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Julian Liber
@liberjulian.bsky.social
Phyllosphere yeasts & assembling the leaf microbiome | PhD cand. Duke Biology | MSU Plant Bio alum | he/him
liberjul.github.io
Interested in birding, photography, food, cycling, fiber crafts.
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ZOMG LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE SHALE

Okay, so the Burgess Shale is a fossil bed in British Columbia that contains a whole bunch of fossils of weirdass creatures from the Cambrian era, over 500 million years ago. But the great thing about the shale is that it has fossilized SOFT PARTS!
November 14, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Are utilities inclined to provide incentives for balcony solar? Or for small (<1-2kWh) batteries which can shift use for those living in apartments?
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
One arsenic-containing book, about the dangers of arsenic wallpaper, bears a name as metal as its contents. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadows...
Shadows from the Walls of Death - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 8, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Today's lesson: don't trust the sequence of glycerol stocks made before the whole-plasmid sequencing.
October 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Yes, but only the red part. According to Reddit they're not very palatable.
October 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Yes, it's a fleshy aril around the seed!
October 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I love all the Toledo Metroparks, especially Wildwood and Oak Openings, but I now live in North Carolina and haven't been to them in too long. Your photos remind me of home so thank you for sharing.
October 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
It's like the Big Ten now including schools in California!
October 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM