Chief Scientific Officer👩‍🔬🌱🥬@Vertical_Future, By-Fellow @ChurchillCol, @AVFCOfficial supporter, Boycott Bingo Co-Author with @jenny_mortimer1. Views Own.

Cambridge, England
Joined May 2009
Trying to contact @British_Airways whilst away to arrange assistance at the airport coming home due to an injury suffered whilst away. The line keeps cutting me off. Do better please
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🍓 Berry good two days at the International Soft Fruit Conference! 🍓 One of our Research Scientists, Winnie Swann, attended the conference on January 9th-10th, where she shared insights on our CEA strawberry propagation work and built valuable connections.
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Leaving my account here but won’t be posting or interacting. If you want to find me, I’ll be on Bluesky
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Are you a #caregiver (e.g. of a child/elderly parent/other adult) and a STEMM-researcher in the UK? If so we want to hear your lived experiences. Please take 15 mins to complete our anonymous survey: qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/j… #carersinSTEMM #AcademicChatter Deadline: 31/10/24
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In less than 3 weeks, Mark Pickering, Grant Macdonald, and Svetlana Frantuz from our commercial team and Jamie Burrows our Founder & CEO will be travelling to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia to exhibit and speak at the 41st edition of SAUDI AGRICULTURE!
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We welcome Defra and @DanielZeichner confirming they will bring forward the necessary legislation to allow plant breeders to use precision breeding technology. It will allow them to develop better crop varieites faster than before and thereby meet the challenges of ensuring national food security, sustainability, and resilience for farmers and food supply chains. gov.uk/government/news/new-l…
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Organic farming uses pesticides. Many have worse ecological impacts, off-target effects, and higher toxicity than conventional pesticides. Pest control for food production is essential. Organic pesticides are not superior. That’s the appeal to nature fallacy. 1/
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Thank you Sepehr Achard (@igrownews0) for featuring @Vertical_Future in the latest edition of 'The Indoor Farmer' newsletter, which explores our work on farming in space and the sector more broadly. indoorverticalfarm.com/p/spa…
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“Growing less food per acre is leaving less land for nature.” Nobel Peace Prize laureate Norman Borlaug, 1970
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Of course the internet is broken this morning… @TicketmasterUK and @gigsandtours - didn’t you anticipate this level of traffic?
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🌡️ As global temperatures rise, will we be able to continue growing both the food and the trees we rely on? These two vital resources may soon be in direct competition, as the regions of the world suitable for growing crops shift northwards. New study from @plantsci 👇

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Replying to @ThePlantJournal
@ThePlantJournal is calling for new reviewers to expand the breadth of our reviewers wrt expertise/diversity/location/career stage. Reviewers are crucial and much appreciated & as a @SEBiology journal, reviewing efforts also support science & scientists onlinelibrary.wiley.com/jour…
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To celebrate 300 years of Botany at @Cambridge_Uni, we are publishing a story a month by one of our researchers. This month Alexander Jones from @slcuplants writes about unlocking cellular decision making for plant plasticity & crop sustainability. 👉tinyurl.com/5ad7fb3n
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One last time 🥲
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This is such wonderful news for food and farming in UK. Congratulations @Minette_Batters - I’m looking forward to seeing your impact in the House of Lords!
A huge congratulations to former NFU President @Minette_Batters for being nominated as Crossbench member of the House of Lords, providing a strong voice for British food and farming👏 Read more👉ow.ly/KvuI50SvVna
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Goodbye @GreenTechRAI - it’s been a blast! 🤘
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