Alex Blacutt

In Transit. Microbiomes, biocontrol & solidarity are a few of my favorite things

[Alex Blacutt @MycoAggression]

you'd be surprised how far you can get in your education without ever talking about monerans

[Stéphane Hacquard @hacquard_st]

Our new study is out in @PNASNews!!! 🎉 7 years in the making, 2 heroic PhD students, 2 proud PIs, many collaborators, massive work! https://t.co/sf8THD6XcV. Cofunctioning of bacterial exometabolites drives root microbiota establishment. @mpipz_cologne @GetzkeFelix

[Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson @HilaryRoseD]

Pausing in fungal DNA extraction to admire the beautiful mosaic incidentally created by leaf litter samples collected from around the US.

[Robert Blanchette @forestmycology]

Its that time of year again when the class project for growing mushrooms comes out of the grow room- half this week and another 35 come out next week

[Fabi Pulido-Chavez @Pulido_Fabi]

Help us, @ESAMicrobe, raise money to sponsor students (travel grants & #SEEDS awards) by donating microbial gear and books for our silent auction at the annual #ESA conference. See flyer ⬇️ or message me for more info. 💜🦠🍄

[Robin Rohwer @RobinRohwer]

Mom asked, "I wonder when cherries bloom in Japan?" So I found 1200 years of data online and made her a plot.

[Steve Marek @stephenmarek2]

A global phylogenomic analysis of the shiitake genus Lentinula | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences https://t.co/270Z9z7day
"To reconstruct the domestication of shiitake...necessary to sequence the genomes of additional wild strains from continental Asia and Japan."

[Los Angeles Times @latimes]

Some UC faculty members are raising the alarm about a research center affiliated with UC Riverside.

They say the center uses corporate funding for reports “attacking proposals to improve the lives of working Californians.”

@suhaunah reports: https://t.co/R9pbMLnEZv

[FREE PALESTINE ❤️🖤🤍💚 @HourlyLizards]

🦎 Satanic Leaf-tailed Gecko - Uroplatus phantasticus
📷 Paul Bertner

[Rabern Simmons, PhD 🔬💧🍄 @DrRabern]

I know, I know, accurate representation of fungi is difficult in popular media, but this is CLEARLY a slime mold and not a Cordyceps variant in the title sequence of Last of Us, and I won't pretend otherwise!

[FREE PALESTINE ❤️🖤🤍💚 @HourlyLizards]

🦎 Armored Tree Dragon - Acanthosaura armata
📷 Thai National Parks

[Javier Cabral @theglutster]

fyi: no one in Mexico eats tamales for Christmas (cuz they eat them year-round). Some people have their go-to dishes, but you can rest assured it is always a feast.

[NASA History Office @NASAhistory]

"We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth" –Bill Anders, Apollo 8 astronaut

"Earthrise," one of the most powerful photos in @NASA’s history, was taken by Anders #OTD in 1968 as the Apollo 8 crew orbited the Moon.

[Alex Blacutt @MycoAggression]

@coach_wonderful @kevinfolta Thank you, likewise! I'm just a big chestnut fan though, I believe these efforts are led by
https://t.co/ExWOXR6Bdz

[Alex Blacutt @MycoAggression]

If you've spoken to me for more than twenty minutes you know how much I adore chestnuts and mourn their loss. Please take a second to comment in support of this replanting effort, we'll call it a christmas gift to me (and untold future generations).

[Kevin Folta @kevinfolta]

ACTION NEEDED. C'mon science folks! The American Chestnut dominated Appalachia until a fungal disease in the early 1900s. A clever solution using a gene from wheat can help repopulate this ecosystem. Your voice is needed in public comment: @ASPB @aaas https://t.co/aB2aApHu23

[Alex Blacutt @MycoAggression]

@NihavD I haven't heard this one, sounds like perfect cooking background audio thank you!

[Kevin Folta @kevinfolta]

ACTION NEEDED. C'mon science folks! The American Chestnut dominated Appalachia until a fungal disease in the early 1900s. A clever solution using a gene from wheat can help repopulate this ecosystem. Your voice is needed in public comment: @ASPB @aaas https://t.co/aB2aApHu23

[UAW 4811 @uaw_4811]

Academic Student Employees and Student Researchers ratified our new contracts!
The vote breakdown was 11,386 to 7,097 for Academic Student Employees and 10,057 to 4,640 for Student Researchers. #FairUCnow

[Allyson Vergara @byallysonrae]

💉 Looking to talk to folks in the #InlandEmpire who have gotten sick or know someone with COVID, RSV or the flu in the last few weeks, around the holidays, and if you’ve gone to urgent care or the hospital. For a @pressenterprise story. DMs and emails open: [email protected]

[keith bb @TRAILSANDWAYS]

our @sruuaw picket (with @DSAEastBay community support) just turned away a delivery of $60K in incubators to a berkeley bio lab 🦠

the delivery crew was nonunion—but chose to not cross our line! solidarity ❤️