The @hutton.ac.uk Best Crop Project team produced very cool stickers to promote our work using the Germinate database. Find out more here: germinateplatform.github.io/get-germinate/

‼️ IBH Seminar Announcement ‼️ 🔊 Prof. Phil Brewer @latrobeuni.bsky.social 📜 Lateral Branching Oxidoreductase acts in a strigolactone biosynthesis sub-pathway to inhibit barley tillering ⏰ Thursday 30th October 9am (GMT) 🔌 hutton.webex.com/weblink/regi...

The Germans do a good Kasespatzle but not sure it competes with Scottish macaroni and cheese (its close though :-) ).

Nice meeting in Bonn last week to discuss BOLDER (BOLD WP7). Great to meet up with old friends and meet some new people. I also found out its a small world! #BOLDcwr #BOLDER @croptrust.bsky.social our invovlement is using our tools to make data available to all! #germinate #gridscore

One of these guys crapped on me today #raging #downwiththeswallows

Sad news (albeit perhaps not unexpected for a man who enjoys poisoning things) the scientist and satirical song writer Tom Leher has died. I always remember hearing the Elements Song in chemistry at school then discovering Poisoning Pigeons in the Park that my kids love! www.bbc.com/news/article...

A couple of years ago while @bazraubach.bsky.social and myself were out at ICARDA in India we ended up being roped into helping write some text for a book which would be used to teach PGR - its been published now :-) link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Summer in #scotland with a view from the Sidlaw hills over towards the #angus glens.

A really nice documentary on BBC World Service about landraces, genebanks and all stuff PGR. Also includes some of my colleagues at ICARDA and well worth listening to the amazing work that they are doing! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Crop diversity making its way into football with the design of the new Norwegian ladies team kit :-) www.goal.com/en/lists/wom...

Ron Swanson is great!

When exporting in the long-format, you can now include more information about each individual data point. This includes a full timestamp (rather than just the date), the position of this measurement in the set and the person who collected each data point. 3/4

Add even more information to each plot by providing treatment, pedigree or a friendly name. These provide more information to the person collecting the data. You can also assign a dedicated barcode for each plot that isn't the same as the germplasm name! This helps keep barcode tags shorter. 2/4

It's update day for #GridScore 🎉 This release includes improvements to: 📝 Add pedigree, treatment, friendly name and barcode info to plots 💾 Include more information in long-format exports 🍎 Prevent automatic date selection on iOS devices 🐞 Bugfixes #phenotyping #BOLDcwr gridscore.hutton.ac.uk 1/4

See below - deadline approaching but still time to apply to work on some cool projects looking at how we apply AI technologies to breeding better barley!

We've been working on a small tool for vegetation index estimation from RGB images called Spriggles 🔲 Select area of interest 📝 Export into Excel 📑 If images are taken with #GridScore, export your data straight back into the GridScore trial #phenotyping #webdev #rse cropgeeks.github.io/spriggles

And two opportunities working with myself @bazraubach.bsky.social along with the University of Dundee looking at the practical use of AI in barley research. Feel free to shout out for more information!

Definitely worth popping along to learn a bit about the CPC if you are at #chelseaflowershow!

First time back to #floorball in 10 years tonight. Different team, some old teammates, a total lack of fitness and what I assume will be a day hobbling about tomorrow with sore muscles. Was great! Stick tape does not store well for long periods and apparently my equipment was 'vintage'

We have 2 PhD oppertunities coming up working with @intbarleyhub.bsky.social and the University of Dundee. The second one is looking at using AI for climate smart cereal breeding supported by the Global Crop Diversity Trust under the BOLD project bold.croptrust.org www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

We have 2 PhD oppertunities coming up working with @intbarleyhub.bsky.social and the University of Dundee. The first one is looking at plant pedigrees and is supported by the Global Crop Diversity Trust under the BOLD project bold.croptrust.org www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The season has kicked off with great momentum! Keep up to date with our progress through the growing season. #CPC #Potato #Seed #Biodiversity #Horticulture

A busy week for us! From the planting of our pollination parents to the testing of our CPC seedlings. Thanks to Alison and her team for preparing the beds for planting 😀 #potato #biodiversity #seeds #horticulture #genebank

There are certainly worse ways to spend a few days! IPK/CAAS/JHI IBH workshop on cereals being held at @leibnizipk.bsky.social in #Germany this week.

Work trip to @leibnizipk.bsky.social this week. Enjoying a pilsner with colleagues before the meeting starts tomorrow.

