Phil Brailey-Crane
@pretzellebites.bsky.social
Postdoc at UGA studying AMF! I like mycorrhizae, quilting, horror movies and my cats! 🏳️🌈 he/him
Pinned
Pavas night club is my new favourite evening activity
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SPUN is #hiring 👉 spun.bamboohr.com/careers
We're looking to fill the following positions:
1. Fungal Molecular Ecologist
2. Designer
3. Communications Assistant
Apply now and share with your networks 🌍
#Careers #Fungi #ScienceJobs #ScienceCommunication #Mycology
We're looking to fill the following positions:
1. Fungal Molecular Ecologist
2. Designer
3. Communications Assistant
Apply now and share with your networks 🌍
#Careers #Fungi #ScienceJobs #ScienceCommunication #Mycology
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
SPUN is #hiring 👉 spun.bamboohr.com/careers
We're looking to fill the following positions:
1. Fungal Molecular Ecologist
2. Designer
3. Communications Assistant
Apply now and share with your networks 🌍
#Careers #Fungi #ScienceJobs #ScienceCommunication #Mycology
We're looking to fill the following positions:
1. Fungal Molecular Ecologist
2. Designer
3. Communications Assistant
Apply now and share with your networks 🌍
#Careers #Fungi #ScienceJobs #ScienceCommunication #Mycology
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How can we combine community ecology, ecosystem ecology, urban ecology, and integrated land management with communal forms of production, anti-consumerism, library socialism, urban planning, and mutual aid? That’s what Ecologizing Society: Method is all about. 🌎🧪🌐🏡
"This project is based on the premise that we already have all the knowledge and technology we need to create an ecological society."
In our latest piece, @benlockwood.bsky.social continues the ongoing series, Ecologizing Society: Method
www.briefecology.com/p/introducin...
In our latest piece, @benlockwood.bsky.social continues the ongoing series, Ecologizing Society: Method
www.briefecology.com/p/introducin...
Introducing Ecologizing Society: Method
An ongoing, ecological series
www.briefecology.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
How can we combine community ecology, ecosystem ecology, urban ecology, and integrated land management with communal forms of production, anti-consumerism, library socialism, urban planning, and mutual aid? That’s what Ecologizing Society: Method is all about. 🌎🧪🌐🏡
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🧬🌳 VIEWPOINT 🌳🧬
Climate change threatens forest growth & resilience. CLE peptides regulate plant adaptation and stress responses. Understanding their role could help develop climate-smart trees for sustainable forestry - Sen and Bharati ✍️
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Climate change threatens forest growth & resilience. CLE peptides regulate plant adaptation and stress responses. Understanding their role could help develop climate-smart trees for sustainable forestry - Sen and Bharati ✍️
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
November 20, 2025 at 10:26 AM
🧬🌳 VIEWPOINT 🌳🧬
Climate change threatens forest growth & resilience. CLE peptides regulate plant adaptation and stress responses. Understanding their role could help develop climate-smart trees for sustainable forestry - Sen and Bharati ✍️
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Climate change threatens forest growth & resilience. CLE peptides regulate plant adaptation and stress responses. Understanding their role could help develop climate-smart trees for sustainable forestry - Sen and Bharati ✍️
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
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Pathogen mediated plant community ecology
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Commentary by Richard C. Cobb highlighting the recent work by Sun et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/BCFEQF...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Commentary by Richard C. Cobb highlighting the recent work by Sun et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/BCFEQF...
November 20, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Pathogen mediated plant community ecology
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Commentary by Richard C. Cobb highlighting the recent work by Sun et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/BCFEQF...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Commentary by Richard C. Cobb highlighting the recent work by Sun et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/BCFEQF...
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Transcriptomic analysis of two wheat genotypes in the presence of the pathogen #Zymoseptoria tritici and the biological control agent Clonostachys rosea doi.org/10.1016/j.pm...
