FUNGUS IN SPACE!!! 🍄🚀
Equal parts cosmic horror and nature being metal, let's talk about the lichen that grew on the OUTSIDE of the International Space Station!
Get your tea and curl up, because I PROMISE you wanna hear about these fungal cosmonauts 🧑🚀
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Meet this week's #HumansofBioSciences@graceaceae, a PhD student who wants to solve some Australian mushroom mysteries 🍄.
A self-professed collector of ‘Weird Hobbies’, don’t be surprised to see Grace performing circus tricks or wielding a longsword.
https://t.co/c6tUn6Lg3U
"A field-based investigation of simple phenol variation in Australian Agaricus xanthodermus" is now out - the first for @graceaceae from her Masters! Well done Grace! A valuable contribution to understanding toxicity in this commonly foraged mushroom (https://t.co/TJExZvX5oe)
This trip will launch for our 300 students in October and we are looking forward to it! ✨Here is our star presenter @trishfishkoh checking out the rock pools and showing students all the molluscs and life that they will get to see on their trip.🌊🐌 2/3
Enjoyed talking about the value of #herbariumspecimens in documenting biodiversity with JOURN90024 students who are creating podcasts to tell the stories of @UniMelb Museums and Collections. Check out these MELU specimens collected in Port Philip Bay in 1882.
Meet this week's #HumansofBioSciences, Nicole Middleton. Nicole is passionate about nature, volunteering and travel and is currently our EHS Coordinator for fieldwork. By her own admission, Nicole struggles to sit still and has many projects on the go!
https://t.co/uXf03NumCP
Meet this week's #HumansofBioSciences @MycologyPicking. Beau is a mycologist & educator who completed their MSc in mushroom taxonomy in 2017 🍄
Beau's advice to other students: think about the balance between study, life outside university, & work.
https://t.co/YEH5nQ7DKA
👮♀️+🌿 Forensic botany using plants to solve crimes. Amazing work by Kelly Shepherd—training police to collect botanical evidence and ID-ing the plants. @asbs_nzpcn_2019
Amelia-Grace Boxshall @graceaceae: how to engage social media to get critical data for improving fungus systematics, received undescribed ITS sequences directly on Facebook!!
https://t.co/jygM1xHvQQ
#scicomm#citizenscience @asbs_nzpcn_2019
@TheGoodDeath I just learned about the Children of Llullaillaco via a historical fashion Instagram account. Three ritually sacrificed Incan children, described as some of the best preserved mummies in the world. I’d love to hear your insights. Would you do a video about them?
Kevin Thiele, the Newt Scamander of botany, has some truly exciting plans for Taxonomy Australia: website, podcast, social media and membership to share the impact, beauty and general coolness of taxonomy.
Keep your eyes peeled for it in early 2019! #ASBS_2018
Last night the Prime Minister of Australia said "the magic of science starts with belief" and today the President of the US said "I have a natural instinct for science" and look guys I don't think that word means what you think it means.