Microbial volatile compounds enhance drought resilience and productivity in CAM and C3 crops. Read more #OpenAccess in our Journal #PlantBiology @Wileyplantsci #PlantSci DOI: doi.org/10.1111/plb....

Placing a balloon in liquid nitrogen 😃 TT: overtime

🌊More than 90% of key nutrients degrading the Mar Menor lagoon come from recirculated underground flows. New study by ICTA-UAB researchers phys.org/news/2026-07...

Warning: the content of this study is confronting and possibly distressing Stochastic models indicate rapid smallpox spread and mass mortality of Indigenous Australians after colonial exposure www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you live in any of these places, or know anyone who does, we'd love to say gidday...

I was harassed in the restrooms of a museum in London two weeks ago for… having short hair and loose clothing. I was with my toddler, who’s still asking about it. And a lot of signs have been swapped, from men/women to male/female. The UK isn’t just going back, it’s inventing a whole new hell.

The Forecasting Global Water Storage Challenge launches today! Participants are tasked with developing an accurate model for short-term prediction of Total Water Storage (TWS) at a global scale. They can take part as an individual or in a team of up to 4 people. ➡️ zindi.africa/competitions...

🌱 This study enhances our mechanistic understanding of ecosystem responses to N deposition and provides evidence-based guidance for grassland restoration under global changes 👉️ buff.ly/SMMAtBd

Sarah Hanson-Young fires back at Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal’s claim that the ABC gives “too much” coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza — says Australians expect “more” reporting, not less. “I don’t think she knows what she’s talking about.”🔥🔥

EXTRAORDINARY SUMMER HEAT IN SOUTH AFRICA South Africa is living something unbelievable with summer temperatures in winter Widespread maxes >30C even on the highlands and records broken and rebroken every day continuosly ‼️31.8C at Paddock 508m asl The heat will even increase Absolutely extraordinary

Adrian Feint (Australia, 1894-1971), "The Illawarra Flame Tree," oil on canvas, 1941; National Gallery of Victoria. #art #arte #oilpainting #modernart #paintings #peintures #australia #landscape #kunst #museum #artgallery

Using art history to explore society's changing connections with #agriculture Opinion by Hill-King, McAinsh and Roberts: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PlantScience #potato

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Byssal mussel project at Cockburn Sound aims to boost ecosystem health

"Kauri Tree Landscape," painted in 1955 by New Zealand artist Colin McCahon.

🌱How do we study #seeds hidden in the #soil? This poster introduces the main methods to explore the #seedbank, from #germination #experiments to seed extraction, and shows what each approach can tell us. Download ▶️ 1url.cz/bedfN #GoBelowground #ExFuMo @czechacademy.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social

🌳 Vegetation succession triggers a non-linear trajectory of SOC molecular architecture driven by microbial resource acquisition strategies 🦠 📖 Find out more: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Open Letter to Ed Smelt. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

Leucopogon capitellatus More commonly known as one of the Beard Heaths, the flowers of Leucopogon capitellatus are small, delightfully fluffy stars ⭐️ #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomsvrolling 🌿

Me pretending to injure myself at work so they'll send me home.

We're seeking an Editorial Assistant to join the New Phytologist Foundation team for a 14-month period to cover parental leave. 📍 Location: Lancaster, UK ⌚ Fixed term, full time 💸 Salary: £26,707 to £30,378 📅 Closing date: 11 July 2026 www.newphytologist.org/news/job-vac... #PlantScience #jobs

An "Object at Rest" is an animated cartoon by Seth Boyden. He says, the cartoon "follows the life of a stone as it travels over the course of millennia, facing nature's greatest obstacle: human civilization." It was his final thesis film at CalArts. Well done, Seth! I feel bad for the rock though.

“Self-Portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States”, is a 1932 surrealist oil painting by Frida Kahlo.

Microbiologist & stem-cell researcher Dr. Ann Tsukamoto co-patented a process to isolate human hematopoietic stem cells, 1991. Her work laid the literal groundwork for modern regenerative medicine and cancer treatment. She was born #OTD in 1952. #WomenInSTEM #medsky

Just spotted this morning dose of perspective. Have a good day #auspol

So when our grandparents overdose & die because they didn’t understand how many tablets to take because no interpreter or can’t call an ambulance when having a heart attack & die, will One Nation take responsibility for their deaths, I’m being serious. neoskosmos.com/en/2026/07/0...

