Enjoying watching the bees choose between different flower colours on this Leptospermum scoparium at the beautiful botanical garden garden in Madeira

Excited to be able to advertise 1x postdoc and 2x technician positions to join my group in Cambridge working on an exciting ARIA funded project to help bring a plant artificial chromosome into existence! Reposts very welcome please 🙏 (1/2)

Cambridge Botanic Lights returns ✨ Explore the Garden after dark with a spectacular illuminated trail inspired by the wonders of plants. Popular dates & times can fill quickly – sign up to have exclusive access when the tickets go on sale. https://bit.ly/4fsgv5o

Kellenberger @joanameier.bsky.social @beverleycubg.bsky.social et al. studied sexual deception in South African daisy, identifying inverted genomic segments that may maintain the distinct identity of some floral forms in secondary contact zones. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag065 #genome #evolution

Always amazing to see Angraecum sesquipedale in flower @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social

Job opportunity! Research Assistant / Research Associate in Molecular Physiology Fixed term Closes on Wednesday 28 January 2026 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... #PlantSci #PlantSciJobs

A nice paper by Richard Milne on some of the may contributions of Richard Abbott on the study of new polyploid hybrid species. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Abbott’s conundrum: why did half of all known recently formed hybrid species arise in the British Isles?

Remarkably, half of the 10 plant hybrid species confirmed to have arisen naturally since 1500 arose within the British Isles (BI). The mechanisms included translocation of natural hybrids to a bota...

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Lovely day sharing ideas with fellow botanic garden directors at Birmingham Botanical Gardens today - and the plants were spectacular too!

✨ Cambridge Botanic Lights ✨ ❤️ A wonderful opportunity to take some time out and spend an evening with friends and family ❤️ Make memories at Cambridge University Botanic Garden 🌿 Buy your tickets at botanic.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-botanic-lights-2025 #CUBG #winterlights #Cambridge #botanicgarden

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

Communications Assistant @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social ✍️ This role will support the Botanic Garden’s marketing activities and event promotion, encouraging new and returning visitors. Apply before 22 June 👇 bit.ly/4kE2iS4

🧠 Are you a physicist, engineer, chemist, or coder curious about life sciences? 🧪 Challenge the boundaries. Take risks. Go international. Apply for an #HFSPFellowship! The 2026 call is OPEN 💪 🌍 Deadline to start application: 7 May 2025 🔗 zurl.co/ffHmt #sts #hfsp

Apply now for a four year Research Fellowship at Kew. £41,020 per annum Closing Date 20/04/2025 opportunity to become an independent researcher with some startup funds for research and travel. careers.kew.org/internal/vac...

We are delighted to have been voted ‘Best Tourist Attraction’ in the Cambridge Edition People’s Choice Awards 2025! What a lovely day to celebrate in the sun 🌞 Thank you to everyone who voted! Plus congrats to the Fitzwilliam Museum who were voted as ‘Best Arts & Cultural Venue’🏆

Such an amazing time at the UK plant biomechanics meeting. Big thanks to the organisers @yoselin.bsky.social and Finn Box. And all the amazing speakers and poster presenters.

Flowering cherries @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social are even better today with blue sky above them

❤️ The flowering cherries are out @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social

🌿 Mountain Magic! Step inside our Mountains House, where high-altitude plants thrive. Here are some of today’s stars including some wild & rare plants in our collection... 🌸 Paeonia cambessedesii 🌟 Fritillaria eduardii 🔵 Muscari heldreichii 💜 Hyacinthus orientalis #MondayMood #MountainBlooms

Looking for guidance teaching #Microscopy? 🔬🌱 Chris' latest article also featured in @associationscied.bsky.social School Science Review is available here with a presentation to download: www.saps.org.uk/growth-hub/t... #plantsci @chrisgraham.bsky.social @stemlearning.bsky.social

Plants & their pollinators🌼🐝 Plants can’t move but they still need a mate. How do they do it? Our Director @beverleycubg.bsky.social joined @bbcradio4.bsky.social In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg, Jane Memmott & @larschittka.bsky.social for a fascinating discussion bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 👋Bluesky!

Great to see our paper on the front cover @natureecoevo.bsky.social, with the tropical displays in our glasshouse range! With thanks to all 50+ co-authors. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Nice editorial on the issues facing a variety of ex situ plant collection. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Botanic gardens are more than peaceful retreats or collections of catalogued plants - they’re vital in the fight against biodiversity loss. Great article by Samuel Brockington in The Conversation: tinyurl.com/4yekcz84 @docbroc.bsky.social @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social @theconversation.com

Botanic gardens are struggling to keep up with the biodiversity crisis – here’s what they can do

Botanic gardens have evolved from medicinal gardens to scientific institutions, Now, they must become conservation leaders on a global scale.

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Wonderful visit to @mnhn.fr

Want to work in another country? The HFSP postdoc fellowship supports proposals for frontier, potentially transformative research in the life sciences and cross-disciplinary. high-risk projects are encouraged LOI opens March 13, 2025 #neuroskyence #academicsky 🧪🧠🪰🌱🧬 www.hfsp.org/funding/hfsp...

Looking forward to visiting @mpipz.bsky.social tomorrow- lots of exciting science to hear about!

Loving the raspberry ripple ice cream swirls on these Oxalis versicolor flowers in the mountains house at Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Please share! A 4-year position to work on genome duplication and evolution in Bath, part of our BBSRC sLOLA project determining the extent and effects of rediploidisation across eukaryotes! www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

Please Repost! We are offering a three-year fully funded doctoral researcher position to study how floral meristem patterning in woodland strawberry, and how it implicates the diversification in floral ground plans in Angiosperm flowers. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsini-...

We’re looking for 3 postdocs to join our lab and work on engineering plant gene expression, metabolism and growth. If you have enthusiasm & skills in synthetic biology or metabolic engineering, apply by Jan 31. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49767/ www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49773/ www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49769/

Closing date 19th December - just over a week to apply!

Beverley Glover@beverleycubg.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are looking for 2 postdocs and a technician to join our team studying evolution and development of complex flowers. Please get in touch if you’d like to discuss. Details here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/?unit=u0...