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Assistant professor in the PMB Department at UC Berkeley. Stanford Alum. #FearTheTree yangonglab.com
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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · Jun 19
Happy to announce that I will be opening my lab in the PMB department at UC Berkeley this July. Our lab will study nectary development and evolution using non-conventional models. We are actively recruiting. Join us if you are also enthusiastic about development or evolution!
Gong Lab @ UC Berkeley PMB
www.yangonglab.com
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ips2parissaclay.bsky.social
Welcome and congratulations to Bruno Guillotin on joining IPS2 as a permanent researcher!
May the spirit of science always be with you and inspire your future discoveries. #PlantScience
ips2.u-psud.fr/en/articles/...
Dr. Bruno Guillotin
November 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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michaelraissig.bsky.social
🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳

Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland

Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
October 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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plantevodevo-ab.bsky.social
🌱 Open PhD Position in Plant EvoDevo 🌱 Thinking about a PhD in plant evodevo? The Becker Research Group (JLU Giessen, Germany) has a fully funded 4-year PhD position in the ICIPS II research unit! 🎓 📍 Where? Gießen, Germany – great research environment & vibrant plant science network.
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October 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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kirkamundson.bsky.social
UMass Amherst Biology is recruiting a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of Plant Physiology. Deadline Nov 1. Please spread the word and apply!

careers.massachusetts.edu/mob/en-us/jo...
Assistant Professor - Plant Physiology
The Department of Biology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the area of Plant Physiology. The successful can...
careers.massachusetts.edu
October 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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somssich.bsky.social
I really like the series of profiles @newphyt.bsky.social is currently publishing.

The new one is on @stanfordstomata.bsky.social:

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PlantScience #PlantLuminaries
September 29, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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jacoblevine.bsky.social
I am advertising a postdoctoral position in my new lab at Duke, to start as early as August 2026. If you are interested in how plant communities respond to climate change, please consider applying!

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30614
September 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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chenxinli2.bsky.social
A deep-time landscape of plant cis-regulatory sequence evolution

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A deep-time landscape of plant cis-regulatory sequence evolution
Developmental gene function is conserved over deep time, but cis-regulatory sequence conservation is rarely found. Rapid sequence turnover, paleopolyploidy, structural variation, and limited phylogeno...
www.biorxiv.org
September 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
yangong.bsky.social
Please spread the words. This is the third annual AP search in our department to extend the junior faculty cohort!
September 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
yangong.bsky.social
Congrats!
August 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
yangong.bsky.social
Kramer lab graduate students shining at #Botany2025. @elenakramer.bsky.social @andreaappleton.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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jesusgm.bsky.social
A little belated but I've started a faculty position at Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology department at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social. I'm absolutely stoked! I'll be recruiting at all levels and will be at #Botany2025

Reach out!

www.martinezgomezlab.com
Martinez-Gomez Lab
Plant Evo-Devo
www.martinezgomezlab.com
July 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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mexpositoalonso.bsky.social
Network, we are looking for PhD students and Postdocs on evolutionary and ecological genomics in 2025/2026

Join our diverse and welcoming lab at UC Berkeley & HHMINEWS!

Check job ads-> www.moilab.science/team/join-us
M O I L A B - Join us!
Join us! Our lab is based at the University of California, Berkeley, embedded in the vibrant and multicultural San Francisco Bay Area, surrounded by astonishing nature!
www.moilab.science
July 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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mingyuanzhu.bsky.social
Excited to share that the Zhu Lab will officially open at Texas A&M University on August 1st, 2025!

We’re a multidisciplinary group, exploring how plant roots adapt their growth to environmental stresses across scales. Actively recruiting!

Postdoc Advertisement: drive.google.com/file/d/1Gpvn...
July 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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seedrevolutionlab.bsky.social
I have a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position starting in January to study the evolution of seed gene networks using the fern Ceratopteris! Interested? More info here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU179/r...

Closing date 31st July. 🙂
#PlantScience
#PlantSciencejobs
Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) at University of Birmingham
An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Fellow (Postdoctoral) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
www.jobs.ac.uk
July 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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jsharbro.bsky.social
Please RT!

