Adrienne Godschalx

@repbonamici.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov @jeff-merkley.bsky.social @mayorkwilson.bsky.social As a Portland, OR, constituent, an ecologist, and a human being who honors the beings in the forest, I will support you standing up to protect our forests. What are your plans to protect our old growth?

07.03.2025 23:56 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

@repbonamici.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov @jeff-merkley.bsky.social @mayorkwilson.bsky.social As a Portland, OR, constituent, an ecologist, and a human being who honors the beings in the forest, I will support you standing up to protect our forests. What are your plans to protect our old growth?

07.03.2025 23:56 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

a forest with trees and ferns and a green background that says ' evergreen ' ALT: a forest with trees and ferns and a green background that says ' evergreen '

“The scientific evidence is impossible to ignore: the forest is wired for wisdom, sentience, and healing.”
― Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

07.03.2025 23:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“Life will cook; the seas will rise. The planet’s lungs will be ripped out. And the law will let this happen, because harm was never imminent enough. Imminent, at the speed of people, is too late. The law must judge imminent at the speed of trees.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

07.03.2025 22:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I am devastated to hear about the two executive orders that threaten our forests. Call your congress folks about standing up for our forests & block the actions from:

"Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production"

& "Addressing The Threat To National Security from Imports of Timber, Lumber"

07.03.2025 22:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

The Alabama Hills near Death Valley National Park.

🦬 This land is your land. This government is your government. Don't let them take it without a fight.

05.02.2025 17:36 — 👍 5938    🔁 784    💬 60    📌 11

Longitudinal phage–bacteria dynamics in the early life gut microbiome - Nature Microbiology Reanalysis of 12,262 longitudinal infant gut microbiome samples using the Marker-MAGu pipeline revealed phage–bacteria dynamics over the first year of life.

We interrupt your regularly-scheduled chaos to bring you some cool microbiome science. 🦠 🖥️ 🧬
"Longitudinal phage–bacteria dynamics in the early life gut microbiome" now out in Nature Microbiology.

We wanted a way to measure bacteria and phage in metagenomes 1/

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

04.02.2025 20:52 — 👍 82    🔁 36    💬 5    📌 1

And a special double #protistsonsky from me today with a second protist from rainforest soil. This testate amoeba has awoken from stasis (dry soil), but hasn't quite emerged from its protective plug. At least that's how I interpret this... in cold weather back in Maine I see something similar!

06.12.2024 15:06 — 👍 21    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

Here is a Centropyxis testate amoeba picking up a little rock with its pseudopod. Notice the pseudopod attachment point on the culture dish surface and the blebbing that happens there.
#amoebae #protists

15.11.2024 19:53 — 👍 29    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 3

Still can't get over the beauty of the spiral shaped amphid 🌀 of this female Achromadora sp. This algae 🦠 and diatom feeder was found in soil from cultivated maize/corn fields in South Africa 🌍. Usually found in aquatic environments and amongst mosses 🏞️ #nematode #ecology #FreeLivinfNematodes

15.11.2024 12:12 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I used the nodule-crushing method throughout my PhD and postdoc work on rhizobia, and it works!

Here we diluted the crushed nodule bacterial community to evenly inoculate our rhizobia (R+) plants! bit.ly/41rwc5S

I find full communities to be more effective than individual isolates, in most cases.

10.12.2024 17:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

photo of soil layers

Hello and happy (belated) World Soil Day from Tiny Earth! Our network of students and instructors sourcing antimicrobials from soil microbes relies on diverse soils for research. Join us in celebrating this precious resource every day! #tinyearth #worldsoilday #soilrocks

06.12.2024 20:09 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0