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@botanicaljim.bsky.social

Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield. Interested in how ABA patterns control water fluxes in leaves using ABA biosensors and image analysis. https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/academic-staff/people/jim-rowe

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GitHub - RILAB/statements: Successful Job Applications and Grants Successful Job Applications and Grants. Contribute to RILAB/statements development by creating an account on GitHub.

Lunch today halfway around the world in Hangzhou and met a new asst professor who was very thankful for this resource. Please help out folks like them and other early career scientists with examples of job apps. Submit yours!
github.com/RILAB/statem...

21.10.2025 06:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 69    ๐Ÿ” 39    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Are you an early career plant scientist with 3-5 years' post-PhD experience?

Tell the world about your research with the New Phytologist #TansleyMedal!

Time is running out - apply for the 2026 competition by 1 November 2025.

Find out more: www.newphytologist.org/grants-award...

#PlantScience

17.10.2025 04:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The phone they've provided doesn't switch on.

16.10.2025 16:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ah yes, the university provided laptop for the conference trip I'm going on has no MS office, no way to install it, and kicks out so much heat that I'm considering using it to replace my heating.

16.10.2025 16:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Understanding Host Compatibility in the Marchantia-Phytophthora System (CARELLA_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership The fossil record demonstrates that filamentous microbes invaded ancient plant cells with intracellular hyphal structures over 450 million years ago. To this day, a rich diversity of extant land plant...

New opportunity to undertake a PhD in my group โฆโ€ชat the John Innes Centre - if youโ€™re interested in plant immunity and evolution check out the link!

12.10.2025 17:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 45    ๐Ÿ” 62    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Really cool story on a FRET biosensor by Bijun Tang @bijuntang.bsky.social and an amazing team, now published @science.org
Iโ€™m so proud of your PhD work at @slcuplants.bsky.social
Below is the lockdown time in 2020 when you spent long hours screening your FRET biosensor, now known as SalicS1!

10.10.2025 05:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I was tremendously lucky to be in @xanderjones.bsky.social's lab to watch @bijuntang.bsky.social move from technician to PhD to Postdoc and produce this magnum opus. #SalicS1 is the just reward for years of brilliance and hard work.Well done Bijun, Xander, Jing, and everyone involved! #SalicylicAcid

10.10.2025 09:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Salicylic acid biosensor, SalicS1, tracks the plant immune hormone salicylic acid in real time - revealing propagation of hormone surge during plant pathogen advance

Latest biosensor from @xanderjones.bsky.social team
In Science doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Summary www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/new-bio...

09.10.2025 22:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 66    ๐Ÿ” 34    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
Research Associate - Reprogramming Development (Fixed Term) Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Dr Alexander Jones' Group at the Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University. The aim of this position is to reprogram auxin patterns

Link wasn't working: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

04.10.2025 08:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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)

03.10.2025 15:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 29    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congratulations Zoe! It looks great, I hope you're celebrating!

26.09.2025 13:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Happy to share slightly late that the main work of my PhD is now published! How do plants regulate the number + location of growing branches ๐ŸŒณ๐ŸŒฒ? We used experiments and mathematical modelling to study how local and systemic signals are integrated during shoot branching regulation. A thread:

26.09.2025 10:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#HappyFluorescenceFriday!

#microscopycommunity- want to learn open source image analysis or share your knowledge to help others? Weโ€™ve got a FREE virtual workshop Nov 17-19! Now accepting workshop session applications!

Learn more & sign up: buff.ly/esGIotD

19.09.2025 16:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I can't stress it more. This conference has been designed for us by us. Support @blackinplantsci.bsky.social conference at the University of Leeds funded by the SEB, Faculty of Biological Science at Leeds, the Grow More and New Phytologist foundations and Gastby. Join us on 24/10, details below.

16.09.2025 15:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Stephen Long

Saddened to hear about the passing of Steve Long. His work had a profound impact on plant science. A true loss to the scientific community. @ripeproject.bsky.social
emails.illinois.edu/newsletter/4...

