Bettina Berger
@bberger-au.bsky.social
Plant scientist, using cameras and other sensors to measure plants 🧪🌱📸. Adelaide, Kaurna country.Views are my own.
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The @plantcv.bsky.social team is hosting a workshop at the @nappn.bsky.social 2026 conference in Feb. at Michigan State and is able to support the travel of up to 20 participants. Please apply for the workshop and submit an abstract to the conference if you are interested: mailchi.mp/3afecdddf6de...
PlantCV travel awards for NAPPN 2026
mailchi.mp
October 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The @plantcv.bsky.social team is hosting a workshop at the @nappn.bsky.social 2026 conference in Feb. at Michigan State and is able to support the travel of up to 20 participants. Please apply for the workshop and submit an abstract to the conference if you are interested: mailchi.mp/3afecdddf6de...
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Our Genome Biology paper on wheat spike development integrating single cell and spatial transcriptomics is now published! Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1186/s130... and enjoy the beautiful pictures (including our 44 supplementary figures)! Be sure to check out some of our tools below!
October 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Our Genome Biology paper on wheat spike development integrating single cell and spatial transcriptomics is now published! Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1186/s130... and enjoy the beautiful pictures (including our 44 supplementary figures)! Be sure to check out some of our tools below!
📣🧪🌱We are #hiring a Horticultural Manager for our node of the Australian Plant Phenomics Network in Adelaide. Please help spread the word! careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.
careers.adelaide.edu.au
October 9, 2025 at 4:29 AM
📣🧪🌱We are #hiring a Horticultural Manager for our node of the Australian Plant Phenomics Network in Adelaide. Please help spread the word! careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
Bush walk at Hale Conservation Park during orchid time in South Australia #bloomscrolling
October 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Bush walk at Hale Conservation Park during orchid time in South Australia #bloomscrolling
Bush walk at Hale Conservation Park during orchid time in South Australia #bloomscrolling
October 7, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Bush walk at Hale Conservation Park during orchid time in South Australia #bloomscrolling
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Deadline for our 2nd cohort of the Pivot to Plants program at the Danforth Center is Oct 15th. Excited to identify 5 participants for a 1-year NSF-funded internship. Hands-on research experience in cutting-edge #plantscience, #imaging, #datascience, and more! www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/edu...
Pivot to Plants: Training Program for Plant and Data Science | Danforth Plant Science Center
The Pivot2Plants Fellows Program is a 1-year training program for people interested in pivoting to a career in plant science or data science but have limited research experience.
www.danforthcenter.org
October 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Deadline for our 2nd cohort of the Pivot to Plants program at the Danforth Center is Oct 15th. Excited to identify 5 participants for a 1-year NSF-funded internship. Hands-on research experience in cutting-edge #plantscience, #imaging, #datascience, and more! www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/edu...
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Join us next week to hear Distinguished Professor Junko Kyozuka explore the evolutionary journey of strigolactones! She will present insights from moss & liverwort studies that reveal clues to their ancestral role in growth regulation 🔗 bit.ly/TPS-JK
#PlantScience
#PlantScience
September 29, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Join us next week to hear Distinguished Professor Junko Kyozuka explore the evolutionary journey of strigolactones! She will present insights from moss & liverwort studies that reveal clues to their ancestral role in growth regulation 🔗 bit.ly/TPS-JK
#PlantScience
#PlantScience
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Your expertise matters. Join a Wheat Initiative Expert Working Group and help shape the future of wheat research globally.
🧠https://www.wheatinitiative.org/expert-working-groups-2
#WheatConnect
🧠https://www.wheatinitiative.org/expert-working-groups-2
#WheatConnect
Wheat initiative
Our Breeding Exoert Working Group held a webinar and offers everyone intersted to watch the recording. Webinar by Jessie Alt, Global Wheat Lead at Corteva, “Wheat breeding at Corteva”
wheatinitiative.org
September 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Your expertise matters. Join a Wheat Initiative Expert Working Group and help shape the future of wheat research globally.
