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Giovanni Sena @gsena.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

🌱 Excited to advertise a new MRes+PhD in my group at Imperial! We'll grow plants in transparent 3D-printed soil mimics and watch root–soil interactions, combining X-ray micro-CT, additive manufacturing & metabolomics. 📅 Deadline: 21 May 2026 | 🌍 Home fee only 🔗 www.imperial.ac.uk/chemical-bio...

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Giovanni Sena @gsena.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

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EPSRC CDT in Chemical Biology - Empowering UK BioTech Innovation @icbcdt.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

🎓PhD opportunity | 2026 | Imperial College London Transparent 3D-printed soil: biophysics and metabolomics of root-soil interactions 💡Supervisors: Dr G. Sena, Dr I. Dunlop, Dr G. Larrouy-Maumus + Dr M. Johnston, Dr G. Depietra + Dr A. Mohammed 💡Sponsored by Syngenta ⏱️Apply by 21 May 2026

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Maizel lab @maizel-lab.org · 17/07/2025

We received 80 abstracts and have >100 registered participants for the Mech. of Plant Development FASEB (Aug 24-28 in Southbridge MA USA). Time for us to select ~20 talks from those 😱 It will be an exciting meeting! FOMO? Still time to register! → tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 17/07/2025

Our new Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route provides a fast-track option for international mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK, providing up to £4m over a five-year period. Find out more: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/farad...

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Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route | Royal Society

The Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route provides a fast-track option for attracting mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK from overseas, providing up to £4m ov...

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 15/07/2025

📢 Registration is OPEN for the 2025 edition of the European Research and Innovation Days #RiDaysEU! 📅 Join the ERC on 17 Sept for the session "Securing Europe’s place at the forefront of scientific discovery" 🔗 Register now 👉 t.co/nPQmG6ix1G for access & more info. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o50Y...

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Imperial Science @imperialsci.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Join us for our Natural Sciences Research Showcase! Explore the latest research and PhD innovations from across our community. 📅Thursday 11 September 2025 📌South Kensington 🎟️🥂Free entry and drinks 🚨Register now! www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19397...

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Natural Sciences Showcase 2025

Join a full day of presentations and stimulating discussions with the academics and prize-winning PhD students in FoNS

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Giovanni Sena @gsena.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

What are the most cutting-edge methods to image complex root systems in mature trees in field conditions? Ground-penetrating radar? X-ray CT? What resolution can we get? Anyone working on wilder techniques? #science #imaging #plantroots #plantscience #plantmethods #root #phenotyping #soil

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Plant & Cell Physiology @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

📣We're very excited to be sponsoring the first ever #PlantScience #chronobiology meeting of its kind 🕓🌱 The clock is ticking, so register here 👇 (NB. early bird registration ends March 1st): plantclock.wixsite.com/2025

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Plant Chronobiology Symposium 2025

The first ever symposium on plant circadian biology, Plant Chronobiology 2025 will be held at KU Leuven in June 2025

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Giovanni Sena @gsena.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Two interesting conferences, both in UK, planned for exactly the same days… A pity! iop.eventsair.com/pol2025/ 100yearsconference.biologists.com

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Maizel lab @maizel-lab.org · 08/01/2025

Delighted to announce the 18th #FASEB Mechanisms of Plants Development will take place Aug 24-28th. ‼️ Register before June 29th → tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a 🌱 🎁 Vote for the conference image by Jan 31st → tinyurl.com/2872w6vm The poster & speakers lineup will be announced in early Feb. Spread the word!

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Claudia Contini @continiclau.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

🚨PhD opportunities available! 🚨 I have two open #PhDpositions in my group: 1️⃣ For international EU students (deadline in 1 week!) 2️⃣ For home-UK students If you’re excited about synthetic cells, don’t miss out! 📄 Apply here: continilab.com/join-us/

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We invite enthusiastic PhD students, postdocs, and research fellows to join our team and explore exciting research in Soft Matter, Cell Mimicry and Synthetic Biology. Several funding opportunities …

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Giovanni Sena @gsena.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

This is an important concept to understand the dynamic interaction between plant roots and soil and among plant roots.

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Giovanni Sena @gsena.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Excellent review on positional information in plant #RootDevelopment #RootBiology Good for thinking, teaching, or both! doi.org/10.1093/plph...

