Primrose Boynton
@pjboynton.bsky.social
Environmental yeast ecology and evolution! I love model and non-model organisms, and single-celled and filamentous fungi alike. I love R! Assistant Professor at Wheaton College, Massachusetts and senior editor of Yeast, but my posts are my own. she/her
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There are lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to Nazi Germany and there are also lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to the post-1850 Fugitive Slave Act U.S. and it's *weird* how people respond with interest to the former but total confusion to the latter
January 13, 2026 at 2:30 PM
There are lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to Nazi Germany and there are also lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to the post-1850 Fugitive Slave Act U.S. and it's *weird* how people respond with interest to the former but total confusion to the latter
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🚨We’re hiring! Please help spread the word!
Our lab at @TheSainsburyLab is recruiting a pre-doctoral intern to work on plant immunity research. Ideal for those who are planning to pursue a PhD and seeking research experience. tatsuyanobori.com
Our lab at @TheSainsburyLab is recruiting a pre-doctoral intern to work on plant immunity research. Ideal for those who are planning to pursue a PhD and seeking research experience. tatsuyanobori.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
🚨We’re hiring! Please help spread the word!
Our lab at @TheSainsburyLab is recruiting a pre-doctoral intern to work on plant immunity research. Ideal for those who are planning to pursue a PhD and seeking research experience. tatsuyanobori.com
Our lab at @TheSainsburyLab is recruiting a pre-doctoral intern to work on plant immunity research. Ideal for those who are planning to pursue a PhD and seeking research experience. tatsuyanobori.com
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Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
uni-freiburg.de
December 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
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‼️Please RT: The CEPLAS Graduate School call for 2026 is now open! Detailed info on our website: bit.ly/4q19JWk
@hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @leibnizipk.bsky.social @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
@hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @leibnizipk.bsky.social @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
‼️Please RT: The CEPLAS Graduate School call for 2026 is now open! Detailed info on our website: bit.ly/4q19JWk
@hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @leibnizipk.bsky.social @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
@hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @leibnizipk.bsky.social @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social
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Up to 10 doctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology now open for application!
Start date September 2026.
More info here: www.evolbio.mpg.de/imprs
Start date September 2026.
More info here: www.evolbio.mpg.de/imprs
December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Up to 10 doctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology now open for application!
Start date September 2026.
More info here: www.evolbio.mpg.de/imprs
Start date September 2026.
More info here: www.evolbio.mpg.de/imprs
Seconding this! I didn't know this until I started working at my current job (at a small liberal arts college). It often is cheaper than in-state tuition, depending on the details. I don't love the lack of price transparency, but absolutely it's worth applying to a program you're interested in.
As parents are helping their kids consider colleges, this is my perennial reminder that state schools often have lower price tags, yes, but private schools, including many small liberal arts schools, often have better aid packages, and are thus often cheaper in the end (but may be more competitive).
December 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Seconding this! I didn't know this until I started working at my current job (at a small liberal arts college). It often is cheaper than in-state tuition, depending on the details. I don't love the lack of price transparency, but absolutely it's worth applying to a program you're interested in.
Check out this "journal club" article, by me and Matt Wengler, describing a cool recent paper on injecting bacteria into fungal mycelium. With some clever artificial selection, the fungus adapts to the presence of the bacteria, making the symbiosis stable!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Injecting bacteria into fungal hosts establishes stable endosymbiosis - Nature Microbiology
Nature Microbiology - Injecting bacteria into fungal hosts establishes stable endosymbiosis
www.nature.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Check out this "journal club" article, by me and Matt Wengler, describing a cool recent paper on injecting bacteria into fungal mycelium. With some clever artificial selection, the fungus adapts to the presence of the bacteria, making the symbiosis stable!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Be careful everyone:
California county sees increase in rare kind of poisoning www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
California county sees increase in rare kind of poisoning www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
California county sees increase in rare kind of poisoning
Earlier this year, three people were hospitalized after eating poisonous mushrooms.
www.sfgate.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Be careful everyone:
California county sees increase in rare kind of poisoning www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
California county sees increase in rare kind of poisoning www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
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The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 333 tenure-track positions and 48 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪
The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List
docs.google.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 333 tenure-track positions and 48 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪
Just sent this to the Biological Data Analysis students and told them they could use it in their final projects 😆
November 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Just sent this to the Biological Data Analysis students and told them they could use it in their final projects 😆
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The special issue will be guest-edited by @pjboynton.bsky.social (Wheaton College
Massachusetts, USA) and Pei-Yun Jenny Wu (CNRS
Bordeaux, France).
You can find more information on the accepted topics and submission instructions by using the QR code below:
Massachusetts, USA) and Pei-Yun Jenny Wu (CNRS
Bordeaux, France).
You can find more information on the accepted topics and submission instructions by using the QR code below:
September 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The special issue will be guest-edited by @pjboynton.bsky.social (Wheaton College
Massachusetts, USA) and Pei-Yun Jenny Wu (CNRS
Bordeaux, France).
You can find more information on the accepted topics and submission instructions by using the QR code below:
Massachusetts, USA) and Pei-Yun Jenny Wu (CNRS
Bordeaux, France).
You can find more information on the accepted topics and submission instructions by using the QR code below:
AI slop is making it harder for me to find useful information. Here's the ScienceDirect overview of "Fungal Metabolism":
August 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
AI slop is making it harder for me to find useful information. Here's the ScienceDirect overview of "Fungal Metabolism":
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I’m looking for folks to send me specimens of golden oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus citrinopileatus) collected from natural areas all over North America. I need specimens from everywhere other than Wisconsin: 2/n
pringlelab.github.io/gom_communit...
pringlelab.github.io/gom_communit...
Pringle Lab UW-Madison
pringlelab.github.io
August 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I’m looking for folks to send me specimens of golden oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus citrinopileatus) collected from natural areas all over North America. I need specimens from everywhere other than Wisconsin: 2/n
pringlelab.github.io/gom_communit...
pringlelab.github.io/gom_communit...
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We have an opening for postdoctoral training! Please apply by 15th August 2025 for full consideration. Here is the ad: hittinger.genetics.wisc.edu/People/Join/...
hittinger.genetics.wisc.edu
July 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
We have an opening for postdoctoral training! Please apply by 15th August 2025 for full consideration. Here is the ad: hittinger.genetics.wisc.edu/People/Join/...
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Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.
July 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.
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@pjboynton.bsky.social advertises our upcoming special issue about the #Yeast2025 conference in Paris
July 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
@pjboynton.bsky.social advertises our upcoming special issue about the #Yeast2025 conference in Paris
Hi Friends, what's a HELPFUL way of responding to someone who brags that they don't vote?
I encountered someone IRL who did this yesterday (a stranger), and couldn't think of a productive response
I encountered someone IRL who did this yesterday (a stranger), and couldn't think of a productive response
May 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Hi Friends, what's a HELPFUL way of responding to someone who brags that they don't vote?
I encountered someone IRL who did this yesterday (a stranger), and couldn't think of a productive response
I encountered someone IRL who did this yesterday (a stranger), and couldn't think of a productive response
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Still working on that #ASMicrobe poster? This is your yearly reminder to write microorganism names correctly: genus is capitalized, species is not, and the whole thing should be italicized. You’re welcome @asm.org #Microbe2025 #ClinMicro #ASMMicrobe
May 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Still working on that #ASMicrobe poster? This is your yearly reminder to write microorganism names correctly: genus is capitalized, species is not, and the whole thing should be italicized. You’re welcome @asm.org #Microbe2025 #ClinMicro #ASMMicrobe
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Want to know more about the ecology of wild yeasts, their association with oak trees, temperature, and rainfall? Read the latest by @chloehbk.bsky.social and @javo-pinto.bsky.social
First paper of my postdoc is out:
"Fermentative Yeast Diversity at the Northern Range Limit of their Oak Tree Host" - fun collab to study yeasts in my host country ft. JP, AT, MF and RS!
dx.doi.org/10.1111/1758...
Special thanks to @stelkens.bsky.social - also for the celebratory chocolate cake!
"Fermentative Yeast Diversity at the Northern Range Limit of their Oak Tree Host" - fun collab to study yeasts in my host country ft. JP, AT, MF and RS!
dx.doi.org/10.1111/1758...
Special thanks to @stelkens.bsky.social - also for the celebratory chocolate cake!
May 24, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Want to know more about the ecology of wild yeasts, their association with oak trees, temperature, and rainfall? Read the latest by @chloehbk.bsky.social and @javo-pinto.bsky.social
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In the latest #Yeast research article of the series #FantasticYeasts, Pei-Jie Han, Feng-Yan Bai & team describe a new yeast species isolated from a Chinese forest: Saccharomycopsis yichangensis, that can prey on Saccharomyces cerevisiae and other yeasts 😲
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Saccharomycopsis yichangensis sp. nov., a Novel Predacious Yeast Species Isolated From Soil
Saccharomycopsis yichangensis sp. nov. occurs in soil from a subtropical forest in central China. This novel species is homothallic and produces asci containing four spheroidal ascospores, which can ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 22, 2025 at 9:21 AM
In the latest #Yeast research article of the series #FantasticYeasts, Pei-Jie Han, Feng-Yan Bai & team describe a new yeast species isolated from a Chinese forest: Saccharomycopsis yichangensis, that can prey on Saccharomyces cerevisiae and other yeasts 😲
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Inquiry deadline TOMORROW!
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- 97 full scholarships across 37 Italian universities
- Covers fees, housing, meals, health insurance
- €12,000/year average scholarship
Inquiry deadline is May 23
Links below, please circulate widely!
- 97 full scholarships across 37 Italian universities
- Covers fees, housing, meals, health insurance
- €12,000/year average scholarship
Inquiry deadline is May 23
Links below, please circulate widely!
May 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Inquiry deadline TOMORROW!
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Every now again it’s useful to repeat advice about accessing papers that are behind a paywall that excludes you. Email the author. My estimate is that 90% of academics are so thrilled that a living, breathing, possibly even reading, person shows interest that they will swiftly send you a copy.
May 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Every now again it’s useful to repeat advice about accessing papers that are behind a paywall that excludes you. Email the author. My estimate is that 90% of academics are so thrilled that a living, breathing, possibly even reading, person shows interest that they will swiftly send you a copy.
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When I was younger, I believed that if I didn't understand a piece of writing, the fault was likely my own, and I needed to improve my thinking or reading skills. What I've learned since then is that many influential or acclaimed thinkers are just not very good writers.
April 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
When I was younger, I believed that if I didn't understand a piece of writing, the fault was likely my own, and I needed to improve my thinking or reading skills. What I've learned since then is that many influential or acclaimed thinkers are just not very good writers.
This is very bad news.
California reports sharp rise in Valley fever cases for first three months of 2025
California reports sharp rise in Valley fever cases for first three months of 2025
Weather patterns, construction activity and wildfires can all play a role in outbreaks of Valley fever, caused by inhaling a fungus.
www.latimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
This is very bad news.
I completely agree with everything the crab museum folks say here about dragging biology into judging trans and nonbinary people. Thank you!
This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
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April 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I completely agree with everything the crab museum folks say here about dragging biology into judging trans and nonbinary people. Thank you!