Bohemian rhapsody for postdocs: Is this a real job? Or more like a PhD? Caught in short contracts No chance of stability Open your eyes Look up to PIs and see I'm just a postdoc I get no sympathy Because I'm easy come, easy go Stress is high Pay is low

The Penn State Microbiome Center (One Health Microbiome Center) has named six recipients for its inaugural Interdisciplinary Innovation Fellowships program, which aims to promote collaborative training opportunities for center members. psu.edu/news/research/…

Morning walk view at Walnut Spring Park 🍃🌳

It's not just that many "compostable" bioplastics don't compost as they should. Most are likely to be more environmentally damaging than the fossil fuel plastics they replace.🧵

!!!FREE DOWNLOAD!!! ;-) In this link you can download the pdf of the book “Biocostras en la España Peninsular” in which we tried to provide an overall overview of the biocrusts composition, functions and threats using non-technical language ecoretosdrylands.wordpress.com/atlas-de-las-b…

Have spent the last weeks making a larger-than-life biocrust diorama for EcossNAU outreach! Thanks to @KateLPetersen for the original idea to feature this ubiquitous aridland micro-world as public #sciart

Hoy quiero hablaros de una fotografía. Una fotografía que nos llevará a otras muchas fotografías. Cada una, con su historia particular. Historias únicas, humanas, casi mágicas. Pero empecemos por esta. ¿Me acompañas?

Words fail to capture the beauty of the Páramos in Chingaza National Park, Colombia. It was an honor to collaborate with Estelle Couradeau, Sarah Glass and Johanna Santamaría for this field work.

Microbiomes in Penn State News! Learn more about Estelle Couradeau et al.'s work on soil biocrusts! psu.edu/news/research/…

Announcing our Fall Seminar speakers! Fridays @ 11am Dr. Josephine Wee BCEM Uniandes Kristina Campbell, microbiome science writer The Ferrari Lab: @TheFerrariLab.bsky.social Prof. & Dr. Isabelle Laforest-L. (she/her/elle) Ionat Zurr Ferran Garcia-Pichel Estelle Couradeau Raul Roman Chad Fautt Bob Nichols Denise Monack Ming Wang Amber Benezar, Greg Goyne, Waleed El Sayed

Want to know more about #biocrusts? 🦠🏜️ Join us this Friday at 11AM EST to hear from Penn State researchers Estelle Couradeau and Raul Roman on the applications of microbial ecology to soil emergent properties in biocrusts. If you can't make it, DM us for the zoom link!

Thansk very much to Stefan Herdy, B. Weber and T. Pock to give me the chance to colaborate in the development of AI tools for mapping #biocrusts from pictures. We don´t have to mannually digitalize anymore! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Join us for our biennial One Health Microbiome Symposium May 30-31, 2024 (limited spots) Registration & abstract submissions are now open! 🦠🌍🐄🌿😷💊🦟 Keynotes: Paul Schulze-Lefert, Steffanie Strathdee, PhD 🗡️ 🦠Superbug Slayer🗡️, Maria Gloria Dominguez Bello, & Edith Hammer huck.psu.edu/institutes-and…

🧂🧂Adding salt to BG11 could be an easy way to harden cyanobacteria during lab culturing More info here!👇 #cyanobacteria #restoration #antarctica #drylands onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Undergraduates UNLV - looking for a summer REU opportunity this year and want to discover dryland soil microbes UNLV College of Sciences? Submit an application here: lter.jornada.nmsu.edu/outreach/reu-p…

Most of #biocrusts and art. Recovering old art creations by Raul Roman and Yolanda canton

We heard tons of “wow”s & “cool”s today while the next gen checked out our #biocrust specimens under microscopes & learned bout their importance Las Vegas Science & Technology Festival. Raul Roman Michael Mba kusibu Benjy Sedano-Herrera & A. Alarcon did an amazing job engaging 100s of kiddos #soilcyanobacteria #drylands

This week has been another whirlwind week! Nonetheless I need to say I am so darn grateful to be able to get into #biocrust research trouble w this amazing team w @desertmossgal Raul Roman Michael Mba kusibu Benjy Sedano-Herrera et al in breathtaking #drylands.

Excited to share a new paper from Universidad de Almería, expertly led by Aitor! Thrilled to have been part of it! Miriam Muñoz Rojas Raul Roman Optimizing survival and growth of inoculated biocrust-forming cyanobac... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Synergistic use of paper waste and biocrust to improve soil functions, and microbial functional potential for nutrient cycling in drylands. Very interesting study by L.Maggioli, Bea Roncero Ramos, Raul Roman, S.Chamizo and Y.Canton Soil Biology & Biochemistry Journal sciencedirect.com/science/articl…