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Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

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I'm recruiting a 3-yr postdoc for an ARC-funded project on the interaction between circadian rhythms and grain quality in wheat. #plantsci #circadian We also have a fully-funded PhD position available. See Job Ad about Postdoc, email me about the PhD. jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91954...

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Our new publication demonstrating role of GIGANTEA in wheat circadian clock. Provide evidence that effects of GI on flowering are likely dependent on floral regulator PPD1 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience (no idea why Wiley have that picture associated with the paper!) 🧪

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open.spotify.com/track/6bbQuT.... >45 years old and still relevant

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Time to label every reference to Twitter/X in the media as "US state-controlled social media platform". Why should international organisations continue to use it? It would be a powerful gesture if democratic governments all over the world would move their entire social media content to Bluesky.

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Excited that the highly motivated Annie will be joining the lab

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🍾Big Congratulations to my dear colleague Uli Schaffrath @rwth.bsky.social and collaborators! Beautiful work showing that plant pathogenic fungi hijack phosphate signaling with conserved enzymatic effectors www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #PlantSci #effectors #immunity #MolPlantPhys

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The cleverest person I have met. Every time I had 10 minutes with John I learnt about my own research and got huge insight into areas of biology I did not know existed. from PhD onwards he wanted to know what I was doing, new data and ideas. Amazing.

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“The European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities expresses grave concern over the escalating threats to academic freedom, both in the United States and beyond” 🧪 European academies have isssued a joint statement on what is going on in US here: allea.org/wp-content/u...

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The British papers today.

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The enemy within Europe is the one that is invading a European sovereign nation.

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ASPB "remains committed to robustly supporting and strongly advocating for diversity and inclusion in the plant sciences, period." Read full statement 👉 https://blog.aspb.org/aspb-reaffirms-its-commitment-to-diversity-and-inclusion/.

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#JSPP 2025 Awards Runner up of PCP best paper (4/4): Hairy times…! Ikeda et al. use sophisticated automated detection tools (with image analysis & machine learning) to uncover clock regulation of root hair elongation via long distance shoot-to-root signaling doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience

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(1/2) Three #plantscience papers in @science.org this week: Scharwies et al find that ethylene, auxin and an arabinogalactan protein work together to control lateral root branching in response to water availability in maize www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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📜 Abscisic acid receptors functionally converge across 500 million years of land plant evolution 🧑‍🔬 Gil Zimran, Assaf Mosquna, Yufei Sun, et al. 📔 @currentbiology.bsky.social 🔗 www.cell.com/current-biol... #️⃣ #PlantScience #Phytohormones #PlantEvolution #PlantEvoDevo

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"I am voting for yourself"

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Truly the home of football. Preston North End have played at Deepdale for 150 years. I have only been watching for about 30 of those years. #PNEFC

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This is a truly awesome story by @priyaramakrishna.bsky.social & @nikogeldner.bsky.social et al. #CryoSEM imaging of elements!!! They just opened the floodgates for many many cool discoveries!!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Most plants can`t handle salt, but have evolved strategies to survive in it. How do they do it?🌱🧪 Excited to share some of our first insights using a new cryoelemental imaging technique to answer these questions at the subcellular scale!(1/8) www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nature.com #PlantScience

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A metabolic model of photosynthesis in a C3 crop. I think this will be useful. Important step for crop improvement

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💻 🍃 A fully coupled modelling framework that integrates a metabolic model of C3 #photosynthesis and a semi-mechanistic #crop growth model by Yufeng He, Yu Wang, Douglas Friedel, Meagan Lang, Megan L Matthews https://buff.ly/4czuZfm #PlantScience 🧪

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UK Government to legislate on ‘unlocking’ gene editing by March www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

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Natural variation modifies centromere proximal meiotic crossover frequency and segregation distortion in Arabidopsis thaliana biorxiv.org/content/10.1... new work from us on centromere inheritance and organisation @matt-naish.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social @genomeevolution.bsky.social

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We’re looking for 3 postdocs to join our lab and work on engineering plant gene expression, metabolism and growth. If you have enthusiasm & skills in synthetic biology or metabolic engineering, apply by Jan 31. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49767/ www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49773/ www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49769/

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Announcing a curated collection of long-read genomes for Arabidopsis thaliana: The 1001 Genomes Plus Project. Currently 453 unique accessions/almost 600 assemblies. Interested in contributing? Please contact us! #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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@newphyt.bsky.social had a long history of publishing excellent soil fungi papers. Here quoted is an important one

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The struggle is real. Three attempts to charge an electric car at Waitrose failed. Had to give my money to Musk and use a Tesla station. Middle class crises.

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⏰ Start your countdown clock for the exact moment of the winter solstice: 9:21am (UK) 21st Dec. This is when the Earth's North Pole is the most tilted away from the Sun during its yearly journey around it. Welcome the shortest day in the Northern Hemisphere🤗🧪🔭 📷: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

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Join us in Cambridge! This evolutionary genomics professorship (lecturer/reader level) has an emphasis on introgression and gene flow. If you study any aspect of evolutionary genomics then please apply! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49389/

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Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals. julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...

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If you’re interested in #chronobiology, find some of your community here! Want to be added? Reply with evidence your work relates to chronobiology (Please check if you’re already in it). go.bsky.app/Sw8L4aS With all the new people coming over, I’ll repost sporadically. 🧪 🌍 🦑 #EvoBio

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Happy Christmas!

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@camplantsci.bsky.social Christmas party! The fun has started

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📢 Applications for the 2025 Cambridge Amgen Scholars Programme are now open! This summer internship programme provides fully paid lab-based placements for undergraduate students studying in the UK and Europe. Find out more about how to apply: bit.ly/3UMMKyv

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Excited to be part of one of the BBSRC larger and longer grants with such a great team. Healthy circadian aging is healthy brain aging… @imperialmed.bsky.social www.ukri.org/news/bbsrc-i...

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A survey on why people want to study and work with plants: please participate and share <3 forms.gle/btg9GP1L3CTh...

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Mostly I will talk science but I love football. I think FIFA might be trying to destroy football. I want to see a World Cup more than anything. But not where it is illegal to be gay, or second class to be a women, or unacceptable to be an atheist. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

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I wrote some thoughts about why peer review matters It shapes scientific standards, maintains field coherence & trains new researchers Yes, it needs improvement—but it's the glue that holds scientific progress together briscoelab.org/2024/12/11/i...

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Word of the day is ‘quafftide’ (16th century): the season for drinking. Also a pithy way of declaring that it’s time to relax. Works for hydropots (water drinkers) just as well.

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