RA position working on Marchantia reproductive development in the Penfield group at JIC. Deadline is August 18th!

John Innes Centre@johninnescentre.bsky.social · 2d ago

VACANCY - We’re looking for a Research Assistant to join the Penfield Group, working to understand the effects of temperature on plant reproductive development. https://okt.to/Yx9K5e Deadline - 18 August 2026 Contract - Until 7 August 2029, full-time

@stanfordstomata.bsky.social & Susana Coelho are also editing our newest Special Issue. Submit your latest plant and multicellular algae #DevBio research to our upcoming special issue – Plant and Algae Development #DevSIPlantAlgae Deadline: 2 November 2026 journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pl...

📣 We are now accepting applications to join the Plant Physiology Assistant Features Editor (AFE) program. These are two-year appointments, starting either in January 2027 or 2028. 👉 Learn more and apply now: blog.aspb.org/plantphys_af.... #PlantSci #PlantScience

🚨 Call for the 2027 JXB Editorial Interns is now open! 🚨 🌱 Designed for ECRs, interns will gain behind-the-scenes publishing experience and write commentary pieces that will be published in the journal 📝 Deadline: 30 Sept 2026 👉 bit.ly/jxbinterns #PlantScience 🧪 SEBiology

🍃🎤🍃 Speaker Announcement 🍃🎤🍃 Join Dana MacGregor as she talks weed persistence & resilient cropping systems 🌱🌾 'Early Career Essentials for Applied Biologists' 📆 20-21 Oct 📍 Nottingham & Online Register now 👉 cvent.me/8o1kkP #plantscience #sustainableag @plantenv.bsky.social @rothamsted.ac.uk

Blast from the past! Did you know you can create clean, readable notebooks for the ImageJ Macro language? A great way to build tutorials, teaching materials, and [mentally] reproducible image analysis workflows. 👨‍🏫📜🚀 github.com/haesleinhuep...

📢Registration is now open! This year we will be welcoming the incredible Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso (Professor at the University of Leeds) and a surprise Special Guest as our plenary speakers. Early Bird Registration is open until Friday 18 September - £30. Register here: buff.ly/tRc4Sdg

@plantphys.bsky.social is 100 years old! We are celebrating this accomplishment with a symposium at #PlantBio2026 We start with a look back at the first and current issue.

Fusarium oxysporum–induced ABA signaling triggers root vascular remodeling for plant defense | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Fusarium oxysporum–induced ABA signaling triggers root vascular remodeling for plant defense | PNAS

Root vascular pathogens like Fusarium oxysporum (Fo) severely impact agriculture by colonizing the xylem, thereby disrupting the transport of water...

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Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe

The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.

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I am responsible for the academic skills line in our AI programme and I think part of the 26/27 curriculum needs to be to help students understand that all those “AI assistants” that publishers and apps force on them are in fact “traps” for them to avoid. >>

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 3w ago

> Something seems to be lost on my peers today: it’s still easy to not use AI. [...] Eschewing AI is one thing that we can actually do to live out ethics that affirm values of human and environmental rights. It’s almost a gift! Just use a computer the same way you did three years ago!

You find the answer to this question, the meaning of abscission, and this week’s scientific articles and plant science in the media in this week’s Plant & Zo weekly roundup. open.substack.com/pub/plantenz... 🧪 #PlantScience

Plant & Zo weekly roundup #28-2026

In which I talk about how the inner tissues have a say in plant shape, the meaning of abscission, and this week’s scientific articles and plant science in the media

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We're seeking an Editorial Assistant to join the New Phytologist Foundation team for a 14-month period to cover parental leave. 📍 Location: Lancaster, UK ⌚ Fixed term, full time 💸 Salary: £26,707 to £30,378 📅 Closing date: 11 July 2026 www.newphytologist.org/news/job-vac... #PlantScience #jobs

Job vacancy: Editorial Assistant

The New Phytologist Foundation is seeking an enthusiastic and proactive colleague to join the New Phytologist Foundation Central Office team as an Editorial Assistant.

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Very happy this is now published in full! Symbiotic phosphate transporter dynamics in rice expose functional plasticity of the arbuscules www.nature.com/articles/s41... A thread of some of our findings (and timelapses) below 🧵🔬🎥

In 2028, ICAR will be in Porto, Portugal July 10-14, 2028 #icar2026 #icar2027 #icar2028

Instructions for building the latest Mini-NFT hydroponics system for Marchantia. USB powered pod with self-contained media circulation and LED lighting. Based on GN1/6 kitchen vessel. Larger scale DIY hydroponic systems on the way. https://marchantia.org/mini-nft-hydroponics

Three days left to apply to the 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐓𝐏𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞!

