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Martin A. Nuñez

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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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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 · 6h

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...

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

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 · 2d

"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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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 3d

@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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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 21d

Hey @martinnunez.bsky.social - guess what arrived arrived today? Looking forward to reading and sharing with students!

Holding a book: A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing, by Martin Nuñez

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 2d

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

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 4d

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.

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

yeah!!!!!!!!!

Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 7d

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

Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 9d

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

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

eBooks are only 4% of the sales of the book

Scientist do not use eBooks? I don't, but I assumed most people did:)
interesting.
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A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing

A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing [Nuñez PhD, Martin A.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing

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

This is the amazing and though provoking picture (imagine what was on those European soils!!)

picture of trees being introduced in a small boat to an island in Argentina. Ca. 1920

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

New paper!
I am excited about it, since it has some very cool contributions on:
-Status of Invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi
-Definition of what is a invasive mycorhizal 🍄
-Cool picture of trees being brought from Europe in 1920!
Lead by @nahpo.bsky.social! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi: belowground insights from South America

Ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF) are essential for nutrient cycling and plant symbiosis, yet their invasions remain understudied, particularly in South America. Large-scale forestry introductions have spr...

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

Sound interesting!

Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 11d

getting ready for this:)

Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 18d

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

I love reading new reviews❤️

five start review titled
"here's how to publish science"

Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 15d

Wow. 70 books on their way to an early-career researchers (ECR) workshop in Spain ✈️📚

Honored that so many see it as the “perfect gift” young researchers

Thank you all🙏

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 16d

💡 “As a researcher, you are an author, by necessity.” – @mrillig.bsky.social

Wonderful essays in "A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing" highlights the power of establishing a writing routine. mybook.to/ScienceGuide
Always be writing—because practice makes better

photo and start of the essay by Dr. Riling in the Importance of establishing a writing routine

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 15d

Really wonderful text Matthias!

And you send to me the full text only a few hours after I asked you for it.

Wow.

You are a real and wonderful example of how to get things done.

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 16d

#phdchat

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 24d

Writing and publishing shouldn’t be the hardest part of science

Goal #1 of A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing: make the path from idea → manuscript → acceptance simpler
#AcWri #PhDChat #SciComm 🧪🌐

cover of " A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing" by Martin Nunez

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