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Colin Osborne

@colinplants.bsky.social
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Plant scientist at the University of Sheffield. Science, sustainability, inclusion, running.

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Colin Osborne @colinplants.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
Sheffield people - join us on Weds for an evening of psychoactive crops - history, biology and art - it’s a heady mix festivalofthemind.sheffield.ac.uk/2024/spiegel...
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Holy Herbs and the Psychoactive Revolution - Festival of the Mind 2024
Artist Jessica Heywood, historian Professor Phil Withington and Professor Colin Osbourne discuss their art installation exploring the botanical dimensions of Europe’s psychoactive revolution between t...
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Colin Osborne @colinplants.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
Science would be so much more pleasurable to read if we could revive introductions like this - why shouldn’t science be a little more poetic?
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Guillaume Lobet @guillaumelobet.bsky.social · 09/05/2024
I asked my first year #botany students to find botanical anomalies in movies, comics, book, etc. And WOW, they found a LOT! Some of my highlights:
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Colin Osborne @colinplants.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
Modern wheats differ quantitatively in many ways from their wild relatives - but when did these differences arise? New paper with Yixiang Shan uses a comparative approach to map these changes. academic.oup.com/aob/advance-... 1/2
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Diversification of quantitative morphological traits in wheat
AbstractBackground and Aims. The development and morphology of crop plants have been profoundly altered by evolution under cultivation, initially through uncons
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Colin Osborne @colinplants.bsky.social · 08/03/2024
Sorry to hear about the passing of Neil Baker, a pioneer in photosynthesis research. Chlorophyll fluorescence approaches we now take for granted are based on his work www.essex.ac.uk/blog/posts/2...
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Professor Neil Baker | Blog | University of Essex
Neil was the Head of our School of Biological and Chemical Sciences between 1996 and 2001. He was an internationally renowned scientist and the work he did around fluorescence analysis of photosynthes...
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Colin Osborne @colinplants.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
Come work with us! We're hiring two postdoc research fellows working broadly on nature-based climate solutions, including mitigation and natural sinks. If you'd like to chat about these, please get in touch. tinyurl.com/mt8stvmr @sheffieldpps.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social
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Colin Osborne @colinplants.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
Standing room only for Merlin Sheldrake’s talk today - lots of love for soil fungi here in Sheffield @sheffieldpps.bsky.social
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Katie Field @katiefield4.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
🥳This paper from Besiana Sinanaj’s PhD on role of diverse symbiotic 🍄 in plant nutrition was published in @funecology.bsky.social today: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... It's her last day with us in Sheffield so this is a lovely farewell & thanks! short 🧵…
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Katie Field @katiefield4.bsky.social · 27/01/2024
A Saturday mycorrhizal treat - I'm so pleased to share our latest findings from our research into the interactions between plants, mycorrhizal fungi and parasitic nematodes in @NatureComms, open access link to the article here: rdcu.be/dw3NU
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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
📜 Early human selection of crops’ wild progenitors explains the acquisitive physiology of modern cultivars 🧑‍🔬 Alicia Gómez-Fernández, Rubén Milla, et al. 📔 @natureplants.bsky.social 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #️⃣ (Feeds) #PlantScience #Crops #Agriculture #PlantBreeding #HumanSelection
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Early human selection of crops’ wild progenitors explains the acquisitive physiology of modern cul...
In this study, Gómez-Fernández and colleagues show that crops were selected from wild progenitors with productive ecophysiological traits, conflicting with the hypothesis that these resource-acquisi...
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Beni Stocker @stineb.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
It's come a long way, But it's here to stay. A constraint on the sensitivity of GPP to CO2. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
The origins of maize were the subject of controversy for well over a century. Even in the 1950's botanists like Edgar Anderson weren't totally sure what continent it came from! We published today a new model for maize origins (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). Let me tell you how we got here. 1/
table of crop plants and their origins referencing Edgar Anderson 1952 showing uncertainty of the origins of maize as "South East Asia?"
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Stuart McDaniel @stuartmcdaniel.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
Pretty amazing graphical abstract of a vascular plant anatomy class
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Gustaf Degen @gustaf23.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
ourworldindata.org/food-choice-...
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You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food i...
“Eat local” is a common recommendation to reduce the carbon footprint of your diet. How does the impact of what you eat compare to where it's come from?
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Athene Donald @athenedonald.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
The Royal Society intends to deliver a new mid-career Fellowship, funded by a £250 million Government endowment. To be launched in 2024, the Faraday Discovery Fellowships, will support scientists to pursue discovery-led ground-breaking #STEM research: royalsociety.org/news/2023/11...
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£250 million endowment for new Royal Society Fellowships | Royal Society
The Royal Society intends to deliver a new mid-career Fellowship, funded by a £250 million endowment from Government. The funding will support outstanding researchers and scientists for up to ten yea...
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Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso @yoselin.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
Few days to apply and become an integral part of our team @BlackInPlantSci . We are looking for a coordinator. All guidance for how to apply are at the university website. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r… We need you!! #communitycoordinator. Please share
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Current Vacancies - Jobs at the University of Leeds
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
In her webiner today, Amanda pointed out that she has opportunities for two postdocs. She's wonderful - a real gem. Great work too!
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