Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾
Plant developmental biologist; Airedale terrier owner; most relaxed by the ocean. langdalelab.com
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- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾Job opportunity: Join ETH Zurich as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Sustainable Plant Nutrition. Application deadline: 28th February 2026. Explore more details at the link. #PlantSciJobs ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾Here’s an experiment for y’all with the kiddos. Always science
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾"But teaching helps you to be a better scientist. We tend to become overspecialized, and teaching forces you to return to fundamentals, understand them thoroughly, and communicate them clearly." Cyril is always right, right? 💚
- 🗣️ 𝐼𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐃𝐫. 𝐂𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝐙𝐢𝐩𝐟𝐞𝐥 Cyril Zipfel, a leading voice in plant immunity, reflects on plant immune recognition, his scientific journey, and what’s next for the field 🌱🧬 interviewed by @luisdeluna.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70688
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾A gift of an article from the inimitable Colin Kleanthous as he says a moving farewell to his laboratory. A brave, unrepentant and scientifically brilliant journey is described - please have a read, friends. www.jbc.org/article/S002...
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾We genetically disconnected starch from the matrix in the algal pyrenoid! A saga1;saga2 double mutant lacks a starch sheath! Our model: SAGA1 & SAGA2 locally initiate starch on the pyrenoid surface by enriching starch precursors. 🌞🦠🔬🔌👀 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾Three of the largest UKRI research councils - MRC, BBSRC and EPSRC confirm they have suspended several of their main funding routes until further notice, amid mounting concerns for curiosity-driven research www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-u... via @jgro-the.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾📢 New plant science textbook Staff and alumni from our institute and @thesainsburylab.bsky.social have recently published Essential Plant Biology, a new textbook presenting current and comprehensive knowledge of plant biology 🌱
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾Calling all OrthoFinder users! We’ve just released GLADE, a tool to infer gene gains, losses, duplications, and ancestral genomes across a phylogeny. GLADE runs directly on OrthoFinder results. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... github.com/lauriebelch/... (1/10)
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾Does the winter weather have you day dreaming about the beach? Register for AUXIN 2026 and join us in the Algarve, Portugal on Oct 4-8th for all things auxin :) This meeting only happens every four years, so don't wait...
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾Another important step taken: A big majority of the ENVI committee of the European Parliament voted to #GiveGenesAChance this morning! 🧬🌾
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾Great news — forward looking voices are finally prevailing in the discussion on genome editing in crop plants!
- Plant Breeding Innovation Clears Next Hurdle for EU NGT Framework europesays.com/2737143/ The European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment (ENVI) has approved, by a strong majority, the compromise text on…
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/f... Become our new colleague (and next door neighbor) and lead a chair/group/department of Biophysics at Wageningen University. Reach out to me for info and please spread!!!
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾I am excited to offer a postdoctoral research position in my lab in Oxford studying the distribution of small RNAs during plant sexual reproduction. shorturl.at/7Goxt Reposts appreciated! Obligatory cat video to brighten your day. :-)
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾Led by Professor Jane Langdale @biology.ox.ac.uk, the C4 Rice Project builds on decades of interdisciplinary research working to ensure global food security. Discover the incredible story of the multi-decade battle to make better rice ⬇️ youtube.com/watch?v=T3RY0vxzFpg
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾📣 Please spread: we’re hiring a Lab Manager! It is a critical position in our new lab. As our lab moves to Barcelona and joins the @crg.eu, we’re looking for a Lab Manager to help build the lab and set the lab atmosphere. 🔗 Apply here 👉 recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾Excited to share our new investigation of Prototaxites! We found no support for a fungal affinity and instead suggest it is best considered an entirely extinct complex eukaryotic lineage Great team effort @transitionalform.bsky.social Corentin Loron, and many others! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below! Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾We are hiring at the Wytham Woods for the upcoming field season. 4 roles available. Please share with anyone who might be interested. #UKbirds #birdringing
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾ONE WEEK LEFT TO APPLY: We’re hiring 4 roles at UWA's Plant Synbio Innovation Centre: Facility Manager + 3 Postdocs (single-cell genomics/screening; molecular tools; construct prototyping) bit.ly/4qfoftG bit.ly/3MFgD59 bit.ly/4pFT6jf bit.ly/48VkgLw Apply by Tuesday 27 Jan 2026 (11:55pm AWST)
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾When Trees Testify is required reading for students of botany or anyone interested Black botanical expertise and the lives of trees. An era-defining work! Buy it tomorrow!
- Thanks @aravensgrace.bsky.social for your review of "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy" coming Tuesday 1/20 fir @science.org. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... If you haven't read Maria's "Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless", I highly recommend you do so!
