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Mya A. Darsan
@myadarsan.bsky.social
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Marine and Environmental Science PhD Student @bowenlab.bsky.social @northeasternmes.bsky.social 🧪🌊 | Plant-Microbe Interactions 🦠 | Bio and Env Sci UAlbany Alumna |🇹🇹🇺🇸| she/her

website: https://myadarsan.weebly.com
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i won best grad student talk!!! first cerf was a success!!!
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Are you still at CERF tomorrow at 2???

Then you should come to my talk and learn about Spartina (alterniflora and patens a double whammy 👀), fungi, and carbon (oh my)!!

You’ll get to see why I had to lie down every sampling point to have snack time this past field season!!!

#CERF2025
talk title: exploring fungal-Spartina interactions along an elevation gradient to inform carbon dynamics in salt marshes. Date and time: 11/13/2025 at 2;00PM Room E10-D mya laying in spartina patens eating a beef stick
November 13, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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chopped all my baby spartinas roots off… fingers crossed the root induction media does its job!!!! 🧪🧫🌱
April 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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hope to see many of you there!!!
text says: trump doesn’t know then a drawing of a mitochondria lifting a dumbbell
March 7, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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not a drill first hypothetical “sterile” baby spartina alterniflora popped up today 🌱🌱🌱🥹🥹🥹🧫🧫🧫
a spartina alterniflora seed with a tiny root and tiny shoot (just sprouted) in water
March 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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AND THERE IS A SINGLE BABY YALL I AM A PLANT MOM!!!
soil in a cup with a single spartina sprout!!
February 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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it was watering day!!!! 🌱
February 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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many updates to come… get ready to be sick of me 😗✌🏽🧬🧪
clear cube containers with water or soil in them labeled with orange, green or blue tape.
February 19, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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it was spartina planting day 🙊🌾🦠
February 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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oops i forgot to tell y’all but it’s a ✨🌱plant growth chamber🌱✨
6 tiered shelf in a cover with grow lights
February 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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guess what i’m building 👀👀👀
January 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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I had the opportunity to be an REU student which provided me with the skills and confidence I needed to pursue a PhD!
Mya presenting a sci com poster at Mystic Aquarium titled “ nutritional physiology of mussels in Long Island sound”. Mya giving her first research presentation at UCONN Avery Point. One the screen is the title “ nutritional physiology of blue mussels (mytilus edulis) and ribbed mussels (geukensia demissa) in a reciprocal transplant experiment”, authors (Mya Darsan, Tyler Griffin, Evan Ward), and three logos (NSF, Mystic Aquarium, UCONN) Screen shot of a magazine feature of Mya Darsan and Tyler Griffin. Mya stands in waders using a YSI to measure data a Tyler records. The grass is bright green, but it’s pouring and foggy on the marsh that day. The Mystic Aquarium UCONN REU 2022 Cohort.
January 29, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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I graduated college thanks to LSAMP and Pell.

The second person in my entire family, the first in STEM. Now i’m a first gen phd student.

