With all due respect - isn't this just an enrichment culture? Why is it surprising that diverse communities become far less diverse when supplied only with glucose under static conditions and passaged to select for rapid growers? science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Soil nerds - the biennial meeting of the Soil Ecology Society meeting is coming up soon. This is an awesome meeting that is worth attending. Hope to see you there! 2024sesmeeting.com

Can microbes in the soil impact plant flavor? We tried to find out.

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by Walsh et al.

Corinne Walsh Noah Fierer #soilmicrobes

New paper out: Can soil microbes influence the flavor of a harvested crop? Does a microbial 'terroir' exist? shorturl.at/fsuQ8

Jonah Ventures is looking for a PhD-level scientist to develop and apply air DNA analyses for biodiversity assessment and air quality monitoring linkedin.com/jobs/view/3833…

I love unusual microbes, but I find the weirdness of protists a bit overwhelming

Uggghh - your regular reminder that soil network analyses do not necessarily provide the insights you might think. Just read a paper that makes my head hurt (and not in a good way)

Rare opportunity to ski in the Boulder foothills today (without hitting rocks). Can't complain.

Colorado for the win

Lab pet calendar has dropped!

Temps in my office hovered around 55degF all day today. Remind me again how the university justifies exorbitant overhead on grants?

This is really cool. Nematodes use siderophores to locate their bacterial prey: pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…