See our new publication in @femsjournals.bsky.social Microbiology Ecology on Adele Pioppi's #NNF_INTERACT PhD project where together with @xinmingxu.bsky.social, they describe the shift in wheat microbiome upon drought stress during successive cultivation
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Schiphol and EEES. Total. Utter. Chaos. Think I’ll use Heathrow next time.
Find a flower with 4 free petals arranged in a cross shape & you’ve found a member of the Brassicaceae! It’s a huge family & the challenge this week for #Wildflowerhour is to find a wild or naturalised member of the #CabbageFamily in flower. Share your finds this Sunday 8-9pm!
Panicum virgatum, a C4 species.
🌿📈We welcome submissions on C4 photosynthesis across scales, from taxonomy, anatomy & ecophysiology to CCM regulation, biochemistry, evolution, crop engineering & productivity modelling (2/4)
#C4Photosynthesis #PlantScience
We are seeking enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our Wheat Transformation and Gene Editing team. This is an exciting opportunity to work with cutting edge technologies at the forefront of crop science, contributing to innovative research in wheat improvement.
People always talk about these things in terms of effects on sleep, but potential for large scale impacts on ecosystems (eg phenology) could be substantial
www.theguardian.com/science/2026... #chronobiology
A cluster of vibrant bluebells in full bloom stands amidst a lush, green meadow. The background is softly blurred with faint hints of more flowers and grasses.
Purple bluebell flowers are displayed against a dark background. The flower on the left is upright, showing a closed bloom, while the one on the right is tilted, revealing an open interior with visible stamens.
A botanical specimen features several dried and pressed Hyacinthoides non-scripta plants, commonly known as bluebells. The stems and leaves are elongated, with some flowers at the top. Labels with botanical information are attached, and a scale bar is visible on the left.
This image shows a series of close-up and microscopic views of a purple flower and its anthers. The main image features a detailed, zoomed-in view of the flower, with arrows pointing to sections of the anthers and pollen structures. The surrounding panels show further magnified images of pollen grains and the surface texture of the anthers at various scales, with measurements labelled in micrometers.
This Plant Appreciation Day, we’re celebrating the British bluebell 💙🌿
Together with colleagues from Cambridge University Herbarium, @camplantsci.bsky.social and @slcuplants.bsky.social, we explore the science behind this much-loved native plant.
Read more: https://shorturl.at/Iauxq
@cam.ac.uk
Leaf habit variation and morphological diversity in Mimosa.
Why do some tropical trees lose leaves in the dry season?
Cássia-Silva et al.
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We are soon to be headless....
So come be our new boss in lovely Copenhagen and lead a department with research interests
from genes to ecosystems, and everything alive in between.
Magnified image of a human hair. Stock image.
A method dubbed “HairTime” allows researchers to determine a person’s internal circadian clock phase from a few of their hairs, revealing whether someone is a night owl, a morning lark, or, perhaps, a person working the night shift. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/anu250YEvsv
Lunar orb showing mostly the far side which has many more craters and less dark patches
Latest #ArtemisII Moon pic 🌕
LOOK HOW DIFFERENT THE FAR SIDE IS!
so unfamiliar!
Good day to remind everyone that we must fight to preserve the radio heritage / quietness of this region, it’s the only place shielded from Earth’s EM radiation.
I hope there are radio telescope there one day! 📡
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Amazing glasshouse architecture seen at Kew Gardens today. The Princess of Wales Conservatoy, the Davies Alpine House, the Tropical
house, & the Temperate House. #greenhouseenvy
Doing some lit searches this morning, amazes me how many journals breach GDPR rules.
Delighted to share our JIC guidance for precision-bred plant field trials. Field experiments link controlled research and real-world agricultural performance, and by sharing our insight and methodologies we aim to support compliant trial delivery within the new regulatory framework.
We sequenced the genome of 'desert ginseng' (Cistanche deserticola) - a leafless parasitic plant that gave up photosynthesis - and found it lost huge chunks of its own genome…but started stealing genes from its host!
Thanks to my collaborators Prof Huang + her talented team👏🏻
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The Microbe Zoo will be going to the Royal Society summer science exhibition 2026!!! Fantastic achievement by @sawtrust.bsky.social and @norwichmicro.bsky.social
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I do like this feed. Very calming amongst some of the nonsense on here.
We spring forward this weekend, but changing the clocks is increasingly controversial - why?
#circadian #dst #springforward #chronobiology #clockchange #SciComm🧪
Amazing #Chronobiology story by @drbatmo.bsky.social -see their recent #Science paper: A cellular basis for the mammalian nocturnal-diurnal switch
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
An overview of bacterial multicellular formations: biofilms, filaments, free-floating aggregates, motile collectives and fruiting bodies. For each form, we mention an analogous eukaryotic multicellular form (respectively animal epitelia, filaments in fungi, Volvox, Dictyostelium/social animals, Dictyostelium and other slime moulds)
How common is multicellularity in bacteria? And archaea?
And how does it evolve?
We wrote a short review "On the architecture and evolution of prokaryotic multicellularity".
Preprint link: bit.ly/4ta06Gq
Sharing and comments are much appreciated.
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New guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence in the evaluation of ERC grant proposals.
The aim is to safeguard the integrity of peer review while allowing limited use of AI where it does not compromise privacy or trust.
Read more 👉 bit.ly/47HqTld
Glad to be having @antdodd.bsky.social at #LeidenBiology, discussing about our @microclockerc.bsky.social project, and brainstorming on #ChronoMicrobiology experiments with our #ERCSyG team members
Thank you for hosting me! It’s been a pleasure to talk so much chronobiology, microbiology and plant science!
I am honored to be elected as a fellow of European Academy of Microbiology @femsmicro.org, recognizing the excellent work of talented post docs, PhD researchers and students in my group and our collaborations all around the world.
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This is such an incredible opportunity for circadian rhythm research! 🌚 If you are located in the UK and want to partner on this, please reach out!
I enjoy stats & methodology, focus on chronotype and depression in youth and have been described as "affable" & "nerdy"
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Do you have a PhD in plant science 🌿 and are you excited by the commercial application of research?
Do you want to grow your skills in IP management?💡
We have an exciting opportunity for you ⬇️
VACANCY: TSL Ventures Operations Officer www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t...
Apply before 7 April '26
