I'm at #ESA2025 if folks want to meet up and chat! Or come swing by my poster on Thursday (LB 06-071)! I'm also giving a non-research talk (INS 11-02) about gaming as a tool for ecologists!

Fantastic talk right now by Jill Anderson about maladaptive plasticity in Boechera phenology! #Botany2025

It's really giving some good perspective for LTER data!

The #Botany2025 poster session was so much fun! I had a blast chatting with students and seeing the excitement and wonder is really inspiring! BUT I'd love some PI feedback too!

100% this, and we should really be trying to publish non-sig results too! Also keep in mind that corporations don't publish their findings in academic journals, they get kept in company memos

I'd love to be added when you have a moment!

Great talks and discussions happening at #Botany2025. Check out the starter pack to follow along (and let me know if you're attending so I can add you):

go.bsky.app/Gu9T4st

I'll check you folks out! Thank you so much!

I'm so excited for #Botany2025! Come check out my poster on polyploidy, duckweed, and metabolomics at P222!

PS: I'm also on the hunt for the next postdoc gig 🌸

Woo! Just received a travel award from #BSA! I'll see you all at #Botany2025 to talk about #duckweed #metabolomics! #spirodela

Over 1,000 people, including community members, students, faculty, and staff, united today for a #MarchForScience event at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. It was inspiring to see us advocating for #science, #research and educational opportunities for all! #AcademicSky #MarchForScience2025

ExPOSE: a comprehensive toolkit to perform expansion microscopy in plant protoplast systems This method provides a robust approach for performing expansion microscopy in plant protoplasts for imaging single-cell and subcellular compartments at greatly enhanced resolution.

Some of my postdoc work has been "exposed" today in @theplantjournal.bsky.social! 😁🎉🔬 We developed ExPOSE - a method to perform expansion microscopy in plant protoplast systems. Here's a quick🧵of the details: @meter76.bsky.social @lily-oconnor.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Natural neopolyploids: a stimulus for novel research Recently formed allopolyploid species offer unprecedented insights into the early stages of polyploid evolution. This review examines seven well-studied neopolyploids (we use ‘neopolyploid’ to refer ....

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A chromosome-level genome assembly of the spider mite Tetranychus piercei McGregor - Scientific Data Scientific Data - A chromosome-level genome assembly of the spider mite Tetranychus piercei McGregor

Every time I read about spider mite genome is ~90 Mb I am surprised. That's like half the size of a fruit fly genome.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Had my first TT interview ever yesterday! It felt good to talk about new avenues for my urban plant research, despite the imposter syndrome worm in my ear 🌸

Hey, that’s me! Looking forward to chatting about why we need biodiversity (and more than just ‘green’) for healthier cities.

(Also thank you to whoever edited this photo. I’m getting a *lot* of joy from the idea that I’m just hanging out with my binos in the middle of this courtyard!)

Screenshot of email , As U.S.-based support for scientific research, scientific communities, and science-based conservation erodes, the AOS will stay true to our mission and to our core functions. For more than 140 years, we have supported science and scientists. The ornithological community has grown and changed in that time, and we remain committed to providing important resources that support ornithologists in ways that are meaningful and relevant to them. We also remain committed to supporting the ornithological community and our members, who have varying needs, backgrounds, and identities.

Screenshot of email: And finally, we are committed to fostering a strong community for all ornithologists—a community that provides support, friendship, collegiality, respect, and a sense of belonging for members across career stage, discipline, geography, background, and identity. We are proud to lead such a vibrant group of people committed to studying birds and addressing conservation issues. You are welcome here, and we value you.

This is what leadership from a scientific society looks like. Bravo @amornith.bsky.social
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🎉🆕📰🎉: Allopolyploidy enhances survival advantages for urban environments in the native plant genus Commelina

So much for promoting American excellence when some of the brightest early career scientists can't get their salary through the grants that they have already won.

The #NSF Polyploid BII has started its own starter pack!

Please let me or @drtialynn.bsky.social know if you would be interested in joining this starter pack! We are prioritizing current members first, but all levels are welcome!

#biology #starterpacks #polyploidy #cellbiology #ecology #evolution

Motivational facts #memefacts

Urban weedy plantains (Plantago spp.) do not hyperaccumulate heavy metals nor shelter their soil microarthropod communities from these metals Heavy metal hyperaccumulation by plants is a powerful tool in phytoremediation, where plants store heavy metals in large amounts in their aboveground …

My first PhD chapter is OUT (for free for 44 days, Elsevier 😔)! See what's up in urban plant ecological response to metals and their soil critter communities! 🌱🐜🌆

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#urbanecology #postdoc #phdlife #gradschool #plantbiology #urbansystems #soilmesofauna

Back from PAX Unplugged! Keeping in touch with the analog gaming community ✌️

PS: We're exhausted.

Final metabolomics resuspensions!

I'm really hoping the data is usable 🤞

Ah yes, all those lab hours to produce four of 28 tubes of dust. Is there even any analyte in there?? I hope so!

Plant metabolite extractions are go!

1) Start of Extraction
2) Almost final product
3) Dry samples (top) and their pellets after each extraction

I'd love to be added!

I want to follow more Asian EEB scientists but I’m drawing blanks. I know there are so many more us out there. Please repost (re-skeet?), make suggestions, or proudly ask to be added!!

🧪 🐟 🦎

go.bsky.app/E1ppJra

Real true facts about T. rex this morning. This is the statue of Big Mike outside of #museumoftherockies.

Who should you nominate as reviewers for your manuscript? After a long chat with a post-grad it appears that there's a lot of misguided advice out there. Thread 👇

A triangular graph showing how different sediment types (clay, silt, sand) relate to each other (a tool for archaeologists) is overlain with a picture of the 80s singer Tiffany and the caption 'I think we're a loam now'.

Don't blame me for the earworm