Zach Bragg, PhD

Forest Entomology & Pathology 🌲| He/Him 🏳️‍🌈 Postdoc @LabVillari using transcriptomics to evaluate pine/pathogen interactions

[Zach Bragg, PhD @yourlocalbugboy]

It’s officially *doctor* bug boy now! (Half a decade later!!)

[Noah Kahan @NoahKahan]

My fourth album, The Great Divide, is yours to listen to. It is hard to even begin to describe what these last few years making this album has felt like. The collision of fear and pressure and joy and luck and total love has left me wordless, and if you know me personally, I hardly ever shut my mouth. I spent many months walking forward in complete darkness, hands out in front of me, desperate to touch something familiar that would show me I was near the light switch again. As lonely as it felt, and as unfamiliar as the world seemed in those moments, I was never really alone. I don’t think any of us ever truly are. I was guided through the wilderness by calm voices, by the stillness of my home state, by the total commitment of my band, producers, and team, by the steady and loving touch of my wife and family, and of course, by the constant and enduring encouragement of you all, who I am so lucky to have as fans. I am very proud of what we are doing together and I hope we can live this dream for a long long time

https://t.co/stSzorkE4f

[Reuters @Reuters]

Mexico reported a 64% rise in overwintering monarch butterfly habitat this season, with forest coverage expanding to about 7.24 acres from 4.4 acres last year, credited to conservation efforts and favorable weather

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

George Orwell on writing:

[Zach Bragg, PhD @yourlocalbugboy]

@IRLoadingScreen Georgia 🫣

[SHANE RAMOS© @TheShaneRamos_]

BAD BUNNY

SUPER BOWL LX

[Zach Bragg, PhD @yourlocalbugboy]

@IRLoadingScreen These are all phenomenal. We need Ohio to round out the Midwest!

[Jonathan Danilich @jdanilich]

Life imitates art

[どぶりあ @dobrevipo]

赤虫に突撃！ボウズハゼ

[The Jones Center at Ichauway @thejonesctr]

We are hiring! 🌎️

Our Landscape Ecology Lab is searching for someone who will use advanced technologies and techniques to enhance conservation outcomes in collaboration with agencies and research partners. 🌲

🔗Check out our jobs page for more info!

https://t.co/Gv7UdVvt97

[Zach Bragg, PhD @yourlocalbugboy]

@RRhinoG Thanks Ryan ☺️

[Zach Bragg, PhD @yourlocalbugboy]

We got gay married 🫶🏻🏳️‍🌈 I love you so much, Nate (12/13/24)

[Rappenem @Rappenem]

Pop tart bug?

[USFWS Pacific @USFWSPacific]

SHE DID IT AGAIN!

Wisdom, the world’s oldest known wild bird, is back with a new partner and just laid yet another egg.

At an approximate age of 74, the queen of seabirds returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge last week and began interacting with a male.

[The Jones Center at Ichauway @thejonesctr]

Last week, our Plant Ecology Lab found this orchid, the Long-lipped Ladies' Tresses (Spiranthes longilabris). Considered critically imperiled in some parts of it's range, The Jones Center at Ichauway is the only place in Georgia it has been documented in the last 25 years! 🌱😲

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

the fact that this will be a close election will never not be jarring to me

[Meredith Willmott @the_leafhopper]

hey! every single bug on this page was painted with cochineal red- paint made with the pigment FROM bugs! How cool is that!

[Zach Bragg, PhD @yourlocalbugboy]

@ThrashTalk @Yale Congratulations Dr. Thrasher!! Now REST !!

[Daniel Kronauer @DanielKronauer]

Wow! A blind snake (Indotyphlops braminus I think) feeding on ant brood. These snakes are completely subterranean, so you can’t really observe them in the wild. They’re specialized predators of ants and termites and, evidently, they look really weird when they eat. Ant 🐜 🐍 🐜

[Zach Bragg, PhD @yourlocalbugboy]

As a researcher you get to do both!!

[Fantin Mesny @f_mesny]

NEW REVIEW OUT

Fungal pathogens (in fact, not only fungi and not only pathogens!) manipulate the microbiota of their plant hosts during infection.
We reviewed the processes involved, focusing on effector proteins with selective antimicrobial activities.

https://t.co/ghVFnBLTUS