Mya A. Darsan
@myadarsan.bsky.social
Marine and Environmental Science PhD Student @bowenlab.bsky.social @northeasternmes.bsky.social 🧪🌊 | Plant-Microbe Interactions 🦠 | Bio and Env Sci UAlbany Alumna |🇹🇹🇺🇸| she/her
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Mya A. Darsan
@myadarsan.bsky.social
· Nov 11
hey yall i’m mya (she/her)!
im a phd student studying plant fungal interactions in salt marshes ✨🌱🍄
looking forward to connecting with people in #EcoEvo #SciCom #BIPOCinSTEM #CommunityEcology #MicrobialEcology (and more) ♥️
outside of science i love crocheting, yoga, and a good ole reality tv show!
im a phd student studying plant fungal interactions in salt marshes ✨🌱🍄
looking forward to connecting with people in #EcoEvo #SciCom #BIPOCinSTEM #CommunityEcology #MicrobialEcology (and more) ♥️
outside of science i love crocheting, yoga, and a good ole reality tv show!
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Congratulations to @myadarsan.bsky.social (and the other winners!) for winning the best grad student talk award at CERF! So well deserved! Thanks for another amazing meeting @cerfscience.bsky.social can’t wait until 2027!
November 14, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Congratulations to @myadarsan.bsky.social (and the other winners!) for winning the best grad student talk award at CERF! So well deserved! Thanks for another amazing meeting @cerfscience.bsky.social can’t wait until 2027!
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Are you still at CERF tomorrow at 2???
Then you should come to my talk and learn about Spartina (alterniflora and patens a double whammy 👀), fungi, and carbon (oh my)!!
You’ll get to see why I had to lie down every sampling point to have snack time this past field season!!!
#CERF2025
Then you should come to my talk and learn about Spartina (alterniflora and patens a double whammy 👀), fungi, and carbon (oh my)!!
You’ll get to see why I had to lie down every sampling point to have snack time this past field season!!!
#CERF2025
November 13, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Are you still at CERF tomorrow at 2???
Then you should come to my talk and learn about Spartina (alterniflora and patens a double whammy 👀), fungi, and carbon (oh my)!!
You’ll get to see why I had to lie down every sampling point to have snack time this past field season!!!
#CERF2025
Then you should come to my talk and learn about Spartina (alterniflora and patens a double whammy 👀), fungi, and carbon (oh my)!!
You’ll get to see why I had to lie down every sampling point to have snack time this past field season!!!
#CERF2025
Are you still at CERF tomorrow at 2???
Then you should come to my talk and learn about Spartina (alterniflora and patens a double whammy 👀), fungi, and carbon (oh my)!!
You’ll get to see why I had to lie down every sampling point to have snack time this past field season!!!
#CERF2025
Then you should come to my talk and learn about Spartina (alterniflora and patens a double whammy 👀), fungi, and carbon (oh my)!!
You’ll get to see why I had to lie down every sampling point to have snack time this past field season!!!
#CERF2025
November 13, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Are you still at CERF tomorrow at 2???
Then you should come to my talk and learn about Spartina (alterniflora and patens a double whammy 👀), fungi, and carbon (oh my)!!
You’ll get to see why I had to lie down every sampling point to have snack time this past field season!!!
#CERF2025
Then you should come to my talk and learn about Spartina (alterniflora and patens a double whammy 👀), fungi, and carbon (oh my)!!
You’ll get to see why I had to lie down every sampling point to have snack time this past field season!!!
#CERF2025
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Fun Trails and Sails event this week showcasing new work centered on how estuary and shellfish health are intertwined and the need for people to foster both. We always get engaged attendees from the local community and make great new connections! 1/5
trailsandsails.org
trailsandsails.org
September 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Fun Trails and Sails event this week showcasing new work centered on how estuary and shellfish health are intertwined and the need for people to foster both. We always get engaged attendees from the local community and make great new connections! 1/5
trailsandsails.org
trailsandsails.org
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But if contaminants are in the water, shellfish may ingest those as well, with negative effects on the shellfish and harvestability. @bowenlab.bsky.social and @myadarsan.bsky.social are using new approaches to better identify sources and types of contaminants which may help mediate inputs. 3/5
September 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
But if contaminants are in the water, shellfish may ingest those as well, with negative effects on the shellfish and harvestability. @bowenlab.bsky.social and @myadarsan.bsky.social are using new approaches to better identify sources and types of contaminants which may help mediate inputs. 3/5
it’s hot out i wasn’t mentally prepared for the 50f -> 85f yet
June 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
it’s hot out i wasn’t mentally prepared for the 50f -> 85f yet
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Putting Science Engagement into Practice with Dr. Matthew Costa | COMPASS www.compassscicomm.org/putting-scie...
Putting Science Engagement into Practice with Dr. Matthew Costa | COMPASS
Dr. Matthew Costa’s path to conservation and coastal science began as a curious kid drawn to explore coastal ecosystems in his hometown. That early fascination deepened in college, where hands-on […]
www.compassscicomm.org
June 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Putting Science Engagement into Practice with Dr. Matthew Costa | COMPASS www.compassscicomm.org/putting-scie...
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Tomorrow! May 7.
Learn all about careers outside of academia—from tribal consultants to private sector work and beyond.
Register at: lternet.edu/events/91881/
Learn all about careers outside of academia—from tribal consultants to private sector work and beyond.
Register at: lternet.edu/events/91881/
May 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Tomorrow! May 7.
Learn all about careers outside of academia—from tribal consultants to private sector work and beyond.
Register at: lternet.edu/events/91881/
Learn all about careers outside of academia—from tribal consultants to private sector work and beyond.
Register at: lternet.edu/events/91881/
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Check out today’s YouTube release, Why Do LTERs Matter to Natural Areas Practitioners?
Special thanks to the Bureau of Land Management, the USDA Forest Service, Esri, and @uslter.bsky.social.
Stay tuned! We're dropping new YouTube content every Friday at 11 a.m. ET.
Link in profile.
Special thanks to the Bureau of Land Management, the USDA Forest Service, Esri, and @uslter.bsky.social.
Stay tuned! We're dropping new YouTube content every Friday at 11 a.m. ET.
Link in profile.
May 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Check out today’s YouTube release, Why Do LTERs Matter to Natural Areas Practitioners?
Special thanks to the Bureau of Land Management, the USDA Forest Service, Esri, and @uslter.bsky.social.
Stay tuned! We're dropping new YouTube content every Friday at 11 a.m. ET.
Link in profile.
Special thanks to the Bureau of Land Management, the USDA Forest Service, Esri, and @uslter.bsky.social.
Stay tuned! We're dropping new YouTube content every Friday at 11 a.m. ET.
Link in profile.
chopped all my baby spartinas roots off… fingers crossed the root induction media does its job!!!! 🧪🧫🌱
April 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
chopped all my baby spartinas roots off… fingers crossed the root induction media does its job!!!! 🧪🧫🌱
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Know any soon to graduate or recently graduated undergrads interested in a full year, paid postbac research position in microbiome sciences? Have them join our zoom Q&A session on Friday, April 11, 11:30am-12:30pm PST. More info here: sites.google.com/berkeley.edu...
Bay Area RaMP - 2025-26 Cohort
2025-2026 Cohort
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April 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Know any soon to graduate or recently graduated undergrads interested in a full year, paid postbac research position in microbiome sciences? Have them join our zoom Q&A session on Friday, April 11, 11:30am-12:30pm PST. More info here: sites.google.com/berkeley.edu...
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This is absolute insanity. We must do everything we can to protect our international students right now.
Hundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked.
The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...
The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...
March 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This is absolute insanity. We must do everything we can to protect our international students right now.
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All she did was write an op-ed. That's it. One of my past mentees is a current international student at Tufts. This is absolutely terrifying.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
All she did was write an op-ed. That's it. One of my past mentees is a current international student at Tufts. This is absolutely terrifying.
hope to see many of you there!!!
March 7, 2025 at 4:45 AM
hope to see many of you there!!!
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Are you a scientist or student heading to a @standupforscience.bsky.social rally this Friday?
We want to hear from you. Tell us about yourself and why you’re going, how far you’re traveling, why you’re fired up, and whether there will be car snacks. Call or text us at (646) 767-6532.
We want to hear from you. Tell us about yourself and why you’re going, how far you’re traveling, why you’re fired up, and whether there will be car snacks. Call or text us at (646) 767-6532.
March 4, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Are you a scientist or student heading to a @standupforscience.bsky.social rally this Friday?
We want to hear from you. Tell us about yourself and why you’re going, how far you’re traveling, why you’re fired up, and whether there will be car snacks. Call or text us at (646) 767-6532.
We want to hear from you. Tell us about yourself and why you’re going, how far you’re traveling, why you’re fired up, and whether there will be car snacks. Call or text us at (646) 767-6532.
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If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti...
Please share widely
Please share widely
Scientists' Stories - How to Contribute
How to contribute a Story
sites.google.com
March 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti...
Please share widely
Please share widely
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HEY BOSTON! 📣☀️
MARCH 7TH, MASSACHUSETTS STATE CAPITOL!
Join us to #standupforscience2025 and make your voice heard!
SEE YOU THERE!
www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience20225
MARCH 7TH, MASSACHUSETTS STATE CAPITOL!
Join us to #standupforscience2025 and make your voice heard!
SEE YOU THERE!
www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience20225
February 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
HEY BOSTON! 📣☀️
MARCH 7TH, MASSACHUSETTS STATE CAPITOL!
Join us to #standupforscience2025 and make your voice heard!
SEE YOU THERE!
www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience20225
MARCH 7TH, MASSACHUSETTS STATE CAPITOL!
Join us to #standupforscience2025 and make your voice heard!
SEE YOU THERE!
www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience20225
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WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!?
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
March 2, 2025 at 2:04 AM
WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!?
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
not a drill first hypothetical “sterile” baby spartina alterniflora popped up today 🌱🌱🌱🥹🥹🥹🧫🧫🧫
March 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
not a drill first hypothetical “sterile” baby spartina alterniflora popped up today 🌱🌱🌱🥹🥹🥹🧫🧫🧫
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Flood it.
Bombard it.
Wreck it.
Bombard it.
Wreck it.
February 28, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Flood it.
Bombard it.
Wreck it.
Bombard it.
Wreck it.
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Proud to be part of this awesome team! Thanks to @balachaudhary.bsky.social and @khadlily.bsky.social, unstoppable forces in EcoEvo 💜💜
@wocineeb.bsky.social has done a lot for me and other POC in EcoEvo so please help us protect groups like this www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@wocineeb.bsky.social has done a lot for me and other POC in EcoEvo so please help us protect groups like this www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Protect US racial affinity groups
On its first day, the Trump administration released several executive orders terminating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, calling them “illegal,” “immoral,” and “discriminatory” (1, 2)...
www.science.org
February 28, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Proud to be part of this awesome team! Thanks to @balachaudhary.bsky.social and @khadlily.bsky.social, unstoppable forces in EcoEvo 💜💜
@wocineeb.bsky.social has done a lot for me and other POC in EcoEvo so please help us protect groups like this www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@wocineeb.bsky.social has done a lot for me and other POC in EcoEvo so please help us protect groups like this www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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As a former REU student, this sucks. The REU program was my first taste in R1 research while attending a liberal arts college. We need REUs.
This helps to understand what's going on with the REUs (Research Experience for Undergraduates):
On Feb 13, NSF said: "Although we [had earlier] sent many of you emails expressing our plans to recommend for funding...We deeply regret that we are not going to be able to hold to all of those plans."
On Feb 13, NSF said: "Although we [had earlier] sent many of you emails expressing our plans to recommend for funding...We deeply regret that we are not going to be able to hold to all of those plans."
NSF downsizes summer research program for undergraduates
Many participants are from groups underrepresented in science
www.science.org
February 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
As a former REU student, this sucks. The REU program was my first taste in R1 research while attending a liberal arts college. We need REUs.
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AND THERE IS A SINGLE BABY YALL I AM A PLANT MOM!!!
February 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
AND THERE IS A SINGLE BABY YALL I AM A PLANT MOM!!!
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If you are the parent, close relative, mentor, or part of the village of a Black, Latine, or Native college student, then PLEASE check on, pour into, and affirm them.
Trust me when I tell you they are STRUGGLING right now. You don't have to attended the school to remind them "I'm here."
Trust me when I tell you they are STRUGGLING right now. You don't have to attended the school to remind them "I'm here."
February 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
If you are the parent, close relative, mentor, or part of the village of a Black, Latine, or Native college student, then PLEASE check on, pour into, and affirm them.
Trust me when I tell you they are STRUGGLING right now. You don't have to attended the school to remind them "I'm here."
Trust me when I tell you they are STRUGGLING right now. You don't have to attended the school to remind them "I'm here."
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Go Mya go!!! 💛
#BlackHistoryMonth Plant Scientist Spotlight - Meet Mya Darsan!🌱
👉 See the full list of incredible plant scientists featured at https://buff.ly/41fCJQn
#plantscience
👉 See the full list of incredible plant scientists featured at https://buff.ly/41fCJQn
#plantscience
February 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Go Mya go!!! 💛