Stephanie Watts-Fawkes
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Stephanie Watts-Fawkes
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Researching mycorrhizal fungi for food and nutrition security at Wageningen Uni 🌾 living the cycling dream 🚴🏻‍♀️ en ik leer Nederlands 📖
Photo taken to mark my first lecture at @w-u-r.bsky.social.

It was an 8:20am lecture and I was 40 minutes early to it 🙈 the lecture room wasn’t even unlocked until 8:00.
November 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Our kid just found out he gets to celebrate Christmas AND Sinterklaas ✨
November 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Wow, they have blue skies in the Randstad! ☀️
October 19, 2025 at 8:41 AM
The last 100 metres home 🍂
October 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
When will we see the sun again? 😶‍🌫️
October 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Today it's 120 days since we last saw our "stuff". Supposedly today was the latest date for it arrive to us in the Netherlands.

Our stuff is in... *checks tracker*... China. Awesome.

And it's going ALL the way around Africa to get to NL??

Taking donations for warm clothing now 🙃
October 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Vroege vogel perks 🐦
@w-u-r.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I love tardigrade statues around and ON Eusebius in Arnhem 😍
September 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Workplace potluck dinner calls for us to bring a special dish from our home country. Well… Australia has no dishes of its own.

So here we go - Vegemite scrolls 😛

I will deliver the verdict in 24 hours’ time.
August 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
A few days in Bruges was just the thing! 🇧🇪
August 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The International Plant Nutrition Colloquium is in my hometown #Melbourne in 2028! How exciting! 🥳
July 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
It’s always so good to see Alex Johnson giving a talk - whether it’s in Adelaide or in Porto!

His work on novel micronutrient biofortification strategies in cereals is so exciting, and he’s a great mentor and collaborator ☺️
July 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I made it to #IPNC2025 in Porto! 🇵🇹

24 hours late, and my suitcase didn’t join me… so no poster to put up for tomorrow 🥲

But still happy to talk about #mycorrhiza and grain zinc biofortification, at every possibly opportunity!
July 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Perfect weather for a field walk and talk in the @w-u-r.bsky.social surrounds. Potatoes, sorghum, intercropping, salinity stress, biodiversity, spiral strips(?)… we saw it all.
July 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I’m not sure anything beats a recreational bike ride after dinner, when it’s still warm (31°C) and sunny, kids totally enamoured with riding in the bakfiets (cargo bike).

This is why we came here ☺️
June 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The longest journey of our lives, flying 30 hours with a 5-month-old and 3-year-old… but we made it. And there were many welcome gifts from kind friends waiting for us 🇳🇱🧇
June 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A small amount of our “stuff” is taking the scenic route to the Netherlands by sea, via Hong Kong 🛳️.

See you in 90-120 days, stuff 👋🏼
June 4, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Another day, another public lecture on PFAS 🤔
May 22, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The sun is setting on my time at the University of Adelaide (7.5 years) and I’m saying farewell to Australia.

In July, I start as an Assistant Professor at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands 🇳🇱

So grateful to my family for taking a leap of faith with me ✈️
May 16, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Nine years ago I loaded up a hatchback with sorghum seedlings and drove 1,300 km through 7 states from Cornell Uni (NY) to Clemson Uni (SC), to plant them in the field for a mycorrhiza inoculation experiment.

That postdoc was the time of my life! 🇺🇸
May 15, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Farming for the future - Prof Rachel Burton is going to tell us about the role of emerging and novel crops in our future of food, feed and fibre.
May 13, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Fantastic Women in Soil Science Australia webinar by Fien Degryse this morning. Love to hear about micronutrients from soil and fertiliser research perspectives.
April 23, 2025 at 3:44 AM
These macadamia plants are never lonely - they’ve always got their companion (plants) 💛
April 18, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Having two 👦🏻👶🏼 under three is keeping me busy, but I managed to stop by the office today and see the new experiments that have been started by lab members in my absence.
This legume x phosphorus experiment belonging to Wen Yan is looking good 🫛
March 16, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Just touring the growth facilities one last time before leave begins. Lots of student experiments still growing over summer - field pea, lentil (not shown), macadamia and rice 🫛🌾🌰🫘
December 20, 2024 at 2:01 AM