Accounting for variation in water chemistry AND population differences is key to pollution risk assessment
by @RogalskiMary et al.
https://t.co/BTDl76zheZ
New Rogalski lab paper hot off the presses! Water fleas, road salt, what's not to love?!
Daphnia from a coastal lake that's naturally a bit salty were more tolerant of added road salt compared with inland populations. The background testing conditions also mattered (a lot).
Assistant professor Mary Rogalski’s research with students involving Daphia, water fleas living in lakes, published in the journal “Evolutionary Applications” could help improve how we manage risk associated with road salt pollution. https://t.co/jjbbjTQGu8
Concerning evidence that white-tailed deer could be an extremely competent reservoir for SARS-CoV-2. Looks like I have a new reading for next week’s disease ecology lesson. https://t.co/XnZMt4GTDJ
Excited to see our paper on context dependent host-symbiont interactions in @ASNAmNat! A Daphnia gut symbiont can act as a mutualist or a parasite depending on broader parasite community context. Resource availability also matters! @duffy_ma @_tarasite_ https://t.co/hjsQXgFj1J
In <1 yr I'll need a new job
Recent plans have fizzled due to #covid
If you /someone you know might need a postdoc, researcher, etc - I might be your scientist!
Expertise w/ wildlife, urban areas, ag, H2O quality, & more
Gov/academia/private is all great! West Coast preferred
@duffy_ma @americanbeetles I’ve been thinking of getting a kayak for solo sampling! Canoe sampling would would be about the same as your row boat in distance. Would you still have two people sampling and drive separately?
I’ve been getting a lot of questions from my non-Black friends about how to be a better ally to Black people. I suggest unlearning and relearning through literature as just one good jumping off point, and have broken up my anti-racist reading list into sections:
To my white educators: Today, you’re posting about social justice, buying antiracist books, following brown folks, and temp changing your profile pictures. (thread)
Here’s what I need you to do tomorrow: