Prof Ros Gleadow FAA
@rgleadow.bsky.social
Plant scientist studying how climate change affects plant toxicity (#cyanide). Born 314ppm.
Interested in science, tech, plants. #MECFS ally #botanist 🌾🪴🧪🌱🌿💉
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Interested in science, tech, plants. #MECFS ally #botanist 🌾🪴🧪🌱🌿💉
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Professor Roslyn Gleadow – 2024 Academy Fellow
YouTube video by Australian Academy of Science
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This video profiling me and my research was made for the Australian Academy of Science New Fellows Symposium. Enjoy! 🌾🪴🧪🌿 #sorghum #cassava #cyanide
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Done, thanks! Starter pack getting full, love to see it. go.bsky.app/Q9QiX9C
November 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Done, thanks! Starter pack getting full, love to see it. go.bsky.app/Q9QiX9C
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Most people across the nine middle-income countries we surveyed – a median of 80% – are willing to make at least some changes to how they live and work to help reduce the effects of climate change.
November 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Most people across the nine middle-income countries we surveyed – a median of 80% – are willing to make at least some changes to how they live and work to help reduce the effects of climate change.
Appalling
🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🧪🌳🐝🌿🌳🍅🍞🥦Botanical University Challenge to inspire the next generation of botanists.
University of Nottingham, UK, plans to close Plant Biology for new students from autumn 2026. Current students want to know more. Read more here:
www.change.org/p/reconsider...
University of Nottingham, UK, plans to close Plant Biology for new students from autumn 2026. Current students want to know more. Read more here:
www.change.org/p/reconsider...
November 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Appalling
They would be leas hesitant if they the government actually doing something to rein in coal and gas extraction #AusPol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Survey finds 40% of Australian women without kids hesitant to have children because of climate change
Research which polled a representative sample of 2,000 people also found over a third of Coalition voters believed the climate would not change at all
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
They would be leas hesitant if they the government actually doing something to rein in coal and gas extraction #AusPol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Tomorrow morning I'll be speaking with Sally Sara on ABC's Radio National Breakfast, about QLD’s proposal to reclassify dingoes as domestic dogs. It's not a good idea, and I'll explain why.
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Tomorrow morning I'll be speaking with Sally Sara on ABC's Radio National Breakfast, about QLD’s proposal to reclassify dingoes as domestic dogs. It's not a good idea, and I'll explain why.
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2- One of the few data sources right now is Google symptom searches. Here's the raw data for the US. I had noticed that these were increasing in many states as I was updating my website last evening.
icemsg.org/graphs/
icemsg.org/graphs/
November 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
2- One of the few data sources right now is Google symptom searches. Here's the raw data for the US. I had noticed that these were increasing in many states as I was updating my website last evening.
icemsg.org/graphs/
icemsg.org/graphs/
"Rising global heat is now killing one person a minute around the world" As we head into COP30, a reminder that the impacts are already happening and will be much worse with every 0.1 °C increase. Every little bit helps.
#GlobalHeating #ClimateEmergency
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#GlobalHeating #ClimateEmergency
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals
Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year from combined effects of failure to tackle climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
"Rising global heat is now killing one person a minute around the world" As we head into COP30, a reminder that the impacts are already happening and will be much worse with every 0.1 °C increase. Every little bit helps.
#GlobalHeating #ClimateEmergency
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#GlobalHeating #ClimateEmergency
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Well reasoned and new information - “Rosalind Franklin has been reduced to the “wronged heroine” of the double helix. She deserves to be remembered not as the victim of the double helix, but as an equal contributor to the solution of the structure.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Well reasoned and new information - “Rosalind Franklin has been reduced to the “wronged heroine” of the double helix. She deserves to be remembered not as the victim of the double helix, but as an equal contributor to the solution of the structure.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Beware
Horrified but not surprised to learn that the predatory pseudoscience known as the Lightning Process is alive and well in Canada, and being targeted at (the bank accounts of) people with Long Covid who are desperate to return to their old lives.
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CBC’s Flagship Program Platforms “Quackery” for Long COVID
CBC's national broadcast aired an interview with Gill Deacon about her Long COVID recovery. Deacon used an unproven program called the Lightning Process that's been criticized for exploiting patients ...
simonspichak.beehiiv.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Beware
I always wondered how bad it was - no it’s not just a different time. 😱
In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
November 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I always wondered how bad it was - no it’s not just a different time. 😱
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Relatively detailed article on new art exhibition on long Covid.
www.westword.com/arts-culture...
