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Morgan Carter

@morgancarterphd.bsky.social
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🌿 Asst Prof. #NewPI. Molecular host-bacterial-fungal interactions. NCSSM/NCSU/Cornell alum. Y'all means all. Views are my own. she/her

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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 9h
🎼☁️ Pink cLOUD pINk CloUD 💘 My brain on repeat for the past week
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Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do I use Claude to create pipelines for bioinformatics analyses, yes, yes I do…and it works pretty well so long as you keep vetting inputs and outputs manually But Claude is very very stupid when it comes to interpreting biological signals
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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New paper out with @kaylastoy.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
JOB ALERT: UNC Bio is hiring 2 tenure track assistant profs doing molecular, cell, and dev bio. The search is intentionally broad, so please share widely and spread the word! Find more information and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... Application review begins Nov 1.
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International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions @ismpmi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nominations are open for IS-MPMI’s 2027 Early Career Achievement Award​​ and the Outstanding Achievement Award. These awards recognize the outstanding science, teaching, mentoring, outreach, and service to the community of our members​. Nominate by 1 Dec, 2026. ismpmi.org/events/congr....
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Awards - IS-MPMI
Nominations for the 2027 Awards are Open! IS-MPMI’s 2027 awards recognized the outstanding service, scientific innovations, and significant accomplishments of our members​ with the Early Career Achiev...
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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
As a romance reader and a professor, I expect to have Feelings about The Love Hypothesis movie (yes I've read it). Yes, the professor-student relationship is one issue. But also, why does she appear to be in a lab coat and safety glasses on an outdoor bench? Bad PPE. 🥼
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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
How many weeks in a row have to go "off the rails" before I realize that maybe the rails were never there to begin with? #NewPI
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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Please repost/share We're hiring! UC Davis Plant Pathology seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in plant health & microbiomes. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07904 My department is full of great colleagues, and we look forward to recruiting our new colleague!
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Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Eric Stabb @evstabb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I learned from Ann Stevens that Virginia Tech is searching for two TT positions in Molecular Microbiology. Please join me in encouraging Ann to join Bluesky:) Meanwhile, here's the ad... jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant/Associate Professor - Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Job Description The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech seeks applicants for two (2) tenure-track research and teaching positions at the Assistant/Associate ...
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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A comparative genomic analysis in #G3journal identifies the relationships between species traits, such as dominant reproductive mode, distribution size, and generation length, and the abundance and spatial distribution of transposable elements in lichenized fungi. 🍄 🔗 buff.ly/jL3wCt0
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International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions @ismpmi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Plant Microbe enthusiasts! Members of IS-MPMI- Only 2 more days to submit your ideas for concurrent sessions for the ISMPMI Congress in Jeju July 18-22, 2027! Visit IS-MPMI's website for details. ismpmi.org/announcement...
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Concurrent Session Proposals for 2027 IS-MPMI Congress in Jeju Are Now Open! Apply by 25 September 2026. - IS-MPMI
2027 IS-MPMI Congress · 18–22 July 2027 · Jeju, South Korea Submission deadline: 25 September 2026 Call for concurrent session proposals We are thrilled to announce that concurrent session submissions...
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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Proud and honored to receive an Outstanding Young Alumnus award from NC State! My career path is so deeply influenced by the professors I had there and my first exposure to plant-microbe research. ❤️🐺 Grateful I get to pay it forward as a UNC system professor! cals.ncsu.edu/news/2026-ca...
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2026 CALS Distinguished and Outstanding Alumni Honored
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences celebrated its alumni award winners on Sept. 18. From the field to the lab, find out how they're making an impact.
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Lambros Frantzeskakis @lambrosf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you’re a graduate student and interested in fungi please apply, this a great opportunity to experience research in an industry setting jobs.bayer.com/job/Chesterf...
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Fungal Discovery & Genomics Co-Op
Fungal Discovery & Genomics Co-Op
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Allison Lopatkin, PhD @ajlopatkin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Had the best time doing 1 minute project swaps in lab meeting today, where everyone made one slide and was randomly assigned someone else’s to present the morning of. Excellent exercise in scicom public speaking and sharing science!! Highly recommend
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BREAKING: Judge Dennis Saylor (GWBush/MA) temporarily blocks Trump admin drive to impose a 4-year limit on student visas now issued for length of study. Calls the rationale for the new rule "exceptionally weak." Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Fallacies: 1. Anytime you’re writing about this big complex varied industry from one vantage (Ivy+, small liberal arts, public flagships, regionals, etc etc etc) and claim to be speaking about “higher ed,” you’re not. 2/
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Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Can we make “development for the adult force” a slogan?
