We composited soil cores and lost 49 AM fungal taxa doing it. Sequencing individual subsamples found them. The ones that vanish are rare, patchy, and phylogenetically clustered. Also drying vs freezing made no difference really. Sample at the scale your question lives at. doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

🌱 I'm guest editing a new Genome collection with @oli-wilkins.bsky.social & we want your plant biology side projects! Got pilot data, a null result, or an experiment that never made it into a paper? Send it as a Note (2–3 figures). ✨ Open Access, no fees! 🗓️ Nov 30 🔗 cdnsciencepub.com/gen

Genome Journal invites research submissions for their Early Leads collection, featuring exploratory experiments, unexpected results, or compact datasets in plant biology that may shape new research directions. More info ▶️https://ow.ly/fxXy50XBEQY #PlantBiology #CallForPapers

New paper showing how crop diversity changes MAOM chemistry and its vulnerability to desorption. By Nadia Moukanni with @cynkallenbach.bsky.social and DART team. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Rethinking Alpha Diversity in Marker‐Gene Microbiome Studies: Dominance Matters More Than Richness enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs

New publication with @cynkallenbach.bsky.social - here MS student Rachael led a study exploring microbial community sensitivity to flooding in the context of soil pore structure in disturbed and undisturbed sites. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I guess I should re-post from the Bird Site "The Rules For Academic Success here": I always get asked for advice about starting/surviving the tenure track. Here are the rules I've found useful. Thought I'd put it out there for the masses... This list gets longer all the time

interested in how perennial vs annual wheat recruits microbes to the rhizosphere? check out our new publication by MS student Deniz Dutton with @cynkallenbach.bsky.social in Applied Soil Ecology authors.elsevier.com/c/1m~2Y_L84r...

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We’re recruiting! New two-years MSc position U Laval, co-directed by @leducq-lab.bsky.social as part of the PLQ Laboratoire Vivant. Project explores how recurrent selection of switch grass influences associated plant and soil microbiomes. More info - email with "Switchgrass MS" in the subject line

📢 PLEASE RT! ❄️ M2 Masters Internship: Metagenomic analysis of microbial cold adaptation in the cryosphere 🧬 Compile & curate ice nucleation & cold-adaptation protein database 🖥️ Build HMM profiles 🦠 Analyze existing metagenomic data using HMMs ☀️ Marseille, France Apply by 15 Oct

Please share: @UBCScience is searching for 15 TT faculty in diverse areas of expertise science.ubc.ca/about/careers. Included are 2 positions in Quantitative and Environmental Science as part of a hiring cluster for black faculty; you will join 6 current UBC faculty science.ubc.ca/blackscholars.

New pre-print from my group - project led by PhD student Michael Hoffert. We set out on a daunting mission to generate a 'periodic table' of bacterial diversity (1/6) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Please share! Amazing opportunity at @mcgill.ca We are looking to recruit an internationally recognized, interdisciplinary scientist with a strong track record in innovation and research to direct a new program in climate, environment, and health mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...

📢The Global Soil Biodiversity Conference 2026 abstract submission deadline has been EXTENDED 🐛🐜🕷️🦠🪱 Abstracts are NOW due AUGUST 15th 23:59 PDT‼️ Submit an abstract 👇 globalsoilbiodiversity2026.org/abstract/

New publication with @cynkallenbach.bsky.social and MS Student Rachael: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

📢The Global Soil Biodiversity Conference 2026 abstract submission deadline is coming up quickly 🐛🐜🕷️🦠🪱 Abstracts are due July 15th 23:59 PDT ‼️ Submit an abstract 👇 globalsoilbiodiversity2026.org/abstract/ @gsb2026.bsky.social

I'll never get over this poem a child wrote with one of my poetry prompts.

SFU invites applications from world renowned researchers for the prestigious Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC) 2026 Competition. Please see the ad to see if you qualify. In Vancouver, BC www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/a...

We are looking for a Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Community Ecology, Biological Invasions, Allelopathy, and Plant-Soil Feedbacks. Details here: universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

Racist and sexist roots in the cancellation of NSF grants under Trump: Grants with female PIs canceled 2x more than men Grants with Black PIs canceled 4x over White PIs Grants with Hispanic PIs canceled 2x over White PIs Grants with PIs with disabilities canceled 2x more than without

The Research Council of Finland is planning a new funding call to help universities recruit international experts to Finland. The call has a preliminary total budget of 50 million€, which will be granted for recruitment supporting the research profiling of Finnish universities between 2026 and 2030.

