Spenser Babb-Biernacki

PhD student at @LSU_MNS studying fungus-mammal coevolution. “Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.” -Ursula Le Guin

[LSU College of Science @lsuscience]

Check out this new video by our PhD student Spenser Babb-Biernacki, breaking down the science of fungal parasites in the "The Last of Us"!

We interviewed her earlier this year, and she discussed her initial thoughts about the show in this blog post.
https://t.co/gcn1attUmg

[Spenser Babb-Biernacki @Babberwocky]

I'm a mycologist who studies fungal parasites of mammals. I had EVEN MORE feelings about The Last of Us. Welcome back to Science Teatime! 🫖📷
https://t.co/3NwWW2paEb
#lastofus #mycology #fungus #scicomm

[Spenser Babb-Biernacki @Babberwocky]

I'm a mycologist who studies fungal parasites of humans. I had a lot of feelings about The Last of Us. Welcome to Science Teatime! 🫖👩‍🔬🤩

https://t.co/UNBgV5KOnV

#LastOfUsHBO #mycology #fungus #scicomm

[Spenser Babb-Biernacki @Babberwocky]

@cenewman0 @MSAFungi Thank you!! That’s amazing 😁

[Spenser Babb-Biernacki @Babberwocky]

So thrilled to have received the #MeredithBlackwell Best Student Oral Presentation Award at @MSAFungi 2022!

As an LSU student who first read about mycology at an academic level in Alexopoulos, Mims, and Blackwell’s book, this is a huge honor.

[José E. Solórzano @josesolorzano73]

#MSAfungi22 🎊🎊🎊🎉🎉

[Spenser Babb-Biernacki @Babberwocky]

And congrats to the fellow presentation awardees, and my labmates who also received other awards 😁

[Damaris Brisco 🦉 @Fungal_Love]

Some mushroom cap shapes. Part of a thing I've been working on. Watercolor pencil and ink.

[Mycological Society of America moved to bluesky @MSAFungi]

On Wednesday 22 July 2020, @MSAFungi will organize a one-day MSA #virtualmeeting, open to all MSA members! With Karling lecture, Presidential address, symposia, poster session, awards ceremony, business meeting, and auction. More details to follow! #MSAfungi20

[Genevieve G. Mount @Lizardeve]

Objectively the best pumpkin and team name on the site. Vote and retweet!

[Spenser Babb-Biernacki @Babberwocky]

Had a blast carving this super spooky shrew skull to try to win the Esselstyn Mammal Lab a free HiSeq lane! 🎃🐭🦇 Vote for Krewe du Shrew here: https://t.co/E75BffRd6y

[Spenser Babb-Biernacki @Babberwocky]

😢🖖

[The DS9 Documentary @DS9Doc]

We’re heartbroken to share news of the loss of one of our family. Aron Eisenberg was an enormous positive presence in any situation. Forever kind, caring & deeply thoughtful, Aron was every bit as passionate as he appeared on screen. Our love & gratitude is with him & his family.

[Spenser Babb-Biernacki @Babberwocky]

@HenrysHardSoda “Zero Sugar” but the second ingredient is corn syrup? Cool.

You also have undeclared barley malt, which contains gluten, and since you don’t list ingredients on your package I just drank one and got sick 👍 Hope you’re having fun harming people.

[🧬Jacob L Steenwyk @jlsteenwyk]

An #organism with 20,000 sexes😱??
Some fungi may have several thousand sexes. Perhaps most extreme is the split #gill #mushroom 🍄 (Schizophyllum commune) which, is estimated to have 20,000 or more sexes #FreakyFungalFriday 🔗: https://t.co/z8DSL78KMv 📷: https://t.co/PHQg4Dy0GU

[LSU Museum of NatSci @LSU_MNS]

#tbt Did you know the dioramas at the #LSUMNS were hand painted in the 1950s by then Curator of Exhibits, Ambrose Daigre? Photos of the real scenes were projected onto the back wall of the exhibits and they were painted using the projection as a guide.

[LSU Museum of NatSci @LSU_MNS]

#StudentSpotlight Meet Spenser Babb-Biernacki. (@Babberwocky). Spenser is a 2nd yr PhD student at the #LSUMNS from Phoenix, AZ working under @JakeEsselstyn. Her research focuses on the evolutionary history of mammalian lung parasites: fungi in the genus Pneumocystis. (1/2)

[Heitman lab at Duke @DukeHeitman]

Several new video's are posted on the Youtube channel of the "An Oral History for Mycology" project. This awesome project is lead by Meredith Blackwell.

See for all interviews here:
https://t.co/gRt5kRi0kT

[Spenser Babb-Biernacki @Babberwocky]

@RebeccaNShay @GWIS_MSU “Boys who are just as (if not more) interested in STEM than their female counterparts”

YYYYYYYIKES, this is so gross

[Spenser Babb-Biernacki @Babberwocky]

Ethan Peck constantly has the most amazing shirts, we don’t deserve him 🖖

[Star Trek @StarTrek]

At #Trekonderoga @ethangpeck tours the Enterprise briefing room and checks out a Vulcan harp.

[Mycological Society of America moved to bluesky @MSAFungi]

All of our 2019 MSA poster & oral presentation awards went to female students. Congratulations! #WomenInSTEM #WomeninMycology #MSAfungi19