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ronaldpierik.bsky.social
Plant scientist with a love for light and developmental plasticity at Wageningen University, NL. Editor Plant Physiology. Diversity enthusiast. plantphotobiology.com
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Our #hypoxia FI is online! @plantphys.bsky.social featuring this stunning cover image by @moeabbas.bsky.social Check out the fantastic lineup of Updates, Topical Review & research articles @schwarzlanderlab.bsky.social academic.oup.com/plphys/issue...

📣 Plant Physiology welcomes new Assistant Features Editors starting in 2025 and 2026!👉 https://academic.oup.com/plphys/advance-article/doi/10.1093/plphys/kiae661/7922604 A big thanks, to those who are stepping down from the position!👏

Two competitively funded PhD project are available in my lab, focussed on understanding roles for protein degradation in the regulation of translational quality control and iron homeostasis in plants! Project details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/… deadline to apply: 16/01/2025

Still plenty of time to apply for a PhD with me and Julie Gray for 2025! Please repost!

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

Delighted to announce the registration is now open for Plant Chronobiology 2025, the first-ever dedicated conference for plant circadian biology! Please share #plantscience plantclock.wixsite.com/2025

Differential growth is an emergent property of mechanochemical feedback mechanisms in curved plant organs @ Developmental Cell www.cell.com/developmenta...

Job opportunity! ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR (TIER 2) IN PLANT RESILIENCE FOR FOOD SECURITY #plantscience #plantscijobs academicjobsonline.org/ajo/UBC/Bota...

Plant biologists! We need you! We did set up a quick survey to study why people chose to study plant science. Please check here and shared widely: forms.gle/4X3FUwzxXBx3... #PlantSci

The Rowe lab is recruiting a #PlantScience PhD student for 2025! You'll use our new ABACUS FRET biosensors to map the dynamic leaf #AbscisicAcid accumulations at low humidity in Arabidopsis, wheat and rice. #PhDposition www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

We're looking for a postdoc to join our team. If you are fascinated by mechanisms of cell-to-cell communication in plants, get in touch to find out more. #PlantScience www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

The first European Plant Chronobiology Symposium will be held in Leuven, Belgium. The meeting is being organised by an amazing team of scientists (see link)! Register your interest here: plantclock.wixsite.com/2025 #plantsci #plantbio #circadian #chronobiology

The Salk Institute shared the sad news that Prof. Joanne Chory passed away yesterday due to complications from Parkinson’s disease. She was one of the most influential biologists of our time. And this is how I will remember Joanne, expertly guiding us on where to go. Joanne, we will miss you! ❤️

Everyone who is into (plant) cell types and their identity, development, evolution... the Plant Cell Atlas has an exciting webinar series on how to define cell types, starting today (6pm CET)! 🌱🔬🧬 Register: bit.ly/PCAPCI_Webinar. The sessions will be recorded too.

Pre-print alert!🚨 Have you ever tested various protocol parameters but only reported the ones you settled on? We would like to see everything reported! 🌱 It has been a pleasure to work with Lucila Salvatore, Kirsten ten Tusscher and @ronaldpierik.bsky.social on this! doi.org/10.1101/2024...

📢Calling all researchers! We are studying what makes a great (or not-so-great) supervisor from the perspective of PhD students and postdocs. Our goal? To improve academic mentorship and research environments. Got 5-10 minutes? Take the survey!✍️ forms.gle/WT9GoiaHxypX...

this could be a super interesting initiative!

I have a posting for a postdoc position, please see below for more info

Assistant Professor ( Plant Sciences) x2 https://botany.fyi/omagil Applications are invited for two posts as Assistant or Associate Professor at the University of Warwick in the UK. All excellent candidates in plant science are welcome although we are particularly interested in those who work on

Information integration in plants: how photoreceptor activity in the shoot controls sensitivity to nutrient-dependent hormone cues from the root. Read all about it In our latest paper in Nature Communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Great work by lead author Pierre Gautrat.

