Tom Thirkell

Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄
Motivated by a seminar from @tomthirkell.bsky.social, I've delved back into my image archives of mycorrhizal fungi in random plant species. This beautifully bunchy fungal arbuscule in a buttercup root needed sharing!🔬🏵️
#mycosky #fungi #microscopy #outreach

We are searching for a 4- year postdoctoral fellow to work us on Microbial Ecology and Crop Disease Management.

More details below. The position will start next year.

Please circulate and repost.

jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...

Does anyone have any good resources (or their own examples) for how to make a good scientific poster to share with students.

Please RT!

ICOM 2026 Visit the post for more.

Get ready for Cairns! ICOM2026 (formally known as ICOM13) is now online. I’ll be there next year and I hope you’ll join us! (I’ve already planned my post-conference bike tour…in Samoa!). 🍄🚲🌊

icom2026.org

Are you in the USA, interesting in greater stability, and looking for a postdoc with excellent funding? Write me to discuss this opportunity to come to Austria under the APART-USA program from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Uni Wien.

stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/en/fellowshi...

Tansley Review now out @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... big team effort involving @garethclay.bsky.social @jpritson.bsky.social @em-shuttleworth.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social @peatofmind.bsky.social @mercury-ecohydro.bsky.social @adamjohnst.bsky.social (1/2)

Hearing a lot about #intercropping - and its benefits - in this session at #rhizosphere6! Does anyone have some numbers on how widespread intercropping is in intensive agriculture? Or why it might not be utilized so much in practice?

A three year postdoctoral position is available in my group, investigating plant centromere structure, function and evolution @camplantsci.bsky.social
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51488/

Research Fellow in Plant Evolutionary Ecology (postdoc) We are looking for a 2-year postdoctoral research fellow within the European Research Council project PlantSoilAdapt - “Eco-evolutionary dynamics in plant-soil interactions during land use transition:...

We are looking for a research fellow to join our group for 2 years! Please share with anyone looking for a new position and interested in 🌱 local adaptation, plant-soil interactions and land use! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/340833

Join our group (www.luginbuehllab.com) at @camplantsci.bsky.social! Are you excited about mycorrhiza, (single-cell) transcriptomics, carbon physiology, and the model crop rice? We have a 2-year postdoc position available, starting ASAP. Closing date 23rd May 2025!

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51214/

Optimising wheat-fungal symbioses for enhanced nutrition and sustainability at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Optimising wheat-fungal symbioses for enhanced nutrition and sustainability at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com

I'm looking for a mycorrhiza-motivated PhD student to start this project, fully funded by a Rank Prize Lord Selborne Scholarship, in October 2025 - please contact me via email for more information and forward on to potentially interested people... www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

We are advertising a new postdoctoral position in my group. 3 years of funding to work on a moonshot synthetic biology project funded by the Advanced Research + Innovation Agency (ARIA). Please apply and please RP! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50801/ @camplantsci.bsky.social

Plz Repost. We @slcuplants.bsky.social @uniofcam.bsky.social are looking for a postdoc with proven protein biochemistry & cell biology expertise & strong interest in plant processes targeted by Phytophthora effectors. (apply before 2 April) [Image: Alex Guyon]

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50570/

Exciting #FossilFriday as our preprint on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social was picked up by @newscientist.com!

You can read the prepint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Academic mentees thrive in big groups, but survive in small groups - Nature Human Behaviour Using longitudinal genealogical data on mentor–mentee relations and their publications, the authors find that mentees trained in larger groups tend to exhibit superior academic performance compared wi...

Lower survival rate among trainees in labs with highly productive mentors raises important concerns about what we value in academia. Many interesting things to stew over with this paper!

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

A fungal sRNA silences a host plant transcription factor to promote arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis Cross-kingdom RNA interference (ckRNAi) is a mechanism of interspecies communication where small RNAs (sRNAs) are transported from one organism to another; these sRNAs silence target genes in trans ...

A must read for AM symbiosis afficionados
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal genotype and nuclear organization as driving factors in host plant nutrient acquisition and stable carbon storage It is crucial to develop strategies for reducing our continued excessive global increases in fertilizer applications and to offset CO2 emissions. The pervasive underground hyphal networks of arbuscul...

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal genotype and nuclear organization as driving factors in host plant nutrient acquisition and stable carbon storage

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Rhizosphere 6 - Rooting for Earth Welcome to Rhizosphere 6 We are looking forward to welcoming the global rhizosphere research community to Edinburgh for Rhizosphere 6 in June 2025. The meeting will foster exchange, interaction and ...

❗️The abstract submission and registration for Rhizosphere 6 is now open! 🌾🌿
www.rhizo6.org/home
please join us in Edinburgh next year for what should be an exciting meeting.
@hutton.ac.uk
#rhizosphere6

Does anyone have experience with low-input high-throughput (96 well plate) RNAseq library preparation from plants (bonus points if it is with plant roots...)

Hi Bala, add me please! 🙏

Plant roots sense soil compaction through restricted ethylene diffusion Compacted soil restrains diffusion of the volatile plant hormone ethylene, increasing its signal strength and restricting root growth.

Welcome @bipinpandey.bsky.social to Bluesky! Check out his amazing #plantscience work on soil compaction 🌱

www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Post-Doc position for 3 years available jointly between University of Tartu (Estonia) and University of Aarhus (Denmark) on soil microbiome and biogeography. Skills required: bioinformatics, metagenome analysis, microbiology
Contact: leho.tedersoo@ut.ee

We have a research laboratory technician post available in my group - the role will support plant work, and molecular biology, associated with our research on centromeres.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47342/

Thanks Matthias!

Add me too please!

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Excited to share a new opportunity in my new lab at Cambridge!

We are looking for a highly motivated, early-career, postdoctoral scientist to be part of a growing effort in #connectivity conservation.

3-yr position housed in the Cambridge Conservation Initiative!

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49330/

Take a look at this excellent array of PhD projects in plant and soil science that are nowopen for applications! Please share with potential students 🤩

Can I be added too please? 🙏

Can I be added too please? 🙏