Instead of a robot scientist, what we really want is a robot that sits in the audience and nods in agreement.
Anne Plessis
@discontinuedap.bsky.social
Plant biology lecturer, University of Plymouth, she/her. Ecophysiology of plant abiotic stress in realistic/complex conditions.
With the number of students studying #PlantScience declining each year, a community of educators is taking steps to transform the subject into an engaging, modern subject, central to the green jobs of the future. Read the article: biologist.rsb.org.uk/regrowing_pl... #FascinationOfPlantsDay
Essential messages here. We take food for granted. Our food system is extremely vulnerable. Governments are doing very little to prevent or mitigate future crises. Massive corporate interests. A bit safer if we switch to plant-based diets. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We’re letting big corporations gamble with our lives. Act now, or the food could run out | George Monbiot
The fragility of the global food system fills me with dread – and the war with Iran has exposed just how close to collapse it is, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Dr Anne Plessis, Lecturer in Plant Biosciences, kicked off our research talks with a fascinating presentation on meta-analysis as a tool to improve the impact of experimental research, using crop resilience as a case study. 🌱 #MetaAnalysis #CropResilience @discontinuedap.bsky.social
Comment in @nature.com: "Food will be more affordable — if we double funds for agriculture research now" www.nature.com/articles/d41... A global drop in public and private investment in agricultural science in the past four decades is partly to blame for high food prices, an analysis reveals.
Food will be more affordable — if we double funds for agriculture research now
A global drop in public and private investment in agricultural science in the past four decades is partly to blame for high food prices, an analysis reveals.
nature.com
Very excited to announce that our collaborative manifesto for 🌱 #PlantScience #Education has now been published! Educators from >10 countries and 30 institutions have contributed to it and we are incredibly proud of the final output. Here is a short thread 🧵1/4 doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
A manifesto for plant science education
Plants provide oxygen, food, shelter, medicines and environmental services, without which human society could not exist. Tackling pressing and global challenges requires well-trained plant scientists....
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Join us on Bluesky and find out more about the www.wheatinitiative.org
It is with deep sadness that we share that Professor Amy Marshall-Colon passed away over the weekend. Amy was a gifted scientist, generous colleague, and strong advocate for early career faculty. She will be deeply missed by our department and the wider plant biology community.
Ever wondered whether it is a good idea to run abiotic stress experiments in controlled conditions? Here's an evidence-based answer: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @plantdirectj.bsky.social @wheatinitiative.bsky.social
Ever wondered whether it is a good idea to run abiotic stress experiments in controlled conditions? Here's an evidence-based answer: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @wheatinitiative.bsky.social @plantteaching.bsky.social
Is My Stress Out of Place? Bread Wheat Response to Saline Stress Varies in Pattern and Extent Across Experimental Settings
Adopting crops and agricultural practices that help sustain yield under abiotic stress will be a major element of future food security under climate change. However, little of the intensive research ...
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I am so happy that this paper co-authored with John Duprè is out! Open access journals.publishing.umich.edu/ptpbio/artic... Please share with others who might be interested! #philsci #philbio 🌱
Plant Individuality: A Physiological Approach
While plants provide some of the most interesting cases for individuality-related problems in philosophy of biology (e.g., Clarke 2012; Gerber 2018), no work has examined plant individuality through s...
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Unfortunately, there is relatively little crop-related research in most UK universities with research in the life sciences dominated by the biomedical sector.
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her)@moudhy.bsky.social · last yr.An anonymous group of food industry execs published a memo warning about “a threat to food security like none other we have seen” in the UK, citing degrading soil health, water scarcity, heating, and extreme weather. Mitigation strategies don’t meet level of risk www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/whistle...
Hi Bluesky, last few days to apply for these PhDs, on new technologies for... hen welfare www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear... ... & for understanding the role of livestock in the landscape www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear... Thanks :-)
Very excited about this PhD project exploring new ways to model interactions of abiotic stress with environmental conditions in plants, combining sensor technology and advanced data analysis. Apply for a chance to change how we study environmental responses! www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear...
Embracing the noise: micro-environmental variability as a means to infer models for plant abiotic stress responses
University of Plymouth PhD studentship: This project will provide an unprecedented multi-factorial understanding of drought stress physiology that will...
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Fantastic second place of the Botanists of the Barbican, @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social team at the first round of @bucbotany.bsky.social They are only getting started!!!
Thanks Alun for this reflective and personal summary of the Plant Biology Education conference, I very much enjoyed reading it! Your perspective from outside academia fostered really interesting conversations. We were lucky you took the time to attend the conference!
Botany One@botany.one · 2y agoWhat Is the Future of Plant Biology Teaching? https://botany.fyi/pjrh4b Plant Biology Educators got together in Lancaster at the start of the month to discuss what’s going wrong and what’s going right in plant biology education. They found a lot of both. #Botany #PlantSciEd 🧪 #Education
Only four more days to apply!!!
Anne Plessis@discontinuedap.bsky.social · 2y agoCool opportunity to get trained in research and teaching: become an expert in salt stress experimental design with this Doctoral Teaching Assistant job: www.plymouth.ac.uk/schools/scho... hrservices.plymouth.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
#FundedPhD opportunities at the #UniversityofPlymouth From collaborative research with #MarineResearchPlymouth to exciting projects at the Marine Institute or combining teaching & research with our Doctoral Teaching Assistantships– there’s something for every aspiring academic. #PhDSky 🦊🦉🦑🐍🐋🌍🧪
Hey @zoejolylopez.bsky.social, do you know my soon to be former colleague @scootjd.bsky.social , who is coming your way in a few months? He's the one who helped me join Bluesky at the time when you still needed a code. His research is very cool!
Dr Scott J. Davidson@wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 2y agoBig changes for 2025 🎉 Excited to be joining the Département des sciences biologiques at the Université du Québec à Montréal in June 2025 as an Assistant Professor and co-chair of the Research Chair in Carbon Dynamics in Wetlands! Will really miss Plymouth but excited for a new chapter!
One more quick plug for this event, we've got a fantastic line up of plant science educators attending and maybe you should do? Registation closes Dec 12. January 7-8, Lancaster UK. web.cvent.com/event/a17159...
Cool opportunity to get trained in research and teaching: become an expert in salt stress experimental design with this Doctoral Teaching Assistant job: www.plymouth.ac.uk/schools/scho... hrservices.plymouth.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
Stressing about the wrong thing? Determining the long-term impacts of methodological short-cuts of salt stress treatments in crops
This PhD project aims to compare artificial and realistic salt stress protocols in wheat, rice, and broad bean to identify salinity-related damages and...
plymouth.ac.uk
This does not appear in my profile, but important to mention to new followers, I am not just a plant scientist, I am also a cat lady. The soft black sweety in the photo is called Raven!
What is important when designing abiotic stress experiments? Sharing my reflection on this question with the plant community: academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
