Alex Webb Lab
@alexwebblab.bsky.social
Plant circadian biology at Department of Plant Sciences University of Cambridge.
Our model of wheat circadian clock based on our finding that orthlogues of ELF3 (Arabidopsis evening complex gene) peak at dawn in the cereals. TOC1 repression of ELF3 explains the different behaviours of Arabidopsis & wheat circadian clocks doi.org/10.1098/rsif...
#plantresearch 🧪
#plantresearch 🧪
Data-driven mathematical modelling explains altered timing of EARLY FLOWERING 3 in the wheat circadian oscillator
Abstract. Circadian rhythms are endogenous 24 h cycles that allow organisms to anticipate daily environmental changes. In plants, circadian timing is maint
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January 19, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Our model of wheat circadian clock based on our finding that orthlogues of ELF3 (Arabidopsis evening complex gene) peak at dawn in the cereals. TOC1 repression of ELF3 explains the different behaviours of Arabidopsis & wheat circadian clocks doi.org/10.1098/rsif...
#plantresearch 🧪
#plantresearch 🧪
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In hydrozoan #jellyfish, the timing of gamete release is often coordinated by light. Ezio Rosato explores a @plosbiology.org study that elucidates a novel, endogenous clock-based mechanism that governs #egg release in a new species of jellyfish 🧪 Paper: plos.io/4btAwpY Primer: plos.io/49eTOya
January 9, 2026 at 9:57 AM
In hydrozoan #jellyfish, the timing of gamete release is often coordinated by light. Ezio Rosato explores a @plosbiology.org study that elucidates a novel, endogenous clock-based mechanism that governs #egg release in a new species of jellyfish 🧪 Paper: plos.io/4btAwpY Primer: plos.io/49eTOya
Look who is adorning the shopping centre in Cambridge. @camplantsci.bsky.social very own Nicola Patron #plants
January 9, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Look who is adorning the shopping centre in Cambridge. @camplantsci.bsky.social very own Nicola Patron #plants
New Year. New Office 365. The horrible Co-pilot icon that was present in the bottom right all office documents in December has disappeared from the Office app on my PC in 2026. Things are looking up, perhaps I was not alone in finding it an annoying distraction? Or temporary respite? @microsoft.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:01 PM
New Year. New Office 365. The horrible Co-pilot icon that was present in the bottom right all office documents in December has disappeared from the Office app on my PC in 2026. Things are looking up, perhaps I was not alone in finding it an annoying distraction? Or temporary respite? @microsoft.com
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At the end of 2024 I did a chronological round up of all the #plantscience in @science.org that year.
So how did 2025 pan out? This year, I’m grouping papers thematically instead of chronologically so read on to find out what exciting plant science came out over the last 12 months. (1/22)
So how did 2025 pan out? This year, I’m grouping papers thematically instead of chronologically so read on to find out what exciting plant science came out over the last 12 months. (1/22)
January 2, 2026 at 6:24 PM
At the end of 2024 I did a chronological round up of all the #plantscience in @science.org that year.
So how did 2025 pan out? This year, I’m grouping papers thematically instead of chronologically so read on to find out what exciting plant science came out over the last 12 months. (1/22)
So how did 2025 pan out? This year, I’m grouping papers thematically instead of chronologically so read on to find out what exciting plant science came out over the last 12 months. (1/22)
co-pilot = clippy. I really do not want a brightly coloured icon right in my line of sight whilst trying to read and write a Word document. There menu bar is where to put icons. #Microsoft #Office365 @microsoft.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
co-pilot = clippy. I really do not want a brightly coloured icon right in my line of sight whilst trying to read and write a Word document. There menu bar is where to put icons. #Microsoft #Office365 @microsoft.com
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JOB ALERT - Join us as a lecturer/senior lecturer in plant-microbe interactions in the School of Biological Sciences at Waipapa Taumata Rau The University of Auckland. Applications close 31st January 🌱🧪
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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Plant-Microbe Interactions - School of Biological Sciences
Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandKo te whare Pūtaiao | The Faculty of Science at the University of Auckland is the leading science faculty in New Zealand and one of...
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December 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
JOB ALERT - Join us as a lecturer/senior lecturer in plant-microbe interactions in the School of Biological Sciences at Waipapa Taumata Rau The University of Auckland. Applications close 31st January 🌱🧪
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...
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Junior Professorship Plastid Homöostasis. Kaiserslautern, Germany.
#plantscijob #PlantSciJobs
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#plantscijob #PlantSciJobs
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W1-Juniorprofessur für Plastidäre Homöostase (m/w/d) - Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)
Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) bietet Stelle als W1-Juniorprofessur für Plastidäre Homöostase (m/w/d) in Kaiserslautern - jetzt bewerben!
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December 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Junior Professorship Plastid Homöostasis. Kaiserslautern, Germany.
#plantscijob #PlantSciJobs
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#plantscijob #PlantSciJobs
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Professorship Plant Physiology. Kaiserslautern, Germany.
#PlantSciJobs #plantscijob
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#PlantSciJobs #plantscijob
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W2-Professur für Pflanzenphysiologie (m/w/d) - Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)
Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) bietet Stelle als W2-Professur für Pflanzenphysiologie (m/w/d) in Kaiserslautern - jetzt bewerben!
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December 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Professorship Plant Physiology. Kaiserslautern, Germany.
#PlantSciJobs #plantscijob
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#PlantSciJobs #plantscijob
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Professorship for Functional and 3D Modeling of Plants. Bonn, Germany.
#PlantSciJobs #plantscijob
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#PlantSciJobs #plantscijob
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W3 Professorship for Functional and 3D Modeling of Plants - Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn - Landwirtschaftliche Fakultät
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn - Landwirtschaftliche Fakultät bietet Stelle als W3 Professorship for Functional and 3D Modeling of Plants in Bonn - jetzt bewerben!
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December 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Professorship for Functional and 3D Modeling of Plants. Bonn, Germany.
#PlantSciJobs #plantscijob
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#PlantSciJobs #plantscijob
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Professorship Stress resilience of plants. Aachen, Germany.
#PlantSciJobs #plantscijob
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#PlantSciJobs #plantscijob
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W3-Universitätsprofessur Stressresilienz von Pflanzen - RWTH Aachen University
RWTH Aachen University bietet Stelle als W3-Universitätsprofessur Stressresilienz von Pflanzen in Aachen - jetzt bewerben!
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December 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Professorship Stress resilience of plants. Aachen, Germany.
#PlantSciJobs #plantscijob
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#PlantSciJobs #plantscijob
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Nice interdisciplinary #plantscience -related paper in Science handled by our neuroscience editor, @mattiamaroso.bsky.social
Infrared heat from cycads as a pollination signal before flowers evolved.
Paper here
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Perspective here
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Infrared heat from cycads as a pollination signal before flowers evolved.
Paper here
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Perspective here
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
December 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Nice interdisciplinary #plantscience -related paper in Science handled by our neuroscience editor, @mattiamaroso.bsky.social
Infrared heat from cycads as a pollination signal before flowers evolved.
Paper here
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Perspective here
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Infrared heat from cycads as a pollination signal before flowers evolved.
Paper here
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Perspective here
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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This week in @science.org
Structural insight into the incorporation of far-red chlorophyll f in cyanobacterial photosystem I
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#cyanobacteria
#plantscience
Structural insight into the incorporation of far-red chlorophyll f in cyanobacterial photosystem I
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#cyanobacteria
#plantscience
Locating the missing chlorophylls f in far-red photosystem I
The discovery of chlorophyll f–containing photosystems, with their long-wavelength photochemistry, represented a distinct, low-energy paradigm for oxygenic photosynthesis. Structural studies on chloro...
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December 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This week in @science.org
Structural insight into the incorporation of far-red chlorophyll f in cyanobacterial photosystem I
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#cyanobacteria
#plantscience
Structural insight into the incorporation of far-red chlorophyll f in cyanobacterial photosystem I
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#cyanobacteria
#plantscience
#PlantResearch Enjoyed writing with @beverleycubg.bsky.social a perspective about wonderful paper by Valencia-Montoya et al. in this week's Science. Cycads use thermal radiation to affect pollinators. Is this why Cycads are not as diverse as angiosperms? share.google/Xj8iH9E4tqvN...
Infrared as a pollination signal
Relying on infrared communication over visual color could have limited cycad evolution
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December 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
#PlantResearch Enjoyed writing with @beverleycubg.bsky.social a perspective about wonderful paper by Valencia-Montoya et al. in this week's Science. Cycads use thermal radiation to affect pollinators. Is this why Cycads are not as diverse as angiosperms? share.google/Xj8iH9E4tqvN...
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Out in @science.org this week:
PME5 is sequestered in the nucleus and released during cytokinesis allowing its activity to be timed with cell division.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#PlantScience
#PlantSci
PME5 is sequestered in the nucleus and released during cytokinesis allowing its activity to be timed with cell division.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#PlantScience
#PlantSci
Cell wall patterning regulates plant stem cell dynamics
The plant cell wall regulates development through spatiotemporal modulation of its chemical and mechanical properties. Pectin methylesterification is recognized as a rheological switch controlling wal...
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December 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Out in @science.org this week:
PME5 is sequestered in the nucleus and released during cytokinesis allowing its activity to be timed with cell division.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#PlantScience
#PlantSci
PME5 is sequestered in the nucleus and released during cytokinesis allowing its activity to be timed with cell division.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#PlantScience
#PlantSci
as anyone found anything useful that the Co-pilot built into Windows can do? I have tried it a couple of times to do simple things, like find an email I know exists, and it can't. Standard search works. All this hard push for something broken.
December 2, 2025 at 8:56 AM
as anyone found anything useful that the Co-pilot built into Windows can do? I have tried it a couple of times to do simple things, like find an email I know exists, and it can't. Standard search works. All this hard push for something broken.
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Junior Professorship Plastid Homeostasis. Kaiserslautern, Germany.
#plantscijobs #plantscijob
www.academics.de/jobs/w1-juni...