November 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Transcriptomic analysis of two wheat genotypes in the presence of the pathogen #Zymoseptoria tritici and the biological control agent Clonostachys rosea doi.org/10.1016/j.pm...
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My colleague @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate to investigate rhizosphere processes influencing methane (CH₄) dynamics in northern peatlands! Super cool opening -- please circulate careers.pnnl.gov/jobs/11061?l...
Post Doctorate Research Associate - Peatland Rhizosphere and Trace Gas Processes in Richland, Washington | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PNNL is hiring a Post Doctorate Research Associate - Peatland Rhizosphere and Trace Gas Processes in Richland, Washington. Review all of the job details and apply today!
careers.pnnl.gov
November 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
My colleague @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate to investigate rhizosphere processes influencing methane (CH₄) dynamics in northern peatlands! Super cool opening -- please circulate careers.pnnl.gov/jobs/11061?l...
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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🌾 RESEARCH 🌾
Association analysis on 450 rice accessions identified 67 marker–trait associations for grain yield under reproductive drought stress, linked to 23 genes. Introgressed haplotypes increased yield by 25–27% under drought - Singh et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Association analysis on 450 rice accessions identified 67 marker–trait associations for grain yield under reproductive drought stress, linked to 23 genes. Introgressed haplotypes increased yield by 25–27% under drought - Singh et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
🌾 RESEARCH 🌾
Association analysis on 450 rice accessions identified 67 marker–trait associations for grain yield under reproductive drought stress, linked to 23 genes. Introgressed haplotypes increased yield by 25–27% under drought - Singh et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Association analysis on 450 rice accessions identified 67 marker–trait associations for grain yield under reproductive drought stress, linked to 23 genes. Introgressed haplotypes increased yield by 25–27% under drought - Singh et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Reposted by Phil Brailey-Crane
✨ Paper spotlight ✨
Mycelial Dynamics in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(🧵 1/5) Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi form vast underground hyphal networks that support plant life.
Mycelial Dynamics in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(🧵 1/5) Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi form vast underground hyphal networks that support plant life.
October 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM
✨ Paper spotlight ✨
Mycelial Dynamics in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(🧵 1/5) Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi form vast underground hyphal networks that support plant life.
Mycelial Dynamics in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(🧵 1/5) Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi form vast underground hyphal networks that support plant life.
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Still using 16S/ITS profiling? You might want to reconsider👀
Our new paper presents pangenome-informed amplicons that provide up to 10× higher phylogenetic resolution than full-length ribosomal markers- while remaining cost effective and scalable!
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Our new paper presents pangenome-informed amplicons that provide up to 10× higher phylogenetic resolution than full-length ribosomal markers- while remaining cost effective and scalable!
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
High-resolution profiling of bacterial and fungal communities using pangenome-informed taxon-specific long-read amplicons - Microbiome
Background High-throughput sequencing technologies have greatly advanced our understanding of microbiomes, but resolving microbial communities at species and strain levels remains challenging. Results...
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Still using 16S/ITS profiling? You might want to reconsider👀
Our new paper presents pangenome-informed amplicons that provide up to 10× higher phylogenetic resolution than full-length ribosomal markers- while remaining cost effective and scalable!
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Our new paper presents pangenome-informed amplicons that provide up to 10× higher phylogenetic resolution than full-length ribosomal markers- while remaining cost effective and scalable!
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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On this beautiful morning in Astoria, I cast my ballot for our city and our future.
I hope you will too.
I hope you will too.
November 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
On this beautiful morning in Astoria, I cast my ballot for our city and our future.
I hope you will too.
I hope you will too.
Reposted by Phil Brailey-Crane
Cuomo Makes 11th-Hour Pass At Female New Yorkers
November 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Cuomo Makes 11th-Hour Pass At Female New Yorkers
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Here’s another reason why billionaires are annoying- why are we even taking the Gates memo seriously? He’s not a trained climate scholar or even a seasoned advocate. He’s not a climate expert. He’s a rich dude with an opinion that gets legitimacy because of the money. Hard pass.
