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TR Cavallaro

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Fungi 🍄 | Plants 🌵 | Epigenetics 🧬 | Eco-Evo-Devo 🌀 | PhD Student, Stanford 🌲(he/him/il) #FirstGen #QueerinSTEM 🏳️‍🌈 🌎 Science is for everyone. 🍄‍🟫 Views are my own.

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TR Cavallaro @trcava.bsky.social · 2d

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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TR Cavallaro @trcava.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you so much for spreading the word! 🍄 💜

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Gaurav Pandharikar @gpandharikar.bsky.social · 1d

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌿 Excited to share our Primer on fungal endophytes, the elusive members of the fungal kingdom that defy easy classification. Neither pathogens nor symbionts in the strict sense, they challenge how we define ecological guilds. @umr-iam.bsky.social

Fungal endophytes

Organisms are commonly grouped into ecological guilds that reflect their shared resource use and similar ecological roles. The guild concept has been …

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20h

ICE is a hostile occupying force that is a danger to everyone.

Alt text: A man in camouflage clothing and a face covering sits inside a gray Jeep, pointing a weapon out of the open driver-side window. The gun is aimed directly at the camera. The man wears gloves and a dark cap, and his eyes are visible above the mask. The vehicle’s door and side mirror are wet with raindrops.

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Jaana Uolamo @jaanauolamo.bsky.social · 13d

Greed is the disordered desire for more than is appropriate, decent, or deserved, not for the greater good but for one’s own interest, and often at the detriment of others and society at large. Greed can be for anything, but is most commonly for food, money, possessions, power, fame and status.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22h

Stephen Miller just said the quiet part out loud claiming that Trump has plenary authority when it comes to deploying troops. (Plenary means full authority.) After making the statement, he froze completely, like a deer in headlights. The video is worth watching.

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John Dennehy @drjdennehy.bsky.social · 1d

www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

New entry into the Disability in Ecology and Evolution series in TREE featuring me :)

Disability in ecology and evolution

In this TrendsTalk series 'Disability in ecology and evolution' in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, we will be hearing from people about their experiences being disabled in ecology and evolution. We a...

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TR Cavallaro @trcava.bsky.social · 1d

A good question. Law is not my expertise so I’m not sure but I hope she will be ok. So much senseless cruelty

TR Cavallaro @trcava.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

TR Cavallaro @trcava.bsky.social · 1d

It’s… something.. that they’re on tv telling these guys they are “unleashed” and to “act with lethal force” but then they expect people to believe that 10 civilians risking their lives to conduct a coordinated operation is more plausible than one guy doing exactly what they told him to do.

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TR Cavallaro @trcava.bsky.social · 1d

Rad! Thank you

TR Cavallaro @trcava.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for the tip! Know anyone?

I will be sure to take some good photos next time I see a banana slug eating a mushroom!

TR Cavallaro @trcava.bsky.social · 1d

I have not but only because I’m not on Facebook. You are welcome to share it there if you feel inclined.

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Honey Labubu @thepugfather.bsky.social · 1d

Monday motivation 🤩

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TR Cavallaro @trcava.bsky.social · 1d

Just wanted to say that y’all are absolutely wonderful. Thank you to everyone for sharing my flyer, and thank you SO MUCH for considering helping me collect mushrooms!

Much love to you all! 💜 🍄‍🟫

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 1d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕟ℝ𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕤 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ 😸 🌊 @stevefm20.bsky.social · 1d

Fire all GOPeds

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Rep. Jim McGovern attempted to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Rep Elect AZ-07, but they would NOT recognize him in the House. He has a candid reason as to why he thinks this happened. 1/2

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

You’ll now be able to get an updated coronavirus shot in every state without a prescription, according to the American Pharmacists Association.

CVS and Walgreens have stated you won’t need to attest to any underlying conditions and the questions will be removed from their online booking system.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

ICE Protests Reminder.

This is how far they're going with the propaganda bullshit.

People have already identified this thug as the same one that Fox News had on as a "fomer gang member"

Jesse Watters brought a fake Anitfa onto his Fox show.

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TR Cavallaro @trcava.bsky.social · 2d

Wonderful! I am grateful to have your support. I look forward to seeing what you find and please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. Thank you.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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TR Cavallaro @trcava.bsky.social · 2d

Do you manage the property? If so, I would advise getting in touch with an expert in the UK.

TR Cavallaro @trcava.bsky.social · 2d

It’s hard to say (from a photo) but considering the sheer number of mushrooms, and their overall appearance, I would speculate this is a species of Armillaria. Several can cause severe disease and death in trees: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armilla...

Armillaria root rot - Wikipedia

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TR Cavallaro @trcava.bsky.social · 2d

Likewise! Thank you!

TR Cavallaro @trcava.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for enlightening me! I am part of a union myself and I support Canadian postal workers in their strike effort. I’ll be here hoping for a positive resolution before the mushroom fruiting season comes to a close! 💜

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TR Cavallaro @trcava.bsky.social · 2d

😂🤣 too funny. Hope you’re having a great day 🙌

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