Jill Harrison

🎉 Two fern evo-devo PhD opportunities available at the University of Birmingham: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... Application deadline 23rd November. Please spread the word to anyone who might be interested 🙂 #Plantsci_jobs #Plantscience

Are you looking for a PhD in the area of plant evolution? If so do apply to join the lab for this competitively funded @gpsep.bsky.social PhD project to study the evolution of branching architecture by combing data from fossils, ferns and genes. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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🌱🔬 We're hiring! 2-year Senior Technician in the McKenna Lab @warwicklifesci.bsky.social. Plant cell biology meets proteomics. We want someone enthusiastic to help drive our research forward. Interested? DM or email for an informal chat. workwithus.warwick.ac.uk/job/COVENTRY... #PlantScience #Jobs

How do plant organs stay smooth—or become wrinkled? 🌱 Our paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social shows how coordinated growth direction and mechanical properties across cell layers determine whether Arabidopsis sepals remain smooth or buckle. cell.com/current-biol...

Introducing PhyloDig: a small command-line tool I am developing to make comparative phylogenetic analyses easier. github.com/davidjhoey/P...

TMO5 orchestrates organ patterning in plant shoots This Research Highlight showcases work by Abdul Kareem, Carolyn Ohno and Marcus Heisler (@heisler-lab.bsky.social): journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Great papers, great peer review, enduring impact, all supported by the Company of Biologists- reasons not to?!

Thanks @plosbiology.org for highlighting our paper on the front of the website! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/

Happy to share this job opportunity at Bristol. If you have bioinformatics expertise and your research complements our research strengths, please do apply!

Very happy to have been part of this collaboration and give a #FossilFriday perspective to the amazing work led by Xilan Yang and Tom Beeckman. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Brassinosteroid controls leaf air space patterning non-cell autonomously by promoting epidermal growth Read this Research Article from our special issue #DevSIextracellular by James Fitzsimons and colleagues doi.org/10.1242/dev....

Win £200 for your post on the Node This is your opportunity to publish your piece at last for a chance to win £200. We are hosting an exciting writing challenge to help motivate you to share your piece with the Node’s community of biologists by 4 September. thenode.biologists.com/win-200-for-...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... It's been a long time coming, but delighted to say that the first major output from my Royal Society Fellowship is now published. 🙂 #PlantScience

Always, always make sure your reporter lines are stable. elifesciences.org/articles/112...

And in George’s own words…

Meant to say: Happy to celebrate the first of my former PhD student George Greiff’s first author papers from his *BBSRC SWBioDTP* funded PhD work in my lab today. Thanks to the DTP for the funding!

Long term collaborator @reskilab.bsky.social is looking for person to continue the great plant biology lab in Freiburg. If you have the right skills you should apply.

Happy to be teaching some durable plant identification skills to 15 Bristol Biology students taking this year’s plant biodiversity and ecology field course at Croyde. Windy for project work in the field today, but thankfully no longer lashing with rain!

Call for Papers Submit your latest plant and multicellular algae #DevBio research to our upcoming special issue – Plant and Algae Development #DevSIPlantAlgae Editors: @stanfordstomata.bsky.social & Susana Coelho Deadline: 2 November 2026 journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pl...

A nice article on moss dieback featuring George Greiff’s work ☺️https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g48jy4j1yo

I enjoyed thinking about some of the people who have been important to me at different points of my academic journey for this Q & A in Current Biology. I hope some of you enjoy it too! authors.elsevier.com/a/1muUD3QW8S...

I'll focus on What is needed to build a fulfilling career in academia How to navigate the current job market What constitutes a “successful” academic application package from a search committee’s perspective Strategies for balancing research program success with teaching and service expectations

1 year technician position in the Roeder lab on how sepal morphogenesis is robust to environmental perturbations. Great position for a postbac. jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...

This looks fab!

If you're studying #Agriculture #PlantBreeding and would be interested in #IndustryPlacement experience, there is an opportunity at our @kwsgroup.bsky.social Breeding Station in Thriplow, Cambridgeshire: jobs.kws.com/job/Thriplow... #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceUK #outdoorclassroom

We are really excited that Euro Evo Devo will take place here in Scotland from the 9th-12th June, at the University of Glasgow! Deadline for Early Bird Registration and Abstract Submission are rapidly approaching in March so do register soon! www.evodevoconference26.com/important-da...

📣 Applications are currently open for a @blackinplantsci.bsky.social Summer Studentship working with @cgrandel.bsky.social and the Earlham #Biofoundry team. 🌱 This is a great opportunity for Black undergraduate students to gain experience in #automation and #syntheticbiology in plants. 🧬

JOB ALERT! We are excited to announce that we are recruiting three new academics at lecturer level! Click the link below for more info on how to apply, and don’t forget to explore our research themes too! We look forward to receiving your applications! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Were hiring! We have 3 new open positions on our academic staff, more details on the link below. It’s an open call, and we would love to boost the diversity of our staff, so if you think there might be a good scientific fit, do apply! I am happy to take enquiries. www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Brilliant to see these guys graduating today and to attend my first UoB ceremony. Huge congratulations to Dr Liu, Dr Greiff and Dr Jeal, and look forward very much to hearing about the difference you make in the future!

A new 2 year post in our team at the Milner Centre in Bath - single cell transcriptomics, non-coding RNA, stomatal physiology and evolution, all rolled into one. Really exciting project and excellent collaborators in Sheffield too! Please share, details here: www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

Are you a researcher looking to help the next generation of plant scientists gain valuable experience? Then consider applying to host a Plant Health Undergraduate Studentship this summer! 📆Apply by Tues 10 March Find out more: www.rsb.org.uk/plant-health... #PlantHealth

Love this really cool method for gene editing briwn algae- greens or lycophytes next? www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Thursday is the last chance to apply for a NERC GW4 funded PhD to work with me and James Clark at Bath on roles for WOX genes in the evolution of plant life histories. The project builds on prior work showing a divergence in function after duplication in mosses. www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...

🧬 Fancy a fully funded PhD at the cutting edge of parasitology? 🦠✨ We’re recruiting outstanding students to join an exciting 4-year, fully funded PhD programme in Molecular & Cellular Parasitology – home & international students welcome 🌍

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL OF YOU!🎄✨

Happy to share my lab’s first venture into the world of wheat from an enjoyable collaboration with Chris Burt at RAGT Seeds and Keith Edwards. My team members Katie Jeal and Sophie Carpenter did a terrific job of the bioinformatics and starting the lab work. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Friends, I hardly ever get to post this… Bryophyte faculty job!!! botany.ubc.ca/job-postings...

Fabulous opportunity for early career folk, great place, great colleagues and a salary bump!

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 ⬇️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3RY0vxzFpg

Very proud of my PhD alumnus George Greiff for passing his viva and submitting his corrections last week. Not to mention all the other things, a new job at the Cardiff Museum, paper submission and a new house all in the last few weeks! Huge congrats and loved the celebrations 🥳😁.

Very excited to advertise 15 plant engineering biology PhD projects @biologyatyork.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social @slcuplants.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social & University of Bristol. 🪴 🥬 🔧 🧬 Come join this new Plant BioDesign community! www.findaphd.com/phds/?Keywor...

The origin and evolution of root mucilage Nazari et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...