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Maridel 🐜🍄🌱🦠🏳️‍🌈 @delfreddy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Last week I had the honor to lead an outreach workshop about Plant Galls at the award-winning #NorwichScienceFestival Participating nature detectives competed in teams to match galls to their insect inducers using custom-made flashcards with beautiful illustrations...

Me and my colleagues posing in our lab coats in front of a tree decorated with gall cards

A workshop participant collects a gall card from a tree using a litter picker

Attentive nature detectives examine insect cards to find the gall causer

Workshop leaders show participants how to examine gall specimens under a microscope

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@hgpennington @hgpennington.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

My Christmas plant disease illustration this year features Phytophthora ilicis, the oomycete responsible for holly leaf blight. 🎄🌿 hgpenningtonart.com/...

Illustration of a holly twig with several spiny green leaves showing brown blotches and pale, faded areas caused by Phytophthora ilicis infection. The stem is yellow-green and the background is plain white.

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Maridel 🐜🍄🌱🦠🏳️‍🌈 @delfreddy.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Had a great time treasure-hunting for galls with the British Plant Gall Society this weekend! Also proud to introduce my son to the amazing world of cecidology. 😍

Robin's pin cushion (Diplolepis rosae) on rose

A founding member of the society shows my 2 year old son a gall from a nearby oak tree.

Sputnik gall (Diplolepis nervosa) on rose

Eriophyes inangulis (mite gall) on an alder leaf

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Jason “Obstacle to Progress” Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

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An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

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Maridel 🐜🍄🌱🦠🏳️‍🌈 @delfreddy.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Amazing new method in single-cell gene editing from @gek0s.bsky.social et al, out today on biorxiv! Make sure to scroll down to see the video of him electroporating RNA into individual neurons 🤯

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Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Assistant/ Associate Professor of Mycology at UGA - Go be part of a Legendary Fungal Group fungi.franklinresearch.uga.edu and dept of plant pathology plantpath.caes.uga.edu www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/445...

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Assistant or Associate Professor - Fungal Biology/Mycology

The Department of Plant Pathology in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) at the University of Georgia is recruiting for the position of Assistant or Associate Professor in Fu...

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Amber Hall @amberhall.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

1st western blot vs. 128th western blot 🧪 - - #science #westernblot #predoc #labscientist

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Maridel 🐜🍄🌱🦠🏳️‍🌈 @delfreddy.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

First 2 months as a postdoc in the Hogenhout lab = whirlwind! Big goal: characterize bacterial effectors that turn plants 🪴 into zombies 🧟‍♀️. Really cool system that I've admired for years; also my first time working with plants and doing molecular work, so I'm learning A LOT! Some highlights: Y2H...🧵

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Ellen O. Martinson @waspvenom.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Why do insect galls have such varied shapes even among closely related species?? The Enemy Hypothesis, posits that pressure from parasitoids drives the dynamic evolution of external gall traits. We have a new paper in @rsocpublishing.bsky.social on this hypothesis see more in this 🧵! 🧪 #galls

Many examples of the diversity in morphology of insect induced galls from hairy to colorful to spiky.

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Sam Mugford @samtmugford.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

We’re delighted to share our latest preprint from the Hogenhout lab (@saskiahogenhout.bsky.social) on the molecular mechanisms on plant-aphid interactions. Here we show how the aphid Mp10 effector protein acts as a local anaesthetic to suppress the plant perception of aphid attack

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