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Retired Prof in Molecular Plant Pathology: Emeritus in Everyway: enjoys life voraciously: enjoys beer: enjoys family & 2 dogs even more than beer(!) L'pool FC through thick & thin

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 6h
UK research and innovation funding ‘should be devolved’. Some regional research successes “almost completely neglected” by government, warns R&D policy expert @richardaljones.bsky.social www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
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UK research and innovation funding ‘should be devolved’ - Research Professional News
Some regional research successes “almost completely neglected” by government, warns R&D policy expert Richard Jones
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 7h
The English are very confused about my wee Norn Iron. Hope this helps.
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 7h
As well an amazing two and half years old grandson we now have a beautiful granddaughter his little sister. Caitlin May Foster. I really enjoy being a Gramps. Much better than being a Prof.
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The latest sauce has been appropriately labelled.
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The hottest sauce yet. Made with one of world’s hottest a Carolina Reaper. It even looks evil. I suffered a bit trying its neat raw power. Carolina Reaper is about x500 -1000 hotter than the jalapeno on your pizza.
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So who agrees with this list. How many have you watched. 📺
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
First time growing these weirdos. We think we’re going to make Kohlrabigemüse with them. You’ll probably have to google that, we had to.
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Read and be 😱 very 😱😱😱 x.com/hilbertspaes...
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Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess) on X
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just love the colour of this variety. Lilac wand 🍆
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Jason Arday, ex-Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row, found dead Please please everyone I’ve experienced this up close and personal. There is always a way out, no matter how bad it gets. I just wish we had better ways of showing this. 😢 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead
His family said it was "in shock to have lost this amazing father, partner, brother, uncle and son" after the academic was found dead in London on Friday.
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Blimey !! 8 years ago today !! When I was still pretending to be a scientist 🙃
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The “egg” is out for the first time this summer. Just been too hot to oven cook outside.
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Some people occasionally ask how I spend my days now I’m retired-well-a toy we’d ordered for our grandson arrived today but it also included a free gift of 3 tiny figurines that needed to be put together. As they’d contain bits too small for him-well-that’s how I spend my days 😂
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
We went to see The Odyssey last night. Our opinion. Maybe not everyone’s opinion or even the la-de-da film critics. But we found this 3 hour so called epic just dull to average. Christopher Nolan seems to have swallowed his whole ego and drank his own inflated hype.
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Ralf Reski @reskilab.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Professorship Plant-Soil Interactions. Stuttgart, Germany. #plantscijob #plantscijobs #plantsciencejob www.academics.de/jobs/profess...
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Professur (W3) für Pflanze-Boden-Interaktionen - Universität Hohenheim
Universität Hohenheim bietet Stelle als Professur (W3) für Pflanze-Boden-Interaktionen in Stuttgart - jetzt bewerben!
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
He was a great footballer but also a really really nice man. RIP.
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Congratulations to the government on saving 2700 jobs by nationalising British Steel. Now, about the 18,000 university jobs lost in the last 18 months, with more coming…
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Pot planted onions. First harvest. Red, yellow and white onions 🧅. Amazing what you can generate from a pot.
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Volker Lipka @volkerlipka.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
We are currently recruiting an Independent Junior Research Group Leader in the field of biotic and/or abiotic stress biology in plants at the University of Göttingen (starting in January 2027). www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht... Best, Salma Balazadeh & Volker Lipka
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Stellenanzeigen - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Webseiten der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
🥔🥔🥔
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I feel like I should be marching somewhere 🙃
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
35 years !! 35 bloomin years. As of today that’s how long this wonderful woman has put up with me as her hubby. Don’t know how or why she’s done it but I’m very pleased that she has. Happy wedding anniversary Diana ❤️
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Have any of you watched the Norn Iron movie called “Nowhere special “. It’s on ITVX. Starring James Norton. Can highly recommend but have box of tissues ready.
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Well blow me over with a feather !! Having worked with Chenopodium amaranticolor for over 30 years as a plant virologist I never ever knew it was called tree spinach and sold as a herb !! Am I the only stupid plant virologist/plant pathologist/ plant scientist out there.
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Well blow me over with a feather !! Having worked with Chenopodium amaranticolor for over 30 years as a plant virologist I never ever knew it was called tree spinach and sold as a herb !! Am I the only stupid plant virologist/plant pathologist/ plant scientist out there.
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Find out which university degrees could earn you most across your lifetime www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Find out which university degrees could earn you most across your lifetime
New data suggests which university degrees have the highest and lowest financial returns over a lifetime.
