Im now mostly on bluesky @pollenmicrobes.bsky.social so find me there for continued rants and hot takes and bees and pollen and microbes thankyou. 🌠
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#ucdavis doctoral candidate Danielle Rutkowski of Rachel Vannette lab to give exit seminar on "Identity and Functions of Symbiotic Fungi Associated with Social Bees" at 4:10 p.m., Monday, May 20, in 122 Briggs and on Zoom. Amazing scientist! Don't miss! tinyurl.com/4nexkdzc
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The 6000 Academic Student Employees of @UAW4121 are ON STRIKE four a fair contract at the University of Washington ✊ #UnionStrong
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Congrats to #ucdavis doctoral candidate Shawn Christensen, microbiologist in Rachel Vannette lab: He is recipient of the highly competitive Merton Love Ecology and Dissertation Award. Seminar is May 24 at 3 p.m., 1230 Walker Hall. tinyurl.com/53nznaur
So jazzed to share some highlights, pitfalls, gratitude, and super surprising hot-off-the-microscope images at my exit seminar!🐝🦠🌺
Join to learn about pollen hacking, sleeping beauty bees, and of course antifreeze yeasts.
May 24th at 3pm Pacific. Dm for Zoom if interested.
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Im now mostly on bluesky @pollenmicrobes.bsky.social so find me there for continued rants and hot takes and bees and pollen and microbes thankyou. 🌠
Hey #EntSoc23 bee/ symbiont/ microbe friends, our preprint on the symbiotic Actinobacteria and yeast in brood cells of solitary bee Anthophora bomboides is out on BioRxiv!! and its what I'll be presenting in my talk tomorrow @ 10:40am in rm Maryland-B. 🐝 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
The core yeast (2 ASVs) found at two sites, two years of sampling- is Moniliella spathulata, a known producer of some sugar and sugar alcohols (SSA) that act as antifreeze. Its abundance correlated with stage specific shifts of SSA! 5/
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#Ralstonia #T6SS #genomics paper up now on bioRxiv! Co-first author @Nat_Aoun and I explore type VI secretion system gene content in plant-pathogenic Ralstonia. We found xylem pathogens'🌱☠️lifestyles associated with robust, rapidly-evolving arsenals of T6SS effector toxins🧵⬇️
Hi so I can't possibly continue to do whatever is happening with musk and this X shenanigans- anyone know where everybody went? bluesky? mastodon? something about invite codes? help I just wanna talk about bees
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Bee friends! Has anyone ever heard of an Osmia nesting in a pine cone??? Look at this beauty @ArceoGomezG #osmialove
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Y'all, a massive crowd has descended on Missoula, Montana - home of my loving partner, Representative Zephyr - to proclaim that they will not be silenced.
The event is expected to grow in the coming hours.
They've woken a movement in Montana.
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