Another continent, another savanna fire experiment! This time Australia. Fire effects on trees + grasses are relatively well sorted but not for the multitude + diversity of savanna plant species. globalgrassygroup.github.io/2026/04/30/d... @anyacourtenay.bsky.social @wieczor.bsky.social

The Parasitic Plant That Changes Its Perfume www.botany.one/the-parasiti... Orobanche flava may steal from other plants underground, but above ground it uses changing floral scents to attract the insects it needs. #Botany #PlantScience

🍅☀️ RESEARCH ☀️🍅 Light perception influences the way tomato fruits build their protective skin, affecting water loss and disease resistance after harvest - Fernandes et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

The multifaceted regulatory #network of #microRNA396: Orchestrating plant #plasticity through coordinating #development and various #stresses onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience @jipb.bsky.social @sciplant.bsky.social @planteditors.bsky.social @plant-sci.bsky.social

You might think that the chancellors & presidents of the country’s leading R1 research universities, faced with such an existential crisis, would speak up, loudly & collectively against the authoritarian assault on their institutions. Alas, you would (still) be sadly wrong. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Looking forward to being here with a class of budding botanists next week

We must protect Palestinian children from being killed The world should be outraged about escalating violence in the West Bank, particularly against children, writes Dr Philip Goodwin of Unicef UK www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Bronwyn Carlson reflects on half a century of NAIDOC Week. "NAIDOC is an invitation to engage with the history that gave rise to the week, to listen to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices, and to reflect on the work that still needs to be done." theconversation.com/half-a-centu...

For most of us, seeing the Klan 2.0, a.k.a. Patriot Front, march through Washington, D.C., unchallenged by authorities overshadowed any celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. My ancestors lived through this. And no one today can say with a straight face that racism is behind us.

I finished reading this cracker of a story at 2 o'clock this morning. Highly recommended, just be sure to have a box of tissues on hand! @milliganreports.bsky.social is an excellent story teller 🙂 #BookSky

David Pocock pauses, overcome with emotion, while detailing UN’s horrific findings against Israel “IDF has now killed 20,000 Palestinian children” “…deliberately shot at children’s limbs…as a twisted game of target practice”😔 Barbaric & sickening. This is our ally?

“It is absolutely sickening that despite Murujuga now being a UNESCO World Heritage site, the government allows companies like Woodside to continue desecrating the Murujuga rock art so that these multinational companies can make a quick buck selling more gas overseas.” #Auspol #FossilFuel

Emergency doctor endures Gaza tragedy, saves lives, but criticises Israel, get complaints, has specialist training frozen. Andrew Brown interviews Dr Mo #auspol #AHPRA #antisemitism michaelwest.com.au/dr-mo-gaza-d...

"Jibia was a 10-year-old girl, ranking third out of 58 students in her fourth-grade class in Rwamwanja, Uganda. Aid cuts meant that the local clinic ran out of $2 bed mosquito nets, & anti-malaria medicines. Jibia died of malaria.." Shame on those who did this and & all those supporting it. #Auspol

If you intentionally turn off the power to life support systems in a hospital & someone dies as a result, you could be charged with murder. What you think about the geopolitics of USAID historically & its role in colonialism is irrelevant to the argument. As a result of Musk's actions, people die.

I’ve just been talking about this with my better half who is a Dean, a couple of key points: universities are inherently curious, Management Consultancy is almost the direct opposite. Universities exist through social license, managerialism treats social license as an optional extra.

Absolutely astonishing revelations at ICAC about the University of Wollongong, where the Chancellor has now resigned and the former interim vice-chancellor John Dewar has admitted working to help his consultancy Korda Mentha get extra work while in the job www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

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Adorable southern emu-wren Australia's smallest bird, 15-18 cm It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, and shrubby vegetation, and swamplands. They have weak flight capabilities, spending time scrambling and hopping through dense shrub eating insects and spiders.

The same dangerous and unfavorable conditions that allowed the Milford Flat Fire to consume 363,052 acres in 2007 are present this summer. 2026 is likely to be “up there with the worst in Utah history,” a wildfire science professor told The Tribune.

#Viewpoint: Neglected seed dispersers and research compartmentalisation: how much do we know about what we don't know? Mendes et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience @sarammendes.bsky.social; @drandygreen.bsky.social; @isatxu.bsky.social