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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations @fao.org · 22/09/2026

Human, animal, plant and environmental health are all inextricably linked. This means that to address global health issues, like #AntimicrobialResistance, we must collaborate across all sectors. A #OneHealth approach is key.

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Nichola Hawkins @nicholahawkins.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Very sad news. As a Wye graduate I have many happy memories of ecology field trips. In the years since, our paths often crossed within the botanical community due to Dr M's tireless efforts to spread the love of plants: long may that legacy continue. 🌱

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Nichola Hawkins @nicholahawkins.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It's always wonderful to have a chance to get children interested in plants, but worrying that for the first time in years of running this activity I couldn't find a single daisy in flower!

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The Wild Flower Society @wildflowersociety.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

If you're near Fleet in Hampshire today, you can find us at the Nature Discovery Day at Edenbridge Country Park.

A gazebo at an outdoor event with Wild Flower Society display materials and a simple wild flower quiz with plant specimens

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Nichola Hawkins @nicholahawkins.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

This week I visited Teagasc Oak Park for an Aerobiomics-AMR project meeting, and a tour of some of their field trials- a big yellow rust year but the Septoria is starting to take off too now after some recent rain.

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Nichola Hawkins @nicholahawkins.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

New article from @theccdm.bsky.social on using NanoPore sequencing to detect fungicide resistance alleles in airborne spores, as part of our our joint Aerobiomics-AMR project with Wageningen University and Research, Teagasc, INRAE and the University of Warmia and Mazury.

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Nichola Hawkins @nicholahawkins.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Before I go home after #IWC2026Bologna, a visit to Bologna Botanic Garden with displays on food plants, crop wild relatives and plants of the future.

A display of plants in a raised bed including wild rye and wheat relatives. A sign behind reads "The ancestors of food"

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Nichola Hawkins @nicholahawkins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Not technically admissible for #WildFlowerHour as it's not in the UK but I did spot some #CabbageFamily cuckoo-flower in Germany this afternoon!

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Nichola Hawkins @nicholahawkins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Back in Friedrichroda for the 21st Reinhardsbrunn Symposium! Looking forward to four days discussing all things fungicides and resistance.

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Nichola Hawkins @nicholahawkins.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Two pictures for the #WildFlowerHour #CowslipChallenge: in Histon, Cambridge on Friday and in Doddington, Kent today.

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Nichola Hawkins @nicholahawkins.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Catherine Harries from AHDB discusses our recent SDHI sensitivity testing results and what it means for resistance management on this week's The AG Show podcast. youtu.be/kL3aEu1-I0M?...

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Spring calving update, fungicide resistance explained and a pork pie without pastry?!

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Nichola Hawkins @nicholahawkins.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Signs of Spring around the @niab-uk.bsky.social Park Farm site despite the stormy weather today: the first Cowslips flowering, and Bee orchid rosettes starting to appear.

A rosette of orchid leaves growing in the ground among grass

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Nichola Hawkins @nicholahawkins.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Seeing a lot of Albugo candida "white rust" (actually an oomycete, not a basidiomycete fungus like other rusts) on Shepherd's purse around here at the moment #WildPlantDisease

Shepherd's purse inflorescence covered in white rust

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Niab @niab-uk.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Niab's Charlotte Nellist, Kostya Kanyuka and Nichola Hawkins presenting at yesterday's AHDB UKCPVS stakeholder meeting. Charlotte and Kostya introduced updates from 2025, before Nichola discussed fungicide resistance status in cereals. For more on the UKCPVS see ow.ly/JMjN50XWabj

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Isobel Stanton @istanton.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

🚨New #PhD #adverts alert🚨 I currently have two PhD studentships being advertised on environmental #AMR ⬇️ More being advertised soon 👀 @ukceh.bsky.social @ukceh-moleco.bsky.social

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Association of Applied Biologists @aabiologists.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

A fab bunch of talks for Session 1 Disease Management in Practice #PPATH2025 🌾 Helen Bates @niab-uk.bsky.social 🥔 Ashleigh Holmes @hutton.ac.uk 🧬 Aimee Fowkes - Fera x @newcastleuni.bsky.social 🍓 Avice Hall @herts.ac.uk

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Nichola Hawkins @nicholahawkins.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Sea couch #SeedHeads, some infected with ergot fungus. On the sand dunes at Bridgwater Bay. #WildFlowerHour

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Nichola Hawkins @nicholahawkins.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I always enjoy getting the chance to go out botanising in the field with the @wildflowersociety.bsky.social . This morning's plants included Silver cinquefoil Potentilla argentea, and the stunning hybrid goat's-beard Tragopogon x mirabilis.

A hybrid goat's-beard flower with purple outer rays and yellow centre

A silver cinquefoil plant, showing the silver downy underside of the leaves

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Nichola Hawkins @nicholahawkins.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Ash flower galls, caused by a mite, Acerina fraxinivora. A heavy infestation like this will reduce seed production but won't kill the tree.

An ash tree branch with some seeds and some rough brown galls.

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Nichola Hawkins @nicholahawkins.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

A great day hearing from other plant-related research groups around Cambridge.

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Nichola Hawkins @nicholahawkins.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

This week I've been in France for a project meeting of our JPI-AMR project, Aerobiomics-AMR. Between meetings, we saw one of the Cyclone spore traps in action, visited Arvalis field trials with very high levels of brown rust, and stayed in the lovely town of St. Quentin.

Wheat plants heavily infected with brown rust

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Jake Dalzell @bitheolaidhe.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

For the past few months I've been working on bringing to life something that I think is really needed: a field guide to plant pathogens (focusing on fungi and oomycetes). It has gotten to the point where I feel I can share it publically - read more at irishplants.org/blog/2025/03... ! #FungiFriends

screenshot of the home page of the Field Guide to Plant Pathogens

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Nichola Hawkins @nicholahawkins.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Fungal antimicrobial resistance: online mini-symposium, March 27th. Cutting-edge genomics & fungal AMR breakthroughs with world-leading experts (and me!)

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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I am very excited that @target-amr.bsky.social and the Fungal AMR One Health network (www.fungalamr.org) are organising an online mini-symposium on Fungal AMR Genomics on 25 March 1-4 pm GMT. Please sign up here! www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/jo...

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Tackling AMR Together: Insights from the Genomics & Fungal ONE Health UKRI Transdisciplinary Networks Online Mini-symposium: 27 Mar 25 – TargetAMR

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Nichola Hawkins @nicholahawkins.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Spring must be on the way, I found #theWinter10 just walking to the shops. Red deadnettle, white deadnettle, daisy, dandelion, groundsel, common field speedwell, green alkanet, shepherd's purse, chickweed, storksbill. #WildFlowerHour

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Nichola Hawkins @nicholahawkins.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Experimental evolution under alternating conditions gave rise to "localized hypermutation", showing experimentally how two-speed genomes could evolve...

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Nichola Hawkins @nicholahawkins.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Egret spotted on the @niab-uk.bsky.social Cambridge trial ground today.

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Nichola Hawkins @nicholahawkins.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Brilliant talk by @sandyknapp.bsky.social at @bsbibotany.bsky.social conference on the importance of taxonomic botany for food security (among many other things): quantifying evolutionary rates and adaptive potential in crops requires a detailed phylogeny of wild relatives for comparative studies.

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Nichola Hawkins @nicholahawkins.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

So I finally joined 🦋 during the train journey to London for the @bsbibotany.bsky.social British and Irish Botany Conference. Lovely to see a full house of botanists at the Natural History Museum.

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