Ed Sikora

Butterfly

Butterflies-R-Free Saturday: #Butterfly #Insect #Lepidoptera #NaturePhotography #Nature #Saturday 🧪 🦋

Butterfly

Butterflies-R-Free Saturday: #Butterfly #Insect #Lepidoptera #NaturePhotography #Nature #Saturday 🧪 🦋

Chicago

Chicago at night #Chicago #Photography 📸

Blue Crowned Motmot

Blue-Crowned Motmot 🦅

Blue heron

Wintery weather is back 🦅 #Bird #Birdwatching #Wildlifephotography #Winter #Snow

Quite a few in the group.

A different point of view on #MushroomMonday 🧪 🌱

A field of sunn Hemp

NEMATODE MONDAY: A field of Sunn hemp in bloom is a beautiful site. It offers many benefits as a cover crop if worked into a crop rotation system. Sunn hemp suppresses weeds, slows soil erosion and reduces root-knot nematode populations 🧪 🌱

You basically look the same but with more color…

My top three birds

Late night birdcam bonus video from May 26th.

Mr Rose Breasted Grosbeak for almost two minutes, eating sunflower seeds and an orange.

#birds

Good memory. 1968?

This is total BS -it has to stop we're supposed to be the "United States of America"

My Celestron EdgeHD 8" SCT is for capturing planetary, lunar, and deep space objects such as galaxies, star clusters, and planetary nebulae. When capturing large nebulae, I use my refractor telescope.

#astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #longexposure #photography #telescope

Butterfly

Butterflies-R-Free Saturday: #Butterfly #Insect #Lepidoptera #NaturePhotography #Nature #Saturday 🧪 🦋

Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...

I enjoyed participating in the Chilton County Strawberry meeting yesterday. Here I was surrounded by royalty and chose to “bend the knee”. 😂 🧪 🌱 🍓

I agree, It is weird looking

Corn smut disease

Corn smut disease

Corn smut (inside and out) is a disease caused by the fungus Ustilago maydis. It that forms tumor-like galls on corn plants. While it is a destructive plant disease, the immature galls are a culinary delicacy in Mexico $ other parts of the world, known as huitlacoche or Mexican truffle science 🧪 🌱

Along the Gulf coast of Florida 🦅

Mold covered peppers

My wife served this up to me for breakfast this morning…. Maybe 🤔 I should have gone easier on her cooking last night? Lesson learned, plus, “there is always fungus among us” #Fungi #Mold 🧪 🌶️

Root-knot nematode galls on tomato

NEMATODE MONDAY Root-knot nematode (RKN) galls on tomato. Infected plants should be removed & destroyed after harvest. Roots left in soil can act as a shelter for RKN until the next season. Work soil to bring roots to surface so drying action of wind/sun can destroy the pathogen science 🧪 🌱

Middle of July in Alabama. I think they are cooling off for their dusk flight

Birds

Birds on a wire 🦉 🧪

Butterfly

Butterflies-R-Free Saturday: #Butterfly #Insect #Lepidoptera #NaturePhotography #Nature #Saturday 🧪 🦋

🚨 We’re hiring! Join the Plant–Soil Microbiome Ecology & Innovation Lab
@UBC 🌱
Multiple positions available — details here 👉 lnkd.in/grbiN2Fc #MscPhDposition #Postdoc #Microbiome

New coronavirus subspecies with #SARS-CoV-2–like mutation discovered in Brazilian bat

The bat harbored the BRZ batCoV virus, which the researchers say has likely been silently circulating in Latin America for some time.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

Southern blight on sunflower

Fungal sclerotia of Southern blight on sunflower

Southern blight, a fungal disease of sunflower, starts with dark lesions at the soil line and leads to yellowing/wilting of plants. Management includes sanitation by removing infected plants a
& using crop rotation. Look for white fungal growth & small white-to-brown sclerotia at the stem line 🌱 🧪

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Kristi Noem says no US citizens have been detained by ICE.

170 US citizens detained by ICE including kids.

Release the EPSTEIN files.

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Assemblies of long-read metagenomes suffer from diverse errors Genomes from metagenomes have revolutionised our understanding of microbial diversity, ecology, and evolution, propelling advances in basic science, biomedicine, and biotechnology. Assembly algorithms...

I am very happy (and anxious) to share with you our most recent work in which we evaluated four of the most popular long-read assemblers,

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

and tell you just a little bit about it in the following 🧵