Nick Bard
@endophyte.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Botany at UBC
Plant and fungal biodiversity, bioinformatics + ecoinformatics, database science, evolutionary genomics, plant pathology
https://nicholasbard.github.io/
Plant and fungal biodiversity, bioinformatics + ecoinformatics, database science, evolutionary genomics, plant pathology
https://nicholasbard.github.io/
Put $ and resources into uplifting/expanding/collab with research from the Global South. Sucks to see this 2-tiered system w so many "int'l" (2 me) papers published in journals w/o peer review. Seems a little $ (or assistance with language barrier) could go a long way. The will & interest is there!
November 24, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Put $ and resources into uplifting/expanding/collab with research from the Global South. Sucks to see this 2-tiered system w so many "int'l" (2 me) papers published in journals w/o peer review. Seems a little $ (or assistance with language barrier) could go a long way. The will & interest is there!
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"#Militarism...is for the #capitalist class, #economically the most alluring, irreplaceable kind of investment and politically and socially the best support for their #class rule.” #RosaLuxemburg #nowarbutclasswar
June 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
"#Militarism...is for the #capitalist class, #economically the most alluring, irreplaceable kind of investment and politically and socially the best support for their #class rule.” #RosaLuxemburg #nowarbutclasswar
It is the gods who weep. They see us killing each other over and over since time began. They can't save us from ourselves. - Ran (Kurosawa)
June 17, 2025 at 9:30 PM
It is the gods who weep. They see us killing each other over and over since time began. They can't save us from ourselves. - Ran (Kurosawa)
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A much happier mycological piece of news: @rbgkew.bsky.social has digitized its fungarium collection of more than 1.1 million specimens! www.kew.org/read-and-wat... 🍄 🌎
Fungarium collection digitised! What interesting specimens have we uncovered?
As part of the Digitisation Project, our team has been working toward making our entire dried fungi collection available for global access.
www.kew.org
May 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A much happier mycological piece of news: @rbgkew.bsky.social has digitized its fungarium collection of more than 1.1 million specimens! www.kew.org/read-and-wat... 🍄 🌎
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Great training today by @pjimmej.bsky.social & @jimarcor.bsky.social on editing the Global Cyperaceae (sedge!) Database.
This will be an extremely useful resource, packed with photos and descriptions, built on a foundation of solid taxonomic expertise. I'm excited to get started!
cyperaceae.org
This will be an extremely useful resource, packed with photos and descriptions, built on a foundation of solid taxonomic expertise. I'm excited to get started!
cyperaceae.org
April 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Great training today by @pjimmej.bsky.social & @jimarcor.bsky.social on editing the Global Cyperaceae (sedge!) Database.
This will be an extremely useful resource, packed with photos and descriptions, built on a foundation of solid taxonomic expertise. I'm excited to get started!
cyperaceae.org
This will be an extremely useful resource, packed with photos and descriptions, built on a foundation of solid taxonomic expertise. I'm excited to get started!
cyperaceae.org
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It’s the first time a frog—or any amphibian—has been observed pollinating a plant, researchers reported in 2023.
Learn more on #WorldFrogDay: scim.ag/4kGdvCy
Learn more on #WorldFrogDay: scim.ag/4kGdvCy
March 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
It’s the first time a frog—or any amphibian—has been observed pollinating a plant, researchers reported in 2023.
Learn more on #WorldFrogDay: scim.ag/4kGdvCy
Learn more on #WorldFrogDay: scim.ag/4kGdvCy
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Extra-floral nectaries are in some ferns. Ferns don’t have flowers, so maybe EFNs in ferns are misnamed. 😂 There’s a tiny nectary (see the nectar?) at the base of the lowermost pinna in the leaf of bracken fern, Pteridium aquilinum (Doug McGrady CCBY2). #Dennstaedtiaceae #EFN #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
March 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Extra-floral nectaries are in some ferns. Ferns don’t have flowers, so maybe EFNs in ferns are misnamed. 😂 There’s a tiny nectary (see the nectar?) at the base of the lowermost pinna in the leaf of bracken fern, Pteridium aquilinum (Doug McGrady CCBY2). #Dennstaedtiaceae #EFN #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.”
― Antonio Gramsci
― Antonio Gramsci
February 4, 2025 at 2:27 AM
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.”
― Antonio Gramsci
― Antonio Gramsci
We made a pipeline for detecting/classifying the fungal taxa picked up in plant genomes! Mostly for an opportunity to make a post on Bluesky (bsky.app). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Teknonaturalist: A Snakemake Pipeline for Assessing Fungal Diversity From Plant Genome Bycatch
Relatively little is known of the host associations and compatibility of fungal plant pathogens and endophytes. Publicly available plant genomic DNA can be mined to detect incidental fungal DNA, but ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
We made a pipeline for detecting/classifying the fungal taxa picked up in plant genomes! Mostly for an opportunity to make a post on Bluesky (bsky.app). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
I think I wanna buy some sort of scary lizard soon
December 20, 2024 at 10:02 PM
I think I wanna buy some sort of scary lizard soon
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So. Incredibly. Cool.
Super cool research from @wildcru.bsky.social - Ethiopian wolves doing pollination work. Wolfination work.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
🧪 🦊 🐝 🌸
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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November 22, 2024 at 10:06 PM
So. Incredibly. Cool.