It's the last day of March and we finally have some #BlueSky! And beautiful blossoms 🌸🌸🌸

Please share widely: courtesy of the British Council, Durham University are offering FULL scholarships (visa fees, flights, etc) for MSc in STEM for women from a selection of countries. www.durham.ac.uk/study/schola... Including our Biotech and Plant Biotech MScs! www.durham.ac.uk/study/course...

🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🧪🌳🐝 Where to study degrees focusing on plants in UK and Ireland? Teams in #BUC2026 made single image of BSc/Masters/PhD opportunities at their 32 institutions. Great to get so much information about plant degrees together. (Also plants at some other places without a team this year!)

ONE WEEK to the deadline! #PlantSciJobs #phd #plantsciphd email me jo.a.hepworth@durham.ac.uk for more information (I'm friendly and keen to meet you!) and tips on application documents. www.needl.org.uk

NEEDL - North East of England Doctoral Landscape

The North East of England Doctoral Landscape (NEEDL) is a cutting edge bioscience research training partnership, developing researchers for the future.

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Jo Hepworth@coolcabbage.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Pre-weekend reminder to contact me about applying for my #PhD opportunity @durham.ac.uk #PlantSciJobs: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Pre-weekend reminder to contact me about applying for my #PhD opportunity @durham.ac.uk #PlantSciJobs: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Watering the flowers: gene x environment control of water use during Brassica napus inflorescence development. at Durham University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Watering the flowers: gene x environment control of water use during Brassica napus inflorescence development. at Durham University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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I’ve opened my own research group at the #Umeå Plant Science Center, and get to dig into the cell #biology of #wood formation to my heart’s content. I can’t do it alone though, so I’m looking for postdocs! If you know anyone in #plantscience that might be interested, send them my way:

Postdoctoral researcher in wood formation | slu.se

SLU - Science and Education for Sustainable Life

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Please share! My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Please share! PhD position (4 years) available in my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We look for candidates with solid aptitude in computer science to cross disciplines and use cutting edge imaging to understand host infection by destructive plant pathogens. uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

@zbevo.bsky.social food for thought!

Mike Wiser@drmikewiser.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Rye is the most commonly cited example of this. (See, for example, www.smbc-comics.com/comic/vavilov ). Oats are another. Both rye and oats have different environmental tolerances than wheat and barley do, so there are locations where they're a far more reliable crop than what they were mimicking.

Starting in an hour, join this free online root symposium! #plantscience

International Society of Root Research@rootscientists.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🌱 ISRR Mini-Symposium Registration is now open! 📅 Jan 28th 2026 Join us online to dig into the latest in #root and #rhizosphere science! Don't miss out on this chance to grow your knowledge and network with fellow enthusiasts! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internatio...

www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/f... Become our new colleague (and next door neighbor) and lead a chair/group/department of Biophysics at Wageningen University. Reach out to me for info and please spread!!!

Full Professor and Chair Laboratory of Biophysics

We are looking for a Full Professor in the Biophysics chair group, part of Wageningen University & Research (WUR)

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Fabulous opportunity #plantscijobs

Rebecca Mosher@rm0sher.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I am excited to offer a postdoctoral research position in my lab in Oxford studying the distribution of small RNAs during plant sexual reproduction. shorturl.at/7Goxt Reposts appreciated! Obligatory cat video to brighten your day. :-)

We’re hiring! 🌱 Open positions in my lab for candidates interested in cambium development in Arabidopsis, hybrid aspen, or silver birch. Apply now! Please repost! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Postdoctoral and Doctoral Researchers in Plant Developmental Biology

Postdoctoral and Doctoral Researchers in Plant Developmental Biology

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Our new preprint is out on bioRxiv! A regulation-compliant infrared heating system for UK field trials 🌾🔥 doi.org/10.64898/202... Here’s what it looked like ↓

PhD position available in my group at Durham! So exciting! PLEASE do email me if you're thinking of applying for tips on cover letters and to find out more about the lab, the uni and the project. #phd #plantphd #plantscijobs #plantsci #crops #climate www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Watering the flowers: gene x environment control of water use during Brassica napus inflorescence development. at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Watering the flowers: gene x environment control of water use during Brassica napus inflorescence development. at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Looks fascinating!

