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Amanda Cavanagh

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Plant & Cell Physiology @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Chamber of Secrets? Kinoshita @strnk17desejp.bsky.social & Finkemeier @ifink-lab.bsky.social present an alternative method to precisely measure CO2 assimilation rate & transpiration of #Arabidopsis leaves in whole-plant chambers Open Access🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantPhysiology #PlantScience
Figure 1 from Kinoshita and Finkemeier article showing gas-exchange measurements of petiole-cut Arabidopsis leaves in the whole plant chambers of the LI-6800 system. Panel A shows a schematic diagram of the method i.e. petiole cutting on wet paper and insertion of leaves into a parafilm-sealed dish containing water. Panels B-E are graphs that show C02 assimilation and transpiration rates under different conditions tested
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The Pallavi Singh Lab @thepallavisinghlab.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Another exciting opportunity to be a part of our team!! Please spread the news.
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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
✨ Day 1 Highlights of our 75th Anniversary Conference in Edinburgh ✨ We kicked off with a series of interactive workshops hosted by the JXB editorial office & Jamie Gallagher: 🔹 Publication Ethics 🔹 Manuscript Preparation 🔹 Presentation Skills #JXB75 #PlantScience 🧪
The JXB Ethics Manager Mareike Jezek delivering the JXB75 workshop on Publication Ethics in a meeting room in conference centre in Edinburgh.The JXB Assistant Editor Bridget O'Boyle delivering the JXB75 workshop on Manuscript Preparation in a meeting room in the conference centre in Edinburgh.
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Ali Gill @aligill.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
PEPG Techniques Workshop 2025 going down a treat 🌿 Photos from yesterday's workshop on water relations and today's on chlorophyll fluorescence, as well as pastel de nata and Quinta horses @sebiology.bsky.social
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SEBiology @sebiology.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
More pictures from theDay 2 for the PEPG 2025 workshop Many thanks to Mengjie Fan for an impressive video
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SEBiology @sebiology.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
From science to socials 🍷 Day 1 of #PEPGWorkshop combined engaging talks, practical sessions, a wine trail & dinner — a great start to the week!
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SEBiology @sebiology.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Day 1 of the #PEPGWorkshop kicked off with inspiring talks on leaf gas exchange, fluorescence, water relations, roots & soil, and ecosystems 🌱✨ Afternoon = hands-on + networking!
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The Pallavi Singh Lab @thepallavisinghlab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Christmas came early to the Pallavi Singh Lab this year! Thrilled to welcome another brand-new Gen 2000 Conviron, a fantastic boost to our plant growth facilities in the Plant Productivity Group at Essex
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Amanda Cavanagh @cavycavs.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Fab highlight of our unique site from @carlbernacchi.bsky.social The Quinta housed pioneering ecophys work from Otto Lange who characterized (among many things) midday depression. Read more about his work and inspiring life here: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lu... #PEPG2025 @sebiology.bsky.social
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Amanda Cavanagh @cavycavs.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
What an inspiring and energizing kick off to the week at #PEPG2025. We spent the morning getting up to speed on our themes, and the afternoon in hands on practical activities thanks to our manufacturing partners! @sebiology.bsky.social
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Ali Gill @aligill.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Excited to be at this year's PEPG Field Techniques Workshop in beautiful Portugal! Highlight of day one was putting names to faces in person and making new connections 😁 @sebiology.bsky.social @cavycavs.bsky.social @lornamca.bsky.social @erikmurch.bsky.social @moore-science.bsky.social
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Amanda Cavanagh @cavycavs.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Spending the day getting reacquainted with our home for the next week. Tomorrow things kick off for #PEPG2025
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Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Empathy and kindness are becoming rather rare traits these days. There is nothing more important than treating each other like the finite mortal short-lived nociceptive beings we are. A life lived in apathy feels so much shorter and far too cold. Try to love more while you live.
