Lukas Bell-Dereske
@ldereske.bsky.social
Ecologist.
Lover of endophytic microbes, those that choose to live in the leaves and roots of plants. What are they doing!?!?
Roommate of one bored dog.
He/him
I muted the word “twitter”.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9951-2222
Lover of endophytic microbes, those that choose to live in the leaves and roots of plants. What are they doing!?!?
Roommate of one bored dog.
He/him
I muted the word “twitter”.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9951-2222
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The biggest trick the devil ever pulled is to call LLMs “artificial intelligence.”
August 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The biggest trick the devil ever pulled is to call LLMs “artificial intelligence.”
Please!!!!!
would today be a funny time to drop the charity bowl bonus episode where Godfrey has to say nice things about Michigan for an hour
August 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Please!!!!!
This being said… the @unitedairhelp.bsky.social gate and phone agents are awesome! Pay the people!
Want see how awful AI is? Try to navigate rebooking a @unitedairhelp.bsky.social flight.
July 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This being said… the @unitedairhelp.bsky.social gate and phone agents are awesome! Pay the people!
Want see how awful AI is? Try to navigate rebooking a @unitedairhelp.bsky.social flight.
July 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Want see how awful AI is? Try to navigate rebooking a @unitedairhelp.bsky.social flight.
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Kenyon is hiring a TT microbiologist! Please share widely. I’m the search chair & am happy to answer any questions. careers.pageuppeople.com/695/cw/en-us...
Kenyon College - Details - Assistant Professor of Biology (Tenure-Track)
careers.pageuppeople.com
July 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Kenyon is hiring a TT microbiologist! Please share widely. I’m the search chair & am happy to answer any questions. careers.pageuppeople.com/695/cw/en-us...
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The Pentagon will stop sharing data that helps hurricane forecasters
July 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The Pentagon will stop sharing data that helps hurricane forecasters
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Republicans are putting 17 million lives at risk in their “Big Beautiful Bill.”
These are more than just numbers. These are real people who deserve to live a life without worrying they will go broke if they need health care.
These are more than just numbers. These are real people who deserve to live a life without worrying they will go broke if they need health care.
June 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Republicans are putting 17 million lives at risk in their “Big Beautiful Bill.”
These are more than just numbers. These are real people who deserve to live a life without worrying they will go broke if they need health care.
These are more than just numbers. These are real people who deserve to live a life without worrying they will go broke if they need health care.
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The US Global Change Research Program's website, including all its sub-domains that host the National Climate Assessments and related reports, is now offline.
The 1990 Global Change Research Act (see below) mandates its research findings be available to all federal agencies & departments.
The 1990 Global Change Research Act (see below) mandates its research findings be available to all federal agencies & departments.
June 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The US Global Change Research Program's website, including all its sub-domains that host the National Climate Assessments and related reports, is now offline.
The 1990 Global Change Research Act (see below) mandates its research findings be available to all federal agencies & departments.
The 1990 Global Change Research Act (see below) mandates its research findings be available to all federal agencies & departments.
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If you're a scientist who's had to cut or cancel your field season because of US budget cuts, DM me here for an oped I'm working on. 🌏🧪
June 30, 2025 at 2:08 AM
If you're a scientist who's had to cut or cancel your field season because of US budget cuts, DM me here for an oped I'm working on. 🌏🧪
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Just so everyone knows, you will be subsidizing road construction to cut trees on federal land, which you are already subsidizing. Outside of a handful of areas where there is high value timber, my guess is that if you account for roads and mgmt costs, every timber sale has cost us money.
A Clinton-era rule prohibiting road construction and timber harvesting on millions of acres around the U.S. is set to be repealed, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced Monday. sfnm.co/3HSfJjn
The end is near for Clinton-era 'roadless rule,' Rollins announces in Santa Fe
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced her plan to repeal the rule Monday at the Western Governors' Association meeting.
sfnm.co
June 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Just so everyone knows, you will be subsidizing road construction to cut trees on federal land, which you are already subsidizing. Outside of a handful of areas where there is high value timber, my guess is that if you account for roads and mgmt costs, every timber sale has cost us money.
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Hmmm, I wonder what will be burning 90 days from now?
We have many thousands of wildland fire and natural resource professionals, not to mention hundreds of fire scientists, and they use a LLM to write federal fire policy
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
We have many thousands of wildland fire and natural resource professionals, not to mention hundreds of fire scientists, and they use a LLM to write federal fire policy
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Empowering Commonsense Wildfire Prevention and Response
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:Section 1. Purpose. The
www.whitehouse.gov
June 13, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Hmmm, I wonder what will be burning 90 days from now?
We have many thousands of wildland fire and natural resource professionals, not to mention hundreds of fire scientists, and they use a LLM to write federal fire policy
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
We have many thousands of wildland fire and natural resource professionals, not to mention hundreds of fire scientists, and they use a LLM to write federal fire policy
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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This is amazing! Absolutely made my day. Thank you @ijpsjournal.bsky.social for your investment in undergraduate research and making these achievements so memorable for junior scholars!!
AOP @ijpsjournal.bsky.social
🚨Undergraduate research🚨
Fungal Endophyte Communities Differ Between Leaves and Roots of Agave utahensis
@yyachung.bsky.social et al
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#PlantScience
Photo credit: John Brew
🚨Undergraduate research🚨
Fungal Endophyte Communities Differ Between Leaves and Roots of Agave utahensis
@yyachung.bsky.social et al
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#PlantScience
Photo credit: John Brew
May 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This is amazing! Absolutely made my day. Thank you @ijpsjournal.bsky.social for your investment in undergraduate research and making these achievements so memorable for junior scholars!!
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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
May 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
As academics, it is not “brave” to leave the USA for countries more welcoming to science. Don’t get me wrong, it is a good move for individual people. That doesn’t means it is brave.
May 24, 2025 at 10:55 PM
As academics, it is not “brave” to leave the USA for countries more welcoming to science. Don’t get me wrong, it is a good move for individual people. That doesn’t means it is brave.
Amurica is the land of opportunity! Here! you can even become a bathroom model!
i genuinely cannot believe how many pictures nancy mace has taken outside of bathrooms while she travels
May 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Amurica is the land of opportunity! Here! you can even become a bathroom model!
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I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs.
Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng
Custom Lab Hardware
Turn Key Genetic Design
Please repost for reach 💚
Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng
Custom Lab Hardware
Turn Key Genetic Design
Please repost for reach 💚
May 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs.
Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng
Custom Lab Hardware
Turn Key Genetic Design
Please repost for reach 💚
Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng
Custom Lab Hardware
Turn Key Genetic Design
Please repost for reach 💚
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Let's talk about how the #NationalScienceFoundation #NSF is being destroyed, to the detriment of all Americans.
#Scientists, it's time to speak up.
Join the #SaveTheNSF coalition here: www.savensf.com
Substack: climateshift.substack.com/p/the-disman...
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/pulse/disman...
#Scientists, it's time to speak up.
Join the #SaveTheNSF coalition here: www.savensf.com
Substack: climateshift.substack.com/p/the-disman...
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/pulse/disman...
May 3, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Let's talk about how the #NationalScienceFoundation #NSF is being destroyed, to the detriment of all Americans.
#Scientists, it's time to speak up.
Join the #SaveTheNSF coalition here: www.savensf.com
Substack: climateshift.substack.com/p/the-disman...
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/pulse/disman...
#Scientists, it's time to speak up.
Join the #SaveTheNSF coalition here: www.savensf.com
Substack: climateshift.substack.com/p/the-disman...
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/pulse/disman...
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#SaveNSF working to save funding for scientific grants through the U.S. National Science Foundation. Join in and distribute widely! www.savensf.com
Home | Savensf
www.savensf.com
May 3, 2025 at 1:33 AM
#SaveNSF working to save funding for scientific grants through the U.S. National Science Foundation. Join in and distribute widely! www.savensf.com
Do we need to travel to Canada and Mexico for vaccinations now?
May 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Do we need to travel to Canada and Mexico for vaccinations now?
I meant the opposite and I am bad a proofreading skeets. #goblue
i said the exact opposite of this (check the tape) but i am allowing this bit of disinfo in the spirit of charity
Some nerd (@alexkirshner.com) claimed that OSU would be as bad as Michigan was this year so I donated $10 for each win in the recent win streak. I feel like the stats dude is forgetting one thing…the Patricia effect. Protect trans kids
@protecttranskids.university @newap-georgia.bsky.social
@protecttranskids.university @newap-georgia.bsky.social
April 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I meant the opposite and I am bad a proofreading skeets. #goblue
Some nerd (@alexkirshner.com) claimed that OSU would be as bad as Michigan was this year so I donated $10 for each win in the recent win streak. I feel like the stats dude is forgetting one thing…the Patricia effect. Protect trans kids
@protecttranskids.university @newap-georgia.bsky.social
@protecttranskids.university @newap-georgia.bsky.social
April 19, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Some nerd (@alexkirshner.com) claimed that OSU would be as bad as Michigan was this year so I donated $10 for each win in the recent win streak. I feel like the stats dude is forgetting one thing…the Patricia effect. Protect trans kids
@protecttranskids.university @newap-georgia.bsky.social
@protecttranskids.university @newap-georgia.bsky.social
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Never seen it framed this way by all recent elections
Wild
Wild
April 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Never seen it framed this way by all recent elections
Wild
Wild
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🧪 Today’s Science News:
1) NSF starts sending out grant cancelations.
2) WTF NSF Guidance on Broader Impacts
3) covid.gov
4) NIH budget slash leaked.
Did I miss anything?
1) NSF starts sending out grant cancelations.
2) WTF NSF Guidance on Broader Impacts
3) covid.gov
4) NIH budget slash leaked.
Did I miss anything?
a blue dumpster is on fire and smoke is coming out of it with a sign on the side that says " no smoking "
ALT: a blue dumpster is on fire and smoke is coming out of it with a sign on the side that says " no smoking "
media.tenor.com
April 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM
🧪 Today’s Science News:
1) NSF starts sending out grant cancelations.
2) WTF NSF Guidance on Broader Impacts
3) covid.gov
4) NIH budget slash leaked.
Did I miss anything?
1) NSF starts sending out grant cancelations.
2) WTF NSF Guidance on Broader Impacts
3) covid.gov
4) NIH budget slash leaked.
Did I miss anything?