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The Sainsbury Laboratory @thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 1d

“If we didn’t have plants, we’d still be fish!” 🐠🌍

Our keynote @plantteaching.bsky.social about the importance of plants, from photosynthesis to evolution and development... through aliens! 🌱🛸

@johninnescentre.bsky.social @quadraminstitute.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social

#NBIAST2025

Mary Williams speaking on the stage. The slide projected behind her contains a satellite photo of half of the Earth, with a cartoon alien spaceship on the top left, and the title reads “What would aliens take home from earth?”

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 1d

Are you an ERC-funded researcher who is ready to inspire the next generation of scientists?

Apply now to showcase your research in fun, creative ways at the #ScienceisWonderful exhibition! 👉 link.europa.eu/vgTTr4

📅 18–20 March 2026

📍Brussels

⏳Apply until 20 October

@ercgrantees.bsky.social

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Antony Dodd @antdodd.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... 🤣🤣

Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate

Misprinted wrappers pulled from Manchester goodie bags after derision on social media

www.theguardian.com

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Tung Le @tunglejic.bsky.social · 5d

Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre.

Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!

John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 5d

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to give a seminar at the Fellows Conference, which will be held on 10 March 2026.

Candidates who win Fellowships will be offered a Tenure Track Group Leader position from the outset, initially for 5 years.

Find out more: www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...

Independent Research Fellowships Leading to Tenured Faculty Positions | John Innes Centre

The John Innes Centre (JIC), is a world leading centre of excellence in plant and microbial sciences based on the Norwich Research Park, UK. We are inviting applications from outstanding researchers…

www.jic.ac.uk

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Microbes.Info @microbesinfo.bsky.social · 2d

Making yogurt with ants revives a creative fermentation process

Researchers recreated a nearly forgotten yogurt recipe that once was common across the Balkans and Turkey—using ants. Reporting in iScience on October 3, the team shows that bacteria, acids, and…

phys.org

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Antony Dodd @antdodd.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, sorry I didn’t catch you!

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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 2d

I'm Norwich to give a talk tomorrow, but came a day early to give a writing workshop. Wonderful to catch up with Cathie Martin, who hired me in 2009 when she was EIC of @theplantcell.bsky.social. Thanks to @ciara-obrien.bsky.social for being a great host & other @plantaeofficial.bsky.social fellows.

Top left = Mary and Cathie catch up over coffee and talk about books. Top right = Mary and Ciara take a photo opp in front of Cathie's world-renowned collection of Plant Cell covers. Middle = a fantastic, thoughtful, engaged group of ECRs who shared thoughts on writing and AI. Bottom, current, former, and maybe future Plantea Fellows after we shared our "origin stories" over lunch.

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 5d

VACANCY - Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions

We’re inviting applications from outstanding researchers who either hold, or wish to apply for, Independent Research Fellowships.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 10 November 2025

Click here to apply: jic.link/Fellows

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 2d

Are you attending our NBI Accessible Science Talks tomorrow? 🥼🧪

Whether you’re attending in person - or a member of the public, school, college or a student attending online - remember to use the hashtag #NBIAST2025 to share your time at the event! 💻

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 7d

Despite These Times...my department is hiring! I really like my department, we have a good mix of disciplines and organisms and we're really low-drama. We also get pizza at faculty meeting. So if you're a computational and structural biologist, join us! 🧪 jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...

Assistant Professor - Tenure Track Faculty

The Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is inviting applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. The position requires a doc...

jobs.rutgers.edu

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Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci.bsky.social · 7d

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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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 7d

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At this recent event - a prelude to ERC’s visit to Copenhagen next week under #eu2025dk - Minister Christina Egelund highlighted:

"I believe academic freedom is a strategic advantage."
"Research should be free and independent for society."

Join our events 7-8 Oct ⬇️
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

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Nicholas Per Huffeldt @nphuffeldt.bsky.social · 8d

Can’t sleep?

Tune your (internal) clock. Go outside in the middle of the day. Reduce those night time lights and midnight snacks.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How to get the best night’s sleep: what the science says

Chuck the gadgets, the fads and the alarm. Circadian research reveals how important your body’s internal clock is to blissful slumber.

www.nature.com

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Cambridge University Botanic Garden @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social · 8d

🎥Watch CUBG Director @beverleycubg.bsky.social talk to presenter Nick Bailey on Gardeners’ World this Fri 3 Oct at 8pm on BBC2. Nick & the crew visited the Garden this summer to film a piece on how flowers make colour & use it to attract pollinators.🌸🐝http://bit.ly/4838O1P
@camplantsci.bsky.social

Nick Bailey and Beverley Glover standing together, both smiling, outside the CUBG Glasshouse Range

CUBG Director, Beverley Glover, seen through a TV camera lens, looking at a jar of red cabbage

A cameraman getting a close-up of CUBG Director Beverley Glover examining a red flower while filming for an episode of Gardeners' World in the CUBG Glasshouse Range

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Plant & Cell Physiology @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social · 8d

Chamber of Secrets?

Kinoshita @strnk17desejp.bsky.social & Finkemeier @ifink-lab.bsky.social present an alternative method to precisely measure CO2 assimilation rate & transpiration of #Arabidopsis leaves in whole-plant chambers

Open Access🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

#PlantPhysiology
#PlantScience

Figure 1 from Kinoshita and Finkemeier article showing gas-exchange measurements of petiole-cut Arabidopsis leaves in the whole plant chambers of the LI-6800 system. Panel A shows a schematic diagram of the method i.e. petiole cutting on wet paper and insertion of leaves into a parafilm-sealed dish containing water. Panels B-E are graphs that show C02 assimilation and transpiration rates under different conditions tested

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 14d

And remember, the reason he wanted separate vaccines wasn't due to any science, but because *he'd filed a patent application for a single measles vaccine*. It was just grifting.

Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 14d

Wakefield taking a victory lap.

Dr. Andy Wakefield &
@DrAndyWakefield
Follow
President Trump adopts Wakefield
recommendations on separating MMR and calls for major reforms in the childhood vaccine schedule.

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BioClocks UK @bioclocksuk.bsky.social · 15d

Around the equinox, we see an increased interest in how biological rhythms are affected by light. UK #Chronobiology academics have been communicating the research on this for over a decade now - check out this timeless podcast episode on rhythms: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
#SciComm 🧪

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Circadian Rhythms

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss circadian rhythms.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Nikki Fox @nikkijfoxbbc.bsky.social · 15d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... UK first clinical trial for genetically edited food

Norwich trial uses tomatoes to test gene-edited food on humans

Seventy-six people with low vitamin D levels are being recruited to take part in the study.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Gitta Coaker @gittacoaker.bsky.social · 16d

My department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 16d

✨ Paper spotlight ✨

(🧵 1/7) A circadian transcriptional subnetwork and EARLY FLOWERING 3 control timing of senescence and grain nutrition in bread wheat
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Fig. 1 Circadian period of wheat cultivars is associated with senescence and grain nutrition.

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 20d

Check this #scijob --Postdoc--Biotechnological Innovations for Red Palm Weevil apply.workable.com/iita/j/286D0...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Biotechnological Innovations for Red Palm Weevil - International Institute of Tropical Agriculture(IITA)

Background: The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) invites applications for the internationally recruited position of Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Biotechnological Innovations fo...

apply.workable.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 20d

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

LONDON—Claiming that he recognized the member of the royal family, but his memory was hazy, President Donald Trump has spent his entire trip to the U.K. trying to figure out where he knows Prince Andr...

theonion.com

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 20d

Royal Society to reconsider expelling Elon Musk

“Language of violence” in address to anti-immigration rally pushes science academy to reassess billionaire’s fellowship.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

Royal Society to reconsider expelling Elon Musk - Research Professional News

“Language of violence” in address to anti-immigration rally pushes science academy to reassess billionaire’s fellowship

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 21d

Are you a biologist or an ecologist with a research interest in pathogens, bacteria and symbionts?

Join our upcoming residential meeting in Manchester on obligate intracellular bacteria on 3-4 November 2025.

royalsociety.org/science-even...

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 22d

BLOG - Data harvesting down on the experimental farm

In our latest blog, read about the 2025 harvest at the John Innes Centre’s field trials and experimental farm - the earliest on recent record, befitting a pattern of extreme weather variation due to climate change.

www.jic.ac.uk/blog/data-ha...

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