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Anneke_P
@plants-genes-bugs.bsky.social
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Plant scientist and data enthusiast. Interested in wheat grain nutrients and the genes that control them. Still StackOverflow’s biggest fan.
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Autumnal blooms at work
October 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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The chemical room: where I go for some quiet time while weighing minuscule quantities of flour into hundreds of tubes. Surprisingly Zen 🧘‍♀️ 👩‍🔬
July 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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One of my favourite things about @galaxyproject.bsky.social is these "do some citizen science while your job runs" opportunities. I'm getting very good at sexing marmalade hoverflies! 😅
Screen shot showing the text "citizen science project" at the top and asking users to identify the sex of the marmalade hoverfly in the image. Below the image is an illustration of the difference between males and females. Males appear to have their eyes progressively closer to each other towards their antlers, until they touch, while females have their eyes go further apart towards the antlers. (All of these anatomical words are probably wrong...)
June 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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A lovely daisy on a crisp Spring day
Photo of two daisies growing next to some paving stones
May 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Spring is here!!
Photo of a cluster of purple crocuses that are in bloom.
March 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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We’re very happy to give people samples of our high fibre bread at the annual Delivering Sustainable Wheat conference today! #DSW
Close up photo of a loaf of white bread
February 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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A huge thanks to @wmarler.bsky.social for running a fun and informative animation workshop yesterday. Truly squeezing the juice out of Power Point! I particularly loved the toaster animation ☺️🍞🌾❤️
Screen shot of a power point presentation, in editing view, showing five slides in the panel on the left and one larger slide in the editing window. The large slide has a picture of a toaster on a table, with a slice of bread in it. The toaster is grey, with a blue handle on the right, and a blue dial timer in the centre.
February 27, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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I appreciate the precision of the timing for this conference 👍
Screen shot of the 4th Food Chemistry Conference showing the date and time as 14 October from 9:17 to 16 October at 9:17.
February 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Thanks to #UKFlourMillers for inviting me their R&D workshop today. Happy to talk about our high calcium wheat ☺️ Healthy bread for all!! 🍞
Photo of a large wooden double door under a stone arch. There are several copper name plates on the sides and a stone face atop the arch. Four images of a wheat grain coloured in rainbow colours. Each image represents a specific element.
February 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Dr Mary Dilys Glynne. Botanist at Rothamsted Experimental Station from 1918 to 1960.
A black and white photo showing a laboratory in the early 1900’s. There is a table with several glass flasks and cylinders on it. The cylinders are filled with soil or grain to different heights. There are shelves on the wall above the table with lots of bottles of different shapes and sizes containing reagents. There is a woman looking down through a microscope which is on the table. She is wearing a dress and belt. Behind her is a pile of wheat sheaves.
February 2, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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OK, let's look at soluble fibre now. When looking at means, the dried-and-milled samples seem to measure a tad higher than the ground samples. But it also appears as if the standard deviation is larger in the ground samples, meaning repeated measurements vary more. (4/6)
A bar chart showing the soluble fibre content in bread samples ground in liquid nitrogen or dried and milled. The samples are paired so that the different extraction methods for each sample are next to each other. There seems to be a general trend where the dried and milled samples have a slightly higher measurable soluble fibre content. In addition, the liquid-nitrogen ground samples have large standard deviations, showing much greater variance in repeated measurements.
December 27, 2024 at 11:09 AM
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Here are the results for total fibre analysis. Blue bars are samples ground in liquid nitrogen and red bars are samples freeze-dried and milled (data is mean +/- standard deviation). For total fibre, there doesn't seem to be a measurable difference. Phew! Good news!! (3/6)
A bar chart showing the total fibre content in bread samples ground in liquid nitrogen or dried and milled. The samples are paired so that the different extraction methods for each sample are next to each other. There is no clear pattern when comparing the two methods - sometimes there is no difference, sometimes the one method is higher than the other, and sometimes it's lower. Overall, the error bars are of a similar size and there doesn't appear to be a statistical difference.
December 27, 2024 at 11:09 AM
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The importance of sample prep: this is the same sample of bread 🍞. On the left it was ground in liquid nitrogen with a pestle in a mortar. On the right it was freeze dried and milled in a centrifugal mill. Will it affect my analysis? (TBC)
Two glass vials, viewed from the top, without lids so you can see what’s inside. On the left is a coarse powder that is tightly packed. On the right is a fine powder that is much more fluffy.
November 25, 2024 at 10:59 AM