Jason Slot

Fungal Evolution Professor at Ohio State. Opinions my own. Ideas are judged by how competitive they are in an open ecosystem. Refuse to infantilize my audience.

[Jason Slot @fungolution]

https://t.co/KNYBxiUGIc

[Jason Slot @fungolution]

"Evolution, structure and function of the putative biosynthetic gene cluster of the fungal secondary metabolite myriocin, a potent inhibitory sphingolipid"
https://t.co/V4neB2rJu0

[Jason Slot @fungolution]

@tracyktownsend we use the term psiloids to denote those tryptamines in the psilocybin pathway. Some species have differential retention of precursors or aeruginascin, which is derived from psilocybin by an additional N- methylation.

[Jason Slot @fungolution]

@MarshallWheels I'd pay the 8

[Jason Slot @fungolution]

@wil_da_beast630 That's exactly where I have landed for the past 20 years.

[Jason Slot @fungolution]

@pastramimachine As long as we're being even handed about costs and benefits and responsibilities.

[Jason Slot @fungolution]

@JamesMelville Um... Ontario was already an American name. Ontario province was named after the lake. Is this a self-own?

[Jason Slot @fungolution]

@wil_da_beast630 If a civilization is destroyed, barbarism takes hold. US foreign policy contributed to the current state of things there. More war will only cement what the previous wars accomplished.

[Jason Slot @fungolution]

@elonmusk @aaronburnett That's a lot of energy to get stuff out of our orbit with rockets. Now, hear me out, if we were to build a large tower that reaches outside Earth's gravity...

[Molecular Plant & Plant Communications @MPlantPCom]

Subspecies-specific metabolic gene clusters orchestrate polyphenol dynamics for modular metabolic breeding in sugarcane #commentary #PlantCommunications https://t.co/AMFnUwufKr

[C.Strullu-Derrien @CStrulluDerrien]

Could this microorganism be a fossil Phytophthora infecting a Carboniferous seed? @KamounLab @dromius @Tolga_Bzkrt

[New Phytologist @NewPhyt]

From genotype to microbiome function: a gene–metabolite–microbiome pathway shaping plant nutrient acquisition
https://t.co/trfghLMbtZ

#Commentary by Pang and Yu highlighting the recent work by Xu et al.
https://t.co/4hGAg49eWf

[Jason Slot @fungolution]

The "dark magic mushroom" co-produces amatoxins and psilocybin https://t.co/Gw5wOq7Bxc

[Jason Slot @fungolution]

@markowenmartin Socratic dialog and oral exams.

[Jason Slot @fungolution]

@juliet_turner6 Did I catch you slippin' on implied teleology language?

[New Phytologist @NewPhyt]

Partial mycoheterotrophy: a common strategy in arbuscular mycorrhizal plants?

Merckx et al.

https://t.co/JiW60sSAKj

[Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash]

Groundwater microbial communities across the terrestrial subsurface https://t.co/U4skkOadVk

[Jason Slot @fungolution]

@wil_da_beast630 Tell us again about how the two alternatives are "prey morality" and doing what makes you happy within the bounds of the law. Seems this is non-prey, extra-legal, moral indignation applied. If the law got there first, it would still be to quell this moral indignation. And why?

[Jason Slot @fungolution]

@wil_da_beast630 ...what will make him/his circle happy could very well impinge on the goal. Morality encodes behaviors that have at some point proven to benefit the environment that favors survival and the pursuit of happiness of those groups that hold it.

[Jason Slot @fungolution]

@wil_da_beast630 You seem to be setting up a binary of "prey morality" and amorality. Morality is the evolving software of social cohesion. The laws that constrain the amoral are envisioned through the lens of morality, which takes many forms beyond "prey morality". The individual's idea of (ctd)