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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💚
@rgleadow.bsky.social
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Plant scientist studying how climate change affects plant toxicity (#cyanide). Born 314ppm.
Interested in science, tech, plants. #MECFS ally #botanist 🌾🪴🧪🌱🌿💉

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Ran into my neice at the International Day of Women and Girls in STEMM event organised by the Monash AthenaSwan advisory group. Maybe having a mad 🤪 scientist for an aunty has helped her pursue her work
Panel of 5 women leaders from medicine, engineering, IT and science on chairs on raised Dias with slide of them behind and an Athena Swan banner Left - you get women with fair hair; right older woman with brown hair. Both smiling.
February 11, 2026 at 5:41 AM
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Steve Long’s legacy of PhD students Steve>Colin>Marjorie>Sophie - I suggested they pose like models (left) given they did modelling - only Steve was up for it. At @sebiology.bsky.social Edinburgh, 2023
Four please standing in a line, 2 women, 2 men all smiling , turned slightly towards the camera. Steve long on the right has one hand on his hip in a modelling pose. The rest look a bit bemused 2 women, 2 men standing in a line (increasing age from L to R) , all smiling , turned slightly towards the camera. Hands folded relaxed in front of them. All with conference name takes . Plain black background. Steve right- beaming.
February 7, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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Cracker of a day in Melbourne #MyGarden
Bright blue blue sky fringed with leaves of various trees
February 6, 2026 at 3:27 AM
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Official version of our latest paper is out on Reproductive investment in native and invasive populations of Pittosporum undulatum👇. Here we are collecting some of the data. I lost my car keys that day. Ben found them when revisiting the site. #Trees #InviasiveSpecies #FieldWork
Two people in blue raincoats, smiling, in the rain with Pittosporum and eucalypt trees behind
January 29, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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Shut the windows - air filters work!
Air purifier glowing green - reading 22
January 24, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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Lots of smoke in the air from the bushfires today
Top view of HEPA air purifier glowing red, with 97 on it - also indicating I need to change the filter
January 24, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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Passed this beautiful Corymbia along the Blackburn ‘main drain’ track 🌳
Spreading Eucalypt canopy with smooth pink branches against a strong blue sky, sunny and a few fluffy white clouds
January 22, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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Me in Greenland 2017 in simpler times - near Illulisat. What a beautiful place
Women in purple jacket crouching near purple flowers with icebergs behind , sunshine and blue skies
January 18, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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Time to get start thinking about getting those papers ready for the special issue on Poisonous Plants in Annals of Botany.🪴☠️ @annbot.bsky.social
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Blue salnum flower with yellow reproductive structures against a blue sky
January 13, 2026 at 5:40 AM
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Snap
Air filter with orange light abc orange tree and some other numbers
January 10, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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I hadn’t noticed that before. It doesn’t seem to fix the problem
Abbrechen. Antworten Eleanor Fielding writes : I switch between languages frequently Two things. If you start writing in English you should get a box which says "are you typi... and my l Post says ‘thanks’
January 4, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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Saw these lovely grass trees under stunted mess mate (Eucalyptus obliqua) on the Surf Coast walk near Anglesea, Vic (Xanthorea australis unless re named ) #plants
Clumps of what looks like tufts of sword grass on short trunks , two with large flowers spikes , in sun filtered through branches of stunted gnarled trees - blue blue sky above
January 4, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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Fabulous performance of Handle’s Messiah by the MSO last night in Hamer Hall. What amazing music #Melbourne 🎶
Tiered stage with choir orchestra standing in front 4 soloists and conductor preparing to bow
December 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Our strelitzia nicolai is flowering again this year #MyGarden
Giant banan-like bird of paradise flowers about 30 cm Long - brown and white - huge leaves with leaves from English elm Behind
December 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Can we breed cassava for low cyanide? Hear from veteran Hernan Celebos in the latest International Safe Cassava Network webinar hosted by @globalplantgpc.bsky.social #TheISCN #cassava #konzo 🌾🧪🌱⚕️
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Head shot of smiling bearded man in panama hat in from of cassava leaves in a circle. Inset circle of cassava tubers, leaves and flour
December 10, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Planet of the Apes final scene is poignant
Final scene from planet of the apes - distraught man on all 4s in ocean as it breaks on the beach - top of Statue of Liberty sticking out of sand , woman with horse standing to right. He’s saying ‘you did it!’ Referring to Annihilation of earth by humans
December 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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The Day After Tomorrow
Poster for the 20 year old movie The day after tomorrow’ Image of Statue of Liberty buried in ice
November 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Must be nearly December - the oak leaf hydrangeas are just starting (right) and the scent from the Murraya hedge (left) is heavenly. The recent rain has helped them along #Flowers
Small white flowers 2 am across in clusters with dense green and yellow tinged leaves (double size of box leaves) A spray of white hydrangea flowers ~20 cm long - a looser and longer inflorescence that normal hydrangeas, large oak shaped leaves against a stone wall and concrete path fringed with brachycomb seas side daisies
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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As we enter the festive season, why not play Covid Bingo? This will make catching up with the family so much fun, or even catching it. (Apologies to whoever created this - I can't find the attribution- if it's you, let me know in the comments)
Covid Bingo - Kids don’t really get it much - and if they do they don’t get LongCovid - I’m so cross the supermarket doesn’t provide sanitiser anymore - Covid spoken of in past tense - It’s only really old people that die - I don’t want old people to die of Covid but it’s not worth it [protecting them]; It was terrible when you couldn’t visit dying relatives; The risk of getting it from them wasn’t worth the isolation - In all the time of lockdowns I didn’t know anyone who got it [derr! That was the point] - There isn’t much Covid around anymore - I don’t know anyone who got Long Covid [she does, coz I know them too] - It wasn’t worth it - It’s not worth it
November 22, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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More talks by researchers desperately trying to find solutions to maintain crop production in face of climate change ☘️🌿🍃🌾🪴🔥
Ian Godwin introducing session with title slide : 24. Harnessing Genetic Resources for Sustainable Crop Productivity in a Changing Climate Chair - Prof Ian Godwin Dr Sally Norton - 396 Dr Victor Papin - 92 Ms Ezinne Okorie - 13 Prof Michael Udvardi - 90 Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research Au Ai TROPAG.COM.AU
November 12, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Always — not so good in this room that’s had people in it all day
AirSpot co2 meter reading 1139 ppm - against a purple background of the TropAg conference bag
November 12, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Getting the #SciComm band back together for the last ? postgrad course with Peter Spinks, Graham Phillips and Michael Brown @monashuniversity.bsky.social @monashscience.bsky.social
4 people sitting at a table outside with drinks - Left to right Peter Spinks ex Age, Graham Phillips ex ABC, Ros Gleadow, Michael Brown, Monash Physics
November 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Great line up of Aussie artists at Rochford winery yesterday topped off by Crowded House (who we’ve adopted from across the ditch) - afternoon was big too hot and v sunny but like most has a big hat, sunscreen and drank lots of water
Big crowd in summer clothes mostly on deck chairs in evening light with stage (crowded house with red ‘tree’ background in light), Neil Finn on a screen to felt, big poles with speakers SHOW TIMES*: 1:00pm Gates open 1:20 - 1:50pm JAE LAFFER 2:10 - 2:50pm THE WAIFS 3:20 - 4:10pm MARK SEYMOUR with VIKA & LINDA 4:40 - 5:30pm THE CHURCH 6:00 - 6:50pm ANGUS & JULIA STONE 7:20 - 8:50pm CROWDED HOUSE 9:00pm Event finish
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Pollies look after themselves: Parliament House is so well ventilated - only 550 ppm CO2 in a room with dozens of people. If only this were true for all public spaces we’d be much healthier #AusPol
A hand holding a small black Airspot CO2 meter - half in a black hand bag - reading 0500 with Now CO2 ppm below. This machine over reads at the low end so it was probably even less
October 31, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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It always helps to look up - streaky ice crystal clouds and fluffy ones with rain drops #MyGarden
A bright blue sky with streaky whiteice crystal clouds and a few small fluffy white rain drops and a bit of the top of a spotted gum at bottom right
October 23, 2025 at 3:38 AM