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Issy Kite 🌻

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PhD candidate researching pasture nutrition and methane emissions under climate change 🌿 | women’s sports, reading & nature 🧡

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Issy Kite 🌻 @issykite.bsky.social · Aug 21

Very happy to share the first paper of my PhD has been published ☺️ a study of the effects of climate change during plant growth on ruminant methane emissions (simulated in vitro) 🧪🐄🍀🌿 #science #pastures #agriculture #climatechange #ruminants #phdstudent

www.publish.csiro.au/CP/CP24374

Evaluating nutritional quality and methane production from fermentation of pasture forages grown under current and future climate conditions using near-infrared spectroscopy

Context Improved pasture nutritional quality and reduced enteric methane production under current and projected climate conditions are essential for the meat and livestock industry. Legumes and herbs ...

www.publish.csiro.au

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Issy Kite 🌻 @issykite.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks! :)

Issy Kite 🌻 @issykite.bsky.social · 2d

Great to see Pride Cup at the Swans AFLW ♥️ #swansaflw #aflw #afl #pride

www.theflyingbats.com/petition

Sign the Petition- Football Australia: Protect the participation of all women in football. — Flying Bats Football Club

Call on Football Australia to fight discrimination and protect LGBTQIA+ inclusion in football.

www.theflyingbats.com

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 12d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 12d

King of the Winter. Photo from my collection, ca. 1950s.

Black-and-white photo of a short haired, tuxedo, tabby cat standing on top of a tall snowbank.

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Issy Kite 🌻 @issykite.bsky.social · 14d

Awesome photos!

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Issy Kite 🌻 @issykite.bsky.social · 17d

This week’s friends in the field 🦘 #fieldwork #agriculture #science

Group of kangaroos in the shade under trees in a grass pasture

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 18d

Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️

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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · 20d

🧵 BREAKING: Gene therapy shows promise in slowing Huntington’s disease progression. A major milestone in neurodegenerative disease research. @uclqsion.bsky.social @ucl-hd.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Francis M. Martin @fmartin54.bsky.social · 24d

Charles Cockell said that “without lions there is life, but without microorganisms there can be no higher life forms” …

Microbial conservation is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and services | PNAS

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Microbial conservation is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and services | PNAS

Microbial conservation is essential for sustaining ecosystem functions and services

www.pnas.org

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Issy Kite 🌻 @issykite.bsky.social · 24d

Beautiful spring day 🌷 #sydney #spring #nature

Issy Kite 🌻 @issykite.bsky.social · 25d

Sydney derby in the AFLW this Sunday at Henson Park ♥️🧡 info shared from Swans AFLW Insta #SydneySwans #GWSGiants #AFL #AFLW #Sydney #womenssports

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 29d

✨ Paper spotlight ✨

(🧵 1/6) Agricultural disturbance reduces arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity and biomass by excluding specialist species
doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Vahter et al. focus on investigating biomass–diversity relationships in the arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal group.

$Fig. 4 Relationship between arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal biomass from the neutral lipid fatty acid fraction and community-weighted mean host abundance niche optimum of AM fungi.$

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Bertrand Dumont @bdumontae.bsky.social · Aug 29

We identified 6 narratives that vary in how French & Dutch 🐄 farmers conceptualise #biodiversity, perceive and value interactions between farming & biodiversity, & define problems & solutions in relation to biodiversity

Paper is led by V. Oostvogels 👉 doi.org/10.1002/pan3...

#dairy #NFF #pluralism

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Sep 7

Well said.

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Issy Kite 🌻 @issykite.bsky.social · Sep 2

Absolutely!

Issy Kite 🌻 @issykite.bsky.social · Sep 2

love a bookshop 📚 #books

Small white books with red writing scattered across a wooden bookshop table

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Issy Kite 🌻 @issykite.bsky.social · Aug 30

Lovely weather!

Issy Kite 🌻 @issykite.bsky.social · Aug 30

🧡🧡🧡 #GWSGiants #AFLW #AFL #womenssports

Giants vs Adelaide AFLW game at Henson Park

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Raf Nicholson @rafnicholson.bsky.social · Aug 29

This is such a lovely piece on Kim Garth and mum Anne-Marie - set to become the first mother-daughter duo to have both featured in a World Cup.

The analysis of Garth’s new ball is interesting too.