October 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Here’s another reason why billionaires are annoying- why are we even taking the Gates memo seriously? He’s not a trained climate scholar or even a seasoned advocate. He’s not a climate expert. He’s a rich dude with an opinion that gets legitimacy because of the money. Hard pass.
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Here in the uk, the government has found that £1 of spending on R&D results in £8 of benefit: www.gov.uk/government/p...
The value of public R&D
www.gov.uk
October 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Here in the uk, the government has found that £1 of spending on R&D results in £8 of benefit: www.gov.uk/government/p...
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🌟New PhD opportunity: 🌱🦠Predicting functional plant–microbiome networks for soil remediation 🌾🧫
The University of Manchester FSE Bicentenary PhD
Competition funded (worldwide)
Deadline 31st Jan, see info at bit.ly/4qn74qH
@manchester.ac.uk @rothamsted.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social
The University of Manchester FSE Bicentenary PhD
Competition funded (worldwide)
Deadline 31st Jan, see info at bit.ly/4qn74qH
@manchester.ac.uk @rothamsted.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
🌟New PhD opportunity: 🌱🦠Predicting functional plant–microbiome networks for soil remediation 🌾🧫
The University of Manchester FSE Bicentenary PhD
Competition funded (worldwide)
Deadline 31st Jan, see info at bit.ly/4qn74qH
@manchester.ac.uk @rothamsted.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social
The University of Manchester FSE Bicentenary PhD
Competition funded (worldwide)
Deadline 31st Jan, see info at bit.ly/4qn74qH
@manchester.ac.uk @rothamsted.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social
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Years of normalisation of far-right politics as "legitimate grievances" in a top-down manner have led to this
The responsibility does not just lie with Reform but with all those mainstream elite actors who have indulged these reactionary, demophobic fantasies
The responsibility does not just lie with Reform but with all those mainstream elite actors who have indulged these reactionary, demophobic fantasies
👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."
"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."
"I blame you for that."
"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."
"I blame you for that."
October 17, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Years of normalisation of far-right politics as "legitimate grievances" in a top-down manner have led to this
The responsibility does not just lie with Reform but with all those mainstream elite actors who have indulged these reactionary, demophobic fantasies
The responsibility does not just lie with Reform but with all those mainstream elite actors who have indulged these reactionary, demophobic fantasies
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What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity.
And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.
And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.
October 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity.
And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.
And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.
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Zohran Mamdani is the ethical power empath the world has been waiting for.
MeidasTouch has put together this excellent power clip of the best moments of the NYC mayoral debate between the clear moral leader in the race and the corrupt genocidal moral failures he is running against.
MeidasTouch has put together this excellent power clip of the best moments of the NYC mayoral debate between the clear moral leader in the race and the corrupt genocidal moral failures he is running against.
October 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Zohran Mamdani is the ethical power empath the world has been waiting for.
MeidasTouch has put together this excellent power clip of the best moments of the NYC mayoral debate between the clear moral leader in the race and the corrupt genocidal moral failures he is running against.
MeidasTouch has put together this excellent power clip of the best moments of the NYC mayoral debate between the clear moral leader in the race and the corrupt genocidal moral failures he is running against.
