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Adriana Romero-Olivares, PhD

@fungi-lover.bsky.social

Asst Prof #Fungi #ClimateChange #Latina #Hermosillense 🍄🌎🧶👩🏽‍🔬🇲🇽 - she/her - guinea pig fan - mom 🥰🥰 P.D. posteo en inglés ww.fungiloverlab.com

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Terry McGlynn@hormiga.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The more time I spend on this earth, I learn more about scientists who have carefully crafted a reputation for being super woke about social justice and equity, use this as a way to recruit minoritized students into their labs, and then can't be bothered to give them the time of day.

Noam Ross@noamross.net · 8mo ago

NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

Mike Barker@barkerms.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I'm recruiting PhD students for the Barker Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study plant evolutionary genomics - polyploidy, hybridization & machine learning for genome evolution. Work with Selaginella, Xanthisma, Brassica & more. Funding available via CAMBIUM Fellowships. Reach out if interested! 🧬🌵🤖

The allotetraploid lycophyte Selaginella rupincola growing among the boulders at Cochise Stronghold in the Dragoon Mountains southeast of Tucson, Arizona.Xanthisma spinulosum growing outside a gym in Tucson, Arizona.Selaginella arizonica X eremophila hybrid zone at Alamo Canyon in Organ Pipe National Monument.A Dieteria sp. being visited by a skipper in the White Mountains of Arizona.
Scott Ferrenberg@scottferrenberg.bsky.social · last yr.

Our most recent labor of love, "Quantifying potential abiotic drivers of the ‘nurse plant effect’ in two dominant shrub species of the northern Chihuahuan Desert" #drylands #desert_ecology link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Quantifying potential abiotic drivers of the ‘nurse plant effect’ in two dominant shrub species of the northern Chihuahuan Desert - Oecologia

Aggregations of plants surrounded by sparsely vegetated areas in drylands can arise when larger plants facilitate the recruitment of smaller “protégé” plants—a phenomenon referred to as the “nurse plant” effect. Numerous drivers can generate a nurse plant effect; efforts to simultaneously quantify multiple drivers are rare. Given higher densities of protégés beneath the foundational shrubs Larrea tridentata and Neltuma glandulosa, multiple potential mechanisms underlying the nurse plant effect were quantified in the Chihuahuan Desert, New Mexico, USA. As expected, there was a greater concentration of soil nutrients and lower photosynthetically active radiation and soil temperatures beneath shrubs. Throughout the study, however, soil moisture was consistently higher in interspaces despite the greater water holding capacity of soils beneath shrubs. Nutrient concentrations were greater beneath N. glandulosa than L. tridentata, while protégé numbers did not significantly differ among the species. The canopy size of both species was positively related to understory shading, and the size of N. glandulosa was positively related to soil nitrogen and microbial biomass. The results of this study suggest that much of the abiotic nurse plant effect of this low-latitude system is explained by radiation interception and concomitant reductions in temperatures experienced by protégé plants as opposed to the direct effects of shrubs on soil water availability. As global change pressures intensify in drylands, a loss of perennial plant cover could have negative effects on soil biogeochemical pools and plant diversity. Quantification of the mechanisms driving the nurse plant effect across environmental and climatic gradients could improve our understanding of plant community dynamics in drylands.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · last yr.

Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper! We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media. Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑 doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

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Theresa Laverty@theresalaverty.bsky.social · last yr.

Enjoying the cool weather in Baltimore this week for #ESA2025. Come hear about the long-distance movements of lesser long-nosed bats that my colleagues and I have been documenting this Thursday at 8:45am (COS 128 - Behavior: Migration and Movement 1). Please don't be afraid to say hi!

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Adriana Romero-Olivares, PhD@fungi-lover.bsky.social · 2y ago

I do feel very lucky for the most part! The rest of the time, it's mostly an existential life crisis 😝 "Some days, I feel like I’m the luckiest person on the planet because of the work that I get to do and the students that I get to work with." newsroom.nmsu.edu/news/faculty...

Faculty Focus: Adriana Romero Olivares, College of Arts and Sciences

Adriana Romero Olivares joined the Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences in August 2020 as an assistant professor. Her day-to-day activities vary greatly depending on the day...

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Adriana Romero-Olivares, PhD@fungi-lover.bsky.social · 2y ago

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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