Jennifer Frazer

🤩🥲🤯News: My first book, to be titled "The Slime Mold's Guide to World Domination", has been acquired by @DuttonBooks. It will be a funny natural history of slime molds that’s also a mystery — how can a single cell possibly be intelligent? — with a plot twist ending.

@markowenmartin Sadly, no. : (

Hey, @JenniferFrazer---I love showing students your essay on Mycobacterium ghosts...but many of the links are broken. blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/… Is there another source?

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@bittelmethis Jason -- huge congrats on the Sloan Award!! Just sent you an email asking for advice as I am about to apply too. Out of curiosity: what is your book deadline?

@JenniferFrazer You bet, that was amazing! Book writing has been... not terrible! Some days it's the best. And some days I feel like my brain case is full of concrete. How about you? I just saw you're writing one, too!

Jaw on the floor. Stunned to know that Sounds Wild and Broken @VikingBooks @penguinusa is a #Pulitzer finalist. Congratulations to the winners and finalists, @ToluseO, @newsbysamuels, @tsu_jing, and @lindavillarosa, and deepest thank you to the judges, chaired by @rgay.

Leptodora has a crystal clear body with a giant eye and mouth. They can be a couple of centimeters in length and are voracious predators, they feed on other crustaceans. And with their Sauron eye, they can see light.

Rusts are what happen when fungi take their own LSD and psilocybin

Sigh. Thank you evolution.

My latest at The Artful Amoeba: Pitcher Plants of Borneo Become Sanitation Engineers theartfulamoeba.substack.com/p/pitcher-plan…

Ooooooh ... tough call. It's a tossup between "Find Tardigrades" and "Grow slime molds"!

@markowenmartin Passion is possibly the most important qualification. : )

@JenniferFrazer There are probably far more famous VIMs...but few as enthusiastic about such issues as yours truly.

@JenniferFrazer: I just heard about your new book in progress! If you want a reviewer or educator's blurb (from a #MicrobialCentrist), I stand ready. I have long admired your work.

@markowenmartin Also, I just put up a substack post about how the book happened (so far): theartfulamoeba.substack.com/p/the-slime-mo…

My new book, The Slime Mold's Guide to World Domination is finally happening. Read more about how it came to be here: theartfulamoeba.substack.com/p/the-slime-mo…

@eftavares Yes! But we are still likely two years away, unfortunately. I get a year, and then the publisher gets a year.

Did the first interview for my new book today. Had to stare at the phone for a while as a I did before my first interview ever. Feels tremendously exciting to kick that monkey off my back and truly begin.

@bittelmethis I am just starting and so am going through all my files and office and getting everything organized in prep. I have been working on this book on and off for 11 years so there is a lot of accumulated debris

My Latest: What Human Follicle Mites and the Spanish Hapsburgs Have in Common theartfulamoeba.substack.com/p/what-human-f…

This polychaete worm will be coming to a nightmare theater near me very soon. More please! 🙂