This was only possible because of LSAMP and Pell.
Mya in undergraduate regalia for her graduation from SUNY Albany. She is shaking a man’s hand as she walks across the stage. mya and her younger brother. mya is in her ualbany regalia. she has many stools, three cords, and two medals. mya walking across the stage at her graduation in 2023
January 29, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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this weeks vibe so far (happy monday)
cartoon dog sitting on a chair at a table with a coffee cup except the dogs surrounded by fire
January 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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another year another beanpot women’s championship @northeasternu.bsky.social !!!! 🫘🏒
banner of the women’s beanpot being risen at TD garden. northeastern 2025 women’s champion. blurry photo of 3 people post goal total attendance of the women’s beanpot championship. record breaking 13,279! .5 image of TD garden for the women’s hockey bean pot championship
January 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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I was a Mystic Aquarium-UCONN REU student back in 2022 and it was the best experience I could've asked for! This program not only gave me the knowledge and tools needed to pursue a PhD but the confidence and inspiration to! I highly recommend sharing this opportunity with your network!! (link below)
A flyer for Mystic Aquarium - University of Connecticut Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU). The text reads: Spend your summer doing research on how global change (e.g. pollution, climate change) affects marine organisms and their ecosystems! Our Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) offers a unique collaboration between the renowned Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, CT and the University of Connecticut, Avery Point located on Long Island Sound. Offered for 10 Weeks (June - August) in 2025 & 2026. What you will gain: Access to both Mystic Aquarium and UConn’s resources and expertise Training in cutting edge marine research (both field and laboratory opportunities); Professional development such as training in science communication, data analysis, etc. Job shadows at Mystic Aquarium; One-on-one mentoring with experts in Marine Science; Exploration of career opportunities; Monthly stipend, room and board, travel expenses. For more information, please visit https://bit.ly/3s9AAGU or scan the QR code to the right Funding for this REU Site is provided by the National Science Foundation’s Division of Biological Infrastructure in the Directorate for Biological Sciences and the Office of Polar Programs in the Directorate for Geosciences located in Alexandria, VA (DBI-2349353). There are 4 images at the top: two people taking a blow sample from a beluga whale (1), a person holding a horse shoe crab while knee high in water (2), a person loading something into a gel with a pipette (3), a person sitting with an African Penguin (4) The three logos are for NSF, Mystic Aquarium, and UCONN. There is also a QR code which directs to the link commented below this post.
January 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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I PASSED EVERYONE 🧪🍄✨
mya doing thumbs up. she’s wear Raven Baxter’s bedazzled science shirt with white painter pants mya after jumping into the ocean after passing. behind her is a rocky beach. she is smiling but is clearly freezing. it’s a .5 image mya doing a split at her desk after passing her exam. she’s wearing Raven Baxters merch bedazzled and pink science shirt with painter pants
December 5, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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so it’s tmr morning. it is what it is here we go i guess 😵‍💫🤷🏽‍♀️🫡
mya laying on her apartment floor after driving an hour home with her samples to be dropped off for sequencing and realizing she forgot to put the reference primer in the box.
December 4, 2024 at 11:58 PM
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not a drill 4 days
mya with her hands in her face with her mouth open / making a scared face. she’s wearing a light yellow tshirt with a white turtle neck. she’s sitting at a lab bench with numerous piles of petrie dishes on it.
December 1, 2024 at 2:08 PM
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yall this is some planet earth documentary stuff!!
the bug keeps escaping then falling into the crack??? the spider seems to have given up but is still scurrying, going in and out of the crack??? we will update…
unknown bug on a window sill. appears to have web stuck on its leg. a window sill with a spider web and a bug. the bug was stuck and has escaped
November 26, 2024 at 7:25 PM
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fun fact tiktaalik is my FAVORITE transition fossil/fossil
a stuffed plushie of tiktaalik on a sheet with various patterns of orange/white/magenta and birds. the plush has a green/sea foam top, yellow belly, and two black eyes on top of it’s head.
November 25, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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yall we are officially two weeks out…
Shows Barbie (played by Margot Robbie) in many states of being layered over each other. The center is Barbie smiling in the pink cowgirl outfit, the top left is Barbie laying in down on the grass after deciding she can’t stop the Ken’s, the top right is Barbie cry after realizing the real world is nothing like Barbie world , and the bottom left is Barbie crying when she decides to leave Barbie world to live life in the real world (these are more tears of joy and acceptance of life as a women).
November 21, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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t-minus 17 days till exam

status update in emojis: 🤔🫣🥸🧠‼️🤯🏃🏾‍♀️⌛️📚
table in a Caffe Nero with a paper titled “The developing relationship between the study of fungal communities and community ecology theory” (Bruns 2018), textbook title “The fungal community: its organization and role in the ecosystem fourth edition” (Dighton and White), some flash cards, and a red velvet hot chocolate.
November 18, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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omg i just realized how many people just followed so hello!!

plz enjoy this picture of costco stuffed peppers!!

i promise i post science stuff too 🦠🍄🌱🫶🏽 (im currently studying for my oral exam so bare w me 🫡) !
6 stuffed bell peppers, filled with ground beef, rice, and cheese.
November 17, 2024 at 2:02 AM
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post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline
photo of a salt marsh on a sunny day in New England (PIE LTER).
November 16, 2024 at 4:09 AM