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white board with a list of nurseries

sorghum seedlings coming up in a sorghum trial.

We are getting close to planting our target 26,800 plots for the year. Unbelivable effort from our hard working technical team at UQ and Queensland DPI.

Great to catch up with Alex Wu and to check out our @theGRDC @GRDCNorth experiment focused on improving photosynthesis and transpiration in sorghum.

sorghum trial at the seedling stage

Great to see the almost perfect establishment in our GRDC DPI sorghum lodging experiment. Love sorghum!

International Safe Cassava Network 2025 Symposium - The Global Plant Council Safe the Date! International Safe Cassava Network 2025 Symposium. Register to day 1: Register to the 27th of September 2025 sessions (Day 1) : https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ODP5T3FSRBa5l...

Registrations for the International Safe Cassava Network are now open. Free, online only. Interdisciplinary.
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Getting excellent germination results from last year's hybrid seed. Bodes well for good trials this year.

First time I have seen a Rakali or Australian water rat.

Very excited that our student Laura won the best student talk at #APBC2025 for work on female fertility in sorghum with @emmaomics.bsky.social

Great set of sorghum talks at the Australasian Plant Breeding Conference 8% of the program #APBC

flowering wattle

I love wattle!

The milky way

Great night for star gazing. This photo was taken with my mobile phone. I am so lucky to live where I do. Light polution means that many people never see the stars.

Definitely, I was there a couple of weeks ago

open fire with someone's boots

End of the day

open fire with someone's boots

End of the day

Girraween

Girraween

Girraween

Banksia flower

Beautiful day at Girraween National Park

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Australian voting history in action

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Australian democracy in action. 1. Mandatory voting 2. 90% turnout 3. independent commission sets boundaries 4. short campaigns 5. limits on donations 6. preferential voting 7. paper ballots 9. sausage sizzle 10. lots of polling places 11. in out 10min 12. results usually known on the day.

Wow! I got within 10 metres of a wedge tail eagle today, Australia's largest bird of prey. Great start to my weekend bushwalk at Goomburra

Using a penatrometer to look for associations with stalk lodging in sorghum.

Two scientists measuring sorghum plants

Sorghum plants with pollination bags on their heads.

Our divergent selection experiment is in full swing led by Sofie Pearson. 6000 individually RFID tagged plants phenotypes before flowering enabling data driven crosses to be made. Great support for this work from Sean MRR and Colleen Hunt #logistics #fielddata

The durra race of sorghum is a favourite. Interesting history. The goose neck phenotype is common.

Great to get @emmaomics.bsky.social out in the field today to see some genotypes that are not just a string of zeros and ones 000111010101

After 35 years I still get joy out of single head harvesting of new populations. #loveplantbreeding

So touching, I am not sure what to say

Big morning of hand harvesting today. 500 AxR plots. Many hands make light work.

Two scientists measuring sorghum plants

Sorghum plants with pollination bags on their heads.

Our divergent selection experiment is in full swing led by Sofie Pearson. 6000 individually RFID tagged plants phenotypes before flowering enabling data driven crosses to be made. Great support for this work from Sean MRR and Colleen Hunt #logistics #fielddata

Sorghum is starting to colour