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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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TERN Australia @tern-aus.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
🧰 Join us for a hands-on #workshop at #UQ R&I Week! We'll cover TERN data, tools, surveys, carbon flux, remote sensing & model-derived products. Talks & demos will teach you data-driven research & publishing aligned with #FAIR & CARE principles. Register: research-support.uq.edu.au/event/sessio...
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TERN Essentials: Navigating Ecosystem Data, Tools, and Services for Research - Hybrid event
Explore TERN data, tools, and services to support data-driven research and FAIR and CARE-aligned data publication.
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Wheat Initiative @wheatinitiative.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Deadline: 19 July! Early Career Researchers in the Durum EWG can apply for the 2026 Durum EWG Travel Awards to support short-term laboratory visits! Apply today 🌾 👉 www.wheatinitiative.org/latest #WheatConnect
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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
#PlantSciJobs 🌱 Postdoctoral Research Associate (x2) and Research Assistant (x2) Dr Edwige Moyroud is seeking 2 Postdocs and 2 Research Assistants to join her team investigating petal patterning Applications close: 5 June: Research Assistant bit.ly/4a32ffK 17 June: Postdoc bit.ly/4dT2LOC
Microscopy images of a petal showing petal patterning developing in the young petals. Around the image is 6-stages of hibiscus development from closed bud to open flower. The flower is plit in two to show one flower with a dark purple bullseye and one flower fully white with no pigment petal patterns.
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Bettina Berger @bberger-au.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Such a great team effort pulling this all together. And great seeing the data being using by others.
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James Lloyd 🧬 @jamespblloyd.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I am super excited to announce that I am recruiting a new post-doc to join my team at UWA & @plants4space.bsky.social to work on plant synthetic biology, with a focus on genome engineering. If you are interested, please apply or reach out to me. external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...
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Prospective staff : Jobs at UWA : The University Of Western Australia
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Wheat Initiative @wheatinitiative.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
IPPN @ippn.bsky.social has exciting news! The 9th International Plant Phenotyping Symposium (IPPS9) is goingto Africa! 🇬🇭 🗓️ Oct 12–16, 2026, Accra, Ghana Hosted by @ippn.bsky.social & @wacci_gh Learn more: ipps9.org #IPPS9 #PlantScience #FoodSecurity
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IPPS2026: Home
The International Plant Phenotyping Symposium is a conference jointly organized by:
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Noah Fahlgren @noahfahlgren.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The @plantcv.bsky.social team is hosting a workshop at the @nappn.bsky.social 2026 conference in Feb. at Michigan State and is able to support the travel of up to 20 participants. Please apply for the workshop and submit an abstract to the conference if you are interested: mailchi.mp/3afecdddf6de...
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PlantCV travel awards for NAPPN 2026
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Dubcovsky Lab @dubcovskylab.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Our Genome Biology paper on wheat spike development integrating single cell and spatial transcriptomics is now published! Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1186/s130... and enjoy the beautiful pictures (including our 44 supplementary figures)! Be sure to check out some of our tools below!
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Bettina Berger @bberger-au.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
📣🧪🌱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...
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Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.
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Bettina Berger @bberger-au.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Bush walk at Hale Conservation Park during orchid time in South Australia #bloomscrolling
Donkey orchidSpider orchidSun orchid - white petalsSun orchid - pink petals
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Bettina Berger @bberger-au.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Bush walk at Hale Conservation Park during orchid time in South Australia #bloomscrolling
Donkey orchidSpider orchidSun orchid - white petalsSun orchid - pink petals
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Noah Fahlgren @noahfahlgren.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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...
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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 · 29/09/2025
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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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Talking Plant Science with Junko Kyozuka. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Step by step evolution of strigolactone signalling pathway Strigolactones (SLs) serve dual functions as hormones that regulate growth and development and as rhizosphere signalling molecules that prom...
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Wheat Initiative @wheatinitiative.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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
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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 · 10/09/2025
🚀🧬 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 · 05/09/2025
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 · 05/09/2025
🔍 #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...
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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 · 20/08/2025
📣 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
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Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.
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Ali Gill @aligill.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
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 @bethloveys.bsky.social @bberger-au.bsky.social
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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 · 23/07/2025
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.