Includes some examples from the exhibition
#LongCovid #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC #Covidlonghaulers #PostCovidSyndrome
www.westword.com/arts-culture...
Includes some examples from the exhibition
#LongCovid #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC #Covidlonghaulers #PostCovidSyndrome
November 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Relatively detailed article on new art exhibition on long Covid.
www.westword.com/arts-culture...
Includes some examples from the exhibition
#LongCovid #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC #Covidlonghaulers #PostCovidSyndrome
www.westword.com/arts-culture...
Includes some examples from the exhibition
#LongCovid #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC #Covidlonghaulers #PostCovidSyndrome
We need to Urgently stop burning fossil fuels www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis
History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:00 AM
We need to Urgently stop burning fossil fuels www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Getting the #SciComm band back together for the last ? postgrad course with Peter Spinks, Graham Phillips and Michael Brown @monashuniversity.bsky.social @monashscience.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Getting the #SciComm band back together for the last ? postgrad course with Peter Spinks, Graham Phillips and Michael Brown @monashuniversity.bsky.social @monashscience.bsky.social
Love that there are people who solve crazy maths problem - it restores my faith in humanity
Two young mathematicians just broke a 330-year-old geometry riddle. Jakob Steininger, 30, and Sergey Yurkevich, 29, friends since maths-Olympiad days, have discovered the first known shape that can’t pass through a copy of itself. buff.ly/0SgvjZ1
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself | Quanta Magazine
After more than three centuries, a geometry problem that originated with a royal bet has been solved.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Love that there are people who solve crazy maths problem - it restores my faith in humanity
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I am hiring a postdoc to examine the genomic and evolutionary basis of plant microbiome variation in legumes. There are opportunities to gain teaching experience. Chicago is a great city to live in! Please help spread the word.
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Plant Evolutionary Genomics
The postdoctoral researcher will work in Dr. Michael Grillo’s plant evolutionary genetics lab. The goal of this research project is to understand the genomic basis of plant-microbiome variation in leg...
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October 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I am hiring a postdoc to examine the genomic and evolutionary basis of plant microbiome variation in legumes. There are opportunities to gain teaching experience. Chicago is a great city to live in! Please help spread the word.
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Two PhD student positions on Fire Resilience of Amazon Forests (Application deadline Nov 26), Wageningen
@masha-vandersande.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social
www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...
@masha-vandersande.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social
www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...
November 5, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Two PhD student positions on Fire Resilience of Amazon Forests (Application deadline Nov 26), Wageningen
@masha-vandersande.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social
www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...
@masha-vandersande.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social
www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...
Masks work - actors like Tom Hanks use them because they can’t afford to get sick - can you really ‘afford’ to get sick?
Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he masks on the subway:
"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."
Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.
"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."
Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.
November 5, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Masks work - actors like Tom Hanks use them because they can’t afford to get sick - can you really ‘afford’ to get sick?
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Renewables are so cheap o we can give them away for free in the middle of the day…fixing our grid will take time and is a big problem, but of all the problems we have, the cost of renewables is not even in the top 10 #climate
thepoint.com.au/news/251104-...
thepoint.com.au/news/251104-...
Households to get free electricity because of renewable generation
Renewables are the cheapest form of electricity generation, and this is being highlighted by the fact that soon electricity will be free for 3 hours a day.
thepoint.com.au
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Renewables are so cheap o we can give them away for free in the middle of the day…fixing our grid will take time and is a big problem, but of all the problems we have, the cost of renewables is not even in the top 10 #climate
thepoint.com.au/news/251104-...
thepoint.com.au/news/251104-...
