So glad I got to see you and tour the facilities at Essex recently
Plant scientist studying how climate change affects plant toxicity (#cyanide). Born 314ppm. Interested in science, tech, plants. #MECFS ally #botanist 🌾🪴🧪🌱🌿💉 Views my own
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So glad I got to see you and tour the facilities at Essex recently
📢Workshop Announcement: Culturally Sensitive Mentoring Chaired by Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso alongside Dr Katharine Hubbard and Chloe Lewis this interactive workshop equips mentors with the tools to engage meaningfully across cultures. To find out more, head to our website: buff.ly/huckAbw
Never knew such a thing existed!
Sounds like a great conference!
Finally in IRL! With @brendancrabb.bsky.- got to ‘know’ each other on the other place and had one zoom but this is the 1st time in the flesh- at the Australian Academy of Science
Prof Mark Howden FAA (ANU) is elected a Fellow for his 30+ years shaping global climate policy through integrative research. He has been a key contributor to IPCC Assessment Reports since 1991. #FellowsAA
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Pretty retrograde step
Here’s a starter pack I made!
The smart fertiliser work of Prof Deli Chen AO FAA (University of Melbourne) cuts nitrogen loss 80%, reducing emissions & boosting crop efficiency for sustainable farming. #FellowsAA
Clear comments on C emissions and drivers of change from new fellow -be afraid and cut emissions @pepcanadell.bsky.social #ShineDome55
Congratulation Mark - #ClimateChange
Great to see plant genomics researcher and ag scientist Rejeev Varshney elected to the Australian Adademy of Science #ShineDome25 #plantscience 🌿🍃🌱🌾🪴
Meet the 28 new Fellows being admitted to the Academy today at Science at the Shine Dome! 🎉 Elected by their peers for exceptional contributions, they’re shaping science through inspiring stories & groundbreaking research. Join us as we delve into their inspiring stories... vimeo.com/showcase/118...
Pleased to see two female professors from Monash Uni elected as Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science - Christina Mitchell and Jessica Purcell @monashuniversity.bsky.social #ShineDome25
President Prof Chennupati Jagadish welcoming newly elected fellows to the Academy of Science #ShineDome25
📢 Call for Applications 📢 Launching the 4th round of JXB Editorial Internships! 🌟 💡 Designed for ECRs to gain hands-on experience in scientific publishing from the editorial side ✍️ Boost your skills as a researcher OR explore a career in publishing Apply by 30 Sept 🔗👇 #PlantScience 🧪
Lovely wattle just coming into flower against a pretty ordinary wall with fabulous animal sculptures by Clifton Pew (in memory of Prof Jock Marshall) #NationalWattleDay @monashuniversity.bsky.social
I started this #Mycologists Starter Pack, aiming to get all professional fungal researchers on BlueSky in one place. DM if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/UMrVSsp
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Job in outreach at Cambridge Botanic Gardens #PlantScience #SciComm
The undermining of science and the incalculable value of vaccines is scary to watch - effects will be global due to the huge influence of US 💉⚕️🧪 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I spent a bunch of time in my #SCI2010 lectures using Wakefield as an example of bad science and fraud - can only hope many 1000s of Australians and their families know there is no evidence for autism from MMR vaccines
Pretty sure Australian kids have had this for 15 years
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
1) 🇦🇺 The Australian research group of Christopher Armstrong just published a review on cerebral blood flow (CBF) in ME/CFS and orthostatic intolerance. About half of the ME/CFS studies reported a significant CBF decrease.
I don’t think we expect adulation - we just don’t understand when people are not convinced by the evidence
I trust what the science says - but it’s interesting that some people don’t. Why not? Can we as scientists do anything about that?
Interesting. I’d forgotten that . It doesn’t need to happen . I believe in expertise and listening to experts outside my field
Good point. Blind trust is a good avenue if you have no expertise and therefore should trust the experts
No we shouldn’t - that’s not what I’m saying
Just a reminder that our Unraveled episode discussing Rapamycin, Long Covid, ME/CFS is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_aw...
