So proud to share our latest publication @CellCellPress! Yue Rui reveals that the same enzyme that makes the wall, cellulose synthase complex (CESA), also tethers the plasma membrane to the wall during water-deficit stress, providing resilience. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
José Dinneny
This #PrideMonth, we revisit this blog by Leah Milner-Campbell on ‘Being proud of our authentic selves’ 🙌🌈
Read Leah’s thoughts on Pride Month, a time to celebrate resilience and living openly as our true selves, particularly in research environments where self-expression drives innovation
June marks Pride Month, and Leah Milner-Campbell, Neurodiversity project officer, explores this as a time to celebrate authenticity, resilience, and the courage to live openly as our true selves.
To celebrate this year's Fascination of Plants Day (18 May), students & postdocs from @instmolplantsci.bsky.social ran a number of exciting activities at @thebotanics.bsky.social. We had plant fossils, 3D-printed plant models, and more! Well done to our amazing team of volunteers! 🌱🌸
Over the past year, @biologyopen.bsky.social has expanded its Fast & Fair initiative to accelerate peer review. The results are impressive - take a look at their latest preprint to find out more: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#PlantSciJobs 🌱
Postdoctoral Research Associate (x2) and Research Assistant (x2)
Dr Edwige Moyroud is seeking 2 Postdocs and 2 Research Assistants to join her team investigating petal patterning
Applications close:
5 June: Research Assistant bit.ly/4a32ffK
17 June: Postdoc bit.ly/4dT2LOC
🌿 Applications are NOW OPEN for the ROOT & SHOOT RCN Fall SI-MI Mentoring Course! This free, online training helps plant scientists become more effective mentors by exploring how social identity, power, and culture shape mentoring relationships. Space is limited!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Want to know what links stomatal evolutionary development with legume nodulation? Do you love peptide signalling and rhizobia? If so, I hope you love our new paper as much as I do. FREE ACCESS for a couple of months: authors.elsevier.com/c/1nE~A3QW8S...
John Innes Centre
Essential reading
www.biorxiv.org
Tune in this coming Monday on zoom! I'll be presenting work from my PhD @slcuplants.bsky.social on how plants regulate their shoot branching architecture via auxin, strigolactone, and BRC1.
Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences (SBS) - U. of Edinburgh
Katherine Brown
Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)
Botanical Society of America
Caspar Chater
Andrea Paterlini (he/him)
Zoe Nahas
"The REF was initiated as a way of distributing research funding most productively but morphed into a hugely expensive attention-engrossing status marker. Few things would improve the intellectual culture of universities more quickly than the complete abolition of this" www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paying peer reviewers works.
Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social:
• 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews
• ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript
• no reduction in editor-assessed review quality
• similar acceptance rates
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...
Next Monday, 15 June at 2:30 PM (UK time), we are excited to welcome Zoe Nahas @zoenahas.bsky.social and Toby Andrews @tobyandrews.bsky.social!
This seminar will be online and will be the last one of the term. We hope to see many of you there and finish the term with great science and discussion!
Daniel Gorelick
Cambridge Morphogenesis Seminar Series
This spring I took over and redesigned the only Gen Ed on plants here #IB103. We walked through every core aspect of plant bio in lectures & labs, but also through art & design. I had a blast, the evaluations are rewarding (4.9/5), the redesign got an award from the college, and a little press too!
