Anne Plessis
@discontinuedap.bsky.social
Plant biology lecturer, University of Plymouth, she/her. Ecophysiology of plant abiotic stress in realistic/complex conditions.
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Anne Plessis
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· Jul 14
Ever wondered whether it is a good idea to run abiotic stress experiments in controlled conditions? Here's an evidence-based answer:
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Very excited to announce that our collaborative manifesto for 🌱 #PlantScience #Education has now been published! Educators from >10 countries and 30 institutions have contributed to it and we are incredibly proud of the final output. Here is a short thread 🧵1/4 doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
A manifesto for plant science education
Plants provide oxygen, food, shelter, medicines and environmental services, without which human society could not exist. Tackling pressing and global challenges requires well-trained plant scientists....
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October 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Very excited to announce that our collaborative manifesto for 🌱 #PlantScience #Education has now been published! Educators from >10 countries and 30 institutions have contributed to it and we are incredibly proud of the final output. Here is a short thread 🧵1/4 doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
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Join us on Bluesky and find out more about the www.wheatinitiative.org
September 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Join us on Bluesky and find out more about the www.wheatinitiative.org
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It is with deep sadness that we share that Professor Amy Marshall-Colon passed away over the weekend. Amy was a gifted scientist, generous colleague, and strong advocate for early career faculty. She will be deeply missed by our department and the wider plant biology community.
July 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
It is with deep sadness that we share that Professor Amy Marshall-Colon passed away over the weekend. Amy was a gifted scientist, generous colleague, and strong advocate for early career faculty. She will be deeply missed by our department and the wider plant biology community.
Ever wondered whether it is a good idea to run abiotic stress experiments in controlled conditions? Here's an evidence-based answer:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@plantdirectj.bsky.social
@wheatinitiative.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@plantdirectj.bsky.social
@wheatinitiative.bsky.social
July 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Ever wondered whether it is a good idea to run abiotic stress experiments in controlled conditions? Here's an evidence-based answer:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@plantdirectj.bsky.social
@wheatinitiative.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@plantdirectj.bsky.social
@wheatinitiative.bsky.social
Ever wondered whether it is a good idea to run abiotic stress experiments in controlled conditions? Here's an evidence-based answer:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@wheatinitiative.bsky.social @plantteaching.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@wheatinitiative.bsky.social @plantteaching.bsky.social
Is My Stress Out of Place? Bread Wheat Response to Saline Stress Varies in Pattern and Extent Across Experimental Settings
Adopting crops and agricultural practices that help sustain yield under abiotic stress will be a major element of future food security under climate change. However, little of the intensive research ...
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July 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Ever wondered whether it is a good idea to run abiotic stress experiments in controlled conditions? Here's an evidence-based answer:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@wheatinitiative.bsky.social @plantteaching.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@wheatinitiative.bsky.social @plantteaching.bsky.social
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I am so happy that this paper co-authored with John Duprè is out! Open access journals.publishing.umich.edu/ptpbio/artic...
Please share with others who might be interested! #philsci #philbio 🌱
Please share with others who might be interested! #philsci #philbio 🌱
Plant Individuality: A Physiological Approach
While plants provide some of the most interesting cases for individuality-related problems in philosophy of biology (e.g., Clarke 2012; Gerber 2018), no work has examined plant individuality through s...
journals.publishing.umich.edu
June 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I am so happy that this paper co-authored with John Duprè is out! Open access journals.publishing.umich.edu/ptpbio/artic...
Please share with others who might be interested! #philsci #philbio 🌱
Please share with others who might be interested! #philsci #philbio 🌱
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"Who used my P1000 pipette?"
April 13, 2025 at 5:51 AM
"Who used my P1000 pipette?"
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Unfortunately, there is relatively little crop-related research in most UK universities with research in the life sciences dominated by the biomedical sector.
An anonymous group of food industry execs published a memo warning about “a threat to food security like none other we have seen” in the UK, citing degrading soil health, water scarcity, heating, and extreme weather.
Mitigation strategies don’t meet level of risk www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/whistle...
Mitigation strategies don’t meet level of risk www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/whistle...
Whistleblowers warn UK food industry heading for climate disaster
Inside Track x Food claims the UK food industry has 'reached a moment of threat to food security like none other we have seen'
www.thegrocer.co.uk
April 8, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Unfortunately, there is relatively little crop-related research in most UK universities with research in the life sciences dominated by the biomedical sector.
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Hi Bluesky, last few days to apply for these PhDs, on new technologies for... hen welfare www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear... ... & for understanding the role of livestock in the landscape www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear... Thanks :-)
March 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Hi Bluesky, last few days to apply for these PhDs, on new technologies for... hen welfare www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear... ... & for understanding the role of livestock in the landscape www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear... Thanks :-)
Very excited about this PhD project exploring new ways to model interactions of abiotic stress with environmental conditions in plants, combining sensor technology and advanced data analysis. Apply for a chance to change how we study environmental responses!
www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear...
www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear...
Embracing the noise: micro-environmental variability as a means to infer models for plant abiotic stress responses
University of Plymouth PhD studentship: This project will provide an unprecedented multi-factorial understanding of drought stress physiology that will...
www.plymouth.ac.uk
March 18, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Very excited about this PhD project exploring new ways to model interactions of abiotic stress with environmental conditions in plants, combining sensor technology and advanced data analysis. Apply for a chance to change how we study environmental responses!
www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear...
www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/resear...
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Family includes everyone! ❤️
November 17, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Family includes everyone! ❤️
Fantastic second place of the Botanists of the Barbican, @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social team at the first round of @bucbotany.bsky.social They are only getting started!!!
February 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Fantastic second place of the Botanists of the Barbican, @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social team at the first round of @bucbotany.bsky.social They are only getting started!!!
Thanks Alun for this reflective and personal summary of the Plant Biology Education conference, I very much enjoyed reading it! Your perspective from outside academia fostered really interesting conversations. We were lucky you took the time to attend the conference!
What Is the Future of Plant Biology Teaching?
https://botany.fyi/pjrh4b
Plant Biology Educators got together in Lancaster at the start of the month to discuss what’s going wrong and what’s going right in plant biology education. They found a lot of both.
#Botany #PlantSciEd 🧪 #Education
https://botany.fyi/pjrh4b
Plant Biology Educators got together in Lancaster at the start of the month to discuss what’s going wrong and what’s going right in plant biology education. They found a lot of both.
#Botany #PlantSciEd 🧪 #Education
January 15, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Thanks Alun for this reflective and personal summary of the Plant Biology Education conference, I very much enjoyed reading it! Your perspective from outside academia fostered really interesting conversations. We were lucky you took the time to attend the conference!
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Food production matters www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Nobel prize winners call for urgent ‘moonshot’ effort to avert global hunger catastrophe
More than 150 Nobel and World Food prize laureates sign open letter calling for immediate ramping up of food production
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Food production matters www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Only four more days to apply!!!
Cool opportunity to get trained in research and teaching: become an expert in salt stress experimental design with this Doctoral Teaching Assistant job:
www.plymouth.ac.uk/schools/scho...
hrservices.plymouth.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
www.plymouth.ac.uk/schools/scho...
hrservices.plymouth.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
Stressing about the wrong thing? Determining the long-term impacts of methodological short-cuts of salt stress treatments in crops
This PhD project aims to compare artificial and realistic salt stress protocols in wheat, rice, and broad bean to identify salinity-related damages and...
www.plymouth.ac.uk
January 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Only four more days to apply!!!
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#FundedPhD opportunities at the #UniversityofPlymouth
From collaborative research with #MarineResearchPlymouth to exciting projects at the Marine Institute or combining teaching & research with our Doctoral Teaching Assistantships– there’s something for every aspiring academic.
#PhDSky 🦊🦉🦑🐍🐋🌍🧪
January 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
#FundedPhD opportunities at the #UniversityofPlymouth
From collaborative research with #MarineResearchPlymouth to exciting projects at the Marine Institute or combining teaching & research with our Doctoral Teaching Assistantships– there’s something for every aspiring academic.
#PhDSky 🦊🦉🦑🐍🐋🌍🧪
Hey @zoejolylopez.bsky.social, do you know my soon to be former colleague @scootjd.bsky.social , who is coming your way in a few months? He's the one who helped me join Bluesky at the time when you still needed a code. His research is very cool!
