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Ginette Alexander

@green-goddess.bsky.social
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Tree health and training for The Tree Health Centre at The Yorkshire Arboretum (York, UK) 🌳🌲🍄‍🟫🪲🪳🦠🧫

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Centre for Forest Protection @forest-protection.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
@actionoak.bsky.social have published their Annual Report for 2024-25 ahead of #NationalTreeWeek. The report features a range of research including on: ☁️ How elevated CO2 levels will impact our oaks 🌱 How defence priming could protect seedlings ➕ and more! See below for more 👇 #ActionOak
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Action Oak Annual Report 2024-25 — Action Oak
Action Oak launches the ‘Action Oak Report 2024-25’ ahead of National Tree Week 2025 I am pleased to announce the publication of the fourth Action Oak Annual Report, the biggest to date.  The ...
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Ginette Alexander @green-goddess.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
At the @forest-protection.bsky.social #BritainsForestFuture conference. Keynote speaker Prof. Bianca Ambrose-Oji talked about the interface between research and practice - highlighting the need for more development of research to facilitate practical implementation of best practice. #PlantHealth 🌳
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British Mycological Society @handle.invalid · 11/09/2025
For this year's #UKFungusDay, Ginette Alexander (Head of Tree Health and Training) writes about how tricky tree troubles are tackled at The Yorkshire Arboretum. 🌳 Read Ginette's blog on Hidden invaders - fungal foes in our trees: www.ukfungusday.co.uk/hiddeninvaders #fungi #trees
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Hidden invaders | UK Fungus Day
By Ginette Alexander, Head of Tree Health and Training, The Yorkshire Arboretum
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Ginette Alexander @green-goddess.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
It was great to host the guys from @anthropocenebio.bsky.social last week and talk to them about the work we do at #TheTreeHealthCentre to help protect our trees. Keep in touch 🌳
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Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity (@anthropocenebio.bsky.social)
World-leading interdisciplinary research into the complexities of biodiversity gains and losses in the Anthropocene, funded by The Leverhulme Trust and based at the University of York. #LCAB
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Ginette Alexander @green-goddess.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Anytime @cobwebdr.bsky.social and thanks for letting our #TreeHealthVolunteers tag along for the experience. #PlantHealth
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Ginette Alexander @green-goddess.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
@forestresearchuk.bsky.social @cobwebdr.bsky.social
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IPSN @ipsn-bgci.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
📢 Call for Abstracts! Special Issue in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change focused on innovations in plant health, climate resilience, policy, and public engagement—through the power of sentinel plants🌱🪲🦠 🗓️ Submit yours (deadline 8 June): www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
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Frontiers | Public Arboreta, Genetic Trials, and Reciprocal Plantings: Sentinels for Early Detection of Non-native Insects and Pathogens and Protecting Tree Genetic Resources
Public arboreta are botanical gardens devoted to trees that often preserve species outside their native range. Along with other established ex situ resources...
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Ginette Alexander @green-goddess.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
📣 Citizen Science opportunity ⬇️
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Royal Society of Biology @rsb.org.uk · 19/05/2025
If you are, or know of, an apprentice working within the UK bioscience sector then apply for the RSB Apprentice of the Year Award! The award recognises apprentices' contributions to their teams & the wider bioscience community. www.rsb.org.uk/get-involved... #apprenticeoftheyear #apprenticeships
A woman using a microscope. Text says Applications now open. Apprentice of the Year Award. Deadline 8 July 2025
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Ginette Alexander @green-goddess.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
🚨 #CitizenScience opportunity supporting AOD research. #PlantHealth
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Ginette Alexander @green-goddess.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Encouraging to hear from Neil about the successes in his current #OPM project so far.
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Ginette Alexander @green-goddess.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Nice to hear about what’s happening at CFP today at #ActionOakpartnerEvent @rbgkew.bsky.social
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Ginette Alexander @green-goddess.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
In interesting talk from Dan updating us with APHAs latest research in grey squirrel management @rbgkew.bsky.social
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Ginette Alexander @green-goddess.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Great to hear Sara’s presentation today at @rbgkew.bsky.social for the #actionoakpartnerevent25
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Ginette Alexander @green-goddess.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
#PlantHealthWeek 🌱
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IPSN @ipsn-bgci.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
#PlantHealthWeek: Survey key pests and pathogens! 🔬🦠 Explore IPSN’s new sampling protocols—developed with global partners —for step-by-step guidance, consistent sample collection & early detection support 📚 Download & put them in practice today: bgci.org/ipsn-samplin...
