Caitlin Byrt

Looking forward to discussing the biotechnologies shaping future food systems and catching up with friends and colleagues at Made & Grown: The Future of Food | Agrifood Innovation Institute
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World’s highest court issues groundbreaking ruling for climate action. Here’s what it means for Australia The landmark ruling means Australia must reduce emissions in line with the best science, and regulate the fossil fuel industry to prevent further harm.

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A compact, dome-shaped plant with dense green foliage and numerous small white flowers, each with five petals, growing directly from harsh, rocky terrain. The surrounding soil appears mineral-rich and pale, scattered with limestone or serpentine rock fragments. The plant forms a tight cushion growth pattern typical of alpine or specialized soil plants, demonstrating remarkable adaptation to harsh growing conditions.

📝 A rare plant with a taste for toxic soil is getting help from unexpected allies with green fingers 🧵
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Czech gardeners helped protect an endangered flower from extinction using their backyards. The simple trick could aid plant conservation worldwide.

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23 Australian Deep Tech Startups to Watch in 2025 share.google/lHk2FYCMicIC...

Countries must protect human right to a stable climate, court rules Costa Rica-based inter-American court of human rights says states have obligation to respond to climate change

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Around 250 million years ago, Earth was near-lifeless and locked in a hothouse state. Now scientists know why The answer confirms scientists’ suspicion that when our planet’s climate crosses certain ‘tipping points’, truly catastrophic ecological collapse can follow.

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Plants = Earth's life support system

Post-translational modification acts as a digital like switch influencing AtPIP2;1 water and cation permeability - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Post-translational modification acts as a digital like switch influencing AtPIP2;1 water and cation permeability

Characterisation of dynamic switches for maintaining water and ion homeostasis under diverse environmental conditions!
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The highest-leverage ROI opportunity of the century! ~$157.5 trillion of Global GDP, in AUD (International Monetary Fund World Economic Outlook, World Bank Global Economic Prospects).

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Food in space! 02 | Meals on Mars - ABC listen In episode two of our series on food in space, we're travelling beyond the exosphere to discover how we might feed ourselves during voyages into deep space and how that technology could change what we...

So much gratitude for Earth's irreplaceable soil, rain, and atmospheric resources!

Imagine being charged with supplying Meals on Mars www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Membrane Transporter Engineers (MTE) are excited to share that we are one of the 2025 Tech23 Teams joining Cicada x Tech23, Australia's biggest deep tech celebration of radical tech innovation!
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Climate science and the case of the missing moisture - Nature Water Expected air moisture is missing over drier areas worldwide, possibly because climate models undervalue the effects of plants and other life. This finding could be a fingerprint of human-caused land d...

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🌟 We are hiring! Seeking a postdoc to use molecular dynamics and AI to understand how ion channels are regulated by membrane lipids 🌟

Join us at #scienceanu with amazing collaborators and great working conditions!

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The Australian scientists on a mission to grow plants on the moon While some people find it hard enough to keep their garden alive at home, an Australian team plans to send plants to the moon in the hope they will grow on the lunar surface.

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Root remodeling mechanisms and salt tolerance trade-offs: The roles of HKT1, TMAC2, and TIP2;2 in Arabidopsis Author summary Plants face significant challenges when growing in saline soils, requiring them to balance sodium (Na⁺) exclusion with maintaining root growth. While High-Affinity Potassium Transporter...

Aquaporins❤️ HKTs❤️ Salt tolerance❤️
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Feeding the Bloom: The Role of CO₂, Nutrients, and Heat in Algal Proliferation - The Global Plant Council Incidences of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) are becoming more frequent, their scale is growing and so are their impacts on food and water security. HABs are being fed by increases in water temperature, ...

Yep, we're in hot water! globalplantcouncil.org/feeding-the-...
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YouTube video by The Australia Institute Scientist outraged at "doctored" report on gas industry pollution at Murujuga

Don't believe the spin from the WA Government. Pollution from the gas export plant is destroying the ancient Murujuga rock art.

Rock art expert Professor Benjamin Smith read the report and set the record straight.

Video from Friends of Australian Rock Art. #auspol

Details : Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor in Genomics : The University of Melbourne Careers at The University of Melbourne

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How are #heatwaves changing in #Europe?

According to the European #Climate Report, 2024 saw:

🌡️ Record-breaking ‘strong heat stress’ days and tropical nights in southeastern Europe during summer

🥵 In recent decades, heat has been the leading cause of reported deaths due to extreme weather
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Ladies, We Need To Talk with Yumi Stynes - ABC listen Sex, health, relationships: frank, funny, furious. Join host Yumi Stynes as she rips open the sealed section on life. Ladies, We Need to Talk goes deep on the personal stuff that's hard to talk about...

Authoritarian governments rolling back freedoms.
Having to fight for the right to be paid equally.
Time to stand up for what's fair and what's right. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... via @ABCaustralia

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‘Yoda’ for scientists: the outsider ecologist whose ideas from the 80s just might fix our future John Todd’s eco-machine stunned experts by using natural organisms to remove toxic waste from a Cape Cod lagoon. Forty years on, he wants to build a fleet of them to clean up the oceans

Hiring diverse Kingdoms of life to clean up waste. Biological intelligence. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

CEO role opening up hubs.ly/Q03ff_Qt0

YouTube video by ABC Science Brian Cox with the mic drop 🎤 #BrianCox #ClimateChange #Science #Shorts

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InstaNovo enables diffusion-powered de novo peptide sequencing in large-scale proteomics experiments - Nature Machine Intelligence InstaNovo, a transformer-based model, and InstaNovo+, a multinomial diffusion model, enhance de novo peptide sequencing, enabling discovery of novel peptides, improved therapeutics sequencing coverage...

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Scientists’ warning on fossil fuels Abstract. The evidence is clear that fossil fuels—and the fossil fuel industry and its enablers—are driving a multitude of interlinked crises that jeopardi

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Ecological disruptions are a risk to national security Overfishing, disease and environmental crimes cause social and political instability, economic strife and strained international relations.

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The Ocean’s Green Glow Is a Warning Sign In the vibrant yet fragile waters of the Gulf of Oman, spectacular phytoplankton blooms – visible even from space – unfold in rhythm with the seasons. Fueled by monsoon-driven upwelling, these blooms ...

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