Thinking about a Master's in plant pathology?
BSPP is offering up to 5 bursaries of £4,000 each to support students on MSc, MRes, or MPhil courses with a plant pathology focus.
You don't need to be a BSPP member or based in the UK to apply.

Deadline: 30 June 2026
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Europe is the shield against imperialism. The US is gone.

(A) Map of the sampling locations used in this study. (B) Sampling box (VOKSBOX) developed for this work on a tripod at 1.5-m height. Air from the GilAir® sample pump is split up to six ways using brass splitters with silicone tubing. (C–E) A flow chart of the methods used in this paper for acquisition, identification and processing of compounds. (F) Example chromatogram resulting from sample collection in botanical gardens outdoors sampling site.

A walk in the park—Identifying healthy #greenspaces using scents
Kay at al.

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

@williamkay.bsky.social @naturerecovery.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk #PlantScience

A walk in the park—Identifying healthy greenspaces using scents - I'm chuffed to get our early work (with Kathy Willis et al) out there: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Thanks to @naturerecovery.bsky.social for funding and support. @biology.ox.ac.uk @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social

A walk in the park—Identifying healthy greenspaces using scents - I'm chuffed to get our early work (with Kathy Willis et al) out there: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Thanks to @naturerecovery.bsky.social for funding and support. @biology.ox.ac.uk @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social

Did Danny keel over with rage?

White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration The White House posted a digitally altered image of a woman who was arrested on Thursday in a case touted by attorney general Pam Bondi, to make it seem as if she was dramatically crying, a Guardian analysis of the image has found. The woman, Nekima Levy Armstrong, also appears to have darker skin in the altered image. Armstrong was one of three people arrested on Thursday in connection to a demonstration that disrupted church services in St Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday. Demonstrators alleged that one of the pastors, David Easterwood, was the acting field director of the St Paul ICE office. Bondi announced the arrests on social media Thursday morning. Continue reading...

White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest

We know what the comedians got out of the Riyadh comedy festival. What about the Saudi regime? | Jonathan Liew The tawdry event was an ultimately doomed attempt by the Saudi government to buy the kind of authentic grassroots culture it is unwilling to countenance, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

a column on the brave, brave comedians who went to saudi arabia and told jokes about gay people and women drivers

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Kemi Badenoch's 'Free Speech' Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Party Conference The ban on covering the party's annual gathering came despite Badenoch's repeated commitment to "fight" for free speech and a free press

Kemi Badenoch said earlier this year that “silencing free speech harms democracy and “we must fight for it”.

Unless of course its the free speech of a news organisation she happens to disagree with

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...

It was a little harsher than usual but it's always a good take

"If you can purchase US citizenship for $5 million, the “illegals” are only guilty of being poor." -Feminist News

Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.

(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)

Jimmy Carter never needed redemption The former president, who has died at age 100, knew that America should not confuse restraint with weakness.

Jimmy Carter never needed redemption

The former president, who has died at age 100, knew that America should not confuse restraint with weakness.

By Mark Damazer

www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

Long-term survival of asexual Zymoseptoria tritici spores in the environment - BMC Biology Background The fungal phytopathogen Zymoseptoria tritici, causal agent of the economically damaging Septoria tritici blotch of wheat, is different from most foliar fungal pathogens in that its germina...

Happy to announce our new Zymo paper (with
@quietscientist.bsky.social) which looks at the amazing long-term survival of asexual spores (blastospores). We argue that primary disease inoculum doesnt have to come from wind-blown ascospores.... bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Tagging #PlantPathology #PlantScience and #MicroSky - and I nearly forgot, the first author of this work is here on Bluesky now, so congrats to @williamkay.bsky.social on the publication of this paper!