Help fund our awesome study on cryptogam communities on San Bruno Mountain! #ecology #lichen #moss #california experiment.com/projects/epi...
Epiphytic cryptogam communities on San Bruno Mountain
San Bruno Mountain in the San Francisco Bay Area has sharp microclimate contrasts from summer fog. These conditions support epiphytic cryptogams—lichens and mosses relying on atmospheric moisture—but ...
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I made a bot that imagines basketball scores if we played by Jeopardy! rule aka you lose points for misses…
(W)NBA scores with Jeopardy! scoring@nbajeopardyscoring.bsky.social · last yr.🏀 WNBA Penalty Scoring (July 30, 2025) Rules: -2pts/2pt miss, -3pts/3pt miss, -1pt/FT miss Fever@Mercury: 107-101→28-9 Wings@Dream: 85-88→4-11 Lynx@Liberty: 100-93→4--4 🎯No winners changed
Have you ever wondered what "species" of #Azolla there are in California given the fact that they all look the same? Well look no further! New preprint with @tribblelab.bsky.social @ixchelgr.bsky.social @crothfels.bsky.social and @fernway.bsky.social #CCGP www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Landscape genomics and demography of California Azolla
Azolla was collected and sequenced across California as a part of the California Conservation Genomics Project. We identify three major populations of Azolla in the state. Out of these groups, we are ...
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Azolla caroliniana genome! @fernway.bsky.social @tribblelab.bsky.social @crothfels.bsky.social #CCGP academic.oup.com/jhered/advan...
“The genome assembly of the duckweed fern, Azolla caroliniana”
Abstract. Azolla is a genus of freshwater ferns that is economically important as a nitrogen-fixing biofertilizer, biofuel, bioremediator, and for potentia
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The nitrogen-fixing #fern #Azolla has a complex #microbiome characterized by varying degrees of cophylogenetic signal New #AJB research by @mickischill.bsky.social, Forrest Freund, @tribblelab.bsky.social, @fernway.bsky.social & @crothfels.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany
New #Azolla #microbiome #CCGP paper! With @tribblelab.bsky.social @crothfels.bsky.social and @fernway.bsky.social bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The nitrogen‐fixing fern Azolla has a complex microbiome characterized by varying degrees of cophylogenetic signal
Premise Azolla is a genus of floating ferns that has closely evolved with a vertically transmitted obligate cyanobacterium endosymbiont—Anabaena azollae—that fixes nitrogen. There are also other les...
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New #liverwort #microbiome preprint just dropped! With @ixchelgr.bsky.social Check out our work using the #CCGP data! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The microbiome of Calasterella californica is shaped mostly by the genetics of the host thalli
Premise of the study: Plant microbiomes have been shown to affect essential life processes like plant growth, defense mechanisms, and stress responses. Much of the work done on this topic has focused ...
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Two new #hornwort papers from our group out in Nature Plants @natureplants.bsky.social today - a great way to celebrate the new year! 1/4
I wrote a poem for the nature of our times project! natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/the-interloc...
The Interlocutor - The Nature of Our Times
A fish goes blblblblblblbl; A bear doesn’t mind. The tree says shshshshsh To the birds—many of whom We already know. It is unknown the sound of moss Or the language of most insects. And if I said some...
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