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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A botanist’s view of Iceland 🪴🌹🌱🌳🍃

Blue berries on a small bush with some moss - macro

A touch of autumn - Green, yellow and red leaves on a small push with purple heather behind and moss - macro

Dozen Mushrooms - basidiomycetes and yellow 3-15 cm across , look poisonous, on moss and leaves under you g spruce trees

Three Small whitish pink umbels in a round ball, each flower with 5 petals , scrappy leaves. No idea what it is

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Watched the solar eclipse from the white cliffs in Kent.

Sun with tiny bit missing looking west over white cliffs and ocean

Hansholding Sun safe welders lens showing the 95% eclipse through it and a back drop of white cliffs and ocean

Looking NW with golden light of eclipsed sun on white cliffs Birling Gap

Man and woman selfie holding welders lenses up to their eyes with hills beyond in golden sunlight

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Funding for R&D relative to GDP in Australia has been declining for nearly 20 years Source: www.theage.com.au/national/thi...

Graph % of GDP (y) versus year 2009-2025. Lines for USA, EU, OECD, China all overall up about 1_2%, Australia up til 2008ish then decline to below 2000 levels

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Deadline extended to 31st May 2026 for papers for the Poisonous Plants Special issue in Annals of Botany, edited by me & Elizabeth Neilson (Copenhagen) 🧪⚕️🪴#PlantScience #crops #SpecializedMetabolism #herbivory #cyanogenesis #alkaloids #glucosinolates #EssentialOils #allelopathy #ChemicalEcology

Purple banner with picture of small solanum flowers to right and "Annals of Botany est 1887" (hard to read) TEXT:
CALL FOR PAPERS
POISONOUS PLANTS
Guest Editors: Ros Gleadow & Elizabeth Neilson
Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2026 [now 31st May]

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Our Stenocarpus tree has lots of flowers this year. Even i can see them and I’m red/green colour blind #MyGarden #Flower

4 inflorescences of Pinwheels of larger red flowers (5 am across) - individual flowers like giant grevilleas. Leaves are large (20-30 cm) and lobed

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Why does the WHO and many others keep minimising air borne transmission? Good article 🙈🙊🙉

Hantavirus is a pathogen with documented person-to-person transmission and high case fatality. Therefore, the starting point should not be to downplay the risk of airborne transmission until it is definitively proven. The starting point should be the immediate adoption of precautionary measures to reduce airborne transmission, such as respirator use by healthcare workers, cases, and close contacts; ventilation optimisation; avoidance of unfiltered air recirculation; and portable HEPA (high efficiency particulate air) filtration in all enclosed quarantine and transport settings.
On 8 May 2026, WHO issued several documents that point in different directions. A Disease Outbreak News report acknowledged possible person-to-person transmission, but largely framed precautions around droplet and contact transmission outside aerosol generating procedures.' By contrast, WHO's guidance for managing contacts of Andes virus cases and disembarkation from the cruise ship adopted much more precautionary

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Join researchers on Konzo and cassava for 6th International Safe Cassava Network webinar with Global Plant Council 20 May; 9:00 CEST * Register now to secure your spot, connect with peers, and help shape the future of cassava production and use worldwide* us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Central circle showing photo of hands of a woman peeling cassava tubers in a circle, with clock colours behind. Logos of the Global plant Council and the International Safe Cassaava Network to top right

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

One of my best days ever was meeting and talking with David Attenborough at Monash Uni with my fellow SCI2010 Sci Comm leaders Kirsti and Allie (who took the photo) - Happy 100th to a man who has deeply affected all of us, and genuinely nice as well #DavidAttenborough

David Attenborough in blue shirt sleeved shirt with grinning blonde woman Kirsti Abbott to right and me - a brown haired wen on his left. Other people and museum
Posters behind - about 50 of us were invited

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Registrations now open for the next Safe cassava webinar : Global Evidence on Konzo Incidence and Mortality: Findings from a Systematic Review 1990-2023. by Litos Raimundo (Portugal) and Elsa Maria Salvador (Mozambique) #Konzo #cassava #cyanide 🧪⚕️🪴🥔☠️ us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

There's still time! Extending the deadline for the special issue of Poisonous Plants in the Annals of Botany until the end of MAY. All types of papers considered. #plantscience #toxins 🧪🪴🌾🌱⚕️☠️ academic.oup.com/aob

Purple banner with pretty solaneious fllowers and Annals of Botany on it:
CALL FOR PAPERS
POISONOUS PLANTS
Guest Editors: Ros Gleadow & Elizabeth Neilson
Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2026

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

My bromeliad is flowering again. These reproductive structures are extraordinary. The last one persisted for over 2 years - such a huge investment by the plant #MyGarden #Flowers

Spikey stiff red flowerlike structure ~20 cm across and more high, arising from the centre of whorls of succulent plant, against a back drop of autumn pin oak leaves leaves

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

So proud of daughter Lucinda Hartley on the release of her book "Finding Home: A guide to choosing a property that fits the life you want to live" It's being likened to the Home version of the Barefoot Investor #UrbanLife events.humanitix.com/finding-home...

