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Chung-Wing Ko 🍉
@chungwingko.bsky.social
phd candidate studying tropical land-use change and effects on soils, roots, and microbes 🌿🍄🧬 passionate about social and environmental justice 🌏

https://chungwingko.wordpress.com/

📍NTU, Singapore | she/they
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Who lives underground?

Find out now in our new paper published in @nature.com.

Key finding: 90% of predicted mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas.

Read here: buff.ly/WmDqAP3 🧵
July 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Thanks so much Louis!! :”)
Very cool to see this profile piece on Chung-Wing! (nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...) She visited our lab early last year to learn some computational methods. Great scientist and person. Congrats, @chungwingko.bsky.social!
June 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
A huge privilege as part of the teaching team to bring students to North Sumatra to learn about the oil palm industry and local ecotourism efforts. An important reminder that conservation means uplifting local livelihoods! To all the stakeholders who shared so openly - terima kasih banyak 🙏
March 7, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"

It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social

🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
November 20, 2024 at 5:09 PM
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we perform a global meta-analysis of 13,209 global change factors in experimental observations across the world’s land ecosystems to quantify plant (biomass and diversity) and soil biota (biomass, diversity, and abundances) responses to GCFs in different biomes www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Decoupled responses of plants and soil biota to global change across the world’s land ecosystems - Nature Communications
Understanding how global changes affect both aboveground plants and belowground soil organisms is essential for preserving ecosystem functions and biodiversity. This study synthesizes extensive data, ...
www.nature.com
November 30, 2024 at 8:08 AM
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hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Starter packs
BIOLOGY Ecology Macroecology https://go.bsky.app/GBn9pNZ Global ecology https://go.bsky.app/V6tN4cv Trait based ecology and evolution https://go.bsky.app/PThMXeX Invasion biology https://go.b...
docs.google.com
November 11, 2024 at 5:41 PM