Cameron Stern

Doing a PhD doesn’t mean you have to work in academia

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Science doesn’t just live in labs. It lives in forests, tidepools, and city parks.

Dr. Jessie Rack studies ecosystems and teaches others how to read the stories nature is telling.

Frontiers & Techniques in Plant Science Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.

PhDs apply to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory course Frontiers & Techniques in Plant Science.
1 month of hands-on training with leading experts.
A unique opportunity to explore cutting-edge plant science methods and build your network. 🌱

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Podarcis bocagei on a rock. He has mottled stripes of alternating black and green down his back and gray and black symmetrically mottled markings on his back and tail. He’s male so he probably has around 18 torso vertebrae, whereas a female would be more likely to have 20.

We tend not to think about lizards as exemplars of sexual dimorphism, but there are multiple examples from different clades of females having more vertebrae than males.

It’s usually 1 or 2 more vertebrae in the torso. Probably so there’s more room for babies!🦎🧪

📷Podarcis bocagei by nachoperez

We have an opening for a Assistent/Associtate Professor position in Plant Biochemistry @lbvpam.bsky.social

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#plants #scijobs #plantscijobs #biochemistry

Use the french government link to apply:
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PRESS RELEASE - Salad packs a healthy punch to meet a growing Vitamin B12 need 🌱🫛

A pioneering research-industry partnership has used advances in indoor farming technology to grow pea shoots fortified with #VitB12

www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas...

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🐟How does the Amazon molly defy all evolutionary odds and overcome the detrimental costs of asexual reproduction?🧬

😊Glad that @rdacemel.bsky.social and I could contribute to this fascinating study, brilliantly led by Ed Ricemeyer @nature.com

👏Congrats to all authors!

@cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social

Left work a little later than usual today, and enjoyed a close encounter with some Carnaby Cockatoos feasting on the banksias in the carpark

We teamed up with OpenFlower (@nickdesnoyer.bsky.social), a nonprofit creating designer flowers for art & education, to release 3 limited edition postcards! These flowers were powered by Whole Plasmid Sequencing from Plasmidsaurus.

Want one? Just fill out the form!
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Lately all I do is talk about my @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social sponsorship... 🦖🧬✨

Free limited edition Plasmidsaurus x OpenFlower postcards extended to 3/16. Last chance!!!

Dp you know good science communicators that have a good following on their social media accounts?

To academics out here who still see this, what do you do when you lose the joy of doing science?

If you are a PI or a supervisor, what do you when you see your grad student/postdoc spiral and lose their joy and passion?

Asking for me. 😅

Probably a reach here but I'm looking for someone (early career maybe) who would be willing to mentor me as I navigate the post-PhD life. I feel lost on a lot of things and would be grateful to bounce ideas and experiences with someone who's been through a couple of years post-PhD. 😭

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.

More physician nutrition education is good but will minimally address the barriers preventing integration of evidence-based nutrition interventions into the healthcare system. Still major issues of knowledge & training, time, & reimbursement.

Yepp. Too many folks pretend that the underlying unscientific thinking that drives anti-vaccine sentiments doesn't also drive their nutrition sentiments: appeal to nature+ cherry picking data + prioritizing handwavey mechanisms over clinical evidence.

A rodent hand, with four short fingers with curved claws. The short thumb has a dirty, awkwardly human-looking nail.

Reminder: most rodents have thumb nails rather than claws.

In fact the ancestor of all rodents probably had nails.

They probably evolved independently from our nails but for similar reasons: nails are good for dexterous food handling.

📸Missagia et al 2025

@emmascales.bsky.social & I are grateful to receive @researchamerica.bsky.social Meeting the Moment Award on behalf of @snapcoalition.bsky.social and @cornellasap.bsky.social for the #McClintockLetters #SciComm initiative!

Thank you SO MUCH to all ML writers

bit.ly/47sVJwE #RAAwards #SciAdvocacy

Congratulations to Professor Andrew (Andy) Allan for being named a 2025 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher! 

His 6th consecutive year, and 7th since 2017 — placing him among the top 1% of researchers worldwide in plant biology.
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40 years of JAZZ™ & Envy™ apples! 🍎✨
Discover how a single 1985 breeding cross became two globally loved apple varieties. Dr Richard Volz shares the story on scigest.
Listen here: bit.ly/3JX9cp4

💡 The right container, for the right species, in the right place can make all the difference. These tī kōuka seedlings show how container choice shapes root development — and long-term survival. 🌱

Read more about this NZ-first native tree study led by our team: bit.ly/4p9SjWM

#BioeconomyScience

🌱 We celebrate wāhine shaping science at the Bioeconomy Science Institute every day.

For International Day of Women & Girls in Science, we’re highlighting a few of our team's stories — what sparked their interest in science, and why their mahi matters.

⬇️ Stories below

Oh look, it’s science I helped do 🐟 👀

🍏 What if apples didn’t go brown after slicing?

Arctic® Apples use gene technology to stop browning. In our latest scigest podcast, Dr Hilary Ireland talks with Dr Muhammad Tahir about how the technology was developed and what’s next.

🎧 Listen: www.plantandfood.com/en-nz/articl...

Probably the most unique and aesthetic lab website I’ve seen!

I hope other labs find inspiration in this to make their own cool site ✨

Petunia hybrida has been bred into an incredible diversity of colors and patterns.

Most arise from mutations in the anthocyanin pathway or post-transcriptional gene silencing that turns pigment genes on and off 🧬🎨

A digital repository—known as Antscan—spans two-thirds of all ant genera, one of the most diverse groups of animals alive today.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/4launBV

Antscan

Thanks to micro-CT and www.antscan.info, you can now explore high resolution, 3D ant images from anywhere in the world. Fantastic work from Julian Katzke, Francisco Hita Garcia, @economo.bsky.social, Thomas van de Kamp and colleagues just dropped: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 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