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Tom Thirkell
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Mostly mycorrhizas - Crop Science Centre, Cambridge. Trying to get crops and soil microbes to play nice. And highly questionable outings of every other kind.
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prof-braj-singh.bsky.social
We are searching for a 4- year postdoctoral fellow to work us on Microbial Ecology and Crop Disease Management.

More details below. The position will start next year.

Please circulate and repost.

jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...
October 2, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com
Does anyone have any good resources (or their own examples) for how to make a good scientific poster to share with students.

Please RT!
September 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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j-karst.bsky.social
Get ready for Cairns! ICOM2026 (formally known as ICOM13) is now online. I’ll be there next year and I hope you’ll join us! (I’ve already planned my post-conference bike tour…in Samoa!). 🍄🚲🌊

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ICOM 2026
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July 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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anthomycota.bsky.social
Are you in the USA, interesting in greater stability, and looking for a postdoc with excellent funding? Write me to discuss this opportunity to come to Austria under the APART-USA program from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Uni Wien.

stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/en/fellowshi...
APART-USA
Stipendien & Preise der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
stipendien.oeaw.ac.at
July 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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fluxsoilsleaves.bsky.social
Tansley Review now out @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... big team effort involving @garethclay.bsky.social @jpritson.bsky.social @em-shuttleworth.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social @peatofmind.bsky.social @mercury-ecohydro.bsky.social @adamjohnst.bsky.social (1/2)
The effects of drought on Sphagnum moss species and the implications for hydrology in peatlands
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July 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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courtneyherms.bsky.social
Hearing a lot about #intercropping - and its benefits - in this session at #rhizosphere6! Does anyone have some numbers on how widespread intercropping is in intensive agriculture? Or why it might not be utilized so much in practice?
June 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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hendersi.bsky.social
A three year postdoctoral position is available in my group, investigating plant centromere structure, function and evolution @camplantsci.bsky.social
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51488/
Research Assistant / Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Assistant / Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
May 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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plantecoevout.bsky.social
We are looking for a research fellow to join our group for 2 years! Please share with anyone looking for a new position and interested in 🌱 local adaptation, plant-soil interactions and land use! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/340833
Research Fellow in Plant Evolutionary Ecology (postdoc)
We are looking for a 2-year postdoctoral research fellow within the European Research Council project PlantSoilAdapt - “Eco-evolutionary dynamics in plant-soil interactions during land use transition:...
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
May 8, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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lluginbuehl.bsky.social
Join our group (www.luginbuehllab.com) at @camplantsci.bsky.social! Are you excited about mycorrhiza, (single-cell) transcriptomics, carbon physiology, and the model crop rice? We have a 2-year postdoc position available, starting ASAP. Closing date 23rd May 2025!

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51214/
Research Assistant / Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Assistant / Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
May 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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katiefield4.bsky.social
I'm looking for a mycorrhiza-motivated PhD student to start this project, fully funded by a Rank Prize Lord Selborne Scholarship, in October 2025 - please contact me via email for more information and forward on to potentially interested people... www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Optimising wheat-fungal symbioses for enhanced nutrition and sustainability at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Optimising wheat-fungal symbioses for enhanced nutrition and sustainability at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
April 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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c-jake-harris.bsky.social
We are advertising a new postdoctoral position in my group. 3 years of funding to work on a moonshot synthetic biology project funded by the Advanced Research + Innovation Agency (ARIA). Please apply and please RP! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50801/ @camplantsci.bsky.social
Research Assistant / Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Assistant / Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
April 8, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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dromius.bsky.social
Plz Repost. We @slcuplants.bsky.social @uniofcam.bsky.social are looking for a postdoc with proven protein biochemistry & cell biology expertise & strong interest in plant processes targeted by Phytophthora effectors. (apply before 2 April) [Image: Alex Guyon]

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50570/
March 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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sandyheth.bsky.social
Exciting #FossilFriday as our preprint on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social was picked up by @newscientist.com!

