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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA
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Plant scientist studying how climate change affects plant toxicity (#cyanide). Born 314ppm.
Interested in science, tech, plants. #MECFS ally #botanist 🌾🪴🧪🌱🌿💉

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More talks by researchers desperately trying to find solutions to maintain crop production in face of climate change ☘️🌿🍃🌾🪴🔥
Ian Godwin introducing session with title slide : 24. Harnessing Genetic Resources for Sustainable Crop Productivity in a Changing Climate Chair - Prof Ian Godwin Dr Sally Norton - 396 Dr Victor Papin - 92 Ms Ezinne Okorie - 13 Prof Michael Udvardi - 90 Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research Au Ai TROPAG.COM.AU
November 12, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Always — not so good in this room that’s had people in it all day
AirSpot co2 meter reading 1139 ppm - against a purple background of the TropAg conference bag
November 12, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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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
4 people sitting at a table outside with drinks - Left to right Peter Spinks ex Age, Graham Phillips ex ABC, Ros Gleadow, Michael Brown, Monash Physics
November 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Great line up of Aussie artists at Rochford winery yesterday topped off by Crowded House (who we’ve adopted from across the ditch) - afternoon was big too hot and v sunny but like most has a big hat, sunscreen and drank lots of water
Big crowd in summer clothes mostly on deck chairs in evening light with stage (crowded house with red ‘tree’ background in light), Neil Finn on a screen to felt, big poles with speakers SHOW TIMES*: 1:00pm Gates open 1:20 - 1:50pm JAE LAFFER 2:10 - 2:50pm THE WAIFS 3:20 - 4:10pm MARK SEYMOUR with VIKA & LINDA 4:40 - 5:30pm THE CHURCH 6:00 - 6:50pm ANGUS & JULIA STONE 7:20 - 8:50pm CROWDED HOUSE 9:00pm Event finish
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Pollies look after themselves: Parliament House is so well ventilated - only 550 ppm CO2 in a room with dozens of people. If only this were true for all public spaces we’d be much healthier #AusPol
A hand holding a small black Airspot CO2 meter - half in a black hand bag - reading 0500 with Now CO2 ppm below. This machine over reads at the low end so it was probably even less
October 31, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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It always helps to look up - streaky ice crystal clouds and fluffy ones with rain drops #MyGarden
A bright blue sky with streaky whiteice crystal clouds and a few small fluffy white rain drops and a bit of the top of a spotted gum at bottom right
October 23, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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My spring garden is very forgiving of all the neglect but it’s Very Dry - i have turned the watering on #Flowers #MyGarden #Dry
8 yellow gazaneas (daisies about 2-3 inches across) with green leaves, bare ground with pin oak leaves and some rogue sea side daisies in the background A bunch of pink cherry blossom with blurred background
October 12, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Donatello designed this beautiful outdoor pulpit on Prato Cathedral for use during The Plague - to keep people safe. Now there’s an idea! #VentilationWorks #CovidIsAirborne
Renaissance sculpture several metres off the ground - like a little balcony with a roof - on the corner of a Romanesque/Renaissance church (striped stone facade) with a bell tower behind
October 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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My banksia rose is looking lovely #FlowersOnFriday
Cluster of 5-6 small yellow roses and blurry green leaves against a clinker brick wall
October 3, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Mask up if you go to the NGV for the superb winter masterpieces exhibition (end Sunday) - 1500+ ppm @airspotrob.bsky.social #CleanAir (impressionists from Boston museum)
Room with red walls and blurry paintings and people around them - Foreground is a hand holding a fob-watch sized black CO2 meter reading 1538 ppm (mostly Renoirs in this room ❤️)
October 2, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Behind paywall -
This study provides novel electrophysiological evidence linking small nerve fiber dysfunction to long COVID. These findings align with previous histological evidence of small nerve fiber loss, reinforcing the hypothesis that peripheral nerve dysfunction contributes to the multisystem symptoms of long COVID. ANN NEUROL 2025
September 23, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Such high levels of CO2 on busses! (3838ppm) How is this OK? No wonder passengers fall asleep - but what about the drivers? How can they stay alert - It’s double the safe level for working. Let alone the Covid risk! We were the only ones wearing masks (respies) @airspotrob.bsky.social
