Claire Willing
@clairewilling.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @UniversityofWashington
🍄🟫🌲PI | Forest Mycobiome Lab🌲🍄
https://uw-forestmycobiomelab.github.io
PhD 2019 | Dawson Lab @UCBerkeley
Postdoc 2019-2023 | Peay Lab @Stanford
🍄🟫🌲PI | Forest Mycobiome Lab🌲🍄
https://uw-forestmycobiomelab.github.io
PhD 2019 | Dawson Lab @UCBerkeley
Postdoc 2019-2023 | Peay Lab @Stanford
Super excited to have been named a NW CASC Faculty Fellow! We will be working with partners in eastern WA to study the role of post-fire fungi in forest recovery!🍄🌲🔥 Thanks to @nwcasc.bsky.social for this awesome support and training opportunity!
Drumroll, please! 🥁....Meet our new Research & Faculty Fellows! From examining how fungi can help forests recover from wildfire 🍄🌲🔥, to understanding whether lakes can provide summer refuge for climate-sensitive bull trout, 🌊🌡️🐟, they are advancing climate adaptation across the NW! bit.ly/3LtYqa7
November 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Super excited to have been named a NW CASC Faculty Fellow! We will be working with partners in eastern WA to study the role of post-fire fungi in forest recovery!🍄🌲🔥 Thanks to @nwcasc.bsky.social for this awesome support and training opportunity!
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Get ready for Cairns! ICOM2026 (formally known as ICOM13) is now online. I’ll be there next year and I hope you’ll join us! (I’ve already planned my post-conference bike tour…in Samoa!). 🍄🚲🌊
icom2026.org
icom2026.org
ICOM 2026
Visit the post for more.
icom2026.org
July 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Get ready for Cairns! ICOM2026 (formally known as ICOM13) is now online. I’ll be there next year and I hope you’ll join us! (I’ve already planned my post-conference bike tour…in Samoa!). 🍄🚲🌊
icom2026.org
icom2026.org
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Is it all about timing? Read my latest article in @newphyt.bsky.social to find out how space and time shape the relationships among bacteria, ectomycorrhizal fungi, and land trees. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
June 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Is it all about timing? Read my latest article in @newphyt.bsky.social to find out how space and time shape the relationships among bacteria, ectomycorrhizal fungi, and land trees. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Seattle folks: Stand Up for Science this Friday!
March 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Seattle folks: Stand Up for Science this Friday!
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Hey Washington folks: please take two seconds to contact your state legislators to oppose HB 1038, which would ban gender-affirming care for kids in Washington.
Gender-affirming care saves lives. Stand up for trans kids!
Gender-affirming care saves lives. Stand up for trans kids!
Washington State Legislature - Public Bill Comments
app.leg.wa.gov
February 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Hey Washington folks: please take two seconds to contact your state legislators to oppose HB 1038, which would ban gender-affirming care for kids in Washington.
Gender-affirming care saves lives. Stand up for trans kids!
Gender-affirming care saves lives. Stand up for trans kids!
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On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples.
1. Women are credited less in science than men.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1. Women are credited less in science than men.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Women are credited less in science than men - Nature
The difference between the number of men and women listed as authors on scientific papers and inventors on patents is at least partly attributable to unacknowledged contributions by women scientists.
www.nature.com
February 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples.
1. Women are credited less in science than men.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1. Women are credited less in science than men.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Grad students & postdocs doing #ClimateChange research @ BSU, OSU, PSU, UM, UW, WSU and WWU — You can now APPLY for NW CASC's 2025-26 Research Fellowship Program - supporting climate adaptation research + training in actionable science! Proposals due 3/10 bit.ly/2025-nwcasc-rfp
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January 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Grad students & postdocs doing #ClimateChange research @ BSU, OSU, PSU, UM, UW, WSU and WWU — You can now APPLY for NW CASC's 2025-26 Research Fellowship Program - supporting climate adaptation research + training in actionable science! Proposals due 3/10 bit.ly/2025-nwcasc-rfp
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An overdue, poignant article by Rice et al. about how language and unchecked societal norms can damage the fabric of our academic institutions and exacerbate inequalities – a must read. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Terminology in ecology and evolutionary biology disproportionately harms marginalized groups
The discipline of ecology and evolutionary biology has long grappled with issues of inclusivity and representation. This study finds that individuals from marginalized groups were more likely to be ha...
journals.plos.org
January 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
An overdue, poignant article by Rice et al. about how language and unchecked societal norms can damage the fabric of our academic institutions and exacerbate inequalities – a must read. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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My department is hiring a fungal biologist! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01990
Assistant Professor in Fungal Biology
University of California, Riverside is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.ucr.edu
December 10, 2024 at 7:14 PM
My department is hiring a fungal biologist! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01990
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Editing our script for episode4 of #TheClimateRestorers (www.theclimaterestorers.com) on #ecosystemrestoration& #civilizationalshift, the value of fungi for carbon & biodiversity is front of my blissfully overworked mind. UW colleague @clairewilling.bsky.social's paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi equalize differences in plant fitness and facilitate plant species coexistence through niche differentiation - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A controlled greenhouse study that manipulated the presence of both ectomycorrhizal fungi and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi at a range of conspecific and heterospecific plant competitor densities shows...
www.nature.com
December 16, 2024 at 8:42 PM
Editing our script for episode4 of #TheClimateRestorers (www.theclimaterestorers.com) on #ecosystemrestoration& #civilizationalshift, the value of fungi for carbon & biodiversity is front of my blissfully overworked mind. UW colleague @clairewilling.bsky.social's paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Science takes time - a lot of time. Time that is more and more difficult to make available because of increased workloads. Time that exceeds the temporary contracts of postdocs and PhDs.
I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature
Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...
www.nature.com
November 28, 2024 at 11:32 AM
Science takes time - a lot of time. Time that is more and more difficult to make available because of increased workloads. Time that exceeds the temporary contracts of postdocs and PhDs.
I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A 'sum of their parts' usually happens when you inoculate plants with bacteria AND mycorrhizal fungi – but not always. Read our recent article in
@ISMEComms
to understand more. academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
@ISMEComms
to understand more. academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
Co-inoculations of bacteria and mycorrhizal fungi often drive additive plant growth responses
Abstract. Controlled greenhouse studies have shown the numerous ways that soil microbes can impact plant growth and development. However, natural soil comm
academic.oup.com
November 19, 2024 at 2:56 AM
A 'sum of their parts' usually happens when you inoculate plants with bacteria AND mycorrhizal fungi – but not always. Read our recent article in
@ISMEComms
to understand more. academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
@ISMEComms
to understand more. academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
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My department is hiring an assistant professor in plant/tree physiology/ecophysiology. Details here www.careers.ualberta.ca/Competition/...
Assistant Professor in Plant/Tree Physiology/Ecophysiology - Competition No. A108452008
www.careers.ualberta.ca
October 26, 2023 at 2:58 AM
My department is hiring an assistant professor in plant/tree physiology/ecophysiology. Details here www.careers.ualberta.ca/Competition/...
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The California Academy of Sciences @calacademy.bsky.social is looking for a new curator of botany! This is an endowed position (McAllister Chair) and our herbarium and botany department are world class. Check it out and feel free to send questions my way! us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...
November 15, 2024 at 12:01 AM
The California Academy of Sciences @calacademy.bsky.social is looking for a new curator of botany! This is an endowed position (McAllister Chair) and our herbarium and botany department are world class. Check it out and feel free to send questions my way! us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...
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hivemind! Starting a fresh benching account for the new lab and trying to decide on an organizational structure- do folks have strong feelings about organizing by project? by team member? something hybrid? Most folks will work on multiple projects, and most projects have more than one team member.
November 11, 2024 at 7:02 PM
hivemind! Starting a fresh benching account for the new lab and trying to decide on an organizational structure- do folks have strong feelings about organizing by project? by team member? something hybrid? Most folks will work on multiple projects, and most projects have more than one team member.