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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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This was what I meant to link to in my other post about those pesky coronaviruses

Botany exams are the prettiest, 2025 edition

#PlantSciJobs

Corona viruses are better at invading the brain than other viruses - Covid is nasty - not just the flu 😱⚕️👇

#PlantSciJobs

TODAY @ 2 pm AEST - ME/CFS Awareness Week PACE Online Symposium. Join for informative talks on pacing, resilience & policy. Featuring speakers like award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer AM & Emerge Ambassador Amanda “Bloom” Canzurlo. Live Q&A! ➡️ vist.ly/3n3p85f.

Something different - interview about our learnings as a parent of sometimes with ME i.e. @elizacharley.bsky.social and using our science brains to try to make a difference ⚕️

Emerge Australia Ambassador • Actor • Writer • Advocate “I’ve spent over 15 years navigating ME - through hospitals, clinics, film sets and advocacy forums.” From her home in Florence, Eliza Charley shares how her diagnosis shaped not only her career - but her mission to elevate unheard voices.

Looking forward to reading this: Eric Topol is an excellent and reliable source of information ⚕️🧪 #SciComm www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

The 2025 winner of #DanceYourPhD 🥼🎶🔥

The fourth global coral bleaching event since 1998: Nobody should be surprised that temperatures are rising, or that bleaching events are now stronger, more frequent and more widespread. Scientist have documented these trends for decades. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/04...

Antibiotic resistance is truly scary - worse than COVID

Reflections from the “Plant Sciences in the Anthropocene” Workshop – Two Weeks of Conversations, Insight, & Impact From the very 1st talk to the final wrap-up, the event was a deep dive into the challenges #plantscience faces in a changing world. buff.ly/tKLsxQI w @spsplantsciences.bsky.social

Very concerning

My first jonquil and the leaves on the Cherry are still green, plus it’s not even May! Such a mild Autumn. #MyGarden #Flowers 🪴🌱🌼🌿

I hear parents saying their school aged kids are always sick as if that’s normal. It is not normal! It never used to be like this pre2020. eg Our kids missed less than a week of their entire secondary education

A sad very positive family story supporting hypothesis that susceptibility to Long Covid and ME have a heritable component. #ThereForME open.substack.com/pub/therefor...

Imagine a French garden without box? Sadly newly introduced pests continue to eat and destroy them - this is why we have such strict quarantine laws in Oz #biosecurity

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself. - Prof. Brian Cox

🧵 "Preparing information for your doctor" www.emerge.org.au/preparing-in... #MEcfs #CFS 1/

Interesting read www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

Gift yourself these 11 seconds. Take a breath. #mentalhealth #timelinecleanse #stressrelief #nature

🧵 It would be great if friends of people with ME/CFS or long COVID would take the time to read this. These conditions are very socially isolating and lonely and patients would love to maintain friendships www.emerge.org.au/how-to-suppo... #LongCovid #MEcfs 1/

Weird - all or nothing Wordle 1,408 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Beautiful walk in Red Hill in the drizzle yesterday with autumn leaves on the grape vines with a back drop of eucalypt bush

"I don't know anyone with Long Covid" "It's a liberal disease" "It's the vaccine" We've all heard the excuses. The truth is more than 400 million people are suffering from Long Covid, and the stigma and denial associated with the condition makes it hard for people to realize they have it:

Lest we forget www.bbc.com/future/artic...

🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 For American students planning to start grad school who are reconsidering their USA offers (or had offer rescinded), my Canadian university #QueensU announced a special funding call. Want to join my lab to study #plant #evolution? Get in touch! 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴

We need new antivirals - this looks promising

New genomic & genetic insights into Mendel’s pea genes, including previously uncharacterised alleles 159 years after Mendel published his work, this is a real delight (especially for a geneticist) 🧪 @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Clearly we need to increase unemployment benefits back to the Covid levels @guardian #AusPol www.datawrapper.de/_/dUx7J/

Myanmar Earthquake Appeal - I've donated to the Emergency Action Alliance have a good reputation for getting help to where it's needed myanmar.emergencyaction.org.au

One way of supporting autistic people right now is to take Covid seriously and mask up. Several studies have shown Long Covid disproportionately impacts neurodivergent folks