Scientists, we need to bring people WITH us. In my ‘how science works” #SCI2010 lectures I flagged the danger of scientists being viewed as highpriests of knowledge = could be rejected like any religion. (I may’ve got this idea from Julian Cribb: too long ago to remember) #SciComm 🧪
NSW in a trough. Could be start of a new wave *already* in Victoria and NSW - I know at least three people in my department have tested positive in the last 2 weeks - bother 😷
I note this article (above) from the US is about tariffs and workforce shortages but yes climate change will exacerbate food prices as well
Do you think we’re past the peak in NZ and Oz (until the summer wave starts)
I keep telling people that food is cheap and will get really expensive with increasing climate change and they stare at me in disbelief because they think food is expensive now #Food #ClimateChange
#PostDoc #PlantScience
Legend!
Beautiful. We there in June on our way back from North Yorkshire - saw the signpost, had never heard of it and were blown away
I keep thinking that - sand with UK sending refugees to Rwanda and stopping the boats - Australia is a world leader in cruelty to asylum seekers
A timely reminder of the real dangers of long covid. My daughter has mod-severe ME and seriously you don’t want to get it
Or I could just watch the video ….
Queueing up this book by Naomi Oreskes to read after I finish “Prove It” by Elizabeth Finkel - both on importance of science written either side of the Covid emergency #SciComm 🧪
Intersting read www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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ATSE & Fortescue have joined the OECD in calling for an end to Australia's biggest fossil fuel subsidy, the Fuel Tax Credit Scheme. The FTCS costs over $10 bn/yr, discourages transition to cleaner fuels & overwhelmingly benefits the mining industry. ▶️ australiainstitute.org.au/post/fossil-...
Well done on those whose work was selected for Best Australian Science Writing 2035. 🧪
Is this to save the health insurance companies money? I can’t see any other reason other than bloody mindedness
I know plenty of younger Australians including teenagers who’d get boosters but don’t consider themselves eligible #Covid
Study: Neurocognitive Trajectories in Long COVID: Evidence from Longitudinal Analyses. Published: 19 August 2025 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The title is not hyperbole. Important read from Ella Finkel as a prelude to her new book Prove It - www.blackincbooks.com.au/events/prove... Friday essay: Trump and Kennedy are destroying global science. Even Einstein questioned facts – but there’s a method to it theconversation.com/friday-essay...
Interesting and promising -ME is a problem to be solved. There needs to be a concerted effort - here a small study using anti-CD38 antibodies: 6/10 patients, had clinical improvement and concurrent transient reduction of serum IgG levels #LC #ME www.frontiersin.org/journals/med...
Deeply disturbing
There are now an estimated four million guns in Australia — more than there were before the Port Arthur massacre in 1996 — and more people licensed to own them #NoGuns theconversation.com/whats-behind...
A good read 🪴🌱🌾- she has very similar interests to my own - except I’m more into cyanide 🤪
As was predicted by Marion Ball for Eucalyptus 30 years ago - climate change can mean clearer skies in the Australian alps and together with higher CO2 = more frost damage www.researchgate.net/publication/...
#AcademicJobs 🧪
Plastic is brilliant for certain things and important for some with disabilities (like online shopping)- for everything else we should use it as little and recycle as much as possible
We need to look after our young people - for their sakes and for the sake of society #AusPol www.theage.com.au/business/the...
I’m a scientist
Just sent a quick thank you! I’ve heard this kind of engagement & positive feedback does make a difference 🤞
Looking forward to listening to this www.theguardian.com/science/audi...
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Very helpful - thank you
More evidence that COVID-19 is an endothelial disease
Climate change is really expensive
There’s ME/CFS on Bluesky as a topic #mecfs - someone must’ve made a starter pack
There is quite a community but it takes time and so many are too ill to make the move @tomkindlon.bsky.social and @abrokenbattery.bsky.social - as you know they’re on the other place but they’re here too - posting same stuff #pwME
Powerful and important work by Jeremy Jeffs, capturing life with severe ME. Upcoming exhibition — ‘Lives We Cannot Live,’ Oxo Tower Gallery, London, 24–28 Sept. Give him a follow or subscribe for updates on his upcoming book. mailchi.mp/16f8611232cc...
