Reposted by Michelle FacetteMarie-Cécile Caillaud @mc-caillaud.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Still time to apply !time.totime.to 176
Reposted by Michelle FacetteYoselin Benitez-Alfonso @yoselin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This October I am joining this team of awardees to deliver a webinar on plant science and our progress leading the @blackinplantsci.bsky.social network. Join online via the link below 063
Reposted by Michelle FacetteAvilash Singh Yadav @morpholosophist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Very happy to share that our work "Growth directions and stiffness across cell layers determine whether tissues stay smooth or buckle" is now out @currentbiology.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Special thanks to my postdoctoral mentor @roederlab.bsky.social and all the authors!sciencedirect.comGrowth directions and stiffness across cell layers determine whether tissues stay smooth or buckleNature exhibits organs of various shapes and forms, ranging from smooth to undulated morphologies. How cells coordinate their growth to produce smooth… 12412
Michelle Facette @mfacette.bsky.social · 28/08/2026UMass Amherst Dept of Biology is hiring a TT faculty member in Evolutionary Biology! careers.umass.edu/jobs/assista... We have a diverse and wonderful dept - please consider joining us!careers.umass.eduAssistant Professor - Evolutionary Biology - Amherst, Massachusetts, United StatesTitle: Assistant Professor - Evolutionary Biology Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Biology Work Location: Amherst Schedule: Full Time Work A... 065103
Reposted by Michelle FacetteBotany One @botany.one · 04/05/2026Researcher in Plant Resilience - Wageningen www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/r... Within the plant health team, you will be responsible for coordinating and carrying out trials involving plant diseases and pests in the laboratory and greenhouse. #BotanyJobswur.nlResearcher in Plant ResilienceReady to make a real difference in sustainable horticulture? As a higher professional education (HBO) researcher in plant resilience, you will contribute to research into new solutions for the… 058
Reposted by Michelle FacetteInternational Plant Phenotyping Network @ippn.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Exciting news! 📢 For the first time ever, the 9th International Plant Phenotyping Symposium (IPPS9) is coming to Africa! 🇬🇭 🗓️ Oct 12–16, 2026📍 Accra, Ghana🤝 Hosted by WACCI & IPPN Stay updated: ipps9.org #IPPS9 #PlantScience #FoodSecurity 086
Reposted by Michelle FacetteSam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Don’t forget the basic research that made it all possible. Ozempuc originally comes from discoveries from Gila monster venom. Let’s stop the attacks on basic research, and enable the discoveries of the future. SamForNJ.org 646187
Reposted by Michelle FacetteNeedhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 15/04/2026As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us ALL safe and healthy 7447126
Reposted by Michelle FacetteRebecca (BeKa) Leuschen-Kohl @bleuschenkohl.bsky.social · 13/04/2026🚨Happening Tomorrow 🚨 Plant Science Postdocs, Senior Grad Students, and ECRs: don't forget to join us next TOMORROW, Tuesday, April 14th from 2-3 pm PT / 4-5 pm CT / 5-6 pm ET for our @plantpostdocs.bsky.social webinar "What's new with NSF?" 🌾 🧪 🌱 Registration: tinyurl.com/PlantPostdocsApril14 0810
Reposted by Michelle FacetteMatthew Hurteau @mhurteau.bsky.social · 14/04/2026I am hiring a new postdoc to work on an ecosystem modeling project with colleagues in hydrology, computer science, and the social sciences, including @mojisadegh.bsky.social If you want to do impactful work to understand the forest-water relationship, apply: www.hurteaulab.org/blog/ecosyst...hurteaulab.orgEcosystem modeling postdocThe Earth Systems Ecology Lab ( www.hurteaulab.org ) at the University of New Mexico is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher with a strong background in ecosystem modeling or spatial data analysis to.... 03336
Reposted by Michelle Facette[Figure 1. A.] @figure1a.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Bubbles (2019) Plants know when to let go. 162
Reposted by Michelle FacetteAnnals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 14/04/2026🍃 Join @annbot.bsky.social Special Issue celebrating 60 years of discovery in C4 photosynthesis, edited by Rowan Sage & guest editors Marj Lundgren, Robert Sharwood & Luke Dunning. (1/4) @marjorielundgren.bsky.social @luketdunning.bsky.social #C4Photosynthesis #PlantScience #CropScience 156
Reposted by Michelle FacetteThe Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) @tairnews.bsky.social · 07/04/2026"Postdoctoral and Ph.D. Positions, Plant Molecular Cell Biology at Louisiana State University, Wang Lab, Department of Biological Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States" Read more here: arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file… #PlantSciJobs 055
Reposted by Michelle FacetteUlrich Hammes @uhammes.bsky.social · 08/04/2026This is nothing less than a breakthrough. What a phantastic paper. So happy to see it out after five years. The influence of electrical charge on plasmodesma conductivity | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgThe influence of electrical charge on plasmodesma conductivity | PNASMost plant tissues are symplasms in which cells are connected by plasmodesmata, membrane-lined cytosplasmic bridges that enable diffusive and/or ad... 02412
Michelle Facette @mfacette.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Bumping this and flagging some corny folks - anyone know the best place for PH207 seeds (and if there are RILs or NILs)? @jefowlerjr.bsky.social @jrossibarra.bsky.social @carolynplants.bsky.social @maizegdb.bsky.social @maizezynskihi.bsky.social 256
Reposted by Michelle FacetteArif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Exciting news to share today! My grad student @ohazel.bsky.social Olivia received Linda Matsuuchi award! 🎉🍀🔬 She is the only grad student within the entire Faculty of Science from UBC @science.ubc.ca @ubcbotany.bsky.social received the award this year! www.ashraflab.com/mentees-succ... 1437
Michelle Facette @mfacette.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Okay maize folks- does anyone know if there are genetic resources for PH207 - specifically RIL or NIL lines? (And is GRIN the best place to get the PH207 parental line?) 011
Reposted by Michelle FacetteJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Here is a graph with dollar amounts of funding committed. The curves look very similar to those based on the number of awards. 98956
Reposted by Michelle FacetteSarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 17/03/2026This is a hill I will absolutely die on. 512420
Reposted by Michelle FacetteUBC Science @science.ubc.ca · 17/03/2026“We can’t stop heatwaves or snow storms,” said UBC botanist Dr. Arif Ashraf. “So we’re pinpointing genes that can help the plants recover from these events and still produce in time for harvest.” @ubcbotany.bsky.social @aribidopsis.bsky.social science.ubc.ca/news/2026-03...science.ubc.caPlants pause, play and fast forward growth depending on types of climate stressPlants pause their growth during stress, then press play when conditions improve, helping them recover and live on to produce food, according to a new study. 122
Reposted by Michelle FacetteMichael Raissig @michaelraissig.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Our Review "Development, Anatomy and Integrated Function of Grass Leaf Veins and Graminoid Stomata" is out doi.org/10.1146/annu... Alec Baird and I discuss the development and function of the anatomical structures that regulate water supply (leaf veins) and water demand (stomata) in the grass leaf. 04826
Reposted by Michelle FacetteSainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Hiding in plain sight! 2.3M conserved non-coding sequences traced back 300M years across 284 plant species Ground-breaking study out in First Release @science.org from labs of @madelaineb.bsky.social, @idane.bsky.social & Zach Lippman ▶️ doi.org/10.1126/scie... ▶️ www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/hiding-... 615154
Reposted by Michelle FacetteSilvia Manrique @tank-silvia.bsky.social · 03/12/2025“A program with a 0.5% success rate is not elite. It’s wasteful. Thousands of highly trained scientists will sink dozens of hours into writing proposals with vanishing odds of success. This is not just inefficient — it’s disrespectful of scientific labour.” Very well said @kamounlab.bsky.social!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 18120
Reposted by Michelle FacetteYoselin Benitez-Alfonso @yoselin.bsky.social · 30/10/2025I am pleased to share this paper. A beautiful and useful collaboration between a group of researchers and lecturers who care about plant Science education. Thank you to all that contributed! Check it out! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 088
Michelle Facette @mfacette.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Come work with us!! We have a great group of plant biologists already, and there are FOUR searches for new plant biologists of different flavours across campus. We also have an outstanding group of animal physiologists (including @mstager.bsky.social ). Please apply!! 11120
Reposted by Michelle FacetteNat Prunet @nat-prunet.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Hey plant developmental biologists! Want to do great science with a great guy in a great place? @oconnord.bsky.social is looking for a postdoc to join his lab at Colorado State: oconnorlab.colostate.edu/wp-content/u... #devbio #plantscience #botany #bioimaging #microscopy 23519
Reposted by Michelle FacetteJeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Brilliant use of gfp-tagged transposons & automated scoring of kernels, combined with differential style-lengths along maize ear, to screen for genes underlying pollen competition in maize. Diana gave a banger of a presentation on this in #Zeavolution this morning. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1309
Reposted by Michelle FacetteAlma Laney @amadvirologist.bsky.social · 19/08/2025My department is hiring a herbarium manager: www.schooljobs.com/careers/uvu/... It's a great place to work with a close knit botany group 🙂schooljobs.comHerbarium Manager - BiologyThe Department of Biology invites applications for a full-time Herbarium Manager position to begin as soon as September 2025. We seek an exceptional candidate with expertise in plant systematics, taxo... 0918
Reposted by Michelle FacetteTom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 05/06/2025My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...queensu.caQueen’s Special U.S. Doctoral Recruitment Initiative | School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral AffairsDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown...Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission. 1918981418
Michelle Facette @mfacette.bsky.social · 01/05/2025For no reason at all, my brain has started parsing "Bluesky" as "Blues-key". I kinda like it. 140
Reposted by Michelle FacetteMary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 01/05/2025"A teaching and training framework to promote findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) data generation in agriculture" Excellent, free, online curriculum!! This is so needed. Please share widely. academic.oup.com/database/art...academic.oup.comA teaching and training framework to promote findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable data generation in agricultureAbstract. Advances in agricultural genetic, genomic, and breeding (GGB) technologies generate increasingly large and complex datasets that need to be adequ 11510
Reposted by Michelle FacetteDior Kelley @diorkelley.bsky.social · 24/04/2025I’m so happy to share my official tenure!! Super grateful to my amazing research team (past & present), all the letter writers, my mentors, and the cheerleaders who helped me achieve this career goal 💯🌽🍾🤓 www.provost.iastate.edu/faculty-succ...provost.iastate.edu2025-2026 Approved Faculty - Division of Academic Affairs 24789
Reposted by Michelle FacetteChristine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · 23/04/2025An important consequence of the analysis by Paajanen et al is that the 'cell-to-cell mobile RNA' user-defined description listed under Gene Ontology by TAIR is a classification based on flawed analyses. Be careful! #PlantScience 12312
Reposted by Michelle FacetteBrad Wouters 🇨🇦 @handle.invalid · 18/04/2025It's time for Canada to Lead www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...theglobeandmail.comOpinion: Canada can be the global leader in medical researchAs the U.S. slashes funding to its research initiatives, there is a chance for us to recruit the best talent from around the world 0157
Reposted by Michelle FacetteArif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · 16/04/2025(1/6) The very first paper on actin-microtubule interactions and the collaboration between @Qiong_Nan Qiong's lab at Northwest A&F University and my lab is online now at @CytoskelJournal Cytoskeleton journal! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 154
Reposted by Michelle FacetteArif Ashraf @aribidopsis.bsky.social · 06/04/2025(1/17) We are excited to share the Ashraf and Gallagher labs collaboration on cell cycle regulation during environmental stress recovery in Arabidopsis, Brachypodium, and ryegrass. 22317
Reposted by Michelle FacetteMaizel lab @maizel-lab.org · 17/02/2025Delighted to unveil the poster and speakers list of the Mechanism of Plant Development meeting. 2 keynotes by @bradylabs.bsky.social & @nikogeldner.bsky.social to honour the legacy of P. Benfey & J. Chory. Congrats to @minyaaa.bsky.social for her beautiful Mimulus image. ➡️ tinyurl.com/24fsjq6a 36243
