The School of Biosciences at University of Birmingham is recruiting FIVE Assistant/Associate Profs in areas including fungal biology, plant science and bioengineering. Full details below 🍄🌾🧬🧫
Another really interesting #SciHis Story by @asimovpress.bsky.social.
Goes to show that there are interesting and curious stories and facts in everything - even little things like Agar that seem simple and straightforward.
www.asimov.press/p/agar
#ScienceHistory #MolecularBiology #Agarose #Seaweed
This goes for Chemistry too.
***Publish in society journals***
not journals by for-profit publishers!
There are so many great ACS and RSC journals. They have name recognition and they are run by actual scientists who care about publishing quality work. Even if you need OA they are way cheaper.
...the money you pay society journals to publish at least partially goes into conference costs, fellowships, workshops, seminar series, community projects like Plantae, preLights, etc.
These are two strange arguments. How are society journals not the clearly better option here?
#SciPub
Circa the same price? Which society journal charges $12850 (Nature) or $7350 (NatureComs)?
Where the money goes? In case of Springer Nature & Elsevier it goes straight into their own pockets - 40% profit margins - higher than Google, Microsoft... nothing is coming back to scientists, community...
And a follow-up regarding #WomanInSTEM Fanny Angelina Hesse:
Have you ever heard of Fanny Angelina Hesse?
smallthingsconsidered.blog/schaechter/2...
Another really interesting #SciHis Story by @asimovpress.bsky.social.
Goes to show that there are interesting and curious stories and facts in everything - even little things like Agar that seem simple and straightforward.
www.asimov.press/p/agar
#ScienceHistory #MolecularBiology #Agarose #Seaweed
This should be super helpful for anybody working on #PlantCellWalls, particularly #Cellulose.
A step-by-step guide for quantitative(!) live-imaging of cellulose synthesis in planta.
#PlantScience #PlantMicroscopy #QuantitativeImaging #Bioimaging #PlantDevelopment
👇👇👇
“We can’t afford to fall behind.”
MEP Jessica Polfjärd speaks with @seedworldeu.bsky.social about steering the EU’s #NGT negotiations and why science and innovation are essential for Europe to tackle food and climate challenges 👏
www.seedworld.com/europe/2026/...
Fantastic 👍
Can they write a script to track the tip?
🚀 Now in press at Bio-protocol! bio-protocol.org/e5634
Grounded in years of hands-on experience 👋, our protocol covers imaging cellulose synthases 🔬 from sample prep 🌱 to reproducible quantification 👩💻 — transferable to other fluorescent markers too ♻️.
@unipotsdam.bsky.social
@crc1644.bsky.social
1/ ✨ New preprint alert ✨
It is my pleasure to share:
"Stepwise evolution of the developmental and symbiotic functions of DELLA in land plants"
Here we investigated the role of the single GRAS transcription factor DELLA in #MyMarchantia
doi.org/10.64898/202...
#PlantScience
A thread...
“it is time, finally and forever, to get rid of for-profit scientific publishers.”
Another great article by @mastroianni.bsky.social on the current #SciencePublishing system.
Don't publish with for-profit publishers like Elsevier, Springer Nature, et al. It's really simple. There are so many cool #PlantScience society journals. #SciPub
See also: bsky.app/profile/soms...
In a joint appointment with the University of Halle we are looking for a Department Head in Chemistry of Natural Products and Bioactives. This is a unique opportunity to work as a chemist in a plant biology institute. Interested? Apply here: berufungsportal.uni-halle.de
New from @dev-journal.bsky.social: we're launching a new initiative and hiring Preprint Editors to help navigate the growing world of preprints in developmental & stem cell biology
Join our community & shape the future of research
journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
I'd like to remind everyone that CAM has evolved as many if not more times than C4. There are entire biomes where CAM is dominant. If you like tequila, or pineapple, or your pretty orchid you got at the grocery store, you can thank CAM.
Thank you for coming to my TEDtalk. Or CAMtalk as it were.
🚨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...
Faculty position in Plant Molecular Biology (Associate Professor or Tenure-Track Assistant Professor) at Aarhus University, Denmark
mbg.au.dk/aktuelt/ledi...
New version of our preprint on bioRxiv about bioRxiv up. Now that’s what I call a revision – 6 years after the first version!
It has new data about our progress and highlights from a massive user survey. 1/n
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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www.science.org/content/arti...
Happy to have this nice story out in the world ☺️ thanks to everyone involved!
➡️ It's on! Paid internship for aspiring science journalists at Nature's London office. Up to three days a week working from home. All the details are here: springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Spring...
Check out our new preprint by @octaviarmn.bsky.social and @liobarueger.bsky.social in collaboration with @meikeburow.bsky.social - we investigate the spatial effect of glucosinolates on root microbiomes in Arabidopsis and Camelina! www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... lots of cool stuff!
Really happy to see this one out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Alibek's drive & great coll w/ friends @gekaragoz.bsky.social & E. Hallacli resulted in a cool story that starts with our beloved #Marchantia and ends with iPSC-derived neurons 🤩🤪 A short 🧵
Trait discovery is one of the most difficult parts of our work here at @kwsgroup.bsky.social. Thus, we need help:
We are looking for a Scientist in #QuantitativeGenetics & #Biostatistics for Trait Discovery.
This is a full time, permanent position here in Einbeck.
#PlantScience #PlantSciJobs
I have a PhD student and a post-doc position available in my lab to work on plant photobiology. Please use the links below to postulate.
Please RT, many thanks
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
The field of molecular biology started in the 70s, plant mol bio even in the 80s only. This was a completely new way of working & was very different from traditional Botany. Both study the same thing, but the approaches were fundamentally different. So it felt like there should be a differentiation.
