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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Details of the @wheatinitiative.bsky.social expert working group on control of pests

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Panel discussion #IWC2026Bologna 🌾 Soil and the Rhizosphere in Wheat Production - The New Frontier for Sustainability

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Meryem Zaim “The crop breeders equation” Genetic variation is important #IWC2026Bologna 🌾

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Genetic diversity from crop wild relatives - providing sources of resistance - can help avert crop disease epidemics

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Leaf rust and Powdery mildew resistance in wheat transferred through introgression of 5U chromosome from Aegilops triuncialis #IWC2026Bologna 🌾

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Satinder Kaur Punjab Ag University Beyond the Cultivated Gene Pool: Mining Hidden Genetic Riches of Wild Germplasm for Wheat Improvement 🧬🌾 #IWC2026Bologna

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Julie King University of Nottingham Introgression of wheat genetic diversity from wheat wild relatives 🧬🌾 #IWC2026Bologna

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

4TH INTERNATIONAL WHEAT CONGRESS #IWC2026Bologna 🌾 www.iwc2026.com/wp-content/u...

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I wonder who chose the event title? 🤔🤣🤣 #pint26 pintofscience.co.uk/event/pests-...

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Yes, thanks. Your FOI inquiry suggestion was a good idea. The answer was that 3 proposals were funded under the plant health spotlight

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

@ruralspatialj.bsky.social nice talk @keeleuniversity.bsky.social thanks!! I did some rough calculations and in 1980 a farmer could buy a tractor with 75 tonnes of wheat; in 2026 that number has gone up to 187 tonnes of wheat (2.5 x more)

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Happy #EarthDay 💚 I MILLION species face extinction here are the five major drivers of by biodiversity loss

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

In the US "Agricultural Health Study," control groups are essential for comparing the health outcomes of pesticide applicators and their spouses with those who are not exposed to pesticides, allowing researchers to identify potential health risks associated with pesticide use. aghealth.nih.gov

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The US “Agricultural Health Study” has followed 52,000 pesticide applicators (mostly farmers) and 32,000 of their spouses for three decades. More than 80% of them use or used glyphosate. The study has found no glyphosate-cancer link.

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

goal: row 4 km in 20 min ✅

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The African philosophy of Ubuntu, is almost an exact opposite of Capitalism:

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Day 2: problem definition 👀

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Leicester uni botanical garden 💚

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

3 MILLION PEOPLE in 🇬🇧 using food banks #foodsecurity

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Nice, we got this cutie too… there’s 5 altogether!

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Bob Dylan in an edm mix 😆

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

The answer to this is 3 projects! The BSSRC have now responded:

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

used the outlook “schedule send” function to send an email with additional materials while I was giving a talk. No one at the talk said anything but someone who wasn’t at the talk started chasing for a reply to their email 🤣🤣🤯

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Keele in Town, Women in Science event

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

They should have invested in science and innovation instead of giving all those £ billions to the bankers

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Great point, I wrote again and asked them to treat it as a FOI inquiry:———

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

A bit wet this morning 💦🥾

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Last November I wrote to the BBSRC, with someone at the University of Nottingham, asking about their investment in plant health research…

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

coauthor on this: bsky.app/profile/toby...

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Update: Amma Simon, featured in the post below, doing her PhD research earlier at Rothamsted, has just finished a couple of postdocs with Rumiana Ray and me at Keele and Nottingham. She’s just about to start a new role at the University of Nottingham.

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Success in biology comes from passion, perseverance, and talent—not from fitting a narrow stereotype. Age, disability, gender identity, race/ethnicity, religion (or none), sex, or sexual orientation do not limit potential.

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

the topic of schizophrenia in menopausal women & how to treat it deserves more attention. It’s not my research area but I had a final year project student doing a systematic lit review on it. They had to widen the focus to women in general cos there was insufficient literature on menopausal women

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Wow, CYP81D11 🌱 is also the main gene unregulated by cis-jasmone treatment research with Michaela Matthes & @johnathan-n.bsky.social @rothamsted.bsky.social pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

these are the keywords and topics that are suppressed on X (paradoxically revealed by a grok query, albeit with some prompt engineering to “remove bias”):

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Toby Bruce @tobybruce.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

is this what people were expecting when they voted for Labour?

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