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IPSN @ipsn-bgci.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
#PlantHealthWeek: Boost collection biosecurity!🛡️🌱 Promote best practices and keep staff & visitors informed with FREE training, info & signage resources from @green-goddess.bsky.social at the TreeHealthCenter & IPSN Raise biosecurity awareness & protect plants! 👉 www.bgci.org/ipsn-publica...
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Ginette Alexander @green-goddess.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Delighted to welcome this years @harperadamsuni.bsky.social Plant pathology MSc students to The Tree Health Centre at The Yorkshire Arboretum this morning for the longhorn beetle outbreak workshop. #PlantHealthProfessionals🥼#PlantHealthWeek🌱 # PlantPathology🔬 #TreeHealth🌳 @cobwebdr.bsky.social
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Mike Long @mikealanlong.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
A great (and busy) day of #PlantHealthWeek getting colleagues at Fera Science Ltd. to make fungi and spores on our stall to show them the wonders of Mycology. They made some superb models! 🍄👩‍🎨
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Ginette Alexander @green-goddess.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
#PlantHealthWeek 🌱
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The Tree Council @thetreecouncil.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
It's #PlantHealthWeek and this year's focus is about appreciating the value plants provide to our society, understanding that we all have a responsibility and a role to play in protecting and keeping them healthy. 🌱🌳 #NationalHedgerowWeek
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Ginette Alexander @green-goddess.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
📣 This #PlantHealthWeek we’re launching a new set of plant & tree health resources, created to support implementation of good biosecurity practices in botanic gardens and arboreta internationally. 🔗Download FREE: www.yorkshirearboretum.org/hub-print @ipsn-bgci.bsky.social #TreeHealthCentre #THC
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Ginette Alexander @green-goddess.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
📣 Exhibit A: Michael Long PHP MRSB - most excellent role model for anyone looking at mycolgy 🍄diagnostics 🔍 and plant health 🌿career development 🤓 #PlantHealthWeek
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Ginette Alexander @green-goddess.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
#PlantHealthWeek 🌱
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Ginette Alexander @green-goddess.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
#PlantHealthWeek 🌱
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IPSN @ipsn-bgci.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
#PlantHealthWeek: Stay ahead of emerging plant health threats!🛡️🐛🦠 Support your garden’s biosecurity by sharing IPSN's Organism Alert Posters🚨 Designed to raise awareness and support the rapid detection of new and emerging risks ⬇️Download and📍display them! www.bgci.org/resources/bg...
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Ginette Alexander @green-goddess.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
#PlantHealthWeek 🌱
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Ginette Alexander @green-goddess.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
#planthealthweek
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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
🚨 Calling all undergrads! Looking for a paid placement year in science, conservation, or curation? 🌿 Kew’s 12-month Sandwich Internships are now live - 6 incredible roles working with Kew experts and real collections 🗓️ Deadline: 11 May 🔗 careers.kew.org/stud-appr-in...
Eucalyptus extract in funnel
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Ginette Alexander @green-goddess.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Surely the cutest bird 🐧
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Simple neuroscience-based hack for anxiety: 🌿go & be in a place with plants & trees for 15 mins 🌳You'll inhale plant oils(phytoncides) from foliage 📉your stress hormone(cortisol) will drop significantly Many of our brain pathways evolved to motivate us to forage for plants-they're still very active
Floral garden finds in May
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Ginette Alexander @green-goddess.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
📣 excellent opportunity at Kew 🌿
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Ginette Alexander @green-goddess.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I had the pleasure of meeting Carrie last week - a lovely lady and I look forward to hearing about her work at Kew in the coming years 🍄‍🟫☀️
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Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
🌿 Yesterday, we were honoured to welcome Dr Cécile Ndjebet, Cameroonian environmental activist & social forester, as she received the Kew International Medal in recognition of her incredible work championing women’s rights in forest management 🧵👇 (1/3)
17th Kew International Medal winner Dr Cécile Ndjebet sticks a barcode on a herbarium specimen
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Ginette Alexander @green-goddess.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Job opportunity at Kew 🌳
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Ginette Alexander @green-goddess.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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AoB Plants @aobp.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
🌱Exciting Opportunity! AoB PLANTS is looking for a new Chief Editor as Professor Tom Buckley steps down this summer. This is your chance to lead a top-tier, open-access plant science journal. ✅ Download full job details 👉 wp.me/pdRZhH-lJv Apply by 17 March!
