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Cindy Morris @dbszane.bsky.social · 23d

For Quanta mag's recent article on the Microbial Masters of Earth's climate, journalist Katherine Bourzac interviewed Pierre Amato and myself. Scroll to the part on rainmakers. www.quantamagazine.org/microbes-als...

Microbes Also Change the Climate. Could That Help Us? | Quanta Magazine

A collection of short dispatches from the field of climate microbiology conveys the contributions that single-celled life forms make to our climate system, and how we can work with them to address cli...

www.quantamagazine.org

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Cindy Morris @dbszane.bsky.social · Jul 30

Among the treasures is the output from a computer "job" (that was the jargon in 1984) ran on the Univ WI's mainframe computer: 40 sq m of paper to produce a dendogram from a cluster analysis. Somehow I manually translated this into code for a printer to etch out a miniature A4 version.

Cindy Morris @dbszane.bsky.social · Jul 30

Slowly cleaning out my office to prepare for retirement. Of all of the documents and various printed stuff I have accumulated over the years that I am sending to recycling, why is it so difficult to get rid of the lab books and computer printouts from my PhD thesis 40 yrs ago?

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Cindy Morris @dbszane.bsky.social · Jul 30

Slowly cleaning out my office to prepare for retirement. Of all of the documents and various printed stuff I have accumulated over the years that I am sending to recycling, why is it so difficult to get rid of the lab books and computer printouts from my PhD thesis 40 yrs ago?

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Cindy Morris @dbszane.bsky.social · Jun 12

While trying to make a formulation of tartartic acid that sticks to leaves for control of plant patho bacteria, we made a nice litte discovery about the mode of action of carboxylic acids on bacteria.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Chitosan and carboxylic acids, impact on membrane permeability and DNA integrity of Pseudomonas syringae: interest for biocontrol applications - Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture

Background Pseudomonas syringae causes major damage to a wide variety of plants and is a good model for antibacterial activity assessment. It is important to understand to the fullest extent the mecha...

link.springer.com

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Cindy Morris @dbszane.bsky.social · Mar 21

We have written a letter of concern indicating that we feel that we have not received pertinent reviews based on a reading of our manuscript by a human who, in turn, composed specific criticisms.

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Cindy Morris @dbszane.bsky.social · Mar 20

Up, up and away to discover fungal diversity in the atmosphere over Brazilian landscapes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Airborne fungal spore concentrations double but diversity decreases with warmer winter temperatures in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot

Whilst research on climatic effects on fungal populations and communities (particularly of soil and litter-specialised species) has been done extensiv…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Cindy Morris @dbszane.bsky.social · Mar 19

Hello @gcabanac.cpesr.fr & others concerned by #deception_in_science. Just received reviews of a manus submitted to a reputable OA journal. Reviewer #1 clearly reviewed a different manus, and I strongly suspect Rev #3 to be ChatGPT (or other AI) (the idea had never occured to me). What would you do?

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Cindy Morris @dbszane.bsky.social · Mar 11

Thanks for the suggestion. I just watched all 4 parts. Indeed, difficult to watch but inspiring, and also depressing about the remaining potential for similar epidemics.

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Cindy Morris @dbszane.bsky.social · Dec 22

Check out Mediapart's recent article on ice nucleation ! www.mediapart.fr/journal/cult...

Comment naissent les flocons

Bientôt Noël et ses flocons qui tombent du ciel. Leur naissance dans les nuages d’altitude fascine les scientifiques, qui viennent de démontrer un phénomène surprenant : les régions situées sous les …

www.mediapart.fr

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Plant Health Institute Montpellier @phimresearch.bsky.social · Dec 21

[#HLB] 🍋🍊New work published in #EvolAppJournal on #CandidatusLiberibacter an overlooked pathogen before 2015, with medium- to long-distance movement, using #backyard trees acted as relays for #disease spread @cirad.bsky.social @anses-fr.bsky.social #PHIM #PVBMT

Genetic Signatures of Contrasted Outbreak Histories of “Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus”, the Bacterium That Causes Citrus Huanglongbing, in Three Outermost Regions of the European Union

In an era of trade globalization and climate change, crop pathogens and pests are a genuine threat to food security. The detailed characterization of emerging pathogen populations is a prerequisite f...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Cindy Morris @dbszane.bsky.social · Dec 13

Great day for the PPR-CPA BEYOND (beyond.paca.hub.inrae.fr) project! Mariya Borovikova defended her thesis on facilitating text mining for #PlantHealth surveillance. Also see x.com/bio_ice_nucl... for this news as I transition from one social media to another

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Cindy Morris @dbszane.bsky.social · Dec 10

Lia Lamacque, postdoc in our team @inrae-france.bsky.social in Avignon, presents our results on the effect of organic acid treatments for reducing risk of frost damage to apricot trees in the context of the HALTOGEL project.

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