David Cooke
@llewelyn68.bsky.social
Plant pathologist (all things oomycete - especially potato late blight); eDNA enthusiast; climber; runner; cyclist; views/opinions my own
It is from 2021. Still great but a reminder that it is not a new publication.
November 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
It is from 2021. Still great but a reminder that it is not a new publication.
Plus truly gorgeous confocal microscopy images of AA7 accumulation (pink) around the haustoria of hyphae (green) during plant cell infection. @hutton.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Plus truly gorgeous confocal microscopy images of AA7 accumulation (pink) around the haustoria of hyphae (green) during plant cell infection. @hutton.ac.uk
And the sound when they arrived to roost on River Tay near Dundee. Sound up. Something must have freaked them as skeins all broken up.
Cracking picture BTW
Cracking picture BTW
October 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
And the sound when they arrived to roost on River Tay near Dundee. Sound up. Something must have freaked them as skeins all broken up.
Cracking picture BTW
Cracking picture BTW
Good job Ben. Thank you for all the work you do to maintain access and show us your every day life in a national park. Always interesting.
October 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Good job Ben. Thank you for all the work you do to maintain access and show us your every day life in a national park. Always interesting.
Perfectly timed for her Nature paper too: released a few hours earlier. Its worth a read.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries monitors a world out of balance - Nature
A revised ‘Doughnut’ providing a visual assessment of trends in social deprivation and planetary degradation over the past two decades shows more than doubling of global GDP accompanied by accelerating ecological overshoot but only a modest reduction in human deprivation.
www.nature.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Perfectly timed for her Nature paper too: released a few hours earlier. Its worth a read.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Excellent talk and perfect timing with release of Nature paper 2 hours ahead of the event. Meant we got first view of the new Doughut. @hutton.ac.uk
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Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 2, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Excellent talk and perfect timing with release of Nature paper 2 hours ahead of the event. Meant we got first view of the new Doughut. @hutton.ac.uk
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A valuable review of #Phytophthora infestans populations and potato ##lateblight in the east and north of Europe. Great job.
October 2, 2025 at 7:08 AM
A valuable review of #Phytophthora infestans populations and potato ##lateblight in the east and north of Europe. Great job.
No doughnuts tonight but there was haggis baked potato and the talk was fantastic. Depressing economic growth reality vs doughnut economics ambitions. Lots to think about and hopefully convert to action.
October 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
No doughnuts tonight but there was haggis baked potato and the talk was fantastic. Depressing economic growth reality vs doughnut economics ambitions. Lots to think about and hopefully convert to action.
It fell overnight but we were very keen to top Alasdair having been defeated by cold and fog the day before. Rime ice on summit added spice! Next day was T-shirt and shorts!
September 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
It fell overnight but we were very keen to top Alasdair having been defeated by cold and fog the day before. Rime ice on summit added spice! Next day was T-shirt and shorts!
Like this May on Skye. Know what you mean. It pays to be prepared.
September 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Like this May on Skye. Know what you mean. It pays to be prepared.
Yes not a great headline but remember who set the ball rolling. Telegraph and Mrs Pearson. BBC is still the best we have got and reform not destruction is needed. Agree 'jailbird' us ridiculous.
August 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Yes not a great headline but remember who set the ball rolling. Telegraph and Mrs Pearson. BBC is still the best we have got and reform not destruction is needed. Agree 'jailbird' us ridiculous.
Some sizeable hailstones and lightning strikes near Dundee later in the afternoon as it rolled south.
August 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Some sizeable hailstones and lightning strikes near Dundee later in the afternoon as it rolled south.
A truly impressive beast. Undiscovered insect quote from article "there are as many species of just ladybirds as there are of all mammals combined." Wow. Now think about how many microbes we are missing! e.g. SAR supergroup - Wikipedia share.google/ocob5EM8aQ8Q...
SAR supergroup - Wikipedia
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August 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
A truly impressive beast. Undiscovered insect quote from article "there are as many species of just ladybirds as there are of all mammals combined." Wow. Now think about how many microbes we are missing! e.g. SAR supergroup - Wikipedia share.google/ocob5EM8aQ8Q...
Excellent presentations today from Ingo Hein (Molecular breeding) and Rob Hancock (Gene editing) at #PotatoesInPractice2025 @hutton.ac.uk the future of potato breeding...
August 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Excellent presentations today from Ingo Hein (Molecular breeding) and Rob Hancock (Gene editing) at #PotatoesInPractice2025 @hutton.ac.uk the future of potato breeding...
Nice job. August generally the right month for this. However, after two severe years, 2025 is a low pressure blight year. Dry warm conditions in April, May and June checked a lot of primary inoculum and is delaying build up now it is damper.
August 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Nice job. August generally the right month for this. However, after two severe years, 2025 is a low pressure blight year. Dry warm conditions in April, May and June checked a lot of primary inoculum and is delaying build up now it is damper.
As I loaded my breakfast with Scottish grown blueberries heard @hutton.ac.uk Susan McCallum on BBCR4 Today singing their praises and encouraging future cropping with our new varieties.
July 29, 2025 at 6:05 AM
As I loaded my breakfast with Scottish grown blueberries heard @hutton.ac.uk Susan McCallum on BBCR4 Today singing their praises and encouraging future cropping with our new varieties.
Nice paper - highlights the multiple thorny issues. So many cans of worms opened.
July 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Nice paper - highlights the multiple thorny issues. So many cans of worms opened.