I'm hiring a postdoc to work in my new lab at UCSB (!) on an NSF-funded project investigating the phenotypic consequences of WGD for photosynthesis and respiration.

Check out the full posting here:
recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02986

And more info about the lab here:
sharbroughlab.com
July 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
yangong.bsky.social
Gotta Catch’Em All!
elenakramer.bsky.social Elena Kramer @elenakramer.bsky.social · Jun 30
We’re getting excited about Botany!
June 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
yangong.bsky.social
Happy to announce that I will be opening my lab in the PMB department at UC Berkeley this July. Our lab will study nectary development and evolution using non-conventional models. We are actively recruiting. Join us if you are also enthusiastic about development or evolution!
Gong Lab @ UC Berkeley PMB
www.yangonglab.com
June 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
yangong.bsky.social
As part of the special issue for nectar and nectaries, our new review on nectary development and evolution is now published at @newphyt.bsky.social! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The developmental basis of floral nectary diversity and evolution
Nectar is a central bridge between angiosperms and animal mutualists. It is produced by specialized structures termed nectaries, which can be found on different plant organs. Consumption of floral ne....
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 5, 2025 at 4:43 AM
yangong.bsky.social
As part of the special issue on Nectar & Nectaries. Evin et al., contributed a fascinating review for nectar color and nectar chemistry! @newphyt.bsky.social
newphyt.bsky.social New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · Apr 20
#TansleyInsight: In the #nectar, there are answers: exploring the intersection of colored nectars and reactive #oxygen species in manipulating #pollinator behavior

Evin Magner, Rahul Roy, Adrian Hegeman & Clay Carter
👇

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#LatestIssue #PlantScience
Figure 1: Colored nectar diversity, pigment synthesis, functions, and reactive oxygen species (ROS) involvement. Panels show the relationship between nectar ROS and coloration.
April 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
yangong.bsky.social
Consider joining us for PBI on Plant Rewards this year! We have travel grants for ECR that are due next Monday!
yangong.bsky.social Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · Apr 9
Working on nectaries or plant-pollinator interactions? Join us for this year's Harvard Plant Biology Initiative Symposium on 'Plant Rewards' on May6/7. We have an awesome lineup of speakers with free registration. We are also offering two ECR travel grants (due April 14): forms.gle/jhTnv8pbuBxX...
April 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
yangong.bsky.social
Working on nectaries or plant-pollinator interactions? Join us for this year's Harvard Plant Biology Initiative Symposium on 'Plant Rewards' on May6/7. We have an awesome lineup of speakers with free registration. We are also offering two ECR travel grants (due April 14): forms.gle/jhTnv8pbuBxX...
April 9, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Reposted by Yan Gong
orchardnotes.com
With apple #blossom season just around the corner (in our neck of the woods at least) now seems like a good time to reprise my article from a couple of years back, 'Lifecycle of an Apple, From Bud to Blossom to Fruit'.

The story of a single apple, in 50+ photos.

orchardnotes.com/2023/03/28/l...
Lifecycle of an Apple, From Bud to Blossom to Fruit | Orchard Notes
Follow the lifecycle of a single apple bud from dormancy to harvest, in this series of 40+ photos.
orchardnotes.com
April 5, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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ehaswell.bsky.social
Seed and tuber collections are really, really, REALLY important.

A short thread 🧵 1/5

🧪 #plantscience
Opinion | Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds? (Gift Article)
Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nation’s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.
www.nytimes.com
March 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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scottzona.bsky.social
The source of nectar secretion varies in position & shape. In many monocots, the nectary is in the wall (septum) of the pistil. Here in Hemerocallis (#Asphodelaceae) the tepals & stamens are removed to show the septal nectary is at the base of the superior ovary. #Nectar drop circled. #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Close-up of the ovary of a daylily (tepals, stamens and style removed). A droplet of nectar is oozing from the septal nectary as the base of the ovary. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
March 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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bellemare-jesse.bsky.social
Photosynthetic suction cups… Hoya imbricata (Apocynaceae) ascending a brick wall in the Lyman Plant House at Smith College Botanic Garden.
February 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM