Join us next week to hear Distinguished Professor Junko Kyozuka explore the evolutionary journey of strigolactones! She will present insights from moss & liverwort studies that reveal clues to their ancestral role in growth regulation 🔗 bit.ly/TPS-JK #PlantScience

Your expertise matters. Join a Wheat Initiative Expert Working Group and help shape the future of wheat research globally. 🧠https://www.wheatinitiative.org/expert-working-groups-2 #WheatConnect

🚀🧬 EBP dream team launches the Phase II roadmap to sequence all Eukaryotic life on Earth! 🔥 Hot off the press (2025) 👉http://bit.ly/46ko9cZ 🌍 EBP's vision of sequencing all 1.8 million named eukaryotic species is now within reach—powered by unprecedented global collaboration.

Great to get out of the office and into the field on a Friday morning to harvest tissue from the OzBarley population. This is for our GRDC proof of concept project, looking for new mechanisms for salinity tolerance. @bberger-au.bsky.social.

🔍 #DataDiscovery | New Python Library! TERN has recenlty launched terndata.flux – a lightweight #Python library designed to make working with TERN eddy covariance flux #data easier than ever! Explore it now: 📦 PyPI: pypi.org/project/tern... 💻 GitHub: github.com/ternaustrali...

📣 Deadline extended! Join our University of Adelaide team as an Engagement Officer and collaborate with the Australian Government on ecological monitoring protocols for renewable energy impact assessments. Find out more: careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51... #jobalert #monitoring #renewables

Pleased to share the fifth and final paper from my PhD - a collaboration with the APPN investigating industrial hemp growth and temporal water use using state-of-the-art phenotyping platforms. 🌿 www.publish.csiro.au/fp/Fulltext/FP24266 @bethloveys.bsky.social @bberger-au.bsky.social

Congratulations to @futurecropsau.bsky.social PhD student Yiting Xie, who has just had his first manuscript accepted in Plant Phenomics. bit.ly/3UrkFP6. Yiting’s work uses images and machine learning to help determine when a wheat plant will flower.

🚨 Now open! The NCRIS Synthetic Biology Voucher Scheme offers up to $50K Primary and $25K Secondary matched funding to access world-class SynBio facilities across Australia. 👉Open to researchers, startups & SMEs. 📅Closes 12th of September. 🔗 Info: bioplatforms.com/ncris-synthe...

Sometimes you have to celebrate the little things. 🥳 100,000th plant being characterised on our automated imaging system.

📊 #jobalert! Are you passionate about transforming complex environmental data into accessible insights? Join TERN as a #DataEngineer and help design and maintain scalable, cloud-based #datainfrastructure that supports national research efforts. Apply now: uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uqcare...

Today is #WorldBloodDonorDay 🩸 Blood donation is not only a selfless act but also a powerful show of solidarity. When we #GiveBlood, we help ensure a safe, steady blood supply for everyone in need. If you’re eligible, consider becoming a regular, voluntary donor. 🔗 bit.ly/GiveBlood2025

We are looking for a postdoc with experience in electron microscopy. mail to [email protected]

"A teaching and training framework to promote findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) data generation in agriculture" Excellent, free, online curriculum!! This is so needed. Please share widely. academic.oup.com/database/art...

Happy Friday #bloomscrolling 🌱

Still waiting desperately for rain in South Australia, but enjoying the autumn sunshine in the meantime

In 100 days in office, US President Donald Trump has destabilized eight decades of government support for science. This has included terminating more than 1,000 grants in areas such as climate change, cancer, and HIV prevention. Will US science survive Trump 2.0? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨HDRs and ECRs --- if you want to access the OzBarley field trials in 2025, we have some travel support available. 🌱🧪

If you ever wanted to turn your balcony cladding into mulch, I've got three efficient workers I can recommend. #birds #Australia

Hi Bluesky 👋 ! The Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS) promotes #PlantScience in Australia, and provides professional contact within our community. Tag us using #plants #ozplants

A pallet cleanser for your doom scrolling from our greenhouses 🌱🧪

🔎Find the data you need with ARDC Research Data Australia 🔢 220,000 datasets from over 100 trusted Australian institutions 🔎 discover datasets across a vast range of fields 🤝 access descriptions and links to data 🔄 reuse data for secondary research Start exploring today researchdata.edu.au

Our Expert Working Group on Wheat Phenotyping is organising a Wheat Field Phenotyping Demo Day! If you have the chance to travel to Italy - check all info here: buff.ly/z24CKra Registration is mandatory, registrants will be informed about further details.

Watching Senator Cory Booker live speaking up for sciences. May his voice hold out for many more hours. 🧪

Two fantastic positions in #plantscience: A junior AND a senior group leader position at the Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), part of @viennabiocenter.bsky.social. Generous core funding, fantastic plant and non-plant colleagues, all in a very livable and beautiful city. www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/join-us/...