You can read the prepint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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anthomycota.bsky.social
Lower survival rate among trainees in labs with highly productive mentors raises important concerns about what we value in academia. Many interesting things to stew over with this paper!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Academic mentees thrive in big groups, but survive in small groups - Nature Human Behaviour
Using longitudinal genealogical data on mentor–mentee relations and their publications, the authors find that mentees trained in larger groups tend to exhibit superior academic performance compared wi...
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March 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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jeanmichelane.bsky.social
A must read for AM symbiosis afficionados
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A fungal sRNA silences a host plant transcription factor to promote arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis
Cross-kingdom RNA interference (ckRNAi) is a mechanism of interspecies communication where small RNAs (sRNAs) are transported from one organism to another; these sRNAs silence target genes in trans ...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 24, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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fmartin54.bsky.social
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal genotype and nuclear organization as driving factors in host plant nutrient acquisition and stable carbon storage

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal genotype and nuclear organization as driving factors in host plant nutrient acquisition and stable carbon storage
It is crucial to develop strategies for reducing our continued excessive global increases in fertilizer applications and to offset CO2 emissions. The pervasive underground hyphal networks of arbuscul...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 14, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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plantecohutton.bsky.social
❗️The abstract submission and registration for Rhizosphere 6 is now open! 🌾🌿
www.rhizo6.org/home
please join us in Edinburgh next year for what should be an exciting meeting.
@hutton.ac.uk
#rhizosphere6
Rhizosphere 6 - Rooting for Earth
Welcome to Rhizosphere 6 We are looking forward to welcoming the global rhizosphere research community to Edinburgh for Rhizosphere 6 in June 2025. The meeting will foster exchange, interaction and ...
www.rhizo6.org
December 9, 2024 at 4:03 PM
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bradylabs.bsky.social
Does anyone have experience with low-input high-throughput (96 well plate) RNAseq library preparation from plants (bonus points if it is with plant roots...)
February 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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hartman-plantlab.com
Welcome @bipinpandey.bsky.social to Bluesky! Check out his amazing #plantscience work on soil compaction 🌱

www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Plant roots sense soil compaction through restricted ethylene diffusion
Compacted soil restrains diffusion of the volatile plant hormone ethylene, increasing its signal strength and restricting root growth.
www.science.org
January 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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tedersoo.bsky.social
Post-Doc position for 3 years available jointly between University of Tartu (Estonia) and University of Aarhus (Denmark) on soil microbiome and biogeography. Skills required: bioinformatics, metagenome analysis, microbiology
Contact: leho.tedersoo@ut.ee
January 23, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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hendersi.bsky.social
We have a research laboratory technician post available in my group - the role will support plant work, and molecular biology, associated with our research on centromeres.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47342/
Research Laboratory Technician - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Laboratory Technician in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
January 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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expecocons.bsky.social
📢Are you an early career researcher, interested in how science is communicated, reported, & the evolution of the scientific ecosystem? Applications are open for the Royal Society Publishing Early Career Researcher Advisory Panel.

Find out more: ow.ly/MaTk50U71W3 #ECRs

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Royal Society Publishing Early Career Researcher Advisory Panel | Royal Society
Are you interested in shaping the future of scientific communication? Apply to join our new ECR Advisory Panel.
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November 22, 2024 at 12:18 PM
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fletcherecology.bsky.social
Excited to share a new opportunity in my new lab at Cambridge!

We are looking for a highly motivated, early-career, postdoctoral scientist to be part of a growing effort in #connectivity conservation.

3-yr position housed in the Cambridge Conservation Initiative!

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49330/
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
November 29, 2024 at 12:50 PM
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katiefield4.bsky.social
Take a look at this excellent array of PhD projects in plant and soil science that are nowopen for applications! Please share with potential students 🤩
sheffieldpps.bsky.social Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil @sheffieldpps.bsky.social · Nov 29
Impacts of plant + pest identities on functionality of mycorrhizal networks
https://buff.ly/4fLhFWX
Investigate how plant neighbours influence mycorrhizal fungal networks and plant defences, giving insights intoresilience/functioning of ecosystems. k.j.field@sheffield.ac.uk @katiefield4.bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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theorecol.bsky.social
I've got 5-6 months money for a Postdoc ecological modeller, linking mathematical (translated via statistical) models to insect lab popn. time-series data; starts Jan 2025.
Must be UK-based (not cost/time effective for applicants to get such a short-term visa 😔).
Please contact me if interested!
🌍🧪
November 20, 2024 at 2:53 PM