Check out our new review in JXB:
tinyurl.com/yta6fd5b

@pablidopsis.bsky.social and I write about the cell's decision between division and differentiation. 🌱 What factors promote one or the other in different cell types? 🤔 Are they really mutually exclusive?

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob
Group Leader Position

Crop plant biology, development, and/or physiology, ideally leveraging genome editing approaches

@ School of Life Sciences @TU Muenchen in Freising-Weihenstephan
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/stellenangeb...

Nice idea @eddavey.libdems.org.uk, except universities were encouraged to cross-subsidise UK students with international student fees in a contracting market. Visa rules then tightened leading to universities in debt, recruitment freezes and redundancy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm recruiting a post doc and a research assistant for a 30 month project “ZHOUPI genes, cell death and the evolution of plant endosperm” funded by a Research Project grant from the Leverhulme Trust @Leverhulme.ac.uk. Application details are on the Opportunities page at biology.ed.ac.uk/goodrich

@theguardian.com, please stop reporting the charlatans at collosal as "news". Three edits is no more dire wolf, than pigeon tissue culture is a dodo. This is risible www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Q: Are the university's travel insurance approval, travel risk assessment template, security information to populate the risk assessment in the same place?
A: Of course not. Security info via procurement, the risk assessment is via health and safety, approval forms are their own thing.

SharePoint.

Am crashing on Kid1's floor during #PPRM2025. She's a doctoral student in Edinburgh.

An updated history of TDIF‐PXY signalling: a study in cell fate and tissue patterning

#TansleyReview by He, et al.

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PlantScience @peteretchells.bsky.social

*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University*
We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5

su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Haha at least not on this occasion I don't think!

I tend to think the peer review process works as well as possible alternatives might. But seeing other reviewers shift to add another six months work for a marginal gain to an already really good manuscript is maddening.

Time flies when you are having fun. In 2016 we wrote a review marking 10 years of TDIF-PXY. Group members Qing and Agnieszka wrote an update, out today in @newphyt.bsky.social. Do have a read. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I am very excited to share my first publication from my PhD work: A FLOE-related protein regulates the two-dimensional to three-dimensional growth transition in the moss Physcomitrium patens url: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

A reminder you/your lab can support FlyBase at Cambridge through the following link. Every bit helps. Please share if you yourself can't donate.

www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

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Plants "bleed" too, but through gases!
When wounded, ethylene leaks out and oxygen seeps in. This gas shift acts as an alarm, triggering self-repair to seal the breach. Excited to share our new collaborative work uncovering this clever plant mechanism! Excellent summary here, indulge!
#plantscience

X Rays and Barley Mutants!

A brief introduction to a cool biosciences led project I’m working on at the moment, with PI @peteretchells.bsky.social

castlesandcoprolites.blogspot.com/2025/07/x-ra...

That arch is apparently *the first pointed arch ever*(!)
Durham Cathedral was built from East to West, by the Normans. The arches are all semi-circular...until that first major one in the nave: that's where pointed arches were devised. You can just see that the arches get pointier towards the West.

I always had a soft spot for the Enkheim background, that of the classic leaf development mutant, "magnifica".

Of course it's true of someone like me who studied in a predominantly biomedical department and came to plant biology from an interest in developmental biology. But, @natplants.nature.com, I'm glad you're impressed by my ability to spot Arabidopsis mutants from the far side of the greenhouse 😉

Is that Han Solo frozen in carbonate in the foreground?

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Stochastic gene expression, an ordinary part of multicellular life (Nature Comms.) @roederlab.bsky.social‬ (Summary by Kes Maio)
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#PlantaePSRW

🚨 Calling all plant modelling enthusiasts!
Plant Computational Biology Workshop
Open to researchers at all levels
Workshop is free. Participants cover own travel, food & accommodation
📅 8-12 Sept | 💻 Talks, tools & hand-on sessions
🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/computationa...
#ComputationalBiology #PlantSci

🎯 I scored 6/10 on #DiscoverOrMDPI — can you beat me?
pagoba.shinyapps.io/publi_guess/, #ResearchIntegrity #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky