Delighted to be involved with a recently uploaded preprint on "The effect of temperature and vapour pressure deficit on powdery mildew germination and infection in cucurbits." Brilliant use of a spore-settling tower for simulating natural inoculation. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…

We’re looking for an Entomology Research Scientist to join our Crop Protection team at DPIRD Geraldton. Excellent opportunity for someone with research expertise in broad acre crop pest mgt &/or crop production. Apply by 12 Dec. ⁦DPIRD Broadacre - WA Grains & Livestock⁩ search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pageI…

This a fantastic infographic to help counter anxiety about sharing data. I particularly like the "lack of time" counter! knowing you will make your data and code open makes you think about how best to present it.

#heretohelp Our friendly @nswdpi plant pathologist, Steve Simpfendorfer, walks us through the diagnosis of fusarium head blight. ....a bit more to it than what you think!! Get in touch with the team if you have any concerns! Steven Simpfendorfer Brad Baxter GRDC North @grdc

🤣🤣🤣🤣 love the music to the build-up of turning it on

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Pleased to announce the recent publication of our paper titled "The influence of temperature and vapour pressure deficit on conidia germination and germ tube production in an Australian Podosphaera xanthii isolate" doi.org/10.1007/s10658…

A personal reference for extracting nested elements and lists in R. I never remember the syntax of this paulmelloy.github.io/index#extract-…

Reds vs Force trail match at Ballymore. Fun day! But is this the best we can make the turf look in a hot wet summer? Perhaps a Aussie sports turf breading program is needed @qldgovlocalgov #ballymorestadium #Redsrugby #sportsturf

I am hoping the Federal government will see opportunity for improved forestry science funding to ease building supply costs and the housing crisis. uq.edu.au/news/article/2… UQ Science Anthony Albanese Max Chandler-Mather Julie Collins #HousingCrisis

.Paul Melloy UQ News is speaking on his work looking at a meta-analysis to efficiently limit yield loss from net-blotch in barley Paper: bit.ly/4bwyTpg #GRDCUpdates #Dubbo

.Paul Melloy UQ News at #Goondi #GRDCUpdates on Efficiently limiting yield loss from net-blotch in barley – a meta-analysis Paper: bit.ly/4bwyTpg

An exciting release for spatial data manipulation in R esri.com/arcgis-blog/pr… #R #Rspatial

Fascinating talk by Alexey Mikaberidze on superspreading leaves at #IEW2024

For repetitive tasks, people suggest writing a function. I'm loving embedding those functions into R Shiny apps to speed up my analyses and reports of both individual (anova) and multi-location (meta-analysis) fungicide trials! #PlantDisease #DataScience #RStats #ShinyApps

Goodbye Melbourne rebels abc.net.au/news/2024-05-3…

Check out my draft decision support tool for managing downy mildew in grapes. Comment below if you can provide input on improvements to the interface or weather station locations to add. viticolr.paulmelloy.com.au/shiny/viticolR…

Beautiful day, golden fields, shattering pods, ladybird movement, and friendly neighbours. It's canola harvest season. What does this mean for the parasitoid wasps of aphids 🤷‍♀️! What are their summer plans ? Stay tuned as I look into that.

Our package `cercospoRa` was published on CRAN!! cran.r-project.org/web/packages/c… Thanks Rene Heim, Nathan Okole, Facundo Ispizua and Anne-Katrin Mahlein

📅Starting TODAY the NSW GRDC updates. The NSW DPIRD team happy to be presenting our research at plenty of these great events! NSW Agriculture GRDC North #GRDCupdates #GRDCupdates2025