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Andrew Millar @andrewmillar.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

📣New opportunity for three members to join the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE) for UK Government Defra 🧪 Application deadline 2 February 2026 ▶️ apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/9084?t... #plantsci #agriculture #vaccines #insects

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Appointment details – Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment - Scientific expert members – Apply for a public appointment – GOV.UK

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Andrew Millar @andrewmillar.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Re-posting this call for two Forest Science advisors 🧪🌳🌲for @forestresearchuk.bsky.social, please re-post on! 30 Jan deadline. We expect a further membership vacancy later in 2026, around tree health.

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

🌱 In the final talk of the conference, Andrew Millar is presenting “Practical steps to build a future digital plant: counting proteins, sharing data and an anchoring institution” 🌿 Learn more in Andrew's JXB review 👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ery435 #JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪 @andrewmillar.bsky.social

Andrew Millar (University of Edinburgh, UK) presenting the final talk of the JXB 75th Anniversary Conference, “Practical steps to build a future digital plant: counting proteins, sharing data and an anchoring institution,” with slides projected behind him. Learn more in his JXB review doi: 10.1093/jxb/ery435.

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Andrew Millar @andrewmillar.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

🧪📢Forest Research in the UK is seeking two new members for the Expert Committee on #Forest #Science. 🧬🌳📖🌲🪵 * one early-career, * one from the forestry sector, Please see details on the link below. Closing 30 Jan. ➡️ www.forestresearch.gov.uk/about-us/car... #forestry #plantsci #trees

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2 x Committee members - Forestry Commission Expert Committee on Forest Science - Forest Research

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Uriel Urquiza-Garcia @uurquiza.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

In the summer of 2011 I got interested in biological oscillators as great examples of emergent behaviour. This curiosity was largely inspired by discussions on complexity science with my the environmental historian and late brother Juan Humberto Urquiza Garcia.

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Read this and think about the gravity of this moment:

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Andrew Millar @andrewmillar.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I have resigned my Fellowship of the #RoyalSociety due to their Council's inability to act proportionately on #ElonMusk. See fediscience.org/@A_J_Millar/...

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Attached: 1 image · Content warning: #ElonMusk #RoyalSociety

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Botany One @botany.one · 31/01/2025

📝 How Trees’ Responses to Rainfall Frequency Could Help Improve Climate Models 🧵 doi.org/n38g Climate models often struggle to capture the timing of leaf drop. A new study finds that scientists haven’t been looking at rainfall the way plants have. #Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief

Fallen leaves in colours of red, orange and gold, lie upon the forest floor.

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 31/01/2025

The @ipbes.bsky.social #TransformativeChange Assessment Report examines fundamental changes required for a future where people live in harmony with nature.🌍🧪 Explore the framework for change in this graphic ⤵️ Learn more: www.ipbes.net/transformati...

A graphic from the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment Report Summary for Policymakers.
Figure SPM.2 The framework of transformative change for a just and sustainable world. Section A indicates views, structures and practices (the inner golden spirals) being strongly shaped by the underlying causes of biodiversity loss and nature’s decline (solid grey ring). Section B shows shifts in views, structures and practices breaking the influence of the underlying causes when they are guided by the four key principles of transformative change (blue ring). Section C illustrates a just and sustainable world, with prevailing views, structures, and practices aligned with the principles of transformative change. This framework can be used by different actor groups to help identify where and how they can promote, accelerate and scale the process of transformative change towards a just and sustainable world.

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Review Commons @reviewcommons.org · 19/12/2024

Abundant clock proteins point to missing molecular regulation in the plant circadian clock. Urquiza-García et al 2024; study by @andrewmillar.bsky.social bioRxiv doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.03.609973 #preprintpeerreview by Review Commons eeb.embo.org/doi/10.1101/2024.09.03.609973.

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Andrew Millar @andrewmillar.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

**🧵 Finished Paper on FAIR Data Sharing! 📊🔬** 1/5 “Daily life in the Open Biologist’s second job, as a Data Curator” led by @liviascorza.bsky.social. Want to make your #biology #research data FAIR? Start here! 📄 Full paper: doi.org/10.12688/wel... 💬 Let us know: How do YOU approach data sharing?

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Positive Money UK @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Great to see @labourlewis.bsky.social ask the Treasury how they plan to ensure that growing the financial sector won’t harm the wider economy. We should be directing finance to where it is needed, not growing the sector so that it sucks even more resources out of the everyday economy.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Full article on today's debate, free to read for everyone... This was the single most impressive parliamentary debate we've seen in years. iandunt.substack.com/p/assisted-d...

