Congrats to @bposch.bsky.social for leading the writing of the New Phytologist Tansley Review on High‐temperature acclimation of photosystem II in land plants. @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Save the date! 47th New Phytologist Symposium on 'Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life'. Explore how extreme heat affects plants that underpin ecosystem productivity. 2-5 June 2026, Cordoba, Spain. @newphyt.bsky.social www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps

From today's Future Campus news: "ANU’s Susanne von Caemmerer &Graham Farquhar have collected their Royal Medal (Biol) from the Royal Society... established in 1660 and “the oldest scientific academy in continuing existence.” @biologyanu.bsky.social is proud as! futurecampus.com.au

Our morning visitor in Canberra

Our friend is back

A friendly visitor at Thredbo in southern Australia. Spring in the subalpine region

An important paper - just out in @natureportfolio.nature.com documenting a decline in net C uptake by Australian rainforests. Eventually the same will occur in other rainforests - a reminder that we need to get to net zero ASAP. @biologyanu.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Monday 29th September 2025 on the Main Range of Kosciuszko National Park - just 2.5 hours drive from Canberra. Great backcountry ski conditions for this time of year!

Paris Braces for a Future of Possibly Paralyzing Heat www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/w...

Today. Australia. What’s not to like?

Plants are such tricky critters - love it. Linalool-triggered plant-soil feedback drives defense adaptation in dense maize plantings | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"2023 set new records in the duration, extent, and intensity of [marine heatwaves]" Record-breaking 2023 marine heatwaves | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In June, I went to Antwerp, London and Berlin to watch my son play hockey with Australia’s national field hockey team. The best part was the game in London when all his team mates wore rainbow socks as LGBTQ+ allies. To learn why, listen to this podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/2AFb...

This article provides a comprehensive update on greenhouse gas emissions and associated warming across the planet - a great resource for those with an interest in past, present and future aspects of climate change. essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

My walk to work this AM reminds me that for all the stresses created by ANU budget cuts, #canberra remains a great place to live and work.

We're pleased to welcome Yidi Deng, last of 3 postdocs we hired for Analytics for the Australian Grains Industry project! Yidi has an impressive list of work from his PhD in developing and applying statistical methods for single cell data integration analysis. 🔗 anu-aagi.github.io/news/posts/2...

Why would you cut NASA Earth Science Division when it couples a small cost to a high return on investment? Why? ". This investment ...spur(s) technological innovation and high-tech jobs......." @science.org NASA Earth Science Division provides key data | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Even when accounting for climate adaptation strategies, agric production will fall in the coming decades as the planet warms, with a production drop that is equivalent to 4.4% of daily calorie requirements per 1 °C in temperature www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How the Hottest Place in India Survives www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/w...

Fantastic to see the Australian mens (field) hockey team beat England 4:3 yesterday in London - wearing rainbow socks to show their support for inclusiveness in sport www.hockey.org.au/news/blake-g...

Prospects for cereal self-sufficiency in sub-Saharan Africa | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Great to see a focus in @science.org on impacts of heat on forest systems. Tropical forests are heating up. Can they cope? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

my @anuagrifood.bsky.social Director Message for May 2025 is now out. It provide a examples of how we are ensuring researchers and students understand the needs of the agrifood industry, and a new industry member of our Agrifood Hub: PHENOSPEX. www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-d...

Protecting against downside risk doesn’t have to come at the expense of continued increases in the yield potential. No evidence of a tradeoff between yield stability and maximum yield in an analysis of hybrid performance across 34 environments. New pub led by @jensinadavis.bsky.social

For those with an interest in year to year changes in the global carbon cycle, the latest assessment is just out. @anuagrifood.bsky.social essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

A half-century of climate change in major agricultural regions: Trends, impacts, and surprises | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Awesome imagery www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/s...

Rainbow chard from the vege garden - doing well in late Autumn here in Canberra.

And to rest of the world, @rohanconnolly65.bsky.social is talking about the greatest game on Earth - Aussie Rules!

"Under a 1.5 °C pathway, 52% of people born in 2020 will experience unprecedented lifetime exposure to heatwaves. If global warming reaches 3.5 °C by 2100, this fraction rises to 92% for heatwaves, 29% for crop failures and 14% for river floods." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thoughtful piece in @science.org on the need for universities to consider the social contract that links tax payer investment in R&D to outputs and outcomes that matter for society. @anuagrifood.bsky.social The new reality for American academia | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

For those interested in my roles at @anuagrifood.bsky.social and @scienceanu.bsky.social, see below. Includes shifting a @newphyt.bsky.social symposium on extreme heat from USA to Spain, links between Brexit and investment in robotics, US science cuts and more. www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-d...

Great initiative - one that Australia should seek to replicate. Science researchers around the world that have been laid off need support. Also a great opp for countries that continue to invest at scale in science www.science.org/content/arti...

Large increases in public R&D investment are needed to avoid declines of US agricultural productivity | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Great to work with Bruhn et al. on an article on RQ's (i.e. respiratory CO2 efflux:O2 uptake ratio) in plants. Typically we assume the fluxes to be in balance, but in many cases, they are not, with implications for C modeling. @pplplantarum.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Global warming drives a threefold increase in persistence and 1 °C rise in intensity of marine heatwaves | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Varroa mites and small hive beetles are threatening Australian #honey producers. Here’s how backyard #beekeepers and everyday honey lovers can help. #beesky #agsky theconversation.com/australian-h...

With all the craziness in the world, watch this for something that restores your faith in people being real, even if the cake is somewhat unreal! www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ap...

Extreme heat and mental health www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

India is a global warming ‘hole,’ and scientists aren’t sure why | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Our rising seas. This is only going to get harder to ignore. This NASA visualization was created by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5520/

Exciting new special issue in @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social on agricultural biotechnology: potential, challenges and debate. With a range of papers addressing critical questions on "how agricultural biotechnology is developed and used, and for whom." nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Thrilled to see our article out! In @newphyt.bsky.social. We show how plant nutrient acquisition strategies modulate the carbon costs of nutritient acquisition relative to water acquisition. Thanks @nickgregsmith.bsky.social for your constant support ! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

This @science.org article by Bar-On et al. caught my eye - highlights importance of non-living organic matter for the global carbon sink www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

An interesting exercise reflecting on pathway to plant science as a vocation. Thanks to @newphyt.bsky.social for the opportunity to write an Editor Profile for an upcoming issue. NP is a not for profit journal that serves the plant science community world-wide. doi.org/10.1111/nph....

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB

Corpernicus latest - their summary points Jan 2025 was the warmest January globally, 0.79°C above the 1991-2020 avg, 1.75°C above pre-indust level, 18th month in the last 19 months for which the global-avg surface air temp >1.5°C above pre-indust level. climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-j...