AoB PLANTS is looking for a new Chief Editor as Professor Tom Buckley steps down this summer. This is your chance to lead a top-tier, open-access plant science journal.
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Ginette Alexander @green-goddess.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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Ginette Alexander @green-goddess.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Excited to be nominated for an Educate North Award for our virtual reality #GreatSpruceBarkBeetle workshop funded by Defra. Info here: www.yorkshirearboretum.org/new-page-3 Well done team 🤜🤛 @Cobwebdr.bsky.social Stacy Vipas Wolf Wright Dominic Ennis Adam Tunnicliffe Krystal Tupman #TreeHealth
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Charles Lane @cobwebdr.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Early symptoms of Great Spruce Bark beetle - look out for resin drips and resin tube exit holes often seen below side branches. An #observatree priority pest www.observatree.org.uk/pests-and-di... @bertolicus.bsky.social @green-goddess.bsky.social
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The Global Plant Council @globalplantgpc.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Research has developed a leaf-mounted sensor to monitor #planthealth & stress. Device tracks changes in leaf color, w real-time data on #plant conditions, enables farmers to address stress-prone areas efficiently, boosting #crop yields & resource management. buff.ly/40nSIdC...
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New Smart Agriculture Technology for Monitoring Plants - The Global Plant Council
Researchers have developed a small, leaf-mounted sensor to monitor plant health and stress. This waterproof, Wi-Fi-enabled device tracks changes in leaf color, providing real-time data on plant condit...
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Ginette Alexander @green-goddess.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Calling all botanic gardens and arboreta…🌳🪧📋
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Ginette Alexander @green-goddess.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Chapel FM program talking about: Everyone’s a Seed - a #Defra funded engagement project I’m involved with that uses creative writing to explore #planthealth with community groups in and around Leeds, UK. #biosecurity #treehealth @cobwebdr.Baku.social www.chapelfm.co.uk/elfm-player/...
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EVERYONE’S A SEED
Creative writing from a project at Leeds Trinity University which uses writing to connect people with issues of plant health within their local environment.
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Ginette Alexander @green-goddess.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Let me know if you want to be in it… go.bsky.app/TvMnPHW
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EPPO @epponews.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Curious to hear about the work of EPPO in forestry? 🌳🌲 Have a look at the short report of the recent Meeting of the Panel on Quarantine Pests for Forestry: www.eppo.int/MEETINGS/202... #planthealth #forest
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29th Meeting of the Panel on Quarantine Pests for Forestry
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
UKCEH oversees the alert system for Britain which enables people to report potential sightings of a number of priority invasive non-native species, including the yellow-legged hornet. www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/... 3/3 @ukladybirds.bsky.social
Asian Hornet Watch app with image of Asian hornet and text Think you've seen an Asian hornet? Check our app for ID help and use it to send in your sightingsSide by side images of Yellow-legged (Asian) hornet and European hornet under the title Report an Asian hornet sighting with text describing differences, plus logos of UKCEH, App Store and Google Play
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IPSN @ipsn-bgci.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
🙌We had another productive UK IPSN meeting last month. Thank you to the #planthealth team at the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh for hosting us.🌲 And the tour of the gardens was fun and super interesting. 🤓
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IPSN @ipsn-bgci.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
🌍 Today is #WorldSoilDay 2024. The theme this year is ‘Caring for Soils: Measure, Monitor, Manage’. Loads of useful events & knowledge sharing taking place online. 🌱 Managing healthy soils is vital for #Planthealth and #Biosecurity. Follow @fao.org to learn more and get involved.
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Charles Lane @cobwebdr.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Classic symptoms of Phytophthora (most probably P. alni) - tar spots and epicormic shoot growth @ipsn-bgci.bsky.social @green-goddess.bsky.social @smallwoods.bsky.social @arbassociation.bsky.social @wtscotsocial.bsky.social @bspp.bsky.social #observatree
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Buzz & Scuttle @buzzandscuttle.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Meet some of nature’s waste disposal experts. Do you know that an army of insects is busy cleaning and tidying; processing all kinds of waste, composting dead plants & fertilising soil. The world would be in a real mess without them. Please avoid using pesticides which may harm them!
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