Pumpkin carving contest 2025🎃 Creative pumpkins from labs across @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social Our lab's @plantevolution.bsky.social "Carveolution" evolved it's way to 1st place 🏆

This work started nearly 10 years ago and was once my main postdoctoral project at @plantevolution.bsky.social before I slowed work on it to a trickle because it became confusing. But it always remained extremely interesting. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Was great to see #Pseudomonas, #microbiome and #phage enthusiasts alike stopping by my poster at the #2025ISMPMI on Tuesday! I wish I'd had more time to meet you all :)

Nature lovers at the #2025ISMPMI will be pleased to learn that earlier today, the Confex Hall Butterfly (apparently an Aglais io) was safely captured by me and released to the flowerbeds outside. Pictured here, feasting on my honeyed tea dregs before flying away.