Geoff Zahn

One hundred unanswered questions on the dispersal ecology of fungi Abstract. Fungi comprise millions of species that play numerous varied roles in Earth’s natural and managed ecosystems, engaging in a multitude of positive

Disperal ecology meets fungi!
It is more than just spores people!

Check this paper led by ECR @sarahcuprewich.bsky.social and Kristin Barbour! Fun collab supported @cu-esiil.bsky.social

One hundred unanswered questions on the dispersal ecology of fungi url: academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

In Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, faster-than-light travel is enabled by math based on restaurant bills.

I propose that numbers in collaborative grant budgets follow the same rules of non-determinism. I just can't.

At the Forest’s Edge: New Research Uncovers How Microbes Shape Ecosystem Resilience Microbes are everywhere – on your skin, in your gut, in the soil beneath your feet, even floating in the air you breathe. Most people think of microbes in simple terms: some make you sick, while other...

Come join the TIDAL team if you like big data parasitism, growing weird fungi, or pretending to model random noise!
(Also folks who are into translating ecology into policy)

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Upon this rock, I will build my church.

Oooh neat!

What fungi live in the leaves of Pando, the massive aspen clone in Utah, USA? And how do they vary across the spatial extent of this 43 hectare clonal plant? Find out in this article in our latest issue of Fungal Ecology: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
(photo by US Forest Service)

Pedestrian canopy boardwalk with early sunrise through trees

Squeaky clean new server room with multiple tower racks

Sunrise commute and supercomputer. Two good things.

I love this.

New paper is out with the amazing @greenwoodthegreat.bsky.social
We used the largest tree on Earth (Pando) to test edge effects on microbial assembly without the background noise of host genetic variation!

authors.elsevier.com/a/1mPqy6ExPy...

And for my next trick, a scrap-wood centrifuge!

I'm hiring a postdoc to work with myself, Dr Jim Lyons and the entire NOAA Firebird team on the adaptive management part of our larger project focused on the impacts of prescribed fire on Gulf Coast wetlands

Accepting applications until Feb 15th

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Big empty biology lab space

Glassware cabinet looking very organized and beautiful

And, the lab space is finally shaping up!

Person eating an oyster with a fork and knife and giving a thumbs up

This week I welcome @taliamycota.bsky.social as my first ever postdoc in the lab! She's gonna be working on microbial communities and learning to eat oysters without a fork. Very excited!

It's the most magical time of the year — when estimates of last year's global average temperature anomaly come out. Time to dust off my "last year was hot" auto-response.

for the turning of the year...

Starts on p 267 here:

Annals_and_magazine_of_natural_history_-_including_zoology,_botany_and_geology_(IA_annalsmagazineof45lond).pdf share.google/MLW2P9nHCTJE...

Live thread of the NSF biology virtual office hour:

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I am delighted to share that the radEmu manuscript was accepted today to Biometrika 🥳 Sending gratitude to our users and reviewers for their enthusiasm and support!!

Huge congrats to @davidandacat.bsky.social and Sarah Teichman on all their hard work and brilliance 😻❗

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Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

If you ever need to fuzzy search some DNA, sassy is your tool.

Please spread the word; I think many people just outside my own circle could benefit from this :)

cc @rickbitloo.bsky.social

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Does bioinformatics have an abandonware problem? My thoughts after reflecting on the Tucson Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting for a while: rbartelme.github.io/blog/the-aba... #bioinformatics #computationalbiology #FAIRdata #HPC #datascience

bbmap!
Always works more smoothly for me.

These make for a really fun Halloween jello shot presentation though for real!

AI is taking my job.
All those years of &runctitional medical frimmblal training was such a waste of my time!

A Grammar of Graphics for Comparative Genomics An extension of ggplot2 for creating complex genomic maps. It builds on the power of ggplot2 and tidyverse adding new ggplot2-style geoms & positions and dplyr-style verbs to manipulate the…

gggenomes: A Grammar of Graphics for Comparative Genomics thackl.github.io/gggenomes/ #Rstats

Funded PhD Opportunity: Seagrass Disease Ecology
Explore how the pseudofungus Phytophthora gemini impacts Zostera marina and restoration success. Lab + fieldwork @thembauk.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social & OCT. Combine microbiology, ecology & restoration science 🌱
👉 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK439/p...

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(You deserve it)

This feels like a perfect use of SPIEC-EASI networks if you're interested in how these taxa rise and fall together. If just looking for similar patterns in those 15, PCA can give you a glimmer

Check out our latest dispatch where we make a (very convincing ☺️) case that marine #mycology is the next big thing and highlight a recent paper by Breyer et al.

Marine fungi have biomass = 22 MILLION blue whales!

Free link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3QW8S...

#aquaticfungi #microbiome #fungi

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