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Bettina Berger

@bberger-au.bsky.social

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Plant scientist, using cameras and other sensors to measure plants 🧪🌱📸. Adelaide, Kaurna country.Views are my own.

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Bettina Berger @bberger-au.bsky.social · Apr 29

🚨HDRs and ECRs --- if you want to access the OzBarley field trials in 2025, we have some travel support available. 🌱🧪

2025 OzBarley field trial sites open to researchers | Australian Plant Phenomics Network

OZBARLEY TRIALS – TRAVEL SUPPORT OPPORTUNITIES 🌱 ✈️ The OzBarley project, which is led by the Australian Plant Phenomics Network (APPN) and the University of Adelaide, is developing a comprehensive ...

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Bettina Berger @bberger-au.bsky.social · 7h

📣🧪🌱We are #hiring a Horticultural Manager for our node of the Australian Plant Phenomics Network in Adelaide. Please help spread the word! careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.

careers.adelaide.edu.au

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Bettina Berger @bberger-au.bsky.social · 2d

Bush walk at Hale Conservation Park during orchid time in South Australia #bloomscrolling

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Bush walk at Hale Conservation Park during orchid time in South Australia #bloomscrolling

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Noah Fahlgren @noahfahlgren.bsky.social · 2d

Deadline for our 2nd cohort of the Pivot to Plants program at the Danforth Center is Oct 15th. Excited to identify 5 participants for a 1-year NSF-funded internship. Hands-on research experience in cutting-edge #plantscience, #imaging, #datascience, and more! www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/edu...

Pivot to Plants: Training Program for Plant and Data Science | Danforth Plant Science Center

The Pivot2Plants Fellows Program is a 1-year training program for people interested in pivoting to a career in plant science or data science but have limited research experience.

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ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success @coeplantsuccess.bsky.social · 10d

Join us next week to hear Distinguished Professor Junko Kyozuka explore the evolutionary journey of strigolactones! She will present insights from moss & liverwort studies that reveal clues to their ancestral role in growth regulation 🔗 bit.ly/TPS-JK
#PlantScience

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Wheat Initiative @wheatinitiative.bsky.social · 20d

Your expertise matters. Join a Wheat Initiative Expert Working Group and help shape the future of wheat research globally.
🧠https://www.wheatinitiative.org/expert-working-groups-2
#WheatConnect

Wheat initiative

Our Breeding Exoert Working Group held a webinar and offers everyone intersted to watch the recording. Webinar by Jessie Alt, Global Wheat Lead at Corteva, “Wheat breeding at Corteva”

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Earth BioGenome Project 🌍 @ebpgenome.bsky.social · 28d

🚀🧬 EBP dream team launches the Phase II roadmap to sequence all Eukaryotic life on Earth!
🔥 Hot off the press (2025) 👉http://bit.ly/46ko9cZ

🌍 EBP's vision of sequencing all 1.8 million named eukaryotic species is now within reach—powered by unprecedented global collaboration.

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StuRoy1 @sturoy1.bsky.social · Sep 5

Great to get out of the office and into the field on a Friday morning to harvest tissue from the OzBarley population. This is for our GRDC proof of concept project, looking for new mechanisms for salinity tolerance. @bberger-au.bsky.social.

PhD student Lukas John sampling plant tissue from a barley trial growing in South Australia.

The OzBarley barley diversity panel growing in South Australia

Bettina Berger and Stuart Roy standing in front of the OzBarley barely diversity panel.

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TERN Australia @tern-aus.bsky.social · Sep 5

🔍 #DataDiscovery | New Python Library!
TERN has recenlty launched terndata.flux – a lightweight #Python library designed to make working with TERN eddy covariance flux #data easier than ever!

Explore it now:
📦 PyPI: pypi.org/project/tern...
💻 GitHub: github.com/ternaustrali...

GitHub - ternaustralia/terndata.flux: Provides library function for easy access to flux data in TERN dap server

Provides library function for easy access to flux data in TERN dap server - ternaustralia/terndata.flux

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TERN Australia @tern-aus.bsky.social · Aug 20

📣 Deadline extended!

Join our University of Adelaide team as an Engagement Officer and collaborate with the Australian Government on ecological monitoring protocols for renewable energy impact assessments.

