Jeez Louise £1.82 for a litre of diesel

During secondary growth, primary protective barriers break, and a new one forms beneath: the phellem.

But what triggers phellem to differentiate and become a functional barrier? Our results show it’s mechanical cues from tissue rupture 🌱
Check out our preprint 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵/1

ERC-funded PhD position: auxin in plant morphogenesis!

Come to our team to study molecular mechanisms downstream of auxin signaling that control morphogenesis in plants! ueb.cas.cz/en/news/?id=...

Doria's fundraiser for Myeloma UK Help Doria de Souza Etchells raise money to support Myeloma UK

www.justgiving.com/page/doria-d...

Dear PPRM community, we are pleased to invite you to the next PPRM meeting, 14-16 September 2026 in Freising, Germany.

Registration opening soon!

Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

Aging drives a program of DNA methylation decay in plant organs Plants display a wide range of life spans and aging rates. Although dynamic changes to DNA methylation are a hallmark of aging in mammals, it is unclear whether similar molecular signatures reflect ra...

Absolutely delighted that our paper on epigenetic dynamics during plant aging is out today in Science!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It'd be good to chat Dan. I don't know the answer, but it'd be cool to pick the family apart as a next step and see if we can extend the phenotypes we have and find more.

With fantastic collaborators; Wenbin, @mdelucas.bsky.social @bradylabs.bsky.social, Shixue, Chunli, @apmahonen.bsky.social 😄

Given the described activators of cambium growth, we reasoned repressors were needed to balance the system. Here they are! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Discovery: Xing, Jingyi, Emma, Riikka, Anne-Maarit, Julia, Qing, Hanan, Raluca, Joanna, Yuqi, Wiki
#plantscience #plantdev

RICHeS Access fund is open for applications! Deadline Weds 8 April 2026. Up to £20,000. PhD students, heritage organisations are eligible as well as academics. Get in touch, we have a wide range of analytical capabilities and happy to discuss your ideas! www.riches.ukri.org/news-and-eve...

Nutrient uptake in commensal bacteria: exploring uncharacterised TonB-dependent transporters. at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Nutrient uptake in commensal bacteria: exploring uncharacterised TonB-dependent transporters. at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com

Lots of PhD opportunities for UK + international students involving my lab. Topics relate to metals & microbiology.

First up: TonB-dependent receptors in commensal Neisseria in my lab at Durham, with @kjosts.bsky.social and @mattbashton.bsky.social.

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below!
Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage

Predicting epistasis across proteins by structural logic by the amazing Michelle Tang et al
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

so tired

Imputation integrates single-cell and spatial gene expression data to resolve transcriptional networks in barley shoot meristem development - Nature Plants Spatially resolved gene expression during barley development was done by integrating an scRNA-seq dataset from cells with unknown position with spatial transcriptomics. This dataset is publicly availa...

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...

Paul Nurse demonstrating that irony isn't dead in todays Guardian
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Postdoctoral Researcher (Faulkner Group) | John Innes Centre An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Faulkner Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Cell & Developmental Biology.

We're looking for a postdoc to join us in trying to map the routes by which different signals travel through plants and identify what information they carry. Link👇or get in touch! @johninnescentre.bsky.social

#PlantSciJobs

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

PhD position in nitrogen use efficiency and wood formation in forest trees | slu.se SLU - Science and Education for Sustainable Life

🧪🌾VACANCY - Looking for a PhD in plant/forest science?

Join the @hanneletuominen.bsky.social group at UPSC & the WIFORCE Research School and investigate nitrogen use efficiency and wood formation in trees!

Read more and apply here👇:
www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Deadline: 10 Feb 2026

#PlantSciJobs

Today, our Director, Gwyneth Ingram, received the CNRS Silver Medal. (👇see the post below👇)

This award recognizes researchers for the originality, quality, and significance of their work, acknowledged at both national and international levels.

🌱Congratulations!🥂

Folks, our research group is looking for a new recruit. A research technician position is available (48 month contract). Please repost. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

A group of people smile at the camera standing against a backdrop of the Durham City skyline.

Durham has become a global @unesco.org Learning City – recognising outstanding commitment to education, learning and skills development for people of all ages. Find out more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

New £2m facility unlocks access to heritage science - Durham University

Researchers, galleries, libraries, museums and industry can access a new £2m facility at our Department of Archaeology to explore ancient and historical artefacts in greater detail.

NEMCAS provides cutting-edge tools to support heritage science 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

At 2-0 after 6 days of play, someone's got to tell them

I love a mystery white powder almost as much as I love a duran containing an unlabelled clear liquid

Close-up photo of the petioles of a palm. The spines are present on the edges of the petioles. The remnants of the leaf lamina are still clinging to some spines.

The spines on Elaeis guineensis (African oil palm) petioles are the hardened midveins that remain after the lowermost leaflets senesce. Diabolical! 📷: Diane Bricmont CCBYNC4 #Arecaceae #spine #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

A women with short brown hair is smiling into the camera. She wears a white jacket and a colourful scarf. Her hair is brightened up by some sunshine.

🎉 Congratulations to @cathbell62.bsky.social! 🎉

She has been awarded the Roséns Linnaeus Prize in Botany for her research on plant roots and carbon allocation, and for promoting international collaboration in science, especially the #INUPRAG collaboration.🧪🌾

Read more: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n...

Pathway to Independence Support postdocs on the job market Line drawing of a person at a bench transitioning to working at a desk Development

Apply for our Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs in #devbio and #stemcell research during the transition to their first group leader position: www.biologists.com/grants/devel...

Application deadline: 2 February 2026.

I don't mind paying a little more tax to take 450,000 children out of poverty

Hmm... might have been a bit soon for semi-dwarf varieties though..