Britt Koskella

Fig. 1 Schematic diagram of stomatal and associated leaf traits hypothesized to influence leaf microbiome assembly.

#Viewpoint: Do stomatal traits modulate leaf microbiome assembly?

Busby et al.
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📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#LatestIssue #PlantScience

[Exit Murderer.]

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The Gen X urge to jump up jump up and get down.

And I would apply to work with you…. So we need both a Time Machine and ability to clone ourselves. Watch out science!!

Me three

Jeff Bezos took over the Washington Post Editorial Board and turned it into a mouthpiece for pro-corporate, pro-billionaire propaganda.

Now, WaPo is laying off hundreds of *real* journalists — including the reporter covering Amazon.

Democracy dies in billionaire hands.

“You’re in the government database of people legally protesting the actions of the current administration” is a four-alarm fire, peeps.

The President is going to steal >1 NSFs worth of money from the US government

Forest interactions Explore plant interactions in forest environments at all levels from micro- to macro-scales and across the whole spectrum of plant biology.

Save the date!

48th New Phytologist Symposium: Forest interactions

📅 13–16 October 2026
📍 Leysin, Switzerland

www.newphytologist.org/events/48-nps

#PlantScience

Homeless Oregon youth got $1,000 a month for two years. Most found housing after • Oregon Capital Chronicle Oregon is the second of its kind in the nation to implement the direct cash transfer program after New York City.

"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed."

A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.

Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.

Happy Simon’s rejection day to my fellow 97%ers!

And excited to hear more about the 3% left standing!!

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s over last year www.science.org/content/arti... #jobs #STEM #science #research

Two likely contenders for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination have taken opposite sides on California’s proposed wealth tax.

One of them is completely wrong.

Here's what you should know: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-wealth-tax-that-will-work

Screenshot from GRC portal confirming microbial population biology meeting June 27, 2027 in Andover, New Hampshire.

It’s officially happening folks! The Microbial Population Biology Gordon Research Conference is back in Andover, New Hampshire starting June 27th of 2027!
See you there!!

@wcratcliff.bsky.social @ksbakes.bsky.social @surtlab.bsky.social

#microsky #mevosky

Paracetamol is safe in pregnancy, says new evidence against Trump autism claims Researchers say their gold-standard review should put an end to the debate over use of the common painkiller during pregnancy.

Shout it from the rooftops.

Bad Bunny Super Bowl promo is beautiful.

Hate is so embarrassing. Imaging being against everyone together dancing to good music 🥹🥹🥹

U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane

Breaking NYT:

The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.

The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.

That is a war crime called "perfidy."

The effect of a temperature‐sensitive prophage on the evolution of virulence in an opportunistic bacterial pathogen Viruses are key actors of ecosystems and have major impacts on global biogeochemical cycles. Prophages deserve particular attention as they are ubiquitous in bacterial genomes and can enter a lytic cycle when triggered by environmental conditions. ...

Might be worth checking out some of the data on prophage induction and temperature? pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... or journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Registration now open for @embo.org workshop on the evolution of biological interactions on April 24 - 27, 2026! Come join us in Taipei, Taiwan to see how interactions shaped the genomes of various organisms and meeting people from across the globe. Info: meetings.embo.org/event/26-bio...

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Votes to Shut Down

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Dear US researchers: break the outrage addiction. I survived the besieging of science. So can you As I watch US researchers respond to threats against science, I’m reminded of when scientists in Brazil navigated a similar storm.

This column in a word: boss-up, y’all. It is not a warm and fuzzy hug, or an outrage sing-along. It’s a clear reflection of the present, a wake up call, and a preview of the future. We aren’t going to complain Trump away. It’s survival time. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Oooorrrrrrrrrrr…. This one. Damn this is hard.

Followed in close second by:

It's 2025, and we're sharing bootleg 60 Minutes segments broadcast in other countries because our own country is being run by fascists and their billionaire-owned state media helpers, just as the Founding Fathers intended, of course.

"the researchers found that withdrawing support for rapidly advancing mRNA vaccine technology could result in over 49,000 preventable deaths annually among patients diagnosed with four major cancers"

#phage #phagesky
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Addressing methodological bias in phageome research to clarify bacteriophage diversity

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Evaluation of phages as a signature of microbiome health: a systematic review & meta-analysis
@bkoskella.bsky.social

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Conceptual overview of the costs and benefits of adaptation via loci carried by mobile genetic elements

Mobile genetic elements enable microbial local adaptation with cascading consequences for plants

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#TansleyInsight article by Porter et al.

@Bkoskella.bsky.social @dholtappels.bsky.social
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