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Roman (he/il)

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EcM Fungi 🍄‍🟫🍄 | Plants 🌲 | eco-evo-devo 🧬🌀 BS in Plant Sciences 🌵| PhD Student, Stanford 🌲 #FirstGen #LGBTQSTEM #AuDHD 🏳️‍🌈 ♾️ 🌎 Science is for everyone. 🍄‍🟫 Views are my own.

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 1h
“Basically everyone on Earth is dependent on this really, really tiny zone around roots, in a way.” Fungi are holding the food web together. New research images this underground network: eos.org/articles/fun... via @eos.org
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Fungi Are Holding the Food Web Together. New Research Images This Underground Network. - Eos
By combining computer tomography—the same technology used for medical scans—with a high-powered particle accelerator, researchers have imaged the network of roots, fungal structures, and soil…
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Plantae.org @plantaeofficial.bsky.social · 5h
Plant Science Research Weekly -- Oxygen: A hidden developmental cue in leaf morphogenesis (Science Advances) (Summary by Priyanka Babuta) buff.ly/Kh7MkHx #PlantaePSRW
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Oxygen: A hidden developmental cue in leaf morphogenesis | Plantae
Oxygen is always considered something living forms need to survive. But wait, its role is beyond just respiration. Would you believe if I told you oxygen guides the development of young leaves?
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Island Girl (IG)🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @tenoaks6.bsky.social · 6h
We pause, with open hearts & quiet reflection to the profound & painful truths of survivors & their families. With humility & empathy, we walk forward together.... #Truth&ReconciliationDay 🧡 #EveryChildMatters #Canada #therearenoshortcuts #photography #humannature #nature #words
Reflections of the sky on a still lake surrounded by old growth forest. In the middle of the lake a lone dock floats in the stillness. The clouds are sweeping upward and reveal small sections of deep blue sky
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Bat Conservation International 🦇 @batcon.org · 6h
An eastern red bat taking a sip of water -- or is this more of a chomp? 💦 🦇 𝘓𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘶𝘳𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴 📷 Dr. Amanda Adams
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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 6h
1/2 Did yall see the story about the guy who was scamming women out of money, and part of his scam was convincing them he was in the NFL? He would invite them to invest in his endeavors. They trusted him because they thought he was actually an NFL player. I mention this story because...
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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 6h
2/2 The women who searched his name were told by AI that he was actually an NFL player. Why? Because Dude made multiple dating & social media profiles claiming to be in the NFL. And since AI only regurgitates info and can't think on its own, AI searches just repeated what he said about himself.
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 7h
"If somebody tells you, 'Don't climb to the top of a clocktower with a high powered rifle and make them all stop laughing,' A.I. may tell you that you actually should do that right now, plus it will give you helpful tips about how to adjust your weapon's sights to account for the elevation drop."
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21h
Three Florida counties have declared emergencies over Dengue Fever because the state is experiencing the most locally-transmitted cases since they began collecting the data 17 years ago.
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Florida counties declare local emergencies as dengue cases rise
Dengue fever is here in Florida, prompting several Florida counties to issue a state of emergency for the mosquito-borne disease.
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Javi Ibarrondo @jibarrondo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fed up with Brazil’s politicians not listening, a climate scientist runs for office | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
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Fed up with Brazil’s politicians not listening, a climate scientist runs for office
Luciana Gatti, who studies carbon uptake in the Amazon, aims to join Brazil’s lower house in this weekend’s elections
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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why even bother asking about food intolerances if you will not accommodate them?
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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Position: 6 month, full-time molecular genetics and aquatics lab tech in Rhinelander, WI at USDA Forest Service Research & Development Application open until 10/05/2026 Start date: Winter 2026/2027 Apply via USAJobs and select Location as Rhinelander, WI. www.usajobs.gov/job/886148100 #popGen 🧪💻🧬
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Forestry Technician (Recreation, Timber, Range)
This position is located within a National Forest. This position is established to perform a variety of routine and frequently complex tasks involving techniques and practices relating to natural reso...
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Very cool new data about the roles of enhancer RNAs, revealing they can act in an opposite fashion from what was expected!!! Also uses my old, old favorites, the Hox genes in Drosophila 🧪
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Ellen Prager, PhD @elprager.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bullying in science and life is unacceptable. Here's a story I probably should have shared more often. 🧪 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Bullying is unacceptable in science and in life. The other day someone in retail relayed that a customer had bullied a young worker. It reminded me of a story I probably should have shared more… | Ell...
