Matthew Terry
@mjtplantbiology.bsky.social
Molecular plant biologist at sotonbiosciences.bsky.social, Director of SoCoBio DTP. Views are my own.
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5wyk8h/professor-matthew-terry
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5wyk8h/professor-matthew-terry
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Huge congratulations to my @rothamsted.bsky.social colleague, Martin Broadley- a very worthy recipient of the Rank Prize for Nutrition, together with David Salt 🥂
Congrats to Prof. Martin Broadley for winning the 2026
Rank Prize for Nutrition alongside Prof. David E. Salt for their pioneering work on elemental profiling to improve soil and crop quality, enhancing nutrition and health outcomes for people worldwide👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/prof-ma...
Rank Prize for Nutrition alongside Prof. David E. Salt for their pioneering work on elemental profiling to improve soil and crop quality, enhancing nutrition and health outcomes for people worldwide👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/prof-ma...
December 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Huge congratulations to my @rothamsted.bsky.social colleague, Martin Broadley- a very worthy recipient of the Rank Prize for Nutrition, together with David Salt 🥂
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It's really important we try to support local independent book shops if we can but buying on-line is so easy right? So I've set up a page here which supports local shops and spent some time putting together my recommendations for you
uk.bookshop.org/shop/elizabe...
uk.bookshop.org/shop/elizabe...
ElizabethAmmon Bookshop UK
Elizabeth Ammon, journalist and writer.
uk.bookshop.org
December 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
It's really important we try to support local independent book shops if we can but buying on-line is so easy right? So I've set up a page here which supports local shops and spent some time putting together my recommendations for you
uk.bookshop.org/shop/elizabe...
uk.bookshop.org/shop/elizabe...
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Come work with us!! 2.5 year postdoc on HGT in plants.
Please share and get in touch if interested
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ418/r...
Please share and get in touch if interested
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ418/r...
Research Associate: Horizontal Gene Transfer at University of Sheffield
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November 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Come work with us!! 2.5 year postdoc on HGT in plants.
Please share and get in touch if interested
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ418/r...
Please share and get in touch if interested
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ418/r...
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I have a PhD studentship available to work on PIF proteins in wheat with Stephen Pearce @rothamsted.bsky.social and @colleendrapek.bsky.social at Phytoform labs. Any reposts greatly appreciated.
November 6, 2025 at 11:41 AM
I have a PhD studentship available to work on PIF proteins in wheat with Stephen Pearce @rothamsted.bsky.social and @colleendrapek.bsky.social at Phytoform labs. Any reposts greatly appreciated.
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Good morning, while everyone is waiting for the budget to be announced it’s a good time to say that immigration is a source of prosperity for the UK and painting Britain as a hostile state is sabotaging the country. Thanks!
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Good morning, while everyone is waiting for the budget to be announced it’s a good time to say that immigration is a source of prosperity for the UK and painting Britain as a hostile state is sabotaging the country. Thanks!
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🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Thrilled to share the core of my PhD work, now published in NAR!
This project was a true collaborative effort across multiple teams, and it was a joy to bring it to life.
Huge thanks to everyone involved, and especially to @fnobrega.bsky.social for the incredible support and guidance 🙏🏻
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This project was a true collaborative effort across multiple teams, and it was a joy to bring it to life.
Huge thanks to everyone involved, and especially to @fnobrega.bsky.social for the incredible support and guidance 🙏🏻
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⭐ NAR Breakthrough! ⭐
A community-driven collection uniting 52 phages, 74 Klebsiella isolates, and extensive genomic + phenotypic data — all freely available at klebphacol.org.
🧬 Learn more: doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
@fnobrega.bsky.social @danielarothschild.bsky.social #antimicrobialresistance
A community-driven collection uniting 52 phages, 74 Klebsiella isolates, and extensive genomic + phenotypic data — all freely available at klebphacol.org.
🧬 Learn more: doi.org/10.1093/nar/...
@fnobrega.bsky.social @danielarothschild.bsky.social #antimicrobialresistance
November 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Thrilled to share the core of my PhD work, now published in NAR!
This project was a true collaborative effort across multiple teams, and it was a joy to bring it to life.
Huge thanks to everyone involved, and especially to @fnobrega.bsky.social for the incredible support and guidance 🙏🏻
🧵1/5
This project was a true collaborative effort across multiple teams, and it was a joy to bring it to life.
Huge thanks to everyone involved, and especially to @fnobrega.bsky.social for the incredible support and guidance 🙏🏻
🧵1/5
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This does feel like a major crossing of the Rubicon – the world's best-funded and in many ways most powerful public health agency is now actively pushing disinformation.
I know there's a *lot* going on to care about at the moment, but this one really is significant, and matters well beyond the US.
I know there's a *lot* going on to care about at the moment, but this one really is significant, and matters well beyond the US.
The CDC website now disseminates disinformation about vaccines, claiming erroneously that infant vaccines might cause autism, when we know conclusively that they do not. It is difficult to overstate just how dangerous this is. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
November 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This does feel like a major crossing of the Rubicon – the world's best-funded and in many ways most powerful public health agency is now actively pushing disinformation.
I know there's a *lot* going on to care about at the moment, but this one really is significant, and matters well beyond the US.
I know there's a *lot* going on to care about at the moment, but this one really is significant, and matters well beyond the US.
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Save the CSIRO
Our national science & research agency is now facing more job cuts than under Tony Abbott
Call on the Albanese Govt to fund the scientists & research we need to tackle big issues we face from climate to food security and everything in between
www.davidpocock.com.au/save_our_csiro
Our national science & research agency is now facing more job cuts than under Tony Abbott
Call on the Albanese Govt to fund the scientists & research we need to tackle big issues we face from climate to food security and everything in between
www.davidpocock.com.au/save_our_csiro
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Save the CSIRO
Our national science & research agency is now facing more job cuts than under Tony Abbott
Call on the Albanese Govt to fund the scientists & research we need to tackle big issues we face from climate to food security and everything in between
www.davidpocock.com.au/save_our_csiro
Our national science & research agency is now facing more job cuts than under Tony Abbott
Call on the Albanese Govt to fund the scientists & research we need to tackle big issues we face from climate to food security and everything in between
www.davidpocock.com.au/save_our_csiro
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David Squires on … the history, histrionics and heroism of the Ashes
David Squires on … the history, histrionics and heroism of the Ashes
Our cartoonist looks back at cricket’s biggest rivalry as we gear up for seven weeks of joy, despair and animosity
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
David Squires on … the history, histrionics and heroism of the Ashes
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Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.
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The annual VertZoo trip to @morethanadodo.bsky.social for a comparative anatomy study practical is always fun, but this year @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social is joined by @unisouthampton_wsa! The museum refurb looks amazing, modern but completely in keeping @unisouthampton.bsky.social #ArtAndScience
November 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The annual VertZoo trip to @morethanadodo.bsky.social for a comparative anatomy study practical is always fun, but this year @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social is joined by @unisouthampton_wsa! The museum refurb looks amazing, modern but completely in keeping @unisouthampton.bsky.social #ArtAndScience
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A fully funded, fun PhD to enhance urban tree canopies with mistletoe to increase air quality, biodiversity, and well-being - all within a creative, collaborative molecular physiology and synthetic biology research environment.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Augmenting Urban Tree Canopies with Mistletoe: Enhancing Air Quality, Biodiversity, and Wellbeing in a Changing Climate at University of Essex on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Augmenting Urban Tree Canopies with Mistletoe: Enhancing Air Quality, Biodiversity, and Wellbeing in a Changing Climate at University of Essex, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
A fully funded, fun PhD to enhance urban tree canopies with mistletoe to increase air quality, biodiversity, and well-being - all within a creative, collaborative molecular physiology and synthetic biology research environment.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Come be my colleague at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. We're hiring an assistant professor in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling. 🌊
Career Opportunities at the University of Hawai'i | University of Hawai'i
www.schooljobs.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Come be my colleague at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. We're hiring an assistant professor in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling. 🌊
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Labour can never be the party of those who reject the asylum principle. Hardline immigration conservatism is owned by the right. Low trust radical right voters will never believe an approach like this because they know it runs against grain of the party’s core electorate and history - so will fail
November 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Labour can never be the party of those who reject the asylum principle. Hardline immigration conservatism is owned by the right. Low trust radical right voters will never believe an approach like this because they know it runs against grain of the party’s core electorate and history - so will fail
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What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
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NEWS - Influential group leaders placed among world’s most highly-cited researchers
The pioneering science of Prof. Cathie Martin FRS and Prof. @anneosbourn.bsky.social OBE FRS NAS has been recognised in a @clarivate.com publication listing the world’s most highly cited researchers.
The pioneering science of Prof. Cathie Martin FRS and Prof. @anneosbourn.bsky.social OBE FRS NAS has been recognised in a @clarivate.com publication listing the world’s most highly cited researchers.
November 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
NEWS - Influential group leaders placed among world’s most highly-cited researchers
The pioneering science of Prof. Cathie Martin FRS and Prof. @anneosbourn.bsky.social OBE FRS NAS has been recognised in a @clarivate.com publication listing the world’s most highly cited researchers.
