Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾

Katherine Brown @katherine-brown.bsky.social · 23h

Very saddened to hear of John Gurdon’s passing. I’ve been lucky enough to interact with him at multiple points through my career - from undergrad lectures, through his position as former Chair of @biologists.bsky.social’s Board of Directors, and as an author at @dev-journal.bsky.social.

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

3 16 68

Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾

University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 23h

It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social

Read our tribute to the visionary Nobel Laureate and watch an interview from 2012, just after he won: https://bit.ly/4mM8o3r

41 66

Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾

Xander Jones @xanderjones.bsky.social · 5d

Only a few days left to apply!

My group is looking for a postdoc to engineer and deploy new tools to precisely manipulate and decode how auxin coordinates plant morphogenesis.

@starmorph-syg.bsky.social

Research Associate - Reprogramming Development (closes 7 October 2025)

www.cam.ac.uk

1 29 19

Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾

闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 3d

And look at this graphic abstract….. 😱🤯

7 58 180

Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾

Pallavi Singh @thepallavisingh.bsky.social · 4d

**Please Repost**

Pallavi Singh Lab is looking for two Postdocs to join our team studying how plants balance carbon, water, and resilience in a changing climate.

PlantPlug PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

REVOLUTION PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

Deadline: October 15.

46 33

Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾

Katie Field @katiefield4.bsky.social · 4d

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

www.findaphd.com

17 11

Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾

Facundo Romani @fromani.bsky.social · 5d

Glad to see Eftychis CRISPR multiplexing pipeline published now in Journal of Experimental Botany #plantsciences #marchantia academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

A tRNA-gRNA multiplexing system for CRISPR genome editing in Marchantia polymorpha

Abstract. The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha is a widely used model organism for studying land plant biology, which has also proven to be a promising test

academic.oup.com

7 14

Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 6d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

480 6.9K 33K

Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾

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

21 11

Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾

James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 7d

Meet the 2025 cohort of @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence fellows

Read about the scientific visions of eight dev bio post-docs entering the academic job market

journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Pathway to Independence: a forecast for the future of developmental biology

ABSTRACT. In 2022, Development launched its Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, aimed at supporting postdocs as they transition to their first independent position. In 2025, we welcome our third c...

journals.biologists.com

17 34

Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾

Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · 9d

Become my colleague @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social !
2 Associate Professorships in the areas of
- prokaryotic/eukaryotic microbiology
- metabolism

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Job Details

my.corehr.com

1 43 30

Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾

Johan Duchêne @johanduchene.bsky.social · 8d

⚠️ Half of commercial antibodies miss their target!
So how do you pick the right one for your experiment?

Here’s the solution 👉
Antibody characterization data (all tested in KO cells) are now available at:
🔗 onlygoodantibodies.co.uk

Tested by @ycharos.bsky.social & @oga-community.bsky.social

OGA - Only Good Antibodies Community

onlygoodantibodies.co.uk

3 35 68

Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾

GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · 29d

📢 A Junior Professorship (W1, tenure track) is open at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology at Uni Tübingen (@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social) — to work on plant protein biochemistry (composition, structure, dynamics, or regulation of protein complexes). 🌱 Great opportunity — Apply by Oct 17th!

51 34

Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾

Dr. Jennifer Glass (she/her) @methanojen.bsky.social · 10d

A reminder to please support non-profit publishers.

It’s good for science and scientists.

It’s a responsible use of taxpayer dollars.

It requires resisting peer pressure to submit to Nature journals.

Thanks @bacteriality.bsky.social for this helpful slide for microbiology journals.

Slide with text “Support Society Journals:
Society-based journals help build and advocate for our scientific communities” showing the logos for non profit publishers ASM, ACS, ASBMB. microbiology society, Science, and ISME. Underneath “for-profit journals do not” showing logos for Nature, Elsevier, Frontiers, CellPress, and MDPI.

3 27 91

Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾

Agristok @agristok.bsky.social · 10d

Professorship in Plant Genetics at Kiel University, Germany

The Botanical Institute at Kiel University invites applications for a W2 Professorship in Plant Genetics. Focus: stress responses, epigenetics, and plant-environment interactions. Apply by 19 October 2025.

Professorship in Plant Genetics at Kiel University, Germany

The Botanical Institute at Kiel University invites applications for a W2 Professorship in Plant Genetics. Focus: stress responses, epigenetics, and plant-environment interactions. Apply by 19 October 2025.

agristok.net

25 15

Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾

Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · 11d

Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Bioinformatics in the Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco
usfca.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USF_Fu...

Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Department of Biology, University of San Francisco

Job Title: Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Department of Biology, University of San Francisco Job Summary: The Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco invites applications for a fu...

usfca.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com

1 91 71

Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾

Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 13d

HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

9 70 150

Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾 @janelangdale.bsky.social · 13d

I have always said that the best thing that you learn when doing a PhD is how to bang your head against a brick wall and feel no pain. No matter what you go on and do afterwards you are resilient!

1 1

Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾

Jae Yeon Kim @jaeyeonkim.bsky.social · 14d

People often say that academic research is like a marathon rather than a sprint, usually to emphasize pacing. But in my experience as both a runner and a researcher, I found its deeper commonality to be learning to embrace pain.

2 5 35

Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾

Anne-Lise Routier-Kierzkowska @routierlab.bsky.social · 27d

📢🌱 Job alert: Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics (Tenure-track)
Join our interdisciplinary research environment, in Montréal Botanical Garden!
📅 Deadline: October 13, 2025
📍 Université de Montréal, Canada

Please share! 🌿
drive.google.com/file/d/1Sxkt...

Prof_Plant_Mol_Gen_Montreal.pdf

drive.google.com

13 11

Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾

Roeder Lab @roederlab.bsky.social · 16d

We have an open Assistant Professor position in Evolutionary Cell and Molecular Biology in the @weillinstitute.bsky.social at Cornell University. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607

Cornell University, Molecular Biology & Genetics

Job #AJO30607, WDR-00055221 Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology & Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

academicjobsonline.org

50 35

Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾

Matthew Freeman @mjafreeman.bsky.social · 15d

I was Chair of @biologists.bsky.social when we started this initiative, the brainwave of the @stevenkelly.bsky.social

It was an imaginative idea and I am thrilled to see this landmark

Remember: @biologists.bsky.social are the goodies in scientific publishing!

The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 19d

In our Forest of Biologists we fund the restoration and preservation of ancient woodland and dedicate these trees to our peer reviewers.

There are now over 10,000 trees for peer reviews!

Thank you to all our peer reviewers. Find out more:
forest.biologists.com

#PRW2025 @peerreviewweek.bsky.social

Lots of illustrated trees. A sample image taken from the Forest of Biologists website.

9 30

Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾

PM Delaux @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social · 15d

A milestone for plant genomics just out @natgenet.nature.com

130 bryophyte genomes!

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

Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics

A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.

www.nature.com

1 38 110

Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾

Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 16d

For last 10 years - we have worked with thousands of organizations around the world helping support them in integrating foldscope programs.

To bring in a new cohort of organizations - we are re-launching “fast and curious” 2025 edition - apply and get a Foldscope trainer and Foldscopes for free!

TeamFoldscope @teamfoldscope.bsky.social · 18d

🔬 Free microscopes + teacher training!

📅 Applications are now open. To apply, visit www.foldscope.com or scan the QR code (video)

✉️ Any questions? Email us at [email protected]

#stem #education #science #teachers #training #free #microscopy #educators #professionaldevelopment #microscope

30 59

Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾 @janelangdale.bsky.social · 18d

Hope you have a great day! Sorry about the rain!

1 1