Recap of “Support Group: Who am I? Identity and Chronic Illness” (July 15, 2025) batemanhornecenter.org/wp-content/u... #chronicillness #spoonies #mecfs #longcovid #chronicallyill #spoonie
From ME Research UK @meresearchuk.bsky.social : ME Research UK-funded researcher Dr Jarred Younger has recorded a 15 minute explanation of deCodeME's recently published pre-print results. This covers background, method, results, and importance - tinyurl.com/5n6buzpj #MECFS #decodeME
Incorporation of information about ME/CFS which reflects the biological nature of the disease into continued medical education (CME) may prevent health providers erroneously attributing the origins of ME/CFS to psychosocial causes. Read more: bit.ly/45X7jk5 #MEcfs #CFS #PwME
From @meresearchuk.bsky.social Assistant Professor Rob Wüst, who is working on research funded by ME Research UK, spoke at the International ME/CFS Conference 2025 on skeletal muscle alteration in Long COVID and ME/CFS. Find out more: www.meresearch.org.uk/assistant-pr... #MEcfs #LongCovid
We dont need more guns. The less opportunity for tragic events like this the better #AusPol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Attending the launch of “Prove it” - latest book by Elizabeth Finkel on the importance of science in a post-truth world - interviewed by ABC’s Natasha Mitchell 🧪🧬⚕️
No. No Just no. We do not want guns in Australia and governments should resist the lobbying #AusPol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
No no no #AusPol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Really looking forward to reading more of Finkel’s new book - from gravitational waves to human origins to Covid told in a way that illustrate how science works underpinned by history and philosophy of science 🧪 #SciComm #ProveIt
Attending the launch of “Prove it” - latest book by Elizabeth Finkel on the importance of science in a post-truth world - interviewed by ABC’s Natasha Mitchell 🧪🧬⚕️
Voices arguing that climate action is a waste of time are getting louder. Here’s why they are wrong. "It’s hard to overstate how much there is to be done. But don’t believe self-interested arguments that action is impossible, or will be for nothing." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
😷 masks work - especially N95 (I mostly wear the ones with earlobes not round the head ones - easy to peel off when outside)
My Manchurian pear is flowering - after two dud years, all is forgiven #MyGarden
Young people now are facing a lifetime of illness - people have already forgotten that this is not normal in the modern era
Attention plant proteomics specialists: We are looking for a Head of our new Proteomics Unit at our international and dynamic Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology. @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social Applications are welcome until 30. Sept 2025: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/8...
Michigan State University is hiring a new Director of our herbarium! This is an open rank, tenure-stream faculty position, with research focus in plant or fungal systematics, ecology, and/or evolution Please consider applying and help spread the word! plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
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I'd love a reporter to ask him to explain what an intercalary meristem is and why it's very important for golf courses.
We can’t give up on specifically championing women’s rights - the gains were hard won and fragile #WomenInScience www.theage.com.au/world/north-...
Join us for the 4th webinar in our series with the International Working Group for Safe Cassava! 📅 28 August at 03:00 pm CEST Don’t miss this opportunity—register now to secure your spot! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
I’ll be chairing this - 11pm Melbourne time. The downside of living in Australia #cassava #Webinar #konzo #DRC
People reporting LC or PCVS are subject to stigmatization and psychologization. From a patient per- spective, psychologization appears to be an important driver of stigmatization and negative outcomes. Imagine that🤬🤬‼️ bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
🌱 Valley oak adapts to heat with smaller leaves, maintaining crown health if irrigated. London plane grows larger leaves, limiting heat tolerance. (Mickie Tang, Matthew E. Gilbert, Emily K. Meineke) ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PlantScience #Irrigation #Climate
Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
👏 I tried all the neighbouring countries first