🌎 🤖 💻 ☘️🌳 Interested in the intersection between #ecosystem #ecology and tech development? We're still looking for a research assistant to help with our projects about how roots - the 'hidden half' of plants - work here at Trinity College Dublin. Find the job ad here: www.tcd.ie/botany/vacan...

Protecting against downside risk doesn’t have to come at the expense of continued increases in the yield potential.
No evidence of a tradeoff between yield stability and maximum yield in an analysis of hybrid performance across 34 environments. New pub led by @jensinadavis.bsky.social

One more week to apply for a postdoc in our group (patronlab.org) @Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge. This is a 3-year position to investigate regulatory sequences and engineer gene expression in plants with the aim of optimising yields from metabolic pathways. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49769/

Can wheat keep up with climate change and food security demands? 🤔 Simon Griffiths @johninnescentre.bsky.social will explore how precision breeding can transform the future of wheat genetics.
📅 Webinar: 15 May 2025 at 11 AM EDT!
🔗 Sign up today: tinyurl.com/2k78bmmh

Gorgeous end to a productive snow day.

The biggest impact I'll ever have as a professor is the people I help train. Felt wonderful to see so many current trainees and lab alumni together in one place this past weekend at the 2025 Maize Genetics conference.

Ed Buckler awarded the 2025 McClintock Prize in absentia. Two thirds of the room standing by the end of “if you were trained by Ed, stand up. If you were trained by one of those people, stand up. If Ed’s work has shaped your career, stand up.”

UK scientist wins prize for invention that could help avert ‘phosphogeddon’.

Phosphate, key to food production, is choking waterways, but a new sponge-like material (Phosphate Removal Material or PRM) returns it to the soil for crops.
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www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

It takes experiments in many places to understand corn. But experiments many hours drive away usually get less attention and less data collection. Nikee Shrestha is phenotyping individual corn plots (3x5 meters) at 5 sites spanning 725 miles (1,200 km) ... FROM OUTER SPACE. doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...

#jobalert #scijob 🌾🧪

PhD Position – Effect #modelling of climate variability on #wheat plants and #root-soil interactions

www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...

Due to the high number of received applications, we have taken the position👇 offline. This will allow us to process the existing applicants, and we will re-advertise next year if needed.
Thank you for the interest and huge response.

Hello everyone! I’m looking for a graphic designer experienced in creating cartoon stories for children. Please help spread the word!

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