Don't forget! Plant reproduction is running a special collection on Epigenetics - now with an extended deadline of 31 December! We'd love to read your great research connecting epigenetics with all forms of plant reproduction. link.springer.com/collections/...

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Protein synthesis is dynamically responsive to the environment, but how do cells ensure that their protein quality control mechanisms are appropriately scaled to changing translational demand? We address this question in our new study in @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Postdoc opportunity in my group! Please share! 🔁 Investigate the epigenetic mechanisms underlying stress memory in plants 🧬🌱 Looking for someone excited about computational genomics + plant molecular biology. 📍 Dundee, Scotland | 3 years 📅 Apply by 21 Sept www.dundee.ac.uk/work-for-us/...

Postdoctoral Research Assistant - UOD2369

Closing date: Monday 21 September 2026, 23:59

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At BiPS we are deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Jason Arday who members of our community had the pleasure of knowing. We've added our name to the open letter calling for a public inquiry into the tragic death of Professor Jason Arday. Will you join us? goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1

Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project

Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.

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Preprint alert! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.17.744369v1 So pleased to see this work online 😄 Building on our previous study that showed symbiont effectors modulate host hormone signalling, we further characterised the roles of S. indica effectors in influencing plant stress responses.

The death of Jason Arday is yet another case of the barbarism and cruelty of our media in tandem with the gleeful bigotry that drives it .

📣 VACANCY: Postdoctoral Researcher - Wenbo Ma group Exciting opportunity to investigate small RNA-based plant immunity, applied to crop disease resistance 🧬 🌱 📍 Norwich, UK ⏰ Apply by 1 Sept 2026 ✨️ 2 positions available www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...

Postdoctoral Researcher - Wenbo Ma group

The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL), Norwich, United KingdomApplication review starts 1 September 2026

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💡 Did you know the JXB Editorial Internships call is open? We’re now in the 5th round of this programme 🌱 Check out what past interns had to say about their experience 👩‍💻👇 ⏰ Deadline: 30 Sept 2026 👉 bit.ly/jxbinterns?ut... #PlantScience 🧪 SEBiology

VACANCY - We’re looking for a Research Assistant/Lab Manager to join the @tinaschreier.bsky.social group, working on plant cell biology and C4 photosynthesis. https://okt.to/e9GALv Closing date - 18 August 2026 Contract - 36 months, full-time

www.nature.com/articles/s41... It's been a long time coming, but delighted to say that the first major output from my Royal Society Fellowship is now published. 🙂 #PlantScience

The post-fertilization archegonium gene network of seedless plants contributed to the origin of seeds - Nature Communications

The authors identify conserved gene networks across fern and angiosperm reproductive development, including between the sporophyte ovule and the fern gametophyte egg-chamber. Repurposing of this netwo...

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On August 1, 1931, Harriet Creighton and Barbara McClintock published the first experimental proof that genes are physically located on chromosomes—a discovery that transformed genetics. 1/3🧵

🚨 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

150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.

If you're attending the @sebiology.bsky.social conferennce, make sure to join myself and @robynemm.bsky.social for day 2 of the Plant Epigenetics session! Featuring somatic memory, epigenetic perception, immunity and developmental plasticity 😍🌿🧬

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Looking forward to present our work on epigenetic flooding stress memory in plants at #SEBconference (unfortunately as a virtual participant)! I'll talk about our recent #plantscience #epigenetics preprint and more 🌱🌊 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Have you ever wondered how the epigenome is modified during the transition from seed to seedling? Here, we show that water uptake by Arabidopsis seeds triggers the eviction of the H2B variant H2B.8, thereby revealing replication-independent chromatin reprogramming. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Looking forward to present our work on epigenetic flooding stress memory in plants at #SEBconference (unfortunately as a virtual participant)! I'll talk about our recent #plantscience #epigenetics preprint and more 🌱🌊 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

An oxygen-sensing Polycomb-group protein encodes flooding stress memory in plants

Most organisms, including plants, can encode stress memories that improve resilience to repeated environmental challenges. Flooding events expose plants to recurrent hypoxia, yet whether plants establ...

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SEBiology@sebiology.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The #SEBconference in Florence is just one week away! Want a preview of the science, ideas and discussions awaiting you? Explore the Spring 2026 SEB Magazine, now available on demand. Read now: www.sebiology.org/resource/seb...

Living Biology 🎧 is here! A new SEB #Podcast from the Society for Experimental Biology (@sebiology.bsky.social) exploring the people and ideas behind experimental biology. 🚨 Launch special: 2 episodes available now Listen here: www.sebiology.org/ressources/s...

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

Remember! NSF postdoctoral fellowships can be held at foreign universities like Oxford. If you are a US national or permanent resident interested in using AI to study sRNAs or epigenetics during seed development, please reach out! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)

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🚨 Excited to share the latest work from my lab “Explainable AI identifies H3K18ac as a new marker of active enhancers” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6.... Spearheaded by the amazing Khizra Maqsood and Duarte Pólvora-Brandão with contributions from Jareth, Bhavana, Catalin, Roxana, Olivia and Fanny. 1/n

We just published our new paper about an active Helitron transposon in wheat 🌾🧬 We found that it can be mobilised by heat stress when DNA methylation is reduced. We document its full lifecycle: RNA -> circular DNA -> integration www.nature.com/articles/s41... #TEsky

An active Helitron transposon family in wheat - Nature Plants

Helitrons are a recently identified category of transposons. This study reveals that heat stress combined with reduced DNA methylation can mobilize a Helitron family in wheat. Its mobilization is gene...

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This is your regular reminder that Plant Reproduction is running a special issue on Epigenetics. We'd love to see your research on the topic! link.springer.com/collections/...

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Excited to see our #plantscience review published in @jxbotany.bsky.social! It really captures our lab’s perspective on how plants use spatiotemporal signaling under environmental contexts when floods occur, to coordinate acclimation responses and achieve stress tolerance. doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

Anticipate, acclimate, recuperate and remember: How spatiotemporal signal integration controls flooding stress resilience in plants

Abstract. Flooding is a major abiotic stress that restricts terrestrial plant growth and survival. A plant tissue’s ability to avoid or sustain critical ox

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A Perspective in BMC Biology explores how regional learned societies can maintain their roles to support scientific progress and enrich broader society.

The value of learned societies in the biological sciences: benefits, threats, and futures - BMC Biology

Learned societies play a vital role in fostering interactions that are important in scholarly discourse and the advancement of biological sciences. However, they now face threats from declining funding and membership, shifting disciplinary boundaries, changing approaches towards digital communication, and academic marketization. We outline the historical development of these societies and propose ways to sustain them. Key considerations include improving meetings, adapting publishing models, ensuring financial stability, expanding membership, strengthening outreach, and managing increasingly broad remits. Our main aim is to examine how regional learned societies can maintain their roles to support scientific progress and enrich broader society.

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“study of around 8,000 respondents concludes that women’s lower uptake of generative AI tools has little to do w/ skills or access. Instead, it is driven largely by how women perceive the broader societal risks associated w/ the new technology.”🧪 @josiecox.bsky.social

The Persistent@thepersistent.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New research shows women are more likely to worry about the impact of new technologies.

Help please! We need to do some large(ish) cell culture inhibiting E-cadherin with a monoclonal antibody. Does anyone have the DECMA-1 hybridoma cell line so we could purify our own antibody? or a similar monoclonal that would do the job. Any help greatly appreciated, just DM me. Please repost!

Do you teach, support or study in interdisciplinary large teaching labs? We’re seeking your unfiltered perspective. Help us understand how these complex spaces really work in practice. Survey (15 min): uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please share!

There is a lot to dig into in this really interesting mouse study on inheritance of DNA methylation patterns, but I found the disregard all the beautiful work in plants on this subject (especially from Vincent Colot's lab) to be so egregious as to almost be distracting www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Non-Mendelian inheritance of DNA methylation patterns in mice - Nature Genetics

Davidovich et al. investigate allele-specific DNA methylation inheritance patterns in mouse liver and muscle. Most patterns are Mendelian, but ~7% are non-Mendelian, including new imprinted genes and ...

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Hiring 3 postdocs in ecological resilience @biology.ox.ac.uk for my @erc.europa.eu CoG ResIntegrate project. Deadline May 29th. Details below. Pls share @salgoteam.bsky.social @evoldir.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @ecolsocaus.bsky.social

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Ecology at University of Oxford

An academic position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Ecology is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

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