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Alex Webb Lab
@alexwebblab.bsky.social
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Plant circadian biology at Department of Plant Sciences University of Cambridge.
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Happy Solstice
December 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
alexwebblab.bsky.social
co-pilot = clippy. I really do not want a brightly coloured icon right in my line of sight whilst trying to read and write a Word document. There menu bar is where to put icons. #Microsoft #Office365 @microsoft.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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JOB ALERT - Join us as a lecturer/senior lecturer in plant-microbe interactions in the School of Biological Sciences at Waipapa Taumata Rau The University of Auckland. Applications close 31st January 🌱🧪
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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Plant-Microbe Interactions - School of Biological Sciences
Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandKo te whare Pūtaiao | The Faculty of Science at the University of Auckland is the leading science faculty in New Zealand and one of...
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December 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Junior Professorship Plastid Homöostasis. Kaiserslautern, Germany.
#plantscijob #PlantSciJobs
www.academics.de/jobs/w1-juni...
W1-Juniorprofessur für Plastidäre Homöostase (m/w/d) - Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)
Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) bietet Stelle als W1-Juniorprofessur für Plastidäre Homöostase (m/w/d) in Kaiserslautern - jetzt bewerben!
www.academics.de
December 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Professorship Plant Physiology. Kaiserslautern, Germany.
#PlantSciJobs #plantscijob
www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...
W2-Professur für Pflanzenphysiologie (m/w/d) - Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)
Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) bietet Stelle als W2-Professur für Pflanzenphysiologie (m/w/d) in Kaiserslautern - jetzt bewerben!
www.academics.de
December 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Professorship for Functional and 3D Modeling of Plants. Bonn, Germany.
#PlantSciJobs #plantscijob
www.academics.de/jobs/w3-prof...
W3 Professorship for Functional and 3D Modeling of Plants - Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn - Landwirtschaftliche Fakultät
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn - Landwirtschaftliche Fakultät bietet Stelle als W3 Professorship for Functional and 3D Modeling of Plants in Bonn - jetzt bewerben!
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December 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Professorship Stress resilience of plants. Aachen, Germany.
#PlantSciJobs #plantscijob
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W3-Universitätsprofessur Stressresilienz von Pflanzen - RWTH Aachen University
RWTH Aachen University bietet Stelle als W3-Universitätsprofessur Stressresilienz von Pflanzen in Aachen - jetzt bewerben!
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December 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Nice interdisciplinary #plantscience -related paper in Science handled by our neuroscience editor, @mattiamaroso.bsky.social
Infrared heat from cycads as a pollination signal before flowers evolved.
Paper here
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Perspective here
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
December 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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This week in @science.org
Structural insight into the incorporation of far-red chlorophyll f in cyanobacterial photosystem I
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#cyanobacteria
#plantscience
Locating the missing chlorophylls f in far-red photosystem I
The discovery of chlorophyll f–containing photosystems, with their long-wavelength photochemistry, represented a distinct, low-energy paradigm for oxygenic photosynthesis. Structural studies on chloro...
www.science.org
December 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
alexwebblab.bsky.social
#PlantResearch Enjoyed writing with @beverleycubg.bsky.social a perspective about wonderful paper by Valencia-Montoya et al. in this week's Science. Cycads use thermal radiation to affect pollinators. Is this why Cycads are not as diverse as angiosperms? share.google/Xj8iH9E4tqvN...
Infrared as a pollination signal
Relying on infrared communication over visual color could have limited cycad evolution
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December 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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maddyseale.bsky.social
Out in @science.org this week:
PME5 is sequestered in the nucleus and released during cytokinesis allowing its activity to be timed with cell division.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#PlantScience
#PlantSci
Cell wall patterning regulates plant stem cell dynamics
The plant cell wall regulates development through spatiotemporal modulation of its chemical and mechanical properties. Pectin methylesterification is recognized as a rheological switch controlling wal...
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December 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
alexwebblab.bsky.social
as anyone found anything useful that the Co-pilot built into Windows can do? I have tried it a couple of times to do simple things, like find an email I know exists, and it can't. Standard search works. All this hard push for something broken.
December 2, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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reskilab.bsky.social
Junior Professorship Plastid Homeostasis. Kaiserslautern, Germany.
#plantscijobs #plantscijob
www.academics.de/jobs/w1-juni...
W1-Juniorprofessur für Plastidäre Homöostase (m/w/d) - Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)
Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) bietet Stelle als W1-Juniorprofessur für Plastidäre Homöostase (m/w/d) in Kaiserslautern - jetzt bewerben!
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November 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Professorship Plant Physiology. Kaiserslautern, Germany
#plantscijobs #plantscijob
www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...
W2-Professur für Pflanzenphysiologie (m/w/d) - Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)
Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) bietet Stelle als W2-Professur für Pflanzenphysiologie (m/w/d) in Kaiserslautern - jetzt bewerben!
www.academics.de
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
alexwebblab.bsky.social
Brilliant from Joey "The time Al agents are poised to save is raw currency we can splurge on... In our dystopian hellfest to doom-scroll Al slop, marry LLMs and remain limbically in-hoc to algorithms that concentrate value upwards. And, no doubt, type more prompts." share.google/tzGez66dhzmq...
TABS API is Mozilla's Latest Bet on the Agentic Web
Mozilla's new TABS API helps developers build AI agents to automate web tasks, as the company continues to bet on AI as its future. Details, pricing, and links inside.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Annie Shelton, PhD student @alexwebblab.bsky.social, was one of 5 Gates Cambridge Scholars to present at the Future of Humanity symposium last week.

