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Róisín Fattorini
@roisinlf.bsky.social
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Postdoc interested in plant evolution and development 🌱 🪴 🧬
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jimfouracre.bsky.social
The wonderful Rox Middleton and i have a #PhD project investigating how cuticles and extracuticular waxes protect #plants from environmental stress as they age. Developmental biology, genetics, environmental signalling and physics split between Bristol and Bath. Please get in touch for more details!
November 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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theplantcell.bsky.social
#ASPBPlantCellTuesday #ICYMI
theplantcell.bsky.social The Plant Cell @theplantcell.bsky.social · Jun 5
🚨 Did you know? Publishing in The Plant Cell doesn’t just advance your career—it supports the entire field of plant biology.
We're published by ASPB ‪@aspbofficial.bsky.social‬, a nonprofit devoted to advancing plant science 🌿
#PlantScience #NonprofitPublishing #PublishWithPurpose
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November 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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moodytomato.bsky.social
Consistently an absolutely fantastic meeting - don’t miss out on an opportunity to interact with an awesome bunch of non-seed enthusiasts 🌱 😃 🧬
November 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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thepallavisingh.bsky.social
**Please Repost**

Pallavi Singh Lab is looking for two Postdocs to join our team studying how plants balance carbon, water, and resilience in a changing climate.

PlantPlug PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

REVOLUTION PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

Deadline: October 15.
October 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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anajusagasti.bsky.social
It's #FossilFriday! Great time to check out our new paper if you haven't yet.

#Palaeobotany #JurassicPlants
September 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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sandyheth.bsky.social
Excited to share our recent paper @newphyt.bsky.social where we describe evidence of a Jurassic nurse log from Scotland! Great work led by @anajusagasti.bsky.social Sophie Burne and @jeremywyman.bsky.social @instmolplantsci.bsky.social
🧵 👇 1/6
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Decay stages of Jurassic wood debris from Scotland: evidence for the coevolution of fungal rot, arthropods and the nurse log strategy
A key feature of extant conifer forests is the high percentage of seeds that germinate and establish on dead wood; in some forests, this can exceed 90%. This deadwood can act as an ideal nursery for...
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September 21, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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philcarella.bsky.social
New Postdoc position (2yrs) available in our #EvoMPMI lab @JohnInnesCentre. Come and work with on harnessing the diversity of immune mechanisms to protect plants. jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?va…
June 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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resprofnews.bsky.social
Leverhulme Trust invests £100m in ‘challenged’ research sector.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
Leverhulme Trust invests £100m in ‘challenged’ research sector - Research Professional News
Trust to fund blue skies and interdisciplinary research, career development and inclusion initiatives
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
July 7, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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theplantcell.bsky.social
📣The Plant Cell is recruiting Assistant Features Editors. The application period opens now and runs through September 15, 2025!🌱

👉Application information can be found at this link: blog.aspb.org/the-plant-ce...

#plantscience
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June 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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the-node.bsky.social
*Paid internship opportunity*

@biologists.bsky.social is looking for a 3-month intern this summer to work across the Node, @prelights.bsky.social and
@focalplane.bsky.social

If you're interested in #SciCommm & #publishing, and have the right to work in the UK, apply by 5 June 👇
Community site paid internship - the Node
The Company of Biologists currently has an opportunity for a paid three-month internship to work on our community sites – the Node, preLights and FocalPlane. This is a great opportunity to gain experi...
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May 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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tinaschreier.bsky.social
🌿 Excited to share our latest preprint!
We tracked how plasmodesmata numbers evolved across the path from C₃ → C₄ photosynthesis in Flaveria - and found a stepwise increase in cell-to-cell connectivity.
Thoughts or feedback are most welcome 😊
#PlantScience
biorxiv-plants.bsky.social bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · Apr 22
Stepwise increase in plasmodesmata during C4 evolution in Flaveria https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.18.649591v1
April 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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gensocuk.bsky.social
Exciting news! The Genetics Society & BBSRC are teaming up to launch Research Access Placements (RAPs), offering fully paid summer research internships for undergrad students from underrepresented backgrounds.