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾VACANCY - Non-Executive NGI Programme Board Member 📣 We are seeking an experienced professional to join the Next Generation Infrastructure Board, overseeing the delivery of a c. £400m funded programme to support our Healthy Plants, Healthy People, Healthy Planet (HP3) vision: jic.link/8ku
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾Registration and abstract submission for the Euro Evo Devo 2026 meeting at the University of Glasgow (June 9-12) is open! Register and submit your abstract by March 5, 2026. For details: evodevoconference26.com #conference
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön, Germany, seeks expressions of interest for open Max Planck Director positions. For details: evolbio.mpg.de/3856225/Directors. #job
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾HIRING — PRINCIPAL SCIENTIST, GENOMICS Lead gene discovery & genome editing for vegetable crops at Nunhems / BASF — global role based in the Netherlands. Drive cutting‑edge genomics, collaborate with breeders & bioinformatics teams, and turn discoveries into real-world trait improvements. What you…
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾We've just created an exciting new Phylogenomics Botanist role to join our vibrant team at Botanic Gardens of Sydney and help us build the NSW Plant Tree of Life! Applications close 26 Jan 2026: iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/phylogen... #botanicgardens #nswflora #nswptol #phylogenomics
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾New paper from the Hanson lab - KO of all 11 rbcS genes (!!) in tobacco to create a null line for rubisco engineering, plus resurrection of ancestral forms www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾Research Manager Job for Plant Growth Facilities and Microscopy at University of Basel, Switzerland The University of Basel is recruiting a Research Manager to oversee plant growth facilities and microscopy for the Plant Ecology and Evolution research group. A long-term role combining plant…
- And still is of most papers in reality - the writing is the most important part
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾The Drosophila board (affectionately called flyboard but not to be confused with en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyboard) is seeking nominations from trainees to serve three-year terms starting with the fly meeting in Chicago 2026. There is one grad student and one postdoc representative to the board. 2/
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾So, if you’re a young scientist, feeling lost in the dark, my encouragement is this: that’s where you have to be if you want to discover something genuinely new. All the way down. ✊🏼
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾Like Martin said, you go on until you feel stupid. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾Come to work with us at @helsinki.fi ! Still time to apply! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
- This more than anything makes an academic career worthwhile - seeing other people achieve their goals
- Very grateful to all my mentors and colleagues who have supported me over the years, especially to #Palacioslab, @poolelaboxford.bsky.social, #SRUK/CERU, @janelangdale.bsky.social & the @royalsociety.org for the incredible opportunity to start my #juniorPI journey at @biology.ox.ac.uk!! #AcademicMum
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾📣 Nominations are now being accepted for the 2026 ASPB Awards. It is important that ASPB honor the most notable achievements and contributions of plant scientists worldwide.🌱 👉 The deadline is Friday, February 13! buff.ly/ziJ3tAt. #plantscience
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾📣 Nominations are now open for President-elect and Secretary-elect. The deadline is Friday, February 27, 2026, so submit your nomination soon!👉http://excom.aspb.org.
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾Just wow!
- “We did our absolute best to get the best possible outcome from these products.” but “The biggest surprise of anything is that nothing worked anywhere,” says Naeve. “Even among cynical people like me, that was really shocking.” Me too. blog-crop-news.extension.umn.edu/2026/01/do-b...
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾Ten days left to apply for the Faculty position in #plantscience in the area of Molecular and Cellular Biology in the department of biology #usherbrooke. www.usherbrooke.ca/emplois/offr...
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾🔊 Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bacterial Evolution. Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠 3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share! hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾A great tenure track position (Assistant Professor) of Sustainable Plant Nutrition @ethz.ch @usyseth.bsky.social @johansix.bsky.social ! Deadline to apply: 28/02/2026. ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾"revision requests can expand beyond what is feasible...we've been told reviews are unnecessarily harsh... reviews can seem formidable but usually represent constructive critiques" Interesting reflections and introspection from editors of Development 1/n journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾ICYMI over the holidays
- The Council for Science & Technology which advises the PM is looking for a new member ‘with social & behavioural science expertise’. Great opportunity to bring a social science perspective to the heart of policymaking. Apply by 19 Jan apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/9075
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾Some good things happened in 2025. Some highlights! 1. Huntington's disease has a treatment. 🧪2. FDA approval of antiviral drug Lenacapavir to prevent HIV 3. Brazil reduces deforestation by 32% 4. Columbia declares that the Amazon is off limits 5. India increases its tiger & lion population
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾Oxford City Council has extended SWEP (emergency beds for rough sleepers) until 4 January due to freezing overnight temperatures .
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾The Platonic Ideal "The key point with figure legends is that it should be possible for a reader to ignore the entire manuscript! With only the figures & fig legends to go on, they should be able to understand what you've done & (roughly)what you’re trying to demonstrate" @tirscienceblog.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾I’ll see yall next year ✨
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾Celebrating Plant Science Excellence: 2026 Rank Prize in Nutrition The Global Plant Council warmly congratulates Professors David E. Salt and Martin Broadley on receiving the 2026 Rank Prize for Nutrition. buff.ly/S5pa3jP via Rank Prize #PlantScience
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾We are #hiring! Join Miltos Tsiantis’s lab within the IMPRS @mpipz.bsky.social to identify genes driving root sucker formation in crucifer plants — combining evolution & genetics. 📆 Deadline: Jan 5, 2026 ✏️ Apply via: gradschool.mpipz.mpg.de ℹ️ More info: mpipz.mpg.de/imprs
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾🧪📢Forest Research in the UK is seeking two new members for the Expert Committee on #Forest #Science. 🧬🌳📖🌲🪵 * one early-career, * one from the forestry sector, Please see details on the link below. Closing 30 Jan. ➡️ www.forestresearch.gov.uk/about-us/car... #forestry #plantsci #trees
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾Bummed to see corn plants drawn so clearly wrong. The tassel does not magically turn into an ear on the top of the plant. Not a great look for a plant journal.
- Reposted by Jane Langdale 🌱 🌾The one that works for me: - a million seconds is ~11.5 days - a billion seconds is ~31.7 years - a trillion seconds is ~31,700 years Big difference