Bullying is unacceptable in science and in life. The other day someone in retail relayed that a customer had bullied a young worker. It reminded me of a story I probably should have shared more often....
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 28/09/2026
"The fact that they’re dropping this rule into place abruptly, without a comment period," said one advocate, "shows how little they care about the safety of our students.”
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Trump Attack on Trans Rights, Sexual Assault Survivors Continues With Latest Move on Title IX
Education Secretary Linda McMahon's announcement to rescind Biden-era anti-discrimination protections has sparked outrage among women's rights and LGBTQ+ advocates. The decision was made without public feedback, showing contempt for democratic governance.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 28/09/2026
Last year, scientists developed an innovative way to vaccinate the bats against rabies—by making use of their extraordinary fondness of mutual grooming. #WorldRabiesDay scim.ag/4yeJbVW
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Vampire bats’ mutual grooming helps spread innovative rabies vaccine
A gel that bats lick off one another’s fur could help prevent rabies outbreaks in cattle, a growing problem in Latin America
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
„Mestre, a computational biologist, & colleagues had been studying the enzymes—which Anthropic calls ARTs—for 4 years. Mestre et al have yet to publish their findings. But for the past 3 years, they have used Anthropic’s models as they have written code, drafted manuscripts, performed other tasks.“
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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Autumn is here and my West Coast purple mushroom quest continues! Thanks so much to everyone who shared my flyer and/or sent me mushrooms last year — I now have 20 individuals growing in culture! I hope we can find more this year🤞 Stay tuned for updates and look out for those mushrooms 💜🍄‍🟫
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Favorite photos I took of elk, on a trip to Point Reyes National Seashore with @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social ... Beautiful, ethereal, alien, dangerous.
elk in mist behind hedgeelk with huge antlers turning to look at meelk mom with babyelk teenager lying on grass biting fur with muzzle, looking a little dragonesque.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 28/09/2026
“We have a cult of radicalized billionaires who believe it is their destiny to rule the 21st century…They know our system is for sale…not only in San Francisco but in Washington.” Read @esksf.bsky.social on how tech oligarchs bought San Francisco. missionlocal.org/2026/09/san-...
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San Francisco's wealthiest have unprecedented control of city politics
Our city fathers (if you like them) or oligarchs (if you don’t) have never been richer, more brazen or faced weaker opposition
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
as usual the focus is on sports but as someone working in higher ed, my more immediate concern is "how is this going to impact harassment protections for a particularly vulnerable subset of the population"
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 28/09/2026
Consumer fossil fuel subsidies disproportionately benefit high consumers while stalling clean energy transitions, according to researchers in @science.org. With 90% of subsidy reforms failing within three years, experts urge policies focused on reducing fuel demand instead. mongabay.cc/CalZVt
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Fossil fuel subsidies are the ‘worst energy policy in the world,’ researchers say
In an editorial in Science, U.S.-based energy policy experts Paasha Mahdavi and Michael Ross argue that governments creating consumer fossil fuel subsidies in response to rising energy prices is the…
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djcaress.bsky.social @djcaress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The hyper-vigilance required in order to stay as safe as possible when cycling is not just for self-preservation purposes, it’s also because you have the pick up the mental slack on behalf of distracted or inattentive motorists, of which there are many.
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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Note to men: If your first reaction to hearing about the gang rape of a woman by seven men at Cornell in 2024 is to say, "Not all men," or some such stupidity, then you're telling everyone — especially women — that you are part of the problem.
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Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson @hilaryrosed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oregon #fungi folks, the Yachats Mushroom Festival keynote dinner on Sat 17 Oct features a #truffle talk given by my sister Heather Dawson. Her truffle dogs are likely to share the stage with her. Get tickets while you can! #OregonCoast #mycology @visityachats.bsky.social @cascademyco.bsky.social
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Keynote Dinner 2026 | Heather Dawson - Yachats Mushroom Festival
Dinner: 5:00–6:30 PM $45 Keynote: 7:00 PM ($15 without dinner) Kick off the Yachats Mushroom Festival Friday evening with a special Keynote Dinner, featuring a locally inspired, mushroom-focused menu ...
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 27/09/2026
“Much of STEM has [a lot] in common with the humanities and social sciences.” This. I’d say scientific discovery has *everything* in common with scholarship in other fields. It’s why the Trump/Vought/ view that we can kill academia and still have science research is so totally wrong.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Student journalism once again spotlighting the issues University Administrators try to hide www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
We refuse for this victim to be reduced to just another story. Cornell has failed to protect its students. Cornell has failed to address the growing issue of sexual assault on campus with its pathetic task force. Cornell has failed the student allegedly raped by those seven men at Chi Phi in October 2024. Cornell has failed her. Cornell has failed us.

To Matthew Ingalls, Jonathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris and Scott Kretzschmar: We know who you are and we refuse to let you benefit from this University's concealment. 

The Cornell Daily Sun’s Editorial Board is a collaborative team composed of Editor-in-Chief Sophia Dasser ’28, Associate Editor Sophia Romanov Imber ’28 and Opinion Editors Zara Cheek ’28 and Rayen Zhou ’29.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And carbon emissions from data centers are underestimated because in many cases they are illegally installing their own fossil fuel infrastructure. This isn’t even getting into the harms they cause neighboring communities.
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Italian professional cycling riders at the Worlds in Montreal are wearing a black armband to honor Niccolò, 7 year old boy who was killed by a driver while he was riding his bike to school with his dad. We need pro cyclists to speak up more often about traffic violence
IG post to honor a kid who died while riding
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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I am increasingly convinced that Thiel is just Sade’s Juliette re-cast as a modern oligarch.
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OPSECtarian @oposectarian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sade’s argument that no pleasure of the wealthy is complete unless it’s accompanied by the sight of other people in misery is basically the default right-wing position at this point.
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Dean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Two measures on the Nov ballot are exposing hypocritical politicians: Prop I preserves an existing SF tax on billionaires and dedicates the $ to affordable housing and rent relief. Prop 40 creates a one time state wealth tax on billionaires and dedicates the $ to health care. Vote yes on both.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ultimately what is killing higher Ed in the United States is not just hostile politics at the Federal level, but the greed and ineptitude of university leadership.
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Today, don’t forget to LOOK DOWN, and appreciate what lies beneath your feet. Discover an entire world of unique, powerful life, marching to its own beat. We can't protect what we don't notice.
Image of moss diversity including green feather moss and red Sphagnum moss.Image of droplets on red sundewsImage of white lichen, green moss and red moss sporophytes.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lol
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mamdani.
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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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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I see that @anthropic.com is now competing with PhD students in Biology/Bioengineering labs, whose biggest worry until now was being inevitably scooped by the Feng Zhang and Jennifer Doudna labs. Very different from Wild West days of RT discoveries in my PhD. www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...
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Claude discovers a novel enzyme system
In early results from our new life sciences research lab, Claude agents found an enzyme system whose function is still unknown.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 05/09/2026
I thought it was comedy.. no, it’s real. I save you the video. It’s Saturday.
Under Secretary of State Jac...
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My opening remarks at the National Launch of
Foundry School.
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Comparative analysis of 15 chromosome-scale near T2T assemblies of Brazilian Fusarium graminearum isolates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And he'd save a trillion dollars a year in the process: ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Autumn is here and my West Coast purple mushroom quest continues! Thanks so much to everyone who shared my flyer and/or sent me mushrooms last year — I now have 20 individuals growing in culture! I hope we can find more this year🤞 Stay tuned for updates and look out for those mushrooms 💜🍄‍🟫
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026
Happy mushroom season!
A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fascism requires collaborators.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Here's David Ellison's statement on his successful Paramount-WBD. Thanks Newsom "for his support throughout this process." State AGs were on track to kill the the merger with litigation and delay. Is Newsom giving up on the presidency and instead pursuing a post-gov career as Friend of Oligarchs?
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Steph likes native plants @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am listening to The Daily on the Endangered Species Act. And it's good. But I need NYT to understand that the ESA isn't JUST FOR ANIMALS. And the ESA does not only protect plants when they form critical habitat for animals. It protects actual endangered plants. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/p...
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The Trump Administration Defangs the Endangered Species Act
A new interpretation of the law would mean that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, would be illegal.
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John Brooks @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Two brains in a trench coat
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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
tired: inside of you are two wolves wired: inside of you are two brains
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Unfortunately, neither one remembered where I put my keys.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How forever chemicals (PFAS) block our immune response to viruses www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Gross
science.org
This dolphin chased a fish until it puked—then ate the vomit
The behavior, known as kleptoparasitism, marks one of the few well-documented examples of a cetacean stealing food
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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fantastic Asst Professor positions open across multiple UC Berkeley departments @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Plant/Algae/Microb aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522 Plant/Env aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382 Gen/Dev/Evo aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05481 Eco aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05489
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Assistant Professor – Plant or Macroalgae-Associated Microbial Communities and Interactions - Plant and Microbial Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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