Deadline for applications: 14 April.

genetics.org.uk/grants/resea...
March 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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transitionalform.bsky.social
🎊We are very pleased to announce that our paper investigating what we think Prototaxites, the mysterious giant of the Devonian landscape, actually was is now available as a pre-print on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A block of Prototaxites fossil on a mossy surface, resembling the landscape of the early Devonian
March 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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the-node.bsky.social
Looking for a job in #DevBio, #StemCell (or related fields)? Or looking to advertise your open positions?

Check out our Jobs Board ⬇️
thenode.biologists.com/jobs/

Recent adverts include positions from @vidigaljoana.bsky.social @sarabiz86.bsky.social @jetteleng.bsky.social @harrymcnamara.bsky.social
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January 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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christhorogood.bsky.social
The most extraordinary leaf I ever saw was a titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) shooting out of the earth like a rocket in the Sumatran rainforest. This one is a bud: up, up, up it goes, and when it's ready, it will unfurl like an enormous leafy parasol.
A titan arum leaf, rocketing to the sky in the Sumatran rainforest.
December 11, 2024 at 8:45 AM
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elenakramer.bsky.social
Are you a plant science researcher working towards a PhD or an early career researcher who completed their PhD no more than five years ago? Consider applying to the Next Generation Scientists 2025 meeting, sponsored by New Phytologist! #botany
www.newphytologist.org/nextgenevent...
Next generation scientists 2025
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December 13, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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sandyheth.bsky.social
Rafael @rafadscruz.bsky.social and I are excited to share our new paper about fern fiddlehead evolution @currentbiology.bsky.social

Read the paper at www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thanks @palaeojules.bsky.social for the wonderful reconstructions!
Identification of a tetrahedral apical cell preserved within a fossilized fern fiddlehead
The gradual unfurling of fronds from tightly coiled tips, termed fiddleheads or croziers, is one of the most recognizable features of the fern lineage…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 5, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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lizhao.bsky.social
Nicolas Svetec, David Begun, and I wrote a review article about de novo genes. If you are interested in this topic please take a look at this final open-access version at AnnualReviews
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
November 26, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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michaelraissig.bsky.social
Absolutely wonderful Evo-Devo work from Madelaine Bartlett's group @slcuplants.bsky.social on the evolution and development of awns, the tiny, bristle-like extension on grass florets. Including awnless mutants in my favorite grass Brachypodium distachyon!! doi.org/10.1111/nph....
November 26, 2024 at 9:11 PM
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alexis-verger.cpesr.fr
Look who's here
@pnas.org ✔️
@science.org ✔️
@naturecellbiology.bsky.social ✔️
@natrevgenet.bsky.social ✔️
@naturebiotech.bsky.social ✔️
@naturemicrobiol.bsky.social ✔️
@naturechemistry.bsky.social ✔️
@genesdev.bsky.social ✔️
@cellchembiol.bsky.social ✔️
@genomeresearch.bsky.social ✔️
@jcellbiol.bsky.social ✔️
November 25, 2024 at 1:47 PM
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sajadalipour98.bsky.social
Dionysia janthina
Primulaceae
Yazd province, Iran
March 2023
Elevation: 2440m

We drove about 900 kilometres (round trip) to photograph this beautiful species.
November 24, 2024 at 11:57 AM
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janelangdale.bsky.social
Now that’s something to aspire to - being formally recorded as a badass woman in science!!
October 31, 2024 at 6:48 AM
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somssich.bsky.social
"Missed Wednesday's Development presents… July webinar on plant development? 🌱

The recordings of the talks by Martina Cerise, Vicky Spencer, and @gwenkirschner.bsky.social are now available."

🎥Catch up on the webinar:
thenode.biologists.com/catch-up-on-...

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Catch up on Development presents… July webinar on plant development - the Node
Catch up on the Development presents... webinar on 31st July, featuring talks from Martina Cerise, Vicky Spencer and Gwendolyn K. Kirschner.
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August 8, 2024 at 7:33 AM
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michaelraissig.bsky.social
We start reviewing applications only after Aug 19, so there is still time to apply to join us in beautiful Bern
August 8, 2024 at 2:07 PM
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katharinehayhoe.com
I’ve been a scientist for 30 years and I learned this TODAY!!!!!

Source: www.some.ox.ac.uk/eminent/mary...
Did you know? The gender neutral term scientist was coined specifically to describe Mary Somerville by the philosopher William Whewell in 1834.
April 30, 2024 at 7:41 PM