Ryan Folk 🐕

Assistant professor and herbarium curator, Mississippi State University. Systematics, informatics, phylogenomics. PLANTS. 🌱

[Dexcem Pantinople @dexcemp]

folk lab lunchin

[Sushil Dahal @D_Sushi1]

The Folk Lab at #Evolution2025. ⁦@ry_folk⁩ ⁦@NickEngleWrye⁩ ⁦@dexcemp⁩ ⁦@GiramPranoti⁩ Shamim and John. #Athens #Georgia

[Ryan Folk 🐕 @ry_folk]

@D_Sushi1 @NickEngleWrye

[Sushil Dahal @D_Sushi1]

Nick presenting his work on Heuchera hybridization in #Evolution2025

[Dexcem Pantinople @dexcemp]

Congrats to @D_Sushi1 for passing his candidacy exams! 🌱

[Shelly Gaynor @ShellyGaynor]

It's here and ahead-of-print at @ASNAmNat ! 🎉 Our 22-page polyploid coexistence model is now available: https://t.co/FNNtNTDUej

This work wouldn’t be possible without NSF support—including funding from an NSF GRFP, an NSF PRFB, and NSF DMS & DBI grants. @soltislab @NKortessis

[Sushil Dahal @D_Sushi1]

Congrats phd candidate ⁦@dexcemp⁩ 🎊🎊

[Dexcem Pantinople @dexcemp]

the press to my herbarium specimen

[Dexcem Pantinople @dexcemp]

NEW PAPER OUT!

Assessing drivers of leaf endophyte diversity and composition across a broad geographic and phylogenetic scale, we found that:

-assembly patterns differed between bacterial and fungal endophytes; (1/3)

[Dexcem Pantinople @dexcemp]

lunchin with my siblings

[Ryan Folk 🐕 @ry_folk]

Something new every day in the lab...

[Daijiang Li @_djli]

It is really nice to see that data supported hypotheses very well: Long-term nitrogen deposition reduces the diversity of nitrogen-fixing plants | Science Advances https://t.co/i8hkTw2Uqg

[Ryan Folk 🐕 @ry_folk]

🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[Dexcem Pantinople @dexcemp]

I got to meet the pollinators of the Heuchera parviflora group in my 2-week field work across eastern US!

[Botanical Society of America @Botanical_]

An elevational cline in leaf variegation: Testing anti-#herbivory & abiotic heterogeneity hypotheses in maintaining a #polymorphism

New #AJB research at Cierra Sullivan & @mhkoski

https://t.co/lQIvfSp2DS #botany #ecophysiology #@wileyplantsci

[Ryan Folk 🐕 @ry_folk]

Upholstery adventure part two. Adding muslin, then damask, then gimp! This is supposed to match my settee, which is from the same period with a similar pattern.

[Ryan Folk 🐕 @ry_folk]

More of those cool handmade nails!

[Ryan Folk 🐕 @ry_folk]

New upholstery adventure 1/2. Another carved rosewood piece (Dalbergia sissoo?). The modern upholstery was a bad job, kind of lumpy. The batting is original, check out that horse hair! I fixed the lumps using some raw wool from the same period but kept the rest.

[Ryan Folk 🐕 @ry_folk]

OBSESSED

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Lana Del Rey got married to alligator tour guide Jeremy Dufrene today.

[Steven Dodsworth @DrSDodsworth]

Now official, I’ve moved back to London and today is my first day at Birkbeck, University of London! Researching all things botanical🌿🌱🪴 - potential postdocs or PhD/MRes students do feel free to get in touch! @BBKNatSci @BirkbeckScience @BirkbeckUoL

[Scientific Reports @SciReports]

Elemental and isotopic analysis of leaves predicts nitrogen-fixing phenotypes @joshua_doby @compositaecarol @soltislab @robgural @ry_folk
https://t.co/RKGHFLSaHE