🧠https://www.wheatinitiative.org/expert-working-groups-2
#WheatConnect
🧠https://www.wheatinitiative.org/expert-working-groups-2
#WheatConnect
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🚀🧬 EBP dream team launches the Phase II roadmap to sequence all Eukaryotic life on Earth!
🔥 Hot off the press (2025) 👉http://bit.ly/46ko9cZ
🌍 EBP's vision of sequencing all 1.8 million named eukaryotic species is now within reach—powered by unprecedented global collaboration.
🔥 Hot off the press (2025) 👉http://bit.ly/46ko9cZ
🌍 EBP's vision of sequencing all 1.8 million named eukaryotic species is now within reach—powered by unprecedented global collaboration.
September 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
🚀🧬 EBP dream team launches the Phase II roadmap to sequence all Eukaryotic life on Earth!
🔥 Hot off the press (2025) 👉http://bit.ly/46ko9cZ
🌍 EBP's vision of sequencing all 1.8 million named eukaryotic species is now within reach—powered by unprecedented global collaboration.
🔥 Hot off the press (2025) 👉http://bit.ly/46ko9cZ
🌍 EBP's vision of sequencing all 1.8 million named eukaryotic species is now within reach—powered by unprecedented global collaboration.
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Great to get out of the office and into the field on a Friday morning to harvest tissue from the OzBarley population. This is for our GRDC proof of concept project, looking for new mechanisms for salinity tolerance. @bberger-au.bsky.social.
September 5, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Great to get out of the office and into the field on a Friday morning to harvest tissue from the OzBarley population. This is for our GRDC proof of concept project, looking for new mechanisms for salinity tolerance. @bberger-au.bsky.social.
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🔍 #DataDiscovery | New Python Library!
TERN has recenlty launched terndata.flux – a lightweight #Python library designed to make working with TERN eddy covariance flux #data easier than ever!
Explore it now:
📦 PyPI: pypi.org/project/tern...
💻 GitHub: github.com/ternaustrali...
TERN has recenlty launched terndata.flux – a lightweight #Python library designed to make working with TERN eddy covariance flux #data easier than ever!
Explore it now:
📦 PyPI: pypi.org/project/tern...
💻 GitHub: github.com/ternaustrali...
GitHub - ternaustralia/terndata.flux: Provides library function for easy access to flux data in TERN dap server
Provides library function for easy access to flux data in TERN dap server - ternaustralia/terndata.flux
github.com
September 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
🔍 #DataDiscovery | New Python Library!
TERN has recenlty launched terndata.flux – a lightweight #Python library designed to make working with TERN eddy covariance flux #data easier than ever!
Explore it now:
📦 PyPI: pypi.org/project/tern...
💻 GitHub: github.com/ternaustrali...
TERN has recenlty launched terndata.flux – a lightweight #Python library designed to make working with TERN eddy covariance flux #data easier than ever!
Explore it now:
📦 PyPI: pypi.org/project/tern...
💻 GitHub: github.com/ternaustrali...
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📣 Deadline extended!
Join our University of Adelaide team as an Engagement Officer and collaborate with the Australian Government on ecological monitoring protocols for renewable energy impact assessments.
Find out more: careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
#jobalert #monitoring #renewables
Join our University of Adelaide team as an Engagement Officer and collaborate with the Australian Government on ecological monitoring protocols for renewable energy impact assessments.
Find out more: careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
#jobalert #monitoring #renewables
Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.
careers.adelaide.edu.au
August 20, 2025 at 10:39 PM
📣 Deadline extended!
Join our University of Adelaide team as an Engagement Officer and collaborate with the Australian Government on ecological monitoring protocols for renewable energy impact assessments.
