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Heartbreaking news. Serious question: how do we get more sustainable funding for precious resources like this? cbc.ca/amp/1.7360805

Bring your data visualizations to life with animation! The gganimate package extends ggplot2 by adding animation capabilities, making it easy to create dynamic and engaging plots that reveal patterns over time or across categories. ✔️ Dynamic Storytelling: Transform static

mOTUs online database provides web-accessible genomic context to taxonomic profiling of microbial communities academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

The ggh4x package is an extension for ggplot2 that enhances the flexibility of creating complex and customizable visualizations. It adds extra functionality, allowing users to build more sophisticated plots with less effort. Opportunities and advantages of using ggh4x include:

tidyplots Time to say goodbye to ggplot2?🫡 "a significant reduction of code complexity" vs ggplot2 cran.r-project.org/web/packages/t… Jan Broder Engler bioRxiv 2024 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

My department is hiring a fungal biologist! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01990 #jobs #AcademicTwitter #fungi #mushrooms

My department is hiring an agricultural disease modeler! #AcademicTwitter #jobs aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02021

New Glassman lab paper led by my former PhD student Fabi Pulido-Chavez! Some of you may remember the Stirling Ultracold freezer saga of 2020. Well.c we made lemonade out of lemons! If this happens to you don’t rush to throw everything away. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

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🔥Incident Updates (1/16/2025 PM) #PalisadesFire fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025… * Pacific Palisades (LA County) * 23,713 acres, 27% contained #EatonFire fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025… * North Pasadena and Altadena (LA County) * 14,117 acres, 55% contained #HurstFire (FINAL)

My co-PI Steven Allison is looking for a postdoc to complete the modeling aspects of our DOE Office of Science funded research predicting how microbes contribute to nitrogen cycling changes after fires! Please apply! #AcademicTwitter #job recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09456

New paper from the lab-

You can now download the entire community matrix for ~83,000 samples (with metadata) and ~75,000 fungal taxa with just one click! Explore the GlobalFungi database.

This is super cool our article was one of the top 10 cited papers in Molecular Ecology from 2023! Read it here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #TopCitedArticle Wiley in research

Glassman lab at the ⁦UC Riverside⁩ undergraduate symposium supporting our super star undergrad Daniel! Great work!

New Glassman lab paper out led by my PhD student Arik Joukhajian examining AMF of Eastern Joshua tree across seasons and in roots vs soils #fungi #science #publication #proudPI …icro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Pine-fungal co-invasion alters whole-ecosystem properties of a native #eucalypt forest 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… by Corinne Vietorisz et al. @WileyPlantSci Jake Nash Alex Siggers #ectomycorrhizal #fungi #leaflitter Illustration by Corinne Vietorisz

Biodiversity hotspots of ectomycorrhizal and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are located in other parts of the world: at low and high latitudes. And these important symbiotic partners of crops and trees deserve more protection! See nature.com/articles/s4158… and GlobalFungi.