Ryan Folk 🐕

folk lab lunchin

The Folk Lab at #Evolution2025. ⁦@ry_folk⁩ ⁦@NickEngleWrye⁩ ⁦@dexcemp⁩ ⁦@GiramPranoti⁩ Shamim and John. #Athens #Georgia

@D_Sushi1 @NickEngleWrye

Nick presenting his work on Heuchera hybridization in #Evolution2025

Congrats to @D_Sushi1 for passing his candidacy exams! 🌱

It's here and ahead-of-print at @ASNAmNat ! 🎉 Our 22-page polyploid coexistence model is now available: doi.org/10.1086/734411 This work wouldn’t be possible without NSF support—including funding from an NSF GRFP, an NSF PRFB, and NSF DMS & DBI grants. @soltislab @NKortessis

Congrats phd candidate ⁦@dexcemp⁩ 🎊🎊

the press to my herbarium specimen

NEW PAPER OUT! Assessing drivers of leaf endophyte diversity and composition across a broad geographic and phylogenetic scale, we found that: -assembly patterns differed between bacterial and fungal endophytes; (1/3)

lunchin with my siblings

Something new every day in the lab...

It is really nice to see that data supported hypotheses very well: Long-term nitrogen deposition reduces the diversity of nitrogen-fixing plants | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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An elevational cline in leaf variegation: Testing anti-#herbivory & abiotic heterogeneity hypotheses in maintaining a #polymorphism New #AJB research at Cierra Sullivan & @mhkoski doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1… #botany #ecophysiology #@wileyplantsci

Upholstery adventure part two. Adding muslin, then damask, then gimp! This is supposed to match my settee, which is from the same period with a similar pattern.

More of those cool handmade nails!

New upholstery adventure 1/2. Another carved rosewood piece (Dalbergia sissoo?). The modern upholstery was a bad job, kind of lumpy. The batting is original, check out that horse hair! I fixed the lumps using some raw wool from the same period but kept the rest.

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Now official, I’ve moved back to London and today is my first day at Birkbeck, University of London! Researching all things botanical🌿🌱🪴 - potential postdocs or PhD/MRes students do feel free to get in touch! @BBKNatSci @BirkbeckScience @BirkbeckUoL

Elemental and isotopic analysis of leaves predicts nitrogen-fixing phenotypes @joshua_doby @compositaecarol @soltislab @robgural @ry_folk nature.com/articles/s4159…