Read our new publication lead by @ellewoodsofmyco.bsky.social on the effect of different #nitrogen inputs on the fungus community living inside #saltmarsh plants! Stay tuned for more results on the response of sediment microbial communities, plant growth and carbon uptake, and sediment geochemistry.

Kylea Garces, PhD@ellewoodsofmyco.bsky.social · 3mo ago

First bit of postdoc work out! Nitrogen form matters. In Spartina salt marshes, NH4+ and NO3− had distinct effects on fungal endophytes with lasting impacts on fungal growth in culture. A reminder that nutrient enrichment can create legacy effects in the mycobiome. 🍄

Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love” “Together, we are America”

After taking our #Spartina belowground biomass cores at North Inlet-Winyah Bay, we sorted that biomass into three categories. Do different #nitrogen inputs to #saltmarshes affect allocation to long-lived rhizomes, root tissues devoted to resource acquisition, or turnover into the dead biomass pool?

What an amazing team of students who made this possible, Henry and Defne, and especially @myadarsan.bsky.social ! Thank you. That was a wrap on fieldwork for the Not All Nitrogen project (Sept. 2025)! Stay tuned for results and publications.

Congratulations to @myadarsan.bsky.social (and the other winners!) for winning the best grad student talk award at CERF! So well deserved! Thanks for another amazing meeting @cerfscience.bsky.social can’t wait until 2027!

Are you still at CERF tomorrow at 2??? Then you should come to my talk and learn about Spartina (alterniflora and patens a double whammy 👀), fungi, and carbon (oh my)!! You’ll get to see why I had to lie down every sampling point to have snack time this past field season!!! #CERF2025

Are you still at CERF tomorrow at 2??? Then you should come to my talk and learn about Spartina (alterniflora and patens a double whammy 👀), fungi, and carbon (oh my)!! You’ll get to see why I had to lie down every sampling point to have snack time this past field season!!! #CERF2025

Fun Trails and Sails event this week showcasing new work centered on how estuary and shellfish health are intertwined and the need for people to foster both. We always get engaged attendees from the local community and make great new connections! 1/5 trailsandsails.org

But if contaminants are in the water, shellfish may ingest those as well, with negative effects on the shellfish and harvestability. @bowenlab.bsky.social and @myadarsan.bsky.social are using new approaches to better identify sources and types of contaminants which may help mediate inputs. 3/5

it’s hot out i wasn’t mentally prepared for the 50f -> 85f yet

Putting Science Engagement into Practice with Dr. Matthew Costa | COMPASS www.compassscicomm.org/putting-scie...

Putting Science Engagement into Practice with Dr. Matthew Costa | COMPASS

Dr. Matthew Costa’s path to conservation and coastal science began as a curious kid drawn to explore coastal ecosystems in his hometown. That early fascination deepened in college, where hands-on […]

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Tomorrow! May 7. Learn all about careers outside of academia—from tribal consultants to private sector work and beyond. Register at: lternet.edu/events/91881/

Check out today’s YouTube release, Why Do LTERs Matter to Natural Areas Practitioners? Special thanks to the Bureau of Land Management, the USDA Forest Service, Esri, and @uslter.bsky.social. Stay tuned! We're dropping new YouTube content every Friday at 11 a.m. ET. Link in profile.

chopped all my baby spartinas roots off… fingers crossed the root induction media does its job!!!! 🧪🧫🌱

Know any soon to graduate or recently graduated undergrads interested in a full year, paid postbac research position in microbiome sciences? Have them join our zoom Q&A session on Friday, April 11, 11:30am-12:30pm PST. More info here: sites.google.com/berkeley.edu...

This is absolute insanity. We must do everything we can to protect our international students right now.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · last yr.

Hundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked. The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...

All she did was write an op-ed. That's it. One of my past mentees is a current international student at Tufts. This is absolutely terrifying.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last yr.

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

hope to see many of you there!!!

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 2y ago

SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING! To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

Are you a scientist or student heading to a @standupforscience.bsky.social ‬rally this Friday? We want to hear from you. Tell us about yourself and why you’re going, how far you’re traveling, why you’re fired up, and whether there will be car snacks. Call or text us at (646) 767-6532.

If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti... Please share widely

HEY BOSTON! 📣☀️ MARCH 7TH, MASSACHUSETTS STATE CAPITOL! Join us to #standupforscience2025 and make your voice heard! SEE YOU THERE! www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience20225

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!? Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one! #standupforscience2025

not a drill first hypothetical “sterile” baby spartina alterniflora popped up today 🌱🌱🌱🥹🥹🥹🧫🧫🧫

Flood it. Bombard it. Wreck it.

Proud to be part of this awesome team! Thanks to @balachaudhary.bsky.social and @khadlily.bsky.social, unstoppable forces in EcoEvo 💜💜 @wocineeb.bsky.social has done a lot for me and other POC in EcoEvo so please help us protect groups like this www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Protect US racial affinity groups

On its first day, the Trump administration released several executive orders terminating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, calling them “illegal,” “immoral,” and “discriminatory” (1, 2)...

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As a former REU student, this sucks. The REU program was my first taste in R1 research while attending a liberal arts college. We need REUs.

Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈@davidimiller.bsky.social · 2y ago

This helps to understand what's going on with the REUs (Research Experience for Undergraduates): On Feb 13, NSF said: "Although we [had earlier] sent many of you emails expressing our plans to recommend for funding...We deeply regret that we are not going to be able to hold to all of those plans."

AND THERE IS A SINGLE BABY YALL I AM A PLANT MOM!!!

If you are the parent, close relative, mentor, or part of the village of a Black, Latine, or Native college student, then PLEASE check on, pour into, and affirm them. Trust me when I tell you they are STRUGGLING right now. You don't have to attended the school to remind them "I'm here."

Go Mya go!!! 💛

Plantae.org@plantaeofficial.bsky.social · 2y ago

#BlackHistoryMonth Plant Scientist Spotlight - Meet Mya Darsan!🌱 👉 See the full list of incredible plant scientists featured at https://buff.ly/41fCJQn #plantscience

#BlackHistoryMonth Plant Scientist Spotlight - Meet Mya Darsan!🌱 👉 See the full list of incredible plant scientists featured at https://buff.ly/41fCJQn #plantscience