Joe Edwards
@joeedwards.bsky.social
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Forests, fungi, biogeochemistry Postdoc at UTK he/ they https://www.edwardsecology.org/
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Feels so good when a new(ish) paper gets its first citation :)
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Got a grant rejection today with some very valuable feedback. Apparently 3 months after a disturbance is too late to start sampling, but anything before a year is too early. I’ll keep that in mind for next time!
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So awesome, congrats dude!!
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couchmicroscopy.bsky.social
I’m thrilled to announce that next summer I’ll be joining the University of Maryland Department of Biology as an assistant professor! The Van Etten lab will study how horizontal processes (DNA and gene transfer + organelle acquisition) drive and are driven by ecology and evolution. vanettenlab.org
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biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social
Plant phylogeny and life history predict AM fungal species and genetic composition, but only life history and genetic composition predict feedback https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.10.664051v1
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It was deposited by the root at some point!
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Yeah @hannahshulman.bsky.social and I were talking about this a little while ago, I think we agreed that rhizodeposition was any carbon that leaves the roots (including mycorrhizae) but exudation was specifically putting low-molecular weight carbon straight into the soil. What do you think?
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I have separate side pots with different size mesh for root exclusion to partition root and fungal carbon
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Labeling chambers are up and running so these dual-mycorrhizal plants are incorporating 13-CO2 to measure how much they give their fungal mutualists
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alivianytko.bsky.social
Excited to be talking about where rarity comes from and how it persists through evolutionary time tomorrow at #Evol2025! Swing by the Evolutionary Ecology IV session at 4:45 PM to hear more about the evolution of multidimensional rarity in plants 🌱
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Fungal endophytes may not be a reliable way to improve plant resilience to global change. Warmer temperatures disrupt symbiosis between plants and fungal endophytes by reducing fungal colonization and diversity in plant tissues, with stronger effects in leaves than roots.
dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Warming Disrupts Plant–Fungal Endophyte Symbiosis More Severely in Leaves Than Roots
Warmer temperatures associated with climate change disrupt relationships between plants and the fungi living in their leaves and roots by reducing the abundance and diversity of these fungi—especiall...
dx.doi.org
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Acomplished a meaningless goal in my dumb game and now all the serotonin is gone
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Friendly reminder that it’s very, very cool to not use AI art as a journal cover
currentbiology.bsky.social
Dive into our latest issue!🌊
www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...

On the cover:Yangtze porpoises in troubled waters🐬 by Yaoyao Zhang and colleagues www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Fungal endophytes may not be a reliable way to improve plant resilience to global change. Warmer temperatures disrupt symbiosis between plants and fungal endophytes by reducing fungal colonization and diversity in plant tissues, with stronger effects in leaves than roots.
dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Warming Disrupts Plant–Fungal Endophyte Symbiosis More Severely in Leaves Than Roots
Warmer temperatures associated with climate change disrupt relationships between plants and the fungi living in their leaves and roots by reducing the abundance and diversity of these fungi—especiall...
dx.doi.org
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Thanks, hope you enjoy!
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We need to think more critically in how we use tree mycorrhizal status to predict forest ecosystem function. Important intra-guild variation among ectomycorrhizal trees leads to differences in soil biogeochemistry and organic matter properties.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Functional traits of ectomycorrhizal trees influence surrounding soil organic matter properties
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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thetnholler.bsky.social
WATCH: “Are you going to Brian Kelsey’s pardon party this weekend?”

We asked Republican senators if they scored an invite to the Memphis Republican ex-Senator’s party to celebrate his Trump pardon after serving 2 weeks in prison for federal campaign finance crimes he pleaded guilty to.
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The last chapter of my dissertation was accepted for publication today, three years to the day (basically) from my defense!
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