Microbial taphonomy of Ginkgo leaves in fine-grained substrates: how sediment type facilitates preservation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #FossilFriday @briecology.bsky.social @dfg.de

I am pleased to share a preprint of my work on the microbial communities inside the Cyanosphere of terrestrial Cyanobacteria. This has been a side project since 2020 and I’m happy to finally see it submitted. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

worth calling your reps over, imo. they’re stealing your land. www.hcn.org/articles/sen...

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

Reminder: the price of solar energy doesn't spike whenever there's a war somewhere.

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So disappointed to have left SDSU before @ologies.bsky.social came along but happy to hear two great professors featured in recent weeks (Hippos with Rebecca Lewison and Spiders with Marshal Hedin). (Also now I know the parking situation has not improved since I left 3 years ago)

If it takes 45 minutes to calm the baby for a nap, he should sleep for at least 45 minutes right??? Right!!??? He did not.

Hey Bluesky! In an effort to stay in Germany a bit longer, I’m applying for the Emmy Noether grant. Does anyone have examples to share? Or any DFG grant examples?

Hey Bluesky! In an effort to stay in Germany a bit longer, I’m applying for the Emmy Noether grant. Does anyone have examples to share? Or any DFG grant examples?

I've had several people comment to move to Europe instead. This rural Alaska town that is majority Native will likely have their clinic lab closed if the position isn't filled. This means a delay on getting test results as they would be sent to Anchorage, weather permitting. Plz delete those posts.

Quick first read of results from the German elections for US followers: CDU/CSU come out on top, but it's still one of their weakest showings in postwar history. Somehow playing on the far right's turf seems to have (and I'd ask you to contain your shock) helped the far right!

There is a lot of misinformation going around about the mass firing of federal employees. If you were laid off, please share your story (anonymously) here: peopletrumpfired.com We aim to have thousands of stories, more than the media could hope to cover, publicly available in a neutral space.

I was able to see this during the year I lived in Davis. If you’re in the area, it’s worth the trip.

Feed cleanser! There’s a lot of bad news on here but I’m happy to announce that the product I’ve been incubating for 40 weeks is ready for his next stage.

Calling all students & early career members of the @botsocamerica.bsky.social and ASPT! Apply for the public policy award to travel to D.C. to receive science communication & advocate for federal support of scientific research! botany.org/home/awards/...

“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house." Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded. www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...

This thread is so important. We don’t talk about miscarriages enough or about how medical systems deal with them even though they happen with a quarter of pregnancies. Even though I’m about to give birth, I still think about my miscarriage daily.

To update people on the NSF PRFB situation: despite the court challenge and rescinding the original memo, the NSF has continued to comply with the executive order. They have not communicated with us at all and our paychecks are still canceled indefinitely. I know people who cannot pay their rent.

My occasional reminder to folks on tenure and promotion committees that there will be a cohort of people whose early careers were defined entirely by the pandemic and *waves vaguely* this nonsense, and it *will* impact their productivity. It can't not.

Next week is *still* January With all the insane news and “unprecedented” events this month plus being 9 months pregnant, this has been the longest month.

Microbial methods matter: Identifying discrepancies between #microbiome denoising pipelines using a leaf #biofilm taphonomic dataset New in #AppsPlantSci by @briecology.bsky.social, Karacic, Bierbaum & Gee bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany #bioinformatics #taphonomy

Seeing my biggest platform destroyed, then watching many younger women in SciComm have *their* biggest platforms destroyed is weighing on me. I’ve rebuilt here. I know they can rebuild too. Having our delicate careers subject to billionaire whims has me wishing for a stability I don’t think exists.

Just a heads-up for American TikTok users living abroad: I also lost access and had to make a new account from Germany. It must know I made my original account while I was living in the US.

riding a train through your state is awesome because of all the scenery and ducks but it also sucks because the train is going too fast to see what species the ducks are

Scientists! We are trying to get 1000 of us into the volunteer database by Jan 1. You'll be volunteering to speak with classrooms over video chat about your work, and answer their questions! You can volunteer for up to 5 sessions per semester. Sign up here! www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

I know I’m anxious about something (👶) because I haven’t felt an urge to bake this much since the weeks before my PhD qualifying exam.