The pioneering science of Prof. Cathie Martin FRS and Prof. @anneosbourn.bsky.social OBE FRS NAS has been recognised in a @clarivate.com publication listing the world’s most highly cited researchers.
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New paper led by @metalichen.bsky.social from our group presenting a chromosome-level assembly of the Trebouxia photobiont alga from the lichen Xanthoria parietina - a resource we hope will enable significant new insight into the symbiosis @newphyt.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....
November 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
New paper led by @metalichen.bsky.social from our group presenting a chromosome-level assembly of the Trebouxia photobiont alga from the lichen Xanthoria parietina - a resource we hope will enable significant new insight into the symbiosis @newphyt.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....
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The University of Toulouse has 44 postdoc positions to fill (Horizon Europe MSCA-COFUND). My lab is looking for candidates to apply and work on how plants regulate cell surface levels of receptors or transporters in response to heat. Please DM me if interested!
tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...
tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...
AToUT – TIRIS – Toulouse's Science In and For Society
tiris.univ-toulouse.fr
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The University of Toulouse has 44 postdoc positions to fill (Horizon Europe MSCA-COFUND). My lab is looking for candidates to apply and work on how plants regulate cell surface levels of receptors or transporters in response to heat. Please DM me if interested!
tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...
tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...
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Introduction of regioselective bacterial heme oxygenases into Arabidopsis hy1-1 supports the retrograde heme signaling hypothesis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Introduction of regioselective bacterial heme oxygenases into Arabidopsis hy1-1 supports the retrograde heme signaling hypothesis
In plant cells, heme is synthesized in the plastid and metabolized to phytochromobilin (PΦB) in two enzymatic steps: heme oxygenase (HO) and PΦB synthase (HY2). In Arabidopsis thaliana , HO1/HY1/GUN2 ...
www.biorxiv.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Introduction of regioselective bacterial heme oxygenases into Arabidopsis hy1-1 supports the retrograde heme signaling hypothesis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Few Plant science programmes are left in the UK and they are critical to train the next generation.
This move by @uniofnottingham.bsky.social goes against recommendations made in the recent PS Education manifesto. Big mistake! Sign the petition! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
This move by @uniofnottingham.bsky.social goes against recommendations made in the recent PS Education manifesto. Big mistake! Sign the petition! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Few Plant science programmes are left in the UK and they are critical to train the next generation.
This move by @uniofnottingham.bsky.social goes against recommendations made in the recent PS Education manifesto. Big mistake! Sign the petition! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
This move by @uniofnottingham.bsky.social goes against recommendations made in the recent PS Education manifesto. Big mistake! Sign the petition! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Very sad to hear this news. Russell was very supportive when I was starting out independently. He was also a very accomplished football (soccer) referee and in later years I enjoyed our e-mail chats about football. @aberuni.bsky.social plantandmicrobiology.berkeley.edu/news/memoria...
In Memoriam: Russell Jones | Plant and Microbial Biology
plantandmicrobiology.berkeley.edu
November 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Very sad to hear this news. Russell was very supportive when I was starting out independently. He was also a very accomplished football (soccer) referee and in later years I enjoyed our e-mail chats about football. @aberuni.bsky.social plantandmicrobiology.berkeley.edu/news/memoria...
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My students have set up a petition to persuade the University of Nottingham not to close our Plant Biology BSc course
c.org/VPhzVVrHPS
Please consider signing
c.org/VPhzVVrHPS
Please consider signing
November 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
My students have set up a petition to persuade the University of Nottingham not to close our Plant Biology BSc course
c.org/VPhzVVrHPS
Please consider signing
c.org/VPhzVVrHPS
Please consider signing
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🌿🍄🟫🌱🍄We’re recruiting!!🌿🍄🟫🌱🍄
I’m looking for two postdocs and a technician to join my group @sheffielduni.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social to work with me on my exciting @royalsociety.org Faraday Discovery Fellowship project, details for each post as follows:
I’m looking for two postdocs and a technician to join my group @sheffielduni.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social to work with me on my exciting @royalsociety.org Faraday Discovery Fellowship project, details for each post as follows:
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🌿🍄🟫🌱🍄We’re recruiting!!🌿🍄🟫🌱🍄
I’m looking for two postdocs and a technician to join my group @sheffielduni.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social to work with me on my exciting @royalsociety.org Faraday Discovery Fellowship project, details for each post as follows:
I’m looking for two postdocs and a technician to join my group @sheffielduni.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social to work with me on my exciting @royalsociety.org Faraday Discovery Fellowship project, details for each post as follows:
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An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments
Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments
Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...