Barbara Howard was a gifted athlete who became the first Black woman to represent Canada in an international competition. She then became the first visible minority hired by the Vancouver School Board. This is her story. 🧵1/8

Canada Excellence Research Chair opportunity to recruit top international scientists to Canada. Come join us in Nova Scotia at Dalhousie University ! Reach out if you have questions. www.dal.ca/research-and... @dalhousie.bsky.social

Looking for a database to functionally assign your 18S (terrestrial)data to trophic groups? Look no further! Our article is published here: doi.org/10.1111/1755... and you can find the database here as a R package: github.com/lentendu/Euk... #soils #eukaryotes #protists #fungi

I'm seeking graduate students interested in studying nectar evolutionary ecology. Masters or PhD. Sep 2025 or Jan 2026 start. Interested students encouraged to apply by May 5 to be eligible for additional scholarships. #gradschool #flower #evolution #nectar #pollination

How can zombie microbes interact with the Earth system? 🦠🧟🌎 Microbes, even when dormant, play a massive role in shaping Earth's ecosystems & biogeochemistry 🌎 In @natcomms.nature.com I explore dormancy in the context of Earth’s geosphere-biosphere co-evolution 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

With all sincerity, Elections Canada is a national treasure. - Voting typically takes less than 15 minutes - We make it easy for citizens to vote, without cumbersome registration hurdles - We have every reason to trust that ballots will be counted fairly, and results reported swiftly

I am very happy (and anxious) to share with you our most recent work in which we evaluated four of the most popular long-read assemblers, www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and tell you just a little bit about it in the following 🧵

Come join us at @mcgill.ca as an assistant professor in virus-host interactions! Please share widely. mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...

I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!

Attention climate scholars seeking to leave the US: Next year the University of Ottawa will be seeking int'l candidates for a Canada Excellence Research Chair in "Climate and Societal Solutions" (broadly defined) They'll seek established scholars with global reach in this area (see below)...

Thrilled to see our new paper "Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events, Food Security, and Nutrition: Evolving Relationships and Critical Challenges" in the Annual Review of Nutrition! Check it out! shorturl.at/qHxNz

"Every time they try to destroy us, we learn how to live forever."

Calling all US and Canadian students thinking about graduate studies! Come study science at #SFU in beautiful British Columbia, Canada. Graduate admissions have been reopened. Apply by April 25th. ⚛️ 🧪👩‍🔬🎢 🇨🇦

My sabbatical leave allowed me to reflect on my professional life. As I’ve stepped into more senior roles in academia (plus gotten a bit older), I often get asked: 
“How do you keep writing academic articles, policy work, opinion pieces, while juggling everything else?” My answer: skillpower 🧵

📢The Global Soil Biodiversity Conference 2026 abstract submission portal is NOW OPEN 🐛🐜🕷️🦠🪱 Abstracts are due July 15th 23:59 PDT ‼️ Submit an abstract 👇 globalsoilbiodiversity2026.org/abstract/

"It’s like claiming to have brought Napoleon back from the dead by asking a short French man to wear his hat"

Solid resources for educators. Remember: (1) you may not know which of your students are trans; (2) it is *your job* to provide a safe and welcoming learning environment for all your students. #EduSky

Fungi are extraordinary at solving complex problems. Incredible to see their strategies highlighted in @nytimes.com by @alanburdick.bsky.social The article is a visual journey of what we have been documenting in the lab over last few years with our imaging robot www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/s...

Fier de la communauté universitaire du Québec et d’être l’un des 556 signataires de cette lettre. La diversité, l’inclusion et l’équité renforcent notre société et notre science! Nous ne pouvons pas laisser aucun politicien prétendre le contraire! 👏 www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...

Dr. Willie Hobbs Moore was born in Atlantic City NJ, and went on to study protein spectroscopy and work on polymers. She was the African American woman to earn a PhD in physics! www.blackpast.org/african-amer... #28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory #BlackHistoryMonth

There is no conversation to be had about the U.S. assimilating Canada, not about the logistics, not about the preferability of particular means for it to happen, the very idea has no place in polite public discourse

Full paper can be read here for free: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

To probationary federal employees who have been terminated: Democracy Forward has filed a first-of-its-kind class-wide complaint with the Office of Special Counsel. If civil servants want to join in the complaint, you can email [email protected]

Time to submit those abstracts! Abstract deadline is in less than 2 weeks on Feb 24th, more information www.luke.fi/esm2025! Also news from FEMS: we are pleased to inform a thematic issue for “Ecology of Soil Microorganisms” in FEMS Microbiology Ecology academic.oup.com/femsec/pages...

New one-year post-doc position which explores "Soil eDNA metabarcoding as a tool to assess forest degradation". Come work in Canada with Christine Martineau, Lisa Venier, & Nicolas Feau - details and how to apply below.

I keep recommending this website for multivariate analyses for microbial ecology: sites.google.com/site/mb3gust...

Hi everyone. Just a reminder that it's okay to not be okay. I'm overwhelmed by everything and very much LIVID at what's happening. Things are bad and unprecedented. Know I love you all. Science is real. Trans people deserve life and happiness. Your feelings are valid. YOU are valid.