Jacoby Robinson
@jacobyceps.bsky.social
PhD in population biology, ecology, and evolution | fungal genomics | natural products-ish | hiking | mid forager
Doing a blog where I talk about the ways we have and continue to use fungi. First one is up is inspired by my Kansas roots and love of beer: www.jacobyceps.com/blog-fungal-...
Fungal Futures: Ancient Egyptians, Cats, and Wonder Bread — Jacobyceps
My recent distraction from dissertation writing, concerns how we can use fungi as biocontrols to improve agricultural sustainability. Increased study in recent years shows that even the most well-char...
www.jacobyceps.com
July 2, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Doing a blog where I talk about the ways we have and continue to use fungi. First one is up is inspired by my Kansas roots and love of beer: www.jacobyceps.com/blog-fungal-...
Looking at my woven leather sandals and freshly ironed apron knowing I gotta write this damn dissertation
June 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Looking at my woven leather sandals and freshly ironed apron knowing I gotta write this damn dissertation
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/sea... re: lawns are an ecological disaster — not all grass is bad
The Ruin And Redemption Of The American Prairie
Tallgrass prairies in the United States were cleared for industrial farms. Can the lost biodiversity be restored?
www.sciencefriday.com
June 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/sea... re: lawns are an ecological disaster — not all grass is bad
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“What do you want to do for Juneteenth?”
Me: Get out there on that grill
Me: Get out there on that grill
a man in a trench coat and hat stands in front of a sunset sky
ALT: a man in a trench coat and hat stands in front of a sunset sky
media.tenor.com
June 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“What do you want to do for Juneteenth?”
Me: Get out there on that grill
Me: Get out there on that grill
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
A few:
You can safely *touch* pretty much any mushroom you see.
Fungi effectively digest nutrients on their “skin” or outside the cell.
Grass lawns are functional disasters and are ecologically equivalent to patches of desert.
A few:
You can safely *touch* pretty much any mushroom you see.
Fungi effectively digest nutrients on their “skin” or outside the cell.
Grass lawns are functional disasters and are ecologically equivalent to patches of desert.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
The ocean produces a huge chunk of the world's oxygen a lot from a class of cyanobacteria called prochlorococcus
The ocean produces a huge chunk of the world's oxygen a lot from a class of cyanobacteria called prochlorococcus
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Food systems are the #2 contributor to climate change, the #1 driver of deforestation, the #1 driver of biodiversity loss on land, and the #1 user of freshwater.
(It follows that food systems contain many solutions to these problems.)
Food systems are the #2 contributor to climate change, the #1 driver of deforestation, the #1 driver of biodiversity loss on land, and the #1 user of freshwater.
(It follows that food systems contain many solutions to these problems.)
June 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
A few:
You can safely *touch* pretty much any mushroom you see.
Fungi effectively digest nutrients on their “skin” or outside the cell.
Grass lawns are functional disasters and are ecologically equivalent to patches of desert.
A few:
You can safely *touch* pretty much any mushroom you see.
Fungi effectively digest nutrients on their “skin” or outside the cell.
Grass lawns are functional disasters and are ecologically equivalent to patches of desert.
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Coffee has been hot since it was invented as a drink approximately 525 years.
So, no, I will not be filing a personal exemption by way of copious apologies and justifications to the brilliant baristas who insist that I must want iced coffee.
I will stand in this breach. So be it. Coffee is hot.
So, no, I will not be filing a personal exemption by way of copious apologies and justifications to the brilliant baristas who insist that I must want iced coffee.
I will stand in this breach. So be it. Coffee is hot.
June 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Coffee has been hot since it was invented as a drink approximately 525 years.
So, no, I will not be filing a personal exemption by way of copious apologies and justifications to the brilliant baristas who insist that I must want iced coffee.
I will stand in this breach. So be it. Coffee is hot.
So, no, I will not be filing a personal exemption by way of copious apologies and justifications to the brilliant baristas who insist that I must want iced coffee.
I will stand in this breach. So be it. Coffee is hot.
The Fungal Kingdom as a Rosetta Stone for biological discovery: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
The Fungal Kingdom as a Rosetta Stone for biological discovery
Long-time Current Biology advisory board member, Joseph Heitman, introduces this special
issue on ‘The Fungi’.
www.cell.com
June 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The Fungal Kingdom as a Rosetta Stone for biological discovery: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
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This is terrible but it is also misleading. The US government is not the accreditor - they've basically written a letter to Columbia's *actual* accreditor and demanded that they take action.
BREAKING: Columbia University no longer meets accreditation standards after violating antidiscrimination laws, the US says
White House Threatens Columbia’s Accreditation Over Protests
The Education Department said Columbia University no longer appeared to meet accreditation standards after concluding that the school is in violation of anti-discrimination laws, the latest effort by the Trump administration to target elite schools over their handling of pro-Palestinian protests.
bloom.bg
June 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This is terrible but it is also misleading. The US government is not the accreditor - they've basically written a letter to Columbia's *actual* accreditor and demanded that they take action.
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ED has reported to Columbia's accreditor that it "violated" anti-discrimination laws and thus has not met accreditation standards. This is the feds telling an accreditor that they should punish a uni because ED wants them to.
The iron triangle is in such danger...
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
The iron triangle is in such danger...
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Columbia failed to meet accreditation standards, US government says
The U.S. Department of Education said on Wednesday it has notified a university accreditation body that Columbia University had violated federal anti-discrimination laws by its alleged failure to protect Jewish students on its campus.
www.reuters.com
June 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
ED has reported to Columbia's accreditor that it "violated" anti-discrimination laws and thus has not met accreditation standards. This is the feds telling an accreditor that they should punish a uni because ED wants them to.