The Plant Journal@theplantjournal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢 Applications are now open for the 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐓𝐏𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞! Are you an early-career PI? The TPJ Fellowship offers mentoring, editorial board engagement, a £2,000 travel award, & opportunities to contribute to TPJ 📅 Apply by 6 July 2026 More details 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... +🧵

1/ 🧬🔬 How does one cell become an entire animal? We can now film it in 3D 🐟, but turning those movies into accurate cell tracks is brutally hard. Enter our new #Kaggle challenge: $60K prize pool, to help crack 3D+time cell tracking at scale! 🧵👇 www.kaggle.com/competitions... @biohub.org

Really pleased to see Qing He’s work out in its final form (www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....). My group had previously shown that PXY-mediated regulation of cambium development had an ERECTA-mediated influence, but we didn’t understand the mechanism. 🧵

Our paper is out !!! NADPH oxidases and aquaporins within membrane nanodomains form a functional unit for ROS signaling. Great work by arthur-poitout.bsky.social and amazing collaborator jbfiche.bsky.social, Jose Ugalde, A Meyer yvonjaillais.bsky.social! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2529740123

Thanks for the shout out

Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI)@bsbibotany.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This year's @blackinplantsci.bsky.social Conference should be a great event! Want to find out more about BiPS? Check out this talk by Professor @yoselin.bsky.social, the network founder: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKSu... Save the date & location: 30 October, Guildhall, York

Excited to share that our work on single-nucleus RNA-seq of the shoot apical meristem — the shoot stem cell niche — has found a home. #Plantascience #scRNAseq #stemcells www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Single-nucleus transcriptomics resolves multiple fate dynamics between inflorescence meristem and primary stem

snRNA-seq reveals shoot stem cell heterogeneity and traces their differentiation into primary stem cell types.

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Really cool (and somewhat freighting) work on Gen AI use and highschool performance in China. Homework Scores rocket up, time spend doing homework collapses, then predictably exam scores are way down. Results show bimodal response ~75% see scores drop, the other 20-25% keep doing the work.

Long barrels work for increasing the penetrative power of my low-cost low-pressure particle inflow device (for chloroplast transformation) - effect of 1.5" dispensing nozzle (7p each) on delivery of tungsten through target (20µm thick Silver Rizla paper) with 60psi Sodastream CO2

New insights into cell fates of the Arabidopsis inflorescence meristem @sebamorenor.bsky.social generated the most detailed map to date of this critical stem cell niche, identifying 18 distinct cell type clusters, including precursors to cortex & vascular tissues www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/new-ins...

SAVE THE DATE! Friday 30 October 2026 We are delighted to announce that we will again be hosting our annual Black in Plant Science Conference this October at The Guildhall in York. Our moment, dedicated to connection, celebration, and cultivation. Stay informed: buff.ly/PMAxXkd

For liverwort mavens, I've needed to shift our Marchantia resources to a new website (I've reached retirement from academia in Cambridge) - and the plant synthetic biology stuff has moved to https://www.haseloff-lab.info (Now have more time for DIY builds! Updates to come)

After a journey of roughly 12 years I am very happy to share with you that our manuscript on the spatiotemporal role of ethylene during nodule initiation has finally been published in @theplantcell.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Ethylene Biosynthesis Shape Infection and Nodule Initiation in Medicago Truncatula

Spatially reprogramming of the expression of ACS genes in Medicago truncatula coordinate localized changes in ethylene levels and response across root tiss

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Want to know what links stomatal evolutionary development with legume nodulation? Do you love peptide signalling and rhizobia? If so, I hope you love our new paper as much as I do. FREE ACCESS for a couple of months: authors.elsevier.com/c/1nE~A3QW8S...

Wonderful team, mentor and place to work. Apply!

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)@slcuplants.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#PlantSciJobs 🌱 Postdoctoral Research Associate (x2) and Research Assistant (x2) Dr Edwige Moyroud is seeking 2 Postdocs and 2 Research Assistants to join her team investigating petal patterning Applications close: 5 June: Research Assistant bit.ly/4a32ffK 17 June: Postdoc bit.ly/4dT2LOC