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Toby Kiers @tobykiers.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Calling all myconauts. Excited to have joined BlueSky to share our work on the structure, trade & nutrient flows of mycorrhizal networks. Video time lapse of root (red) & mycorrhizal network (light blue) over 300hrs

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Jim Haseloff @jimhaseloff.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Image collection of bryophyte-rich plant communities provided by Richard Droker - highly browsable library of micro-environments www.flickr.com/photos/wande...

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J Friesner @jfriesner.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Submit your abstract to #ICAR2025 by the deadlines below! Abstract Submission deadline for 🌱Oral presentations is March 17th. Abstract submission deadline for 🌱Poster presentations is May 1st. Topics for Concurrent and Workshop sessions published! 📅 June 16-20 Ghent 🇧🇪 🕸️ icar2025.com

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Summary. - International Conference on Arabidopsis Research: ICAR2025

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Yvon Jaillais @yvonjaillais.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

With Marie Cecile Caillaud and Isabelle Fobis-Loisy, we are organizing a concurrent session at ICAR next year #ICAR2025 (Gent, Belgium June 16-20 2025). - How do cells talk to each other? New frontiers in cell-to-cell communication web.cvent.com/event/448810...

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Laura Ragni @lauraragni.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The concurrent sections and workshops for ICAR2025 are out! 🌟 bit.ly/4eUZOvf Excited to co-organize a section on Cell Wall Diversity in Development & Stress with @kaisakajala.bsky.social. We’ll select EC speakers from abstracts—submit yours! 🌱 #ICAR2025 #PlantScience

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Javier Brumós @jbrumos.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Interview with Liam Dolan. Learn more about Liam's career so far, and his views on plant development, evolution, ecology, and biodiversity. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

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Liam Dolan is a Group Leader at the Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI) in Vienna, Austria, interested in intersection of plant development, evolution and ecology using the emergi...

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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Reminder to update the "social links" in your ORCiD profile with your Bluesky handle:

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

And #PlantScience related ones can be found here: bsky.app/profile/soms...

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UK Space Agency @ukspaceagency.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Hello Bluesky! 👋 We're the UK Space Agency - we boost UK prosperity, understand the Universe, and protect our planet and outer space. 📈🔭🌍 You can also follow us over on: 🚀 x.com/spacegovuk 🚀 www.linkedin.com/company/uk-s... 🚀 www.instagram.com/spacegovuk/ 🚀 www.facebook.com/spacegovuk/

Shot of the UK at night from space. Credit: ESA/NASA.

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 18/11/2024

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

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Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Starter Pack for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions go.bsky.app/H3986W6 #PlantImmunity #MPMI

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hello, since the requests to be added to the #PlantScience Research #StarterPack keep coming, I have created a 2nd Pack. So, here are Part 1: go.bsky.app/8Zfmwf7 Part 2: go.bsky.app/3NcqRCE

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Giovanni Sena @gsena.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Looking forward to attending the European Low Gravity Research Association #ELGRA28 symposium! On Thursday I will be giving a short talk on root electrotropism and its possible applications in microgravity conditions. Contact me if you go and want to chat about roots in space!

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Giovanni Sena @gsena.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

#PlantScience Do plant roots get habituated to external signals? Our latest paper on root #electrotropism and #bioelectricity by Maddalena Salvalaio, suggests they do. Dive into this fascinating topic: root response to long-term exposure to electric fields. doi.org/10.1093/plph...

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Mike Levin @drmichaellevin.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Had just realized that this paper: www.cell.com/trends/molec... "Future medicine: from molecular pathways to the collective intelligence of the body" which we had marked to publish as open access was not in fact outside paywall. They just fixed it - should be accessible to everyone now.

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

The Moon and Venus. 9 November 2023. 🔭 🧪

The Moon above centre. Planet Venus dot below left of centre.

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Giovanni Sena @gsena.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Disturbing about AI and chatbots: “it is like chatting with a human”; but these LL Models simply try to “guess” the next word in a sentence, based on lot of stuff written by humans. So, is it how we talk to each other? Repeating what we have read or heard? AI shows how shallow our conversations are…

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Mike Levin @drmichaellevin.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Open access for 30 days starting today: "Long Range Communication via Gap Junctions and Stress in Planarian Morphogenesis: A Computational Study" bit.ly/3RguOh9

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