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Holly shit 😱 Bristol !! Feels like 49oC. And as sure as hell it does. And more.
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SEBiology @sebiology.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
One week to go! 📅 Join the @globalplantgpc.bsky.social & @theplantjournal.bsky.social Webinar: New Insights from Plant Structural Biology on 30 June 2026. Hear from leading researchers and explore current perspectives in plant science. Book now: www.sebiology.org/resource/gcp...
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Only one Week to register for the “New Insights from Plant Structural Biology" webinar
Join on 29 June 2026 for the GCP & TPJ webinar "New Insights from Plant Structural Biology".
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
😱😱😱⚡️⚡️⚡️ It’s coming 😱 Look out Bristol !!!
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
You know you’ve made it in academia when several hundred undergrads sing your name in a song at their leaving Ball (Wonderwall)
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Essentially found my life bio in alcoholic miniatures Buckfast - aka Lurgan Champagne Potato vodka- Ireland Liverpool vodka- mighty reds Sweet potato rum & Sweet potato gin - I’ve worked in sweet potato viruses in my job Challenge anyone else to manage this 🤪
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Before the horrible portacabin things appeared. Those beautiful gardens designed by me. Ruined by others. 🙃
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Not a bad days discovery. Now time to wack them on the barby. 🎣
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Happy 100th to the big man.
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
When I appeared on hit BBC podcast #Uncanny on my time in Alanbrooke Hall QUB that was weird enough. But now a band has many an album based on it all & Room 6:11 You can listen to the album from the link below tinyurl.com/3zv8j574 Come on @danny_robins time for the movie🎥
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Thanks for all the birthday wishes. Seems like a blink of an eye for 21. Well well well, 61 and still having fun. Some tried to stop the fun but they never won. Best birthday ever.
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
So many of you have asked similar questions of why “Whatever happened to Sir Professor Gary Foster FRS CBE?!” On this particular day 🤔
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Do I do an Aprils Fool joke this year. Nah. You’re all too gullible.
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
104,000 people at this concert. And who was in charge of bossing them around. Yep, her…… ❤️ First photos as BTS make live return in front of huge crowd www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Someone called us PIPS the other day ~ PREVIOUSLY IMPORTANT PEOPLE! So true. Career highlights fade away and how we impacted family and friends so much more important. Signed, a proud PIP
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
This is a weird life moment for me. About to support England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 in the rugby 🏉
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
😂😂😂😂😂
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
There’s no better feeling than being an Irish man living in England when Ireland are stuffing England in the rugby 🏉 #heaven #bliss
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Science Magazine @science.org · 23/01/2026
Researchers have designed an electrode that allows for a month-long, noninvasive method of studying physiology and health in a diverse array of plants. Learn more in this week’s issue of #ScienceAdvances: scim.ag/4aay3yP
A tobacco plant showing slight signs of aging after three days of signal-to-noise ratio testing.
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University of Bristol Biological Sciences @bristolbiosci.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Our researchers reveal that light pollution disrupts nocturnal insects & spiders' movements.🏙️🕷️ Dr Rochelle Meah & Prof Nicholas Roberts highlight two key effects: 1️⃣ Masked day-to-night transitions. 🌙🕷️ 2️⃣ Blinded polarized light for navigation.☀️🦋 Read➡️: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Light pollution creates multiple threats to the movement ecology of nocturnal arthropod taxa
Light pollution is a major contributing factor to declines in global biodiversity1,2 that is steadily increasing in both severity and spatial extent.3…
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Chris Creevey @hairyllama.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Last chance to apply for our funded PhD opportunity. w. Prof. Fredric Coulon @ Cranfield University. This will investigate expansion of ML models for AMR phenotype detection to agriculture settings to create a sensor-ready hit list. Detail here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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From Genomic Context to Sensor Design: Computational Identification of AMR Biomarkers in Agriculture (project at Queen's University Belfast) at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - From Genomic Context to Sensor Design: Computational Identification of AMR Biomarkers in Agriculture (project at Queen's University Belfast) at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD....
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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
UKRI pauses several funding calls amid priorities shake-up The applicant-led MRC funding calls on pause include research grants, partnership grants and new investigator research grants made available through the council’s research boards. www.researchprofessional.com/news-article...
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Tracy Palmer @proftracypalmer.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
www.findaphd.com/phds/project... interested in bacterial antagonism? PhD opportunity in our team, see below. Please repost!
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Characterising antibacterial toxins in the food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Characterising antibacterial toxins in the food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Needed hot sausage roll and hot drink as beach very windy and cold 🥶
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