Bea Bock

In a New series of @YouTube interviews for @southmycorrhiza conducted by Nicolas Montoya during our III Symposium in the 🇨🇴 Amazon, find this one to @jhooooks And previous interviews to: @vandeHeijdenLab @adri_corrales33 #JessicaDuchicela #Mycorrhiza youtu.be/hSrlVjkiDE0?is…

Very happy to have @cesarmarin203 give a talk in our lab meeting on multi-level selection. Great talk and super interesting discussions.

My mentee is currently running an experiment testing if carbon availability drives Alternaria to switch from pathogen to mutualist in Sorghum. It is a nuanced, difficult question, and he is absolutely crushing it. Proud mentor moment! #Mentorship #TeacherScholar #FungalEcology

I use AI to extract ecological data. Meanwhile, AI is out here extracting my actual face. 🤖😂 An organization recently ran my photo through an AI enhancer before publishing it. A fun(??) digital makeover? Original on the left, AI on the right. Spot the differences!

Trading the computer for the river! 🚣‍♀️🏜️ Heading into the Grand Canyon for a packrafting trip to celebrate my successful PhD defense. Completely off the grid for the next little bit. Wish me luck!

Officially a certified @thecarpentries Instructor! 💻✨ Data science shouldn't be gatekept. Really excited to run official workshops and help more ecologists wrangle their data with R and Python.

@cesarmarin203 That is so nice! I am so glad you could join, and I appreciate all the kind words 🥰

What an amazing, inspiring thesis @Bea_m_Bock !!! A great productivity presented very smoothly!

@Mycocentriq Thank you!!

@Bea_m_Bock Good luck!!

Today is the day! I will be giving my PhD defense talk in just a few hours. If you meant to grab the Zoom link, please DM me right now before I have to close my inbox and go get set up. See you all on the other side! 🤞🍄

@cesarmarin203 It’s Gemini for the background and Canva for the text :) So excited you can join!

@Bea_m_Bock This is Sedona drawing? AI? Ill attend!

I am officially defending my PhD this Thursday, March 5th! If you want to hear about AI literature mining, cottonwood drought survival, and the "dark web" of fungal networks, come by! Check the poster for the time. DM me for the Zoom link :)

Very excited to share that I am heading to CU Boulder this May for the 2026 @CU_ESIIL Innovation Summit! 🏔️💻 We will be spending the week focused on AI for Sustainability, Earth embeddings, and open environmental data. Can't wait to collaborate with this community.

Finally gave my digital home a renovation! 🛠️ I moved away from just listing dissertation chapters to sharing actual resources. You can now find my open-source R packages (nanodRop), wet lab protocols, and NLP workflows all in one place. beabockm.wixsite.com/bea-bock

People often assume Arizona is just saguaros and heat. Meanwhile, Flagstaff is doing this. ❄️ The roads are messy, but the coding productivity is high today. Hunkering down with data pipelines now (and dreaming of thawing out in there later). Stay warm, friends!

@Mike_VanNuland It’s a perfect example of why we can’t just look at the trees. We have to look at the fungal partners available belowground. Definitely a must-read for my fellow mycorrhizae nerds! Link to paper here: nature.com/articles/s4156…

@Mike_VanNuland The real worry? In places where Populus is increasingly EMF-dependent, trees might be left with a dwindling pool of quality fungal partners to choose from as their environment shifts.

I keep returning to this 2023 paper by @Mike_VanNuland et al. on Populus fungal biodiversity. Even two years later, it’s a foundational dataset for anyone looking at continental-scale fungal shifts, especially as I wrap up my own cottonwood work. 🧵👇 #Mycorrhiza #PlantScience

@EuraxessChina Thank you :)

@Bea_m_Bock Enjoy the open air for a bit!

My dissertation has officially left my inbox and is now with my committee! It feels incredible to hit this milestone after years of work. One step closer to the finish line. Now, we wait (and maybe head outside for a bit). 🎓✨ #PhDLife #AcademicTwitter #Dissertation

@Mycocentriq Thank you! It was a lovely outdoor weekend - what a treat :)

@Bea_m_Bock Congrats champ!! Enjoy the outdoors!🎉🎉🎉