Claire Willing

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Get ready for Cairns! ICOM2026 (formally known as ICOM13) is now online. I’ll be there next year and I hope you’ll join us! (I’ve already planned my post-conference bike tour…in Samoa!). 🍄🚲🌊

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Is it all about timing? Read my latest article in @newphyt.bsky.social to find out how space and time shape the relationships among bacteria, ectomycorrhizal fungi, and land trees. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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A flier showing the Statue of Liberty and the following info: Seattle Stand Up for Science. March 7, 2025, Seattle Center, 12-3PM. Science is for everyone. Find your local rally site and other ways to get involved: standupforscience2025.org

Seattle folks: Stand Up for Science this Friday!

Hey Washington folks: please take two seconds to contact your state legislators to oppose HB 1038, which would ban gender-affirming care for kids in Washington.

Gender-affirming care saves lives. Stand up for trans kids!

Women are credited less in science than men - Nature The difference between the number of men and women listed as authors on scientific papers and inventors on patents is at least partly attributable to unacknowledged contributions by women scientists.

On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples.

1. Women are credited less in science than men.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

WA loses access to $200M in wildfire preparedness funding

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

NW CASC Research Fellow alum Sydney Jantsch stands in the South Fork of the Nooksack River with two colleagues from the Lummi Natural Resources Department as they install groundwater wells to measure the temperature of the hyporheic zone beneath the riverbed.

Grad students & postdocs doing #ClimateChange research @ BSU, OSU, PSU, UM, UW, WSU and WWU — You can now APPLY for NW CASC's 2025-26 Research Fellowship Program - supporting climate adaptation research + training in actionable science! Proposals due 3/10 bit.ly/2025-nwcasc-rfp

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Terminology in ecology and evolutionary biology disproportionately harms marginalized groups The discipline of ecology and evolutionary biology has long grappled with issues of inclusivity and representation. This study finds that individuals from marginalized groups were more likely to be ha...

An overdue, poignant article by Rice et al. about how language and unchecked societal norms can damage the fabric of our academic institutions and exacerbate inequalities – a must read. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Assistant Professor in Fungal Biology University of California, Riverside is hiring. Apply now!

My department is hiring a fungal biologist! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01990

Thanks for the shoutout!

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi equalize differences in plant fitness and facilitate plant species coexistence through niche differentiation - Nature Ecology & Evolution A controlled greenhouse study that manipulated the presence of both ectomycorrhizal fungi and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi at a range of conspecific and heterospecific plant competitor densities shows...

Editing our script for episode4 of #TheClimateRestorers (www.theclimaterestorers.com) on #ecosystemrestoration& #civilizationalshift, the value of fungi for carbon & biodiversity is front of my blissfully overworked mind. UW colleague @clairewilling.bsky.social's paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Could you add me please?
also:
@mykophile.bsky.social
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Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...

Science takes time - a lot of time. Time that is more and more difficult to make available because of increased workloads. Time that exceeds the temporary contracts of postdocs and PhDs.

I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Co-inoculations of bacteria and mycorrhizal fungi often drive additive plant growth responses Abstract. Controlled greenhouse studies have shown the numerous ways that soil microbes can impact plant growth and development. However, natural soil comm

A 'sum of their parts' usually happens when you inoculate plants with bacteria AND mycorrhizal fungi – but not always. Read our recent article in
@ISMEComms
to understand more. academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

I’d love to be added too!

My department is hiring an assistant professor in plant/tree physiology/ecophysiology. Details here www.careers.ualberta.ca/Competition/...

The California Academy of Sciences in beautiful Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.

The California Academy of Sciences @calacademy.bsky.social is looking for a new curator of botany! This is an endowed position (McAllister Chair) and our herbarium and botany department are world class. Check it out and feel free to send questions my way! us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...

hivemind! Starting a fresh benching account for the new lab and trying to decide on an organizational structure- do folks have strong feelings about organizing by project? by team member? something hybrid? Most folks will work on multiple projects, and most projects have more than one team member.