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TR Cavallaro
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Fungi 🍄 | Plants 🌵 | Epigenetics 🧬 | Eco-Evo-Devo 🌀 | PhD Student, Stanford 🌲(he/him/il) #FirstGen #QueerinSTEM 🏳️‍🌈 ♾️

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TR Cavallaro @trcava.bsky.social · Oct 5
I made a flyer! Know anyone in CA, OR, WA, or BC who might be interested in collecting mushrooms for research purposes? #mycology #citizenscience

Please share widely! 🧪 🍄‍🟫 🌲

A PDF version can be found here: drive.proton.me/urls/W1MM4FG...
A help-wanted poster seeking volunteer mushroom collectors in California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. The poster provided some background info about the research project and study system and how folks can contribute if they are interested. REQUEST | Calling all mycophiles, naturalists, and citizen scientists in CA, OR, WA, and BC! Going for a hike in the woods or a walk in your neighborhood park? • Please keep your eyes peeled for the purple mushrooms of L.a-o! • Collect the mushrooms* if you are able to access them safely. • If you can, please take a photo of the mushrooms and the tree(s) you find them under. *If you find a mushroom that is clearly rotten or moldy, please don't collect it. "I collected some purple mushrooms. What should I do now?" 1. Please keep the mushroom fresh: • Store in paper, not plastic. • Keep cool/ refrigerate, but do not freeze. • Store mushrooms away from light. 2. Email me to arrange pick-up, delivery, or shipment* of your sample. * will cover packing and shipping expenses! "What's in it for those who contribute to this work?" • You will receive acknowledgement in presentations and publications stemming from this research. • You will receive copies of journal publications from this research (data available upon request). • You are invited to attend presentations of this research and to visit the lab at Stanford University. Page 2 of the help-wanted poster includes reference photos of the study organism and a map of where this species has been observed. All images and the map are sourced from iNaturalist.
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christineliu.art
$15k stipend to support 9 weeks of full time summer research!

For rising juniors/seniors who are able to travel to and obtain housing at the location of the lab they are placed in!

I did an HHMI summer experience in 2013 and it changed everything for me! Apply…or tell someone to apply!

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leslievosshall.bsky.social Leslie B Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall.bsky.social · 17d
@hhmi.org Summer Undergraduate Research Experience - #CechFellows named in honor of Prof Tom Cech
Deadline to apply: 12/22/2025
Spend 9 weeks in a paid, mentored biomedical research experience in an HHMI lab. See you next summer!!!
www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...
Summer Undergraduate Research Experience | HHMI
The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.
www.hhmi.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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coeplantsuccess.bsky.social
📢 New publication 'Convergence-Divergence Models: Generalizations of Phylogenetic Trees Modeling Gene Flow Over Time' by Jonathan Mitchell and Barbara Holland in Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 🧪

doi.org/10.1007/s115...

#PhylogeneticTree #evolution
Convergence-Divergence Models: Generalizations of Phylogenetic Trees Modeling Gene Flow Over Time - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
Phylogenetic trees are simple models of evolutionary processes. They describe conditionally independent divergent evolution from common ancestors. However, they often lack the flexibility to represent...
doi.org
December 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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waterpotential.bsky.social
I tell students to mark the language that government agencies use to talk about Indigenous peoples, because it holds information about relationships & power dynamics. I have no insider knowledge, but I'm definitely marking the pivot from "Tribal Nation" to "Indian Tribe."
www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...
Policy Notice: Implementation of Policy Changes to Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) 24-1, Supplement 1
This notice implements several revisions to NSF's Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) 24-1.
www.nsf.gov
December 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
Happy to talk to @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social at @404media.co about this issue of Instagram adding weird sometimes inaccurate headlines and summaries for Google searches. I find it troubling. www.404media.co/instagram-is...
Instagram Is Generating Inaccurate SEO Bait for Your Posts
Instagram is generating headlines for Instagram posts that appear on Google Search results. Users say they are misrepresenting them.
www.404media.co
December 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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neurodevkathy.bsky.social
🚨 The NIH open access policy requiring immediate open access for all NIH funded papers is derailing all kinds of research programs because of the high $$$ associated with journal open access fees. Thanks to @docsirianni.bsky.social for your continued advocacy
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
The NIH Policy Holding Researchers “Hostage”
An effort to make NIH-funded research immediately accessible to the public has led to disruption and financial strain for scientists already navigating a precarious funding environment. It also spotli...
www.insidehighered.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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sally-mycology.bsky.social
A nice way to finish the year, with the publication of our new species, genus and family. This is yet another new species from a little creek in Scott Creek Conservation Park. So many undescribed species! #fungi #aquatic_fungi #freshwater_fungi phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/v...
A new family of freshwater ascomycetes from Australia: Rivulataceae fam. nov. , Rivulatus australiensis gen. et. sp. nov. (Diaporthomycetidae) | Phytotaxa
phytotaxa.mapress.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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jeffontherock.bsky.social
A mushroom-lined bunny trail through Sphagnum moss. Newfoundland, Canada.
#mushroom #fungi #fungifriends #moss #bryophyte #bolete
Photo of a bunny (snowshoe hare) trail through green Sphagnum moss. The trail is lined with red bog bolete mushrooms.
December 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
trcava.bsky.social
One month free of the nicotine beast (after 17 years of using) 🚭
Days since tracker: 30 days without nicotine of any kind!! (No gum, patch, vape, cigs, zyn, etc).
December 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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mcfadden.bsky.social
ChatGPT cuts the crusts off my peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I'm a big business boy.
December 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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nucleosomepolice.bsky.social
Confused by all the histones that are cropping up in organisms that are decidedly NOT eukaryotes? check out our review - fantastic work by team NucEvo in the #Lugerlab
The Expanding Histone Universe: Histone-Based DNA Organization in Noneukaryotic Organisms - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
December 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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katharinehayhoe.com
As I say here, this is not about saving the planet. The planet will be orbiting the sun long after we’re gone.