Interested in plant biology education? Join us Jan 7-8, 2025 in Lancaster (UK) "Plant Biology Education: Shaping the Future." Sessions on effective & inclusive teaching, community building, AI challenges/opportunities, educational research and more! Register cvent.me/LB9K1D #PlantScience

An excellent and so important paper from the @christianhardtke.bsky.social lab www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Please share! Wonderful opportunity to join us in Wageningen www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/f...

I have updated the #PlantScience #StarterPack. You can now include 150 accounts, instead of the initial 50. I have tried to focus on active accounts. go.bsky.app/8Zfmwf7

UNC Chapel Hill’s Biology Dept is hiring a cluster of tenure track Assistant Professors: two in Plant Molecular Biology and one in Plant Evolutionary Biology. We're a vibrant community of awesome colleagues and an idyllic place to live. Please repost! unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/288...

#PlantScience 🌱🧪🌾 peeps, now is the time to apply for the Tansley Medal from @newphyt.bsky.social deadline is 1 November! newphytologist.org/awards/tansl...

My old stomping ground has a faculty position open for photosynthetic folks. It’s a great place to work (unless you don’t like snow and/or mosquitoes). Head to the PRL homepage for the link. #plantscience

Plz repost We are recruiting a new colleague w/ experience in plant-pathogen interactions & high-throughput infections. Preferably with a university degree, but applicants with a strong technical education are also welcome. More about us: weigelworld.org nextcloud.tuebingen.mpg.de/index.php/s/...

Hosting Gaby Toledo Ortiz, today. She will officially join us at the MOB chair group at WUR on August 1st. Welcome, Gaby! @ronaldpierik.bsky.social #plantsci

We want to thank all the participants and speakers for making this an amazing #YRSPP2024 ! We hope you enjoyed yourselves just as much as we did, and can’t wait to see you all in Edinburgh in 2026!!!

Please repost! Best #plantscience job ever—My colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne are seeking a new Director! Max Planck is particularly keen to recruit colleagues at the early Associate Professor level! #plantscijobs www.mpipz.mpg.de/director

Maybe we should all make our scientific talks as if there's someone in the room who is not an expert. Because there probably is. 🧪

Origins and primary regions of diversity of agricultural crops blog.ciat.cgiar.org/origin-of-cr... #PlantScience #Agriculture #Vavilov

Plz Repost. Postdoc position: We are looking for a plant biologist with a strong interest in the model system Marchantia and comparative studies with flowering plants. @slcuplants.bsky.social in Cambridge. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/46686/

Such a nice piece written by @stramon1um.bsky.social on our recent paper showing that farred light powers photosynthesis. Mauro Maver wrote this in their OA journal Omnia, new to me and an awesome way to be introduced! Thanks!

My institute currently has a vacancy for a Group Leader in Philosophy of Biology or Theoretical Biology. At least 5 years of postdoc experience is required. Please apply and share!

My review of The Light Eaters, a book about "plant intelligence", is out in @ScienceMagazine today. Let me know what you think! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪 #plantscience #plantbiology

New: "A spatial transcriptome map of the developing maize ear" rdcu.be/dH4k3 Spatial + single-cell transcriptomes = atlas and developmental trajectories of maize ear cells. Bonus identification of a pair of transcription factors involved in inflorescence development.

Great paper that creates a new GA biosensor and shows key role for GA signalling at the edges of organ primordia. Auxin gets the lion's share of attention at the apex, but the role of GA has been much less well understood. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out @BerondaM ‘s thoughtful and scholarly review of @zoeschlanger ‘s new book “The Light Eaters”. (My review, less thoughtful and less scholarly, comes out next week in @ScienceMagazine). www.nature.com/articles/d41... #plantscience #academicsky 🧪

DELLA proteins recruit the Mediator complex subunit MED15 to coactivate transcription in land plants www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... #plantscience