The Next Gen Scientists meeting was incredible! Thank you New Phytologist for investing into ECRs in #PlantScience and thanks to everyone involved for making this such a memorable week! Excited to see the fruit from this conference! #npnextgen #classof24

Pondering an expansion of my environmental history of Iowa slides to the great state of Illinois, following some nudges from people on this app. Here is a start. Illinois Landcover in the Early 1800s from Public Land Survey System surveyor notes. clearinghouse.isgs.illinois.edu/data/landcover…

It's time to donate #usearch to the scientific community, with many sincere thanks to users who supported this research through license fees.

I’m proud to have taken part in last week’s New Phytologist next generation scientists #npnextgen meeting with so many exceptional early career scientists – inspirational.

This post is on behalf of our colleague and friend Priyanga Amarasekare, who is not on X and continues to endure disappointing and a draconian treatment by UCLA. She has asked us to share an update via this thread.

The latest from the lab on plant-mycorrhizal fungal specificity by Tyler d’Entremont.

Taxon-specific DNA barcoding thresholds in Fungi: much needed, but does it work??? Simple comparison of species-level thresholds (as % in figure) for ITS2 reveals high incongruence and no correlation among teams. Reviewers, please do not insist on using these!

Interested in plant-microbe interactions? Let us know (forms.gle/nYWUyLtXYmrfP6…)! With NSF support, we will build a database and international network of researchers (especially early career) across country boundaries. B Sikes @Stephaniekivlin @Aimeeclassen Amy Zanne

Boars head at $100,000/ lb sounds about right

Let's face it, the new frontier in community ecology is not space but TIME (do I hear some *GASPS*?)! In our new paper just out in Ecology Letters we propose a new conceptual and methodological framework to quantify and analyze this temporal dimension. doi.org/10.1111/ele.14…

Best of luck to our champion Imane Khelif in her quarterfinal bout tonight Go get em girl 🇩🇿🥊 #Olympics #Paris2024

"Our findings show that the impact of pesticide use on cancer incidence may rival that of smoking." #agtwitter #ialegis

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Elhokar inventing a new economy for the shattered plains

Cool new review on how mycorrhizae mediate broader ecosytems effects via interactions with surrounding soil communities besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Am I getting better at writing, or am I just learning how to do it wrong in new and exciting ways?

If you’re planning on applying for the #NSFPRFB please come to the workshop I’m hosting next week Registration: tiny.utk.edu/pd-nsf-prfb

Never too early to get em started picking roots!!

Insane improvement