#InTheMedia: Rice feeds 4 billion people but also contributes 10% of global methane emissions—can rice science change that? ABC Landline visited IRRI in the Philippines, home to an elite team of rice scientists, to find out. Watch here: bit.ly/4iza8vQ

FREE to Join | The International Plant Communications Symposium 2025 | April 1-2 (15-17pm, 20-22pm, Beijing, UTC+8) | Zoom Meeting ID: 295 707 5174 Passcode: 123789 | Live Streaming via YouTube (youtube.com/@molecularplan…) | Join us in celebrating Plant Com’s 5-year milestone!🎉🎉🎉

Ever wondered what’s it’s like to be a plant hunter? Go behind the scenes of CUBG’s plant collecting expeditions at our next Science on Sunday talk with Margeaux Apple, CUBG's Asst Curator. This Sun 13 April at 2.30pm. Visit our website for more details: bit.ly/3R8r3JC

Job opportunities! - IT Technician - Research Assistant in Tropical Ecology and Conservation - Research Assistant in Chromatin and Memory - Research Laboratory Technician jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/?unit=u002…

Today we're going green with freshly mown stripes on the Brookside Lawn, ostrich ferns unfurling & giant rhubarb reaching for the skies. Fresh spring green is everywhere 💚 Look up in the Woodland Garden to spot the handkerchief tree & its fluttering white, bract-like flowers 🤍

⚠️ Abstract Deadline Approaching! Last chance to present your work at #PPATH2025 🧪 Showcase your science. 🌍 Connect with the global plant pathology community. 🗓️ Deadline: 1st May 📍 Nottingham | 9-11 September 🔗 buff.ly/mJsUvUO

Join our Plant Health workshop on Wed 7 May 3pm (tomorrow) with APHA -current pests and diseases & plant biosecurity plans. bit.ly/PHPlantHealthW… or see website events. It's #PlantHealthWeek - 5-12 May 2025! Pic: Phytophthora ramorum #PlantHealthAction #PlantHealthy

🌾 It’s #PlantHealthWeek! Think you’ve got what it takes to keep our plants healthy? Try our Plant Doctor quiz and prove it! 👩‍🔬🌿 💡 Learn, play, and celebrate plant health 👉 buff.ly/unNLPOW #BSPP #PlantPathology #PlantsMatter

This is a great program, with great benefits, to boost ECR careers. If you are a senior graduate student or postdoc consider applying!

RSPS2025 | Finalist: Dr. Ryan Nett | Presentation: Jun 5 14:30-15:00 (GMT) | Novel chemistry and enzymes in plant metabolism | FREE to Watch the Live Streaming via YouTube (youtube.com/@molecularplan…) / WeChat (MolPlant Channel)

RSPS2025 | Finalist: Dr. Tatsuya Nobori | Presentation: Jun 5 15:00-15:30 (GMT) | Decoding the molecular and cellular architecture of plant-microbe interactions | FREE to Watch the Live Streaming via YouTube (youtube.com/@molecularplan…) / WeChat (MolPlant Channel)

Some ideas on what flowers to grow to help bees cope with hot weather from the The Buzz Club "Bees & Heatwaves" citizen science project, download report from link below: thebuzzclub.uk/bees-heatwaves Yanet Sepúlveda

"Currently, developing a new crop variety in the UK can take up to eight years. However, with the creation of this new programmable plant technology, the development timeline could be drastically reduced to a year or even less." openaccessgovernment.org/cambridge-rese…

Fantastic Gatsby Plant Science Education Programme 2025! 🦠🌳🌿🧬

New Research: Sticky plants and plant-based glues: potential for pest control frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #FrontiersIn #PlantScience

Don't miss this free webinar which discusses bridging the gap between lab science and agricultural realities. Register here: blog.aspb.org/july-17-plant-… #agriculture #farming #plantpathology

Save the date! 🪱 Advances in Nematology 2025 will be held at the Linnean Society London & online on December 4th 📆 Limited in-person registration opens 1st September Submit an abstract & find out more 🔗 buff.ly/HOgf6af Anika Damm Dr Richard Binks 🇺🇦🐝 #nematodes

25th Student Conference in Conservation Science, Cambridge, 31 March – 2 April 2026. Looking for postgraduate students and early-career conservation scientists, in a broad range of fields, to apply to present talks or posters on their work. sccs-cam.org

New July 2025 issue newsletter of Botanical University Challenge is now available on-line. Go to botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/ or use the QR code. All about the upcoming contest final, Student Botany Festival and about plants! #BUC2025

🚨 Less than a week left – deadline 19 August 2025! 🚨 Book your place for the Journal of Experimental Botany 75th Anniversary Symposium (17–19 Sept 2025, Edinburgh). Don’t miss this landmark in plant science! sebiology.org/resource/journ… #JXB75 #PlantScience #Botany