Coping with anxiety about current geopolitics ends with not pretending that things can go back to how they were. me:like Covid? people ignore LC, vascular disease and dangers of reinfection ‘https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/30/therapy-war-related-anxiety?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

South Australia’s answer to the fuel crisis

plausible integration of theories of mitochondrial disfunction and vascular disease (blood delivery) via malfunctioning Na/K pump as underlying drivers of #ME and possible drug treatments to test

"In Australia, we subsidise the fossil fuel industry. We give more than half of the gas we export away for free, and we charge our kids a fortune to go to uni." See more of Richard Denniss on Q&A here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAYxzRNfC6k

Visiting Dean Nicholl’s eucalypt arboretum at Currency Creek SA for the 1st time - amazing collection of >800 species. #eucalypt #NationalEucalyptDay2026 🪴🌳🌱

The world is still a beautiful place - here whales assisting another whale giving birth and lifting up the newborn so it doesn’t drown www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Another superb paper on plant chemical defence by Anurag Agrawal 🪴🧪 🐛

Seventy-three of Australia's 283 epiphytic orchids grow on eucalypts or other Myrtaceae. These gum-loving beauties are under threat from the expansion of myrtle rust, a fungal disease affecting their host trees. Read more: https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/81552/1/81552.pdf 📸: Mark Clements

Just spotted! - the rare and elusive tenure track position. This one in forest conservation genetics in my department - Forest Ecosystems and Society at Oregon State. Help spread the word! jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/178...

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

Heck to the heck yes.

Catching up with Bruce Webber - fellow lab rat mate from Melb Uni days. He’s now doing a great job as CEO of Bush Heritage - I was at their event at the Zoo wearing my Eucalypt Australia hat @eucalyptaus.bsky.social

My garden is a bit of a mess at the moment but these bright pots are bringing me pleasure #MyGarden #flowers 🌱🪴

“Australia will be put on a fast track to enter Horizon Europe, a $170 billion research and innovation program” - here’s hoping the government doesn’t stuff it up again 🧪#AusPol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Pfizer just announced that its Lyme disease vaccine reduced the number of tick-borne infections by over 70% in a phase 3 trial. Warning: GSK pulled a Lyme vaccine in 2002 despite studies showing it posed no serious safety risks. Any new Lyme vaccine is going to be a huge target for antivaxxers.

Scientific and medical research in Australia is starved of funds - there’s a simple fix for the medical - use the funds invested for the purpose! Then, use a chunk for researching #ME

US Weekly COVID update: Mar 23, 2026 🔸1 in 147 Actively Infectious 🔸334,000 Daily Infections 🔸2,460,000 Infections In The Past Week 🔸60,000,000 Infections in 2026 🔸123,000 to 490,000 Weekly Long COVID Cases 🔸600 to 1,100 Weekly Excess Deaths source: pmc19.com/data/

📖 ONE 2 READ: Excellent article on the pioneering work of @cvcev.bsky.social 👉 How they changed the culture, practice & output of the #covidinquiry They modelled masking & didn't wait for permission Outstanding advocacy 💙

On this day

Nice to visit my old stamping ground - Botany @ Melbourne Uni. I was there for a lot of my life - left: Natural philosophy Annex where I did my Hons, MSc + PhD after 15 yr gap; right: botany where I did my undergrad #PlantScience #IAmABotanist

Celebrating #NationalEucalyptDay2026 - left is CEO of Eucalypt Australia announcing the winner of #EucalyptOfTheYear , right is this Patrick Baker, this year’s Dahl medalist for sustained contribution to eucalypts @eucalyptaus.bsky.social

Time for a doom scrolling break - hug a tree and celebrate #NationalEucalyptDay2026

Ever wondered why I always wear a KN95 on the train? @airspotrob.bsky.social

🌳 Happy National Eucalypt Day! Today we celebrate the diversity, resilience and beauty of Australia’s iconic eucalypts, all 840 species! Join the #NationalEucalyptDay2026 to show us how you're celebrating, ask us your gum tree questions, and tell us why you love #OurEucalyptHome!

It’s negligence. People need to study history- those poor babies! 💔 www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Everything we need to do to stop climate breakdown, we also need to do for national security. Energy saving, more renewables, more electricity storage and interconnectors, electrification of transport, heating, cooking and industrial processes, plant-based diets. We win on all fronts.

Those Western Australians know how to mobilise voters! Nearly half of votes for #EucalyptOfTheYear2026 came from the west - #plants #trees 🍀🌾🪴🌱🌳

The people have voted! The #EucalyptOfTheYear2026 is Marri - a special habitat for black cockatoos 🌱🪴🌾🍀🌲🌳

Like smoking, governments must act - to govern! with the footy season upon us, kids are seeing hundreds of gambling ads every week. #AusPol www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22863/...

“the findings suggest that COVID-19 accelerates vascular ageing and could increase lifetime cardiovascular risk” everyone is ignoring this but we all know increasingly people in their 40s and early 50s are having heart attacks and strokes the likes of which we haven’t seen since the 1960s

Interesting- the recognition of air borne transmission has led to a Kuhnian-style paradigm shift in understanding - so what happens next?

Latest from the lab - a comparative transcriptomic analysis of glandular trichomes from cannabis, hops and tomato plants. In it we identify which transcriptional regulators are shared and which are not doi.org/10.1111/tpj..... We also provide big datasets of gene expresison across several organs.

Hey @rgleadow.bsky.social My favourite Eucalyptus trees: E. melliodora E. saligna E. mollucana Corymbia callophylla C. ficifolia (Eucalyptus adjacent - homage to my new home in the West) #NationalEucalyptDay2026

It's almost time! How will you celebrate National Eucalypt Day this Monday, 23rd of March? #NationalEucalyptDay2026

So cute - a possum living among the soft toys at an airport gift shop www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Take a break from doom scrolling and enjoy the ocean at Torquay (Vic) today🌸💦

This has gone from ‘later’ to ‘now’ 🌱🌾🪴☠️

Yay! #AusPol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Long Covid is portrayed as just fatigued..

🚨 Mythbusting #LongCovid with Dr Amir Khan🚨 Long Covid is real. It’s serious. And it’s affecting millions. On #LongCovidAwarenessDay, #DrAmirKhan joins us to bust harmful myths. Watch, learn, and share—because the more we talk about Long Covid, the harder it is to ignore.

"Doctors urge Tasmanians to get vaccinated after nearly 100 Covid and flu deaths" "Doctors have issued a vaccination warning after nearly 100 Tasmanians died from Covid and influenza last year, with medical experts fearing vaccine fatigue is putting lives at risk." Source: archive.md/z63N4

Great to have this paper out - on response of taro to different levels of nitrogen for optimising commercial yields: the set up should be useful for those wanting to assess a range agronomic traits 🪴🌱🌾 Thanks to ACIAR for funding www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...

Gift 🎁 link to some great news! (Let's hope it holds!) "Ruling on a lawsuit brought by several prominent medical organizations, a district court said the federal government did not base its decisions on science in limiting Covid shots and changing the... 🧵1/4 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...

Derr. I see people in their SUVs that they use a family cars putting $1-200 of fuel in - every week! Ive been driving an EV for 6 years and a hybrid for 8 years before that - no brainer. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“You’re not just becoming disabled,” said Elle Seibert, 31, who has dealt with debilitating fatigue and cardiac symptoms since 2020. “You’re realizing how easily society at large and people in your life will abandon you when you cannot offer them things.” www.latimes.com/science/stor...

Get informed - Read some science on ME and LongCovid - these diseases need to be taken seriously and more is being discovered all the time #LongCovidAwarenessDay

Feel for all those who never recover from Covid on this #LongCovidAwarenessDay - especially those who tip into the nightmare that is #ME 💔💙

It’s just not worth the risk - i try to avoid catching Covid. It’s hard and I’ve had it twice definitely and almost certainly a 3rd time (after being vaxxed but before Scomo allowed us to haves RATs)

Zum #LongcovidawarenessDay 2026 überholt eine Kindersendung in Punkt Fachwissen locker nen Ärztekongress. Mehr muss man dazu auch nicht sagen. #mecfs #longcovid #postvac