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Dr. Liz Kirby @thekirbylab.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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By prompting students to turn to AI instead of to their fellow students, TAs, or professors, these technologies offer the illusion that human interaction is inconsequential. But learning with and from other people simultaneously supports learning and builds the human skills that make the world go ’round.
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 13/09/2026
Ten years ago Tami, Roy, and I released a movie we made of antibiotic resistance evolving in real time. I thought maybe a couple thousand people tops would see it. I couldn't have imagined it would be seen millions of times, and be taught from middle school through the graduate level worldwide
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Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I know I know, gotta keep submitting… But after another rejection this year on a highly ranked proposal and with word that a different proposal is at the 6+ month in NSF limbo without even making it to panel yet…I’m going to admit to being slightly discouraged about science in the US
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Diversify Microbiology @diversifymicro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
UNC Greensboro Department of Biology is hiring for three positions this year including one in microbiology! spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/35918
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Assistant Professor Microbiology
The Department of Biology at UNC Greensboro (UNCG) seeks an individual with a strong record of accomplishment in microbiology broadly defined for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assista...
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Matt Bertone @bertonemyia.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
We're looking for a plant pathologist 🌱 🍄 to join our department (cals.ncsu.edu/entomology-a...)! The position is fairly broad/open to different disciplines in plant pathology, but heavy in teaching. Please go to the following link for more info & to apply. jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/233...
A serviceberry twig with leaves and fruit, one of the fruit infested by a rust fungus a purple flowered clover with whitish powdery mildew growth on the leavesA shiny dark green magnolia leaf with lichenized algal leaf spot on it.
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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Preview for a @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social paper - reflecting on Fusarium-bacterial interactions and their impacts on plant health. #PlantSci #MicroSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Redirecting
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Men are more likely to accept invitations to review a paper in Ecology and Evolution when the *editor* inviting them is male. Women’s response rate is unaffected onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Paul Rainey @paulbrainey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A beautiful piece of detective work by @honour.bsky.social + colleagues revealing the origins of Ralstonia disease of bananas on Martinique. As so often, ICEs (ICERs!) prove to be extraordinary capacitors for evolutionary change. Evolution for evolution's sake 🤔 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
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Interspecies Exchange of Mobile Genetic Elements During a Plant Disease Outbreak
Abstract. Outbreak sequencing provides insight into the origin and evolutionary processes acting on emerging pathogens. Sequencing a historic multihost out
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CNY ASM @cnyasm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day to all the microbiologists doing the work that keeps our labs, hospitals, classrooms, field sites, and research programs moving! If you’re in CNY, come celebrate the microbiology community with us at the CNY ASM Fall Meeting! 📅 Oct 16 📍 SUNY ESF, Syracuse, NY 📝 tinyurl.com/CNYASM
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CNY ASM Inaugural Meeting - Culturing Connections
Kick off new connections and good vibes at the CNY ASM inaugural fall meeting—let’s cultivate something awesome together!
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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Two weeks later and it is again this hot 😭
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Thrilled to announce that my department - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - at the U of Arizona will likely be hiring for a tenure-track position in "Population and Community Ecology" this fall. Watch this space for more details and official announcements coming soon ... #Ecology #EcologyJobs 🌐🌾🧪
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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
As a romance reader and a professor, I expect to have Feelings about The Love Hypothesis movie (yes I've read it). Yes, the professor-student relationship is one issue. But also, why does she appear to be in a lab coat and safety glasses on an outdoor bench? Bad PPE. 🥼
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Notice: grad students holding up “first day of school” signs that say they’re in 20th grade or whatever are funny. I will tolerate no dissenting opinions on this matter.
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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
How many weeks in a row have to go "off the rails" before I realize that maybe the rails were never there to begin with? #NewPI
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Julian Liber @liberjulian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
For all the fungi hunters out there, the Heitman Lab at Duke University is looking for Cryptococcus luteus found associated with crust fungi on fallen logs. Every sample helps! #mycology
A wanted poster for the fungus Granulobasidium vellereum and its parasite Cryptococcis luteus. Searchers should check the underside of fallen logs (especially elm) for white to cream crusts on the bottom side. The parasite appears as pale-yellow circular patches on the fungal surface. If found, searchers should record the location, host, take a photo, and send the whole branch/piece in a paper bag to the Heitman lab.
