🚨Two fully funded PhD opportunities in Australia!
Improving C4 photosynthesis in vegetation models.
Supervised by Dani Way (ANU, Canberra) and myself (UTS, Sydney).
1. Lab- and field-based project at ANU – see flyer below
2. Modelling project at UTS – www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
C460- From Kranz to Crops: Celebrating 60 Years of C4 Discovery and Innovation
23-25 July 2026 at Lancaster University, UK
Generously funded by @annbot.bsky.social , @newphyt.bsky.social, @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social, @westsyduhie.bsky.social and others! 🧪🌱
registration.lancaster.ac.uk/C460
Love that you’re kickin’ it old school with the 6400. 😎
A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks.
"So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,' Karen says."
Road dust impairs pollinators' foraging preference and seed production in populations of Primula chungensis along the G318 roadside.
Road air pollution harms the reproductive success of a bee‐pollinated wildflower: A dusty threat to biodiversity
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#BriefReport by Cha et al
@WileyPlantSci
More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes.
Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted.
Beautiful and devastating all at once.
Potential drivers of fast growth in #Paulownia
#Review by Yang Zhao and @marjorielundgren.bsky.social
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@lancasteruni.bsky.social @lancasterplantbio.bsky.social
#LatestIssue #PlantScience
Registration is now open! The 4th edition of the Mendel Early Career Symposium will take place on 21-22 May at the GMI, part of the @viennabiocenter.bsky.social. This two-day event brings together researchers across career stages to discuss the latest research in all areas of plant science.
Meeting advertisement for C4-60, a meeting celebrating 60 years since the discovery of C4 photosynthesis.
Registration is open for *C460- From Kranz to Crops: Celebrating 60 Years of C4 Discovery and Innovation*
Celebrating 60 years since the discovery of C4 photosynthesis!
23-25 July 2026 at Lancaster University, UK
Generously funded by @annbot.bsky.social, @newphyt.bsky.social, and others!
A new study led by Lancaster University scientists has modelled 'forever chemical' pollution from CFC replacements. You can find out more about their findings in The Conversation:
theconversation.com/cfc-replacem...
Thanks to The Conversation for publishing a piece about my research on 'forever chemical' TFA sources.
Image Text: Plant BLOOME 2025 ASPB's Plant Biology Learning Objectives, Outreach Materials & Education Grant. Grant Submission deadline: April 24, 2026. Apply Now! Featuring ASPB and BLOOME logo.
🚨Opportunity Alert: ASPB wants to share and fund your plant curriculum materials! Receive up to $8500 to create and disseminate classroom activities & labs that support teaching the Principles for Teaching Plant Biology.🌱
👉 Learn more and apply by April 24: buff.ly/21u2H27!
#PlantScience
Applications now open for Summer Studentships 2026!
Successful applicants will be:
🌿In receipt of £504.38 per week for a studentship period of up to 6 weeks
🌿Invited to write a blog for the BiPS website
🌿Invited to attend and present at the next BiPS Conference
Apply here: bit.ly/4qf2ZDG
Join the International “Fascination of Plants Day” around May 18, 2026 – a global celebration of plants!
buff.ly/5oRINHp via @epsoeurope.bsky.social #FoPD #PlantScience
Full professor for plant ecology in Regensburg. #plantscience #plantscijobs
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Visual representation of seagrass species collected at each location across a latitudinal gradient.
Seagrasses in hot water: mapping thermal risk and resilience in a warming ocean
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#Commentary by Lawrence highlighting the recent work by Said et al.
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Are all your data backed up? Will you feel perfectly fine if your hard drive irrecoverably crashes right now?
Just a reminder.
Incredible self own for the US. The damage being done to the US scientific enterprise is generational. We will look back on this as a tipping point where the US chose all on its own to stop leading the world in science.
www.science.org/content/arti...
This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.
I am excited to offer a postdoctoral research position in my lab in Oxford studying the distribution of small RNAs during plant sexual reproduction. shorturl.at/7Goxt
Reposts appreciated!
Obligatory cat video to brighten your day. :-)
DreamHaven Books owner Greg Ketter emerging from a cloud of tear gas that ICE agents fired into the streets of Minneapolis.
Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com
Nine shots? NINE SHOTS
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
Forget abolishing ICE; abolish the GOP.
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
The new textbook Essential Plant Biology, written by @johninnescentre.bsky.social and TSL experts, is now available! 🌱
This richly illustrated textbook is accessible undergraduate biologists and will be a valuable resource for all biology students and teachers 🌿
Full announcement ➡️ buff.ly/AmDw3en
Photo of Professor Oula Ghannoum
Profile of Oula Ghannoum
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I’m reading @karenhao.bsky.social’s Empire of AI and I recommend it to everyone who wants to understand the modern world. ChatGPT has no goddamn place in a sustainable world.
PhD position open with an excellent supervisor and in a very warm, fun research group! Highly recommended!
#plantscience
#suberinteresting