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Assisted dying: Triumph for reformers during a historic day in Westminster

This was the single most impressive parliamentary debate we've seen in years.

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Andrew Millar @andrewmillar.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Now this is pretty cool 🤓🧪. Anyone for a microscope? BYO objective lens. Openflexure via @labcrafter.co.uk #StayCurious

A dozen plastic bags of components, washers etc from UK company Labcrafter to build a 3-D printed microscope designed by OpenFlexure. Image from Labcrafter, at https://labcrafter.co.uk/products/openflexure-microscope

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LabCrafter @labcrafter.co.uk · 29/11/2024

Hi everyone! 👋 We're a small open hardware company based in Wales, making and selling open science hardware over at labcrafter.co.uk 🔬 #openscience #oshw #opensource

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Open tools for open science

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Andrew Millar @andrewmillar.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

👀 See where this ends? #HungryTrees 🌲 Metasequoia glyptostroboides, or the Dawn Redwood, at #EdinburghUniversity. Another ancient tree family 🦕, and unusual as a deciduous gymnosperm. #Trees #Nature Originally on @A_J_Millar@fediscience.org

Dawn redwood trunk, with bark starting to grow around the metal banister of a fire escape.

Dawn redwood tree as tall as the 3-storey University building next to it, with foliage turning brown in the Autumn.

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Andrew Millar @andrewmillar.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

🎓 #OpenScience PhD, please re-post 🙏 Dl 7 Jan. Join the BioRDM team #EdinburghUniversity to study Electronic Lab Notebooks! How are ELNs used in #BioScience, how to make them FAIRer and help data sharing. Funding competitive, non-UK only. ➡️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PhD #ScienceJobs 🧪

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Chris Parr @chrisjparr.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Royal Society fellow Dorothy Bishop (@deevybee.bsky.social) resigns over Elon Musk membership. Bishop claims Musk has violated RS code of conduct, and is not prepared to treat him "collegially and with courtesy" as that code requires. Free to read. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

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ChaoticGardener @thechaoticgardener.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

A #jacaranda a day until they're over or I'm over them #sydney #tree #trees #flowers #FlowerReport #urbanplanting 🌱Balmain East

A large jacaranda in full mauve bloom. It is situated on the border between a lawn and a hedged residential garden

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Andrew Millar @andrewmillar.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Just learning bsky tagging conventions ... today's 🧪 thread is also #plantsci ▶️ bsky.app/profile/andr...

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Andrew Millar @andrewmillar.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

🌊🔬 Meet the world's smallest free-living eukaryote Ostreococcus tauri. Our research dives into how this tiny marine alga gets ready for a new day. Hint: it has a clever way of preparing for sunrise! #MarineBiology #Microalgae 1/7 🧵 Originally posted on @A_J_Millar@fediscience.org

A cell image from electron microscopy. Its colour-coded parts show how tiny the cell is. The single chloroplast, here coloured green, occupies more than half the cell.
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Henderson GP, Gan L, Jensen GJ (2007) 3-D Ultrastructure of O. tauri: Electron Cryotomography of an Entire Eukaryotic Cell. PLoS ONE 2(8): e749. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000749

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Bomengidsnl @bomengidsnl.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2024

Italiaanse populier (Populus nigra), boom-tree-baum-arbre-arbol www.bomengids.nl/2022/species/Itali… posted by #bomengidsnlbot #trees #botany #nature Welcome to […] [Original post on mastodon.green]

Photo of treespecies Populus nigra : Category is boom-tree-baum-arbre-arbol

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Andrew Millar @andrewmillar.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Hello Bluesky, anyone into #trees? 🌳 If #ThinkTrunkThursday is happening, here's a close-up gifted from my friend and fellow arb Lucio. Some #PlantDevelopment here🌳⚡! Maybe more of these later, and happy to see other #HungryTrees

A mossy tree trunk that has grown over a 1kV power line, just the edge of the insulators sticking out of the bark, and the cables.

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Botany One @botany.one · 30/10/2024

Japan-style ‘tiny forests’ are taking root in British cities botany.fyi/fzyurj A growing movement is bringing nature back to cities across the UK. The Miyawaki forest method involves planting a diverse mix of densely packed native woodland trees – or “tiny forests” –

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Japan-style ‘tiny forests’ are taking root in British cities

Interviews with tree experts reveal that while half of them supported the Miyawake method, especially in specific urban areas, concerns remained about tree mortality and high costs.

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