From forest to fungus: a roadmap to bark beetle mycobiome research - Phytoparasitica Phytoparasitica -

Want to know how to do #BarkBeetleMycobiome research at every stage? Check out our new publication!
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On Collaborative Governance: Building Consensus on Priorities to Manage Invasive Species Through Collective Action Invasive forest pests can spread across large landscapes that include numerous land-use management jurisdictions. As such, forest pest invasions need to be addressed with collaborative efforts becaus...

I have a new paper out on collaborative governance - how collective decision-making can be effective when managing invasive species. Check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Thank you @plantdisease.bsky.social and @aspbofficial.bsky.social for signing onto this letter calling on Congress to protect science! #PlantScience #MicroSky
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Fellow UC professors, what can we do to advocate for the NSF postdoc fellows (and potentially additional fellows next) who cannot withdraw their paychecks?

Contact the UC Federal Relations lawyers?

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.

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov

And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

They need to hear from you.

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The freeze on NIH and NSF grants will cause economic harm to Georgia by reducing jobs at to Georgia Tech, UGA, Emory, Mercer, and many other universities.

National Science Foundation freezes grant review in response to Trump executive orders The National Science Foundation has cancelled all grant review panels this week. It's unclear how long the pause could last.

The National Science Foundation cancelled over 60 grant review panels today, effectively grinding funding of new projects to a halt.

The so-far indefinite pause comes as NSF grapples with the impact Trump's executive orders will have on their grantmaking process.
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Our study predicting the spread of multi-host pests is published in @commsbio.bsky.social! We show host evolutionary relationships and their abundance predict #ISHB establishment across CA @ucanr.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social rdcu.be/d7oRC

Campus scientists find new form of sudden oak death pathogen Across the Bay Area, a citizen science project has found four instances of a more aggressive and heat-resilient form of a pathogen killing California oak trees.

UC Cooperative Extension Specialist in Forest Pathology Matteo Garbelotto leads a citizen project that has found four instances of a more aggressive and heat-resilient form of a pathogen killing #California oak trees.
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Lessons Australia can learn from California's success with a tiny bug that's killing Perth's trees A decade before shot-hole borer entered Australia, the invasive beetle was tearing through avocado crops in California. Now, the US state has the pest under control. What can WA take from its success?

"Take the pest seriously, but there's no need to panic" www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09... @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucanr.bsky.social

WA climate perfect for destructive borer to thrive: Expert A highly regarded US expert on a tiny beetle killing Perth trees says Australia still has a window of opportunity to get on top of the invasive pest before it leads to the destruction recorded in Cali...

Shothole borer beetle: US expert Shannon Lynch says Australia has perfect climate for destruction by pest. thewest.com.au/news/environ...

Expert sheds light on highly destructive plant pathogen. www.murdoch.edu.au/news/article... @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucanr.bsky.social

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Wood microbiome variation and interactions with fungal symbionts of invasive ambrosia beetles | Phytobiomes Journal The microbiomes of plants can modulate the impacts of pests, including through interactions with microbiomes of pathogen vectors such as ambrosia beetles. While physical and chemical traits of plant h...

New paper out about wood microbiome variation and interactions with fungal symbionts of invasive shothole borer. Our data showed that differences between attacked and non-attacked trees were reflected in different microbial consortia. apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...