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Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci.bsky.social · 1d

Job opportunity!

We are recruiting got a Horticultural Technician:
- Crop Science Centre
- Fixed term
- Closes on Friday 31 October

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/horticu...

#plantscijobs #plantsciences

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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 3d

"Postdoctoral and research assistant positions, Plant and Microbe Interaction at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
*Application Deadline: 11/30/2025"

Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20251007_AS.pdf

#PlantSciJobs

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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 3d

"Assistant Professor, Biology at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
*Application Deadline: 11/17/2025"

Read more here: https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307414

#PlantSciJobs

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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 3d

"Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Plant Physiology at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
*Application Deadline: 11/1/2025"

Read more here: https://careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/job/528462/assistant-professor-plant-physiology

#PlantSciJobs

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Arif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · 9d

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MSL10 is a high-sensitivity mechanosensor in the tactile sense of the Venus flytrap @natcomms.nature.com from Toyota lab.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Bryony Jacobs @bryonyjacobs.bsky.social · 3d

Super excited to share that our most recent work in the Davies Lab (@camplantsci.bsky.social) has been published in @newphyt.bsky.social... check it out 👉 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/ZNKWEJ... #plantscience #plantresearch #calcium

Arabidopsis thaliana Cyclic Nucleotide‐Gated Channel 19 is involved in root extracellular ATP and Pep1 signalling

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nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Alex Webb Lab @alexwebblab.bsky.social · 2d

Some good news, tempered with a need for USA and EU to keep up www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Alex Webb Lab @alexwebblab.bsky.social · 3d

A really nice man. Always wanted to talk with students and worked in the lab well in to his retirement. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new... 🧪

Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Gurdon dies aged 92

It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the Gurdon Institute.

www.cam.ac.uk

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German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social · 9d

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

2 PhD positions in Plant Cell Biology:
Role of vacuole in amplification of long-distance Ca2+ Signals

@UniWuerzburg

www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...

Job Openings

www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de

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Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci.bsky.social · 9d

Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science

Dept. of Plant Sciences | Permanent | Closes on Monday 17 November 2025

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell...

#plantsciences #plantscijobs #academicjobs

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Trends in Plant Science @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social · 9d

Turbocharging fundamental science translation through controlled environment agriculture #plantscience

Turbocharging fundamental science translation through controlled environment agriculture

Controlled environment agriculture (CEA) provides unprecedented opportunities to accelerate the translation of plant science breakthroughs into agricultural impact. By precisely controlling growth conditions, CEA enables the reliable and tightly regulated deployment of beneficial optimized traits by integrating emerging breeding, genomic, and synthetic biology tools. In this review we highlight both the progress and the remaining challenges enabled by CEA to reimagine crop design, including enhanced photosynthesis that operates independently of seasonal and circadian limitations, improvements in resource and metabolic efficiency, customized plant architecture, and the reliable, controllable production of high-value compounds. These capabilities position CEA as both a versatile research platform and an efficient, high-yielding production system, bridging fundamental discoveries with real-world crop outcomes to support sustainable, climate-resilient agriculture into the future.

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Alex Webb Lab @alexwebblab.bsky.social · 9d

forgot to tag #plantscience #plants #plantresearch 🧪 #plant

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Alex Webb Lab @alexwebblab.bsky.social · 9d

@camplantsci.bsky.social here in Cambridge is wonderful place to work. Great colleagues. Some very good science and a vibrant city. If you are a world-leading crop scientist wanting to lead a thriving centre, we would like you to join us
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/russell...

Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science

The Board of Electors to the Russell R. Geiger Professorship of Crop Science invite applications for this Professorship from persons whose work falls within the general field of the Professorship to

www.cam.ac.uk

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Alex Webb Lab @alexwebblab.bsky.social · 9d

A new opinion article produced with my colleagues at @plants4space.bsky.social We argue controlled environment agriculture is a good launch pad to translate fundamental research in to agricultural practice.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪 #plants

Turbocharging fundamental science translation through controlled environment agriculture

Controlled environment agriculture (CEA) provides unprecedented opportunities to accelerate the translation of plant science breakthroughs into agricu…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Alex Webb Lab @alexwebblab.bsky.social · 10d

@camplantsci.bsky.social newest Associate Professor Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert has published her interesting paper about changes to Amazon forest structure

Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 13d

A global research network monitoring the Amazon for 30 years reports in a study in Nature Plants that tree size increased by 3% each decade. #plantscience 🧪

Increasing tree size across Amazonia - Nature Plants

A global research network monitoring the Amazon for 30 years reports in this study that tree size increased by 3% each decade.

go.nature.com

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Alex Webb Lab @alexwebblab.bsky.social · 12d

As I said much to discuss. Ion channels are bone fide receptors and this article rejects GABA as a hormone because it regulates ion channels. Other reasons to discuss whether GABA is a plant hormone but this is not a recent to reject it.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 15d

Join us at 14:00 BST on 30 September to hear from 2024 #TansleyMedal winner Matthew Naish!

Matthew will be talking about unravelling plant centromeres in the telomere-to-telomere era.

Registration is free: www.newphytologist.org/events/2025-...

#PlantScience

Bridging the gap: unravelling plant centromeres in the telomere-to-telomere era

Matthew Naish - 2024 Tansley Medal Winner

www.newphytologist.org

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Alex Webb Lab @alexwebblab.bsky.social · 13d

A fascinating review. Thoughtful analysis. Much to discuss. Should ABA be reverted to dormin? My only big disagreement is that the author does not consider ion channels as potential receptors. Comparison to other kingdoms shows that ion channels can be hormone receptors. Great for journal clubs

Trends in Plant Science @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social · 14d

Phytohormones revisited: what makes a compound a hormone in plants #plantscience

Phytohormones revisited: what makes a compound a hormone in plants

Since the discovery of auxins as cell division factors a century ago, impressive scientific advances related to phytohormones have revolutionized plant sciences and human progress. This review examines the key features of the ten hormonal groups that operate in plants, here referred to as the ‘classical ten’: auxins, gibberellins (GAs), cytokinins (CKs), abscisic acid (ABA), ethylene (ETH), salicylates (SAs), jasmonates (JAs), brassinosteroids (BRs), peptide hormones (PEPs), and strigolactones (SLs). By leveraging historical data and sharpening the essentials of each hormonal group, their major functions are presented, with a discussion on what makes a compound a phytohormone and how it can be differentiated from hormone-like compounds and other signaling molecules. Hormonal receptors, long-distance transport, and differences between hormonal crosstalk, interactions, and complementation are discussed to illustrate the basics of hormonal action in plants.

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Alex Webb Lab @alexwebblab.bsky.social · 16d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Gene therapy saving lives again. The results look so wonderful, I hope they stand up to full scrutiny and larger scale studies. It seems likely they will 🧪

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Alex Webb Lab @alexwebblab.bsky.social · 21d

www.nature.com/articles/d41... "drinking alcohol sometimes improves a person’s ability to speak in a foreign language".

Tipsy bats and perfect pasta: Ig Nobels celebrate ‘improbable’ research

The annual awards are a celebration of weird but thought-provoking science.

www.nature.com

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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · Sep 9

Postdoctoral position in Forest Monitoring available. Know your way around spatial datasets? Join us to help monitor changes in Australia's precious forest estate! @westsyduhie.bsky.social
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Forest Monitoring

Company Description: Western Sydney University is a modern, forward-thinking, research-led institution at the heart of Australia’s fastest-growing and most economically significant region. With 11 cam...

jobs.smartrecruiters.com

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ZMBP @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social · Sep 9

📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob
We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social
Apply by October 17th

Please spread the word!

More info 👇
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

Open Professorship (W1-TT) at the ZMBP, University of Tübingen (Germany). Deadline October 17th. More info: https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche-fakultaet/fachbereiche/zentren/zentrum-fuer-molekularbiologie-der-pflanzen/zmbp/job-opportunities/#c12494

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Alex Webb Lab @alexwebblab.bsky.social · Sep 9

Hey @microsoft.com I am a big boy now. I can work out if I want autosave on or not. Sometimes I do. Sometimes I don't. You don't need to nag me every time I open a file.

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The Plant Cell @theplantcell.bsky.social · Sep 2

IN BRIEF: Sugar, we’re going down: PRC2-mediated epigenetic repression of sucrose metabolism promotes phototrophy during seedling establishment (Rory Osborne) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

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Alex Webb Lab @alexwebblab.bsky.social · Aug 28

European Biological Society Meeting 2025 was amazing. The chronobiology community are diverse and supportive. Discussions about what the circadian pacemaker is, chronomedicine for cancer and asthma, the benefit of clocks for insects, modelling and lovely plant clocks.

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