The question is, will there be a healthy, thriving human society on that planet? The answer to that question is very much up for grabs at this point.
World must jointly tackle issues of climate change, pollution, UN says
The United Nations says the world needs a new way of thinking about environmental crises threatening the health of people and the planet
abcnews.go.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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forestryjfr.bsky.social
🌧️ Mixed forests keep soil life thriving, even when rainfall shifts!
A JFR study shows that plant species mixtures boost springtail abundance and diversity, especially in drier conditions.
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#JFR #ForestryResearch #SoilEcology #Biodiversity 🍁🌺🌱🌿
December 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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susanjohnston.bsky.social
Are you a recombination researcher heading to #SMBE2026? Submit your abstract to our Symposium, organised by Marie Raynaud, Laurent Duret, and myself. We're excited to have Aurora Ruiz-Herrera from UAB Barcelona as our invited speaker.
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@aruizherrera.bsky.social @duret-lbbe.bsky.social
official-smbe.bsky.social Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 17h
SMBE2026 Symposium 11 | The evolution of recombination landscapes

📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts

📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme

#SMBE2026
SMBE2026 Symposium 11 | The evolution of recombination landscapes
December 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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evoldir.bsky.social
The Linscott Lab at NMSU is looking for graduate students (MS/PhD) for Fall 2026 to study ecophysiological evolution and biodiversity. Visit https://linscottlab.com for more info. #phd
Linscott Lab
RESEARCH
linscottlab.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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drdind.bsky.social
🧵Congrats to @standupforscience.bsky.social activist and leader @cdelawalla.bsky.social for being named one to watch in science by Nature. The world’s leading science journal!

Well deserved!

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Collette Delawalla, chief executive and founder, Stand up for Science, Decatur, Georgia. She has been focusing on building resistance to the US Government's targeting of the nation's scientific enterprise ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. From Nature
December 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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carolynplants.bsky.social
Our plant-focused REU program, led by Prof Nagel, is open for applications, please forward to undergrads and reskeet etap.nsf.gov/award/7573/o... 🌱 🧪
NSF Education & Training Application | ETAP
etap.nsf.gov
December 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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currentbiology.bsky.social
How #fungi sense and respond to light.

Primer in our current issue👇

www.cell.com/current-biol...
December 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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attackerman.bsky.social
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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ecologyofgavin.bsky.social
I’m recruiting a PhD and MSC student for fall 2026 working on the movement ecology and conservation of Mexican spotted owls in SW forests and rocky canyonlands. Exciting partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Great vibrant lab group, high impact research! 🦉

gavinmjones.com/opportunities/
Opportunities
***PhD and MSc openings – Movement ecology and conservation*** I will periodically support graduate students, postdocs, and other staff through the Biology Department at the University of New…
gavinmjones.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
To go after a family for no other reason than that their daughter sparked sympathy is appalling. Absolutely appalling. Beyond cruelty into outright sadism.
December 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
Conservatives love AI because it's far easier to abuse a population that can't read, can't write, can't think, and can't tell what's real
December 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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b1kes.bsky.social
Reminder: Generative AI is literally programmed to tell you what you statistically want to hear, not to tell you the truth.

Why the majority of the population is unwilling to internalize this is beyond me.
December 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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geneticscam.bsky.social
The Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge invites expressions of interest from early career researchers who wish to be sponsored for external fellowships to establish an independent research group.

➡️For further details see the link below www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/group-l...
Group Leader Research Fellowship Sponsorship Scheme
The Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge invites expressions of interest from early career researchers who wish to be sponsored for external fellowships to establish an independent
www.cam.ac.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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peiferlabunc.bsky.social
I taught Genetics again this year. We need to include discussion of the problematic history of our field, especially as the claims of eugenics are once again centered in our political discourse. Last year I wrote this piece, explaining my reasoning and approach 🧪 1/n
www.cell.com/trends/genet...
Trends in Genetics Science & Society We must not ignore eugenics in our genetics curriculum Mark Peifer1,2,* Eugenics, that promoted planned breeding to ensure 'racial improve- ment', was central to the develop- ment of genetics and led to horrifying policies. However, eugen- ics is not dead and continues to influence science and policy today. Thus, we should include eugenics in our undergraduate classes to remind students that scientists must speak out when others lie about science and use it to further their political views.
December 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM