RA position working on Marchantia reproductive development in the Penfield group at JIC. Deadline is August 18th!

John Innes Centre@johninnescentre.bsky.social · 2d ago

VACANCY - We’re looking for a Research Assistant to join the Penfield Group, working to understand the effects of temperature on plant reproductive development. https://okt.to/Yx9K5e Deadline - 18 August 2026 Contract - Until 7 August 2029, full-time

Our latest for your summer reading list: how do plants control growth at the organ surface? So proud of @zoenv.bsky.social's magnum opus and grateful to all the other authors, including Annamaria Kiss, @nathan-german.bsky.social, and @moritznowack.bsky.social! www.cell.com/current-biol...

Plant cells at the organ surface use mechanical cues to activate a specific growth-control program

Nemec-Venza et al. show how mechanical signals, such as tissue tension, can activate gene expression in epidermal cells at the surface of Arabidopsis roots. The expression of the edge-specific growth ...

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Haplomitrium hookeri (Hooker's Flapwort) growing on the edge of the afon Wysg 19.7.26 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @bbsbryology.bsky.social

Marchantia polymorpha subsp.Polymorpha (star-headed Liverwort) growing on the edge of the afon wysyg 19.7.26 ,love that broad conspicuous black midrib 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @bbsbryology.bsky.social

Let me introduce the main characters in this story, the Gladiolus and its two Metschnikowia yeasts

Carlos M Herrera@cmhmaliani.bsky.social · 2w ago

There is actually more to plant-pollinator interactions than plants and pollinators. Hidden in nectar live yeasts with a crucial activity. I found that yeasts reversed the gradient of nectar sugar concentration along Gladiolus inflorescences. Whole story in this preprint. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Happy to announce our study that has just been published from work done during my PhD at the University of Bristol working in Prof. Jill Harrison's lab. It's about WOX genes and sporophyte development in the model moss, Physcomitrium patens. Take a look 🧵👇

Big congrats to the exceedingly fungal @ilichenmoss2.bsky.social for their BBC debut. Was really fun to work together on this and a real tribute to the excellent work that George does (and continues to do!) 🍄 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRHz...

'Killer fungus' destroying invasive plant in UK | BBC News

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Thank Astrid! Great to see the small stuff get some time in the spotlight and hopefully we can continue to learn more about the fungus, its host range and its ecological impact.

Dr Astrid Biddle@astridbiddle.bsky.social · 2mo ago

@ilichenmoss2.bsky.social George Greiff in the BBC News headlines on Sunday morning. A fantastic discovery, and hopefully a way to moderate invasive (INNS) Campylopus introflexus (Heath Star Moss). Well deserved recognition for some very interesting bryological work. 🎉🙌 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Don’t reach for ChatGPT Images or Nano Banana as your first option when creating scientific images There are multiple free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations. #plantscience @stephenturner.us blog.stephenturner.us/p/free-open-...

Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations

Phylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics

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I was very excited to find Pignut growing out of a cowpat today that had its undescribed Plasmopara. It's amazing what shows up in a quadrat! #FungiFriends #WildPlantDisease

Celebrating five years of drone ownership, renewing my flyer ID today with 38/40 on the test (yay!). Here's a few of my favourite drone photographs from the past few years from #Iceland. Such a fun addition to my trips there :) #DJIAir2S #DJIMavic3Pro #DronePhotography

Sphaerocarpos cf europaeus, a strange looking liverwort growing on bare disturbed soil in extensively managed arable fields, endangered across Europe 🌿

One often sees microscopic fibres in moss samples, unfortunately.

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH)@ukceh.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The first national-scale study of its kind, led by UKCEH, has found detectable microplastics in moss at 94% of UK rural sites surveyed. Lead author @richardkcross.bsky.social discusses the findings & importance of such surveys as production/use of plastics increases. 🔗 tinyurl.com/yc2acct4 🧪 1/

Nice to find good material of a tiny fungus, Bryobroma caudatum, on the liverwort Diplophyllum albicans yesterday. The fungus produces tiny fruitbodies up to only 75 microns diam. and spores with little tails. The distinctive mycelium forms a network over the host cell walls without killing them.

#PlantScienceClassics #20: Kinetin & Cytokinins. In 1955 Carlos Miller, Folke Skoog & co-workers describe the first #Cytokinin and its role in promoting cell division and growth promotion. #Phytohormones #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1... pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Ever wondered how the #cuticle, a hallmark of land plants, was established? In our latest study, we show that the CUTIN SYNTHASE enzyme family was a key driver of this evolutionary innovation. #plantscience ▶️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A thread 🧵 [1/8]

We sequenced the genome of 'desert ginseng' (Cistanche deserticola) - a leafless parasitic plant that gave up photosynthesis - and found it lost huge chunks of its own genome…but started stealing genes from its host! Thanks to my collaborators Prof Huang + her talented team👏🏻 lnkd.in/evF5iU9G

Our new experimental evolution study across 30+ locations using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana —— we direct "see" adaptation and extinction to different climates at the genetic as it happens! Read it in Science dx.doi.org/10.1126/scie... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social

A return visit to the Llyn peninsula for a ten day mossing Sesh, Saturday was back at Mynydd Tir-y Cwmwd were last year i discovered a new site for the nationally Scarce liverwort Cephaloziella dentata (toothed Threadwort) here it is amongst Cladonia @bbsbryology.bsky.social

Nice to find Riccia beyrichiana (Purple Crystalwort) on Saturday at Mynydd Tir-y Cwmwd,a new site for it on the Llyn Peninsula,a lovely chunky Riccia and in good amounts,nice @bbsbryology.bsky.social

Entosthodon attenuatus (Thin Chord-moss) on wet peaty soil on Mynydd Tir-y Cwmwd on Saturday,nice to see fruiting nicely , lovely cherry-red Rhyzoids on this species,I didn't look at those as only this patch so left alone @bbsbryology.bsky.social

Philinotis rigida (Rigid Apple-moss) at Mynydd Tir-y Cwmwd on Saturday, Spherical Capsules on a long Setae,a moss of wet Cliffs and river banks ,always nice to cast an eye over @bbsbryology.bsky.social

#Fernfriday While visiting a tropical greenhouse, I observed the abaxial surface of the fertile pinnae of Niphidium crassifolium, revealing globular sori that consist of an array of minute leptosporangia.

Please RP 🕊️: Postdoc position in my budding group at OIST. Looking for a colleague to work at the interface of chloroplast biology, evo-devo, and synthetic biology. More info here 📃: www.oist.jp/careers/post...

Cladonia lichen (Cladonia amaurocraea, I think). NWT, Canada. The photo covers about 5cm, left to right. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Mycena chloroxantha photographed recently in Oxapampa, Peru. The round cells are cherocytes which make up the universal veil - whitish, spiny acanthocytes are also visible. Described in 1983 from Brazil by Rolf Singer. Mushroom Observer # 628987 / iNat 341877230 #fungifriends #mycology #mycena

Now found in 5 Irish counties as of yesterday from Cos. Louth/Armagh and this marks the first for the east coast! Phenologically has been recorded In July, September, October and March #fungifriends #ireland #bryology #liverwort

Dean Mac Cú Uladh@dmac00.bsky.social · 10mo ago

4th Irish record of Endoantria benetecta and 2nd for Co. Fermanagh (H33) - Sliabh Beatha region Little fragments of temperate rainforest on border between east Fermanagh and south Tyrone along the Colebrook River #bryophytes #fungifriends #ireland #temperaterainforest #woodland

The #nonseedUK26 meeting will be held at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh on 15th December 2026. Please save the date. Further details will follow 😃

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Stacking with raw and 4-pixel shift. The images blow my mind - the process, shooting, stacking and developing from raw, is slow - - Probably not what I will be doing regularly. Lichen people: Do you have ideas how to use such images to add value? drive.google.com/file/d/1a2gS...

Also it was good to see that the legally protected Paralecanographa grumulosa is still present on the north and east side of Winterton church. A parasite of Dirina massiliensis.