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Sierra Bedwell, MS @bedwellbacteria.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This one is my first article! Go and take a look! I will make a longer post later when the nice inline version posts :)

Kevin Ricks @kevinricks.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I may have become the postdoc who takes forever to finish their last PhD chapter 😅 But I'm proud of this preprint. We found mutualisms aren’t fragile under global change: in the legume-rhizobia system, rhizobia rapidly evolved to buffer their plant hosts against drought doi.org/10.64898/202...

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Mutualisms as engines for rapid adaptation: Rhizobium evolution facilitates plant drought resistance

Mutualisms play critical roles in organismal stress tolerance; yet environmental stressors may simultaneously alter the evolution of the mutualism itself. Stress may have particularly strong impacts o...

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Kevin Ricks @kevinricks.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Preprint of some of my postdoctoral research with @mfrederickson.bsky.social examining the evolution of beneficial microbial symbionts in duckweed www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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