Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚

@rgleadow

Plant scientist studying how climate change affects plant toxicity (#cyanide). Born 314ppm. Interested in science, tech, plants. #MECFS ally #botanist 🌾🪴🧪🌱🌿💉 Views my own

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· 1d

Watched the solar eclipse from the white cliffs in Kent.

Sun with tiny bit missing looking west over white cliffs and ocean

Hansholding Sun safe welders lens showing the 95% eclipse through it and a back drop of white cliffs and ocean

Looking NW with golden light of eclipsed sun on white cliffs Birling Gap

Man and woman selfie holding welders lenses up to their eyes with hills beyond in golden sunlight

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· 7d

Spring is in the air #MyGarden

Three yellow daffodils and scrappy green leaves against a bed of dry oak leaves abs clinked brick wall

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· 16d

Funding for R&D relative to GDP in Australia has been declining for nearly 20 years Source: www.theage.com.au/national/thi...

Graph % of GDP (y) versus year 2009-2025. Lines for USA, EU, OECD, China all overall up about 1_2%, Australia up til 2008ish then decline to below 2000 levels

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· Jul 6

Found it! #SEBConference2026

Huge green banner on a fence says. SEB ANNUAL CONFERENCE
FLORENCE 07-09 JULY 2026 with a map of the complex

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· Jun 26

A few flowers hanging on in my winter garden, #MyGarden #Flowers

Large red bromeliad inflorescence with a few yellowing green strappy leaves and a bed of dead oak leaves

A few jonquils (small umbels of white and yellow narcissus) in from of a stone urn (I call
It the Saxon font) which has some geraniums trailing from it and ground cover of stone and dead cherry leaves

Close up of a red geranium in a terra cotta window box

One light blue petunia and a few leaves with some powdery mildew and a smattering of dark blue lobelias in a window box hanging off a painted railing - it gets so sun here and I should move them to shelter them

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· May 15

Deadline extended to 31st May 2026 for papers for the Poisonous Plants Special issue in Annals of Botany, edited by me & Elizabeth Neilson (Copenhagen) 🧪⚕️🪴#PlantScience #crops #SpecializedMetabolism #herbivory #cyanogenesis #alkaloids #glucosinolates #EssentialOils #allelopathy #ChemicalEcology

Purple banner with picture of small solanum flowers to right and "Annals of Botany est 1887" (hard to read) TEXT:
CALL FOR PAPERS
POISONOUS PLANTS
Guest Editors: Ros Gleadow & Elizabeth Neilson
Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2026 [now 31st May]

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· May 13

Our Stenocarpus tree has lots of flowers this year. Even i can see them and I’m red/green colour blind #MyGarden #Flower

4 inflorescences of Pinwheels of larger red flowers (5 am across) - individual flowers like giant grevilleas. Leaves are large (20-30 cm) and lobed

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· May 13

Why does the WHO and many others keep minimising air borne transmission? Good article 🙈🙊🙉

Hantavirus is a pathogen with documented person-to-person transmission and high case fatality. Therefore, the starting point should not be to downplay the risk of airborne transmission until it is definitively proven. The starting point should be the immediate adoption of precautionary measures to reduce airborne transmission, such as respirator use by healthcare workers, cases, and close contacts; ventilation optimisation; avoidance of unfiltered air recirculation; and portable HEPA (high efficiency particulate air) filtration in all enclosed quarantine and transport settings.
On 8 May 2026, WHO issued several documents that point in different directions. A Disease Outbreak News report acknowledged possible person-to-person transmission, but largely framed precautions around droplet and contact transmission outside aerosol generating procedures.' By contrast, WHO's guidance for managing contacts of Andes virus cases and disembarkation from the cruise ship adopted much more precautionary

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· May 13

Join researchers on Konzo and cassava for 6th International Safe Cassava Network webinar with Global Plant Council 20 May; 9:00 CEST * Register now to secure your spot, connect with peers, and help shape the future of cassava production and use worldwide* us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Central circle showing photo of hands of a woman peeling cassava tubers in a circle, with clock colours behind. Logos of the Global plant Council and the International Safe Cassaava Network to top right

