Serina S. Wittyngham

Serina Wittyngham, PhD

@saltyserina.bsky.social

1.2K followers 300 following 4 posts

Ecosystems ecologist with a love of coastal plants and plant-herbivore interactions 🌿🌱 postdoc at VIMS.

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The PhD Place - Academic Community @thephdplace.bsky.social · Feb 3

When reviewer 2 says something nice about your paper

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Tina Schreier @tinaschreier.bsky.social · Oct 26

✨Ever wondered how C4 plants 🌱 manage to shuttle metabolites back and forth between mesophyll and bundle sheath cells so efficiently? ✨ They have increased cell-to-cell connectivity between these cells through A LOT of plasmodesmata. @plantsci

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Dan Koenig @evogen.bsky.social · Oct 24

So excited to announce our search for an Assistant Professor focused on understanding plant response to climate change! Come join us at UC Riverside aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01827

Serina Wittyngham, PhD @saltyserina.bsky.social · Oct 23

This is how we stay motivated to process seemingly endless amounts of samples. So close to rounding out this dataset!

Hand drawn meters signifying sample processing progress on a chalkboard

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Marianne de Heer Kloots @mdhk.net · Oct 22

This document has a very useful introduction to bluesky for scientists! #newsky
blueskyscience.steveharoz.com

BlueSky for Scientists

BlueSky for Scientists Authors: Steve Haroz and Mark Rubin URL: http://blueskyscience.steveharoz.com Features you may miss from Twitter or Mastodon As BlueSky is in beta, some features are not implem...

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · Oct 18

Reminder: I teamed up with @sarahmackattack.bsky.social to make CRAB FACTS, AN ADVENT CALENDAR

Show your loved ones how much you care by giving them CRAB FACTS, AN ADVENT CALENDAR

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poster with scratchable stickers hiding facts underneath. the poster design is filled with various crabs.

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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · Oct 13

#marinelife🦑

More coverage of the crab breeding. program at Mote:

"researchers at the Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium in Sarasota, Florida, have created a crab nursery program to raise crustaceans that help preserve the delicate coral ecosystems."

www.foxweather.com/earth-space/...

How Caribbean king crabs are rescuing coral reefs in Florida

Coral reefs are experiencing heat stress due to rising ocean temperatures, but researchers are using crabs to help the coral thrive.

www.foxweather.com

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New papers in Network Science @networkspapers.bsky.social · Oct 13

Chaos: Resilience of hybrid herbivore–plant–pollinator networks
https://pubs.aip.org/aip/cha/article/33/9/093129/2911852/Resilience-of-hybrid-herbivore-plant-pollinator

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · Oct 13

Invertober Day 12 - Eelgrass Isopod 🌊 #Invertober #Invertober2023

An illustration of an eelgrass isopod, a dark green elongated isopod with lighter green highlights. It is illustrated from the top down on a light green background.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · Oct 11

Once again Bluesky is performing what was really the most essential good feature of Twitter for me: It's giving me things to read that otherwise I would have missed.

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Michal Zweig @michalz.bsky.social · Oct 11

Can you share examples of inappropriate figure manipulations that you have seen in manuscripts or journals with me? #PlantScience

Serina Wittyngham, PhD @saltyserina.bsky.social · Oct 5

A great few days in the field with Wenwen, our visiting scholar from China. We are looking at how various management techniques affect invasive #Phragmites biomass allocation. 🌿🌱🌾🧪

A scientist holds a sediment core as he is surrounded by salt marsh and forest plants.

A close-up view of a sediment core on a background of coastal salt marsh and forest.

A scientists poses with a measuring PVC pole surrounded by tall salt marsh and forest plants

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Dr Stefanie Nolte @steffinolte.bsky.social · Oct 5

This years 'Coastal Ecology Workshop' is returning to the UK!

Join us “Exploring the symbiotic relationship between
coastal ecology, geomorphology and economic valuation” in Coltishall, Norfolk.

Organised by University of East Anglia and University of Lincoln.

View of a salt marsh on the North Norfolk Coast

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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · Sep 29

🔔New paper🧪 Treelines in the U.S. Northeast shifted upslope by 3 m/decade on average w/climate warming. Treeline form, topography, & mesoclimate affected the magnitude of the shift! Kudos to Jordon Tourville for this PhD work at SUNY ESF w/Appalach. Mtn. Club!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Sep 28

If you don't know who to give your invite code - there's a great place to donate it

BlueSky Invites

Please fill out this form if (1) you’d like to donate invite codes to scientists, clinicians, academics, and members of related communities or (2) you’re a member of one of these communities and w...

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Kevin Wood @drkevinwood.bsky.social · Sep 28

Delighted that our new open access paper on wetland carbon sequestration is now online. Blue carbon benefits from global saltmarsh restoration:
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

A screenshot showing the first page of our new paper "Blue carbon benefits from global saltmarsh restoration", which has just been published in the journal 'Global Change Biology'. The screenshot shows the title, author names and affiliations, as well as the abstract.

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Sep 28

🚨 Science Resources for BlueSky 🚨

Scientist? Just joined BlueSky? Here’s four resources you might find useful.

#AcademicSky 🧪 🧵

(1) A list of over 130 subject-specific feeds. Find posts by others in your area and use the right tags in your posts to get them seen.

BlueSky Science-Related Feeds

Sheet1 Likes,Name (Click to visit feed),Tags,Contact to ask to be added to contributor list 11,<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ftnzzw4cnon2pzpw7i5m2xu7/feed/aaaiqnkwsgsz6">#AI&HCI</a>,#HCI,...

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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · Sep 28

Ten (10) open positions at the Nature Conservancy of Canada. www.natureconservancy.ca/en/who-we-ar...

Please share! Working here is great. #ConservationJobs

Screenshot of 5 job titles and locations

Serina Wittyngham, PhD @saltyserina.bsky.social · Sep 27

Hi blue world 👋🏼 it’s time to introduce myself!

I’m Serina, an ecosystems ecologist who studied coastal ecosystems through the lens of plant functional traits 🌿🌱so excited for this new community!

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Erol Akcay @akcay.theoretical.bio · Sep 27

We are hiring in Ecology at UPenn Biology! The search is open to any area of Ecology. We are a integrative, collegial department, supportive of junior colleagues, and are located in the great city of Philadelphia. Apply at: apply.interfolio.com/133155

Front view of Leidy Labs at the University of Pennsylvania, where the Biology Department is located. Picture Credit: Daily Pennsylvanian.

View of the Schuylkill River and Philadelphia skyline, from a high vantage point.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · Sep 27

I'm excited to announce that the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology has TWO openings for tenure track Assistant Professors using genomics-informed methods to study critical questions in Plant and/or Microbial Biology.
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/265...

Assistant Professor

The Department of Biology at UNC Chapel Hill (https://bio.unc.edu/) is searching for two tenure track Assistant Professors using genomics-informed methods to study critical questions in Plant and Micr...

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Serina Wittyngham, PhD @saltyserina.bsky.social · Sep 26

👋🏼 loving this space so far!

I’m Serina, a coastal plant ecologist working on invasive species management through the lens of plant functional traits 🌿🌱 also a fan of plant-herbivore interactions 🌾🦀

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ROOT-SHOOT RCN @root-shoot.bsky.social · Sep 25

Applications for the 2024 ROOT & SHOOT #PlantScience Travel Awards are now open! Join us on Thurs. Oct. 12 at 3pm EDT for an informational session - learn more about the award and hear from past awardees about their experience. Visit rootandshoot.org/infosession to learn more.

A graphic with a green background. The text says "Informational session, ROOT & SHOOT Travel Awards. Learn more about the 2024 MANRRS/SACNAS Travel Awards and hear from past awardees about their experiences. Join us for an open Q&A with our panelists". Underneath the text are five smiling headshots of the panelists.

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Paul Taillie @ptails.bsky.social · Sep 24

10 simple rules for a mom-friendly academia

journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

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Isaac Sederbaum, PhD @isaacsederbaum.bsky.social · Sep 22

So my survey got attacked by some bots, and now I've lost 50% of my data. Please help me get to 1,000 real humans who actually meet my survey criteria? This sad PhD candidate thanks you in advance.

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Fay-Wei Li @fernway.bsky.social · Sep 21

#Cornell has an open faculty position on plant #biodiversity! I'm on the search committee - free feel to reach out if you have any question! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25644

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