Me and my gf are starting a book club (of 2 so far) focused on Black horror starting with Sycorax’s Daughters by Dr. Kinitra Brooks. It’s an anthology of horror short stories written by Black women and we would love to have others join virtually or otherwise

Book is ~$20 on Amazon

Hell yeah

An absolutely mesmerizing slime mold found in Soberanía National Park, Panamá. It’s the kinda thing that makes you re-experience child-like wonder at the beauty of life followed by a devastating reminder that we are obliterating billions of years of biological innovation to cool chatbot servers

The average PhD student experience of trying to schedule a committee meeting at the end of the semester

First time find, a little bit of witch’s butter on an old conifer stump

First, let me introduce myself! My name is Jacoby Robinson and I’m a PhD candidate studying fungi that are farmed by ants and the fungal pathogens that parasitize their crop! I use a combo of genomics and natural products chemistry to uncover their hidden diversity and mechanisms of coevolution 👨🏾‍🔬🍄‍🟫🧬