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Dr Dr Oona Snoeyenbos-West
@oonawest.bsky.social
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Research Scientist: University of Arizona, Carini Lab. Co Founder, MycoMine 🍄‍🟫Environmental Microbiologist /Geomicrobiologist, First Gen Scientist 🇺🇸 Manifesting Microbes 🪄🦠🧫🪄💫
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Dr Dr Oona Snoeyenbos-West @oonawest.bsky.social · May 28
Interested in how Fungi are shaping the future of our planet? 🍄 🌍🌎🌏🍄‍🟫Check out the latest “The Future is Fungi podcast”featuring yours truly ! 👇🏻

open.spotify.com/episode/2ddA...
Mycoremediation and Its Fungal Powers with Dr. Oona Snoeyenbos-West
The Future is Fungi · Episode
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dankcello-ween @danielketter.com · 20h
Oh my God is the future really overly long emails with bolded words, bullet points and topical organizing emoji because everybody is using ChatGPT to write emails. Please, people should be embarrassed to do this, shame them.
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Dr Dr Oona Snoeyenbos-West @oonawest.bsky.social · 1d
I concur! 😋
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Robin ✨🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✨ @msrobinhosking.bsky.social · 1d
The humble baked spud with a super crispy skin is one of the finest dishes known to mankind
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 1d
This week, we lost one of the world’s greatest advocates for people and nature. Even in her final days, Dr. Jane Goodall was urging us not to give up, and now her legacy lives on through the countless voices she inspired.

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Jane Goodall's final lesson
Honoring Jane Goodall's life, Pope Leo's first climate address, and finding hope in action
www.talkingclimate.ca
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 2d
A newborn world caught in the act. NASA’s new image shows WISPIT 2b, a baby planet forming inside a ring of gas and dust around its star. It’s the first-ever photo of its kind, offering a rare glimpse into planetary birth.

Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA
A newborn world caught in the act. NASA’s new image shows WISPIT 2b, a baby planet forming inside a ring of gas and dust around its star. It’s the first-ever photo of its kind, offering a rare glimpse into planetary birth. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA
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christoph_STCmicrobeblog @christophstc.bsky.social · 3d
#FungiFriends
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César Sánchez @twistedbacteria.bsky.social · 4d
#Fungi finds: UK citizen scientists make rare pink and purple discoveries

#mycology

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Fungi finds: UK citizen scientists make rare pink and purple discoveries
Plantlife charity enlisted help of 850 volunteers to look for waxcaps in places such as private gardens
www.theguardian.com
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Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 🧬 @crvscience.com · 3d
Homie got 229 pairs of chromosomes

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
This tiny butterfly has the most chromosomes of any animal on Earth
Scientists have confirmed that the Atlas blue butterfly carries the most chromosomes of any animal, with 229 pairs. Unlike duplication, its chromosomes split apart, reshaping its genome in surprising ...
www.sciencedaily.com
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Dr Dr Oona Snoeyenbos-West @oonawest.bsky.social · 4d
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Dr Dr Oona Snoeyenbos-West @oonawest.bsky.social · 4d
Gotta love those high GC genomes! 👌🏻
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Dr Dr Oona Snoeyenbos-West @oonawest.bsky.social · 4d
It’s like the projected warming maps   where southern AZ is the only place in the lower 48 not getting warmer 🤷‍♀️
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Dr Dr Oona Snoeyenbos-West @oonawest.bsky.social · 4d
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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 8d
One of the biggest things I truly love about Arizona is that we do not partake in the clock tomfoolery twice a year.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 9d
Switching the clocks twice a year hurts Americans' health. A modeling study of county-level solar light patterns, time policy, health data, and circadian models suggests a permanent shift to Standard Time would reduce obesity and strokes. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Paul Carini @uncultured.carinilab.com · 8d
Neat paper!