Hand holding a small Airspot (2x2cm) with 3838 and an arrow on the red on a scal of green-red, against back drop of blue patterned fabric of a bus seat
September 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Another first IRL meeting - with Steve Powles at #ShineDome25- we may’ve met at a ComBio many years ago - got to know each other on the other place before it went weird #PlantScience #herbicides 🌾🪴🌱
Smiling - Woman(me,left) and man (right) with the domed Academy of Science building and moat behind. In distance are leafless deciduous trees
September 3, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Finally in IRL! With @brendancrabb.bsky.- got to ‘know’ each other on the other place and had one zoom but this is the 1st time in the flesh- at the Australian Academy of Science
Two smiling people, flash photo. Left is man with Greg hair and glasses, right is me - woman with brown hair
September 2, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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President Prof Chennupati Jagadish welcoming newly elected fellows to the Academy of Science #ShineDome25
Man at a lecture in beautifully designed 50s theatre with men and women of council sitting behind - blue slide on screen with information given in post
September 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Lovely wattle just coming into flower against a pretty ordinary wall with fabulous animal sculptures by Clifton Pew (in memory of Prof Jock Marshall) #NationalWattleDay @monashuniversity.bsky.social
Shrub with bright emerald feathery leaves and yellow flowers, wall white with skeleton-like sculptures of bats and various Australian native animals secured to it,2 eucalypt trees inn front and a wooden bench for sitting
September 1, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Attending the launch of “Prove it” - latest book by Elizabeth Finkel on the importance of science in a post-truth world - interviewed by ABC’s Natasha Mitchell 🧪🧬⚕️
2 women In front of image of book ( sketch of a women with squiggles for a face) in old lecture theatre in the Royal Soc Vic A compelling journey through science's big breakthroughs, by an award-winning Australian science writer LA TROBE UNIVERSITY PRESS IN CONJUNCTION WITH BLACK INC. Elizabeth Finkel Prove It A SCIENTIPIC GUIDE FOR THE POST-TRUTH ERA
August 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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My Manchurian pear is flowering - after two dud years, all is forgiven #MyGarden
Cluster of Three white pear (apple like) flowers with pink anthers on white stamens subtended by a leafy side shoot on a twig against a blurry green background
August 24, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Looks great. We had a paper on this in 1998 - grew seedlings at eCo2, High and Low N - and the flow on effects of photosynthetic acclimation for nitrogenous specialised metabolites doi.org/10.1046/j.13...
Enhanced CO2 alters the relationship between photosynthesis and defence in cyanogenic Eucalyptus cladocalyx F. Muell. R. M. Gleadow, W. J. Foley, I. E. Woodrow
August 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Webinar - by Matt Bramble for Int Safe Cassava Network and Global Plant Council: Oxidative Stress and the Gut Microbiota: Emerging Contributors in Cassava Associated Neuropathies
28 August 25, 15:00 CEST
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#Cassava #Konzo #Cyanide 🧪🌾⚕️ @globalplantgpc.bsky.social
40-ish man in a t-shirt wearing glasses and a hat in front of some cassava tuber: text is the same as the post
August 12, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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The first of my roses - this is very early for Melbourne. It’s so mild and sunny (19 C today - hardly winter)
Two pink-apricot climbing roses var crepescule with intense blue behind the leaves (it’s not a deciduous variety)
August 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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My first daffodil - and it’s only mid July #flowers #MyGarden 🪴🌱
Close up of yellow flower against a blurry brown background - the daffodil is not fully open so you can’t distinguish the trumpet from the outer whorls
July 18, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Impressed with the ventilation in the conference centre in Antwerp. This was in the plenary hall (admittedly not sitting near crowds). Even over lunch it was only 800ppm #SEBconference #CovidIsNotOver
CO2 monitor reading 560ppm
July 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Excellent keynote on glucosinolate transporters by Deyang Xu from Copenhagen in the #PoisonousPlants session at #SEBconference
Man standing at podium - screen behind with some graphs and words and chemical pathways that are hard to read
July 8, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Pablo Cardenas Copenhagen Uni on domesticating the weed chenopodium album to make a safe resilient crop #PoisonousPlants #SEBconference
Man standing at a podium with screen behind showing a small plant growing in a gutter
July 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM