Andrew Millar

📣New opportunity for three members to join the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE) for UK Government Defra 🧪

Application deadline 2 February 2026

▶️ apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/9084?t...

#plantsci #agriculture #vaccines #insects

Re-posting this call for two Forest Science advisors 🧪🌳🌲for @forestresearchuk.bsky.social, please re-post on!
30 Jan deadline.

We expect a further membership vacancy later in 2026, around tree health.

Andrew Millar (University of Edinburgh, UK) presenting the final talk of the JXB 75th Anniversary Conference, “Practical steps to build a future digital plant: counting proteins, sharing data and an anchoring institution,” with slides projected behind him. Learn more in his JXB review doi: 10.1093/jxb/ery435.

🌱 In the final talk of the conference, Andrew Millar is presenting “Practical steps to build a future digital plant: counting proteins, sharing data and an anchoring institution” 🌿

Learn more in Andrew's JXB review 👇
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ery435

#JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪 @andrewmillar.bsky.social

🧪📢Forest Research in the UK is seeking two new members for the Expert Committee on #Forest #Science. 🧬🌳📖🌲🪵
* one early-career,
* one from the forestry sector,
Please see details on the link below.

Closing 30 Jan.
➡️ www.forestresearch.gov.uk/about-us/car...

#forestry #plantsci #trees

Tree Bark Expression

#nature #naturephotography #trees #woodland #artinnature #naturesart

Italian alder, _Alnus cordata_? Amazingly late #phenology - trees in the UK keep their leaves well into December!

In the summer of 2011 I got interested in biological oscillators as great examples of emergent behaviour. This curiosity was largely inspired by discussions on complexity science with my the environmental historian and late brother Juan Humberto Urquiza Garcia.

Read this and think about the gravity of this moment:

I have resigned my Fellowship of the #RoyalSociety due to their Council's inability to act proportionately on #ElonMusk.

See fediscience.org/@A_J_Millar/...

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Fallen leaves in colours of red, orange and gold, lie upon the forest floor.

📝 How Trees’ Responses to Rainfall Frequency Could Help Improve Climate Models 🧵
https://doi.org/n38g


Climate models often struggle to capture the timing of leaf drop. A new study finds that scientists haven’t been looking at rainfall the way plants have.
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief

NHS England » Revolutionary gene-editing therapy for sickle cell ‘offers hope of a cure’ for NHS patients NHS patients with sickle cell disease will be able to benefit from a groundbreaking gene-editing treatment that offers the prospect of a cure for the condition. The one-off gene therapy, known as exag...

Its a form of CRISPR gene therapy editing the patients own stem cells www.england.nhs.uk/2025/01/revo...

A graphic from the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment Report Summary for Policymakers. Figure SPM.2 The framework of transformative change for a just and sustainable world. Section A indicates views, structures and practices (the inner golden spirals) being strongly shaped by the underlying causes of biodiversity loss and nature’s decline (solid grey ring). Section B shows shifts in views, structures and practices breaking the influence of the underlying causes when they are guided by the four key principles of transformative change (blue ring). Section C illustrates a just and sustainable world, with prevailing views, structures, and practices aligned with the principles of transformative change. This framework can be used by different actor groups to help identify where and how they can promote, accelerate and scale the process of transformative change towards a just and sustainable world.

The @ipbes.bsky.social #TransformativeChange Assessment Report examines fundamental changes required for a future where people live in harmony with nature.🌍🧪

Explore the framework for change in this graphic ⤵️

Learn more: www.ipbes.net/transformati...

Abundant clock proteins point to missing molecular regulation in the plant circadian clock.
Urquiza-García et al 2024; study by @andrewmillar.bsky.social
bioRxiv doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.03.609973
#preprintpeerreview by Review Commons eeb.embo.org/doi/10.1101/2024.09.03.609973.

BioClocks UK: driving robust cycles of discovery to impact | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Chronobiology is a multidisciplinary field that extends across the tree of life, transcends all scales of biological organization, and has huge translational potential. For the UK to harness the oppor...

Our @hannahrees.bsky.social @bioclocksuk.bsky.social @dynamicbrain.bsky.social @andrewmillar.bsky.social @rebeccahughes.bsky.social @antdodd.bsky.social @mvonschantz.bsky.social @roblucas.bsky.social @andrewmillar.bsky.social BioclocksUK review published
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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This paper is a practical guide for experimental researchers struggling to meet FAIR principles. It emphasizes incremental improvements and offers tools to ease the process. 🛠️✅ 5/5

#DataCuration #ResearchData #DataSharing #ScientificTransparency #OpenAccess #Reproducibility #FAIRPrinciples

Why does this matter? Open and FAIR data boost transparency, prevent redundancy, and enhance research impact.

Shared datasets often increase citations for their linked publications. 📈🌟 4/5

The team outlines step-by-step methods for selecting, organizing, and sharing datasets, ensuring they're easy to find and reuse.

This work bridges the gap between theory and practice in data curation. 📂✨ 3/5
#OpenScience #BiologyResearch

Data sharing isn't just a box to tick—it's a foundation for reproducibility and collaboration.

Yet, making datasets FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) is no small feat.

This paper dives into practical solutions for researchers in biological sciences! 💡📊 2/5
#FAIRData

**🧵 Finished Paper on FAIR Data Sharing! 📊🔬** 1/5

“Daily life in the Open Biologist’s second job, as a Data Curator” led by @liviascorza.bsky.social.

Want to make your #biology #research data FAIR? Start here!
📄 Full paper: doi.org/10.12688/wel...
💬 Let us know: How do YOU approach data sharing?

Great to see @labourlewis.bsky.social ask the Treasury how they plan to ensure that growing the financial sector won’t harm the wider economy.

We should be directing finance to where it is needed, not growing the sector so that it sucks even more resources out of the everyday economy.

Assisted dying: Triumph for reformers during a historic day in Westminster This was the single most impressive parliamentary debate we've seen in years.

Full article on today's debate, free to read for everyone...

This was the single most impressive parliamentary debate we've seen in years.

iandunt.substack.com/p/assisted-d...

Website screenshot from Foldscope.com, for an 'Explorer Kit', offering a 15% Holiday discount and a price of £32

Love it ❤️👍!

But at £32.00, the USD-GBP exchange rate is wicked these days.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-the...

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Here's another opportunity to join the team as a PhD student follow the link for more details:
#roots #plantscience
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
@jameshuttoninst.bsky.social

A dozen plastic bags of components, washers etc from UK company Labcrafter to build a 3-D printed microscope designed by OpenFlexure. Image from Labcrafter, at https://labcrafter.co.uk/products/openflexure-microscope

Now this is pretty cool 🤓🧪. Anyone for a microscope?
BYO objective lens.

Openflexure via @labcrafter.co.uk
#StayCurious

LabCrafter Open tools for open science

Hi everyone! 👋 We're a small open hardware company based in Wales, making and selling open science hardware over at https://labcrafter.co.uk 🔬

#openscience #oshw #opensource

Dawn redwood trunk, with bark starting to grow around the metal banister of a fire escape.

Dawn redwood tree as tall as the 3-storey University building next to it, with foliage turning brown in the Autumn.

👀 See where this ends? #HungryTrees

🌲 Metasequoia glyptostroboides, or the Dawn Redwood, at #EdinburghUniversity. Another ancient tree family 🦕, and unusual as a deciduous gymnosperm.

#Trees #Nature
Originally on @A_J_Millar@fediscience.org