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Martin A. Nuñez

@martin-nunez.bsky.social

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Ecologist that studies 🍄🌲🐜🐑🐀🦌🌱🌾🌳🦠⛰, mostly invasives. University of Houston Comahue Senior Editor JAppliedEcology #bioinvasions. Views my own. Amazon Author & Associate. See my new book! https://mybook.to/ScienceGuide

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Martín Andrés Nuñez is an Argentine ecologist and academic specializing in biological invasions and plant-fungal interactions. He obtained several awards and he is currently a Professor in the Department of Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Houston, where he focuses on ecology, evolution, and the impacts of invasive species on ecosystems. He is now Editor-in-Chief of Academia Environmental Sciences and Sustainability, Senior Editor for the Journal of Applied Ecology, and he is also on the advisory board of Trends in Ecology and Evolution .. more

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Agriculture 18%

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · Aug 12

🚨Big news🚨

A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing is out🎉

This is the book I wish I’d had 20 years ago — short, practical, and designed to help researchers write & get their papers published

I hope it helps many
Please share with anyone who might benefit!
👉 mybook.to/ScienceGuide

cover of a "pocket guide to scientific writing and publishing"

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 9h

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys

The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

www.nature.com

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Lorissa Saiz @98eagl1.bsky.social · 18h

Catch me at the @sacnas.bsky.social #ndistem2025 conference later this month 😎 I’ll be presenting on Thursday, accepting a chapter of the year awards on behalf of @uhsacnas.bsky.social with @martin-nunez.bsky.social on Friday, and hosting a session on Saturday! Can’t wait to see y’all there 👏🏽🔥

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 1d

When are you more creative?

I'm waking up very early and I am working surprisingly well in this semi-awake mode

There is evidence of artist being more creative using alcohol/drugs (don't do this!)

There is something about creativity & having your brain working at a fraction of its potential...

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 3d

Zoom meeting to brainstorm ideas with Ray Callaway, John Maron and Jaime Moyano
Love it.
This is why I do science ❤️

Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 3d

"Writing isn’t a gift—it’s a skill.” In my book, ecologist Mariano A. Rodriguez-Cabal (EIC @biolinvasions.bsky.social ) shows why writing early/often sharpens your thinking and your science. Great text! mybook.to/ScienceGuide #SciWriting #ECR

text by mariano rodriguez cabal in writing

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks SO much Lars!!! Love to know how you are using it.

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 4d

@martin-nunez.bsky.social - so sorry, I just realized I tagged the wrong Martin Nuñez! Better late than never and I can also now relay an update. I enjoyed your book, have used the chapter on AI in a lab meeting, lent out my copy to a student, and bought a copy for another student.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 5d

Invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi in South America

📖 buff.ly/ZgIX5IC
#TansleyInsight by @nahpo.bsky.social and @martin-nunez.bsky.social

@uh.edu @WileyPlantSci #PlantSci

Image source: Colección y Archivo Visual Patagónico; Photographer: Antonio Lynch; courtesy of Federico Silin.

Ectomycorrhizal fungi being introduced together with their plant hosts on Isla Victoria, Bariloche, Patagonia, Argentina, in 1936.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 6d

Unexpected perk of writing a book: meeting readers to help them go from idea+data to publication

If you bought the book/borrowed from your advisor, friend, library, etc please DM/email me to meet and get those ideas into papers!
(may be obvious but: This is 100% free!)
#PhD

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Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) @spun.earth · 8d

How did North American and European fungi end up in Argentine forests?

New research in @newphyt.bsky.social from UE @nahpo.bsky.social and @martin-nunez.bsky.social looks underground at how non-native tree species and their fungal partners have spread.

Read here: buff.ly/919OOs0

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 9d

yeah!!!!!!!!!

Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 9d

@sacnas.bsky.social @uhsacnas.bsky.social

Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 9d

Ready to go the @SACNAS meeting!!
Who is coming??

sacnas meeting webpage. the meeting is in oct 30 in ohio

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 10d

True! I know may PIs that buy it for their students.
great points, thanks @jecathre.bsky.social