2/2 - Teff is an intriguing, nutritious crop with a powerful place in Ethiopian and Eritrean culture and I feel lucky to have had the opportunity to work on it alongside my work on wheat. Please do have a read and learn a bit more about this beautiful plant!.

1/2 - I'm proud to have my first first-author paper up on BioRxiv and submitted for review. It was an absolute pleasure working with @seyi_shorinola, Abel Gari, @DrAsh_G, @CristobalUauy, and a host of incredible researchers at @InstituteEiar. Pre-print:

RT @AlisonRBentley: And that’s a wrap! .What a fantastic Early Career Researcher super-session #IWC2024Perth highlighting the wheat stars &….

RT @SurbhiG6: Excellent visuals in both his talk and poster by @maxrwjones from @JohnInnesCentre @CristobalUauy lab on basal spikelet devel….

RT @NikkiW_Hortic: Excellent talk by @maxrwjones at #IWC2024Perth. Very clear and impactful slides with beautiful photos! .

Fantastic first day of talks at the #IWC2024Perth International Wheat Congress, particularly those on biological nitrification inhibition. I'm happy and grateful to have secured funding from @GenSocUK, @WheatInitiative, and SPRET to enable me to be here.

Another of the @CristobalUauy Lab's favourite protocols is now live on high-molecular weight DNA extraction from wheat leaves (, producing median fragment size >50 kb. Visit @ifacisabel for the other protocols published so far!.

Proud to present on a kmer-GWAS project in Eragrostis tef #teff at this year's @JICStudentVoice ASM. Thanks everyone for the great questions and thanks to all collaborators on this work: @JohnInnesCentre @InstituteEiar @ILRI @ibers_aber @unibirmingham @KAUST

RT @SiOldridge: This is serious folks. 🚨Food shortages🚨.1️⃣The UK uses 70% of its own land ✚ roughly its own land area overseas to feed its….

Thanks @ifacisabel @bnwaweru @oojfung and Eleanor Penny for your contributions and @KamounLab for the inspiration! We really enjoyed the session and it felt like a great way to contribute to #OpenScience. (🧵2/2). Original paper here:

I recently ran a #PreprintReview workshop for the @CristobalUauy lab! We collaboratively reviewed a neat paper on the use of PacBio HiFi for SV discovery in wheat and published our comments on @PREreview_ (🧵1/2).

RT @ProfBrianCox: The PM really does need to understand that he is now further damaging U.K. science by not immediately rejoining Horizon,….

Bioethanol is a catastrophic waste of land and resources.

RT @James_BG: ‘We would like to bequeath unearned wealth to our children.’.Thank you for your brave stand - you are moral heroes. ‘We would….

RT @cloverhogan: Repeat after me: individual actions will not solve the climate crisis 🙅‍♀️. Narratives such as "technology will save us" a….

RT @IPCC_CH: Current policies make it likely that #globalwarming will exceed 1.5°C during the 21st century & make it harder to limit warmin….

RT @RTarlinton: Gm food is just an accelerated version on the current plant breeding methods we use, blocking life saving food like this is….

RT @ProfBrianCox: The most valuable feature of democracy is that it has built in error correction.

RT @SiOldridge: Shocked at the lack of coverage of this weekend's climate protest in the Sunday papers. Here's XR & allies trying to focus….

RT @DoctorVive: Well, well, well: . "Shell admits 1.5C climate goal means immediate end to fossil fuel growth."