Today’s @thesainsburylab.bsky.social MSc lecture focused on epigenetics (broadly defined), delivered by our chromatin aficionado, @vgeshkovski.bsky.social
27.02.2026 10:45
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Today’s @thesainsburylab.bsky.social MSc lecture focused on epigenetics (broadly defined), delivered by our chromatin aficionado, @vgeshkovski.bsky.social
I am hiring a Postdoc (18 months contract in Montpellier, France) to study how polyploidy affects sex chromosomes in the plant Silene latifolia, using bioinformatic analyses of RNA-seq and DNA-seq data. Deadline for applications March 24th. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/412961
Had a blast at the orchid exibition at Kew Gardens yesterday 😍
Highly recommended, and a great excuse to visit these beautiful and immense gardens! 🌱🌿
@vgeshkovski.bsky.social @adelineharant.bsky.social @hsuanpai.bsky.social @shaniakeh.bsky.social
@rbgkew.bsky.social
Come visit us at the Norwich Science Festival today!
#norwichscifestival
@vgeshkovski.bsky.social @adelineharant.bsky.social
I can recognize someone's handwriting @turchil.bsky.social 👀
4-panel Comic "Women in Science" by War and Peas. 1. Man in ancient clothes and wig enters the room. He says, "I've returned from my trip to the future!" 2. "Women are doing science!" 3. Another man answers, "But there's still structural inequality and sexism making it difficult for them?" 4. "YES!" "Thank God!"
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
#InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience
Picture of Ely cathedral
Ely cathedral @turchil.bsky.social
Spotted our very own @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social, @turchil.bsky.social and @vgeshkovski.bsky.social going through the JIC Historic Collections 👀
A wonderful resource well worth a visit! 📖🌷
It was wonderful to present our Manifesto for Plant Science Education (published in @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social) at the Botanic Garden Education Network (BGEN) conference today. 🌱 Thank you Lauren Baker & organising committee for the invite! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
🧪🌱 Our paper on Genomics of Botanical Collections for the #TeachingTools collection of @theplantcell.bsky.social is out! 🎉 A wonderful publishing experience because we made a great team producing the paper but also thanks to the invaluable help of @plantteaching.bsky.social with the editing.
Have you ever heard that women have more chances than men of getting grants or positions in academia? Of course you have, and here are my personal views on this. With the shocking revelation that no, it is NOT TRUE ! (1/n)
I was in a meeting where we talked about summer projects for undergraduates interested in plant science, & someone shared this link 💚 @apaterlini.bsky.social
Some deadlines are as early as January, so pass this on to those who might be interested!
www.plantsciencefutures.org.uk/work-experie...
Still a lot to discover! I wrote a short piece on flowering for
@the-node.bsky.social 🌺⏳ Thanks @turchil.bsky.social for the editing and @hsuanpai.bsky.social for the artwork 🤩🎨
New research reveals mechanisms underlying the decades-old mystery behind flowering 🌸🌺
In this post, Vangeli Geshkovski (@vgeshkovski.bsky.social) shows there are still exciting discoveries to be made in the fields of flowering and floral development!
Post: thenode.biologists.com/new-developm...
✨Call open for a fully-funded PhD position✨
Looking for an enthusiastic student to join my upcoming Ambizione research group (🌱 Epigenome Diversity Lab 🌱, www.epidiversitylab.org) at ETH Zürich, starting August 2026! Apply here ↘️
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
Application deadline: January 31st, 2026
🧪🌱 Sooo… our paper on how SPOROCYTELESS/NOZZLE controls the onset of megasporogenesis is finally out in @natcomms.nature.com 🎉🎉! This is one of the major projects of my postdoc at #LuciaColombo’s lab at #UniMI. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧶 1/7
🧬La investigadora del #IRNASA-CSIC Silvia Manrique (@tank-silvia.bsky.social) ha sido elegida coordinadora de la nueva sección de Genómica de la @segenetica.bsky.social junto con Aureliano Bombarely (@aubombarely.bsky.social), del @ibmcp.bsky.social. 👏👏👏
🔗 www.irnasa.csic.es/silvia-manri...
📣 Looking for a 3-Year Postdoc @johninnescentre.bsky.social to join my Wellcome project.
This is a highly interdisciplinary project that explores chromatin dynamics in 🌱 plant responses across timescales, from circadian rhythms to seasonal changes
📅 Closes on 10 Dec.
www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/36...
5! 🧙♀️
Photo of Norwich Castle which reminds me of Lord Farquaad's castle Duloc from Shrek
Only Lord Farquaad is missing
new preprint from our group & Antoine Hocher: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A fantastic collaboration with Antoine, with Jovana Kaljevic' initiated the collaboration and drives the project.
Nature’s survey of PhD candidates reveals hard-won wisdom on choosing supervisors, managing mental health and surviving academic culture. "27 things we wish we’d known when we started our PhDs"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The best part of preparing a digram is testing the colour scheme!
Top left = Mary and Cathie catch up over coffee and talk about books. Top right = Mary and Ciara take a photo opp in front of Cathie's world-renowned collection of Plant Cell covers. Middle = a fantastic, thoughtful, engaged group of ECRs who shared thoughts on writing and AI. Bottom, current, former, and maybe future Plantea Fellows after we shared our "origin stories" over lunch.
I'm Norwich to give a talk tomorrow, but came a day early to give a writing workshop. Wonderful to catch up with Cathie Martin, who hired me in 2009 when she was EIC of @theplantcell.bsky.social. Thanks to @ciara-obrien.bsky.social for being a great host & other @plantaeofficial.bsky.social fellows.
It was so nice to have you in Norwich!
I can't think of a better keynote speaker for the #NBIAST2025, tomorrow will be great! 🤩
First post on the Node and first attempt at summarising a paper that is not about plants! 😱
Super cool paper, had fun writing my summary 📝
Busy week for TSL Ventures!
First Damien Caubrière and Sasha Eremina joined the #WorldAgriTech Innovation Summit in London, then innovation came to Norwich for Norwich Research Park's #PosterShowcaseEvent.
Huge thanks to everyone for making Norwich a centre of excellence in agritech! 🌱🚀
Vangeli on the stage as he started his personal introduction
Laura on the stage with pictures of typical food from Bologna, Italy, on the badkground. Depicted food included ragù alla bolognese, lasagne, tortellini and mortadella
Yesterday, @vgeshkovski.bsky.social and I were thrilled to officially introduce ourselves to @thesainsburylab.bsky.social 😎🔥
Food pictures were a highlight as usual 🍽️🍝
Ago will forever remind me of the most unhinged review title I’ve ever seen
I'm really looking forward to visiting Norwich again and sharing my perspective on why plants are the most amazing and important organisms in the universe! 🌱💚