Jason Daff

🌱 Future leaders wanted! Applications are now open for the LSA Fellowship Scheme, designed to support and shape the next generation of commercial horticulture leaders. Apply now: lsactfellowship.org/application/ #horticulture #Fellowship #Futureleaders

@BiologyatYork What a Vegetable!

@biologyatyork Horticulture's Dave Grimshaw holds his marrow with pride after winning first place at the Fulford Show! 🥳 62 pounds, 42 inches long!

Why horticulturists must ditch 'cavalier' attitude to sunburn + employers must step up HortWeek Podcast tackles the very real risk of skin cancer #horticulture workers face - with @JasonDaff , Susanna Daniels + Andrew Poole hortweek.com/article/1920943 @focusonmelanoma @CIHort

Surely this is a no-brainer ... Horticulture organisations urge UK Government to remove VAT on sunscreen hortweek.com/article/1921420 #Horticulture @CIHort @HTAnews @PlantNetwork @melanoma_fund @BALI_Landscape @The_RHS @The_APL @NFUPolitical

One-eighth of horticulturist survey respondents diagnosed with skin cancer hortweek.com/article/1916801 #Horticulture @CIHort #SkinCancer #Gardening @The_APL @pggonx

Fantastic selection of early blossom 🌸 on @UniOfYork Campus West, including Magnolia x soulangeana and Prunus 'Shirotae' #sakura @UoyGrounds

Researchers are working with scientists based in York’s twin city of Nanjing to further understanding of how the mint family of plants produce therapeutic benefits. york.ac.uk/news-and-event…

Take a look at our new pre-print: ELF3 controls trait heterogeneity in Arabidopsis and barley. doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

Proper hard grafting! @BiologyatYork @UniOfYork #horticulture with @JasonDaff, Harry Stevens, Alison Fenwick and Mike Hirst, retired senior lecture from Houghall College, Durham teaching student Plant & Fungi Sci Soc.members (and me!) how to graft apple varieties for Walled Gdn

#job 🚨 for a Technician in @BiologyatYork working with @YorkEnvironment on projects to improve nutrient retention, water retention, and carbon sequestration in soils: gathering and analysing data. Apply by 30/3/2025 jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/techni…

Well-chuffed to get a chance to talk with razor-sharp Professor Dame Angela McLean, @uksciencechief about our elementalhub.org metal-recovery willow project, at @UniOfYork. She loves peonies too, WNTL?!

Under 30, working or studying in horticulture... fancy winning a £2500 travel bursary for a hort trip anywhere in the world? Young Horticulturist of the Year 2025 is OPEN!! flexiquiz.com/SC/N/Young-Hor… #YHoY @CIHort

Latest NERC rejection in. Any thoughts on who might fund research into mechanisms by which #earthworms boost #plant growth as a follow up to this study sciencedirect.com/science/articl… and as a means to identify methods to try and reduce #fertiliser inputs welcome!

@IFarmers @Mindrumfarm @LizRylott - possible new lab members 🐑

🌿Could willow trees help tackle cobalt deficiency in lambs? 🐑 Here’s how a #fieldlab at @Mindrumfarm, Northumberland, is exploring the potential of willow as a natural, low-cost alternative to supplements. Watch the full film 📽️👇 innovativefarmers.org/field-labs/wil…

@paul_atk79 A surprising amount of plumbing in horticulture I find.

Anyone who works on a nursery will tell you, you spent 20% of your time doing actual propagation work (cuttings, seed sowing etc) the other 80% is spent doing DIY, watering, preparing lists & other chores. (Currently constructing a new path) #PropWisley

Apply for a PhD in my group at #CNAP, University of York. Deadline Mon 6th Jan 2025. We enjoy fab #plantsci, tackle #realworldproblems, #collaborate with #industry, cogitate with academics, #travel, #chuckle and learn #funstuff. findaphd.com/phds/project/d…

4-year PhD studentship available in my group using pangenomes and genetics to improve amaranth and cowpea for 🇿🇦 smallholder farmers. Collaboration with 🇿🇦 ARC. Part of the new BBSRC Yorkshire Bioscience doctoral training programme. Deadline Jan 6th findaphd.com/phds/project/y…

Interested in using the circadian clock to enhance nutritional quality in hyperlocal urban farms? Check out this PhD at the University of York findaphd.com/phds/project/p…

This time next week, it's the #THEAwards! @TechsCommit sponsors the Outstanding Technician of the Year award, this year there's 8 incredible finalists Meet the technicians here buff.ly/3CBXmN6