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· May 8

One of my best days ever was meeting and talking with David Attenborough at Monash Uni with my fellow SCI2010 Sci Comm leaders Kirsti and Allie (who took the photo) - Happy 100th to a man who has deeply affected all of us, and genuinely nice as well #DavidAttenborough

David Attenborough in blue shirt sleeved shirt with grinning blonde woman Kirsti Abbott to right and me - a brown haired wen on his left. Other people and museum
Posters behind - about 50 of us were invited

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· May 4

Registrations now open for the next Safe cassava webinar : Global Evidence on Konzo Incidence and Mortality: Findings from a Systematic Review 1990-2023. by Litos Raimundo (Portugal) and Elsa Maria Salvador (Mozambique) #Konzo #cassava #cyanide 🧪⚕️🪴🥔☠️ us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· May 2

My bromeliad is flowering again. These reproductive structures are extraordinary. The last one persisted for over 2 years - such a huge investment by the plant #MyGarden #Flowers

Spikey stiff red flowerlike structure ~20 cm across and more high, arising from the centre of whorls of succulent plant, against a back drop of autumn pin oak leaves leaves

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· Apr 10

So proud of daughter Lucinda Hartley on the release of her book "Finding Home: A guide to choosing a property that fits the life you want to live" It's being likened to the Home version of the Barefoot Investor #UrbanLife events.humanitix.com/finding-home...

Orange and white poster with picture of gorgeous looking 40 something woman with dark hair and white shirt in a circle with a copy of the book below.
Text: LUCINDAmHARTLEY
MULTI-AWARD-WINNING
URBAN DESIGNER, TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEUR AND ONE OF THE AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW'S TOP 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN, HELPING SHAPE BETTER CITIES AND SMARTER HOUSING SOLUTIONS.
HER NEW BOOK, FINDING HOME, RETHINKS HOME OWNERSHIP AND OFFERS A FRESH, PRACTICAL APPROACH TO BUYING AND LIVING WELL.
IN STORES APRIL 28!
MAJORSTREET.COM.AU

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· Apr 3

This looks interesting - a new pinky/red inflorescence poking out from the crown of Bromeliad leaves. The last ‘flower’ lived for over a year. Such a big investment in biomass #MyGarden 🌱🪴🌸

Whole of scrappy leaves with pinky-red leafy shaped things emerging from the centre. Background of blurred oak leaf hydrangeas

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· Mar 29

South Australia’s answer to the fuel crisis

Old horse drawn tram - double decker, with Clydesdale. People sitting on top deck. On the bridge between victor harbour and Granite island

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· Mar 28

Visiting Dean Nicholl’s eucalypt arboretum at Currency Creek SA for the 1st time - amazing collection of >800 species. #eucalypt #NationalEucalyptDay2026 🪴🌳🌱

Flowers of fucia gum - 5 large Red receptacles (~3-4cm) and yellow stamens hanging down

Dean Nichol (man in hat, grey jumper and field pants) with hand over a naturally small euc shrub with narrow leaves

Close up of a cluster of pale yellow eucalypt flowers (each about 1-2cm across) and some buds

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· Mar 25

Catching up with Bruce Webber - fellow lab rat mate from Melb Uni days. He’s now doing a great job as CEO of Bush Heritage - I was at their event at the Zoo wearing my Eucalypt Australia hat @eucalyptaus.bsky.social

Female in black smiling broadly - man in light collared shirt bending down to my level also smiling with a screen behind with a bird or something in it

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· Mar 24

My garden is a bit of a mess at the moment but these bright pots are bringing me pleasure #MyGarden #flowers 🌱🪴

Vertical shot: two pots with a bushy green back ground, stone wall and part of a teak bench and a concrete path. Left pale glazed pot with marigolds. Right is a terracotta pot (bucket size) full, full, full of bright pink daisies -

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· Mar 23

Nice to visit my old stamping ground - Botany @ Melbourne Uni. I was there for a lot of my life - left: Natural philosophy Annex where I did my Hons, MSc + PhD after 15 yr gap; right: botany where I did my undergrad #PlantScience #IAmABotanist

Yellow sandstone art deco building with tulip trees outside- PhD lab marked with pink markup scribble (those tulip trees are cyanogenic)

Early 1900s stone building with arched entry, brick paved path to a step with makeshift ramp, euc trees on each side and green grass ; 2 storey with white mullion windows (there were silver birches in my day)

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· Mar 23

Celebrating #NationalEucalyptDay2026 - left is CEO of Eucalypt Australia announcing the winner of #EucalyptOfTheYear , right is this Patrick Baker, this year’s Dahl medalist for sustained contribution to eucalypts @eucalyptaus.bsky.social

Women at Le tire , screen to right showing image of marri, euc of the year

Man 50-60 standing at lecture wearing a large medal on a table ribbon. Screen shows image of forest with title
‘forest dynamics in a changing world’

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· Mar 23

Ever wondered why I always wear a KN95 on the train? @airspotrob.bsky.social

Graph: time of day versus CO2 - Danger red over 1500ppm indicated with arrow with arrow saying ‘train trip’ around 9am. Otherwise safe ‘green’ 500 - 700 ppm when I was outside or with all windows open at an event

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· Mar 18

Take a break from doom scrolling and enjoy the ocean at Torquay (Vic) today🌸💦

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· Mar 10

Great to see my member @mon4kooyong.bsky.social at the Parliamentary Friends of #MEcfs and #LongCovid - emphasising the need for release of money from the #MRFF to support research - organised by Emerge Australia - link to follow

Screen grab from webinar - left is woman seated at a white tablecloth table with a microphone; right is an outline of the program

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· Mar 6

It must be autumn - the garden is filling up with spiders #MyGarden

Dead leaf rolled into a cigar-shape suspended on spider webs between bushes with blurred green grass and ferns in the background

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· Feb 26

“It actually doesn't take much to be considered a difficult woman. That's why there are so many of us.” Jane Goodall #AusPol

Picture of Jane Goodall as an older woman with one of her quotes and the source: It actually doesn't take much to be considered a difficult woman.
That's why there are so many of us.
Jane Goodall
@fema
quotient

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· Feb 11

Ran into my neice at the International Day of Women and Girls in STEMM event organised by the Monash AthenaSwan advisory group. Maybe having a mad 🤪 scientist for an aunty has helped her pursue her work

Panel of 5 women leaders from medicine, engineering, IT and science on chairs on raised Dias with slide of them behind and an Athena Swan banner

Left - you get women with fair hair; right older woman with brown hair. Both smiling.

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· Feb 7

Steve Long’s legacy of PhD students Steve>Colin>Marjorie>Sophie - I suggested they pose like models (left) given they did modelling - only Steve was up for it. At @sebiology.bsky.social Edinburgh, 2023

Four please standing in a line, 2 women, 2 men all smiling , turned slightly towards the camera. Steve long on the right has one hand on his hip in a modelling pose. The rest look a bit bemused

2 women, 2 men standing in a line (increasing age from L to R) , all smiling , turned slightly towards the camera. Hands folded relaxed in front of them. All with conference name takes . Plain black background. Steve right- beaming.

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· Feb 6

Cracker of a day in Melbourne #MyGarden

Bright blue blue sky fringed with leaves of various trees

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· Jan 29

Official version of our latest paper is out on Reproductive investment in native and invasive populations of Pittosporum undulatum👇. Here we are collecting some of the data. I lost my car keys that day. Ben found them when revisiting the site. #Trees #InviasiveSpecies #FieldWork

Two people in blue raincoats, smiling, in the rain with Pittosporum and eucalypt trees behind

Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙🕯️💚@rgleadow· Jan 24

Shut the windows - air filters work!