If not for Tim Curry, Brennan wouldn't have gotten a job at CollegeHumor, and Dropout would be a very different place today...
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Inquire within for more than is on the tin... My first social media account outside of Tumblr. Just a randumb, depressed, GAD/SAD & CFS addled Millennial. Blank/suspect profiles will be blocked.
I feel so broken and empty... I'm touch-starved but have to fight to not flinch when touched. I want to be close to someone but I've lost the ability to trust people. Besides the depression and simmering anxiety I've got AD(H)D w/o the hyperactivity or brain-fog making it difficult to type.
🌱🍄 RESEARCH PAPER 🍄🌱 Nitrogen scarcity shifts soil fungi roles: some help plants adapt, others drain resources. Species identity of beneficial fungi determines plant survival strategies, challenging assumptions of universal benefits in nutrient-poor ecosystems - Zhang et al. #PlantScience 🧪
The Trump administration’s move to dismantle the #RoadlessRule could hasten the extinction of more than 400 threatened and endangered plants and animals protected under the #EndangeredSpeciesAct, according to the analysis we released today ⬇️
Resisting the Roadless Rule Rollback
Trump’s USDA wants to undo the landmark Roadless Area Conservation Rule. That would open about 58.5 million acres of wild, unfragmented national forests to road construction, logging, and other develo...
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Gray whales along the West Coast have faced a catastrophic die-off this year. At least 187 gray #whales have stranded and died so far in 2026, according to NOAA. To save these whales, we petitioned the National Marine Fisheries Service to protect them under the #ESA. Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/4hSvXZP
I feel like I'm not even a person sometimes... I can't relate to most people and when called upon to speak with someone I freeze up and struggle through conversation wondering if I'm making sense to them. Besides the depression makikg me not want to socialize I have found it's just a chore to make
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🌱🦠 RESEARCH 🦠🌱 The keystone bacterium Massilia modulates hyphosphere functions and promotes arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal growth via host-dependent interactions in maize, sorghum, and medicago - Sun et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪
Itching like a bastard today... Throat is scratchy too... 😖
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🍄 TECHNICAL INNOVATION 🍄 Metzen & Bucher introduce the sieving and sucrose centrifugation (SSC) technique, which combines, optimizes and semi-automates existing methods to efficiently extract diverse fungal hyphae from natural soils and preserve attached microbes. #PlantScience 🧪
I just want to wander off into some foggy countryside in the twilight at dusk or dawn and just become one with the mist and dreams... I feel so empty most of the time anymore...
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🌲 EXPERT VIEW 🌲 A discussion of recent advances in how resource exchange between plants and ectomycorrhizas can drive responses of ectomycorrhizal fungal communities to nitrogen availability, along with the effects on forest carbon cycling - Filipa Cox 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪
Stronger #drought tolerance in C4 compared to C3 #grass crops is achieved via both avoidance and #resistance strategies academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-... #PlantScience @jxbotany.bsky.social @sebiology.bsky.social @plant-sci.bsky.social @plantresearch.bsky.social @grassscienceseeds.bsky.social
Stronger drought tolerance in C4 compared to C3 grass crops is achieved via both avoidance and resistance strategies
Abstract. Grasses comprise many of the world’s major cereal crops, yet the physiological mechanisms underlying their resilience to environmental stress rem
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I have done nothing productive all day... It all feels pointless. I just want to sleep forever.
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Really not feeling like going into work tonight. Despite the temperature being acceptable level for a change, I'm aching, tired and generally sick of the worst aspects of retail with having to heft shit that exacerbates my joint and back issues in quick succession. In other words, same old crap...😮💨
I feel a strange kinship with Snufkin despite never having read the Moomintroll books or growing up with the cartoons. Far older with many more heartache and regrets, but despite being sedentary I just feel like I'm kind of wandering through life and never really feel I belong to a place.
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The Trump admin. just released its plan to undo the #RoadlessRule and remove protections from nearly 45 million acres of wild, intact, national forests and 70,000 miles of rivers and streams. If finalized, this move will open pristine #PublicLands to development across 37 states.
I just feel like I don't want to exist most of the time anymore... I don't feel like I fit in anywhere, I'm losing my mind, my health is bad, I'm stuck in a dead-end job that I'm becoming unable to perform and everything just keeps getting worse. There's nothing to look forward to except more pain.
🍄 REVIEW 🍄 Advanced characterization techniques (nanoSIMS, micro-CT, XRF, and XANES) and image analysis tools enable specific elemental and spatial mapping of mycorrhizal plant and fungal interactions and function in situ - Birt et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience🧪
Can't sleep for assorted pain and various mental unease... Wish it would stay overcast and rainy. Easier on my eyes and temperatures that are below 90° are more than welcome. Unfortunately the temperature is going to go back up too quickly AND it's going to be more humid, so FML. 😑
Not sure if this is going around, but no better night for it. 😏
Fish maw = death. https://therevelator.org/fish-maw-conservation-nightmare/
Fish Maw: An Emerging Ocean Conservation Nightmare • The Revelator
Like the early days of the shark fin trade, the mostly unregulated market for dried fish swim bladders has exploded in popularity, devastating species around the world.
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BREAKING: We’ve documented significant clearing of protected desert land inside Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument near Quitobaquito Springs for the Trump admin’s second border wall that will run parallel to the existing 30-foot-tall wall. Read: sl1nk.com/jrbj7yv
Some coverage of our work in #BigBend #NationalPark by @democracynow.org #HandsOffPublicLands #NoBorderWall
Democracy Now!@democracynow.org · last wk.The Trump administration has paused construction of border infrastructure in Texas's Big Bend National Park following public criticism of the controversial project. Crews were filmed bulldozing pristine desert wilderness earlier this month, sparking rare bipartisan pushback.
REVIEW Lee et al. review evidence on how common mycorrhizal networks mediate inter-plant signalling, highlighting mechanistic, evolutionary and applied perspectives that reframe crops as communication-connected systems enhancing community-level defence 🍄 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience🧪
Feeling really weary... Half watching a YT narration about the Epic of Gilgamesh and doom-scrolling trying to find a distraction from the anxiety and depression. Wish I could find friends or more hopefully a partner with whom I could share my existence. Things feel empty and lonely too often...
