So frustrating! Esp to see APPS, SSA, GRDC, CSIRO likes, of which the socials are run by usually nice people.

#AI may indeed exacerbate our bad academic habits: #LLM science summaries were nearly five times more likely than human-authored science summaries to contain broad generalizations (95% CI [3.06, 7.70], p < 0.001). And newer models over-generalized more; not less! doi.org/10.1098/rsos... #philSci

Trump in a single gaggle on Air Force One just threatened: -- a second strike against Venezuela -- Cuba -- Mexico -- Colombia -- Iran -- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)

Denmark PM urges Trump to stop threats to take over Greenland reut.rs/4aFAXNP

Swalwell: He couldn't run a casino, and now he's going to run a country in South America while he fails to run a country in North America?

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Trump's illegal acts of war and imperialism against Venezuela show that his threats against Canada, Greenland, Mexico, Gaza, and the Panama Canal should be taken seriously.

Zohran is already making Regular People's lives harder...

Bernie keeping warm at the Mamdani inauguration

H N Y ! 🎆

A free, open-access library of high-quality organism illustrations for science communication

Look what Santa got me! 😃 It's an autographed copy of "Funga Obscura" by Dr Alison Pouliot. This wonderful photographical journey into the world of #fungi is going to be a great conversation starter. #Christmas🎄 #BoxingDay🎁 #FungalFriday🍄

A new fossil fungus discovered in Scotland shows evidence of plants and fungi sharing nutrients to survive on land. The fossil, more than 400 million years old, offers hints about the origin of one of the greatest partnerships in the history of life on Earth. www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

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Save the date! 🗓️ Thu 27 Nov, 1pm AEDT/3pm NZDT Our November seminar will feature Prof Sajeewa Maharachchikumbura from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China on pathogen taxonomy! @plant-pathogens.bsky.social www.australasianmycologicalsociety.com/post/novembe...

One of our student offices is ready with desks and chairs. There are some unoccupied seats, but not for long... The lab has open positions for 1 postdoc and 2 fully funded PhD students! Postdoc: jobs.bc.cas.cz/en/detail/266 PhD: jobs.bc.cas.cz/en/detail/271 #hiring #newPI #LFEE #TeamLaboul

#straya Bin Chicken: targeted metagenomic coassembly for the efficient recovery of novel genomes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The journal’s version of a paper that has already been preprinted and QEDed.

😃 Super excited to kickstart a conversation on #BioSolutions tomorrow. 🌏 At #DAS25 we'll explore the current landscape of #biological #AgInnovations in Australia & discuss sector limitations, gaps, opportunities, pathways & priorities for R&D & extension. @gulbali-institute.bsky.social @csu.edu.au

📢Available position: Postdoc in Fungal Ecology and Evolution. Application deadline: 20 November 2025. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/384592

What looked like a hearing organ on a tiny stinkbug’s leg turned out to be something far stranger: a fungal nursery that mother bugs use to coat their newly laid eggs in protective symbiotic hyphae, shielding their offspring from parasitic wasps. Learn more in Science: https://scim.ag/4nDrDNm

This week's @nature.com cover highlights a report of A.I.- mediated distortion When #ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants nature.com/articles/s41...

What's more scary than ghosts & ghouls in your line of work? 🎃 restructuring 🤡 intern let loose 🧛‍♂️ boss "helping" lab/field work 👽 data saved only (somewhere) in the cloud 👻 highly - cited "paper-mill" article #HappyHalloween #FridayFun

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

👩🏾‍🔬 I am excited to expand my engagement with #microbes to the next level as the Science Lead for Charles Sturt Uni AgriPark - Elders #BioSolutions Innovations and Knowledge Hub. 🫱🏻‍🫲🏾 Looking forward to mediating uni & industry #R&D collaborations on plant- microbe- soil- animal- seaweed- interactions.

Excellent analysis by @vanbadham.bsky.social delving into the realities of 21st-century workplace which operates in the cultural & administrative framework of 1950s. I have personally experienced & felt the same in 🇦🇺 academia that is stubbornly stuck in a bygone era in many aspects.

Just as we thought the little baby 🐣 Welcome Swallows (Hirundo neoxena) 🐦‍⬛ have left the nest, they're back to shelter from the storms! ⛈️

Disappearing jewels. Today’s Age cartoon

It was a race against the storm ⛈️ yesterday in Pira 🇦🇺 recording weeds in wheat, but we managed to cover >600 sampling points in 2 days! 💪🏽 That brings an end to this season's weed mapping 🛰 blitz that ran over the last 8 weeks. So proud of my team's dedication to gathering the most accurate data. 👩🏾‍💻

Picked this from the dark side. Donald VIC 🇦🇺 and the surrounding is a prime agricultural production region and has millions of ag R & D dollars invested there. I can't fathom how much damage this rare earth mineral mining will cause to food & water security, environment, and biodiversity assets.

Save the date! 🗓️ Thu 30 Oct, 12pm AEDT/2pm NZDT Our October seminar will feature Dr. Yi Ding from the University of Sydney on plant-fungal interactions in crops! Free registration (donations welcome) @plant-pathogens.bsky.social www.australasianmycologicalsociety.com/post/october...

Re(-new, -gain, -structure)

'All three awards (...) honored achievements rooted in fundamental research from decades ago. Some experts interpret the selections by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences as representing the importance of slow, basic science, work pursued out of a desire to better understand the world.'

3️⃣ PhD (Field Ecology & Plant Health in Diverse Communities) 🪴 🌾 Investigating ecological patterns of plant–pathogen interactions in the field to uncover the “underground rules” of community resilience. 🔗 Vacancy link www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...

It's gnomes galore at Commonwealth Park, but only 10 very special 'sciency gnomes' 🧙‍♂️ to find! 🔎 Thanks for this great 🌷 display themed 'Science & Nature', #Floriade2025 Canberra.

In the bubble for a little while

Beautiful #Spring 🌷 day at Tulip Tops gardens. NSW 🇦🇺

YES! THIS on GenAI! Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins: "An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

🌾Cereal #agronomy and #pathology field day jointly organised by NSW DPIRD (formerly NSW DPI) Agronomy & Pathology team with @csu.edu.au cereal #phenology and #physiology researchers.

For their first project, my Kids and Society students have to create an infographic clarifying a common misconception about "kids these days." I'd prefer that they not use AI to create their projects, so I made my own infographic explaining why : )

Our research on Microsoft’s data centers is out and it’s 😬 💡Huge energy demand (as much as New England by 2030!) 
⛽️ Fossil fuel reliance (most data centers in states with ≥50% FF grids) 
🏫Local impacts (data centers used to justify more gas) Learn more and take action: stand.earth/microsoft-ai

Microbiology Leaders Launch Global Climate Change Strategy Published across 6 leading scientific journals, including #FEMSMicrobiolEcol, the strategy charts a path to integrate microbial science into global climate solutions. Read the Press Release and Editorial here: buff.ly/LwDt0Mw

Fab day to be out at Henty Field Days! 🚜 👩🏾‍🌾 Come meet us at Block N sites 564 - 566 to see & hear about all the amazing #AgInnovations & #AgEducation we do at Charles Sturt University @csu.edu.au, @gulbali-institute.bsky.social & CSU AgriPark! #AgChatOz #AgSky

Lack of attendance was never an issue in the classes I delivered F2F (probably because I dance around the class!), but I loathed that the same lectures were recorded for distance/ online students. #AcademicSky

Important read if you use LLMs for science knowledge discovery around plants "What Large Language Models Know About Plant Molecular Biology" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... As per usual LLMs appear to propagate biases.

Paper just out, a review paper written together with the group of Fang Wang at ISS-CAS, Nanjing Microplastics and antibiotics in agricultural soil: mechanisms and implications of co-contamination www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Free share link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1loaZ7spEi...

Past entries of the Branching Out category of our Ecology in Action photography competition to give you some inspiration! 📸⁠ ⁠ Have you entered yet? Entries close October 5- submit yours today: www.ecolsoc.org.au/opportunitie... #photographycompetition #ecology #wildoz #naturephotography #flowers

Save the date! 🗓️ Thu 25 Sep, 12pm AEST/2pm NZST Our September seminar will feature Eric Asare from @EdithCowanUni on fungal pathogens of peppermint! Free registration (donations welcome) @ecolsocaus.bsky.social @plant-pathogens.bsky.social www.australasianmycologicalsociety.com/post/septemb...