The iron triangle is in such danger...
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
The iron triangle is in such danger...
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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Me and my gf are starting a book club (of 2 so far) focused on Black horror starting with Sycorax’s Daughters by Dr. Kinitra Brooks. It’s an anthology of horror short stories written by Black women and we would love to have others join virtually or otherwise
Book is ~$20 on Amazon
Book is ~$20 on Amazon
June 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Me and my gf are starting a book club (of 2 so far) focused on Black horror starting with Sycorax’s Daughters by Dr. Kinitra Brooks. It’s an anthology of horror short stories written by Black women and we would love to have others join virtually or otherwise
Book is ~$20 on Amazon
Book is ~$20 on Amazon
An absolutely mesmerizing slime mold found in Soberanía National Park, Panamá. It’s the kinda thing that makes you re-experience child-like wonder at the beauty of life followed by a devastating reminder that we are obliterating billions of years of biological innovation to cool chatbot servers
May 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
An absolutely mesmerizing slime mold found in Soberanía National Park, Panamá. It’s the kinda thing that makes you re-experience child-like wonder at the beauty of life followed by a devastating reminder that we are obliterating billions of years of biological innovation to cool chatbot servers
The average PhD student experience of trying to schedule a committee meeting at the end of the semester
May 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The average PhD student experience of trying to schedule a committee meeting at the end of the semester
First time find, a little bit of witch’s butter on an old conifer stump
April 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
First time find, a little bit of witch’s butter on an old conifer stump
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The SINNERS discourse is great because to normal people "Ryan Coogler movie with Michael B. Jordan" sounds like a money printer but to weird rich racists in Hollywood it's a niche Black film for Black audiences only, and they're mad they didn't foresee it is, duh, a money printer.
Sinners looks like a huge success but it's a black movie and execs want to make less profitable Trump slop to kiss his ass and so they're deeply unhappy www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Box Office: ‘Sinners’ Sizzles Midweek as Pic Speeds Toward $100M
Ryan Coogler's vampire feature starring Michael B. Jordan should clear the century mark this weekend as it competes with Ben Affleck's new sequel 'The Accountant 2' for No. 1 domestically.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
April 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
The SINNERS discourse is great because to normal people "Ryan Coogler movie with Michael B. Jordan" sounds like a money printer but to weird rich racists in Hollywood it's a niche Black film for Black audiences only, and they're mad they didn't foresee it is, duh, a money printer.
SINNERS is 🤌🏽CINEMA🤌🏽
April 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
SINNERS is 🤌🏽CINEMA🤌🏽
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Finally updated my Blackademics starter pack, now including Katherine McKittrick, Imani Perry and others.
Grad students and other scholars: follow the #Blackademics feed to participate in the conversation. Thanks as always to @rudyfraser.com for hosting us on Blacksky!!!
go.bsky.app/SSc7tNL
Grad students and other scholars: follow the #Blackademics feed to participate in the conversation. Thanks as always to @rudyfraser.com for hosting us on Blacksky!!!
go.bsky.app/SSc7tNL
April 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Finally updated my Blackademics starter pack, now including Katherine McKittrick, Imani Perry and others.
Grad students and other scholars: follow the #Blackademics feed to participate in the conversation. Thanks as always to @rudyfraser.com for hosting us on Blacksky!!!
go.bsky.app/SSc7tNL
Grad students and other scholars: follow the #Blackademics feed to participate in the conversation. Thanks as always to @rudyfraser.com for hosting us on Blacksky!!!
go.bsky.app/SSc7tNL
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This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story.
@axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...
@axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...
April 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story.
@axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...
@axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...
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It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids.
Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...
Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...
April 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids.
Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...
Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...
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Thoughts on Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind saying that AI could cure disease in general in ten years.
Bonus index to my longer posts on AI/computational drug discovery over nearly 20 years!
Bonus index to my longer posts on AI/computational drug discovery over nearly 20 years!
The End of Disease
www.science.org
April 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Thoughts on Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind saying that AI could cure disease in general in ten years.
Bonus index to my longer posts on AI/computational drug discovery over nearly 20 years!
Bonus index to my longer posts on AI/computational drug discovery over nearly 20 years!
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“It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies," Marks said. "This man doesn’t care about the truth. He cares about what is making him followers.”
NEW: Noah Weiland spoke to Dr. Marks & we updated the article:
“I did everything I possibly could for this administration to work with them in an effort to restore confidence in vaccines,” Dr. Marks said in the interview.
“It became clear that’s not what they wanted.”
“I did everything I possibly could for this administration to work with them in an effort to restore confidence in vaccines,” Dr. Marks said in the interview.
“It became clear that’s not what they wanted.”
Top FDA Vaccine Official Resigns, Citing Kennedy’s ‘Misinformation and Lies’ (Gift Article)
Dr. Peter Marks, a veteran of the agency, wrote that undermining confidence in vaccines is irresponsible and a danger to public health.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
“It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies," Marks said. "This man doesn’t care about the truth. He cares about what is making him followers.”
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I created a brief spreadsheet of reductions I've heard of so far. Any additions you know of (especially if you have the links/receipts) would be great: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Graduate Reductions Across Biomedical Sciences (2025)
docs.google.com
February 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I created a brief spreadsheet of reductions I've heard of so far. Any additions you know of (especially if you have the links/receipts) would be great: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...