Ed Sikora
@alabamaed1.bsky.social
Professor and Extension Plant Pathologist. I work with corn, soybeans, fruit and vegetables. I am also a freelance photographer.
Butterflies-R-Free Saturday: #Butterfly #Insect #Lepidoptera #NaturePhotography #Nature #Saturday 🧪 🦋
November 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Butterflies-R-Free Saturday: #Butterfly #Insect #Lepidoptera #NaturePhotography #Nature #Saturday 🧪 🦋
Chicago at night #Chicago #Photography 📸
November 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Chicago at night #Chicago #Photography 📸
Blue-Crowned Motmot 🦅
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Blue-Crowned Motmot 🦅
November 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
A different point of view on #MushroomMonday 🧪 🌱
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
A different point of view on #MushroomMonday 🧪 🌱
NEMATODE MONDAY: A field of Sunn hemp in bloom is a beautiful site. It offers many benefits as a cover crop if worked into a crop rotation system. Sunn hemp suppresses weeds, slows soil erosion and reduces root-knot nematode populations 🧪 🌱
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
NEMATODE MONDAY: A field of Sunn hemp in bloom is a beautiful site. It offers many benefits as a cover crop if worked into a crop rotation system. Sunn hemp suppresses weeds, slows soil erosion and reduces root-knot nematode populations 🧪 🌱
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Late night birdcam bonus video from May 26th.
Mr Rose Breasted Grosbeak for almost two minutes, eating sunflower seeds and an orange.
#birds
Mr Rose Breasted Grosbeak for almost two minutes, eating sunflower seeds and an orange.
#birds
November 9, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Late night birdcam bonus video from May 26th.
Mr Rose Breasted Grosbeak for almost two minutes, eating sunflower seeds and an orange.
#birds
Mr Rose Breasted Grosbeak for almost two minutes, eating sunflower seeds and an orange.
#birds
Reposted by Ed Sikora
This is total BS -it has to stop we're supposed to be the "United States of America"
November 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This is total BS -it has to stop we're supposed to be the "United States of America"
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My Celestron EdgeHD 8" SCT is for capturing planetary, lunar, and deep space objects such as galaxies, star clusters, and planetary nebulae. When capturing large nebulae, I use my refractor telescope.
#astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #longexposure #photography #telescope
#astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #longexposure #photography #telescope
November 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
My Celestron EdgeHD 8" SCT is for capturing planetary, lunar, and deep space objects such as galaxies, star clusters, and planetary nebulae. When capturing large nebulae, I use my refractor telescope.
#astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #longexposure #photography #telescope
#astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #longexposure #photography #telescope
Butterflies-R-Free Saturday: #Butterfly #Insect #Lepidoptera #NaturePhotography #Nature #Saturday 🧪 🦋
November 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Butterflies-R-Free Saturday: #Butterfly #Insect #Lepidoptera #NaturePhotography #Nature #Saturday 🧪 🦋
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Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
I enjoyed participating in the Chilton County Strawberry meeting yesterday. Here I was surrounded by royalty and chose to “bend the knee”. 😂 🧪 🌱 🍓
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I enjoyed participating in the Chilton County Strawberry meeting yesterday. Here I was surrounded by royalty and chose to “bend the knee”. 😂 🧪 🌱 🍓
Corn smut (inside and out) is a disease caused by the fungus Ustilago maydis. It that forms tumor-like galls on corn plants. While it is a destructive plant disease, the immature galls are a culinary delicacy in Mexico $ other parts of the world, known as huitlacoche or Mexican truffle science 🧪 🌱
November 6, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Corn smut (inside and out) is a disease caused by the fungus Ustilago maydis. It that forms tumor-like galls on corn plants. While it is a destructive plant disease, the immature galls are a culinary delicacy in Mexico $ other parts of the world, known as huitlacoche or Mexican truffle science 🧪 🌱
Along the Gulf coast of Florida 🦅
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Along the Gulf coast of Florida 🦅
NEMATODE MONDAY Root-knot nematode (RKN) galls on tomato. Infected plants should be removed & destroyed after harvest. Roots left in soil can act as a shelter for RKN until the next season. Work soil to bring roots to surface so drying action of wind/sun can destroy the pathogen science 🧪 🌱
November 4, 2025 at 5:12 AM
NEMATODE MONDAY Root-knot nematode (RKN) galls on tomato. Infected plants should be removed & destroyed after harvest. Roots left in soil can act as a shelter for RKN until the next season. Work soil to bring roots to surface so drying action of wind/sun can destroy the pathogen science 🧪 🌱
Birds on a wire 🦉 🧪
November 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Birds on a wire 🦉 🧪
Butterflies-R-Free Saturday: #Butterfly #Insect #Lepidoptera #NaturePhotography #Nature #Saturday 🧪 🦋
November 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Butterflies-R-Free Saturday: #Butterfly #Insect #Lepidoptera #NaturePhotography #Nature #Saturday 🧪 🦋
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🚨 We’re hiring! Join the Plant–Soil Microbiome Ecology & Innovation Lab
@UBC 🌱
Multiple positions available — details here 👉 lnkd.in/grbiN2Fc #MscPhDposition #Postdoc #Microbiome
@UBC 🌱
Multiple positions available — details here 👉 lnkd.in/grbiN2Fc #MscPhDposition #Postdoc #Microbiome
October 31, 2025 at 11:57 PM
🚨 We’re hiring! Join the Plant–Soil Microbiome Ecology & Innovation Lab
@UBC 🌱
Multiple positions available — details here 👉 lnkd.in/grbiN2Fc #MscPhDposition #Postdoc #Microbiome
@UBC 🌱
Multiple positions available — details here 👉 lnkd.in/grbiN2Fc #MscPhDposition #Postdoc #Microbiome
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New coronavirus subspecies with #SARS-CoV-2–like mutation discovered in Brazilian bat
The bat harbored the BRZ batCoV virus, which the researchers say has likely been silently circulating in Latin America for some time.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
The bat harbored the BRZ batCoV virus, which the researchers say has likely been silently circulating in Latin America for some time.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
October 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
New coronavirus subspecies with #SARS-CoV-2–like mutation discovered in Brazilian bat
The bat harbored the BRZ batCoV virus, which the researchers say has likely been silently circulating in Latin America for some time.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
The bat harbored the BRZ batCoV virus, which the researchers say has likely been silently circulating in Latin America for some time.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
Southern blight, a fungal disease of sunflower, starts with dark lesions at the soil line and leads to yellowing/wilting of plants. Management includes sanitation by removing infected plants a
& using crop rotation. Look for white fungal growth & small white-to-brown sclerotia at the stem line 🌱 🧪
& using crop rotation. Look for white fungal growth & small white-to-brown sclerotia at the stem line 🌱 🧪
October 31, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Southern blight, a fungal disease of sunflower, starts with dark lesions at the soil line and leads to yellowing/wilting of plants. Management includes sanitation by removing infected plants a
& using crop rotation. Look for white fungal growth & small white-to-brown sclerotia at the stem line 🌱 🧪
& using crop rotation. Look for white fungal growth & small white-to-brown sclerotia at the stem line 🌱 🧪
Reposted by Ed Sikora
Kristi Noem says no US citizens have been detained by ICE.
170 US citizens detained by ICE including kids.
Release the EPSTEIN files.
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
170 US citizens detained by ICE including kids.
Release the EPSTEIN files.
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Kristi Noem says no US citizens have been detained by ICE.
170 US citizens detained by ICE including kids.
Release the EPSTEIN files.
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
170 US citizens detained by ICE including kids.
Release the EPSTEIN files.
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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I am very happy (and anxious) to share with you our most recent work in which we evaluated four of the most popular long-read assemblers,
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
and tell you just a little bit about it in the following 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
and tell you just a little bit about it in the following 🧵
Assemblies of long-read metagenomes suffer from diverse errors
Genomes from metagenomes have revolutionised our understanding of microbial diversity, ecology, and evolution, propelling advances in basic science, biomedicine, and biotechnology. Assembly algorithms...
www.biorxiv.org
April 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I am very happy (and anxious) to share with you our most recent work in which we evaluated four of the most popular long-read assemblers,
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
and tell you just a little bit about it in the following 🧵
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
and tell you just a little bit about it in the following 🧵
Reposted by Ed Sikora
I have an opening for a postdoctoral position in my Laboratory of Fungal Ecology and Evolution at the Biology Centre CAS, Institute of Entomology, in České Budějovice, Czechia. www.dannyhaelewaters.com/opening-for-... #LFEE #postdoc #hiring
Opening for a postdoctoral position in my lab
We are inviting applications for a postdoctoral researcher to support the Laboratory of Fungal Ecology and Evolution, and join our project studying obligatory multitrophic interactions. Project Ove…
www.dannyhaelewaters.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I have an opening for a postdoctoral position in my Laboratory of Fungal Ecology and Evolution at the Biology Centre CAS, Institute of Entomology, in České Budějovice, Czechia. www.dannyhaelewaters.com/opening-for-... #LFEE #postdoc #hiring
U.S. sunflowers are grown primarily in the Midwest, in states like North & South Dakota.The growing process is a little different in Alabama.The summers are hotter & longer, and can be wetter in some regions. Rain is important after planting sunflower seed. #Sunflowers 🌻 🌱 🧪
October 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
U.S. sunflowers are grown primarily in the Midwest, in states like North & South Dakota.The growing process is a little different in Alabama.The summers are hotter & longer, and can be wetter in some regions. Rain is important after planting sunflower seed. #Sunflowers 🌻 🌱 🧪