Your Wild Life Team

With our merry band of citizen scientists, we're exploring the biodiversity that lives on us, in us and around us | Part of the Dunn Lab @ NC State University

[Your Wild Life Team @YourWild_Life]

Hey Folks, We are beginning a project to survey arthropods in homes around the world (through iNaturalist). Give it a go. Do you have species in your home we haven’t yet seen in other homes? https://t.co/RTsbS2rwaU

[Benjamin Wolfe @LupoLabs]

Using this incredible collection, we answered a long-standing question in bread baking: are there unique sourdough microbes in specific geographic locations?

Spoiler alert: the answer is no!

There is nothing special (from a microbial perspective) about San Francisco sourdough.

[Your Wild Life Team @YourWild_Life]

Nestled inside each of these packages was a unique community of microbes, each one holding tiny clues to the history of how it had been maintained and who's lives it had touched. #scienceofsourdough #sourdough

[Benjamin Wolfe @LupoLabs]

We are SO grateful for all the bakers that sent us samples of their sourdough starters. They provided us with rich metadata and unprecedented sampling resolution. Here is a pile of samples that @landisea processed when they arrived at the lab.

[Your Wild Life Team @YourWild_Life]

We have created a companion resource for those who submitted a #sourdoughstarter for our #GlobalSourdoughProject. We want to make sure you know as much about your starter as we do! https://t.co/AIkLwH0nFC

[Your Wild Life Team @YourWild_Life]

And, if you would prefer to HEAR the sourdough data, artist Jude Casseday has produced an incredible album of soundscapes based on the data and findings! #sciart

https://t.co/ZGgDQefsCf

[Your Wild Life Team @YourWild_Life]

Our Global Sourdough Project results are published! A warm and heartfelt thank you to everyone who contributed - whether you filled out the survey or sent us a sample of your starter or emailed insightful questions.
We are so excited to share what we discovered!
#sourdough

[NC State Applied Ecology @NCStateAEC]

The long-standing idea that some locations just make tastier #sourdough starters just isn't supported by this @doteachlearn, @LupoLabs @AnneAMadden @RRobDunn et. al. study who looked at starters from across the world: https://t.co/UCqu4xBtCl

Sorry New York and San Fran! 🤷‍♀️

[Benjamin Wolfe @LupoLabs]

We are SO grateful for all the bakers that sent us samples of their sourdough starters. They provided us with rich metadata and unprecedented sampling resolution. Here is a pile of samples that @landisea processed when they arrived at the lab.

[Your Wild Life Team @YourWild_Life]

@maii0965 Wonderful! Welcome!

[Your Wild Life Team @YourWild_Life]

@E_Carlen @acer_aceae Fascinating. My first terrible thought: perhaps some fungicide contaminated the grain. But it might be a difference in nutrient availability? Does it just grow more slowly, but eventually reach the same lofty heights? I'm calling in reinforcements: @AnneAMadden @RRobDunn

[Your Wild Life Team @YourWild_Life]

@yeipijotape Love watching this daily progression! Especially the differences in aroma between the different flour types the first few days. @AnneAMadden @RRobDunn

[Eleanor Spicer Rice @VerdantEleanor]

Get powered up with #STEAMSquad! This week, learn about parasites and pathogens, and help count animals on the East African savanna with @the_zooniverse ! Perfect for middle schoolers! #CitizenScience #STEMeducation https://t.co/ufZXgON5qG

[Your Wild Life Team @YourWild_Life]

@BeauPoete Love it!!

[Your Wild Life Team @YourWild_Life]

@karenedaniels Congrats on the new starter! You can still submit your data, if you like, since you dont have to collect any measurements until the second week anyhow.

[Your Wild Life Team @YourWild_Life]

@msuberrybugs @RRobDunn Indeed! I wouldn't recommend using the discard for cooking when you are first making a starter though. I would wait until you have a starter that is consistently rising and falling between feedings. A really good point to add once we include a "Maintaining your starter" page.

[Your Wild Life Team @YourWild_Life]

We have un-officially launched our new Wild Sourdough project! The official launch is April 16th, but we have a hard time keeping secrets. https://t.co/8JN5QqDCr6… #wildsourdough #stayhome #sourdough

[Your Wild Life Team @YourWild_Life]

We are launching a free mini-seminar series on fermentation! #fermentology101

[Rob Dunn @RRobDunn]

Want to learn more about sourdough, beer, or cheese? Sign up for our free Fermentology 101 mini-seminars. Equal parts how to, science, history and culture https://t.co/R9tPTISJnd @LupoLabs @AnneAMadden @YourWild_Life @sconc @CoopSciScoop

[Your Wild Life Team @YourWild_Life]

Join our team! The Dunn Lab is hiring a Research Technician (MA or PhD level) to work on a global forensic project using insect e-DNA. More info:
https://t.co/aEAUCFp3n9 @RRobDunn @NCStateAEC

[Your Wild Life Team @YourWild_Life]

@brian_M2 Its not just you, unfortunately. https://t.co/YRMjxdWd8B

[Your Wild Life Team @YourWild_Life]

New paper out this week! We thought that kids living close to nature might be more fond of local wildlife than kids living in urban places. Turns out we were wrong. Frogs are always greener on the other side of the pond, no matter where you live.

[NC State Applied Ecology @NCStateAEC]

Children Prefer Faraway Wildlife to Local Nature according to a collaborative @thePeerJ study with @NCStateAEC, @naturalsciences, and @NCParks Recreation & Tourism: https://t.co/xb4dJvaNi2

[Your Wild Life Team @YourWild_Life]

Our @inaturalist #neverhomealone project is being featured as a #wonderchallenge this month! Great excuse to look for life indoors, share your discoveries, and enter to win one of the prize pack! https://t.co/F2EdaBEv41

[Your Wild Life Team @YourWild_Life]

Some of the faces behind The Sourdough Project! The team just held their third "Sourdough Summit" to discuss results. #publicscience #citizenscience #thesourdoughproject

[Lauren Nichols @LaurenMNichols]

Working with this group of badass woman has been the most validating and motivating experience of my life. THIS is what collaboration should feel like!! I'm proud of the work we are doing - because of the science itself, but more importantly because of our process.