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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 41m

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

W 2-Professur für Pflanzengenetik. @uni-kiel.de

Eva Stukenbrock @estukenbrock.bsky.social · 2d

Professorship in plant genetics.
The Botanical Institute at Kiel University is advertising a W2 professorship. Great opportunity to do plant research in the north of Germany. See:
www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...

www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI, here is the press release for my study with @drjuliawester.bsky.social - we surveyed over 800 scientists who use social media. They overwhelmingly agree that Twitter is no longer useful or pleasant, and that for all professional online scientist goals, Bluesky is superior.
🧪 #SciComm 🌍

“Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky:” Our new survey shows that scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful or pleasant

My colleague Dr. Julia Wester and I have a new paper out in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology reporting on the results of a survey distributed to over 800 scientists, science educator…

www.southernfriedscience.com

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Ulrich Hohmann @hohmannulrich.bsky.social · 1d

Thrilled to share that I’ll be joining @imbmainz.bsky.social in February 2026 to start my own group!
We will explore new mechanisms in eukaryotic gene expression, leveraging ‘evolutionary play’ to uncover how regulation, repurposing, and hijacking shape RNA biology.
PhD positions available!

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 1h

Postdoc Opportunity - Interested in plant scaling, quantitative botany, or theoretical plant biology? join our group to explore how plant form, function & scaling principles connect across levels of organization
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology🧪🌾🌐

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation

www.simonsfoundation.org

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 23h

New study finds gaps in REDD+ #forest carbon offsets with most overstating climate impacts.
www.idiv.de/study-gaps-r...

In @science.org (DOI: doi.org/10.1126/scie...)

New study finds gaps in REDD+ forest carbon offsets with most overstating climate impacts

The new analysis finds widespread over-crediting of projects certified under Verra’s Verified Carbon Standard but also suggests a way forward for the global framework.

www.idiv.de

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · 12d

#ResearchCareers: Just finishing your #PhD and wondering if the DFG’s Walter Benjamin Programme is a #funding option for your next step in academia? Come and find out in our digital info talk on 14 October. No registration, the meeting link will be published here:
➡️ www.dfg.de/en/research-...

Infotafel mit Schriftzug "Walter Benjamin Programme" und Datumsangaben:
14 October
Tuesday
1:30 - 15p.m. CET
in English

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Karl Schmid @kjschmid.bsky.social · 7d

The Cluster of Excellence @greenrobust.de is hiring:

- Computer Scientist/Research data manager: shorturl.at/xSvvO
- Data steward: shorturl.at/l6NCv
- Scientific coordinator 'Plant Perturbation Atlas': shorturl.at/vBU6x

Deadline: Friday, 7 November 2025

RT are welcome

#plantjobs #plantscijobs

Stellenangebote: Universität Hohenheim

Aktuelle Stellenangebote der Universität Hohenheim.

www.uni-hohenheim.de

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 7d

JOB ALERT! Do you also love large ecological experiments? Become coordinator of our big new geo-biosphere experiment in @terra-cluster.org. 7-year position! Follow link for details.
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
@uslter.bsky.social

Please repost!

Stellenangebote: Universität Hohenheim

Aktuelle Stellenangebote der Universität Hohenheim.

www.uni-hohenheim.de

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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 4d

Nature’s survey of PhD candidates reveals hard-won wisdom on choosing supervisors, managing mental health and surviving academic culture. "27 things we wish we’d known when we started our PhDs"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

27 things we wish we’d known when we started our PhDs

Nature’s survey of PhD candidates reveals hard-won wisdom on choosing supervisors, managing mental health and surviving academic culture.

www.nature.com

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 3d

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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MAdLand @watertoland.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations to Elena Lesch from the Ischebeck lab @uni-muenster.de for the best Postdoc talk and winning the @theplantjournal.bsky.social award 🎉 #MAdLand2025 #plantsci

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 4d

Paper at PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A phosphoinositide-mediated switch of GET pathway receptor dimerization in Arabidopsis | PNAS

The Guided Entry of Tail-Anchored Proteins (GET) pathway facilitates the insertion of tail-anchored (TA) proteins into the ER membrane, but its reg...

www.pnas.org

German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 4d

Plant scientists solved old puzzle around protein distribution in plant cells. The team around Prof. Chriostopher Grefen and first author Dr. Lei Zhang from @ruhr-uni-bochum.de report findings in @pnas.org (DOI: 10.1073/pnas.251435412) #PlantSci
news.rub.de/english/pres...

Old Puzzle around Protein Distribution in Plant Cells Solved

Researchers in Bochum have discovered a control mechanism that may also operate beyond plants.

news.rub.de

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MAdLand @watertoland.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations to the winners of best PhD talk @ #MAdLand2025! 🏆 1st place: @hannahlepper.bsky.social from @franzificht.bsky.social lab, who won @theplantjournal.bsky.social award! Christoph Kentrath (left) from Petersen Lab in Marburg
& Tim Ruder (right) from Pfannschmidt lab in Hannover #plantsci

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 6d

In @natplants.nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cross-kingdom mechanisms of trained immunity in plant systemic acquired resistance - Nature Plants

Plants face constant microbial threats and have evolved highly effective inducible immune systems, culminating in systemic acquired resistance. Plant systemic acquired resistance and mammalian trained immunity share striking similarities, which are explored in this Review.

www.nature.com

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 6d

Review:
Plants + humans share surprising immune defense strategies. Uwe Conrath @rwth.bsky.social highlights parallels between plant systemic acquired resistance + mammalian trained immunity
–> connections that could inform both #agriculture + #medicine

www.rwth-aachen.de/cms/root/wir...

Plants and Humans Share Surprising Immune Defense Strategies | RWTH Aachen University | EN

www.rwth-aachen.de

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 8d

W3-Professur: Evolution und Biodiversität der Pflanzen
@humboldtuni.bsky.social

Start: 1 Oktober 2026
Deadline: 24 Oktober 2025

haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/...

W3-Professur für „Evolution und Biodiversität der Pflanzen“

haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de

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Earlham Institute @earlhaminst.bsky.social · 8d

📃 New research published today in @natcomms.nature.com from the Earlham Institute and @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social presents the first wheat pan-transcriptome - revealing layers of hidden diversity spanning our modern wheat variations. 🧪

➡️ buff.ly/ZDIRnFW

@wheatinitiative.bsky.social @ukri.org

New wheat diversity discovery could provide an urgently-needed solution to global food security

Newly-discovered diversity in the wheat genome could offer vital new opportunities to improve and ‘climate-proof’ one of the world’s most important staple crops.

buff.ly

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Tony Heitkam🌱🔍💚 @toheitka.bsky.social · 11d

This work was led by @jiangzhaoqian.bsky.social, who is dedicated to make your life in genomics and #TransposableElement curation a lot easier. We are very happy to have him now in our group and that we could help with his vision.

Try TEtrimmer: github.com/qjiangzhao/T...

GitHub - qjiangzhao/TEtrimmer: TEtrimmer: a novel tool to automate manual curation of transposable elements

TEtrimmer: a novel tool to automate manual curation of transposable elements - GitHub - qjiangzhao/TEtrimmer: TEtrimmer: a novel tool to automate manual curation of transposable elements

github.com

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 12d

New Software Simplifies Analysis of “Jumping Genes”

Ralph Panstruga, @toheitka.bsky.social, and Lisa Fürtauer from @rwth.bsky.social
in @natcomms.nature.com (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-63889-y)
www.rwth-aachen.de/cms/root/wir...

New Software Simplifies Analysis of “Jumping Genes” | RWTH Aachen University | EN

www.rwth-aachen.de

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 12d

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

Research Scientist / PostDoc: Genomics and Bioinformatics

@uni-goettingen.de

www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

Job Openings

www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de

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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · 13d

...and 10 new phylogenetically diverse hornwort genomes here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@fernway.bsky.social @jandevries.bsky.social @watertoland.bsky.social

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Plant & Cell Physiology @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social · 14d

Chamber of Secrets?

Kinoshita @strnk17desejp.bsky.social & Finkemeier @ifink-lab.bsky.social present an alternative method to precisely measure CO2 assimilation rate & transpiration of #Arabidopsis leaves in whole-plant chambers

Open Access🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

#PlantPhysiology
#PlantScience

Figure 1 from Kinoshita and Finkemeier article showing gas-exchange measurements of petiole-cut Arabidopsis leaves in the whole plant chambers of the LI-6800 system. Panel A shows a schematic diagram of the method i.e. petiole cutting on wet paper and insertion of leaves into a parafilm-sealed dish containing water. Panels B-E are graphs that show C02 assimilation and transpiration rates under different conditions tested

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Remco Stam @rstam.bsky.social · 13d

Very happy to see this work finally online!
Resistance against necrotrophic pathogens is not generally conserved. When comparing five wild tomato spp, we saw that one spp co-opted a different mechanism against Sclerotinia infection!

KunzLab@LMU @kunzlab.bsky.social · 13d

This looks very interesting. Congrats @rstam.bsky.social et al. Co-option of transcription factors drives evolution of quantitative disease resistance against a necrotrophic pathogen url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

Co-option of transcription factors drives evolution of quantitative disease resistance against a necrotrophic pathogen

Quantitative disease resistance in a wild tomato genotype evolved through species-specific regulatory network rewiring, with an ancient transcription facto

academic.oup.com

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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 13d

Profile of @plantphys.bsky.social EIC Yunde Zhao & RUBY reporter his lab developed; free for use in academic labs & classrooms. “RUBY is making a difference in so many ways because we opened it up to all of science".
"Fundamental research is crucial because it can lead to unexpected discoveries.”

Seeing Red: A UC San Diego Invention is Transforming the Way Scientists Track Genes

UC San Diego biologists have created a transformative new way to monitor genes. The game-changing tool known as RUBY is an inexpensive, easy-to-use technology that allows researchers to visualize gene...

today.ucsd.edu

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