Thanks to Josephine Herbst, @mustafa-bulut.bsky.social, Debora Gasperini, Marcel Quint and of course @saschalaubinger.bsky.social for organising this event and also inviting all participants to the IBP Symposium this week 😊
Today, the 3rd Early Career Plant Researcher Meeting started with advice on application processes in academia, as well as a tour of the research facilities at the university and @ipbhalle.bsky.social 🌱 I am grateful to attend this meeting and get advice on funding opportunities and grant writing.
💫 Auf unserer Hauptversammlung im März haben wir mit @tobias1hoffmann.bsky.social & @marcelernst.bsky.social zwei wunderbare Science Avengers in den Vorstand befördert und Pläne für 2026/27 geschmiedet! 🧬
Weitere, spannende News im Bericht von @maggihel.bsky.social ⤵️
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Ich mag Radio als Medium sehr und so habe ich mich über die Einladung von @quarkswdr.bsky.social auch besonders gefreut.
In den ersten 40 min der gestrigen Sendung bei WDR5 haben wir über Neue Genomische Techniken und ihre geplante Regulierung gesprochen 🌾🧬✂️
www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/urn:...
CEPLAS starts a number of new projects, and we are looking for 12 Postdocs ❗
CEPLAS projects are always highly collaborative, that means postdocs working with us will always closely interact with several CEPLAS research groups. Find all postdoc openings here: www.ceplas.eu/en/training-...
CEPLAS, the cluster of excellence on plants sciences, is looking for PhD candidates for a number of exciting projects. See below for more info on the topics and on the recruiting process, and here: www.ceplas.eu/en/training-...
If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.
Please share!
My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th!
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
Congratulations, Mary!! ✨💖🌱
ECR’s hurry up, only 2 days left, if you want to take part in
3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting
Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026
⏱️Application deadline is 23rd Jan 2026
#PlantSci
➡️ www.plant-ecr-networking.eu
It's finally out!...
Using single-cell and spatial transcriptome data, and data imputation, we created BARVISTA, a website able to perform almost genome-wide information on gene expression profiles at single-cell resolution in barley spikes!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
paper is out now in Nature Plants, here is a link: Imputation integrates single-cell and spatial gene expression data to resolve transcriptional networks in barley shoot meristem development. Nat. Plants (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s414...
New Article: "Imputation integrates single-cell and spatial gene expression data to resolve transcriptional networks in barley shoot meristem development" rdcu.be/eYiMF
With Research Briefing rdcu.be/eYiM7
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
Poster announcing the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, held 20–21 April 2026 in Halle (Saale), Germany. The event targets experienced PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in plant science and features scientific talks, career development and grant-writing workshops, and networking. Travel and accommodation are covered, and participants are registered for the 11th Leibniz Plant Biochemistry Symposium (22–24 April 2026). Application deadline: 23 January 2026. Website: plant-ecr-networking.eu.
Are you an experienced PhD student or postdoc in plant science looking to connect, present your work, and discuss career paths?
Join us at the 3rd Early Career Plant Researchers Network Meeting, Halle (Saale), 20–21 April 2026
Deadline: 23 January 2026
plant-ecr-networking.eu
Trockentolerante Tomaten? Krankheitsresistenter Kakao? Ja, es gibt sie wirklich, die Anwendungsbeispiele für NGT (Neue Genomische Techniken) in der Pflanzenzüchtung! Zu finden in unserer CRISPR-Bibliothek.✊🌱
Jetzt neu mit Illus von @sanguinik.bsky.social⤵️
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Wondering about the dynamics during a developmental transition? Check out our preprint “Time-dependent bistability leads to critical slowing down during floral transition in Arabidopsis”, a very exciting collaboration with the Coupland lab @mpipz.bsky.social doi.org/10.64898/202...
Great opportunity to join this excellent plant research network for a PhD!
New call for PhD students to join CEPLAS
Oh Wow!
Cell wall patterning regulates plant stem cell dynamics | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#GiveGenesAChance 🌱🧬✊
Das Öko-Progressive Netzwerk e.V. (ÖkoProg) begrüßt die Einigung zwischen Europäischem Parlament, Europäischem Rat und EU-Kommission in ihrer gemeinsamen Sitzung im Rahmen des gestrigen Trilog-Verfahrens.
Zur Stellungnahme ⤵️
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Weil es viele Meldungen verkürzt darstellen:
Die #Gentechnik -Regeln in der EU werden im Kern nicht geändert. Es wird lediglich eine Ausnahme-Regel für Pflanzen geschaffen, die mit neuen Techniken gezüchtet wurden, aber äquivalent zu konventionellen sind. Für alle anderen gelten die alten Regeln.
Preprint alert! It is my great pleasure to announce the first manuscript from the lab, a story that started @gmivienna.bsky.social and was mainly accomplished by the intrepid @gesahoffmann.bsky.social at @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social. A brief thread with our findings
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Im Interview mit @jostmaurin.bsky.social in der @taz.de stellt die Demeter-Bäuerin und Co-Initiatorin einer Petition gegen die geplante neue Regulierung für NGTs, Pola Krenkel, eine Reihe gängiger Falschbehauptungen auf, die ich aus diesem Anlass in einem kurzen 🧵 debunke:
#GiveGenesAChance
Reviewer asking the authors to add 10 references from their lab
A great opportunity to join our newly established imaging centre in Frankfurt as engineer/technician. If you love light microscopy, please apply!
Please share!
Me, too! 😂 I am currently using the library in an image analysis script and it is really funny to see the word "yeet" pop up regularly :D
Countdown has started:
There are only 10 days left, if you want to join
Molecular Biology of Plants (#MBP2026) Conference in Hennef
Registration + abstract submission end on
🗓️ 23rd November 2025
www.pflanzen-molekularbiologie.de/en/conferenc...
🔥We released a new episode of the Night Science Podcast today, all about the power of improvisation in life, the arts and the sciences. We talked with Stephen Nachmanovitch who wrote the classic book "Free Play". Check it out and please me know what you think!