She talked about issues to do with eating in space – from eating in zero gravity to growing edible plants in space.

Read more: tinyurl.com/mpkm8ytr
November 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Choosing which models best explain photoperiodic time measurement mechanisms in plants
by Takato Imaizumi
doi.org/10.1038/s443... via npj Biol Timing Sleep #PlantScience
October 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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My annual reminder that "diurnal" means day active. As in "humans are diurnal organisms, whereas mice are nocturnal". The correct term for the 24 h light/dark cycle is "diel".
November 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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#UCD is hiring an assistant prof for #plantpathology! #jobs #plantjobs jobs.plantae.org/jobs/ja/2179...
Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology in Davis, CA for University of California Davis Health System
Exciting opportunity in Davis, CA for University of California Davis Health System as a Assistant...
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October 31, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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A new preprint from the lab by @cbuckley.bsky.social in collab with @adaevo.bsky.social #plantsci #circadian 🌱 ⏰
biorxiv-plants.bsky.social bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · Oct 24
A non-coding SNP in ELF3 alters expression of ELF3β and confers adaptation of Arabidopsis to a continental climate https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.23.684042v1
October 27, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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If you want to read about a strong tuneable promoter in a diatom, see our publication: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

It was a team effort! So thank you, Patrick Hickland, Alison Smith, and the rest of the Plant Met lab at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.
A new tool for engineering Phaeodactylum tricornutum: the METE promoter drives both high expression and B12‐tuneable regulation of transgenes
The promoter of the METE gene in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum is repressed by nanomolar concentrations of vitamin B12. It can be used to tune the expression of genes for reporter proteins or ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Great to see this blog from @johninnescentre.bsky.social on work involving @camplantsci.bsky.social's Epidemiology & Modelling group - building global defences against wheat rust.

@camplantepidem.bsky.social
johninnescentre.bsky.social John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · Oct 16
BLOG - Battling crop diseases without borders: how a research community maintains global defences against wheat rusts

For 15 years, DEWAS, an international research collaboration @cimmyt.bsky.social, has been studying, detecting and defusing outbreaks of the devastating crop disease wheat rust.
Battling crop diseases without borders | John Innes Centre
DEWAS is one of the world’s largest crop pathogen surveillance and advisory systems, protecting wheat productivity in food vulnerable areas of East Africa and South Asia.
www.jic.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Plants @ Cambridge brings together partners in the University of Cambridge and our partners at NIAB to form one the largest groupings of plant scientists in Europe. From molecules to ecosystems. We have a new video youtu.be/4kl0XNYOA4Q?... . 🧪 #plantresearch
Plants at Cambridge : growing the future
YouTube video by Cambridge University
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October 14, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Job opportunity!

We are recruiting got a Horticultural Technician:
- Crop Science Centre
- Fixed term
- Closes on Friday 31 October

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/horticu...

#plantscijobs #plantsciences
October 9, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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"Postdoctoral and research assistant positions, Plant and Microbe Interaction at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
*Application Deadline: 11/30/2025"

Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=20251007_AS.pdf

#PlantSciJobs
October 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM