli.bsky.social · 5d

Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD position in our lab @uofglasgow.bsky.social on Enhancing Climate-Resilient Crops by Innovative Priming Strategies. A network led by @goetheuni.bsky.social
cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101227217
International applicants are eligible. Application form:
pollenbiology.cz/page-2

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Matthew Terry @mjtplantbiology.bsky.social · 5d

Nice to see a Go-Betweens reference.

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Matthew Terry @mjtplantbiology.bsky.social · 8d

Not that I know of.

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Matthew Terry @mjtplantbiology.bsky.social · 8d

Not all pigments, just anthocyanin by the looks of it.

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Pallavi Singh @thepallavisingh.bsky.social · 11d

**Please Repost**

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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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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Philippa Borrill @philippaborrill.bsky.social · 11d

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team! They will work on homeolog-informed approaches to tackle cold tolerance in wheat @johninnescentre.bsky.social

Please find out more and apply here: jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?...

#plantsciences #plantscijobs

John Innes Centre

jobs.jic.ac.uk

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Matthew Terry @mjtplantbiology.bsky.social · 13d

I didn't know about this Fellowship, but what a great tribute to a lovely person who I knew mostly while she was at UC Santa Cruz and I was at UC Davis - two Brits doing plant photobiology in sunny California a very long time ago.

Boyce Thompson Institute @btiscience.bsky.social · 14d

Now accepting applications for the Jane Silverthorne Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at BTI! 🌿 Supporting bold scientists tackling plant science frontiers with cross-disciplinary approaches. Full funding for high-risk, high-reward research. Apply by Jan 15, 2026! 🧬 spf.btiscience.org

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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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Stowers Institute @stowersinstitute.bsky.social · 14d

(Part 2)

“From my first visit, I was struck by the energy and excitement...It feels like being a graduate student again, chasing curiosity wherever it leads."

@hhmi.org Investigator David Stern will join the Stowers Institute in Feb. 2026 from @hhmijanelia.bsky.social.

Read more: bit.ly/4np96Fb

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Kasper van Gelderen @kaspervangelderen.bsky.social · 14d

My latest paper, a postdoc project of mine from the @ronaldpierik.bsky.social lab is finally out in the Plant Cell all its formatted glory! doi.org/10.1093/plce...
Many thanks also to my co-authors and especially Kyra van der Velde who did a lot of work.

Gibberellin transport affects lateral root growth through HY5 in response to far-red light

Gibberellin translocation from shoot to root conveys a plant-plant competition signal that leads to a reduction in lateral root growth.

doi.org

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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 15d

EXCITING NEWS!! We're searching for a new professor colleague at the Biozentrum🇨🇭. Ideal candidates are exploring novel biological questions with structure, biophysics, or high-resolution imaging. 🧪 🧶🧬 🔬

The call closes Nov 3. Please get in touch if you would like more information. Come join us! 👩‍🔬🤓

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Frederica Theodoulou @freddietheodoulou.bsky.social · 15d

Happy to share that our multi-omic analysis comparing two Arabidopsis accessions is now published 🌿 The first story from our @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa #plant #proteostasis project. A great collaboration between @rothamsted.bsky.social @richardmott.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk and Kathryn Lilley at Cambridge.

Richard Mott @richardmott.bsky.social · 15d

We have just published a paper in Genome Biology, rdcu.be/eIMLf. We explore the information flow between genome, gene body methylation, transcriptome, translatome and proteome in Arabidopsis. This is part of a BBSRC-funded collaboration with UCL, Rothamsted Research and University of Cambridge.

Information flow between omic levels in Arabidopsis thaliana

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Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · 16d

"It’s a shame that Wikipedia has to spend so much energy on generative vandalism, but I’m impressed by their serious commitment to maintaining a reliable encyclopedia that can be a service to anyone—imagine if other tech companies saw their services in the same light?'

lithub.com/heres-a-hand...

Here’s a handy guide to help you spot AI writing.

Source image from Wikimedia Foundation It’s always a bit surprising to me how trusted Wikipedia has become, since I spent my entire childhood being told by adults to never, ever, trust it. But the …

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Matthew Terry @mjtplantbiology.bsky.social · 17d

And now into demijohns, bottling before Christmas.

Six demijohns, 4 with white wine, 1 with red and 1 with left over white and red for rose.

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Ben Engel @cellarchlab.com · 19d

Time for a thread!🧵 How different is the molecular organization of thylakoids in “higher” plants🌱? To find out, we teamed up with @profmattjohnson.bsky.social to dive into spinach chloroplasts with #CryoET ❄️🔬. Curious? ..Read on!

#TeamTomo #PlantScience 🧪 🧶🧬 🌾
elifesciences.org/articles/105...
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