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Hsuan Pai 白暄 @hsuanpai.bsky.social · 8h

The best part of preparing a digram is testing the colour scheme!

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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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Laura Turchi (she/her) @turchil.bsky.social · 2d

It was so nice to have you in Norwich!

I can't think of a better keynote speaker for the #NBIAST2025, tomorrow will be great! 🤩

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Laura Turchi (she/her) @turchil.bsky.social · 6d

First post on the Node and first attempt at summarising a paper that is not about plants! 😱

Super cool paper, had fun writing my summary 📝

the Node @the-node.bsky.social · 6d

Limb regeneration guide for axolotls 📋

Laura Turchi (@turchil.bsky.social) highlights a recent paper by @leootsuki.bsky.social and team on The Node ⬇️👀

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Limb regeneration guide for axolotls - the Node

A recent paper from Otsuki and colleagues investigates the molecular mechanisms driving limb regeneration in axolotl

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The Sainsbury Laboratory @thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 11d

Busy week for TSL Ventures!

First Damien Caubrière and Sasha Eremina joined the #WorldAgriTech Innovation Summit in London, then innovation came to Norwich for Norwich Research Park's #PosterShowcaseEvent.

Huge thanks to everyone for making Norwich a centre of excellence in agritech! 🌱🚀

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Laura Turchi (she/her) @turchil.bsky.social · 14d

Yesterday, @vgeshkovski.bsky.social and I were thrilled to officially introduce ourselves to @thesainsburylab.bsky.social 😎🔥

Food pictures were a highlight as usual 🍽️🍝

Vangeli on the stage as he started his personal introduction

Laura on the stage with pictures of typical food from Bologna, Italy, on the badkground. Depicted food included ragù alla bolognese, lasagne, tortellini and mortadella

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Vangeli Geshkovski @vgeshkovski.bsky.social · 21d

Ago will forever remind me of the most unhinged review title I’ve ever seen

Screenshot of a scientific review article titled Taking RISCs with Ago hookers

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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 28d

I'm really looking forward to visiting Norwich again and sharing my perspective on why plants are the most amazing and important organisms in the universe! 🌱💚

John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 28d

EVENT - Calling all teachers, A-level science classes and colleges! Registration is now open for the NBI Accessible Science Talks 2025

🗓️ Tuesday 7 October 2025

💻 Register here: jic.link/NBIAST2025

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · Sep 6

Cool program alert! "The P2P Program is a 1-year training program for people interested in pivoting to a career in plant science, imaging, data science, etc, but have limited research experience. It enables adults with at least an associate's degree to upskill in emerging technologies & methods" 🧪🌱

Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Sep 5

Applications for the 2026 Pivot to Plants Fellows Program at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center are now open.

Location: St. Louis, MO
Application Deadline: October 15, 2025
Dates: Jan. 5, 2026 – Dec. 23, 2026
Estimated Stipend: $37,275

Learn more: www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/edu...

Pivot to Plants: Training Program for Plant and Data Science | Danforth Plant Science Center

The Pivot2Plants Fellows Program is a 1-year training program for people interested in pivoting to a career in plant science or data science but have limited research experience.

www.danforthcenter.org

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The Sainsbury Laboratory @thesainsburylab.bsky.social · Sep 2

TSL's great fun day out

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Laura Turchi (she/her) @turchil.bsky.social · Sep 1

Congratsss 🥳🥳

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Boris Stojilković @borisstojilkovic.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thrilled to share our new bioRxiv preprint!✨ Huge credit to first author Yujin Chen and thanks to all co-authors. Extra special: my first paper as co-corresponding author (with Lieve Gheysen).
Check how nematodes uncouple FLS2–BSK signalling in 🌱👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Laura Turchi (she/her) @turchil.bsky.social · Aug 24

No way!
I always thought they were related (but I'll admit I never looked it up).
Thanks for sharing!

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Laura Turchi (she/her) @turchil.bsky.social · Aug 21

Yes, that's definitely one thing to consider depending on target audience and platform

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Laura Turchi (she/her) @turchil.bsky.social · Aug 21

Definitely agree with that!

But once the thinking is done, the objectives are clear and it's "just" a matter of weaving them together - what then?

I feel like more and more people are used to the writing style of AI and often prefer that/keep writing until it sounds like that

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Laura Turchi (she/her) @turchil.bsky.social · Aug 21

Honest question: is there a point in learning to write in 2025, when everyone uses AI? Asking for a friend

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Laura Turchi (she/her) @turchil.bsky.social · Aug 15

🥲🥲🥲
Still, it's pretty cool that you can get compensation for a 15+ min delay 🚂

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · Aug 6

Get your questions ready for Samantha Dobbie, Caroline Durbin and @drannagardner on our science communication panel at New Phytologist next generation scientists, today at 16:30 BST (UTC+1)!

Join us online: www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...

#scicomm #plantscience

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The Sainsbury Laboratory @thesainsburylab.bsky.social · Jul 29

We are thrilled to share that our scientists joined the opening of Future of Food, a new free exhibition held @sciencemuseum.org.uk about how food must change to protect the planet 🌍

Resistant potatoes developed in Jonathan Jones's group are an integral part of the exhibition 🥔 buff.ly/slKlOSy

Blight-resistant potatoes displayed inside a glass case at the Future of Food exhibition. Slices of infected traditional and blight-resistant potatoes are displayed next to each other. The susceptible traditional variety is affected by infection and is a dark brown colour, while the blight-resistant potato retained its white color.
A short explanation is provided under the display, which includes a picture of scientists who contributed o the development of blight-resistant potato: Jonathan Jones, Simon Foster, Marina Pais, Agnieszka Witek, Robert Heal and Kamil Witek.

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Connor Rogerson @doctorconnor.bsky.social · Jul 29

Anyone brought their kids to conferences? Any conferences that have on-site childcare? Finally got data to present for next year, but I'll also have 3 x 3-and-under 🤪

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Kelsey J.R.P. Byers @plantpollinator.bsky.social · Jul 29

Interested in learning more about range-wide variation in floral traits in #Mimulus cardinalis? Join me in Mesquite C (Phytochemical section) at 9:15am this morning (Tuesday) to find out!

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The Sainsbury Laboratory @thesainsburylab.bsky.social · Jul 26

Norwich Pride 2025 Norwich Research Park

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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · Jul 21

"We found that TF orthologues from distant species retain
nearly identical binding preferences, while on the same timescales the gain and loss of TFBSs are widespread."

From: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Recruitment, rewiring and deep conservation in flowering plant gene regulation - Nature Plants

A highly scalable approach is used to generate 3,000 genome-wide maps of transcription factor binding in ten flowering plants, along with multi-species single-nucleus RNA-seq atlases. Together, the re...

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Katharine Hubbard @katharinehubbard.bsky.social · Jul 21

Come and work for me! Permanent Senior Advisor in Pedagogy and Practice post. Want someone w experience in design & delivery of PGCAP - we have bold plans! @bnuni.bsky.social really exciting place to work right now. Pls share #AcademicDevelopment #HigherEducation
jobs.bucks.ac.uk/vacancy/seni...

Senior Advisor Pedagogy and Practice (1801) | Buckinghamshire New University

Full Time (37 hrs per week) Permanent Contract – High Wycombe </st

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Laura Turchi (she/her) @turchil.bsky.social · Jul 19

Very cool work, congrats Alba! 🔥🔥

Benoit Nabholz @benoitevol.bsky.social · Jul 19

In @elife.bsky.social: Effective population size does not explain long-term variation in genome size and transposable element content in animals doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Effective population size does not explain long-term variation in genome size and transposable element content in animals

A large-scale survey across animals reveals no general association between genome size expansion and the relaxation of natural selection.

doi.org

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