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Michael Hickerson

@hickerlab.bsky.social
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professor at CCNY/CUNY/EEB (population genetics+community ecology) 🍄foraging 🪕

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Michael Hickerson @hickerlab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A cheeseburger is a cow, wheat, yeast and some garden plants, mostly shallow branches. Add kelp, a sea urchin and a mushroom and the score jumps, because those lineages split from ours over a billion years ago. Variety within a species adds nothing
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Michael Hickerson @hickerlab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How much of the tree of life did you eat? Phylodiet scores a meal by phylogenetic diversity: type what you ate and it builds the dated tree of the organisms in it, from ~3,300 edible eukaryotes, back 2 billion years. Last night's dinner, below. 🧵 mjhickerson.github.io/phylodiet/app/phylodiet.html
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