I am officially a published author/scientist! Got an email that this was finally published online after over a year of peer review. Lots more projects and manuscripts to write, but it’s nice to have this work from undergrad out there and finished. 📚🌳🍄🟫
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I will be giving a Bambi this Thursday on Barro Colorado Island over my first chapter characterizing the root-associated fungal communities in Podocarpus forests across Panama and preview some interesting greenhouse work coming up!! 🌲🧫
Endophytes with mycorrhizal potentials: biological and ecological implications
#mycorrhizalpotentials
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Podocarp root culturing complete! This month was definitely a mad dash to collect, plate, and isolate. Finished with 202 isolates with over 75 unique morphologies, a few being quite dominate. Excited to sequence and identify these! 🧫🌲
#podocarpus #fungi #panama #tropics #ecology #
Culturing Podocarpus oleifolius from the Fortuna Reserve in Western Panama. I love the unique root morphology of this clade and watching their associated fungi emerge while enjoying life on Barro Colorado Island! 🌲 🍄🟫 🧫
#podocarpus #roots #fungalecology #mycology #tropicalecology #fungi
A Democratic Mayor arrested.
A Democratic Congresswoman indicted.
A Democratic Senator tackled and detained.
A Democratic State Representative killed.
A Democratic State Representative in critical condition.
We can all see where this is going.
We often measure AM fungal colonisation assuming it tells us something about function. But… what does it tell us?
A short Letter where I ask what root colonisation really means for plant growth, P uptake, and defence.
#Mycorrhiza #fungi #plantmicrobiome
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Wrapping up field work in Panama these next couple weeks then headed to #MSAfungi25! Excited to meet other mycologist/fungal ecologist and talk about science. If you want to learn more about liana root-associated fungal communities stop by my poster 🍄🌲
From Brian McGill at Dynamic Ecology: why does it take so long for your papers to get reviewed? As Taylor almost said: It's you, hi, you're the problem, it's you. (*Not necessarily for EVERY value of "you") dynamicecology.wordp...
Front cover of Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian. The design features a snake, black bird, and fungi entwined in the leaves of a branch.
Published in the US today (UK in July) - looks amazing! 🤩
Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
www.spiegelandgrau.com/forest-eupho... #queer #LGBTQ #pride #nature #PrideInSTEM #SkyBooks #BookSky 🌈📚
Beautiful fungal pathogen damage on Castilla elastica (Caucho) saplings on Pipeline Road, Panama 🧫🌱
If you want to learn about my work in tropical ectomycorrhizal mushrooms associated with the endangered black oak listen to this fun podcast from Mushroom revival!! 🌳 🍄🍄
Commit the sin of empathy.
A red Amanita fruiting with leaf litter around
How does variation in ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity affect tree growth? What are the knowledge gaps to more fully answering this question?
See my review out today in Fungal Ecology: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
Cliffs are extreme environments home to unique and diverse plants. ⛰️
Felipe Morales Armijo, a SPUN Underground Explorer, is researching how mycorrhizal fungi might help plants grow in these harsh cliff habitats. Learn more about the Underground Explorers Program: https://buff.ly/4iM6lMg
A neat example of constructed wetlands in the middle of metropolitan Sydney. Compartmentalised to allow maintenance and vegetation management. Lots of aquatic insects (a lot of dragonflies buzzing about) but no mosquitoes. Green Square, Sydney.
Great day in the field looking for Tachigali trees! 🌳☀️@dallingjim.bsky.social
Sooooo if this whole "biological sex" EO is really happening, biologists are going to make as much noise about it as possible, right?
Professional societies, universities, individual research groups? It's really incumbent on us (that's a "biologists us" here) to make a BIG FUCKING STINK
Illustration showing a diverse group of four people standing in a line, with a person at the right looking back at them with an arm extended. The image features a caption that reads, "WORKING LIFE — One mentor isn’t enough. Here's how I build a network of mentors."
"One email at a time, one informational interview after another, I became comfortable, confident, and strategic in building my network of mentors."
One mentor isn’t enough, wrote Erika Moore in this 2021 #ScienceWorkingLife essay. https://scim.ag/3DWR4YV #NationalMentoringMonth
Fun watching this mating display this morning in Gamboa
Finally started packing for my trip to Panama to complete field work for the first chapter of my PhD! I’m so excited to explore these unique habitats of tropical podocarp trees and do some science over the next few months!! It feels very full circle each time I return in a new stage of my life 🍄🟫🌲☀️
I bet the mammoth enjoys this more than I do ❄️
My eyes focus to the small Marasmius fighting for room on the bark of an oak tee. Among the mosses, centipedes, and lichens emerges this complex microcosm. My favorite thing about nature is how we can focus on different scales and still see the equaled beauty and complexity in all. 🍄🟫
Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Happy Winter Solstice 🍄☀️
Yes! Ask to speak with current *and* former students. In person/on the phone if possible. Ask direct questions about their experiences and lab culture (e.g., "if you were starting over, would you choose this lab again").
Finals wrap up this week and I am officially done with my first semester of grad courses and teaching! Next stop, Panama in January for a few months to complete field work for my first chapter. Excited for this change in scenery and to leave freezing Illinois. 🍄🟫🌲
Our first Bluesky post contains some good news for #fungi! After a long history of being unprotected, COP16 marked a huge advancement in the conservation of fungi. 🍄🥳
Thanks to work led by our partners at Fungi Foundation, The Fungal Conservation Pledge was introduced at #COP16. bit.ly/3Vl9GHL
I have just created the fungal systematics starter pack. Who do you think is missing?
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A photo of the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, taken in 1993. Five men, dressed in white are the surviving members of the original choir. 115 other men, dressed in black, stand in for the original members who died of AIDS. A caption reads, "How are so many young people LGBGQ all of a sudden? Where are all the older queer people?"
Today (Dec. 1) is World AIDS Day. Spare a thought for all those who perished. 🌈🏳️🌈
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