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🌾🦠 RESEARCH 🌾🦠
The BSL2 gene, isolated through map-based cloning approach, encoding a receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase, plays negative roles in regulating the innate immune response and broad-spectrum disease resistance in rice - Wang et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
The BSL2 gene, isolated through map-based cloning approach, encoding a receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase, plays negative roles in regulating the innate immune response and broad-spectrum disease resistance in rice - Wang et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
October 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
🌾🦠 RESEARCH 🌾🦠
The BSL2 gene, isolated through map-based cloning approach, encoding a receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase, plays negative roles in regulating the innate immune response and broad-spectrum disease resistance in rice - Wang et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
The BSL2 gene, isolated through map-based cloning approach, encoding a receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase, plays negative roles in regulating the innate immune response and broad-spectrum disease resistance in rice - Wang et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Reposted by Phil Brailey-Crane
All Eyes On Global Sumud Flotilla
October 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
All Eyes On Global Sumud Flotilla
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🌾🔄 EDITOR’S CHOICE 🌾🔄
Loss-of-function of DWARF14 Like (D14L), a paralog of the strigolactone receptor D14, caused enhanced root growth with a shoot growth penalty, revealing an interaction between D14L and central metabolism – Salem et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Loss-of-function of DWARF14 Like (D14L), a paralog of the strigolactone receptor D14, caused enhanced root growth with a shoot growth penalty, revealing an interaction between D14L and central metabolism – Salem et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
October 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
🌾🔄 EDITOR’S CHOICE 🌾🔄
Loss-of-function of DWARF14 Like (D14L), a paralog of the strigolactone receptor D14, caused enhanced root growth with a shoot growth penalty, revealing an interaction between D14L and central metabolism – Salem et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Loss-of-function of DWARF14 Like (D14L), a paralog of the strigolactone receptor D14, caused enhanced root growth with a shoot growth penalty, revealing an interaction between D14L and central metabolism – Salem et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
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🌼 In open biomes, plant height can be unrelated to plant age. This study assesses plant age by counting annual growth rings within sections of stem base🧪🌎
Size isn't age: Decoupled and interacting effects of height and age on functional traits in grassland plants
buff.ly
October 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🌼 In open biomes, plant height can be unrelated to plant age. This study assesses plant age by counting annual growth rings within sections of stem base🧪🌎
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"A new analysis by The Xylom shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on the specialized knowledge of H-1B skilled workers..." Uprooter @alexip718.com for @thexylom.com
www.thexylom.com/post/h-1b-vi...
www.thexylom.com/post/h-1b-vi...
The Most Detailed Maps of H-1B Visa Holders Joining America's Top Research Institutions
A new analysis by The Xylom shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on the specialized knowledge of H-1B skilled workers — and how this delicate...
www.thexylom.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
"A new analysis by The Xylom shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on the specialized knowledge of H-1B skilled workers..." Uprooter @alexip718.com for @thexylom.com
www.thexylom.com/post/h-1b-vi...
www.thexylom.com/post/h-1b-vi...
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Excited to share our paper on grassland establishment 7 yrs after native #AMF inoculation—showing AMF result in higher diversity + prairie spread into old fields—was selected Editor’s Choice by @femsjournals.bsky.social.🦠🌎
I’ll discuss next week at #SER2025 Denver ! academic.oup.com/femsle/artic...
I’ll discuss next week at #SER2025 Denver ! academic.oup.com/femsle/artic...
🍄 Fungi to the rescue! Native AMF inoculation helps prairie restoration 🌱 by boosting native plant diversity and kicking weeds to the curb (even 7 years later). A long-term win for restoration ecology. 📄https://buff.ly/Uyl6f78 #FEMSMicrobiolLett #Mycorrhiza #Microbiology
September 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Excited to share our paper on grassland establishment 7 yrs after native #AMF inoculation—showing AMF result in higher diversity + prairie spread into old fields—was selected Editor’s Choice by @femsjournals.bsky.social.🦠🌎
I’ll discuss next week at #SER2025 Denver ! academic.oup.com/femsle/artic...
I’ll discuss next week at #SER2025 Denver ! academic.oup.com/femsle/artic...
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📢 Funded PhD opportunities for UK candidates in beautiful Edinburgh. Get in touch if you're interested in a PhD on understanding the mechanisms of soil carbon cycling and the role of microbes. We work in different ecosystems: peatlands, forests and agricultural soils. Please repost/spread the word.
September 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
📢 Funded PhD opportunities for UK candidates in beautiful Edinburgh. Get in touch if you're interested in a PhD on understanding the mechanisms of soil carbon cycling and the role of microbes. We work in different ecosystems: peatlands, forests and agricultural soils. Please repost/spread the word.