❓ Why do we over-prescribe “solutions” & idealise the pursuit of “transformation” over asking better questions, using warm data & accumulating marginal gains? 🧠 Excellent food for thought from The Crawford Fund CEO Shaun Coffey 🚢 #24cfconf

What makes a food, a crop, a farming system or a community resilient? This is one of the questions we are addressing Agrifood Innovation Institute. Today we’re hosting Line Gordon from Stockholm Resilience Centre discussing the role of inter-disciplinarity in building agricultural resilience

Fika/morning tea of resilient (for earth and for body) refreshments! Thank you Line Gordon for the wonderful talk on how we can work together to build better food systems which are more sustainable, and better for the earth and people #WorkingTogetherToBuildAResilientFoodSystem

Many of the tools that we need to make our agricultural production more successful & sustainable are already available. Excellent presentation from Line Gordon today to a full house Agrifood Innovation Institute setting a course for the future of food and ag.

Great to have a visit from ourANU Biology Society enthusiasts today! A chance for Joanna Melonek & I to share the work we do, tour our labs and glasshouses and convince the next-gen of biologists that crops are cool 🌱

Great to see the #OzWheat resource available! Congrats to Jess Hyles & team. Looking forward to presenting my very first results ourANU from assessment of the panel at #IWC2024Perth in just over a month (just need to finish harvest 😅)

Starting off the day at Parliament House for the launch of the new Cooperative Research Australia (CRA) report on multiple impacts of industry-led CRCs towards decarbonisation. We ourANU are excited to be part of the recent ZNE Ag CRC delivering new pathways to net zero from Australian agriculture

2nd visit of the day to Parliament House 🇦🇺 Excellent Science & Technology Australia event on future of synthetic biology with strong support for the many opportunities it provides. Very exciting times ahead for Australian plant synbio 🌱 🧬 lewsey lab Barry Pogson Matthew Gilliham Dr Jenny Mortimer

💡 ICYMI: Perspectives on how to achieve the elusive balance between wheat quantity & quality from Nick Fradgley 📕 Featured in the #FutureFood Special Issue of Plants People Planet 🌱👥🌐

Interested in co-designing research that engages young people & marginalised groups? Don't miss our next Agrifood Innovation Institute event. A panel of experts will discuss their approaches to inclusive community engagement across food, health & climate. Register here: events.humanitix.com/sharing-power-…

Inclusion, diversity, equity & access matter! Proud to be part of the Biology at ANU IDEA committee dedicated to creating positive change Dr Emily Furlong Lauren DuFall 🏳️‍🌈 ♀️🔑🟤 Today’s school-wide morning tea was an opportunity to set priorities for action (plus cake)

✍️ Make sure you register for our next Agrifood Innovation Institute event. 🗓️ On 10th Sept we'll be joined by the wonderful Christina Zorbas & Khalid Muse as part of a wider conversation on achieving more inclusive community engagement in ag, food, climate & health. ⏳ Don't miss it!

Next week I'll be in Cambridge for the 2024 JBS Haldane Lecture The Genetics Society Really looking forward to sharing a short history (my version) of the genetics of plant breeding & lessons for the future Agrifood Innovation Institute ourANU See you there! genetics.org.uk/events/jbs-hal…

We’re at the mid-point of Semester 2 & I’m really enjoying my first experience of convening a course (with Joanna Melonek) Biology at ANU. Exploring career values, finding purpose & the exciting places that a career in biology can take you. Lots of highlights & reflective moments 💚

Lovely to be back NIAB in Cambridge catching up on all the latest genetics & breeding research in wheat, chickpeas & more 🌱

Our JBS Haldane Lecture with Alison Bentley is today! If you are in Cambridge join us in person at the Biffen Lecture theatre, or you can join us online. register here: genetics.org.uk/events/jbs-hal…

Delighted to receive the 2024 JBS Haldane Award The Genetics Society & to give my lecture on lessons from the history of plant breeding in Cambridge today. Special thanks to wonderful friends & collaborators Laura Dixon GIA Dr Stéphanie M. Swarbreck for joining the celebration Gonville & Caius College

Really looking forward to the upcoming AAB Cereal Quality meeting & the chance to share some perspectives on wheat for the future AAB

💚 Some people come into your life when you need them most. 💡 Very grateful to have Rachael Garrett in mine reminding me that we need to keep fighting for equality & a brighter future for all. Excited to be planning the next steps! #dontgetmadgetequal

Hard to believe that 5 years have passed since the world lost two bright & shining stars. Taking a moment at Cam Botanic Garden to reflect & remember to "be more Greg" during a busy week in Cambridge. Here's some of the work he shared whilst NIAB acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…