Way back when, we speculated SAR11 could assimilate glycolate by oxidizing to glyoxylate and slapping an ammonia on it to produce glycine. Perhaps other taxa assimilate it similarly.
www.nature.com/articles/ism...
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Dr Dr Oona Snoeyenbos-West @oonawest.bsky.social · 4d
Wow! What an amazing opportunity!
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James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social · 7d
The job is still open. Get your application in ASAP. Or just pass it on to somebody that might be interested.
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James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social · 13d
OK, here it is. Come work with me at the University of Liverpool making ALL THE AI models from ALL THE prokaryote pangenome data. Heck, we will make models from ALL the pangenomes, even eukaryotes!!! (link below👇) 1/4
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Kristen DeAngelis 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @kristenobacter.bsky.social · 6d
UMass Amherst Microbiology is hiring a tenure-track virologist. Come work with me! 🦠🧪
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
Details - Assistant Professor - Virology | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
careers.umass.edu
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Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · 6d
We're hiring for several positions (a post-bac researcher in #transcriptomics, a #phage #postdoc, a senior researcher (broad topics) and a graduate student to work on #ciliates) - find info here: www.marine.usf.edu/genomics/app...
Apply - Genomics
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David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 5d
"6 of flies", ink, watercolour, oil on watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025 - $150(Cdn) #art #sciart
A small painting of 6 dead house flies arranged in 2 columns and 3 rows of 2.
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 5d
Ice freshly ejected from Enceladus contains complex organics

Reanalyzing data from Cassini's 2008 flyby reveals new, complex organic molecules in the spray from Saturn’s icy moon. cen.acs.org/physical-che... #chemsky 🧪
Ice freshly ejected from Enceladus contains complex organics
Reanalyzing data from <i>Cassini</i>'s 2008 flyby reveals new, complex organic molecules in the spray from Saturn’s icy moon
cen.acs.org
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 5d
Scientists revive old Bulgarian recipe to make yogurt with ants. Ants carry lactic and acetic acid bacteria that help coagulate milk, as well as formic acid to acidify it. They even partnered with Danish chefs to create three recipes using ant yogurt. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Scientists revive old Bulgarian recipe to make yogurt with ants
Ants carry lactic and acetic acid bacteria that help coagulate milk, as well as formic acid to acidify it.
arstechnica.com
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 7d
This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 9d
⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes
A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.
interestingengineering.com
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ryanwyatt.bsky.social @ryanwyatt.bsky.social · 11d
“I practice hope like an Olympic sport.” –Katharine Hayhoe at @amnh.org during New York Climate Week
Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe in front of a slide that quotes Sara Peach: “The goal of the conversation is not to tell people about climate change. It's to expand the number of people in the conversation.”
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 9d
Gustav Holst was the school music teacher of Cecilia Payne, who discovered the chemical composition of the stars. He tried to get her to become a musician but she ignored him. She went on to write the most important astrophysics PhD of the 20th century and become the first woman professor at Harvard
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New Leibniz @newleibniz.bsky.social · 17d
#classicalmusic #opera When I see "Gustav Holst" I can't help but wishing that he had stopped writing "The Planets" long before he got to Neptune. 🤮
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Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 17d
Happy 151st Birthday to Gustav Holst, born on 21 September 1874. I’m doing the obvious thing and listening to some of my most treasured versions of the planets. What would your choices be?
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Michael Le Page @mjflepage.bsky.social · 9d
We've found a master regulator that controls the level of DNA repair 🧬 and thus how fast we accumulate mutations 🧪

The team that discovered it thinks this also determines the rate of ageing 👵, but they haven't quite proved it yet

www.newscientist.com/article/2497...
How fast you age may be controlled by a DNA repair boss in your cells
When a key protein regulator dials down DNA repair mechanisms, our cells accumulate more mutations, which may cause us to age faster
www.newscientist.com
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Migration Museum @migrationmuseum.org · 10d
Love it or hate it...

While most of us are familiar with Marmite's distinctive taste & iconic black and yellow jars, the migration story of how this quintessentially British spread came to be (and it's role in WW1) is not so commonly known.

📷 1921 Census of England and Wales, John Gollop
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Boo-ritish Cigarette 👻🚬 @officialya.bsky.social · 11d
Bri'ish dinner innit
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John Hawks @johnhawks.net · 12d
Could there be a connection between a squashed million-year-old skull and the Denisovans? I look at whether a provocative new study can be squared with what we already know from ancient genomes. I think there's a way.

www.johnhawks.net/p/the-proble...
The problem skulls from Yunxian
The relationships of fossils from deep time in China may help reveal ancestral connections for the Denisovans
www.johnhawks.net
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Michelle 🪷🇲🇽🇺🇸🌵 @chicana74.bsky.social · 11d
I love learning with science 🧪
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