Pooja Nathan

@pothebug.bsky.social

PhD from the University of Toronto on the biology of ant-EFN interactions. Looking for a postdoc in plant-insect interactions| UG - IISc Bengaluru 2019 | 🌿🪲🎶🐈🍲

Atwood 2026 is just around the corner! 🕺💃 The schedule will be released soon, but there will be an incredible lineup of talks from students, postdocs, faculty, and invited speakers. 😎 The artwork this year was made by the wonderful Martin Henry, Michelle Liu, & Youngseo Jeong.

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The file with the final figures is finally finished! Sadly the stochastic map is way too high fidelity for the publication - but if you'd like the high resolution PDF of that figure to make a nice poster, here's the link! therusselllab.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Widespread evolution of poricidal flowers: a striking example of morphological convergence across flowering plants

Abstract. The evolution of tube-like floral morphologies that control pollen release via small openings (functionally poricidal flowers) represents a taxon

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Avery Russell@draverbee.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I cannot believe our work is finally out there and in @journal-evo.bsky.social ! This was an enormous group effort! We provide an updated estimate of the number of buzz pollinated angiosperm species, genera, and families, look at consequences for diversification, number of transitions, and more!

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

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Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.

🎉 Our collaborative TropiRoot data paper “TropiRoot 1.0: Database of tropical root characteristics across environments” is out in Ecology! Explore 8,000+ standardized tropical root trait records from 104 studies across 25 countries. Data are freely available ! 🌿 doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... #tropiroots

TropiRoot 1.0: Database of tropical root characteristics across environments

Tropical ecosystems contain the world's largest biodiversity of vascular plants. Yet, our understanding of tropical functional diversity and its contribution to global diversity patterns is constrain...

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The second chapter of my PhD is now available as a preprint! We sampled ant-plant interactions across a ~20° latitudinal gradient across the Indian subcontinent to test the biotic interactions hypothesis for mutualism. Check it out!

bioRxiv Ecology@biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · 2y ago

Are ant-plant mutualisms stronger at lower latitudes? A case study using the castor plant in the Indian subcontinent https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.07.631652v1