Orange and white poster with picture of gorgeous looking 40 something woman with dark hair and white shirt in a circle with a copy of the book below.
Text: LUCINDAmHARTLEY
MULTI-AWARD-WINNING
URBAN DESIGNER, TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEUR AND ONE OF THE AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW'S TOP 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN, HELPING SHAPE BETTER CITIES AND SMARTER HOUSING SOLUTIONS.
HER NEW BOOK, FINDING HOME, RETHINKS HOME OWNERSHIP AND OFFERS A FRESH, PRACTICAL APPROACH TO BUYING AND LIVING WELL.
IN STORES APRIL 28!
MAJORSTREET.COM.AU

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This looks interesting - a new pinky/red inflorescence poking out from the crown of Bromeliad leaves. The last ‘flower’ lived for over a year. Such a big investment in biomass #MyGarden 🌱🪴🌸

Whole of scrappy leaves with pinky-red leafy shaped things emerging from the centre. Background of blurred oak leaf hydrangeas

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

South Australia’s answer to the fuel crisis

Old horse drawn tram - double decker, with Clydesdale. People sitting on top deck. On the bridge between victor harbour and Granite island

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Visiting Dean Nicholl’s eucalypt arboretum at Currency Creek SA for the 1st time - amazing collection of >800 species. #eucalypt #NationalEucalyptDay2026 🪴🌳🌱

Flowers of fucia gum - 5 large Red receptacles (~3-4cm) and yellow stamens hanging down

Dean Nichol (man in hat, grey jumper and field pants) with hand over a naturally small euc shrub with narrow leaves

Close up of a cluster of pale yellow eucalypt flowers (each about 1-2cm across) and some buds

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Catching up with Bruce Webber - fellow lab rat mate from Melb Uni days. He’s now doing a great job as CEO of Bush Heritage - I was at their event at the Zoo wearing my Eucalypt Australia hat @eucalyptaus.bsky.social

Female in black smiling broadly - man in light collared shirt bending down to my level also smiling with a screen behind with a bird or something in it

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

My garden is a bit of a mess at the moment but these bright pots are bringing me pleasure #MyGarden #flowers 🌱🪴

Vertical shot: two pots with a bushy green back ground, stone wall and part of a teak bench and a concrete path. Left pale glazed pot with marigolds. Right is a terracotta pot (bucket size) full, full, full of bright pink daisies -

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Nice to visit my old stamping ground - Botany @ Melbourne Uni. I was there for a lot of my life - left: Natural philosophy Annex where I did my Hons, MSc + PhD after 15 yr gap; right: botany where I did my undergrad #PlantScience #IAmABotanist

Yellow sandstone art deco building with tulip trees outside- PhD lab marked with pink markup scribble (those tulip trees are cyanogenic)

Early 1900s stone building with arched entry, brick paved path to a step with makeshift ramp, euc trees on each side and green grass ; 2 storey with white mullion windows (there were silver birches in my day)

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Celebrating #NationalEucalyptDay2026 - left is CEO of Eucalypt Australia announcing the winner of #EucalyptOfTheYear , right is this Patrick Baker, this year’s Dahl medalist for sustained contribution to eucalypts @eucalyptaus.bsky.social

Women at Le tire , screen to right showing image of marri, euc of the year

Man 50-60 standing at lecture wearing a large medal on a table ribbon. Screen shows image of forest with title
‘forest dynamics in a changing world’

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Take a break from doom scrolling and enjoy the ocean at Torquay (Vic) today🌸💦

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Great to see my member @mon4kooyong.bsky.social at the Parliamentary Friends of #MEcfs and #LongCovid - emphasising the need for release of money from the #MRFF to support research - organised by Emerge Australia - link to follow

Screen grab from webinar - left is woman seated at a white tablecloth table with a microphone; right is an outline of the program

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

It must be autumn - the garden is filling up with spiders #MyGarden

Dead leaf rolled into a cigar-shape suspended on spider webs between bushes with blurred green grass and ferns in the background

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

“It actually doesn't take much to be considered a difficult woman. That's why there are so many of us.” Jane Goodall #AusPol

Picture of Jane Goodall as an older woman with one of her quotes and the source: It actually doesn't take much to be considered a difficult woman.
That's why there are so many of us.
Jane Goodall
@fema
quotient

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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.

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

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.

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

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

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

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

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

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

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

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

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Time to get start thinking about getting those papers ready for the special issue on Poisonous Plants in Annals of Botany.🪴☠️ @annbot.bsky.social academic.oup.com/aob/pages/sp...

Blue salnum flower with yellow reproductive structures against a blue sky

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

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’

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

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

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

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

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

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

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

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 🌾🧪🌱⚕️ Register to get the link us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

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

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

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

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

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

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

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

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

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

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

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

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