Registration for the 13th PhD School on Plant Development is open! 🌾 🔬 🌺 🧬 🌵 🧪
Deadline: June 30, 2026
Link to registration form forms.gle/tbmUxaw2vmEn...
Cost: €350.- (incl. board, lodging and social event)
For details re payment and abstracts see form or homepage raissiglab.org/plantdevosch...
It's been 65 days since Donald Trump invaded a sovereign state, abducted its leader, and declared the US will "run" the state indefinitely
It's been 9 days since Trump launched a war (his word) against Iran without congressional approval
No House member has filed articles of impeachment for either
🚨 PhD Position in Plant Molecular Biology 🌱
We are looking for a motivated PhD student to join our team to study root protective barriers. If you are interested in confocal microscopy, cell wall biology, and plant development, this project might be for you! Please share!
#PlantScience #PlantSciJob
🌱 🚨Postdoc position – Plant Chromatin Biology (Strasbourg)
Grob and Jullien Lab - details attached
📅 Apply by March 30, 2026
📩 stefan.grob@cnrs.fr
Please share with anyone who might be interested!
#Postdoc #PlantScience #Epigenetics #Chromatin
Very excited to announce that we are hiring for three faculty positions at @universityofleeds.bsky.social in @bioscienceleeds.bsky.social: A/Prof Plant Science, A/Prof Animal Biology and Lecturer in Ecology, Zoology, Biodiversity or Ecosystem Management. Please do get in touch to chat. Links below:
Flyer for symposium: https://ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org/
Very excited to announce the FIRST symposium on epigenome editing! These tools are becoming widely used in mol bio, ag & therapy. It's time to bring leaders together to discuss this rapidly growing and exciting field. And why not in Paris! Please register & share! (1/2) ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org
Strongly suspect that as this war and its negative effects escalate, we're gonna see a massive increase in disinfo and unsourced "news" - starting right the hell now.
PLEASE don't share "breaking" news from rando or disreputable accounts who provide no links.
This is a nice little essay that scientists-in-training should read. Writing is a process for thinking and developing ideas as much as communicating. Some types of discomfort are productive and should be embraced. Good writing is hard and uncomfortable, and crucial for career progression.
Since its creation in 1965, the humanities endowment has awarded more than $6.5 billion to support over 70,000 projects, from landmark works like Ken Burns’s documentary “The Civil War” to small local efforts in every part of the country.
Just incidentally, this is somewhat less than what NSF funds in a single (normal) year. And NIH gets ~5-7 times as much money as NSF.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...
Sink = artisanal human-powered spring water 😆
I had a cat who did this at the bathroom sink. Old house, crappy door didn’t always latch, so she would barge in on guests when they (rightly) expected privacy. 🫣
The fancy cat drinking fountain is worth it.
A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading: WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out- stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violence—The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Down—Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.
Happy International Women's Day. 🏴
The Norwegian Consumer Council with an amazing video on enshittification and how to resist it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
I am happy to announce the launch of a new Arabidopsis genomics resource! Check out arabidopsislyrata.org Now you can easily look at the natural genetic variation across the entire species range of A. lyrata and A. arenosa.
🧬🔎 Deep dive into plant #TransposableElements
❓ If you identify all autonomous #TEs, you will automatically also have all non-coding derivates, right? Right?
Well, no! Not even close. Check out here, how much you are missing:
📚 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#TEsky
In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.
13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.
The law didn't change.
torrentfreak.com/uploading-pi...
Hello, if you are looking for reliable resources to follow as things escalate in Lebanon, I've got you ! Now is an especially good time to check out these accounts since there is very little media coverage of what's going on in Lebanon !
go.bsky.app/Bwe7hSf
Pls re-post: My department @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social are recruiting for several new faculty positions (links below). Broad search in molecular biology/biochemistry, across prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Interested in understanding life at the molecular level, this job might be for you!
1/n
Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...
EPIPLANT conference
🌱 You like plants and epigenetics?
Explore mechanisms of chromatin regulation & epigenetics in Nantes, France!
🎤 Great speakers + oral & poster slots from selected abstracts.
22-24 June 2026
Abstract submission deadline: 24 April 2026.
epiplant-2026.sciencesconf.org
As you can see here, right from the very first day he entered our house, Jim found great difficulty in getting settled and making the environment his own.
THREAD.
3 & 1/4 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he'd been living, in rural Cornwall, & decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st 2022
When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.
In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.
In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.
And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.
We are inviting applications for a joint appointment:
Director at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry
Full Professor (W3) at MLU
Apply by April, 24 via: berufungsportal.uni-halle.de
Join us in advancing innovative research at the interface of chemistry and bioactive natural products.
Private research that is useful for moving knowledge forward but not projected to be quite profitable enough never sees the light of day.
Then others, perhaps multiple other private or academic labs, will have to redo that research to gain that knowledge. That is the opposite of efficiency. (4/4)
Gun violence costs the United States an estimated $557 billion every year.
That is about 2.6 percent of the entire U.S. economy, or more than $1,600 per person, every year.
This cost is higher than what the federal government spends annually on education.
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
These pudgy little dudes are my favorite!
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
Faculty position in Plant Molecular Biology (Associate Professor or Tenure-Track Assistant Professor) at Aarhus University, Denmark
mbg.au.dk/aktuelt/ledi...
Very funny to me, also, that "The Arsenal of Freedom" is the name of an episode in Star Trek TNG where autonomous AI weapons killed an entire civilization and there's a sales hologram still on the planet trying to sell them. it was originally a commentary in the sale of F-14 Tomcats to Iran(!)
