Today marks 14 years since 17-year-old, unarmed Trayvon Martin was shot and killed while walking home.
14 years later, we’re still demanding a country where our children can walk home in peace — without being treated like a threat.
Today marks 14 years since 17-year-old, unarmed Trayvon Martin was shot and killed while walking home.
14 years later, we’re still demanding a country where our children can walk home in peace — without being treated like a threat.
Tonight, I’ll be watching the People’s State of the Union with MoveOn and MeidasTouch — standing up for healthcare, affordability and decency.
How about you? ✋
#SOTU
Fig. 1 Tree species coverage in the Global Wood Density Database (GWDD) v.2.
Beyond species means – the intraspecific contribution to global wood density variation
A #CommunityResource by Fischer et al.
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New paper out today in the ISME | International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal and the first product from our ESIIL (Environmental Data Science Innovation and Impact Lab) working group on Fungal Dispersal. Check it out!
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Fast-growing trees are set to dominate the #forests of the #future — but at a cost🌳
Our Nature Plants (@natplants.nature.com) study shows a global shift toward "sprinter" tree species, while slow-growing, functionally critical #trees face elevated #extinction risk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”
28.01.2026 05:46 — 👍 25183 🔁 11783 💬 917 📌 1051people, you have the chance to put my book ahead of Olivia Nuzzi’s on the bestseller list. put aside all other considerations and think how objectively funny this would be. #1, that Mountain Goats guy. #2, Antivax Man Has My Heart. funniest list of the century. We can do this if we try
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We have a new paper out! :)
Our study reveals how bark beetles and their fungal symbionts actively transform the tree’s internal nutrient landscape supporting beetle nutrition, with major implications for forest carbon and nutrient dynamics.
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A new fossil fungus discovered in Scotland shows evidence of plants and fungi sharing nutrients to survive on land.
The fossil, more than 400 million years old, offers hints about the origin of one of the greatest partnerships in the history of life on Earth.
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Earlier on the expedition we found the most beautiful flower, and here, my friends, is the biggest: Rafflesia arnoldi seen in full bloom today in the Sumatran jungle. This is the largest flower on earth and one of the greatest wonders of the natural world.
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Hundreds of infectious disease specialists have been let go by the Trump administration. Here are four who helped to keep pandemics at bay.
(Gift article)
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Around 14 million Americans are set to lose their insurance over the next 10 years. And out of the 10 hardest-hit states, 7 voted for Trump.
My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart
New review out in Biological Reviews! 🌲
We synthesize over a century of research on the complex ecological web linking tree-killing bark beetles, their symbiotic fungi, and host trees.
Open access 👉 doi.org/10.1111/brv....
#ForestEcology #BarkBeetles #FungalEcology #Symbiosis #BiologicalReviews
From beginning to end: the synecology of tree‐killing bark beetles, fungi, and trees - Six - Biological Reviews - Wiley Online Library 😁WE HAVE A NEW ONE OUT. Two years in the making. Give it a look!
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Plants have pathogens. One of the most important for the Ponderosa pine are pine beetles (Dendroctonus ponderosae) that bore into bark to feed on phloem.
The plant responds with a chemical immune system: terpene-rich resin that flows through resin ducts, flushing out or drowning the beetle.
Illustration of a simple allelopathy model that considers the ith individual of an invasive species and the jth individual of a native competitor, such as the North American invasive plant Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard), shown on the left, and the native Acer saccharum (sugar maple), on the right.
#Viewpoint: A critical reassessment of the novel weapons hypothesis and allelopathy as an adaptive strategy that facilitates #PlantInvasion
Robert Colautti & Pedro Madeira Antunes
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Fig. 1 Schematic representation of broad groups of traits measurable across plant organs.
✨ Paper spotlight ✨
(🧵 1/6) The path towards a unified trait space: synthesizing plant functional diversity
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This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
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Fungi are just as enigmatic as extraordinary!!!
You MUST watch this ❤️ 🍄
#fungifriends #microbiology #visualarts #sciart #phd #postdoc #biodiversity #moulds #endophytes
Had an amazing time in Estonia last week, talking plant-fungal-bark beetle interactions at the New Phytologist Symposium. Recorded talks to follow soon!🌲🪲🍄🟫
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🍃New research shows that leaf traits and floral resources are closely linked, primarily determined by environmental selection, with pollinators playing a secondary role. These findings emphasise the interconnectedness of vegetative and reproductive traits in plant strategies.🌼 buff.ly/ueQtHkj
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Soil fungi influence the relationship between plant diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality
manipulating plant species richness/soil fungal diversity in 190 plant communities => measuring 10 ecosystem functions
-in @natcomms.nature.com
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Bernie Sanders:
“It is obscene to give tax breaks to the top 1% by throwing more than 16 million people off health care, cutting nutrition for hungry kids and making it harder for working class young people to go to college.
That is exactly what Trump's budget reconciliation bill does.”
Conceptual overview of the selection of articles and studies included in our review.
#Viewpoint: Progress and future directions of biogeographical comparisons of #plant–fungal #interactions in invasion contexts
Arpad Thoma, Ylva Lekberg, Dávid Nagy, Min Sheng, Erik Welk & Christoph Rosche 👇
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🌊🛍️ Bag bans work
A new study shows that plastic bag bans and fees cut shoreline litter by up to 47% in the US. Citizen-science data from 45,000+ cleanups confirm: fewer bags, fewer risks to wildlife.
Simple policies, real impact
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#SciComm #PlasticPollution 🧪
There's a chemical trick fireflies perform that allows them to flash without burning.
My dad studied that trick all his life.
Now he's 92, and darkness is closing in.
For Father's Day, I did my best to illuminate his work, his life, and the fleeting wonder of it all.
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Fungal diversity, decomposition, substrate chemistry, and all their interconnections to understand how the environment shapes fungal communities and wood decay - led by the very talented @zhiyuanxu.bsky.social 🪵🍄🍄🟫
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Front-page-style graphic titled “BREAKING NEWS” with photos of RFK Jr. and Dr. Bhattacharya in front of a government hearing chamber. Text reads: “NIH Scientists Sound the Alarm as Health Research Faces Historic Threat” and “NIH Employees Send Trump Cronies Scathing Wake-Up Call.”
🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives.
This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
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Happy #Pride month! This #FungiFriday we are going on a fungal foray through the pride flag. There have been many iterations since its original conception in 1978, including the Intersex-Inclusive flag by Valentino Vecchietti – which we have recreated in fungal fashion for the LGBTQ myco-maniacs
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