Dr. Joel Steyer

A large mushroom with inverted gills that flare upward instead of downward grows out of the ground, which is covered in bright orange pine needle duff. The gills are a magnificent blue-green color after aging. The mushroom's color starts as vibrant orange and over time turns into the blue-green color we see in this shot. Hints of its original orange color are seen in spots throughout the gills.

Thanks for showing off your gorgeous green gills! Lactarius aurantiosordidus turns a beautiful blue-green as it ages 💙💚

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/3, ISO 400
Stack of 11 images
11/9/24
Northern Oregon Coast

#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms

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First time building a terrarium and enjoyed the process so much. Went for the ancient lab site with some new hazmat researchers. Might become a new hobby.

#terrariums #plants

SCIENCE IRL: SciComm mini-grant 2026 Skype a Scientist is offering $300-$1,000 mini-grants to support boots-on-the-ground science communication. The Science IRL mini-grants will support projects that put either 1) important science mess...

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Congressional reform idea of the week: Congress is not allowed to leave on vacation until a full and functional budget is passed for the entire government.

If it’s been more than 6 months on CRs, they don’t get weekends either.

Image of a bearded, bald, and morose Charles Darwin, with his famous quote “I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything”

Happy birthday, Chuck.

Proud to carry on your legacy of studying evolutionary biology while going through it

Photo taken February 1, 2026, at my field in #NorthernCalifornia of some mushrooms growing on an oak tree that has passed. #photography #nature #FungiFriends #fungi #mushrooms

Please enjoy our research paper on how Bluesky is the preferred home of academics of all stripes, including professors of rare moths. (Yes, we actually have lots of entomologists here).

academic.oup.com/icb/article-... 🧪

Every politician says "more housing." It's not enough to say "more housing." We should demand a serious housing agenda.

Build millions of public units. Pass a nationwide tenant bill of rights. Ban hedge funds owning homes.

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Trump’s name appears in the Epstein files more than God’s name appears in the Bible.

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What do you MEAN the president audibly SHIT himself live on camera and they immediately cancelled the press conference and rushed everyone out of the room like it's a fire drill, and it happened two days ago, and I'm just hearing about it NOW?

Maximum intensity projection showing dorsal vasculature of the first gill arch of a CUBIC-cleared adult kdrl:mCherry zebrafish. Fluorescent signal was pseudocoloured using the PBIYC lookup table in ImageJ. Analysis of this endothelial reporter enabled detailed mapping of gill vascular development and revealed distinct medial and lateral filament types. Credit text to the journal Development. See Research Article by Preußner et al. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.204984

Adult zebrafish gill vasculature. Credit to @mathpreu.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Rice students create nationwide ICE tracker to monitor immigration enforcement The students had been teaching weekly children's classes as volunteers. One day, the kids stopped showing up.

ICYMI, Rice University students have developed a free online map to track ICE activity throughout the country.

Find it here: www.icemap.dev.

Gift link to @houstonchronicle.com story about it:
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Oh… my… f***. While not the only author I’ve read, but a significant one in the field, I’ve enjoyed his books. They’re great scientific narrations and got me into infectious disease but knowing this makes my want to purge any and all knowledge out of my head. I’m gonna be sick

A fungus growing on an old tree.

Unusual pinky purple stylings of Silverleaf fungus.

🍄 #FungiFriends #FungiFriday

Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores.

TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.

Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.

Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

Signal boosting this request!

Kurt Maloney saying "You know what does matter? When your friend says you're not hot". Sam Reich replies "Now 'hot' I think is uncontestable. And I say that because we look similar. Jacob Wysocki says "Yeah if Kurt's not hot, you're not hot for sure."

Bearded host in a striped suit holding a "Make Some Noise" card at a colorful desk above a cheerful contestant pointing and joking on a game-show set.

the transitive property of mr. kurt

Victorian-style AI slop. A small girl in a blue dress whose name is not Alice for copyright reasons stands in a forest and stares up at an absurdly giant mushroom, surrounded by many other biologically inaccurate fungi. The scene attempts to hint at fungal diversity, scale, and deep evolutionary relationships. Roughly what happens when you reanalyze ~2,000 fungal genomes and realize how much biology is still hiding in the woods.

What can we learn from comparing ~2,000 fungal genomes?

Find out about:

🍄evolutionary transitions
🍄lifestyles
🍄genome dynamics
🍄sampling gaps
🍄efforts to uncover the remaining fungal dark matter

New review by @jgi.doe.gov's Stephen Mondo and Igor Grigoriev

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

Photo of what looks like bright blue, short golf tees on a dead tree trunk. The tree trunk is a light, mottled beige colour. There are about 20 or so of the blue “golf tees”.

Blue stain #fungus. #Newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends

🍁Funding for new PhD students ($40k/yr) & postdocs ($70k/yr) coming from outside Canada. Contact me if interested in #Ecophysiology at #UBC in #Vancouver! Possible topics: leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimate, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology, more! michaletzlab.org
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Cause this made me giggle in the autoclave room.

If you're a trans person in Illinois sent a cease and desist by Trump's government, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com.

Didn’t quite hit my reading goal but I still read a lot! Some great ones, some chilling, some alright. Almost 14k pages read, average of 4.17 stars, and all books bought either from @bookstore.com or secondhand book sites!

Lemme know what ya think!

#booktok

If you want people to have kids, maybe build a country where having kids and surviving is actually possible.

Three photos. Two show tiny green discs on peat soil, which are the thallus/body of this lichen. The third pic shows a tiny mushroom with a white stem and yellow cap.

Lichenomphalia hudsoniana, a #mushroom producing #lichen. The green discs are the thallus/body of the lichen. It produces these beautiful, tiny mushrooms that are typically an inch or less high. #fungi #fungifriends Newfoundland, Canada

Farmers are celebrating the bailout as “Christmas coming early.” Meanwhile, many of the same voices insisted students didn’t deserve loan relief because they should “pull themselves up by their bootstraps.”