First signs of germination! #seeds #potato #biodiversity

@coffeeandgenes.bsky.social presents her work on marker assisted selection in raspberry at the #BreedingValue workshop in Ancona.

@pauldshaw.bsky.social speaks at the #BreedingValue workshop on advanced #berry breeding and the important part #Germinate plays in the data aggregation and distribution.

#potato #biodiversity

Learn a bit more about the Commonwealth Potato Collection held here at the James Hutton Institute and how we manage and most importantly use the collection in our research. Well worth following @huttoncpc.bsky.social to learn a bit more!

Great new features added to GridScore in the past month or so. @bazraubach.bsky.social has been working with researchers at @intbarleyhub.bsky.social to develop tools to help in the data collection process. If your data is rubbish your analysis is going to follow so check out gridscore.hutton.ac.uk

Double act with my colleage @malcolmacaulay.bsky.social talking about technology supporting barley research within the @intbarleyhub.bsky.social . Unforunately I don't have a picture of @malcolmacaulay.bsky.social so you will have to make do with me looking like I know what I am talking about :-)

The update is here! Now you can score two plots at a time, export any visualization to PNG and SVG format, utilise barcodes even better and export more data via #BrAPI #phenotyping #bioinformatics #webdev gridscore.hutton.ac.uk

I'm not a huge gamer but I must admit there is something relaxing about firing up some old games that don't require updates that take an hour to download and games you can play for 10 mins without watching hours of cutscenes. www.theguardian.com/games/2025/f...

Learn a bit more about the work we are doing in the @ec.europa.eu and @ukri.org funded #BESTCROP project with our new paper! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Looking forward to a busy week ahead as we host Best Crop & RecoBar meetings followed by Barley Genome Net and finally Barley Away Days meeting. Safe travels to everyone and we are excited to welcome you to the International Barley Hub! #IBH #betterbarley

Robbie Waugh welcomes delegates to Barley Genome Net European Research meeting. Today we’ll focus on Omics & Resources and Development. #BGN2025

In #tesco who exactly needs to carry 1.75 litres of water with them at the gym. This picture doesn't do the size of that water bottle justice!

🚨 Registration is now open! 🚨 Join us for 'Seeing is believing: imaging the molecular processes of life', where cutting-edge imaging methods meet groundbreaking biological discoveries. 🌟#EESImaging 📅 8 – 11 October 2025 📜 Submit your abstract by 2 July! 👉 https://s.embl.org/ees25-09-bl

Our IBH seminars are always interesting and thought provoking (and occasionally not about barley) so why not drop into one - like this one on Thursday or check out the archives on www.barleyhub.org.

Learn a bit about rice from the International Rice Research Institute (www.irri.org) in the Phillipines Director. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

Learn more about the work we are doing at The James Hutton Institute as part of the EU funded BREEDING VALUE project. Here @bazraubach.bsky.social talks about the work he is doing to help fruit researches store their experiemtal data using @germinate.hutton.ac.uk. breedingvalue.eu/the-germinat...

Deadline is coming up soon! If anyone is interested in working on barley here in Scotland at the International Barley Hub @intbarleyhub.bsky.social and James Hutton Institute get your applications in now! :-)

Great PhD opportunity with my colleagues Vanessa Wahl & Sarah McKim @hutton.ac.uk in Dundee: How do nutrient signals regulate floral transition in Arabidopsis? 👉https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/eastbio-nutrient-dependent-regulation-of-flowering-time/?p179828

25% recycled plastic is definitely what I want in my #crisps!

Holiday Season is soon to be on us. First xmas party on Friday. Happy holidays to everone when the time comes. You would think things get quieter at this time of the year but its busier than ever! 🎄❄️⛄

PhD opportunity looking at how AI and data sciences can be applied to help us make better research decisions. Based within the @intbarleyhub.bsky.social here at The James Hutton Institute in Scotland with supervisors from JHI, Dundee University and a placement with Diageo. tinyurl.com/ydxm3uw4

Sounds like a couple who’ve written a letter to the Telegraph about how they can only go skiing once a year because school fees have gone up

Join our #BreedingValue webinar tomorrow morning at 9:30am GMT where @bazraubach.bsky.social will talk about the work we have been doing at @jameshuttoninst.bsky.social on creating a central @germinate.hutton.ac.uk database to store experiemental data. More info www.breedingvalue.eu/news/webinar...