Reposted by Michelle FacetteNicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Howard University is now a R1 university, the first HBCU with a research one designation. H-U definitely knows!thedig.howard.eduHoward University Receives “Research One” Carnegie Classification Indicating Highest Level of Research ProductionThe American Council of Education (ACE) today announced that Howard University has been conferred a Research One (R1) Carnegie Classification, indicating “very high research spending and doctorate pro... 143364552
Reposted by Michelle FacetteLiz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Did you know there is a great database of diverse plant scientists created and maintained by @naascarabidopsis.bsky.social? 🌱 Fantastic resource for inviting speakers, reviewers, and applications! #PlantScience 🧪 #academicsky rdale1.shinyapps.io/diversifypla...rdale1.shinyapps.ioDiversify Plant Science 03116
Reposted by Michelle FacetteYasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 22/01/2025#plantproteolysis2025 cont'ing with another very talented grad student, Jodi Callwood from @diorkelley.bsky.social lab, giving a fantastic talk on #ubiquitination & quantitative #proteomics www.gdcb.iastate.edu/people/dior-...gdcb.iastate.eduDior KelleyDr. Kelley, Assistant Professor, received her B.S. in Chemistry from the University of California Santa Cruz in 2000, and her Ph.D. in Plant Biology from the University of California Davis in 2009. Dr... 0101
Reposted by Michelle FacetteMishell Baker @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain. 500143314493
Reposted by Michelle FacetteAcademic Chatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social · 11/03/2024Unpopular opinion: Not all research needs to be 'groundbreaking'. Small, incremental advancements are just as valuable. 89520
Michelle Facette @mfacette.bsky.social · 06/02/2024The Bio Dept at UMass Amherst is hiring: a tenure track and continuing track (lecturer). TT: Eukaryotic genetics. Plant 🌱, fungal🍄, animal🐟, eukaryotic microbes 🦠 models all welcome! careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... CT: Genetic/Cell/Molecular Biology. careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... 1922
Reposted by Michelle FacetteLena Maria Müller @lmueller.bsky.social · 10/11/2023We are recruiting postdocs for our new lab at the Salk Institute 🌱 receptors, peptides, and signaling 🍄 plant-fungus interactions 🍀 symbiosis 🤩 great team and amazing views Please check link for more info and how to apply: tinyurl.com/yskywhvf 01832
Reposted by Michelle FacetteCedar Warman @cedarwarman.bsky.social · 07/11/2023it should be against the science rules to release a new version of genome annotations without an id conversion table from the old version. 5228
Reposted by Michelle FacetteMike Moore @gypsumbotany.bsky.social · 07/11/2023The Oberlin College Biology Department is hiring! We seek a Visiting Assistant Professor in Organismal Biology for three semesters, starting February 1, 2024. Details are below--come join us! jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/14655jobs.oberlin.eduVisiting Assistant Professor of Biology, organismal biologyThe Department of Biology at Oberlin College invites applications for a full-time non-continuing faculty position in the College of Arts and Sciences. Appointment to this position will be for a term o... 01319
Reposted by Michelle FacetteKarolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 11/10/2023Love me some Peperomia leaf cross sections. Look at that chonky epidermis*! *I don't know off the top of my head if this succulent tissue is really derived from epidermis or ground tissue, but I always thought epi. Either way it's juicy. 0225
Reposted by Michelle FacetteCourtney Leisner @cleisner.bsky.social · 23/10/2023Tenure-track position focused on temperature stress. Come join me at VT! careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us... 01720
Reposted by Michelle FacetteKarolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 24/10/2023My lab is also on Twitter (mostly)! Give @gykim.bsky.social @clr24.bsky.social and @ellliieee.bsky.social a follow! 196
Reposted by Michelle FacetteAmelia Neely @aneely.bsky.social · 24/10/2023Botany 2024 Workshop Submission Deadline is November 1, 2023! Share your expertise at this vibrant conference with hands-on sessions like software demos, data analysis tutorials, botanical drawing, and more. For details, visit: botanyconference.org 0915
