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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA

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Plant scientist studying how climate change affects plant toxicity (#cyanide). Born 314ppm. Interested in science, tech, plants. #MECFS ally #botanist 🌾🪴🧪🌱🌿💉 Views my own

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA @rgleadow.bsky.social · Nov 14

This video profiling me and my research was made for the Australian Academy of Science New Fellows Symposium. Enjoy! 🌾🪴🧪🌿 #sorghum #cassava #cyanide
youtu.be/ZjU7UMi7QxQ?...

Professor Roslyn Gleadow – 2024 Academy Fellow

YouTube video by Australian Academy of Science

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA @rgleadow.bsky.social · 5h

It’s happening - This is something I’ve wanted to do for years and it’s finally happening #SafeCassava

The Global Plant Council @globalplantgpc.bsky.social · 5h

🚨REGISTRATION OPEN!🚨

Join us for the International Safe Cassava Network 2025 Symposium

📅 27–28 October 2025
💻 Online
🕑 2 sessions per day | 1.5h each | 30min break between

Day 1: buff.ly/curtgRb
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🔗 Register now to secure your spot!

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA @rgleadow.bsky.social · 5h

Surely that’s against the guidelines? (It should be!)

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA @rgleadow.bsky.social · 6h

I read recently that LongCovid is now more common in US children than asthma

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA @rgleadow.bsky.social · 9h

giving a free public talk on ‘The poisonous plate of climate change’ for ANZAAS at Bio21 tomorrow evening - deets in the link

www.anzaas.org.au/victoria/

Victoria « « ANZAASANZAAS

Almost every aspect of our life is touched by science Without science our way of life would be almost unimaginable and sustainability of life in the future will be impossible without science. Despite ...

www.anzaas.org.au

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Wolfgang Busch @rootstrapping.bsky.social · 22h

🌿 Amazing opportunity for scientists from any field to move into plant biology! I might host a fellow in the area of root-microbe or root-environment interactions (DM me). 👉 simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology

#PlantScience #ClimateChange #HarnessingPlants

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation

simonsfoundation.org

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Alex Webb Lab @alexwebblab.bsky.social · 10h

Plants @ Cambridge brings together partners in the University of Cambridge and our partners at NIAB to form one the largest groupings of plant scientists in Europe. From molecules to ecosystems. We have a new video youtu.be/4kl0XNYOA4Q?... . 🧪 #plantresearch

Plants at Cambridge : growing the future

YouTube video by Cambridge University

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA @rgleadow.bsky.social · 16h

And plant pathology is not widely taught. I read "somewhere" are only a couple of hundred people in the whole world that could be brought together to address an outbreak of a major disease of a staple crop #plantscience

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA @rgleadow.bsky.social · 16h

We have just marked #InternationalDayOfTheGirlChild. Remember, every female scientist you see was a girl child once - it all starts then www.un.org/en/observanc...

International Day of the Girl Child | United Nations

The International Day of the Girl Child focuses attention on the need to address the challenges girls face and to promote girls’ empowerment and the fulfilment of their human rights.

www.un.org

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Miriam Cosic @miriamcosic.bsky.social · 2d

International Day of the Girl Child

Modern slavery in Australia

Forced marriage = making someone get married without their free and full consent. No child under 16 years of age can legally agree to a marriage.

#childmarriage

www.modernslavery.gov.au

www.modernslavery.gov.au

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA @rgleadow.bsky.social · 18h

you need to study the pathogen to know how to transform with GM, what changes to make - GMOs are clearly vital but you need to know what you’re aiming for

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA @rgleadow.bsky.social · 18h

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I’m all for wind farms but not in the migration path of an very endangered bird - At the very least don’t operate it during migration season #OrangeBelliedParrot

Orange-bellied parrots have swelled back from imminent extinction – but now they face a new threat

Experts warn approving a windfarm in the habitat of one of Australia’s most critically endangered birds could be ‘rolling the dice’ on their survival

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA @rgleadow.bsky.social · 19h

I often say something similar - we’re one plant disease away from mass starvation, and protected by a ‘thin nerd line’ of plant pathologists

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA @rgleadow.bsky.social · 19h

Phone numbers were easy to remember when they were 6, 7, maybe 8, digits. Humans can easily hold that information in their brains - and there weren’t that many of them because they were for a place not a person

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA @rgleadow.bsky.social · 19h

The precedent for taxing super is in place and that’s a good start

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA @rgleadow.bsky.social · 19h

Worth it!

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ME/CFS Science @mecfsskeptic.bsky.social · 1d

1) We’ve just published our second instalment on the DecodeME results, this timing zooming in on the genes associated with ME/CFS.

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Karen Fisher, PhD @fisherke.bsky.social · 1d

-80 freezer at -20

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 2d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA @rgleadow.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely. It probably won’t happen overnight but it will happen. Relax. Swallowing a bit of water is fine.

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA @rgleadow.bsky.social · 1d

It's the false argument that corporates (who are looking to maximize profits) will always give better value for money than the public service, or those who care about the systems. Sometimes they do, but it's not a blanket thing.

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA @rgleadow.bsky.social · 1d

Great issue of Functional Plant Biology just out if you're interested in plant defence and secondary (specialised) metabolites
www.publish.csiro.au/fp/issue/12429

CSIRO PUBLISHING | Functional Plant Biology

Functional Plant Biology is an international journal of plant function publishing high quality research papers in all areas of plant physiology, applied agricultural research and pure molecular biolog...

www.publish.csiro.au

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA @rgleadow.bsky.social · 1d

Good news! Coal will be a stranded asset

Bill Bovingdon @williambovingdon.substack.com · 1d

Fab www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Electricity from renewables overtakes coal in Australia for the first time

Power from solar, wind hydro and biomass totals 9.24 terawatt hours, compared with 8.8 terawatt hours from burning the fossil fuel

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA @rgleadow.bsky.social · 1d

I mean - universities have highly skilled people who could do this work as part of their job - they could even be seconded to admin

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA @rgleadow.bsky.social · 1d

it actually rained proper rain yesterday 🌧️🎉although not long enough and the local oval was dry enough for my morning trot this morning

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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 3d

US research:

"COVID-19 may have created a new year-round baseline for work absences...similar to influenza season conditions before the pandemic"

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

"Policymakers should consider...policies & actions that mitigate the spread of #COVID19"

#LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver

Key Points
Question Following the COVID-19 pandemic, has SARS-CoV-2 circulation been associated with health-related absences from work and labor force exits?

Findings In this nationally representative cohort study of approximately 158.4 million workers, rates of health-related work absences remained elevated after the pandemic and were associated with circulating SARS-CoV-2 and subsequent decreases in labor force participation by absence-affected workers.

Meaning These findings suggest that COVID-19 may have created a new year-round baseline for work absences that is similar to influenza season conditions before the pandemic; policymakers should consider expanding interventions and data collection efforts to address the negative impacts of COVID-19 on the labor force.

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