Catharina Neumann

Ah f**** I missed it! But there is the 7h video, so please no spoilers 🤫 youtube.com/watch?v=GKbIPn…

Currently reading Karl Schütte from the 1950ies (nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.…) and the references in this papers. It is a lot of fun and it´s fascinating how much was already discussed in the 19th century

Does anyone know what the first experiment on a fungal community was? Which scientist or laboratory was the first to use multiple fungi together in ecological experiments?

Thank you, Fanny! Reading about the conditions of that time, laboratories sound like scenes from a Western movie. Who are your favorite microbial lab scientists stories from the 19th century, and what did they do?

Fanny noticed that agar—used in jams and jellies—was heat-resistant and didn't degrade easily. She suggested her husband, microbiologist Walther Hesse, to try it in the lab. It was a game-changer: stable, clear, and perfect for bacterial cultures

Before 1881, scientists used gelatin to grow bacteria. It worked—until the cultures melted in summer or got devoured by bacteria! Microbiology needed a better solution. Enter Fanny Hesse, a lab assistant with a brilliant idea

It took me SEVEN years to figure out that you can save a ggplot as a vectorized .svg file ggsave("file.svg"). The svg file can be opened on powerpoint and it will be completely vectorized, even text are still recognized as text boxes! No more recreating plots on illustrator!!!!!

My first conference was a blast. I was not in the mood to tweet, but I was in the mood to get drunk with fellow nerds from across the world. Grateful for all the new friends and the input you all gave me. Fungal people are awesome

“No Christian can go there. The mountains of the troll church belong to the heathen trolls. If a Christian ventures there, he will come to grief." The pagans are gone and the troll church is now run by a tiny god en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trollkyrka

Very relatable ant working hard for the fungus

"You can't have it all... but you can have August." I love this poem so much: themarginalian.org/2019/02/07/you…

New global change factor? theguardian.com/environment/ar…

@l_szangolies @AnimalEcology Congrats Leonna, really nice 🎉

Excited to see the second paper of my #PhD out in @AnimalEcology 🎉 check out the blog post animalecologyinfocus.com/2024/07/23/hap… #coexistence #energetics #fragmentation

Plan before acting. A few hours of strategic thinking can dramatically improve execution efficiency.

📢🎆We are hiring a postdoc to come work with mycorrhizal fungi in microfluidic soil chips to study fungal decision making at the micro-scale. Sounds intriguing? Come join us at @lunduniversity! Apply through the link below ⬇️#fungi #microfluidics #postdoc lu.varbi.com/what:job/jobID…

When colleagues make you laugh even though there is a mite-pocalypse

@Mingyue_Yuan_ You would have been a Bruno Hooligan 😌

@Neumann_Ca I like bears 🐻 a lot! 😜

True Crime Bär! Der erste Bär in Deutschland seit 170 Jahren macht einen Riesen Wirbel. Die Geschichte vom Problembär Bruno, Bruno Hooligans und Brunos Familie. Ich hab nicht gewusst, dass die Geschichte so komplex war podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/wil…

@Mingyue_Yuan_ Yes it’s only German. Hope we can translate anything soon and live for everyone. I liked the format of true crime wilderness a lot

@Neumann_Ca It seems very interesting! But no English version! 🥲