13.09.2025 09:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

OK--fluorescent protein friends. We want an antibody to TagRFP that works in immunofluorescence. Any suggestions? Re-post please

09.09.2025 18:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 27    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congratulations Kumud!

06.09.2025 15:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐ŸšจNew Preprint with Old Pals showing a PIF4-CAT2-H2O2 loop in thermomorphogenesis

06.09.2025 06:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congratulations Amir!

30.08.2025 09:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Exceptional research leaders awarded first Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowships | Royal Society Seven pioneering researchers have been announced as the first recipients.

Incredibly honoured & excited to be awarded one of the @royalsociety.org's new Faraday Discovery Fellowships - this means SO much, huge thanks to everyone who has contributed, supported, & encouraged. Loads of mycorrhizal research @sheffielduni.bsky.social to come!๐Ÿคฉ royalsociety.org/news/2025/08...

28.08.2025 08:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 84    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Professorship (W2-level) in โ€œMolecular Crop Improvementโ€

Your research brings together fundamental plant biology & applied research to enhance crop traits? ๐ŸŒฑ๐ŸŒพ๐ŸŽ“๐Ÿญ

Join us as professor in 'Molecular Crop Improvement' @uni-muenster.de & @fraunhofer.bsky.social

Please PM if you got questions.

stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/d...

18.08.2025 14:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Occasionally, you'll get good science news on a Friday at 4pm.

15.08.2025 15:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Checkout our new starter pack: Academics to follow on BlueSky to keep up to date with cutting edge discoveries in the world of plant science!
go.bsky.app/5CYhV8v

13.08.2025 13:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 39    ๐Ÿ” 22    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Organised by Alex Johnson and Joe McKenna, who we have had the pleasure of working with at the Gatsby Plant Science Summer School, this is a great opportunity not to be missed!

Just 2 more days to apply for a funded place if you are an ECR

13.08.2025 13:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Our latest on brassinosteroid signaling: Ligand binding spectrum, specificity & selectivity of all BR receptors in Arabidopsis. By @albertocaregnato.bsky.social , @hmchen93.bsky.social and our great chemistry collaborators Mirek Kvasnica, Jana Oklestkova and Mirek Strnad.

09.08.2025 21:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 53    ๐Ÿ” 29    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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CSLD5-mediated cell wall remodelling regulates tissue mechanics and shoot meristem growth @natcomms.nature.com

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

Movies: Cell division orientation in wild-type (attached) and csld5 (comment) shoot apical meristem.

09.08.2025 18:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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PRC2-mediated repression of PIF4 targets beyond the on/off switch of gene expression In this issue of Developmental Cell, Osborne et al. report that the angiosperm-specific polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) subunit VERNALIZATION 2 (VRN2) regulates leaf growth by stable deposition o...

The final version of our paper showing VRN2-PRC2 mediated control of PIF4 signalling is now published in the latest issue of Developmental Cell @cellpress.bsky.social. Many thanks to Zhe Wu for writing an accompanying Preview piece summarising the work, here: www.cell.com/developmenta...

05.08.2025 08:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Before this #PlantBio2025 thread closes: two exciting opportunities now open for early-career plant scientists.
1. Plantae Fellows program, apply by Aug 31 plantae.org/2026fellowsa...
2. @theplantcell.bsky.social Assistant Features Editor program, apply by Sep 15.
blog.aspb.org/the-plant-ce...

30.07.2025 16:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 34    ๐Ÿ” 32    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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๐Ÿ“ข Final hours to register for the Plant Computational Biology Workshop 2025! ๐Ÿ“ข
Donโ€™t miss your chance to take part in talks and hands-on sessions with other plant modelling enthusiasts๐Ÿชด
Deadline tomorrow (31 July) - www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...
#ComputationalBiology #PlantSci

30.07.2025 11:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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29.07.2025 19:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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