Find out more: careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

#jobalert #monitoring #renewables

Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.

careers.adelaide.edu.au

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Ali Gill @aligill.bsky.social · Jul 28

Pleased to share the fifth and final paper from my PhD - a collaboration with the APPN investigating industrial hemp growth and temporal water use using state-of-the-art phenotyping platforms. 🌿
www.publish.csiro.au/fp/Fulltext/FP24266

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Phenotyping of industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa) genotypes with different growth habits

Industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa) has gained renewed scientific and agricultural interest worldwide as a multi-use, high-value crop, with products spanning textile, clothing, medicinal, food, and cons...

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StuRoy1 @sturoy1.bsky.social · Jul 23

Congratulations to @futurecropsau.bsky.social PhD student Yiting Xie, who has just had his first manuscript accepted in Plant Phenomics. bit.ly/3UrkFP6. Yiting’s work uses images and machine learning to help determine when a wheat plant will flower.

Multi-Modal Few-Shot Learning for Anthesis Prediction of Individual Wheat Plants

Anthesis prediction is crucial for breeding wheat. While current tools provide estimates of average anthesis at the field scale, they fail to address …

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Bioplatforms Australia @bioplatformsaus.bsky.social · Jul 3

🚨 Now open! The NCRIS Synthetic Biology Voucher Scheme offers up to $50K Primary and $25K Secondary matched funding to access world-class SynBio facilities across Australia.

👉Open to researchers, startups & SMEs.
📅Closes 12th of September.

🔗 Info: bioplatforms.com/ncris-synthe...

NCRIS Synthetic Biology Voucher Scheme - Bioplatforms Australia

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Bettina Berger @bberger-au.bsky.social · Jul 4

Sometimes you have to celebrate the little things. 🥳 100,000th plant being characterised on our automated imaging system.

Soil column on conveyor system with barcode number 100,000

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TERN Australia @tern-aus.bsky.social · Jun 19

📊 #jobalert! Are you passionate about transforming complex environmental data into accessible insights? Join TERN as a #DataEngineer and help design and maintain scalable, cloud-based #datainfrastructure that supports national research efforts.

Apply now: uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uqcare...

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WHO @who.int · Jun 14

Today is #WorldBloodDonorDay 🩸

Blood donation is not only a selfless act but also a powerful show of solidarity.

When we #GiveBlood, we help ensure a safe, steady blood supply for everyone in need.

If you’re eligible, consider becoming a regular, voluntary donor. 🔗 bit.ly/GiveBlood2025

Poster for World Blood Donor Day 2025, featuring a large red blood drop in the center with the message: “14 June 2025, World Blood Donor Day. GIVE BLOOD, GIVE HOPE. TOGETHER WE SAVE LIVES.” Surrounding the blood drop are diverse illustrated characters of all ages and backgrounds, including pregnant women, children, healthcare workers, elderly individuals, and people with disabilities, some donating or receiving blood.

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Rüdiger Simon @simonrdg.bsky.social · Jun 4

We are looking for a postdoc with experience in electron microscopy.
mail to [email protected]

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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · May 1

"A teaching and training framework to promote findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) data generation in agriculture"
Excellent, free, online curriculum!! This is so needed.
Please share widely.
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A teaching and training framework to promote findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable data generation in agriculture

Abstract. Advances in agricultural genetic, genomic, and breeding (GGB) technologies generate increasingly large and complex datasets that need to be adequ

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Bettina Berger @bberger-au.bsky.social · May 2

Congratulations, Bipin and team. Looking forward to an interesting read.

Bettina Berger @bberger-au.bsky.social · May 2

Happy Friday #bloomscrolling 🌱

Bettina Berger @bberger-au.bsky.social · Apr 30

We just had a student cancel their 12-months visit with us because they've been waiting for their 408 visa since October and now have to adapt their PhD project.

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Bettina Berger @bberger-au.bsky.social · Apr 30

Still waiting desperately for rain in South Australia, but enjoying the autumn sunshine in the meantime

Urrbrae House and the rose garden at the Waite Campus

Young heron standing next to a small fountain in the Waite rose garden.

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Nature @nature.com · Apr 29

In 100 days in office, US President Donald Trump has destabilized eight decades of government support for science.

This has included terminating more than 1,000 grants in areas such as climate change, cancer, and HIV prevention.

Will US science survive Trump 2.0?

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Bettina Berger @bberger-au.bsky.social · Apr 29

🚨HDRs and ECRs --- if you want to access the OzBarley field trials in 2025, we have some travel support available. 🌱🧪

2025 OzBarley field trial sites open to researchers | Australian Plant Phenomics Network

www.linkedin.com

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Bettina Berger @bberger-au.bsky.social · Apr 27

If we sweep up everything, it'll fill a bucket....a small one.