I'm #hiring! Thrilled to announce a fully-funded 4-year Chemical Ecology #PhD position in my group at @tcddublin.bsky.social

The project will explore the dynamic interplay between insect behaviour and plant chemistry 🐛🧪🌱

Follow the link below to apply👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

I'm #hiring! Thrilled to announce a fully-funded 4-year Chemical Ecology #PhD position in my group at @tcddublin.bsky.social

The project will explore the dynamic interplay between insect behaviour and plant chemistry 🐛🧪🌱

Follow the link below to apply👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

I think I can live with that. So, fields with lots of papers should be first principles goldmines.

Where is the line between ‘context dependency’ and just smacking into a first principles wall?

@matthiaserb.bsky.social
@tristancofer.bsky.social

Happy Friday, Utopians! Take a gander at our neat paper just published in PCE! 🌱🐛💨

Herbivory on larger leaves = higher plant-level volatile emissions. Generalist herbivores preferentially feed on larger leaves. Interesting implications for environmental signalling!

doi.org/10.1111/pce....

Check out the latest Issue of New Phytologist with an article by two of our RU members Meike J. Wittmann and Andrea Bräutigam @andreabraeutigam.bsky.social!
How does plant chemodiversity evolve? Testing five hypotheses in one population genetic model
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

“… male spiders use olfactory hairs called wall-pore sensilla on their legs as a "nose" to detect the sex pheromones released by female spiders.”

www.sciencealert.com/mystery-of-s...
🧪 🕷️ 🐙

Oh wow! RNA coats leaves (possibly for defence)! Exciting field ahead

www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

"Pollination in walnuts and pecans occurs through a genetically controlled temporal flowering dimorphism. Learn more in Science's first issue of 2025: scim.ag/3Plxfgp

🦟 Pestered by mosquitoes? Fear not—grapefruit might hold the key! 🍊In our latest paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social, led by Merybeth Triana and Felipe Andreazza, we explore how nootkatone, a compound derived from grapefruit, affects mosquitoes. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

I'm hiring! 2+2 year postdoc position on forecasting plant defence and resilience to pathogens.

Why are some plants better at defending themselves and can we model it? What role does the environment play? And how can we use all the data we have?

Deadline 13/01.

plantecomodelling.org/vacancies 🧪🌏🌾

For my first foray into the utopia that is bluesky, I am happy to share our new preprint that shows within-plant spatiotemporal damage patterns have a major impact on induced volatile emissions, mediated by the size of damaged leaves!🌿🐛 @tristancofer.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...