We are at Pride Southampton, come say hi 🫛 🫘 @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social #uosroadshow

Chili jam 2026 vintage, my eyes are burning 🌶️ 🔥

@novelcropnet.bsky.social at Southampton City Farm today 🫛 🫘 🌻 🌽

Thank you everyone who came today, it was very well attended and there were a lot of exciting interesting conversations @novelcropnet.bsky.social @niab-uk.bsky.social

Novel and Underutilised Crop Network@novelcropnet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🌱 The first @novelcropnet.bsky.social Farmer Day was today at @niab-uk.bsky.social - on show: soya beans chickpeas lentils sunflowers hemp and flax. Great attendance and discussions. 📍 Join us tomorrow 17/7/26 for day 2 at Sonning Farm, @uniofreading.bsky.social from 10am. #UKFarming #Agriculture 🌿

@chrisgpackham.bsky.social good job re evolution, but ever heard of a plant? They evolve too 🤦🏻🌵 ☘️

parliamentary schmoozing

Genetics Society UK@gensocuk.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today we’re at Portcullis House for Parliamentary Links Day, engaging with other learned societies and MPs to promote #genetics in the UK!

90% of grant progress reports

Reptiles with longer Wikipedia pages tend to be bigger. The relationship is a power law with exponent = 0.85. I guess humans really like writing about big lizards? The longest article is the Komodo Dragon.

Rye is the most commonly cited example of this. (See, for example, www.smbc-comics.com/comic/vavilov ). Oats are another. Both rye and oats have different environmental tolerances than wheat and barley do, so there are locations where they're a far more reliable crop than what they were mimicking.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Vavilov

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Vavilov

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Don’t reach for ChatGPT Images or Nano Banana as your first option when creating scientific images There are multiple free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations. #plantscience @stephenturner.us blog.stephenturner.us/p/free-open-...

Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations

Phylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics

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With the number of students studying #PlantScience declining each year, a community of educators is taking steps to transform the subject into an engaging, modern subject, central to the green jobs of the future. Read the article: biologist.rsb.org.uk/regrowing_pl... #FascinationOfPlantsDay

Join us at Sholing Valley Country Park Spring Festival 2day 🌈🌦️ Chat to Mark Anastasia and @uosengagement.bsky.social team about climate ☀️ chickpeas and find out all about #BSF2026 in #southampton too! @novelcropnet.bsky.social #sotonbeans #citizenscience

We’re launching NUCNet! Novel & Underutilised Crop Network, exploring how novel & underutilised crops can support the future of UK agriculture. Find out more visit: shorturl.at/YKv1M 🔗 Sign up: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/jEaTdH2SZ8 #Novelcropnet #BBSRC #UKRI #FoodSystems #Agriculture #PlantScience