Dartmouth has an endowment of $7.9 billion.

And yet, two thirds of its graduate student workers are rent-burdened.

Half of its graduate workers have not seen a dentist in years.

Does that make sense to you?

Planning on making it to #ESA2024 in Long Beach, CA? Need funding to help pay for registration/travel?

Apply for our $500 Microbial Ecology Section Trainee Meeting Attendance Grant!!!! 💰🍄‍🟫

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It is outrageous that while Dartmouth has an endowment of $7.9 billion, their graduate workers are struggling to get by. I stand in solidarity with 800 workers of GOLD-UE ON STRIKE striking for a living wage and decent benefits.
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This is what Dartmouth 🌲 administration brought onto campus. Fully peaceful, inclusive protest. Arrested students, faculty, reporters.

RT! The ESA Microbial Ecology Section is readying up for #ESA2024 by hosting a t-shirt design contest to help us fundraise 😎

🦠 The winning artist gets $100 and a free shirt!

🦠 Details and submission form are included below!

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doi.org/10.1111/jzo.13…: Fascinating research shows that black-backed jackals play a crucial role in dispersing !nara melon seeds in the Namib Desert, driven by scent cues, illuminating vital ecological interactions. #WildlifeResearch #SeedDispersal #NamibDesert

New study out today in New Phytologist! Lead author Paul Metzler, Dr. Kelly Ksiazek Mikenas and I found that inoculation with native AM fungi shifts community trajectories in urban green roofs.
#mycorrhiza #greenroof #urbanecology

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A special December issue coincides with #COP28 and spotlights:

🌎Climate extremes and microbial ecology
🌍Global warming and pathogen emergence
🌏Microbes and greener plastics
🚨A call to include microbiologists at climate change talks

More here 👉nature.com/collections/hd…

Watch out competition at the Dartmouth Lone Pine Pumpkin Derby, the Dr. Bala Chaudhary lab is getting ready. #LonePinePumpkinDerby

Let's stop writing 'microbial' when you mean bacteria only. 🙂

Say hello to 2021 master's alumna Sarah Cuprewich, who was in Greenland this summer doing field work for her PhD program at Dartmouth 🌲. Sarah is pictured installing a dust collector (to look for fungal spores travelling via wind) next to a glacier & at a Summit Station. 🙌😎

🧵This year's Joint Science Education Project (JSEP) is underway.

The international program supported by the NSF & the Greenland Government gives opportunities for students from the US, Greenland & Denmark to gain hands-on experience in polar research.

📷: Lars Demant-Poort

So excited to have this opportunity to work in Greenland with JSEP Greenland !!!

Attention WiSE Community!
We are excited to expand our reach as an ESA Section. Show your support for WiSE by signing this petition if you are a current ESA member. Becoming an ESA Section will offer new opportunities for women in our network.
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Thanks to generous funding from U.S. National Science Foundation and @Dartmouth we’re hosting an in-person conference to envision the future of #WOCinEEB in scientific leadership. July 25-27 at Dartmouth. We still have a few spots left for trainees!
Apply here:
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WE WON OUR UNION!

No fungal ecology workshop is complete without a mushroom foray! A fun(gal) finale to a great week. 😁🍄

Awesome day in the lab hosting Cameron Egan for a fungal sequencing workshop. Training the next generation of fungal ecologists Dartmouth 🌲!

Bonjour mes amis! The lab is en route to #ESA2022 #CSEE2022 and looking forward to some awesome science this week in #Montreal . We’ll have talks in SS19, COS219, Symp18, and a poster in PS30 - be sure to say hi to Paul Metzler Liam Nokes Sarah Cuprewich and me!