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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 · 04/07/2025
🚨 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...
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NCRIS Synthetic Biology Voucher Scheme - Bioplatforms Australia
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Bettina Berger @bberger-au.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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 · 19/06/2025
📊 #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 · 14/06/2025
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 · 04/06/2025
We are looking for a postdoc with experience in electron microscopy. mail to ruediger.simon@hhu.de
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Mary Williams @PlantTeaching @plantteaching.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
"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. academic.oup.com/database/art...
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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 · 02/05/2025
Happy Friday #bloomscrolling 🌱
Yellow eucalyptus flowers
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Bettina Berger @bberger-au.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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 CampusYoung heron standing next to a small fountain in the Waite rose garden.
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Nature @nature.com · 29/04/2025
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 · 29/04/2025
🚨HDRs and ECRs --- if you want to access the OzBarley field trials in 2025, we have some travel support available. 🌱🧪
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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 · 27/04/2025
If you ever wanted to turn your balcony cladding into mulch, I've got three efficient workers I can recommend. #birds #Australia
3 sulphur crested cockatoos peeling away wooden cladding2 sulphur crested cockatoos sitting on balcony ledge, chewing on wooden cladding
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Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS) @asps-oz.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Hi Bluesky 👋 ! The Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS) promotes #PlantScience in Australia, and provides professional contact within our community. Tag us using #plants #ozplants
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Bettina Berger @bberger-au.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
A pallet cleanser for your doom scrolling from our greenhouses 🌱🧪
Pine seedlings in trayBarley spikes in a sample holder for Xray scanningA new leaf growing on a grape vineWheat plants in a greenhouse
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Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) @ardc.edu.au · 14/04/2025
🔎Find the data you need with ARDC Research Data Australia 🔢 220,000 datasets from over 100 trusted Australian institutions 🔎 discover datasets across a vast range of fields 🤝 access descriptions and links to data 🔄 reuse data for secondary research Start exploring today researchdata.edu.au
Research Data Australia: find, access and reuse data for research. 
Open access data 
Datasets from a vast range of fields, from ecology to engineering
220,000+ datasets
100+ research organisations, government agencies and cultural institutions 
visit researchdata.edu.au >
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Wheat Initiative @wheatinitiative.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Our Expert Working Group on Wheat Phenotyping is organising a Wheat Field Phenotyping Demo Day! If you have the chance to travel to Italy - check all info here: buff.ly/z24CKra Registration is mandatory, registrants will be informed about further details.
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Bettina Berger @bberger-au.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Watching Senator Cory Booker live speaking up for sciences. May his voice hold out for many more hours. 🧪
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Two fantastic positions in #plantscience: A junior AND a senior group leader position at the Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), part of @viennabiocenter.bsky.social. Generous core funding, fantastic plant and non-plant colleagues, all in a very livable and beautiful city. www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/join-us/...
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Senior Group Leader Position
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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Calling all 🧪 scientists who need a little support in their writing 💻! I’ll be helping lead a writing group along with Ellen Kuwana and Georgina To'a Salazar. Read below for more information, and a link to register. Let me know if you have any questions, pls reskeet #plantscience #sciencewriting
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Bettina Berger @bberger-au.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
🚨Our team is hiring!!! If you are an image and data researcher, we might have the right job for you. Join a diverse team and apply your skills to address the big questions of climate resilience in agriculture and food security. careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
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Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.
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Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) @ardc.edu.au · 20/03/2025
Learn about @biosecuritycommons.bsky.social at a webinar hosted by Australia's Chief Plant Protection Officer, Dr Gabrielle Vivian-Smith! 📅 Tues 25 March, 2pm AEDT ✍ Add the event to your calendar via this link: ardc.edu.au/event/austra... #NCRISimpact #biosecurity
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Australian Chief Plant Protection Officer Webinar: Biosecurity Commons | ARDC
Learn about Biosecurity Commons - an open-access, cloud-based platform for modelling and analysing biosecurity risk and response.
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Björn Usadel @usadellab.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
We are looking for a 2y postdoc in multi-omics data integration & analysis for Camelina sativa (an oilseed crop, close to Arabidopsis). Work with many international partners and profiting from our intensive IT and tool infrastructure. Please ReBluesky www.fz-juelich.de/en/careers/j... #plantjobs
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Research Associate / Postdoctoral Researcher - Data Integration and Omics Data Analysis
Data is the new resource of the 21st century, and its availability seems boundless. If you`re passionate about contributing to the establishment of a crucial segment in the data relationship life cycl...