Big changes for 2025 🎉
Excited to be joining the Département des sciences biologiques at the Université du Québec à Montréal in June 2025 as an Assistant Professor and co-chair of the Research Chair in Carbon Dynamics in Wetlands!
Will really miss Plymouth but excited for a new chapter!
Excited to be joining the Département des sciences biologiques at the Université du Québec à Montréal in June 2025 as an Assistant Professor and co-chair of the Research Chair in Carbon Dynamics in Wetlands!
Will really miss Plymouth but excited for a new chapter!
January 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Hey @zoejolylopez.bsky.social, do you know my soon to be former colleague @scootjd.bsky.social , who is coming your way in a few months? He's the one who helped me join Bluesky at the time when you still needed a code. His research is very cool!
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One more quick plug for this event, we've got a fantastic line up of plant science educators attending and maybe you should do? Registation closes Dec 12.
January 7-8, Lancaster UK.
web.cvent.com/event/a17159...
January 7-8, Lancaster UK.
web.cvent.com/event/a17159...
December 10, 2024 at 10:32 AM
One more quick plug for this event, we've got a fantastic line up of plant science educators attending and maybe you should do? Registation closes Dec 12.
January 7-8, Lancaster UK.
web.cvent.com/event/a17159...
January 7-8, Lancaster UK.
web.cvent.com/event/a17159...
Cool opportunity to get trained in research and teaching: become an expert in salt stress experimental design with this Doctoral Teaching Assistant job:
www.plymouth.ac.uk/schools/scho...
hrservices.plymouth.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
www.plymouth.ac.uk/schools/scho...
hrservices.plymouth.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
Stressing about the wrong thing? Determining the long-term impacts of methodological short-cuts of salt stress treatments in crops
This PhD project aims to compare artificial and realistic salt stress protocols in wheat, rice, and broad bean to identify salinity-related damages and...
www.plymouth.ac.uk
December 6, 2024 at 9:01 AM
Cool opportunity to get trained in research and teaching: become an expert in salt stress experimental design with this Doctoral Teaching Assistant job:
www.plymouth.ac.uk/schools/scho...
hrservices.plymouth.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
www.plymouth.ac.uk/schools/scho...
hrservices.plymouth.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
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There's less than a week to apply for this plant cell biology and plant pathology PhD opportunity with me and Imogen Sparkes. Please RT and pass on to motivated candidates!
SWBio DLA (www.swbio.ac.uk) has some very groovy PhD projects advertised, including one with me, Imogen Sparkes, Jim Fouracre & @discontinuedap.bsky.social: Developmental specificity of subcellular responses to plant fungal infection. Get in touch if you are interested! #plantpathology #plantcell
December 5, 2024 at 7:51 PM
There's less than a week to apply for this plant cell biology and plant pathology PhD opportunity with me and Imogen Sparkes. Please RT and pass on to motivated candidates!
This does not appear in my profile, but important to mention to new followers, I am not just a plant scientist, I am also a cat lady. The soft black sweety in the photo is called Raven!
November 17, 2024 at 6:22 PM
This does not appear in my profile, but important to mention to new followers, I am not just a plant scientist, I am also a cat lady. The soft black sweety in the photo is called Raven!
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SWBio DLA (www.swbio.ac.uk) has some very groovy PhD projects advertised, including one with me, Imogen Sparkes, Jim Fouracre & @discontinuedap.bsky.social: Developmental specificity of subcellular responses to plant fungal infection. Get in touch if you are interested! #plantpathology #plantcell
November 17, 2024 at 12:08 PM
SWBio DLA (www.swbio.ac.uk) has some very groovy PhD projects advertised, including one with me, Imogen Sparkes, Jim Fouracre & @discontinuedap.bsky.social: Developmental specificity of subcellular responses to plant fungal infection. Get in touch if you are interested! #plantpathology #plantcell
What is important when designing abiotic stress experiments? Sharing my reflection on this question with the plant community:
academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
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November 13, 2024 at 11:44 AM
What is important when designing abiotic stress experiments? Sharing my reflection on this question with the plant community:
academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...
academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...