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🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE - CLOSING SOON 🚨
🌿🟡 Sulfur Signaling 🟡 🌿
📝 Edited by Markus Wirtz, Stan Kopriva & Hideki Takahashi
📅 Deadline: 30 November 2025
📄 We welcome contributions! Got an manuscript in mind? Contact JXB office 👉 bit.ly/JXBissues
#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social
🌿🟡 Sulfur Signaling 🟡 🌿
📝 Edited by Markus Wirtz, Stan Kopriva & Hideki Takahashi
📅 Deadline: 30 November 2025
📄 We welcome contributions! Got an manuscript in mind? Contact JXB office 👉 bit.ly/JXBissues
#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE - CLOSING SOON 🚨
🌿🟡 Sulfur Signaling 🟡 🌿
📝 Edited by Markus Wirtz, Stan Kopriva & Hideki Takahashi
📅 Deadline: 30 November 2025
📄 We welcome contributions! Got an manuscript in mind? Contact JXB office 👉 bit.ly/JXBissues
#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social
🌿🟡 Sulfur Signaling 🟡 🌿
📝 Edited by Markus Wirtz, Stan Kopriva & Hideki Takahashi
📅 Deadline: 30 November 2025
📄 We welcome contributions! Got an manuscript in mind? Contact JXB office 👉 bit.ly/JXBissues
#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 @sebiology.bsky.social
Lidia is brilliant scientist with a big heart. Am very proud to have have the opportunity to serve with her in a minor way on an academy committee
Australian scientist who alerted world that COVID is airborne wins top science prize
When the WHO falsely claimed in March 2020 that COVID wasn’t airborne, Professor Lidia Morawska took action—organising 239 scientists worldwide to warn about SARS-CoV-2 airborne spread and urge global recognition.
When the WHO falsely claimed in March 2020 that COVID wasn’t airborne, Professor Lidia Morawska took action—organising 239 scientists worldwide to warn about SARS-CoV-2 airborne spread and urge global recognition.
Australian scientist who alerted world that Covid is airborne wins top science prize
Prof Lidia Morawska says recognition of her research comes at a fraught time – an ‘age of anti-science’
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Lidia is brilliant scientist with a big heart. Am very proud to have have the opportunity to serve with her in a minor way on an academy committee
I’m all for low intervention births but in the end what matters most is a healthy Mum and Bub. People have forgotten how dangerous child birth can be - they need to read Victorian novels or visit South Sudan www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
Freebirthing, ‘wild’ pregnancies and the banned birth keeper
Doula Emily Lal has said she would never seek medical care during her own “wild” pregnancies, despite having no medical background herself.
www.theage.com.au
November 4, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I’m all for low intervention births but in the end what matters most is a healthy Mum and Bub. People have forgotten how dangerous child birth can be - they need to read Victorian novels or visit South Sudan www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
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Congratulations to Lidia Morawska, the Aussie scientist who alerted the world to the airborne nature of COVID-19. Winner of the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science. I’ve learnt so much from being a (very minor) part of Lidia’s team. Brilliant, incisive, generous.
www.industry.gov.au/publications...
www.industry.gov.au/publications...
www.industry.gov.au
November 4, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Congratulations to Lidia Morawska, the Aussie scientist who alerted the world to the airborne nature of COVID-19. Winner of the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science. I’ve learnt so much from being a (very minor) part of Lidia’s team. Brilliant, incisive, generous.
www.industry.gov.au/publications...
www.industry.gov.au/publications...
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We could more than double the amount spent from the MRFF every year, while keeping more money in the fund than it was intended to hold—a win-win for medical researchers and our economy.
November 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
We could more than double the amount spent from the MRFF every year, while keeping more money in the fund than it was intended to hold—a win-win for medical researchers and our economy.
A great opportunity to fund much-needed research into #MEcfs and #LongCovid, along with many other illnesses and innovations to promote health ⚕️🧪
Australia’s MRFF is sitting on billions of taxpayers’ dollars which was meant to be invested in world-leading, lifesaving health innovations.
November 4, 2025 at 6:43 AM
A great opportunity to fund much-needed research into #MEcfs and #LongCovid, along with many other illnesses and innovations to promote health ⚕️🧪
Australian Science Communicators conference next week 12-14 Nov at the Royal Society of Victoria - registrations still open. Breaking, Building, Emboldening #SciComm 🧪 @royalsocietyvic.bsky.social icmsmeetings.eventsair.com/australian-s...
HOME - Australian Science Communicators (ASC) Annual Conference 2025 - RMIT University
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November 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Australian Science Communicators conference next week 12-14 Nov at the Royal Society of Victoria - registrations still open. Breaking, Building, Emboldening #SciComm 🧪 @royalsocietyvic.bsky.social icmsmeetings.eventsair.com/australian-s...