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Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) @ardc.edu.au · 14/03/2025
📢 Have your say on the future of Australia’s research infrastructure The Australian Government Department of Education has released a survey to support the development of the 2026 National Research Infrastructure Roadmap. The survey closes 19 March 2025. Learn more > lnkd.in/gzxFayjU
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Mike Haydon 🌱 🌾 🧬 ⏰ @hikemaydon.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I'm looking for a postdoc to work for 3 years on the function of #circadian clock proteins in wheat. I also have a full-funded PhD opportunity. #plantscience Postdoc applications close on 2 April. jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91954...
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Details : Research Fellow in Plant Biochemistry : The University of Melbourne
Careers at The University of Melbourne
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Bettina Berger @bberger-au.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
BARLEY RESEARCHERS – apply to access the 2025 OzBarley field trial sites in WA, SA, NSW and QLD. Study phenotypic traits or methods on ~220 elite barley lines. More info here www.plantphenomics.org.au/2025-ozbarle... #NCRISimpact #GRDC
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2025 OzBarley field trial sites open to researchers
Crop researchers are invited to access the 2025 OzBarley field trial sites in WA, SA, NSW and Queensland to study phenonmic traits and validate…
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Australian BioCommons @ausbiocommons.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
We're addressing DNA sequencing data submission challenges at a global scale through a range of activities including training workshops and roundtable discussions. You're invited to meet with the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) team when they visit next month: www.biocommons.org.au/news/ena-act...
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Addressing DNA sequencing data submission challenges at global scale: your invitation to learn from the experts — Australian BioCommons
A range of special events for Australian researchers will focus on streamlining the data submission processes for various data types, addressing common challenges, and providing best-practice guidance...
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Australian National Fabrication Facility @anff.org.au · 04/03/2025
🌱 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘴 𝘈𝘮𝘪𝘥𝘴𝘵 𝘖𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘞𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴 🌊 Exciting news from the world of sustainable agriculture! UniSA researchers have created a solar-powered, self-irrigating, vertical sea farm system that can grow crops without additional clean water irrigation. #NCRIS #ANFF_SA #AgTech #Solar #greenhouse #GreenTech
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The future of farming on ocean waves - Australian National Fabrication Facility Limited
The future of farming on ocean waves University of South Australia researchers’ floating vertical sea farms harness the sun and sea to power self-sustainable greenhouses and combat growing global shor...
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
ALL RESEARCHERS ❗️Speak up❗️ if you have opinions, critique or ideas on proposed changes to Australian Research Council grants. Discuss & distill ideas, sure, but to be considered you MUST make a submission ▶️ submit.dese.gov.au/jfe/form/SV_... It’s EASY! Answer these questions in the form👇
Screenshot from the ARC Board’s Discussion Paper on the Policy Review of the National Competitive Grants Program (page 33) listing the questions the standard submission form asks you to address. Black text on white background with a heading “Having your say” on dark blue background at the top.
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jesshyles.bsky.social @jesshyles.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
A great program to develop International collaborations in grains research! Please share with your early and mid-career network
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GRDC International Visiting Fellowships Program 2025/26
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Bettina Berger @bberger-au.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
One day after the German federal election, I finally received my postal vote papers. Hopefully rules will be changed for future elections to allow citizens abroad to cast their vote #Bundestagswahl
Postal vote envelope for german federal election, posted on 7 Feb
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Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) @ardc.edu.au · 17/02/2025
Australia’s bushland has a voice. But as #biodiversity continues to decline, nature’s voice is changing. Discover how #researchers use sound to monitor Australia's native #wildlife w/ @openecoacoustics.bsky.social 🔉Read the case study: ow.ly/Ca8n50UZWU8 @charlessturtuni.bsky.social #ecoacoustics
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Using the Power of Sound to Tackle Australia’s Biodiversity Crisis | ARDC
Discover how the Open Ecoacoustics platform is helping researchers monitor biodiversity in Australia through the power of sound, AI and open data to protect wildlife and ecosystems.
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