Find out more: careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
#jobalert #monitoring #renewables
Join our University of Adelaide team as an Engagement Officer and collaborate with the Australian Government on ecological monitoring protocols for renewable energy impact assessments.
Find out more: careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
#jobalert #monitoring #renewables
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Pleased to share the fifth and final paper from my PhD - a collaboration with the APPN investigating industrial hemp growth and temporal water use using state-of-the-art phenotyping platforms. 🌿
www.publish.csiro.au/fp/Fulltext/FP24266
@bethloveys.bsky.social @bberger-au.bsky.social
www.publish.csiro.au/fp/Fulltext/FP24266
@bethloveys.bsky.social @bberger-au.bsky.social
Phenotyping of industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa) genotypes with different growth habits
Industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa) has gained renewed scientific and agricultural interest worldwide as a multi-use, high-value crop, with products spanning textile, clothing, medicinal, food, and cons...
www.publish.csiro.au
July 28, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Pleased to share the fifth and final paper from my PhD - a collaboration with the APPN investigating industrial hemp growth and temporal water use using state-of-the-art phenotyping platforms. 🌿
www.publish.csiro.au/fp/Fulltext/FP24266
@bethloveys.bsky.social @bberger-au.bsky.social
www.publish.csiro.au/fp/Fulltext/FP24266
@bethloveys.bsky.social @bberger-au.bsky.social
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Congratulations to @futurecropsau.bsky.social PhD student Yiting Xie, who has just had his first manuscript accepted in Plant Phenomics. bit.ly/3UrkFP6. Yiting’s work uses images and machine learning to help determine when a wheat plant will flower.
Multi-Modal Few-Shot Learning for Anthesis Prediction of Individual Wheat Plants
Anthesis prediction is crucial for breeding wheat. While current tools provide estimates of average anthesis at the field scale, they fail to address …
bit.ly
July 23, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Congratulations to @futurecropsau.bsky.social PhD student Yiting Xie, who has just had his first manuscript accepted in Plant Phenomics. bit.ly/3UrkFP6. Yiting’s work uses images and machine learning to help determine when a wheat plant will flower.
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🚨 Now open! The NCRIS Synthetic Biology Voucher Scheme offers up to $50K Primary and $25K Secondary matched funding to access world-class SynBio facilities across Australia.
👉Open to researchers, startups & SMEs.
📅Closes 12th of September.
🔗 Info: bioplatforms.com/ncris-synthe...
👉Open to researchers, startups & SMEs.
📅Closes 12th of September.
🔗 Info: bioplatforms.com/ncris-synthe...
NCRIS Synthetic Biology Voucher Scheme - Bioplatforms Australia
bioplatforms.com
July 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
🚨 Now open! The NCRIS Synthetic Biology Voucher Scheme offers up to $50K Primary and $25K Secondary matched funding to access world-class SynBio facilities across Australia.
👉Open to researchers, startups & SMEs.
📅Closes 12th of September.
🔗 Info: bioplatforms.com/ncris-synthe...
👉Open to researchers, startups & SMEs.
📅Closes 12th of September.
🔗 Info: bioplatforms.com/ncris-synthe...
Sometimes you have to celebrate the little things. 🥳 100,000th plant being characterised on our automated imaging system.
July 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Sometimes you have to celebrate the little things. 🥳 100,000th plant being characterised on our automated imaging system.
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📊 #jobalert! Are you passionate about transforming complex environmental data into accessible insights? Join TERN as a #DataEngineer and help design and maintain scalable, cloud-based #datainfrastructure that supports national research efforts.
Apply now: uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uqcare...
Apply now: uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uqcare...
June 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
📊 #jobalert! Are you passionate about transforming complex environmental data into accessible insights? Join TERN as a #DataEngineer and help design and maintain scalable, cloud-based #datainfrastructure that supports national research efforts.
Apply now: uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uqcare...
Apply now: uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uqcare...
