Top right: Photos of a single Ginkgo leaf from each of the sampling periods showing the changes in leaf colour and structure over time and differences between floating and buried leaves. Bottom left: Bar plot showing the relative abundance of the most abundant phyla of bacteria. Bottom right: cover image from the journal Palaeontology.

Microbial taphonomy of Ginkgo leaves in fine-grained substrates: how sediment type facilitates preservation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #FossilFriday @briecology.bsky.social @dfg.de

I am pleased to share a preprint of my work on the microbial communities inside the Cyanosphere of terrestrial Cyanobacteria. This has been a side project since 2020 and I’m happy to finally see it submitted.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Senate Republicans want to sell 3 million acres of public land - High Country News The majority of public land is too fire prone and far away from communities to even make sense for housing, research shows.

worth calling your reps over, imo. they’re stealing your land.

www.hcn.org/articles/sen...

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.

The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

Reminder: the price of solar energy doesn't spike whenever there's a war somewhere.

America’s brain drain

No words

So disappointed to have left SDSU before @ologies.bsky.social came along but happy to hear two great professors featured in recent weeks (Hippos with Rebecca Lewison and Spiders with Marshal Hedin).

(Also now I know the parking situation has not improved since I left 3 years ago)

If it takes 45 minutes to calm the baby for a nap, he should sleep for at least 45 minutes right??? Right!!???

He did not.

Hey Bluesky!

In an effort to stay in Germany a bit longer, I’m applying for the Emmy Noether grant.

Does anyone have examples to share? Or any DFG grant examples?

Hey Bluesky!

In an effort to stay in Germany a bit longer, I’m applying for the Emmy Noether grant.

Does anyone have examples to share? Or any DFG grant examples?

I've had several people comment to move to Europe instead. This rural Alaska town that is majority Native will likely have their clinic lab closed if the position isn't filled. This means a delay on getting test results as they would be sent to Anchorage, weather permitting. Plz delete those posts.

Quick first read of results from the German elections for US followers: CDU/CSU come out on top, but it's still one of their weakest showings in postwar history. Somehow playing on the far right's turf seems to have (and I'd ask you to contain your shock) helped the far right!

There is a lot of misinformation going around about the mass firing of federal employees. If you were laid off, please share your story (anonymously) here: peopletrumpfired.com We aim to have thousands of stories, more than the media could hope to cover, publicly available in a neutral space.

Interessant

I was able to see this during the year I lived in Davis. If you’re in the area, it’s worth the trip.

Feed cleanser!

There’s a lot of bad news on here but I’m happy to announce that the product I’ve been incubating for 40 weeks is ready for his next stage.

Calling all students & early career members of the @botsocamerica.bsky.social and ASPT! Apply for the public policy award to travel to D.C. to receive science communication & advocate for federal support of scientific research! botany.org/home/awards/...

National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills

“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house."

Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded.

www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...

Everyone’s experience with miscarriage is different but we can’t forget that women’s healthcare (including abortion) also protects mothers who miscarry. It’s a very scary experience, made scarier when you don’t have the support of the healthcare system.

This thread is so important. We don’t talk about miscarriages enough or about how medical systems deal with them even though they happen with a quarter of pregnancies. Even though I’m about to give birth, I still think about my miscarriage daily.

To update people on the NSF PRFB situation: despite the court challenge and rescinding the original memo, the NSF has continued to comply with the executive order. They have not communicated with us at all and our paychecks are still canceled indefinitely. I know people who cannot pay their rent.

My occasional reminder to folks on tenure and promotion committees that there will be a cohort of people whose early careers were defined entirely by the pandemic and *waves vaguely* this nonsense, and it *will* impact their productivity.

It can't not.

Next week is *still* January

With all the insane news and “unprecedented” events this month plus being 9 months pregnant, this has been the longest month.

Scanning electron microscope image of microbial biofilm on a Nuphar lutea leaf. Image credit @briecology.bsky.social

Microbial methods matter: Identifying discrepancies between #microbiome denoising pipelines using a leaf #biofilm taphonomic dataset

New in #AppsPlantSci by @briecology.bsky.social, Karacic, Bierbaum & Gee

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany #bioinformatics #taphonomy

Seeing my biggest platform destroyed, then watching many younger women in SciComm have *their* biggest platforms destroyed is weighing on me. I’ve rebuilt here. I know they can rebuild too. Having our delicate careers subject to billionaire whims has me wishing for a stability I don’t think exists.

Lurk 🙃

Just a heads-up for American TikTok users living abroad:

I also lost access and had to make a new account from Germany. It must know I made my original account while I was living in the US.

Opinion | Hello, baby Here is what I need to tell you about the world.

wapo.st/4jbZpbc

riding a train through your state is awesome because of all the scenery and ducks but it also sucks because the train is going too fast to see what species the ducks are