for the crazy few:

Journal of Cell Science@jcellsci.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Why would anyone want to be a scientist? Check out our new Essay from Martin Schwartz: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

You have strong interest in plant genomics and machine learning? And you hold a PhD in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics or a related field? The we have a great job offer at the @leibnizipk.bsky.social. ➡️Read more: tinyurl.com/2d6ad8sw

Pablo's elegant figures are definitely a highlight!

Pablo González-Suárez@pablidopsis.bsky.social · last yr.

Thrilled to see our review published! 🌺Here we asked how temperature affects reproductive meristems across the year in seasonal climates and what that means for the final plant architecture of Arabidopsis and some of its crop relatives 🌡️

Super pleased our @jxbotany.bsky.social review with Pablo González-Suárez @pablidopsis.bsky.social (now with Margot Smit), Tom Lock @txmlock.bsky.social and Steve Penfield (@johninnescentre.bsky.social) on plant architecture responses to seasonal temperature is out! academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

Seasons and shape: Inflorescences from autumn to summer

Abstract. Flowering plants organize their reproductive organs within specialized structures named inflorescences. Plasticity in the architecture of these i

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🌱🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🌱🧬 Tremblay & Qüesta discuss how examining the seed-to-seedling transition can reveal how non-coding RNAs and epigenetic changes regulate transcription during developmental transitions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @jiquesta.bsky.social‬

Very excited to see this wonderful work by Larissa and Keiran at @ibers.bsky.social creating a brilliant, accurate high-throughput model for Brassica pod phenotyping out in the world! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

DeepCanola: Phenotyping brassica pods using semi-synthetic data and active learning

Phenotyping, the measurement of attributes or traits, is crucial in selecting superior cultivars for specific environmental situations. This is a time…

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I'm happy to announce a postdoctoral position is available in my lab. We have lots of great data to analyze with respect to transposons & epigenetics and cool biological questions to answer. Please reskeet and share.

I am very happy to be part of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme! Huge thanks to the members of my group at CRAG for sharing with me the motivation for science #plants #epigenetics. Looking forward to interacting with the EMBO_YIP scientific community. www.embo.org/press-releas...

Twenty-seven scientists become EMBO Young Investigators – Press releases – EMBO

The group leaders join an international network of nearly 800 life scientists and receive financial support

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An unexpected joy of being an academic: writing references for talented students, in the happy hope of them going on to great things.

Here's more info on my available PhD position. Please do message me to get more info! (Though, it's Christmas - so, no stress! I'll get back to you after the break). www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Watering the flowers: gene x environment control of water use during Brassica napus inflorescence development at Durham University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Watering the flowers: gene x environment control of water use during Brassica napus inflorescence development at Durham University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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@txmlock.bsky.social, could you pass to the JIC crowd? Opportunity should be available to study this year or next, anyone at all curious - i'm happy to answer questions (and will be @ JIC Thursday 19th!)

Jo Hepworth@coolcabbage.bsky.social · 2y ago

In fact a chance has come up for UK students to start this PhD *now - ASAP - before April 2025*! Send me a CV ASAP! #plantscijobs #phd #DurhamUni

🚨 PhD Opportunity Alert! 🚨 I'm thrilled to announce my new project, Watchers on the Wall, exploring how plant cells sense and respond to stress through their walls. 🌱 A 5-year fully funded PhD position is open—please share with potential candidates! 👇 (1/7)

In fact a chance has come up for UK students to start this PhD *now - ASAP - before April 2025*! Send me a CV ASAP! #plantscijobs #phd #DurhamUni

Jo Hepworth@coolcabbage.bsky.social · 2y ago

Am writing a PhD project studying the genes that control drought during flowering in a key UK crop (oilseed rape) - using molecular biology, mutants, lab and field experiments, hyperspectral imaging - all the way from lab to field. Contact me to find out more!