Because it’s Halloween season 🎃

No less than 6⃣6⃣ PhD fellowships will be available to assorted groups at 🌆U of Copenhagen & to 🇩🇰DTU via the "INTERACT" call 🎓Applications open 20/12. Spread the word! Apply + join us👇 Maybe there is a Nobel prize in physics awaiting you as well 😁 linkedin.com/posts/biotech-…

My friends (@becker_regi, Nicholas Russell) and I wrote a little something on efforts to improve the working lives of postdocs working in Germany. If you have time, please take a look! nature.com/articles/d4158…

A reminder: UNC-Chapel Hill Chapel Hill’s UNC_Biology starts evaluating applications for a cluster of tenure track Assistant Professors: two in Plant Molecular Biology and one in Plant Evolutionary Biology this Friday so get your apps in and tell your friends! unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/288640

Time for the biennial retweet of the Quick-and-Dirty Lab Hacks ™️ thread! Check out these sacrilegious, cursed-yet-useful and beautifully chaotic lab life tips and tricks 👇 (and add your own!)

Me reading papers in a field slightly different to mine

1 x Postdoc and 1 x PhD position available in my group to study the mechanisms of meiotic recombination in plants: jic.ac.uk/vacancies/post… biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/disse… Email me for more info

Exciting PhD opportunity in our group together with the Chater group at Kew Gardens. 🍀🌱🫛🕊️ Application deadline: December, 3rd 2024. slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/fully-fun…

I'm excited to announce I am hiring! Together we can investigate how abiotic and biotic stress affect grafting! If you have any questions about working/living in China, please reach out.

I was mad about something…and ended up accidentally running my new personal best. 🏃 Guess I should just get angry beforehand to speed up 🙃😂

Our paper: "A history-dependent integrase recorder of plant gene expression with single-cell resolution" is published in Nature Communications . Congrats Cassandra Maranas for completing this work! Earlham Institute UW Biology To read the paper: rdcu.be/dYxtF nature.com/articles/s4146…

We are looking for a new Director to lead the John Innes Centre through some exciting times ahead for the Institute and beyond. Further details here: saxbam.com/appointment/jo…

Our latest work as a cover story in Science Magazine ! 🌱 How do plants halt cytokinesis to build plasmodesmata ? Main suspect: the ER . 👀 Stellar work by Patrick ZQ. LI 李自强, with Hortense Moreau, Jules Petit, Fèlix Campelo, @Caillaud_MC, and BIC science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The department of Chromosome Biology of the Max planck MPIPZ Cologne is looking for a new group leader. Join us, with Polina Yu. Novikova André Marques Schneeberger lab We are very open minded concerning the project, it just needs to be exciting. jobs.mpipz.mpg.de/jobposting/869…

Surely if I just internet a little harder, the election results will show up

Excited to share our Tansley Insight in New Phyto! From Synthetic Communities to Synthetic Ecosystems: Exploring Causalities in Plant-Microbe-Environment Interactions! 🌱nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…. Huge thanks to everyone Stéphane Hacquard Johannes Herpell, MPIPZ Cologne Thread👇

Running comforting golden gate reactions now...

Very happy to see anna-liisa laine's & my article out in Science Magazine today! We reveal that the more a plant species invests in defense, the less potential it has for growth. All made possible by lots of public data & amazing open science contributions! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

I'll attempt to slowly phase out my twitter usage. Find me on Bluesky samwalds.bsky.social if you want to stay connected 😉 bsky.app/profile/samwal… 🦋🌈

Thrilled to share our work on the putative neofunctionalization of an EXO70 clade unique to grasses and grass-like species 🌾! (1/8) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…