Calling all 🧪 scientists who need a little support in their writing 💻! I’ll be helping lead a writing group along with Ellen Kuwana and Georgina To'a Salazar. Read below for more information, and a link to register. Let me know if you have any questions, pls reskeet #plantscience #sciencewriting

🚨Our team is hiring!!! If you are an image and data researcher, we might have the right job for you. Join a diverse team and apply your skills to address the big questions of climate resilience in agriculture and food security. careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

Learn about @biosecuritycommons.bsky.social at a webinar hosted by Australia's Chief Plant Protection Officer, Dr Gabrielle Vivian-Smith! 📅 Tues 25 March, 2pm AEDT ✍ Add the event to your calendar via this link: ardc.edu.au/event/austra... #NCRISimpact #biosecurity

We are looking for a 2y postdoc in multi-omics data integration & analysis for Camelina sativa (an oilseed crop, close to Arabidopsis). Work with many international partners and profiting from our intensive IT and tool infrastructure. Please ReBluesky www.fz-juelich.de/en/careers/j... #plantjobs

📢 Have your say on the future of Australia’s research infrastructure The Australian Government Department of Education has released a survey to support the development of the 2026 National Research Infrastructure Roadmap. The survey closes 19 March 2025. Learn more > lnkd.in/gzxFayjU

I'm looking for a postdoc to work for 3 years on the function of #circadian clock proteins in wheat. I also have a full-funded PhD opportunity. #plantscience Postdoc applications close on 2 April. jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91954...

BARLEY RESEARCHERS – apply to access the 2025 OzBarley field trial sites in WA, SA, NSW and QLD. Study phenotypic traits or methods on ~220 elite barley lines. More info here www.plantphenomics.org.au/2025-ozbarle... #NCRISimpact #GRDC

We're addressing DNA sequencing data submission challenges at a global scale through a range of activities including training workshops and roundtable discussions. You're invited to meet with the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) team when they visit next month: www.biocommons.org.au/news/ena-act...

🌱 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘴 𝘈𝘮𝘪𝘥𝘴𝘵 𝘖𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘞𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴 🌊 Exciting news from the world of sustainable agriculture! UniSA researchers have created a solar-powered, self-irrigating, vertical sea farm system that can grow crops without additional clean water irrigation. #NCRIS #ANFF_SA #AgTech #Solar #greenhouse #GreenTech

ALL RESEARCHERS ❗️Speak up❗️ if you have opinions, critique or ideas on proposed changes to Australian Research Council grants. Discuss & distill ideas, sure, but to be considered you MUST make a submission ▶️ submit.dese.gov.au/jfe/form/SV_... It’s EASY! Answer these questions in the form👇

A great program to develop International collaborations in grains research! Please share with your early and mid-career network

One day after the German federal election, I finally received my postal vote papers. Hopefully rules will be changed for future elections to allow citizens abroad to cast their vote #Bundestagswahl

Australia’s bushland has a voice. But as #biodiversity continues to decline, nature’s voice is changing. Discover how #researchers use sound to monitor Australia's native #wildlife w/ @openecoacoustics.bsky.social 🔉Read the case study: ow.ly/Ca8n50UZWU8 @charlessturtuni.bsky.social #ecoacoustics

Sunday relaxation in the sun at Cleland Wildlife Park

Brilliant and hard working former postdoc from my lab (plant and microbial molecular genetics) was just laid off from her job at the USDA. She is looking for job. You would love to have her in your lab. Pls share. Pls let me know if you have position

🌟 Exciting Postdoc Opportunity in Plant Phenomics🌟 Join our dynamic research group in Narrabri investigating chickpea heat tolerance. You’ll develop innovative phenotyping approaches using state of the art UAV and hyperspectral technologies in a project with direct impacts to industry.

In these dark times, good to see an ad sponsored by diverse corporations and non profits: Germany = Togetherland #zusammenland

🔍 #DYK the Australian cosmic-ray soil moisture monitoring network (CosmOz) was first established in 2010 to provide Australian and global #researchers with spatially distributed intermediate scale soil moisture observations? Access the data here: portal.tern.org.au/metadata/TER... #DataDiscovery

Scrolling the news doesn't make for a great outlook on 2025. So here's a palette cleanser from a camping trip to Ikara-Flinders Ranges

On this day 15 years ago, the Plant Accelerator opened its doors. It's been an exciting journey and I'm very fortunate to work with such a fantastic team!

Recordings from the third Genotype x Environment x Management Symposium are available on YouTube! The symposium focussed on a range of topics related to the study of #GxExM interactions and their importance for #crop improvement: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...