A lil late to the party on both of these announcements but thrilled to be graduated from UMN and moving on to do my PhD at UGA with Alex Strauss in the fall! Very grateful to all the people who helped me through the past 4.5 years

Check out these incredible #scicomm video projects about microbes on earth (and beyond) from students in Earth and Environmental Sciences, UMN-Twin Cities geomicrobiology class with @Thiotricks. A great partnership with Bell Museum and supported by NSF CAREER Award. bellmuseum.umn.edu/blog/geomicrob…

Y’all I went in a hike with some friends through some mountain meadows and they wouldn’t let me ID grasses. Non-grass folks be killing my vibe.

UMN UNDERGRADS: Are you interested in… - Exploring careers in ecology/evolution/behavior - Getting involved in research - Finding your place in science and at UMN - Navigating grad-school applications - Connecting science with other interests ...then check us out! (1/6)

I wish there was an R Wrapped 2021: 1. You received 7,826 error messages 2. You used 74 different packages 3. You spent 15,892 minutes in ggplot2 4. You rage quit 29 times

I’m excited to announce that I underestimated how long this experiment would take.

|| NEW RESEARCH || Realistic rates of nitrogen addition increase carbon flux rates but do not change soil carbon stocks in a temperate grassland 📰 bit.ly/3NgQ9Cg Megan Wilcots Katie Schroeder Sarah Hobbie Elizabeth Borer @e_seabloom UMN CBS Cedar Creek ESR Nutrient Network

My first undergrad field season kicked off with updating a Nutrient Network guide, and now PhD field season 1 has started with co-making our new DragNet Global guide 🌱 sites 1000 mi apart, but at least a few of the plants are the same

Please RT! The Strauss lab Odum School of Ecology (strausslab.ecology.uga.edu) is hiring a full-time lab manager for research in aquatic community & disease ecology. Job includes field, lab & mesocosm work w/ zooplankton & parasites. Start date ASAP. ugajobsearch.com/postings/264578 Bulletin ESA

A short 🧵 on the Beta Launch of our recent citizen science project on The Zooniverse, "The Colors of Pollen". We asked volunteers to classify anther color for a subset of Geranium images from iNaturalist to test our workflow. Here are the ?'s we asked: (1/7)

So proud of our amazing REU students Emily and Jenavier and the awesome work and posters they presented today to cap off their Odum School of Ecology REUs! They both did projects with our collaborative temp x community comp x disease experiment

This week we wrapped up our summer NSF REU Site program on the Population Biology of Infectious Diseases with a poster session and closing picnic. Congrats to the student-mentor teams for the exciting projects @ugaecology #studentresearch #REU #EEID #diseaseecology

Finally some recognition for grasses!

I'm so excited to share that the inaugural UGA Integrated Plant Sciences Diversity Preview Weekend event is now accepting applications! ips.uga.edu/admissions/div… Those that participate will have their 💸 GRADUATE APPLICATION FEE ($75) 💸 paid for by the program. Please RT! 🗣

At #NDiSTEM2022? Make sure to check out JJ💫 ‘s poster today (session 1)!! Learn all about this crazy looking experiment and all the cool things Jenavier learned about temp, community composition, and disease transmission

So excited to welcome the 2023 cohort of NSF REU site program Population Biology of Infectious Disease students (and mentors!) to Odum School of Ecology for an immersive 9-weeks of discovery. reu.ecology.uga.edu #summerkickoff #nsfreu #diseaseecology #studentresearch #mathbio

The UGA Population Biology of Infectious Diseases REU Site Program wrapped up this week with a poster session and luncheon, check! We are grateful to have worked with 11 amazing student-mentor teams and projects. reu.ecology.uga.edu #diseaseecology #nsfreu Odum School of Ecology

So excited to see this project come to life! Today, UGA Plant Biology Graduate Student Association launched a seed lending library at Athens-ClarkeLibrary. Anna Wyngaarden & Librarian Gretchen Elm gave an amazing orientation w/ a great turnout of community members. Check it out, Athens!

A shout-out to this year's student award winners! Annakate Schatz won Best Student Paper and Katie Tseng won Best Student Poster. Congratulations Annakate and Katie!!! Katie Tseng Annakate / Ender

Really nice paper but needs more fungi! "bacteria" is mentioned 50+ times, where as "fungi" just 6 🍄! (and the poor viruses in the corner having only been mentioned once in the first sentence of the intro😩