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Sarah Thorne

@sarah-thorne14.bsky.social
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Post-doc at the University of Sheffield, UK. Interested in all things plant-silicon and plant-stress 🌱🌾 She/her

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Sarah Thorne @sarah-thorne14.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I've really been enjoying the Agroecology Connect sessions the past few months, especially the small-group discussions we have after the talk 🚜🌱☕ Please come and join us on Friday: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/agro...
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Agroecology Connect - British Ecological Society
Learn more about this webinar series hosted by the Agricultural Ecology SIG.
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BES Agricultural Ecology @bes-aeg.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Thank you to Lynn Dicks for her insightful talk this morning on the role of agriculture in global biodiversity recovery. Join us 27 March for the next online Agro-Ecology Connect coffee morning where Tom Timberlake will be discussing agroecology in the Himalayas. Register here: lnkd.in/eJwVRfBe
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Sarah Thorne @sarah-thorne14.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The first Agroecology Connect was a really fun, informal session with a great speaker, so please come and join us for our February installment!
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Sarah Thorne @sarah-thorne14.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The BES Agricultural Ecology SIG is launching a series of monthly online coffee mornings☕🚜🌿 www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/agro...
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Agroecology Connect - British Ecological Society
Learn more about this webinar series hosted by the Agricultural Ecology SIG.
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BES Agricultural Ecology @bes-aeg.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
📢 Calling all Early Career Researchers (ECRs) in Agroecology related fields 📢 The British Ecological Society (BES) 🌿 Agriculture Special Interest Group 🚜 🫘 🐝 are excited to invite you to our new monthly online Agro-Ecology Connect coffee mornings: lnkd.in/eJwVRfBe
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Sarah Thorne @sarah-thorne14.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
This is a really exciting PhD opportunity looking at the effect of air pollution and silicon on pest control so please encourage anyone you know to apply! Deadline 12th January #plantscience #ecology blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c...
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CR2026_06 – Crocus DLA
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Martin Hodson @martinjhodson.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Call for Papers: "Special Issue on “Silicon for Sustainable Agriculture and Resilient Ecosystems” in the journal, Plant and Soil, based on the 9th International Conference on #Silicon in Agriculture. Non-attendees can also submit. #plantscience #phytolith 🧪 link.springer.com/journal/1110...
Silicon in Agriculture conference poster
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Sarah Thorne @sarah-thorne14.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Really excited that this is finally out: new paper by Katie Shaw showing how the effects of Si vary depending on how drought stress is imposed (with Julie Gray, Andy Fleming, and @suehartley.bsky.social) www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...
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Sarah Thorne @sarah-thorne14.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Interesting new blog post showing how to avoid phytolith identification varying among researchers by @welmoedo.bsky.social siliceousplants.wordpress.com/2025/01/11/i... #siliceousplants
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Inter- and intra-observer variation in phytolith morphometry: are measurements comparable?
Dr. Welmoed Out, archaeobotanist at Moesgaard Museum in Denmark, presents a paper published together with colleagues from the International Committee on Phytolith Morphometry (ICPM) of the Internat…
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Sarah Thorne @sarah-thorne14.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Cool new blog post looking at Si-C trade-offs in sedges by @felix-detombeur.bsky.social siliceousplants.wordpress.com/2024/12/06/s... #siliceousplants
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Silicon-Carbon Trade-Off in the Epidermis of Sedges
Summary by Félix de Tombeur from the Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (Montpellier, France) studying silicon dynamics in soil-plant systems. The variation in foliar Si concentrations be…
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