Ily wvu 💙💛 thanks for having meee

Boxplots are great when different data distributions matter to your research question, but they’re used a lot (by default) in #rstats when the goal is to show treatment means. If your model focuses on mean responses, a simple mean ± SD (or CI) bar plot is nicer 😗

Tennessee red valencia peanuts grown in my garden in knoxville, with beautiful nodules of rhizobia 🥜🤎

Are you an ecologist who lives for fieldwork on wild, rugged terrain? If you dread returning to the lab where your personal style is stifled by required PPE, fear not. Introducing the GLEET™, a BSL-1 compliant Glove for your Feet, for seamless transition from field to lab.

Simple & elegant figure from Nagahashi et al 2010 showing synergistic effects of root exudates on hyphal branching in Gigaspora rosea

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

I had a great time and learned a lot at the DOE earth system science meeting this past week. Thank you everyone who came to chat with me about our fungal phenology experiment and to all the great presenters ✨💚🌎

want 2 combine datasets produced by different 'omics methods (eg, 16S + ITS) & analyze interkingdom interactions? 🦠🍄

Brunner et al 2024 show that clr-normalizing data separately + accommodating sparsity reduce error, then describe this error "signature" so you can spot it

doi.org/10.1093/isme...

Happy valentine’s weeping hemlock day 💚💚

This is my 2x6 soil corer. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My 2x6 soil corer is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.

How your email finds @sporen.bsky.social

And lastly on knowing what you don’t know:

On the limitations of empirical research (💀):

On the “optimizing” ability of evolution

On disruptive research:

On academic rigor:

I finally finished this excellent compilation of book reviews/essays by Richard Lewontin, and i have to share the most scathing and hysterical parts 🧵:

Who's coming to #AGU24?

❄️ Curious how changing winters reshape ecosystems? Explore how warmer temps and shifting snow dynamics disrupt mutualisms, alter nutrient cycles, and transform ecosystems. From soil microbes to weather systems, we dive into winter's cascading climate impacts. See you in DC!

microbial ecology: what it looks like vs what it feels like

Hello world!! Happy to be on bluesky. Here is a picture of my spine from this morning.