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Nitrate-constructed fungal communities and rhizosphere metabolites confer resistance to Fusarium wilt in cucumber
Zeng et al.
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Jason Slot
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Jason Slot
@fungolution
Fungal Evolution Professor at Ohio State. Opinions my own. Ideas are judged by how competitive they are in an open ecosystem. Refuse to infantilize my audience.
Columbus, OH 加入时间 Temmuz 2011
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After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.
May God bless America.
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@BorkNathanial @wil_da_beast630 Was going to argue this but now I don't have to.
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@wil_da_beast630 Male variability hypothesis and counter-point:
Relatively fewer women die after handing a cold beer over to her best girl friend and telling her to 'watch this.'
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More recent IQ data analyses seem to show that MEN are smarter/testing better.
Takes?
Meng Hu@MengHu13
Parra & Kirkegaard just published a meta-analysis showing a sex IQ gap of 2.57 IQ in favor of men, among adults. Richard Lynn's hypothesis was also validated, with large male advantage with age.
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AI has huge promise for genomics -- but it has consistently failed at microbiome-based prediction.
My new post on why simple models keep winning, where deep learning actually earns its place, and where the field is headed.
blekhman.substack.com/p/ai-keeps-fai…
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@fungolution @wil_da_beast630 @grok Grok is wrong, almost 25% of the beef in the US is dairy derived, including the majority of low cost beef. They keep it close to the breast, but insideds claim that McDonalds (the largest beef customer in the world) uses 100% lean cull meat with fat trimmings added.
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Humans don't eat grass.
This argument has sooome validity for fully grain-finished Western cattle. But a sheep, say, isn't "taking" that sage-brush from hungry people.
Delusional Takes@DelusionPosting
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@fungolution @wil_da_beast630 Also, most fast food beef comes from culled cattle. CAFO beef is at nice restaurants and grocery stores
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@demosthene1d @wil_da_beast630 yeah, not good for animal/human health
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@fungolution @wil_da_beast630 CAFO beef cattle spend most of their life on rangeland that is unsuitabe for growing cereal crops. And much of the grain fed in feed lots is byproducts of ethanol production.
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@elonmusk just like their high-speed trains... built quickly with a huge debt, then found out mostly useless!
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Electricity output is the single best proxy for industrial capacity
World of Statistics@stats_feed
🇨🇳 China now generates 40% more electricity than the US and EU combined.
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Be prepared, there is a small chance that our horrendous leadership could unknowingly lead us into World War III.
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One of my favorite histories we've published. I never appreciated just how crucial agar was during WWII.
The British and Japanese mobilized troops to hunt for red algae to isolate agar, as it was needed to manufacture penicillin for soldiers.
Check out the full essay 🔻
Asimov Press@AsimovPress
NEW: Agar is a ubiquitous part of research labs, used to grow microbes to make vaccines & antibiotics. The person who first discovered its "superior features" for microbiology was Fanny Hesse, a “German housewife” whose contributions to science have mostly been forgotten.
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New Preprint: A specialized ARGONAUTE enables trans-species RNA interference in plant immunity (2026)
tsl.ac.uk/publications/1…
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Chemical evidence of ergot in ancient greek religion
nature.com/articles/s4159…
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Thrilled to be part of this event at @OhioState in March:
Religion and Psychedelics: Critical, Cross-Cultural, Cross-Disciplinary Approaches.
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CtTLP13 Located in Extracellular Vesicles Enhances the Resistance of Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius) to Botrytis cinerea - Ma - 2026 - Molecular Plant Pathology - Wiley Online Library bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mp…
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Host Preference Associated With Deoxynivalenol and Nivalenol Chemotypes in Fusarium graminearum, F. asiaticum, and F. meridionale - Liu - 2026 - Molecular Plant Pathology - Wiley Online Library bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mp…
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@AlexBerenson Strong counter-hypothesis would be that genetic high caffeine tolerance also protects from other environmental toxins.
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Lamest community note ever.
1: Yeah, the study is observational. An RCT of this duration and size is impossible.
2: The results for the nurses (female) side are EXACTLY what I said...
3: It's interesting, the results are striking, why so mad? Science Karens gonna science Karen
Alex Berenson@AlexBerenson
Don't want to get dementia? Looks like your best bet (besides exercise) is drinking LOTS of coffee. This well-run study shows a 25+% decrease in dementia risk in heavy coffee drinkers over decades. The raw numbers are even more stunning. Coffee drinkers had 70% fewer diagnoses.
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#TansleyReview: Why, when, and how microbes can benefit ecological restorations: current approaches and future directions
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…
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Rise of the Plant Destroyer - by @joe_zadeh @NoemaMag - this is an amazing article about Phytophthora and its impact on humans, our culture and our environment.
I really enjoyed talking to Joe about all things Phytophthora
Have a read!
noemamag.com/rise-of-the-pl…
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