#firstyearfeature is back... You read about Mari's scientific work before but did you know she also does botanical art and watercolor paintings? Welcome to the Oono lab Mari Irving!

This is my first first-author paper, which is on defense trait evolution in Dogwoods!! I am very lucky to have a wonderful group of co-authors and mentors! Corrine, Dr. Jordan Dowell Eric Goolsby @plantevoecophys

Turns out getting a PhD requires a lot of work shocked and confused

Hard not to remember that a violin vigil for Elijah McClain got tear gassed.

Ophiocordyceps fulgoromorphila that usually dies in the Colombian forests. We can notice the darker, horizontal stem that remains underneath soil and the lighter part that erupts towards the open air, aiming to shoot the spores and infect new Fulgoridae hemipterans.

An undergrad mentee followed me on their finsta and that is my greatest achievement in academia

Mosca Colibrí, Lasia corvina, libando con su larga probóscide Alstroemeria ligtu, en una de las zonas que monitoreo abejas nativas periódicamente. Se incendió 2017, ha sido difícil sin plan de restauración, entre sequía,🌱invasivas, ganado, perros domésticos. Intentando igual...

Mycelial architecture - even more beautiful than that of plant roots!

An experiment demonstrating how mangroves protect coastlines. Other habitats such as coral reefs and kelp forests also provide a similar function.

Some terrific science by Smithsonian NMNH Botanist Ken Wurdack & colleagues uncovering a crafty fungus that mimics the flowers produced by yellow-eyed grasses. It hijacks the plants own systems to produce pseudoflowers. Read on in this great piece by Priyanka Runwal scientificamerican.com/article/this-f…

My favourite species of birds are the ones named by people who clearly hate birds. (thread)

Ahhh!!! Thank you for featuring me Molly Edwards, PhD 💛

AHHHHH Mari Irving I'm so excited for you!! I started this project in undergrad and Mari and the @plantevoecophys lab have grown it into an unbelievably cool project!!!! Y'all have no idea how happy this makes me!!

Every bioinformatician:

I'm proud of our new modeling paper (now out as "accepted" at Ecology) and the compelling story it tells about how foundation species (kelp) mediate benthic competition using SBC LTER data. But I'm more proud of the scientist who wrote it. . (Paper: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…)

First field day in Alicante, Spain! So much to see, so much to learn. Feeling so grateful for this opportunity from Fulbright España

Officially joining UC San Diego in the fall to pursue my PhD with UCSD BioSciences and work with Dr. Cleland! Thanks to all the people who got me here, I’m so excited! Plants forever!🌿🌳🌱🌵