What's truly mystifying is how it took economists decades to figure out that destroying the planet would also destroy the economy. A special discipline, for sure.

4 days left to visit our our #FascinationOfPlantsDay exhibition at Lancaster University Library 🥦💪 Lancaster Environment Centre @LancasterUniSciTech Fascination of Plants Day #FoPD2024 #FoPD #Lancaster With support from New Phytologist and JXB @jxbotany.bsky.social

New! Tory-Zero (Rishi's Version) If you'd like to buy us a drink to celebrate with on July 5th, you can support us at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy , we really appreciate it. #generalelection #rishisunak #conservatives

Seeking engineers from #forestry, #aquaculture and #agriculture to share their expertise and develop a new engineering careers outreach activity together with Edinburgh Science thanks to #RAEngIngenious funding from Royal Academy of Engineering! Drop me a DM to find out more! #STEM #Careers #engineering

Election Special: 1. The Economy

A great start to our Photosynthesis Roadmapping Workshop in Caderache yesterday. ⁦Photo Boost⁩ ⁦Gain4Crops⁩ ⁦BEST-CROP⁩ #photosynthesis

Anyone else finding most of the ato.gov.au website broken today? Just trying to find the international number for help and lots of 404s on pages...

Thank you to Lancaster Photosynthesis Group for hosting the LI-COR photosynthesis workshop at Lancaster Environment Centre . Great to see you and everyone from other institutions. Hope you all enjoy 😊

Very proud to share this paper in Nature today. nature.com/articles/s4158… A screen that lead to a completely unexpected regulatory mechanism linking soil nitrogen to the function of legume nodules. A great collaboration with Jieshun Lin Peter Bjørk Marie, Kasper and many others

New! Rishi Sunak is PM (Ex) If you want to support us you can chip in for Sky TV at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy

Cartoon: 'The election', redrawn for 2024. Please vote, and remember your ID.

This is an incredible piece of work by Jonathan Pie. From the research, to the sequencing, to the performance. You want to know why so many people are turning away from vapid MSM and looking to political comedy & alternative news? Look no further. 👇

.Carol Vorderman YOU ARE BLOODY MAGNIFICENT. EVERY SINGLE WORD OF THIS 🔥🔥🔥

I’m glad to share our (Doug Orr ElizabeteCarmo-Silva) latest publication: Regulation of Rubisco activity by interaction with chloroplast metabolites in the Biochemical Journal 🌾👩🏽‍🔬 Photo Boost Lancaster Photosynthesis Group Check on: portlandpress.com/biochemj/artic…

Drawing: Possible causes of your problems. I've been appalled at the scenes we've witnessed over the last few days. It's utterly unacceptable that people should have to live in fear because of the colour of their skin. [Polite comments only, please.]

New #PhD #research project available in my lab! Come and work at the University of Tasmania TIA on a Hort Innovation funded project aimed at understanding why strawberries suffer in the heat and what we can do about it! utas.edu.au/research/degre…

We are seeking a Synthetic Biologist with experience in metabolic/strain engineering to work with @nigel_scrutton and Dixon Lab Manchester Institute of Biotechnology to develop robust microbiological chassis for production of commodity chemical precursors.  jobs.manchester.ac.uk/internal/Job/J…

Last Day to register for the inaugural @BlackInPlantSci conference. Join us for a Day of community building, professional growth and JOY. Celebrate #BlackHistoryMonthUK 2024 by #ReclaimingNarratives I am soo looking forward to this!

A blueprint of the diatom pyrenoid reveals a Rubisco encapsulating protein Shell is critical for CO2 fixation. Is it essential for global NPP? Congrats to Onyou Nam,James Barrett,Caroline McKenzie,Jamie Blaza + great collab with Manon Demulder,Ben Engel.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell…

Two new opportunities to join us Lancaster Environment Centre Science & Technology at Lancaster for PhD projects in #photosynthesis, working with either Sam or Doug Orr and collaborators. Details and links: wp.lancs.ac.uk/lancsphotosynt…