#plantscijobs #plantscijob
www.academics.de/jobs/w1-juni...
W1-Juniorprofessur für Plastidäre Homöostase (m/w/d) - Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)
Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) bietet Stelle als W1-Juniorprofessur für Plastidäre Homöostase (m/w/d) in Kaiserslautern - jetzt bewerben!
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November 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Junior Professorship Plastid Homeostasis. Kaiserslautern, Germany.
#plantscijobs #plantscijob
www.academics.de/jobs/w1-juni...
#plantscijobs #plantscijob
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Professorship Plant Physiology. Kaiserslautern, Germany
#plantscijobs #plantscijob
www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...
#plantscijobs #plantscijob
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W2-Professur für Pflanzenphysiologie (m/w/d) - Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)
Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) bietet Stelle als W2-Professur für Pflanzenphysiologie (m/w/d) in Kaiserslautern - jetzt bewerben!
www.academics.de
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Professorship Plant Physiology. Kaiserslautern, Germany
#plantscijobs #plantscijob
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#plantscijobs #plantscijob
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Brilliant from Joey "The time Al agents are poised to save is raw currency we can splurge on... In our dystopian hellfest to doom-scroll Al slop, marry LLMs and remain limbically in-hoc to algorithms that concentrate value upwards. And, no doubt, type more prompts." share.google/tzGez66dhzmq...
TABS API is Mozilla's Latest Bet on the Agentic Web
Mozilla's new TABS API helps developers build AI agents to automate web tasks, as the company continues to bet on AI as its future. Details, pricing, and links inside.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Brilliant from Joey "The time Al agents are poised to save is raw currency we can splurge on... In our dystopian hellfest to doom-scroll Al slop, marry LLMs and remain limbically in-hoc to algorithms that concentrate value upwards. And, no doubt, type more prompts." share.google/tzGez66dhzmq...
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Annie Shelton, PhD student @alexwebblab.bsky.social, was one of 5 Gates Cambridge Scholars to present at the Future of Humanity symposium last week.
She talked about issues to do with eating in space – from eating in zero gravity to growing edible plants in space.
Read more: tinyurl.com/mpkm8ytr
She talked about issues to do with eating in space – from eating in zero gravity to growing edible plants in space.
Read more: tinyurl.com/mpkm8ytr
November 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Annie Shelton, PhD student @alexwebblab.bsky.social, was one of 5 Gates Cambridge Scholars to present at the Future of Humanity symposium last week.
She talked about issues to do with eating in space – from eating in zero gravity to growing edible plants in space.
Read more: tinyurl.com/mpkm8ytr
She talked about issues to do with eating in space – from eating in zero gravity to growing edible plants in space.
Read more: tinyurl.com/mpkm8ytr
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Choosing which models best explain photoperiodic time measurement mechanisms in plants
by Takato Imaizumi
doi.org/10.1038/s443... via npj Biol Timing Sleep #PlantScience
by Takato Imaizumi
doi.org/10.1038/s443... via npj Biol Timing Sleep #PlantScience
October 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Choosing which models best explain photoperiodic time measurement mechanisms in plants
by Takato Imaizumi
doi.org/10.1038/s443... via npj Biol Timing Sleep #PlantScience
by Takato Imaizumi
doi.org/10.1038/s443... via npj Biol Timing Sleep #PlantScience
My annual reminder that "diurnal" means day active. As in "humans are diurnal organisms, whereas mice are nocturnal". The correct term for the 24 h light/dark cycle is "diel".
🌱 From International Journal of Remote Sensing: Remote sensing models can capture daily evapotranspiration, but their accuracy falters across the diurnal cycle, revealing key model and data limitations. (Andrew J. McElrone)
▶️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#RemoteSensing #PlantScience
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#RemoteSensing #PlantScience
Modelling the diurnal cycle of evapotranspiration using remote sensing models – are we there yet?
The diurnal cycle of Evapotranspiration (ET) can provide important clues about the functioning of vegetation. However, the Remote Sensing (RS) based ET models, especially the ones that use Land Sur...
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November 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
My annual reminder that "diurnal" means day active. As in "humans are diurnal organisms, whereas mice are nocturnal". The correct term for the 24 h light/dark cycle is "diel".
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#UCD is hiring an assistant prof for #plantpathology! #jobs #plantjobs jobs.plantae.org/jobs/ja/2179...
Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology in Davis, CA for University of California Davis Health System
Exciting opportunity in Davis, CA for University of California Davis Health System as a Assistant...
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October 31, 2025 at 6:07 PM
#UCD is hiring an assistant prof for #plantpathology! #jobs #plantjobs jobs.plantae.org/jobs/ja/2179...
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A new preprint from the lab by @cbuckley.bsky.social in collab with @adaevo.bsky.social #plantsci #circadian 🌱 ⏰
A non-coding SNP in ELF3 alters expression of ELF3β and confers adaptation of Arabidopsis to a continental climate https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.23.684042v1
October 27, 2025 at 5:35 AM
A new preprint from the lab by @cbuckley.bsky.social in collab with @adaevo.bsky.social #plantsci #circadian 🌱 ⏰