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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 1d

We also have an opening in the Biology Dept. at UMass Boston for a tenure track position to teach #genetics! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us... - research area very flexible! Could definitely see candidates applying to both.

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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 1d

We also have an opening in the Biology Dept. at UMass Boston for a tenure track position for someone who's research centers on Biology Education and pedagogy! This candidate will take up our intro bio courses. Area of biology flexible! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...

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Katie Field @katiefield4.bsky.social · 5d

If you’re looking for a PhD studentship in some really exciting areas of plant science 🌿 take a look at this year’s Sainsbury PhD studentships - you could come and study orchid mycorrhizas 🌸🍄 with me & @garethphoenix.bsky.social! www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

FindAPhD : Prestigious Sainsbury PhD Studentships in plant sciences at Gatsby Charitable Foundation

Apply for a PhD: Prestigious Sainsbury PhD Studentships in plant sciences at Gatsby Charitable Foundation

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 6d

On the cover of our #LatestIssue: #Nectar collecting at the tip of the stigma in Agapetes lacei (Ericaceae). Photo by Evin Magner, courtesy of the University of Minnesota CBS Conservatory.

📖 See Virtual Issue: Nectar and nectaries
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

#PlantScience

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nikogeldner.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social · 21d

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!

career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 22d

Whenever I see cactus blooms, I tickle them. 💅🏻🌸
Thigmonastic stamens - rapid, touch induced movement for pollination.
#plantjoy #iamabotanist

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Aug 22

The final version of this paper is now published @newphyt.bsky.social
The onset of phenological plant response to climate warming
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Long-term databases as an antidote to the shifting baseline syndrome in global change.

🧪🌎🌿🌐🌳 🍁 #PlantBiology

juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Jun 11

Climate warming is not a recent phenomenon; it has had detectable impacts on plants for at least 134 years!

The onset of phenological plant response to climate warming @newphyt.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🧪🌎🌿🌐🌳 🍁 #PlantBiology @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @csic.es

Phenology changes for the Japanese cherry tree (Prunus jamasakura) in Kyoto. Left: Day of the year of the flowering peak for the period between 812 and 2024. Right: Relation between March mean air temperature (°C) in Kyoto and the day of the year of the Japanese cherry tree peak flowering for the period between 1890 and 2024.
https://jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/06/11/134-years-of-climate-warming-effects/

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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · Aug 21

Looking for an exciting bachelor/master thesis in plant genomics, applied bioinformatics, or evolutionary biology?

We have a number of opportunities and are happy to host motivated visitors:
www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/teach...
@puckerlab.bsky.social

Harvesting plant samples for nucleic acid extraction

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Aug 14

Notification about the Kennedy Center Honors:

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Laura Moody @moodytomato.bsky.social · Aug 14

📢 To all molecular mossers 📢

The Moss Workshop will be held in (not always as sunny as this) Oxford next year (30th June until 2nd July 2026). More details will follow soon, but in the meantime please make a note of the dates 😃 👍

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Carrie Wessinger @carriewessi.bsky.social · Aug 12

Please repost and amplify !

We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina!

Check us out and come be our colleague!
sc.edu/study/colleg...

Deadline for applications is Oct 1

#AcademicJobs #EvoBio

Assistant Professor position in Evolutionary Genetics - Department of Biological Sciences | University of South Carolina

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · Aug 11

Our paper showing that variation in transcription factor binding sites underlies the majority of additive genetic variance for phenotypic variation in maize is finally out!

Sadly they didn't use our suggested cover image below (made by the inimitable Andi Kur).

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

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · Aug 11

🌟 JXB75 Daily Highlight 🌟

On Sept 17th, we will hear from our plenary speaker Prof Jane Langdale on the regulation of venation patterning in grass leaves 🌱🔬

⏳ Time is running out – register by 19 Aug! 🗓️

👉🔗 bit.ly/JXB75

#JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪 @janelangdale.bsky.social

JXB 75th Anniversary Symposium
PLENARY LECTURE
17 September | 5 PM | Edinburgh
Prof Jane Langdale
University of Oxford
Regulation of venation patterning in grass leaves: understanding maize with a view to engineering rice

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Anonymous Potato @anonymouspotato.bsky.social · Aug 11

New academic year, new ecoevojobs site. Already >200 faculty / permanent jobs!

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ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

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Braasch Lab @ Michigan State University @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social · Aug 11

Applications are now being accepted for the MSU EEB Presidential Postdoc Fellowship. We’d be happy to sponsor your application so please get in touch!

eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · Aug 11

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers.

My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.

We found 437 of them.

Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

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Phytomaven @tmigratorius.bsky.social · Aug 9

Why learn botany and plant identification?

Knowledge of botany, including experience with identifying specimens and accessing the advanced literature of plant systematics (which implies understanding of the terminology and language of the science).

trustcareers.si.edu/en/postings/...

Museum Specialist (Natural Science), IS-1016-09

Job Opening: Museum Specialist (Natural Science), IS-1016-09 at National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.

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Eric Schuettpelz @ferncurator.bsky.social · Aug 7

The NMNH Department of Botany is looking for a Museum Specialist. Please spread the word!

Museum Specialist (Natural Science), IS-1016-09

Job Opening: Museum Specialist (Natural Science), IS-1016-09 at National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · Aug 7

I’m proud to present the main work from my postdoc, 3+ years in making from scratch, my ultimate #MimulusPropaganda up till now:

The Moment
That
Symmetry
Breaks.

#plantscience #development #imaging #microscopy 🧪🌸🔬
w. Captain Yaowu & @biancatash.bsky.social

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

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · Aug 5

It was all so stupid, says the opening scroll of Episode 18: America
Seriously, you would not believe how stupid it was.
Everyday, unrelentingly,
just the dumbest stuff by
the absolute worst people
and what made it worse
was knowing that we'd
brought this on ourselves

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA @rgleadow.bsky.social · Aug 5

#WomenInSTEM

Berkeley Lab @berkeleylab.lbl.gov · Aug 5

🎉 Congratulations to Jennifer Doudna! The Nobel Laureate has just received the @acs.org‘s Priestley Medal for her incredible work on CRISPR-Cas9 🧬 and contributions to unlocking the power of RNA. 🧪

@biosci.lbl.gov
@innovativegenomics.bsky.social
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Jennifer Doudna Wins American Chemical Society’s Priestley Award

The Nobel Laureate has received the American Chemical Society’s highest prize for her breakthrough work on CRISPR-Cas9

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Aug 5

NEW: A federal judge has demanded NSF explain in court how the UCLA grant suspensions are not in violation of her June order that restored grants to UC scientists

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Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · Aug 5

New on Academe Blog: academeblog.org/2025/08/05/h...

How US Universities Can Survive State Terrorism

BY CATHERINE D’IGNAZIO As a professor at MIT, I find myself navigating strange waters these days. Last semester, I advised the thesis of a student who left the country because she did not fee…

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Amy McP @aemcp.bsky.social · Aug 5

Looks like a great opportunity!!

Mike Moore @gypsumbotany.bsky.social · Aug 5

🚨🚨 New tenure track position in #ConservationBiology @oberlincollege.bsky.social in the #Biology department--come join us, and contribute to our brand new Environmental Science major too! #biologyjobs #ecologyjobs

jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/16671

Assistant Professor of Biology

The Biology Department at Oberlin College invites applications for a full-time tenure track faculty position in the College of Arts and Sciences in conservation ecology. Initial appointment to this po...

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