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Rebecca Bloomer

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I like plants that like winter. Actually, I like all of them really. 🌱❄🌷🥔 PFR epi/geneticist, plant geek, adopted Cantabrian, all views my own.

Ōtautahi, Christchurch City
Joined February 2017
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RT @AgResearchNEWS: A pretty horrible thing to happen to a student who is working with us while visiting New Zealand from Ireland. Here's h…
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@solpsantangelo Can't believe you're leaving Dunedin a WEEK before I'm there! SBS is lucky to have you, my friend 🌱
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RT @ATinyGreenCell: I have failed...but I couldn't be happier. A small thread on recent experiments 🧬🔀🧵 1/n
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1 year
Further to all my recent Massey ranting - fundamentally, programme cuts are easier to justify if they're not well supported by students. So what more can we, the wider plant science community in NZ, do to give visibility to and encourage young folks into our careers?
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Plant Scientists! Can you spare an hour per week to mentor high school students learning about plants in the classroom? It's a fun, flexible opportunity to inspire the next generation of citizens to appreciate how important plants are. Visit to sign up!
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@sonal_shewa Me too mate - nothing in the proposal comes even close to filling their fiscal hole, and it guts key infrastructure for the PN research community and a vital talent pipeline for strategically important research skills. Who needs plant science in the 21st century OF DOOM amiright?
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RT @polyploidtools: Registration is now OPEN! You can also apply for our travel grant and submit your abstracts if you would like to presen…
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@joshoconnorchen @nicgaston Honestly, is a better-supported, properly connected RSI system too much to ask for? 😭
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/endrant, imma go cry in a pissed off corner for a bit and then write some angry emails. Consultation closes 20th Oct I think - and they're getting mine, unsolicited 😈
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RT @Jamienzherald: I followed Massey’s planned sciences restructure closely after it was first flagged just before Covid hit three years ag…
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Might have been a dodgy-looking western blot, maybe?
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@danbloomer1 @FIRA_team Surely one of them already automates the stick-shaking?
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RT @sparrow_penny: Nature Sept 2023: Genetic modification can improve crop yields — but stop overselling it.
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