Kylea Garces, PhD
@ellewoodsofmyco.bsky.social
NSF PRFB studying coasts, fungi, restoration, plants & community assembly @ Northeastern @ Miami OH 🍄✨💅🏻 https://kyleagarces.weebly.com
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Hi yall! I’m Kylea Garces an NSF postdoc excited about all things fungi, community assembly, & coasts! Passionate about inclusive ed, grading for equity & mentorship.
#MicrobialEcology #DBER #mycology #SciCom #FirstGenInSTEM #WOCEEB
Outside of science I enjoy sunbathing, sports & sparkles 🍄🌊🌤️🏈🏀💅🏻✨
#MicrobialEcology #DBER #mycology #SciCom #FirstGenInSTEM #WOCEEB
Outside of science I enjoy sunbathing, sports & sparkles 🍄🌊🌤️🏈🏀💅🏻✨
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The Coastal MicroEco Lab had a blast at the CERF @cerfscience.bsky.social conference! Congrats to lab members Camille and Marley for superb posters and THANKS to panelists/participants of collab sesh with @ellewoodsofmyco.bsky.social) focused on integrating microbes into restoration efforts 🌎🦠🧬
November 20, 2025 at 12:42 AM
The Coastal MicroEco Lab had a blast at the CERF @cerfscience.bsky.social conference! Congrats to lab members Camille and Marley for superb posters and THANKS to panelists/participants of collab sesh with @ellewoodsofmyco.bsky.social) focused on integrating microbes into restoration efforts 🌎🦠🧬
Reposted by Kylea Garces, PhD
Reading in journal club
Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment - Nature Microbiology
This Review discusses the evolution, emergence and expansion of environmental fungicide and antifungal drug resistance.
www.nature.com
August 11, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Reading in journal club
Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Rooted In Dialogue
Join this session focused on postdoc community-building. Whether you're navigating these challenges yourself or supporting others, this session is for you!
📆Monday, Aug 11
🕐10:30–11:30 AM
📍Hilton Key 7
More info: events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Det...
Join this session focused on postdoc community-building. Whether you're navigating these challenges yourself or supporting others, this session is for you!
📆Monday, Aug 11
🕐10:30–11:30 AM
📍Hilton Key 7
More info: events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Det...
August 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Rooted In Dialogue
Join this session focused on postdoc community-building. Whether you're navigating these challenges yourself or supporting others, this session is for you!
📆Monday, Aug 11
🕐10:30–11:30 AM
📍Hilton Key 7
More info: events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Det...
Join this session focused on postdoc community-building. Whether you're navigating these challenges yourself or supporting others, this session is for you!
📆Monday, Aug 11
🕐10:30–11:30 AM
📍Hilton Key 7
More info: events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Det...
Hope to see many of you here at ESA next week!!
Rooted In Dialogue
Join this session focused on postdoc community-building. Whether you're navigating these challenges yourself or supporting others, this session is for you!
📆Monday, Aug 11
🕐10:30–11:30 AM
📍Hilton Key 7
More info: events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Det...
Join this session focused on postdoc community-building. Whether you're navigating these challenges yourself or supporting others, this session is for you!
📆Monday, Aug 11
🕐10:30–11:30 AM
📍Hilton Key 7
More info: events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Det...
August 7, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Hope to see many of you here at ESA next week!!
Reposted by Kylea Garces, PhD
In our review of CMNs, water stood out as a resource that might be transferred between plants via fungal connections. This new study provides further support (and in DSEs!). Nice expt by Bea Bock et al 👍 Great to see new research.
doi.org/10.1038/s420...
doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Evidence for common fungal networks among plants formed by a Dark Septate Endophyte in Sorghum bicolor - Communications Biology
A lab experiment shows that Dark Septate Endophytes can form common fungal networks between plants, increasing biomass and enabling water movement, suggesting that non-mycorrhizal fungi may contribute...
www.nature.com
July 6, 2025 at 12:49 AM
In our review of CMNs, water stood out as a resource that might be transferred between plants via fungal connections. This new study provides further support (and in DSEs!). Nice expt by Bea Bock et al 👍 Great to see new research.
doi.org/10.1038/s420...
doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Reposted by Kylea Garces, PhD
The budget bill currently in the Senate would put 258 million acres of public land up for sale, including recreation areas, wilderness study areas, critical wildlife habitat and more. www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR bill
The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 250 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...
www.wilderness.org
June 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The budget bill currently in the Senate would put 258 million acres of public land up for sale, including recreation areas, wilderness study areas, critical wildlife habitat and more. www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
Thanks Katie for the feature (!!!) in this recent article highlighting the awesome grassroots efforts of @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social ❣️❣️❣️
"There’s a rhetoric that what we do is wasteful."