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The Pallavi Singh Lab @thepallavisinghlab.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
A huge round of applause for our conference prize winners! Congratulations to Jessica Moon, James Vanstone, Anoop Tripathi, Rhiannon Durant, Daisy Bown and Ryo Tachibana! Your outstanding research was a highlight of the conference #PlastidPreview2025
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Rose McNelly @rosemcn.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
It's been a great day at #PlastidPreciew2025 at the @universityofessex.bsky.social I've learnt about chloroplast development, retrograde signalling and even macroalgae! @ciara-obrien.bsky.social, Thomas and Carol (my Seung group lab mates) gave fab talks and I'm looking forward to my go tomorrow...
Screen with the words 'Plastid Preview 2025'Plastid Preview 2025 program
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The Pallavi Singh Lab @thepallavisinghlab.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Massive thanks to our #PlastidPreview2025 sponsors! Gatsby Charitable Foundation, New Phytologist Foundation, New Phytologist, @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social, @sebiology.bsky.social, @jxbotany.bsky.social, Plant Biotechnology Journal, @universityofessex.bsky.social & @rainca.bsky.social‬
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The Pallavi Singh Lab @thepallavisinghlab.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
🌿 A big thank you to Plant Biotechnology Journal for sponsoring the Poster Session at #PlastidPreview2025! 🧬✨ Your support helps early career researchers share their exciting work and spark new collaborations. @sebiology.bsky.social @johnathan-n.bsky.social
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The Pallavi Singh Lab @thepallavisinghlab.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The Plastid Preview 2025 spirit has taken over the Pallavi Singh Lab! 🌿🧬 We are gearing up for an exciting meeting of early career researchers in the plant sciences community. Don’t miss the excitement, we look forward to seeing you on 1–2 September! 📅 #PlastidPreview2025 #PlantScience
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Amanda Cavanagh @cavycavs.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I am so happy about this you would think I won the award myself. What a well deserved honour for pioneers of the field.
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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
🌟We’re hiring: Science Communication Lead🌟 At Jan IngenHousz Institute (JII) in Wageningen, NL, we’re building a young research institute focused on improving #photosynthesis to secure future food production. Now we need your comms expertise to help us grow. Keep reading👇 #Hiring #OpenScience
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Amanda Cavanagh @cavycavs.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Since I’ve moved to England in 2020 we’ve lived through three of the hottest years on record. Unsurprisingly, this is impacting crop yields. Read more about the impact, and the work we do to mitigate this in this weekend’s times: www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
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Inside the Essex ‘drought room’ testing crops for climate change
After one of the driest springs on record, and with British harvests collapsing, urgent research is finding creative ways to help farmers adapt
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Jan IngenHousz Institute @openjii.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
🌱 Kickstart your plant science career! We’re offering 2 paid Research Trainee roles (Oct ‘25–Mar ‘26) at Jan IngenHousz Institute — 6 months to explore photosynthesis, gain hands-on skills, and prepare your own PhD proposal. Read on for more info👇
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Amanda Cavanagh @cavycavs.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
This is a fab program, and a great way to connect with other plant scientists! Consider joining the Plantae fellow team!
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
This is a great program. We started in in 2016 and it just gets better and better! Check out some past fellows who are on Bluesky: @philcarella.bsky.social @mattbnt.bsky.social @psaima.bsky.social @fromani.bsky.social @sjb287.bsky.social @aribidopsis.bsky.social @cavycavs.bsky.social
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
A guide to understanding and measuring photosynthetic induction: considerations and recommendations A #CommunityResource by Liana Acevedo-Siaca & Lorna McAusland 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience
Photosynthetic induction describes the increase in photosynthetic CO2 assimilation (A) in response to a change from low irradiance or shade to high irradiance.
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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
VIRTUAL ISSUE 🌱☀️ Photosynthesis ☀️🌱 📜 JXB has a long history of publishing impactful photosynthesis research - dating back to the very first issue in March 1950, which featured 'The Path of Carbon in Photosynthesis’ by Benson & Calvin 🔬 🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb... #PlantScience 🧪 🧵1/2
A photograph of the front cover of the first issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany, published in March 1950.
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Diane Bassham @dianebassham.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Our special issue on “Crops under stress: can we mitigate the impacts of climate change on agriculture and launch the ‘Resilience Revolution’?” in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society is out. royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1927
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The Pallavi Singh Lab @thepallavisinghlab.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Precision in action! The DroughtSpotter automatically irrigates based on real-time weight, simulating water stress with accuracy. Making our experiments smoother and our lives easier! #PlantScience #WaterStress
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
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Black In Plant Science- UK @blackinplantsci.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
If you haven't already - make sure to save the date to the Black in Plant Science Conference taking place on Friday 24 October at the University of Leeds. Registration will soon be opening so make sure to save the date to avoid disappointment.
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Katie Field @katiefield4.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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...
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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
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Aske Kammer @askekammer.dk · 15/04/2025
Just tought you might all need this (from "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers").
Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.
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Cecilia Blikstad @cblikstad.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Come join us as a postdoc! We have an open position in biochemistry of cyanobacterial CO2 fixation focusing on regulation of carboxysome function! Please help me spread the word and welcome to apply! www.blikstadlab.org/open-positio...
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Open positions
Postdoctoral scholar in biochemistry of cyanobacterial CO 2 fixation The Blikstad research group is searching for a postdoc to study fundamental principles of CO 2 fixation in cyanobacteria. Our...
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Marjorie Lundgren @marjorielundgren.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Check out an exciting diversity of research, reviews, and opinion articles in our @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social special collection on *Agricultural Biotechnology*. 🧪 🌱 With @cavycavs.bsky.social & Phil Macnaghten nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
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Agricultural biotechnology: potential, challenges, and debate: PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET
<em>PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET</em> is an interdisciplinary plant journal of the New Phytologist Foundation publishing research at the interface of plants, society, and the planet.
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Andreas P.M. Weber 🌾🌱🧬 @apmweber.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Nominate papers from #ECR s for the @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social Best Paper Award by April 15. Papers must come from Master or PhD thesis. Only members of the German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG) are eligible to submit nominations; self-nominations are also accepted for this prize. #PlantScience
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Pallavi Singh @thepallavisingh.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
It has been wonderful to present @monogram-uk.bsky.social and meet cereal researchers.
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Edward Smith @tednsmith.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
As well as CO2 Rubisco reacts with O2: plants evolved photorespiration to deal with the consequences. It works, but synthetic biology can do better! 🔄 We used metabolic modeling to compare alternative pathways to boost crop yields 🌱 🧵 #ScienceAdvancesResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Alternatives to photorespiration: A system-level analysis reveals mechanisms of enhanced plant productivity
Computational modeling reveals how engineering plants with alternative pathways to photorespiration could boost crop yields.
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PP Systems International @ppsystems.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
LAST DAY! If your #innovative research involves our instruments APPLY NOW! PLEASE REPOST! bit.ly/PPSITA #plantscience #soilscience #earthscience @asa-cssa-sssa.bsky.social @ashs-hort.bsky.social @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @agu.org @aspbofficial.bsky.social @botsocamerica.bsky.social
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Nick Smith @nickgregsmith.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
We have a new paper out from our Powell Center C4 working group: "C4 photosynthesis, trait spectra, and the fast-efficient phenotype" The @newphyt.bsky.social Tansley Review led by Russ Monson explores what we know about the C4 trait spectra nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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C4 photosynthesis, trait spectra, and the fast‐efficient phenotype
It has been 60 years since the discovery of C4 photosynthesis, an event that rewrote our understanding of plant adaptation, ecosystem responses to global change, and global food security. Despite six...
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Maddy Seale @maddyseale.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Received your PhD in 2023-2024? Apply by July 15th for the @science.org & SciLifeLabPrize to win up to $30k. Categories: cell & molecular bio; genomics, proteomics & systems bio, ecology & environment; molecular medicine. 🧪 www.science.org/content/page...
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Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists
This Prize was created to recognize that global economic health is dependent upon a vibrant research community and we need to encourage our best and brightest to continue in their chosen fields of res...
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Amanda Cavanagh @cavycavs.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Thanks so much to @sebiology.bsky.social and @biologists.bsky.social for such a great session today at #biologists100. Such a treat to listen to so many diverse and inspiring talks. Can’t wait to see many familiar faces in Antwerp this summer!
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SEBiology @sebiology.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
@sebiology.bsky.social is at the @biologists.bsky.social sky.social Centenary Meeting ( #biologists100)! 🎉 Kicking off with an inspiring talk by Sarah-Jane Walsh on storytelling for research impact. And we are lucky as our President made a surprise appearance… even from afar! 👀😄
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Megan L Matthews @meganlmatthews.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
We have some great talks lined up for this session including Prof. Christine Raines, Dr. Wolfgang Busch, Dr. René Geurts, and Dr. Sanu Shameer! Abstracts due March 7!
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Crispus Mbaluto @crispus-mbaluto.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Excited to share 3rd milestone in 2025. I received the Black in Plant Sciences-Research Excellence Award 2025. This is recognition of outstanding contribution of ECR and promoting EDI in research communities. @blackinplantsci.bsky.social @thepallavisingh.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social
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Pallavi Singh @thepallavisingh.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
In celebration of Black History Month, a special shout-out to two brilliant researchers in the Singh Lab! Crispus Mbaluto (L), postdoc, and Mouesanao Kandjoze (R), research assistant; working on enhancing water use efficiency in rice. You inspire us all in the Singh Lab! #PlantScience
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Ryo Yokoyama @yokoyama-ryo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Improved photorespiration has a major impact on the root metabolome of Arabidopsis onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @pplplantarum.bsky.social
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Improved photorespiration has a major impact on the root metabolome of Arabidopsis
Photorespiration is an essential metabolic repair process in oxygenic photosynthesis, as it detoxifies Rubisco's inhibitory oxygenase byproduct, 2-phosphoglycolate (2-PG). It has been demonstrated th...
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Amanda Cavanagh @cavycavs.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
These glasses are not greenhouse approved 😂
A girl with glasses fogged up, standing in front of plants
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Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) Project @ripeproject.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Check out this @sciam.bsky.social article about our ‘Hot Potato’ research! bit.ly/4hYOX5z @kmeacham-hensold.bsky.social, @cavycavs.bsky.social, @plantnerd.bsky.social, @illinoisresearch.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social
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‘Hot Potato’ Plants Engineered to Flourish in Heat Waves
A genetic tweak keeps potatoes efficient in the heat
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ROOT-SHOOT RCN @root-shoot.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
February 25th, 11AM EST. Join us for a panel discussion on "Perspectives from Black Professionals in the Plant Sciences" featuring Dr. Margaret Young, Dr. Stephon Fitzpatrick, & Dr. Jason B. Thomas. rootandshoot.org/root-shoot-w... Open to all, come be a part of it! #BlackHistoryMonth
An online, student-led symposium. 
Perspectives from BlackProfessional in the Plant Sciences. 
Dr. Margaret Young, Associate Professor of Biology , Elizabeth City State University. Dr. Stephon Fitzpatrick, Executive Director, Together We Grow, and National MANRRS President, Dr. Jason B. Thomas, CEO and Founder, The Pennycress Company.
February 25th, 8 - 9 am PST, 11am - noon EST. Open to all, come be a part of it! ROOT & SHOOT Research Coordination Network. Symposia Series, Corteva.
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Amanda Cavanagh @cavycavs.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Are you a non-UK scientist interested in working in the UK for a postdoc? A Royal Society Newton Fellowship could be just what you are looking for! We can support applicants interested in working on photosynthetic responses to climate change. Please get in touch! royalsociety.org/grants/newto...
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Newton International Fellowships | Royal Society
This fellowship is for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK.
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