We are seeing similar strategies in national granting agencies, the scenario is daunting 😬

ERC penalize the applicants to reduce the number of applications while increasing the years post PhD to increase the number of applicants.

There is nobody behind the wheel...

Head of Department, Department of Biology

jobportal.ku.dk/administrati...

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.

We spring forward this weekend, but changing the clocks is increasingly controversial - why?
#circadian #dst #springforward #chronobiology #clockchange #SciComm🧪

MATERNAL AUTOPHAGY CONTRIBUTES TO GRAIN YIELD IN MAIZE www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12...

May their words reach politicians‘ ears…

Sign the Petition Reconsider the potential suspension of Plant Biology Courses at UoN

Reconsider the potential suspension of Plant Biology Courses at UoN - Sign the Petition! c.org/p5jy2GXHcX via
@UKChange

Congrats Caterina, nice to see this one out.

Curious about my main PhD work?!🔬🌱 Please have a look on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.04.686542v1
Connecting auxin-autophagy-development

Maybe it smoked something 🤣

This Halloween, we have a spooky evolutionary story for you.
The brainchild of @delaconcepcionjc.bsky.social, Nick Irwin and our fantastic collaborators is now out in @natplants.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here’s why I love this work — and why I think you’ll enjoy it too. 👇

Electrostatic changes enabled the diversification of an exocyst subunit via protein complex escape - Nature Plants The evolutionary diversification of an exocyst subunit was enabled by electrostatic shifts leading to its dissociation from the ancestral complex.

My main work as postdoc @plantophagy.bsky.social lab in @gmivienna.bsky.social is out in @natplants.nature.com 🌱🎉

We asked how can protein complexes diversify without compromising their function and explored this question using the plant #exocyst complex.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences
@unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳

Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland

Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

Job posting. We look for a Full Professor (W3) of Stress Resilience of Plants at the RWTH Aachen.

We are looking for a colleague to join us at RWTH Aachen University:

🌱 Full Professor in Stress Resilience of Plants (W3 tenured)

📌What are we looking for? Someone working with us strategically at the interface of plant biology/ physiology/ resilience

#academicjobs #facultyjobs #PlantJobs

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Open positions Open positions

The University of Hamburg has opened 14 PhD positions focused on ecological and evolutionary research, including climate change impacts on aquatic populations. Details here: www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung/grk2530/ope... #phd

Assistant Professor in Austin, TX for The University of Texas at Austin Exciting opportunity in Austin, TX for The University of Texas at Austin as a Assistant Professor

Tenure-Track Plant Biology Assistant Professor position at UT Austin MBS. Review of the applications starts Nov. 1! Please spread the words🤠🌱🌼🌽🫛🍃🌾
jobs.plantae.org/jobs/2176440...

ABP1/ABL3-TMK1 cell-surface auxin signaling targets PIN2-mediated auxin fluxes for root gravitropism In gravistimulated roots, gravity perception in the columella redirects the flow of the plant hormone auxin toward the lower root side, where it inhibits cell elongation for downward root bending. Thi...

It is out! A tandem of two papers showing TMK regulation of PIN-dependent auxin transport www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... (PIN2, Friml lab) and www.cell.com/developmenta... (PIN1, Xu lab)

Our department of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the field of Plant-Organism Interactions 🌱🐛🦠🍄! Application before November 30, 2025. See the official job ad for more details: tinyurl.com/mtxdcz6p

🚀 Exciting PhD opportunity in structural biology & plant science! 🌱 PhD Position – Structural and Functional Studies of Plant Membrane-Protein Transporters 📍 Molecular Biology & Genetics -… ... 🚀 Exciting PhD opportunity in structural biology & plant science! 🌱 PhD Position – Structural and Functional Studies of Plant Membrane-Protein Transporters 📍 Molecular Biology & Genetics - Aarhus Un...

Interested in structural biology, membrane proteins, biophysics and working to understand hormone transport in plants?☘️🔬👩‍🔬🧪
We have an open PhD position:
- 3 years fully funded.
- Details and application link: www.linkedin.com/posts/plant-...
Please repost 💚

Landscape - The Forest of Biologists

Just planted in @jcellsci.bsky.social 🌳 😍

An A. thaliana mutant lacking all nine #ATG8 isoforms provides genetic evidence for functional specialization of #ATG8 in plants

forest.biologists.com/landscape/?i...

Our Autumn PhD call is OPEN!
20+ fully funded positions across diverse life science disciplines. Explore projects in Cell & Chromosome biology + more 👉 www.vbcphd.at

Apply by 10 Oct 2025

Job opportunity: come join the excellent and friendly #ProteostasisUK community!

😺 to see this one out @jcellsci.bsky.social & have a 🌲 planted for it): journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... am sure more creative people will make better use of this resource 1/2

Photoexcited CRY1 physically interacts with ATG8 to regulate selective autophagy of HY5 and photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis (Lu Jiang , Shilong Zhang , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience

A multisensor high-temperature signaling framework for triggering daytime thermomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis - Nature Communications Plants encounter high temperatures concomitantly with intense sunlight during the daytime. Here, the authors reveal a concerted chloroplast and nucleus high-temperature signaling framework that gates ...

Further evidence that sugar in the plates changes the plant biology you study. Best to avoid putting sugar in the agar, unless you want to study what sugar in the agar does to plants. This paper uses sugar in the agar to study what sugar does. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #plantresearch

We would like to thank our collaborators @hartman-plantlab.com team and Dominique Van Der Straeten for their contribution and input to this story.

This work was spearheaded by the one and only @ansbol.bsky.social. So if you are interested in autophagy, plant development or flooding stress, please check our preprint out!

Autophagic degradation of EIN3 ensures developmental plasticity and recovery from environmental stress in Arabidopsis Ethylene signaling, mediated by the key transcription factor EIN3, regulates diverse developmental processes and stress adaptations, including hypocotyl growth, aging, and submergence tolerance. Autop...

Do plants ever feel, feel so paper-thin, like a house of cards, one stress from caving in? 🌱+🌊👉🃏
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
That’s the life of an autophagy mutant.
We find that Autophagy degrades EIN3, keeping EIN3-dependent programs in check for smooth development and stress recovery.

WIND1 controls cell fate transition through histone acetylation and deacetylation during somatic embryogenesis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08....

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Some experiments advance science. Others advance the reviewer’s sense of power. Guess which costs more. #FridayThoughts