A true Halloween horror story for you here (TW: slasher genre): The Governance Crisis at the Heart of University of Edinburgh’s Cuts: How Senior Management Bypassed Statutory Oversight drive.google.com/file/d/17i0g... I join fellow Senators as a co-signatory! @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social

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Join us for the second iteration of the Plant Biology Education conference! 🌱

Association of Applied Biologists@aabiologists.bsky.social · 4h ago

Registration is open for Plant Biology Education 2!! 📅 13 - 14 April 2027 📍 Cambridge UK & Online Join our fantastic programme ft Keynotes from Ottoline Leyser & Johnathan Napier ⏰️ Submit your abstracts by 1st Feb! 👉️ buff.ly/cWFZO5V #plantscience @johnathan-n.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social

Congratulations to @sannie-zishanfu.bsky.social for publishing the major paper from her PhD in Nature Plants. 👇🎉🌿 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Wonderful collaboration with @rafadscruz.bsky.social and @jensen-research.bsky.social @ukri.org #UKRIFLF @instmolplantsci.bsky.social

Fern phloem evolution records a trend of decreasing conductivity through geological time - Nature Plants

Measurements of conducting cells in the phloem, the sugar transport tissue, of both extant and fossil ferns shows large changes in radius over the course of evolution. These changes probably directly ...

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Regulatory architecture tunes gene expression noise in the plant heat shock response https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.22.760979v1

It will be a shock to noone that the campaigns against Professor Jason Arday - that continue even after they hounded him to death - are financed by far right-inclined millionaires who also finance far right think tanks, media, academic racists and Neo Nazis. bylinetimes.com/2026/10/21/j...

Jason Arday Again Cleared of Plagiarism as His Attackers Launch an ‘Independent Inquiry’

Backed by Reform UK megadonor Ben Delo, the Committee for Academic Freedom defended Arday’s accusers and has now commissioned a report into his appointment by Cambridge University

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Plasmodesmata and current geopolitical crises in the same sentence? Check out my piece for The Biochemist, @biochemsoc.bsky.social journal. Expect pirates, blockades and evolving trade deals 🏴‍☠️⚓️. Bonus: they have an entire issue on The Secret Language of Plants 🌱! portlandpress.com/biochemist/a...

We were overwhelmed by the amazing science shared across the conference, so a special congratulations to our New Phytologist poster & talk prize winners: ✨ Fanny Combe @earlhaminst.bsky.social ✨ Anshika Bhatla @instmolplantsci.bsky.social @newphyt.bsky.social #plantscience

New Editorial: "Nobels oblige" rdcu.be/QNrR9nBg5NRa October is Nobel Prize month, and at first glance it might seem that plant biology has again been overlooked. However, closer inspection shows notable involvement of ‘the green lineage’ in at least one of the prizes. #PlantScience

After years of studying root development, I was drawn to duckweeds, as many species have lost roots. In this Tansley Insight in @newphyt.bsky.social , we explore other plants that have independently evolved rootlessness. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/PYNXFP....

Our preprint now peer-reviewed and published 🌾🔬🧬 Grasses have a signature short-long leaf epidermal pattern: small stomata & hair cells spaced by long pavement cells, but how is it built? Premitotic BdPL1 sets cell-size asymmetry; postmitotic BdBRX-solo/BdYDA1 enforces fate. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Michael Raissig@michaelraissig.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🌾 Every grass leaf shares the same repeating short-long cell pattern in its epidermis. Our new #preprint identifies the protein that builds it. 🔬🧬 📄 preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵⬇️ 1/11

Don't miss your chance to join BiPS 2026 in York! 💚 Open to all who care about promoting diversity, equality and inclusion in #plantscience - not just those of black heritage - this is always a fantastic chance to connect with plant scientists across the UK 💚 ⏰ Registration closes this Friday!!

Black In Plant Science- UK@blackinplantsci.bsky.social · 4w ago

If you haven’t already seen, registration is still open for the BiPS Conference 2026. We are looking forward to welcoming students at the very beginning of their plant science journey + those that have been leading the way in plant science research. Join us by registering here: buff.ly/jeEVTqZ

Working in #PlantHealth & want showcase your achievements? Then apply for our Plant Health #ProfessionalDevelopment Award! The Award aims to support professionals by offering a free route to official certification & career support. 📆 Apply by 1 Dec Find out more: www.rsb.org.uk/plant-health...

At #OpenPRBB last week, visitors solved a puzzle to discover how evolutionary models rely on fitness landscapes, and why the @n-martin.bsky.social Lab uses mathematics and simulations to explore them. Thanks to everyone who braved the thunderstorms to join us!

Super happy to share with Magali Grison, @yohannboutte.bsky.social and Christel Poujol this amazing method of super-resolution in plant-cell microscopy 🤗 always further ! always more extraordinary !🔬 🪴 @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social

Bio-protocol@bio-protocol.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Dual Color tau-STED Super Resolution Microscopy in Arabidopsis Root Tip Work by Louise Fougère, Christel Poujol, Yohann Boutté and Magali Grison at Universite de Bordeaux. #LifeSciences #Reproducibility #PlantScience

Are you looking for a PhD in the area of plant evolution? If so do apply to join the lab for this competitively funded @gpsep.bsky.social PhD project to study the evolution of branching architecture by combing data from fossils, ferns and genes. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Cytokinin regulates the gravitropic setpoint angle of seminal roots in barley and wheat https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.09.757912v1

Anyone brave enough for an adventure in the uncharted waters of plant immunity and cell biology? We have a PhD studentship available as part of the NRP DTP - join us! biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/how...

How do the connections between a cell and its neighbours control how a cell responds? (FAULKNER_J27DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership

Plant cells are connected to their neighbours via ‘tubes’ called plasmodesmata, creating an interconnected cytoplasm that joins cells within and between tissues and organs.

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We're delighted to share our latest paper published today in @currentbiology.bsky.social . www.cell.com/current-biol... We use comparative transcriptomics and microscopy to show that this tiny structure contains a fusion of a compressed stem and a leaf.

Miniaturization of duckweeds occurred through compression of the angiosperm body plan

Miniaturization of the body plan occurs in both plants and animals. Ware et al. use duckweed as a model to investigate miniaturization in flowering plants and show that this occurs through compression...

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🧵 it's exhausting that once or twice a year, mainstream media outlets will publish "study shows LGBTQ+ identification in 'free fall'!" articles without 1) mentioning other recent studies showing otherwise, 2) providing proper context about what it possibly means... bsky.app/profile/them...

Them@them.us · 3w ago

A Washington Post headline about a “free fall” in LGBTQ+ identification has the conservative internet rejoicing.

Job opportunity! Assistant Teaching Professor in Plant Biology An opportunity to engage with undergraduates on inter-departmental courses across the School of Biological Sciences that form part of the Natural Sciences Tripos (NST). Apply by 14 October 2026: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Absolutely brilliant content from @fryrsquared.bsky.social and a great example of how we could teach cool science with pop examples! youtu.be/twDvxNooI_4 Slight snag in the plan: she might not survive tonight’s episode. Fingers crossed for our resident academic on #CelebrityTraitors!

How would Alan Turing have played the Traitors?

YouTube video by Hannah Fry

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A lot of excitement on here about the article in Science summarising the discoveries of @alistairsponsel.bsky.social and Brian Sutton, just published in the Journal of the History of Biology. Some people have asked, so here is what I think they show, and what are the implications:

Photograph 49 is the Key to Understanding the History of Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51 - Journal of the History of Biology

This essay, co-authored by a historian of science and an X-ray crystallographer, sheds new light on Rosalind Franklin’s Photograph 51. We refute the infamous claim that, unlike James Watson, Franklin ...

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Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. https://scim.ag/4rTKck8

How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t

New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51

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🧬 How can simple gene circuits create complex cell behaviours? James Locke’s team shows how a common genetic circuit, combining positive & negative feedback loops, can be tuned to produce a wide range of gene-expression patterns 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s414... 🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/how-sim...

🌱🔬 We're hiring! 2-year Senior Technician in the McKenna Lab @warwicklifesci.bsky.social. Plant cell biology meets proteomics. We want someone enthusiastic to help drive our research forward. Interested? DM or email for an informal chat. workwithus.warwick.ac.uk/job/COVENTRY... #PlantScience #Jobs

We have reached 10% of our target! Please share and donate if you can 💚

Juliet Coates@julietccoates.bsky.social · last mo.

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 ⬇️.

Begonia possesses remarkable diversity in leaf size and shape. Lucy Turnbull shared her research at #SLS26 investigating leaf morphogenic variation through transcriptomic analyses. #PlantScience

Very excited to have Nadia Radzman, from @slcuplants.bsky.social, open our Monday Seminar Programme for this academic year! We’ve learned so much about plant peptides and neglected legume crops in her talk! 🫛🫘 Check out her www.broadnmind.com project! @instmolplantsci.bsky.social

Our project, The Roots of Plant Science, will fund a specialist consultant to assess our unique history of science archive, providing advice on its future management and use.    Learn more about this project here: https://okt.to/8W0Y5f

The Roots of Plant Science - John Innes Foundation

This September, the John Innes Historic Collections was awarded a competitive scoping grant from the Archives Revealed programme. Archives Revealed is the only grant programme in the United Kingdom dedicated to cataloguing and unlocking archival collections. The programme is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Pilgrim Trust, the Wolfson Foundation and The National Archives.

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It's not just that we had two wasted years under Keir Starmer - years in which, with a vast majority and quite a lot of goodwill - he could have turned this country around. On crucial issues, we had two years of spiralling backwards, towards a very dark place. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ed Miliband to acknowledge Labour’s former stance on Palestine fell short

Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’

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