My latest story—about scientists writing op eds in their hometown newspapers, a grassroots effort organized by
@sciencehomecoming.bsky.social and others.
www.science.org/content/arti...
My latest story—about scientists writing op eds in their hometown newspapers, a grassroots effort organized by
@sciencehomecoming.bsky.social and others.
www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. researchers are speaking up for science in local newspapers
Through two grassroots efforts, more than 80 op eds have been published in news outlets across the country
www.science.org
June 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Thanks Katie for the feature (!!!) in this recent article highlighting the awesome grassroots efforts of @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social ❣️❣️❣️
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Thank you @tennesseelookout.com for including my thoughts in your recent article on Federal Grant cancellations that impact the state of #Tennessee
We need more local reports of the federal impact to show that these cuts impact everyone!
tennesseelookout.com/2025/05/27/s...
We need more local reports of the federal impact to show that these cuts impact everyone!
tennesseelookout.com/2025/05/27/s...
See what research at Tennessee universities was defunded in Trump’s federal grant cuts • Tennessee Lookout
Among the federally funded grants at Tennessee universities terminated by the Trump administration is one for rural mental health programs.
tennesseelookout.com
May 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Thank you @tennesseelookout.com for including my thoughts in your recent article on Federal Grant cancellations that impact the state of #Tennessee
We need more local reports of the federal impact to show that these cuts impact everyone!
tennesseelookout.com/2025/05/27/s...
We need more local reports of the federal impact to show that these cuts impact everyone!
tennesseelookout.com/2025/05/27/s...
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On its face, this “Gold Standard Science” EO seems innocuous.
But beyond the serious concerns in 🧵 below, its “enforcement” provisions stood out.
A senior political appointee (DOGE?) will evaluate alleged violations, including referring those to Human Resources.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
But beyond the serious concerns in 🧵 below, its “enforcement” provisions stood out.
A senior political appointee (DOGE?) will evaluate alleged violations, including referring those to Human Resources.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
The Trump administration just dropped an executive order, "Restoring Gold Standard Science" and there's lots to unpack. This EO reveals more about how the Administration will approach scientific integrity and science in regulatory contexts. Some initial thoughts. 🧵
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Restoring Gold Standard Science
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
www.whitehouse.gov
May 23, 2025 at 11:37 PM
On its face, this “Gold Standard Science” EO seems innocuous.
But beyond the serious concerns in 🧵 below, its “enforcement” provisions stood out.
A senior political appointee (DOGE?) will evaluate alleged violations, including referring those to Human Resources.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
But beyond the serious concerns in 🧵 below, its “enforcement” provisions stood out.
A senior political appointee (DOGE?) will evaluate alleged violations, including referring those to Human Resources.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Reposted by Kylea Garces, PhD
“One point seems to be lost:
The reason that the federal government funds science is not just to provide scientists or government bureaucrats with jobs…
We fund science because it is in our national interest to do so!”
goodscience.substack.com/p/nsf-should...
The reason that the federal government funds science is not just to provide scientists or government bureaucrats with jobs…
We fund science because it is in our national interest to do so!”
goodscience.substack.com/p/nsf-should...
May 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
“One point seems to be lost:
The reason that the federal government funds science is not just to provide scientists or government bureaucrats with jobs…
We fund science because it is in our national interest to do so!”
goodscience.substack.com/p/nsf-should...
The reason that the federal government funds science is not just to provide scientists or government bureaucrats with jobs…
We fund science because it is in our national interest to do so!”
goodscience.substack.com/p/nsf-should...
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From “A fascination with fungi…” to teaching “climate resilience to students and to help[ing] them see themselves as part of the climate solution.” 🧡
Public funding of science is transformative.
Public funding of science is transformative.
“Sonoma county raised us, science gave us a way forward.” Here’s a piece I co-authored with another young scientist & friend from our small town in Geyserville CA. Thanks for the inspo @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social bohemian.com/saving-scien...
Saving Science, SoCo Scientists Sound the Funding Alarm | Bohemian | Sonoma & Napa Counties
We were just kids in Sonoma County when we first felt the urgency—from summers filled with thickened smoke and anxious harvests during record-breaking heat. As scientists, we’re trying to do something...
bohemian.com
May 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
From “A fascination with fungi…” to teaching “climate resilience to students and to help[ing] them see themselves as part of the climate solution.” 🧡
Public funding of science is transformative.
Public funding of science is transformative.
Reposted by Kylea Garces, PhD
Two Sonoma County 🍇 scientists studying fungi and the ocean warn: 90% of people rely on science—weather, food safety, jobs—but only 10% are worried about funding cuts. That gap threatens the future. 🧪🏠
“Sonoma county raised us, science gave us a way forward.” Here’s a piece I co-authored with another young scientist & friend from our small town in Geyserville CA. Thanks for the inspo @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social bohemian.com/saving-scien...