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American Phytopathological Society (APS) @plantdisease.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
⏳ 1 week left! Got research with real-world impact? The APS Outreach Project puts your work in front of growers, regulators & policymakers. Submit by August 31 for a shot at FREE Plant Health 2027 registration: bit.ly/45H1xCh #APSOutreach
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Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Well folks, finally got a grant rated “Outstanding” at USDA NIFA. Top 8% according to their numbers. Rejected for funding
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Dr. Michael D. L. Johnson @copperbae.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Happy to share the news that I have received the University of Arizona 2026 Graduate Teaching and Mentoring Award universityevents.arizona.edu/person/micha...
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Michael D. L. Johnson
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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
If this is a requirement for authors to provide, there should be guidance and editing/reviewing. All for accessibility but it is too easy to do 1) a bad/overly simple job or 2) a biased job, since figures in manuscripts are often relaying large data that is not easily described accurately.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.
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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
u.s. public universities are great and it's kind of a shame so many legislators have decided they hate them
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Almost every single student who has found me this week wants to talk about AI. A couple reflections. One student has taken three AI courses in philosophy, health sciences and comm. They’re basically the same class. As it turns out, it doesn’t take a lot of classes to “learn” ai.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I once worked at a university that gutted an entire (very popular and useful) learning center and replaced it with two guys who would teach you how to host blogs. every student had to have a blog. Every single one. Our syllabus had to mention blogs. We had to teach WITH blogs.
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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
If you told me at literally any point in my life that I was going to start collaborating on ticks, I would not have believed you. But my neighbor Rafael Vieira is doing some awesome work! Part of the fun of an interdisciplinary center. #UNCCharlotte #CIPHER inside.charlotte.edu/featured-sto...
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The Tick Hunters - Inside UNC Charlotte
The Tick HuntersUNC Charlotte research team expands tick surveillance through field work and lab expertise to improve public health in Mecklenburg County KEY TAKEAWAYS:UNC Charlotte researchers captur...
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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
My husband and I graduated at the same time with STEM PhDs and he is on track to soon make twice what I make. And I am paid pretty well, given I am tenure-track at an R1.
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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
As a component of aseptic technique, Bunsen burners do not universally decrease deposition of microbe-containing particles journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Preparing for a workshop on teaching critical thinking in STEM in light of current, let's say pressures, and decided I should start my talk with a slides that lays out the values that form my premises:
Slide header: Premises/values: Cards on the table

Bullet points: 
* I care more about students’ learning than about the “accuracy” of grades or the prestige associated with a specific degree
* I want to work collaboratively with my students, rather than policing them
* I don’t want to spend any time reading, much less providing feedback on, something nobody wrote
* Science is a human, communal process; there is no knowing without knowers; and our work cannot be autocompleted
* Deep thinking and human connection are always more important than polish, speed, or “productivity”
* Research agendas should not be set by & for industry
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Anna Allen @akallen10.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New NSF BIO solicitation is live.... this replaces the previous IOS, MCB, DEB solicitation www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I think 1-on-1 meetings with my research students may be my favorite part of this job. Especially seeing how much they have developed and grown into their own unique versions of scientists over the years. Cheesy #NewPI post...
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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
97F and a billion percent humidity is not great first day of class weather 🥵
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Gitta Coaker @gittacoaker.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
nlp receptor identified in lettuce, different from the receptor in brassicas; convergent evolution in different plant families. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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A lettuce receptor-like kinase recognizes the highly conserved heptapeptide motif within microbial Nep1-like proteins | PNAS
Plants rely on cell surface immune receptors to detect microbial patterns and initiate effective defense responses. Although the Asteraceae family ...
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I am excited to announce a job for an Asst Prof in Plant Evolution in the dept. of Evolution and Ecology at @ucdavis.bsky.social. We're looking broadly, from macro (speciation, comparative genomics, evo-devo) to micro (pop biology, adaptive evolution, evo-eco). recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07777
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Gulnara Tagirdzhanova @metalichen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Our study on giant transposons Starship 🚀🧬 in the genome of the lichen fungus Xanthoria is now out in @pnas.org! What did we find out about Starships in #lichen fungi? 👇Updated thread below 🖥️ 🧪 🦠 🧫 #SymbioSky 1/6 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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