Doing a blog where I talk about the ways we have and continue to use fungi. First one is up is inspired by my Kansas roots and love of beer: www.jacobyceps.com/blog-fungal-...

Looking at my woven leather sandals and freshly ironed apron knowing I gotta write this damn dissertation

www.sciencefriday.com/segments/sea... re: lawns are an ecological disaster — not all grass is bad

“What do you want to do for Juneteenth?” Me: Get out there on that grill

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? A few: You can safely *touch* pretty much any mushroom you see. Fungi effectively digest nutrients on their “skin” or outside the cell. Grass lawns are functional disasters and are ecologically equivalent to patches of desert.

Coffee has been hot since it was invented as a drink approximately 525 years. So, no, I will not be filing a personal exemption by way of copious apologies and justifications to the brilliant baristas who insist that I must want iced coffee. I will stand in this breach. So be it. Coffee is hot.

The Fungal Kingdom as a Rosetta Stone for biological discovery: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

This is terrible but it is also misleading. The US government is not the accreditor - they've basically written a letter to Columbia's *actual* accreditor and demanded that they take action.

ED has reported to Columbia's accreditor that it "violated" anti-discrimination laws and thus has not met accreditation standards. This is the feds telling an accreditor that they should punish a uni because ED wants them to. The iron triangle is in such danger... www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Me and my gf are starting a book club (of 2 so far) focused on Black horror starting with Sycorax’s Daughters by Dr. Kinitra Brooks. It’s an anthology of horror short stories written by Black women and we would love to have others join virtually or otherwise Book is ~$20 on Amazon

Hell yeah

An absolutely mesmerizing slime mold found in Soberanía National Park, Panamá. It’s the kinda thing that makes you re-experience child-like wonder at the beauty of life followed by a devastating reminder that we are obliterating billions of years of biological innovation to cool chatbot servers

The average PhD student experience of trying to schedule a committee meeting at the end of the semester

First time find, a little bit of witch’s butter on an old conifer stump

The SINNERS discourse is great because to normal people "Ryan Coogler movie with Michael B. Jordan" sounds like a money printer but to weird rich racists in Hollywood it's a niche Black film for Black audiences only, and they're mad they didn't foresee it is, duh, a money printer.

SINNERS is 🤌🏽CINEMA🤌🏽

Finally updated my Blackademics starter pack, now including Katherine McKittrick, Imani Perry and others. Grad students and other scholars: follow the #Blackademics feed to participate in the conversation. Thanks as always to @rudyfraser.com for hosting us on Blacksky!!! go.bsky.app/SSc7tNL

This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...

It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids. Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

Thoughts on Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind saying that AI could cure disease in general in ten years. Bonus index to my longer posts on AI/computational drug discovery over nearly 20 years!

“It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies," Marks said. "This man doesn’t care about the truth. He cares about what is making him followers.”

I created a brief spreadsheet of reductions I've heard of so far. Any additions you know of (especially if you have the links/receipts) would be great: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

On behalf of a friend in the Lab Leadership Service at the CDC, please help support the critical mission of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service by signing this petition chng.it/6CFWfNcFPV

YES, MORE OF THIS. As I've said before, at the end of the day trans people have rights regardless of what the science says (bc that's not how we decide who gets human rights) but ALSO since there's a determined effort to frame transphobia as science, these statements are critical.

First, let me introduce myself! My name is Jacoby Robinson and I’m a PhD candidate studying fungi that are farmed by ants and the fungal pathogens that parasitize their crop! I use a combo of genomics and natural products chemistry to uncover their hidden diversity and mechanisms of coevolution 👨🏾‍🔬🍄‍🟫🧬