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Today is #WorldBloodDonorDay 🩸
Blood donation is not only a selfless act but also a powerful show of solidarity.
When we #GiveBlood, we help ensure a safe, steady blood supply for everyone in need.
If you’re eligible, consider becoming a regular, voluntary donor. 🔗 bit.ly/GiveBlood2025
Blood donation is not only a selfless act but also a powerful show of solidarity.
When we #GiveBlood, we help ensure a safe, steady blood supply for everyone in need.
If you’re eligible, consider becoming a regular, voluntary donor. 🔗 bit.ly/GiveBlood2025
June 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today is #WorldBloodDonorDay 🩸
Blood donation is not only a selfless act but also a powerful show of solidarity.
When we #GiveBlood, we help ensure a safe, steady blood supply for everyone in need.
If you’re eligible, consider becoming a regular, voluntary donor. 🔗 bit.ly/GiveBlood2025
Blood donation is not only a selfless act but also a powerful show of solidarity.
When we #GiveBlood, we help ensure a safe, steady blood supply for everyone in need.
If you’re eligible, consider becoming a regular, voluntary donor. 🔗 bit.ly/GiveBlood2025
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We are looking for a postdoc with experience in electron microscopy.
mail to ruediger.simon@hhu.de
mail to ruediger.simon@hhu.de
June 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
We are looking for a postdoc with experience in electron microscopy.
mail to ruediger.simon@hhu.de
mail to ruediger.simon@hhu.de
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"A teaching and training framework to promote findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) data generation in agriculture"
Excellent, free, online curriculum!! This is so needed.
Please share widely.
academic.oup.com/database/art...
Excellent, free, online curriculum!! This is so needed.
Please share widely.
academic.oup.com/database/art...
A teaching and training framework to promote findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable data generation in agriculture
Abstract. Advances in agricultural genetic, genomic, and breeding (GGB) technologies generate increasingly large and complex datasets that need to be adequ
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May 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
"A teaching and training framework to promote findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) data generation in agriculture"
Excellent, free, online curriculum!! This is so needed.
Please share widely.
academic.oup.com/database/art...
Excellent, free, online curriculum!! This is so needed.
Please share widely.
academic.oup.com/database/art...
Still waiting desperately for rain in South Australia, but enjoying the autumn sunshine in the meantime
April 30, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Still waiting desperately for rain in South Australia, but enjoying the autumn sunshine in the meantime
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In 100 days in office, US President Donald Trump has destabilized eight decades of government support for science.
This has included terminating more than 1,000 grants in areas such as climate change, cancer, and HIV prevention.
Will US science survive Trump 2.0?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This has included terminating more than 1,000 grants in areas such as climate change, cancer, and HIV prevention.
Will US science survive Trump 2.0?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
April 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
In 100 days in office, US President Donald Trump has destabilized eight decades of government support for science.
This has included terminating more than 1,000 grants in areas such as climate change, cancer, and HIV prevention.
Will US science survive Trump 2.0?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This has included terminating more than 1,000 grants in areas such as climate change, cancer, and HIV prevention.
Will US science survive Trump 2.0?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🚨HDRs and ECRs --- if you want to access the OzBarley field trials in 2025, we have some travel support available. 🌱🧪
2025 OzBarley field trial sites open to researchers | Australian Plant Phenomics Network
OZBARLEY TRIALS – TRAVEL SUPPORT OPPORTUNITIES 🌱 ✈️
The OzBarley project, which is led by the Australian Plant Phenomics Network (APPN) and the University of Adelaide, is developing a comprehensive ...
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April 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
🚨HDRs and ECRs --- if you want to access the OzBarley field trials in 2025, we have some travel support available. 🌱🧪
If you ever wanted to turn your balcony cladding into mulch, I've got three efficient workers I can recommend. #birds #Australia
April 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
If you ever wanted to turn your balcony cladding into mulch, I've got three efficient workers I can recommend. #birds #Australia