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jkilby.bsky.social
A Shropshire lass expatriated to Wales, dog lover, plant scientist and Welsh learner. Post-doc at Cardiff University interested in pollen tube and pistil interactions and cell cycle. She/her/Dr.
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🧬🌱 EXPERT VIEW 🌱🧬 'Intrinsic cues guiding changes in division orientation in the Arabidopsis root meristem: a formative experience' - Konstantinova et al. doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

The latest OneZoo projects are up! Eagle eyed readers will notice a certain Cryptosporidium evolutionary genomics project... onezoo.uk/projects/coh...

PhD project advert is up. Feel free to disseminate www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Preprint up detailing our work on Parapipe: a pipeline for handling protozoan NGS datasets, integrating polyclonality analysis with high resolution phylogenomic clustering for eukaryotic pathogen surveillance. With a healthy dose of Crypto, of course! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Emergent bluebells and wood anemones. #wilflowerhour

1. Yesterday I wrote a thread about the dire warnings from food professionals on the state of supply chains. Comfortable folk might find it impossible to imagine an end to the current abundance. But we'd better start imagining it fast. THIS thread is about solutions - false ones and sound ones.

#wildflowerhour#woodlandplants Parasitic toothwort and a Cuckoo pint being stalked by cattle dog.

We have 3 fab #WildFlowerID webinars lined up for you this spring. Led by national experts. All absolutely free! 22 Apr: Mulleins with Mike Crewe 7 May: Mints with Ambroise Baker 10 June: Broomrapes with @christhorogood.bsky.social Details & booking links: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/03/shar...

The wonderful sight of Snake's-head Fritillaries now in full flower in a Suffolk churchyard, surrounded by thousands and thousands of Primroses! Thanks to a limited and favourable mowing regime there is a diverse flora, perfect for pollinators! @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

#WildFlowerHour really pleased with the parasitic one!

Leeloo noted that dog lover comes before plant scientist in my bio….so how many “foots” are there in this picture?

🔬🌼 New article in @aobp.bsky.social tracks the first 48 hours after pollination in Brassica napus (canola). Scientists mapped floral organ changes, showing pollen tubes reach the ovules in just 4 hours. Full #openaccess 👉 doi.org/10.1093/aobp... #PlantScience

Looking for a PhD in biological invasion? Come and join us at Coventry University @coventrycawr.bsky.social this September to study emerging invasive plants. Project in collaboration with @bsbiscience.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social and linked to @onestop-project.eu.

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As it's #WildflowerHour #WoodAnemone challenge on Sunday and in the spirit of @privateeyenews.bsky.social Lookalikes! 🙄😁😉

Happy to share new article "Integrative analyses reveal Bna-miR397a–BnaLAC2🧬as a potential modulator of low-temperature❄️adaptability in #Brassica napus L." from my PhD lab, is out in #PlantBiotechJ @sebiology.bsky.social @aabiologists.bsky.social 🤩🎊 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to Veronica Grieneisen and Stan Maree! doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

We're looking for a postdoc to join the lab to work on cell-to-cell communication via the apoplast. Candidate must be brave, as they will have to lead us (me) away from the plasmodesmata-lands we've inhabited for so long! www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

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Please repost: BBSRC funded PhD opportunity. Please get in touch for further project info. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Abstract submission open for #ICAR2025 Come join an outstanding selection of Plenary, Concurrent and Workshop speakers. We expect ~50 speakers selected from submitted abstracts… and of course plenty of posters! Www.icar2025.com #plantscience

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This phenotype 🔥🔥🔥

#wildflowerhour Good to know kissing is still in fashion.

#fungifriends Well they look pretty friendly.

#fungifriends living in a high rise. Turkey tail.

#wildflowerhour Hedera hanging on.

#wildflowerhour Hazel, Forest farm, Caerdydd

#wildflowerhour Gorse again, so many buds.

#fungifriday Forest farm, Cardiff

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour