Dr. Bala Chaudhary
@balachaudhary.bsky.social
Associate Prof @Dartmouth, Scientist-Activist, Mom, Ecologist, Plant-Fungal Symbioses #mycorrhizas #dispersal #antiracistSTEM, CAREER Awardee, #WOCinEEB Founder, views my own
Hey #ESA2025! Help us spread some love to the wonderful program officers and staff at NSF! Located in the exhibit hall near coffee/booth 316!
August 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Hey #ESA2025! Help us spread some love to the wonderful program officers and staff at NSF! Located in the exhibit hall near coffee/booth 316!
Excited to share that I am taking on a new role as Editor in Chief of npj Soil Ecology, a new journal dedicated to communicating high-quality research and scholarship exploring all aspects of the ecology of soils from gene to ecosystem scales.
www.nature.com/npjsoilecol/
www.nature.com/npjsoilecol/
June 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Excited to share that I am taking on a new role as Editor in Chief of npj Soil Ecology, a new journal dedicated to communicating high-quality research and scholarship exploring all aspects of the ecology of soils from gene to ecosystem scales.
www.nature.com/npjsoilecol/
www.nature.com/npjsoilecol/
Who else gets jazzed over protists?? Enjoy this video I took of protists having a party with AM fungus Ar. trappei. Sound on for commentary 😅
March 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Who else gets jazzed over protists?? Enjoy this video I took of protists having a party with AM fungus Ar. trappei. Sound on for commentary 😅
Thanks @geoffzahn.bsky.social for helping me unlock a new skill - awesome day on the scanning electron microscope!
March 6, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Thanks @geoffzahn.bsky.social for helping me unlock a new skill - awesome day on the scanning electron microscope!
Spores from two different AM fungal species, Ac. elegans on the left and Gi. albida on the right. Tell me spore traits don’t affect the ecology of these amazing microbes! #mycorrhiza
March 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Spores from two different AM fungal species, Ac. elegans on the left and Gi. albida on the right. Tell me spore traits don’t affect the ecology of these amazing microbes! #mycorrhiza
I have been finding a lot of joy and peace this week in the lab. Back to basics, using skills I learned when I was 19 years old! Isolating AM fungal spores (like this Ac. elegans 🤩) for a new spore trait experiment with @geoffzahn.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I have been finding a lot of joy and peace this week in the lab. Back to basics, using skills I learned when I was 19 years old! Isolating AM fungal spores (like this Ac. elegans 🤩) for a new spore trait experiment with @geoffzahn.bsky.social
Email to NSF funded Primary Investigators. BTW, NSF requires us to include a Broader Impacts section in all proposals (and have forever), which is central to how proposals are scored/ranked/funded. Broader Impacts are inherently DEIA. All NSF funded PIs engage in DEIA. Get real.
January 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Email to NSF funded Primary Investigators. BTW, NSF requires us to include a Broader Impacts section in all proposals (and have forever), which is central to how proposals are scored/ranked/funded. Broader Impacts are inherently DEIA. All NSF funded PIs engage in DEIA. Get real.
You know what’s fun?Co-teaching a course with my new @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social colleague @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social. Have two WOC ever co-taught a STEM course in the Ivy’s?!
January 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
You know what’s fun?Co-teaching a course with my new @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social colleague @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social. Have two WOC ever co-taught a STEM course in the Ivy’s?!
Welcome to the family, baby!
December 24, 2024 at 4:08 AM
Welcome to the family, baby!
Happy Holidays! Here’s wishing all of us great science conversations in 2025!
December 23, 2024 at 1:35 AM
Happy Holidays! Here’s wishing all of us great science conversations in 2025!
Silent night 😌
December 21, 2024 at 2:53 AM
Silent night 😌
Sunday morning gratitude for this miraculous Earth
December 15, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Sunday morning gratitude for this miraculous Earth
Some of the best science ideas come on the slopes! Collaborators in action - science coming soon. Had to give lab visitor @jalene-lamontagne.bsky.social a taste of New England and the amazing nature around @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social!
#SkiTheEast #NerdAlert #YesWeBroughtOurLaptops
#SkiTheEast #NerdAlert #YesWeBroughtOurLaptops
March 6, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Some of the best science ideas come on the slopes! Collaborators in action - science coming soon. Had to give lab visitor @jalene-lamontagne.bsky.social a taste of New England and the amazing nature around @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social!
#SkiTheEast #NerdAlert #YesWeBroughtOurLaptops
#SkiTheEast #NerdAlert #YesWeBroughtOurLaptops
New study out today in @newphyt.bsky.social! Lead author Paul Metzler, Kelly Ksiazek-Mikenas, and I found that inoculation with native AM fungi shifts community trajectories in urban green roofs.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
February 1, 2024 at 2:29 AM
New study out today in @newphyt.bsky.social! Lead author Paul Metzler, Kelly Ksiazek-Mikenas, and I found that inoculation with native AM fungi shifts community trajectories in urban green roofs.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Awesome visit with @anaspene.bsky.social and fun lab tinkering on fungal dispersal experiments. Even baked me Yorkshire Puddings when I was feeling crummy. Hooray for science friends! 😍🥰
December 12, 2023 at 1:20 AM
Awesome visit with @anaspene.bsky.social and fun lab tinkering on fungal dispersal experiments. Even baked me Yorkshire Puddings when I was feeling crummy. Hooray for science friends! 😍🥰
It’s dust season in the lab! Samples are rolling in for our annual campaign to track continent-scale aerial dispersal of fungi. Lots of fun science & training going on @dartmouth across career stages - grateful for an awesome team incl. our extended team @NEON_sci!#NSFfunded
October 27, 2023 at 12:04 PM
It’s dust season in the lab! Samples are rolling in for our annual campaign to track continent-scale aerial dispersal of fungi. Lots of fun science & training going on @dartmouth across career stages - grateful for an awesome team incl. our extended team @NEON_sci!#NSFfunded
COVID shot yesterday (yay!) but feeling crummy today (boo!) so staying home. Manu says “Don’t you have some looming deadlines?” Bad dog!
October 20, 2023 at 3:55 PM
COVID shot yesterday (yay!) but feeling crummy today (boo!) so staying home. Manu says “Don’t you have some looming deadlines?” Bad dog!
Good old fashioned fun day in the lab prepping sample collection and cranking tunes! Ok maybe it was just an hour for me but I’ll take it ❤️
October 13, 2023 at 11:27 PM
Good old fashioned fun day in the lab prepping sample collection and cranking tunes! Ok maybe it was just an hour for me but I’ll take it ❤️
Taking in some newly synthesized oxygen #weekend
September 24, 2023 at 6:59 PM
Taking in some newly synthesized oxygen #weekend