David Cooke
@llewelyn68.bsky.social
Plant pathologist (all things oomycete - especially potato late blight); eDNA enthusiast; climber; runner; cyclist; views/opinions my own
Thanks for these valuable guides. Key for planning eDNA strategies for biodiversity assessment.
November 27, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Thanks for these valuable guides. Key for planning eDNA strategies for biodiversity assessment.
Talks look great and what a backdrop! An uplifting venue.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Talks look great and what a backdrop! An uplifting venue.
Looking forward to seeing some potentially blight resistant potatoes in the pipeline...
November 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Looking forward to seeing some potentially blight resistant potatoes in the pipeline...
Mmm reminds me of excellent trips to Chile. A south American pasty. Never tried to make them though so good luck
November 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Mmm reminds me of excellent trips to Chile. A south American pasty. Never tried to make them though so good luck
Ditto with final talk #AAB_IPPM by @sejarnold.bsky.social NIAB surveying parasitoid wasp diversity on aphids from strawberry crops in Kent. 4 main species found plus hyperparasitoids. eDNA barcoding showed more. Little relationship to local vegetation. Sadly missed rest or risk missing train.
November 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Ditto with final talk #AAB_IPPM by @sejarnold.bsky.social NIAB surveying parasitoid wasp diversity on aphids from strawberry crops in Kent. 4 main species found plus hyperparasitoids. eDNA barcoding showed more. Little relationship to local vegetation. Sadly missed rest or risk missing train.
Potential benefits for biological control of western flower thrip in tunnel-grown strawberry crops. Importance of understanding the whole life cycle of pest and predator to make a real difference to growers. @adasgroup.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Potential benefits for biological control of western flower thrip in tunnel-grown strawberry crops. Importance of understanding the whole life cycle of pest and predator to make a real difference to growers. @adasgroup.bsky.social
Potential benefits for biological control of western flower thrip in tunnel-grown strawberry crops. Importance of understanding the whole life cycle of pest and predator to make a real difference to growers.
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Potential benefits for biological control of western flower thrip in tunnel-grown strawberry crops. Importance of understanding the whole life cycle of pest and predator to make a real difference to growers.
Crop looks potato-like but unsure the flowers are part of crop as there would be some in mid to far ground too. Certainly a potato growing area.
November 11, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Crop looks potato-like but unsure the flowers are part of crop as there would be some in mid to far ground too. Certainly a potato growing area.
Thanks for flagging #IPPM25 talks. It has been a great day of engagement - ending with a debate on New Breeding Technologies in pathogen-pest resistance.
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Thanks for flagging #IPPM25 talks. It has been a great day of engagement - ending with a debate on New Breeding Technologies in pathogen-pest resistance.
It is from 2021. Still great but a reminder that it is not a new publication.
November 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
It is from 2021. Still great but a reminder that it is not a new publication.
Plus truly gorgeous confocal microscopy images of AA7 accumulation (pink) around the haustoria of hyphae (green) during plant cell infection. @hutton.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Plus truly gorgeous confocal microscopy images of AA7 accumulation (pink) around the haustoria of hyphae (green) during plant cell infection. @hutton.ac.uk
And the sound when they arrived to roost on River Tay near Dundee. Sound up. Something must have freaked them as skeins all broken up.
Cracking picture BTW
Cracking picture BTW
October 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
And the sound when they arrived to roost on River Tay near Dundee. Sound up. Something must have freaked them as skeins all broken up.
Cracking picture BTW
Cracking picture BTW
Good job Ben. Thank you for all the work you do to maintain access and show us your every day life in a national park. Always interesting.
October 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Good job Ben. Thank you for all the work you do to maintain access and show us your every day life in a national park. Always interesting.
Perfectly timed for her Nature paper too: released a few hours earlier. Its worth a read.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries monitors a world out of balance - Nature
A revised ‘Doughnut’ providing a visual assessment of trends in social deprivation and planetary degradation over the past two decades shows more than doubling of global GDP accompanied by accelerating ecological overshoot but only a modest reduction in human deprivation.
www.nature.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Perfectly timed for her Nature paper too: released a few hours earlier. Its worth a read.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Excellent talk and perfect timing with release of Nature paper 2 hours ahead of the event. Meant we got first view of the new Doughut. @hutton.ac.uk
bsky.app/profile/kate...
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Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 2, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Excellent talk and perfect timing with release of Nature paper 2 hours ahead of the event. Meant we got first view of the new Doughut. @hutton.ac.uk
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A valuable review of #Phytophthora infestans populations and potato ##lateblight in the east and north of Europe. Great job.
October 2, 2025 at 7:08 AM
A valuable review of #Phytophthora infestans populations and potato ##lateblight in the east and north of Europe. Great job.
No doughnuts tonight but there was haggis baked potato and the talk was fantastic. Depressing economic growth reality vs doughnut economics ambitions. Lots to think about and hopefully convert to action.
October 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
No doughnuts tonight but there was haggis baked potato and the talk was fantastic. Depressing economic growth reality vs doughnut economics ambitions. Lots to think about and hopefully convert to action.