VACANCY - We’re looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the @Barrie Wilkinson Group, in collab with the @Matt Hutchings lab, on a project: Global activation of silent and cryptic biosynthetic pathways in Streptomyces species. Deadline - 26 October 2026 Contract - 36 months, full-time

Postdoctoral Researcher | John Innes Centre

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Wilkinson Group at the John Innes Centre, working in collaboration with the Hutchings lab, on a project titled: Global...

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Today’s @JohnInnesCentre @TheSainsburyLab Friday Seminar is Thorsten Schnurbusch @LeibnizIPK “Unleashing Wheat Flower Biology: Insights for improved Floral Fertility”

We are crowdfunding for a bench in a peaceful spot at Winterbourne Botanic Garden in Birmingham in memory of Philippa Borrill. Please share widely. Please email me or @drelunadiez.bsky.social for more details. 💚🌾🌿🌳 If you would like to contribute, the link is below ⬇️.

He is currently professor of molecular plant physiology at the Department for Molecular Plant Physiology and Biophysics - Botany I, University of Würzburg, Germany. www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/bot1/rese...

Two out of the three Nobel Prize winners are members of @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

Nobel Prize@nobelprize.org · last wk.

Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel – awarded the 2026 medicine prize – discovered a remarkable protein, channelrhodopsin, in a single-celled alga. Hegemann wondered how Chlamydomonas, a single-celled alga, is able to swim towards a light source.

We’re excited to announce that our JI Historic Collections' bid for a scoping grant to the Archives Revealed programme has been successful 🌱   🧵

Dr Tomislav Cernava is part of IMPULSA, a new £2.5m ARIA-funded project exploring how plant immunity and the microbiome can help produce more disease-resistant oak trees in increasingly challenging environmental conditions. www.southampton.ac.uk/research/gro...

🚨🌱 1 week to go! 🌱🚨 There are only 7 days left to apply for the 2027 JXB Editorial Internship programme! ⚠️ Don’t leave it to last minute. You'll need: 📄 A CV 📝 A Cover letter 🔍 An Insight-style article ⏰ Deadline: 30 Sept 2026 👉 bit.ly/jxbinterns?ut... #PlantScience 🧪 SEBiology

🆕 @vitaminb12lab.bsky.social was in Parliament yesterday with colleagues from the B12 Alliance raising awareness with policymakers of the challenges around vitamin B12 deficiency in the UK📊 📺️ You can catch a report on why this matters on @itvanglia.bsky.social (4m 51s) ➡️ buff.ly/HB47Kuv

The hot sunny weather brought a bumper year for grapes this year. Teaming up as usual with a friend who has an allotment in Southampton we have 20L of red and 22L of white now fermenting - a record, and we only had to add half the amount of sugar we normally do.

Are you interested in using genetics to help safeguard future food security? I’m recruiting for a funded PhD scholarship. The project will explore how wild genetic variation can improve yield and heat tolerance of barley cultivars. EOIs close 30 Sept. Apply: app.smartsheet.au/b/form/019ee...

You are what you eat! Discover how gut microbes and food can influence your emotions at our #BSF26 street festival. Enjoy painting, games, plant-based African street food and music. 📍Saturday 19 Sept, 12-5pm, Guildhall Square Find out more: britishsciencefestival.org/event/meals-...

Meals, mood and microbes | British Science Festival

This drop in activity runs from 12.00 – 17.00 What your meals are made of can change your emotions. It’s all down to your gut microbes and how they work with your brain to create changes in mood.

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🚨 Want to be part of top #glycotime on the seaside in the California sunshine? Register to the 2027 GRC Glycobiology ⬇️ Stacy and Lance put togteher up one of the most exciting programmes I have ever seen with phenomenal keynotes! We have 32 abstracts to select, so the next speaker could be YOU! 😎

📣 Please share! We’re recruiting to build predictive models of gene regulation in plants. We’d love to hear from anyone with strong foundations in regulatory genomics or ML and fluency with coding agents. Any career stage; no plant background needed. noborilab.org 1/5

Nobori Lab | The Sainsbury Laboratory

Decoding the molecular and cellular basis of plant-microbe interactions. Single-cell and spatial omics of plant immunity. Led by Tatsuya Nobori at TSL, Norwich, UK.

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Tatsuya Nobori@tatsuyanobori.bsky.social · last mo.

Excited to launch our ERC project ImmuneCellState 🚀 We’ll investigate how individual plant cells respond to pathogens and explore new dimensions of plant immunity research by integrating single-cell/spatial omics, deep learning and genome editing. @thesainsburylab.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

Thank you @gilltav.bsky.social for reminding us all of the Police response in 2021 👇 when some 40 environmental activists of Insulate Britain blocked the Port of Dover: 39 arrests. Compare that to yesterday when 200-400 fascist paramilitaries intimidated Dover town and blocked the Port: 0 arrests.

Port of Dover: Arrests made as Insulate Britain blocks port

Queues form at Europe's busiest ferry terminal as Insulate Britain shift their protest from the M25.

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Appreciating the love for the Tech Team in building 85 - you’re very welcome mystery gift giver @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social #techniciansmakeithappen

We are at Pride Southampton, come say hi 🫛 🫘 @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social #uosroadshow

Magnificent clip

bleary@bleary.off-the-records.com · 2mo ago

The time Dolly Parton got stuck into a session in a pub in Kerry

If you saw our new paper and thought "I didn't know aquatic plants use CAM!" boy do we have a fun project for you! Our lab is developing high throughput methods to screen plants for CAM. Do you work on, or know of, a plant that you think could be using CAM? Let us know! 👉 forms.gle/AyQc5KgzEYoM...

Are your plants CAM suspicious?

Have you ever wondered if the plants you work on are... living a double life working the nightshift? We are too. Our lab is looking to identify and screen more plants for CAM activity. We are beginnin...

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Karolina Heyduk@kheyduk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New lab paper, led by @ellliieee.bsky.social with assist from @wickellomics.bsky.social, other lab members, and folks at @li-corenv.bsky.social - how do we study photosynthesis in aquatic plants? Turns out it's pretty hard! Part review, part methods paper. Check it out! doi.org/10.1002/aps3...

Biological Databases are critical infrastructure - not projects. As so much effort is put into harnessing AI to solve all our problems, we are allowing the foundational data resources crumble. Treat biological databases as infrastructure, not projects www.nature.com/articles/d41...

While both nori & wakame are edible seaweed, they are separated by >1 billion (!) years of evolution. Nori is red algae, which acquired its chloroplasts via primary endosymbiosis; wakame is brown algae, which acquired its chloroplasts from another algae. They are about divergent as human vs yeast.

Five days left to the deadline! Exciting job opportunity for a quantitative researcher with experience in population health data to work with us. @arcwessex.bsky.social jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Research Fellow

Salary: Level 4 point 28 - 35 depending on experienceAn exciting opportunity is available for a talented quantitative researcher to join a public health team working closely with the Healthy Communiti...

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Let's talk about AOC as a young scientist & her award winning research on antioxidants & C. elegans, a standard roundworm model. She grew up in the Bronx. Ethnically Puerto Rican, her dad Sergio, an architect, died when she was 19. Her mother cleaned houses, drove a school bus. Working class.

Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦@merz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

People just don't realize how smart AOC is. She came in second at the national Intel Science and Engineering Fair. An *incredibly* competitive field. That's roughly equivalent to being the second best forward in high school basketball in the United States.

We're hiring 🔬🌱🦠 We're looking for someone with confocal microscopy expertise to join our work on plant–microbe interactions @thesainsburylab.bsky.social . A whole new suite of genetically encoded reporters + 3D spatial gene expression tools like PHYTOMap and more. Please share!

The Sainsbury Laboratory@thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣 VACANCY: Research Assistant / Postdoctoral Researcher - Tatsuya Nobori group @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social Join the team to work on work on live-cell and 3D spatial imaging of plant–microbe interactions 🔬🌱 📍Norwich, UK ⏰ Apply online by 14 Sept 2026 Apply here: www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...

There's still a week left to register for the Tetrapyrrole Discussion Group meeting in Southampton next month.

We are organising @oistedu.bsky.social an Engineering Biology Symposium, 16-18 November 2026. Join us! 🌏 For more information and registration (deadline August 31): www.oist.jp/events/plant...

Why supercomplexes? 🌱☀️🦠 🚨New 3 year Postdoc opportunity 🚨 A BBSRC sponsored project using single molecule AFM to interrogate ephemeral interactions between ET proteins in respiration and photosynthesis Join our diverse team and Apply here: sheffield.ac.uk/photosynthes...

BBSRC Sponsored Postdoc Position

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I absolutely love persimmons, though the ones I have had in Japan are always much better than the ones you can buy in supermarkets in the UK.

Kevin Folta@kevinfolta.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My latest article on persimmons. If you don't know this fruit, you need to know this fruit! www.thecookscook.com/article/pers...

📢 Speaker Announcement: Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso - Plenary Speaker Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso, PhD, is a Professor of Plant Sciences and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Leeds. Learn more, be inspired, register now: buff.ly/kywzTjj

Leaves absorb red and reflect far-red, so a close neighbour enriches the spectrum in far-red. Phytochrome B detects this; the plant elongates. Gibberellin is required. Its three receptors are not interchangeable — only one responds to far-red. A preprint thread: tinyurl.com/y5jyy9zc 🌱