It was a year of large spiders, large moths, large eagles and a wall of ducks. A year of art, squirrels, monsters, and Knife Ghosts. It was a year of not establishing parasocial relationships on Bluesky. The best year yet. And now, for your consideration, our favorite safety graphics made in 2024...

I used my first day of maternity leave cleaning out the guest room and making a Yule log cake. Merry Christmas everyone!

We recently published an experimental taphonomy paper analyzing the effect of sediment composition on the biofilm microbial community of water lilies and assessing what this means for leaf preservation. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

I think I covered all the scientific publishing milestones this week. - One page proofs submitted 💪 - One manuscript submitted 🤞 - One manuscript rejected 🤷🏼‍♀️ - One paper published 🤩 And maybe a soon to be pre-print? Nothing like an impending deadline to get things done 🤰

This doesn’t surprise me at all as an immigrant in Germany and as someone who used to live near the Mexican boarder in the US. The general trend is that the less people are exposed to immigrants the more concerned they seem to be about immigration.

Excited to announce the next International Biocrust Reading Group Meeting! 🪴🌍 We'll meet on January 7th at 17:00 GMT to discuss the latest in biocrust research. Interested in joining? Send me a message! #Biocrust #Ecology #ScienceCommunity @michalaphillips.bsky.social

Here's a soil biodiversity starter pack, by @frankashwood.bsky.social There are also quite a few climate change/ ecology/ plant-soil interactions packs, but no general soil science one yet as far as I know. go.bsky.app/UxXTyxD

List of the wonderful people working with biocrust. Let me know if you want in on the fun. All biocrust enthusiasts are invited!

Working in December is hard enough. But knowing my maternity leave starts in a few weeks has zapped all motivation. It’s hard to care about biofilms when I’m growing a human inside me.

Upcoming #biocrust webinar put on by the Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative. Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

It’s out!! We subjected soils from 30 different locations across Europe to extreme events and found that soil fungal and bacterial communities showed consistent responses that could be predicted from their origin! With @knightjar.bsky.social and many collaborators! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Joshua Tree National Park is looking for a new Vegetation Ecologist, a great chance to take on an important hands-on role in conservation of Mojave Desert plant communities 🌿

For a number of years now, I’ve had a policy that I don’t submit to nor will I review for MPDI and Frontiers. This analysis supports that decision. It’s no reflection on the many excellent papers and studies that have been published in them, but rather on their editorial and business practices.

When I will respond to your email

JOB ALERT! A fully funded PhD opportunity awaits at Uppsala University, Sweden, focusing on the evolution and biology of lichen photobionts. The position will involved field work, molecular lab work and data analyses (from meta-omics to pop genetics). #PhDposition www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

There aren't even genders. Everything is either microbes or stuff that microbes interact with.

Question: I need to submit revisions on a MS but I’m going on maternity leave at the end of December. Do I tell the journal editor to contact one of the other co-authors? I have a feeling I won’t want to be dealing with page-proofs or revisions with a newborn.

Hey since it seems like everyone is migrating over here, it’s time for another intro post. I’m a microbial ecologist at Uni Bonn studying the role of biofilms in fossilization and currently applying for grants to continue my PhD research on biocrusts 😍 Here’s a picture of my cat.

I've created this Starter Pack to help those with an interest in all things #soil find inspiring people, organisations, and platforms that regularly post content on #SoilScience, #SoilManagement, and #SoilGovernance. 🌱🧑🏻‍🌾🌾 Let me know if you wish to be added. go.bsky.app/HADDT8P

I use my vacation days to travel to faraway places which often leaves me more tired when I get back than when I left but I love it. Please enjoy these iphone+bino photos of Rhinoceros Hornbills in Borneo. We saw other wildlife too but I am now obsessed with this bird

Biocrust researchers - the early bird deadline for the Biocrust 5 conference in Chihuahua City, Mexico (Apr. 8 - 12) has been extended until the end of January biocrust5.risza.mx