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Antony Dodd
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circadian rhythms | cell signalling | plants and microbes | Head of Cell and Developmental Biology @ John Innes Centre UK | Views my own.
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fburki.bsky.social
We are looking for a PhD student to work on an exciting plastid endosymbiosis in microbial eukaryotes. This position involves sampling, exciting microscopy such as CARDFISH, ExM and FIBSEM, single-cell transcriptomics and more. #protistsonsky 1/2
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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jurriaanton.bsky.social
🌿 3 new PhD positions in the Ton lab @PPS_UoS. Part of the ERC project '#PlantMemo', exploring how plants remember & respond to stress.
🧬 PhD 1 (UK only)👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🦠 PhD 2 (UK & EU)👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🌱 PhD 3 (UK only)👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#PhD
November 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
antdodd.bsky.social
Yup www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Norwich Thickthorn and A47 roadworks cause traffic 'nightmare'
A major junction upgrade coincides with a lane closure on a connected dual carriageway.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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apaterlini.bsky.social
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/...
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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drannisr.bsky.social
Are you looking for a PhD in Plant Science? Check our our project on barley canopy architecture. Combine genetics and physics to understand how awns influence barley grain development. Find out more here: lnkd.in/eWhWammJ Apply by 14th December. #PhDPosition
#PlantSci @instmolplantsci.bsky.social
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November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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bpucker.bsky.social
I am trying to find everyone working on plant genomics:
go.bsky.app/NqARJ7V
Please let me know who is already on @bsky.app, but missing in this #PlantGenomics starter pack
February 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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susieoftraken.bsky.social
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
November 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
antdodd.bsky.social
LUC activity. Apparently there are glow worms around Norfolk but never seen them www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Lights out: can we stop glow-worms and fireflies fading away?
From night walks with children to switching off streetlights and rewilding areas, naturalists are working to save Europe’s dwindling populations
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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🆕 Vacancy! We're looking for a Research Scientist to explore the impact of novel carbohydrate containing foods on the gut microbiome and on health.

💷 £37,500 to £45,350
🗓️ Apply by 30 November 2025
➡️ buff.ly/CKyGwgD
A microscopy photo of starch granules with the text "To explore the impact of novel carbohydrate containing foods on the gut microbiome and on health, Salary: £37,500 to £45,350, Contract length: 2.5 years, Apply by 30 November 2025"
November 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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carnage4life.bsky.social
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.

This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.

Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
blog.arxiv.org
November 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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laertecoutinho.bsky.social
saiu na Folha @folha.com
Tira de Laerte, em 4 quadrinhos. 1) Mulher, velha, rosto enrugado. 2) Voz de alguém fora de cena pergunta: “Você é bruxa?” 3) A mulher responde: “Depende”. 4) A mulher abre um olho, desconfiada, e pergunta: “Você é dos que queimam ou dos que contratam?”
November 2, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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quadraminstitute.bsky.social
⏰ Closing soon! We’re looking for a Research Scientist to join the Laboratory of Dr Maria Traka in the Food & Nutrition National Bioscience Research Infrastructure programme.

💷 £37,500 to £45,350
🗓️ Apply by 6 November 2025
➡️ buff.ly/1svFijc
A photo of fermented pickles with the text "Research Scientist (Fermented Foods and Nutrition) to join the FlavourFerm project and explore the nutrition of fermented foods, Salary: £37,500 to £45,350, Contract length: 2 years, Apply by 6 November 2025"
November 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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partchlab.bsky.social
The lab won the Halloween costume competition on Science Hill at UCSC 🎃💀 —such a terrific group!
People dressed up as characters from the movie Inside Out
October 31, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
Registration is open to take part in the Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026), which especially invites early career scientists to present their molecular #plantsci research www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
The logo of the conference symbolises a plant cell, plant leaves, plant cell's organelles, and a bug. It also offers the details of the 39th Conference Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026) taking place from 16th to 19th March 2026 in Hennef, Germany
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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samtmugford.bsky.social
When all your PCRs fail, except for the negative control 😱
A pumpkin carved to depict an agarose gel electrophoesis with all lanes blank apart from the size ladder on the left and a single band in the lane on the far right
October 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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adnroide.bsky.social
Spooky season has arrived! 👻
We held our annual Pumpkin Carving Competition at @thesainsburylab.bsky.social —vote for your favourite carve! 🎃🕯️
October 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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evoldir.bsky.social
The University of Hamburg has opened 14 PhD positions focused on ecological and evolutionary research, including climate change impacts on aquatic populations. Details here: https://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung/grk2530/openpositions.html #phd
Open positions
Open positions
www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de
October 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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elenadelpup.bsky.social
🌱plantiSMASH 2.0💥 is now live!

I’m very excited to share that the 2.0 version of plantiSMASH is now available online and as a preprint on bioRxiv 📄https://lnkd.in/dN4F56pf

🌱 What’s new in plantiSMASH 2.0? ⬇️
biorxivpreprint.bsky.social bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 15d
plantiSMASH 2.0: improvements to detection, annotation, and prioritization of plant biosynthetic gene clusters https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.28.683968v1
October 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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spp2389.bsky.social SPP2389 - Emergent Functions of Bacterial Multicellularity @spp2389.bsky.social · 14d
@kostchristian.bsky.social has an open PhD position as a part of #SPP2389 !
#microsky #mevosky
kostchristian.bsky.social Christian Kost @kostchristian.bsky.social · 16d
#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social

A PhD position is available in my lab to work on:

Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria.

Please RT

Deadline: 12.11.25

More infos 👇
shorturl.at/rAKAT
October 30, 2025 at 7:51 AM
antdodd.bsky.social
What is it with talk slides being requested ages in advance of conferences.
October 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
Elon Musk’s new competitor to Wikipedia says apartheid wasn’t that bad, cites the Kremlin, and gives legitimacy to “white-genocide theory.”

Musk is constructing a parallel universe in his own image.
What Elon Musk’s Version of Wikipedia Thinks About Hitler, Putin, and Apartheid
The next step in Musk’s propaganda machine
www.theatlantic.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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kkshimizu1.bsky.social
Our new publication on HOBIT, a software tool for polyploid gene expression analysis. Compared with our previous method HomeoRoq (2014), HOBIT enables direct and higher-quality analysis of complex allohexaploid species such as bread wheat.
newphyt.bsky.social New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 16d
HOBIT: LRT to detect homeolog expression shifts in allopolyploids

Sun et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Performance metrics based on 50 artificial datasets simulating an allotetraploid species.
October 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Aaarrgh the A47
October 28, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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naolimit.bsky.social
Just listened to this fascinating interview with chronobiologist @chrono-bob.bsky.social on the science of circadian rhythms and how they impact health. [From 2022]
#Chronobiology #CircadianRhythms #Cancer
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
Chronobiology - Frontier Science by CANCERTALK
Is chronobiology set to change the way treatment is delivered? Dr Robert Dallmann has been immersed in the science behind circadian rhythms for many years, and in this episode he describes some of the...
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October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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veronicaarana.bsky.social
We had such a great time at the XVIII Latin American Symposium on Chronobiology in Maceio, BR 🕓🌱🌳. I thank the organizers for the excellent meeting and New Phytologist for the support. @newphyt.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM