Ecologist and plant biologist, Postdoctoral scientist working at Rothamsted Research.

Joined January 2013
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Plenty of poppies on display as we survey the rare arable weeds on the Broadbalk long-term experiment today.
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After a hot day harvesting blackgrass, the cold store suddenly seems very appealing...
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Fancy a chat about #blackgrass Come to the @Rothamsted stand to speak to us. @RHull76 @ClaudiaLowe1 and @HMetcalfe1 all here #Cereals2017
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Blackgrass fieldwork off to a soggy start this summer!
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Just finished my Rothamsted #RResDays16 presentation. Hope everyone enjoyed my many photos of blackgrass...
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No Barn owl today, grass has all been cut. Instead, this was out menacing the local small mammal population:
Thanks to everyone who visited the @BlackGrassRI at #cerealsevent today. Blackgrass breakfast 8:30 tomorrow on the @Rothamsted @BBSRC stand.
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David Comont retweeted
10 Jun 2014
Problem black-grass in your wheat? Want to take part in a new resistance study? Come see us on the HGCA/ Rothamsted stands #cereals14
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And today, an unexpected trouser tourist; the black headed cardinal beetle (I think!)
Today's fun: getting up close and personal with a hunting Barn owl...
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Last in the series of #BR12110 practicals today. Oomycetes, Basidiomycetes, Ascomycetes, and Zygomycetes galore!
Is it a Bird? is it a plane? no.. it's the cytoplasmic streaming of a slime mould from last weeks prac class vimeo.com/87408390 #BR12110
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#BR12110 C.diff treatment with faeces. Legally, is poo a tissue or a drug? wired.com/wiredscience/2014/…

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Just back from a great fieldtrip to Chester zoo for #BR24310. Back to teaching biodiversity of the microbial kind for the rest of the week!
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Just back from a work placement visit to the National Trust at Llanerchaeron. Nice to see our WEP students doing so well! #RDW0160.
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Don't worry, the weather isn't always this grim in Aberystwyth..........
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#BR23420 Treating observations as independent when they are not. Can be difficult to identify sometimes....
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#BR23420 Counfounding variables: anything else that could affect the dependent variable. Control them using experimental design.
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Question of the day... ''Can you barcode Jam?''
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24 Jan 2014
Triple find of rare grassland fungi in Northumberland National Park:- northumberlandnationalpark.o…

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