Jason Slot (@fungolution) 's Twitter Profile
Jason Slot

@fungolution

Fungal Evolution Professor at Ohio State. Opinions my own. Ideas are judged by how competitive they are in an open ecosystem. Refuse to infantilize my audience.

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Antiwar.com (@antiwarcom) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Reps. Massie and Khanna Introduce Bipartisan War Powers Resolution To Prevent War With Iran Contact your House representative and tell them to support the resolution by Dave DeCamp Dave DeCamp #Iran #Israel news.antiwar.com/2025/06/17/rep…

Justin Amash (@justinamash) 's Twitter Profile Photo

There’s not a single plausible argument that Trump currently has the authority to launch offensive strikes against Iran. Congress hasn’t declared war against Iran, as the Constitution requires, nor has Congress otherwise authorized military hostilities in Iran. The American

Alex Vacca (@itsalexvacca) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying. Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt. Here's what 4 months of data revealed: (hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying.

Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt.

Here's what 4 months of data revealed:

(hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)
Applied Microbiology International (@amiposts) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The colourful pigment extracted from the lac insect may actually be produced by a symbiotic yeast-like organism living inside the insect, a new study by Indian scientists has found. the-microbiologist.com/news/coveted-l… IISc Bangalore

New Phytologist (@newphyt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#TansleyInsight: Beyond defense: microbial modifications of #plant specialized #metabolites alter and expand their #ecological #functions Kerstin Unger & Matthew Agler 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… #LatestIssue Wiley Plant Science

#TansleyInsight: Beyond defense: microbial modifications of #plant specialized #metabolites alter and expand their #ecological #functions

Kerstin Unger & Matthew Agler
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Jason Slot (@fungolution) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Cautiously optimistic for conflict resolution. Glad the cryptic warmongers were emboldened to show their true colors this week, for the sake of clearing up my timeline. More glad to see principled resistance show up.

Secretary Kennedy (@seckennedy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Psychedelic therapies show real promise for veterans and others battling trauma. We’re accelerating clinical trials at U.S. FDA with urgency—and working to ensure safe, science-based access within 12 months. Some therapies can’t wait.

Purdue Agriculture (@purdueag) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Can I eat this mushroom? According to Rabern Simmons, PhD 🔬💧🍄, the curator of fungi in Purdue BPP, probably not! Discover the wonderful world of mostly non-edible fungi in the Purdue University fungarium. 🍄 purdueag.exposure.co/herbaria

Steve Marek (@stephenmarek2) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Invasive golden oyster mushrooms are disrupting native fungal communities as they spread throughout North America: Current Biology cell.com/current-biolog…

Invasive golden oyster mushrooms are disrupting native fungal communities as they spread throughout North America: Current Biology cell.com/current-biolog…
Matthias C. Rillig (@mrillig) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Reading in journal club Van Nuland et al. Global hotspots of mycorrhizal fungal richness are poorly protected SPUN Michael Van Nuland Toby Kiers & many others nature.com/articles/s4158…

Andrew Kern (@pastramimachine) 's Twitter Profile Photo

depressing to me how biologists, because of their allergy to all things AI/ML, have basically ceded the AI+Bio space to computer scientists

Ryan York (@ryanayork) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The challenge is fundamental: evolution determines what can be learned. To realize the full potential of BFMs, machine learning and evolutionary biology must open a deep dialogue. Read our full pub Arcadia Science: research.arcadiascience.com/pub/idea-phylo… [9/9]

Jason Slot (@fungolution) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If the government has the children in their facilities for the best hours of their days, and the health of the children declines partly due to lack of activity there, the government must correct its flawed implementation of public education.