Saving Science, SoCo Scientists Sound the Funding Alarm | Bohemian | Sonoma & Napa Counties
We were just kids in Sonoma County when we first felt the urgency—from summers filled with thickened smoke and anxious harvests during record-breaking heat. As scientists, we’re trying to do something...
bohemian.com
May 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Two Sonoma County 🍇 scientists studying fungi and the ocean warn: 90% of people rely on science—weather, food safety, jobs—but only 10% are worried about funding cuts. That gap threatens the future. 🧪🏠
“Sonoma county raised us, science gave us a way forward.” Here’s a piece I co-authored with another young scientist & friend from our small town in Geyserville CA. Thanks for the inspo @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social bohemian.com/saving-scien...
Saving Science, SoCo Scientists Sound the Funding Alarm | Bohemian | Sonoma & Napa Counties
We were just kids in Sonoma County when we first felt the urgency—from summers filled with thickened smoke and anxious harvests during record-breaking heat. As scientists, we’re trying to do something...
bohemian.com
May 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“Sonoma county raised us, science gave us a way forward.” Here’s a piece I co-authored with another young scientist & friend from our small town in Geyserville CA. Thanks for the inspo @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social bohemian.com/saving-scien...
Reposted by Kylea Garces, PhD
NSF is undergoing a massive shake-up: over 80 senior staff cut, remote work banned, the equity-in-STEM division eliminated, and hundreds of research grants scrapped.
This isn’t budget efficiency—it’s a direct attack on U.S. science, education, and equity.
www.eenews.net/articles/nsf...
This isn’t budget efficiency—it’s a direct attack on U.S. science, education, and equity.
www.eenews.net/articles/nsf...
NSF initiates more layoffs amid major agency shake-up
The agency will also reassign all remote employees to in-person work at its Alexandria, Virginia, headquarters.
www.eenews.net
May 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
NSF is undergoing a massive shake-up: over 80 senior staff cut, remote work banned, the equity-in-STEM division eliminated, and hundreds of research grants scrapped.
This isn’t budget efficiency—it’s a direct attack on U.S. science, education, and equity.
www.eenews.net/articles/nsf...
This isn’t budget efficiency—it’s a direct attack on U.S. science, education, and equity.
www.eenews.net/articles/nsf...
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Hi. I'm Amy. Today's NSF's 75th anniversary, so I made a video: youtu.be/xnt2V4ygBG0
#ScienceMatters #NSFExcellence #AmericanInnovation #NSF #FederalScience #SciencePolicy #NSFRotator #PublicService #WeAreNSF
#SaveNSF #NSF75 #Scienceat75 #ISupportNSF #FundNSF
#ScienceMatters #NSFExcellence #AmericanInnovation #NSF #FederalScience #SciencePolicy #NSFRotator #PublicService #WeAreNSF
#SaveNSF #NSF75 #Scienceat75 #ISupportNSF #FundNSF
lastnsfhistorian
YouTube video by Amy Rodgers
youtu.be
May 11, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Hi. I'm Amy. Today's NSF's 75th anniversary, so I made a video: youtu.be/xnt2V4ygBG0
#ScienceMatters #NSFExcellence #AmericanInnovation #NSF #FederalScience #SciencePolicy #NSFRotator #PublicService #WeAreNSF
#SaveNSF #NSF75 #Scienceat75 #ISupportNSF #FundNSF
#ScienceMatters #NSFExcellence #AmericanInnovation #NSF #FederalScience #SciencePolicy #NSFRotator #PublicService #WeAreNSF
#SaveNSF #NSF75 #Scienceat75 #ISupportNSF #FundNSF
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🧪 Y'all, drop Amy—the last NSF historian—a follow, take her up on her generous offer and request!! 👏👏
"Like scientists, historians are empiricists."
Offer: Reach out at LastNSFHistorian@gmail.com
Request: Tell how NSF has affected *your* life, even if you're not directly NSF funded yourself.
"Like scientists, historians are empiricists."
Offer: Reach out at LastNSFHistorian@gmail.com
Request: Tell how NSF has affected *your* life, even if you're not directly NSF funded yourself.
Hi. I'm Amy. Today's NSF's 75th anniversary, so I made a video: youtu.be/xnt2V4ygBG0
#ScienceMatters #NSFExcellence #AmericanInnovation #NSF #FederalScience #SciencePolicy #NSFRotator #PublicService #WeAreNSF
#SaveNSF #NSF75 #Scienceat75 #ISupportNSF #FundNSF
#ScienceMatters #NSFExcellence #AmericanInnovation #NSF #FederalScience #SciencePolicy #NSFRotator #PublicService #WeAreNSF
#SaveNSF #NSF75 #Scienceat75 #ISupportNSF #FundNSF
lastnsfhistorian
YouTube video by Amy Rodgers
youtu.be
May 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
🧪 Y'all, drop Amy—the last NSF historian—a follow, take her up on her generous offer and request!! 👏👏
"Like scientists, historians are empiricists."
Offer: Reach out at LastNSFHistorian@gmail.com
Request: Tell how NSF has affected *your* life, even if you're not directly NSF funded yourself.
"Like scientists, historians are empiricists."
Offer: Reach out at LastNSFHistorian@gmail.com
Request: Tell how NSF has affected *your* life, even if you're not directly NSF funded yourself.
Reposted by Kylea Garces, PhD
This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit.
This cannot be allowed to happen.
This cannot be allowed to happen.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
www.science.org
May 9, 2025 at 3:42 AM
This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit.
This cannot be allowed to happen.
This cannot be allowed to happen.
Reposted by Kylea Garces, PhD
🚨 All staff for NSF’s Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EES) have just been fired.
In email to grantees: “the entire Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM has just been dissolved and the entire staff fired.”
High time for scientists, public, Congress, YOU to take action to #SaveNSF
In email to grantees: “the entire Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM has just been dissolved and the entire staff fired.”
High time for scientists, public, Congress, YOU to take action to #SaveNSF
Take Action | Save NSF
www.savensf.com
May 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
🚨 All staff for NSF’s Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EES) have just been fired.
In email to grantees: “the entire Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM has just been dissolved and the entire staff fired.”
High time for scientists, public, Congress, YOU to take action to #SaveNSF
In email to grantees: “the entire Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM has just been dissolved and the entire staff fired.”
High time for scientists, public, Congress, YOU to take action to #SaveNSF
Reposted by Kylea Garces, PhD
On NSF Grant Terminations- even if your termination letter says that you cannot appeal, there is a legal basis for you to appeal within 30 days in PPAPG www.nsf.gov/policies/pap... and in Uniform Guidance 200.340 www.ecfr.gov/current/titl.... Appeal and send a message!
Chapter XII: Award Administration Disputes and Misconduct
www.nsf.gov
May 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
On NSF Grant Terminations- even if your termination letter says that you cannot appeal, there is a legal basis for you to appeal within 30 days in PPAPG www.nsf.gov/policies/pap... and in Uniform Guidance 200.340 www.ecfr.gov/current/titl.... Appeal and send a message!
Reposted by Kylea Garces, PhD
🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar.
Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET
Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely.
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET
Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely.
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
May 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar.
Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET
Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely.
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET
Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely.
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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I'm hiring! Postdoc available in my lab in Ecological Genomics. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/... I will start reviewing applications mid-July. 🧪🧑🔬🖥️🧬🦑. Please share widely, thanks!
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ecological Genomics
About the Opportunity Job Summary A postdoctoral research associate is available at the Lotterhos Lab at Northeastern University. The postdoc will be based at Northeastern University’s Marine Science ...
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
May 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I'm hiring! Postdoc available in my lab in Ecological Genomics. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/... I will start reviewing applications mid-July. 🧪🧑🔬🖥️🧬🦑. Please share widely, thanks!
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🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨
WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.
4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.
Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.
4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.
Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨
WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.
4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.
Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.
4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.
Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
Reposted by Kylea Garces, PhD
Anyone who wants to call basic scientific research “wasteful spending” should have to get past Reviewer 2.
Seriously, I wish people knew how hard we work, often for less $ than could be made in industry, all because we care about helping society and mentoring the next generation.
Seriously, I wish people knew how hard we work, often for less $ than could be made in industry, all because we care about helping society and mentoring the next generation.
May 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Anyone who wants to call basic scientific research “wasteful spending” should have to get past Reviewer 2.
Seriously, I wish people knew how hard we work, often for less $ than could be made in industry, all because we care about helping society and mentoring the next generation.
Seriously, I wish people knew how hard we work, often for less $ than could be made in industry, all because we care about helping society and mentoring the next generation.
Reposted by Kylea Garces, PhD
If you are a person who cares about the future of science in the US, please take actions this week to #SaveNSF. @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social are leading a week of action - here is a Media Support Tool from the societies docs.google.com/document/d/1... 🧪🧑🔬🧬🖥️🦑
May 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
If you are a person who cares about the future of science in the US, please take actions this week to #SaveNSF. @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social are leading a week of action - here is a Media Support Tool from the societies docs.google.com/document/d/1... 🧪🧑🔬🧬🖥️🦑
Reposted by Kylea Garces, PhD
The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...