Geoff Zahn
mycology, microbial ecology, symbiosis, conservation, data science, ecopoet
Translational Insights into microbial Diversity Assembly & Linkages
gzahn.github.io
Recruiting PhD students in Applied Science at William & Mary
- Come join the TIDAL team if you like big data parasitism, growing weird fungi, or pretending to model random noise! (Also folks who are into translating ecology into policy) cdsp.wm.edu/about/news-e...
- Upon this rock, I will build my church.
- Reposted by Geoff ZahnWhat fungi live in the leaves of Pando, the massive aspen clone in Utah, USA? And how do they vary across the spatial extent of this 43 hectare clonal plant? Find out in this article in our latest issue of Fungal Ecology: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu... (photo by US Forest Service)
- Sunrise commute and supercomputer. Two good things.
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- New paper is out with the amazing @greenwoodthegreat.bsky.social We used the largest tree on Earth (Pando) to test edge effects on microbial assembly without the background noise of host genetic variation! authors.elsevier.com/a/1mPqy6ExPy...
- And for my next trick, a scrap-wood centrifuge!
- Reposted by Geoff ZahnI'm hiring a postdoc to work with myself, Dr Jim Lyons and the entire NOAA Firebird team on the adaptive management part of our larger project focused on the impacts of prescribed fire on Gulf Coast wetlands Accepting applications until Feb 15th blogs.illinois.edu/view/7426/19...
- This week I welcome @taliamycota.bsky.social as my first ever postdoc in the lab! She's gonna be working on microbial communities and learning to eat oysters without a fork. Very excited!
- Reposted by Geoff ZahnIt's the most magical time of the year — when estimates of last year's global average temperature anomaly come out. Time to dust off my "last year was hot" auto-response.
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- Reposted by Geoff ZahnGrading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
- Reposted by Geoff ZahnIf you ever need to fuzzy search some DNA, sassy is your tool. Please spread the word; I think many people just outside my own circle could benefit from this :) cc @rickbitloo.bsky.social github.com/RagnarGrootK...
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- AI is taking my job. All those years of &runctitional medical frimmblal training was such a waste of my time!
- Uhh,,, Figure 1 shows you... what exactly? Trying to understand Medical fryrmbial, runctitional features and mum's legs going through concrete. This whole article is a bit of a disaster. And it's very difficult to find other published work for the author. Strange! 🧪 (via @smutclyde.bsky.social)
- Reposted by Geoff Zahngggenomes: A Grammar of Graphics for Comparative Genomics thackl.github.io/gggenomes/ #Rstats
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- Check out our latest dispatch where we make a (very convincing ☺️) case that marine #mycology is the next big thing and highlight a recent paper by Breyer et al. Marine fungi have biomass = 22 MILLION blue whales! Free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3QW8S... #aquaticfungi #microbiome #fungi
- Yes, we all knew this of course. It's the entire brand.
- New "Fidelity" #rstats package release with Abbey Neat can quantify and compare the specificity of #microbiome communities associated with certain hosts or groups! It intelligently handles rare taxa removal. And check that handcrafted hex sticker! 😍
- Lovely visit to U of Maine. Great folks and fun conversations about microbes!
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- Reposted by Geoff ZahnThis moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥 We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪 Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
- youtu.be/8AeCo3AD1cM?... "How could you even begin to pay me enough to do such a feat of Sisyphian futility?!" Beautiful
- Reposted by Geoff ZahnPreprint out for myloasm, our new nanopore / HiFi metagenome assembler! Nanopore's getting accurate, but 1. Can this lead to better metagenome assemblies? 2. How, algorithmically, to leverage them? with co-author Max Marin @mgmarin.bsky.social, supervised by Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social 1 / N
- High-resolution metagenome assembly for modern long reads with myloasm biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- COVID vaccine gun show! (Yeah I have asthma, diabetes, a weak heart, smoke 3 packs a day, or whatever lies you have to tell to get preventative medicine)
- RIP to my add_blast_header.sh script
- Reposted by Geoff ZahnWe are hiring! The #PlantBio department at UIUC is looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in Plant-Fungal interactions. Application deadline is October 31st @dallingjim.bsky.social see the link below for more details: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
- 10 years using Ubuntu and other linux distros and I JUST NOW learned that you can mount any server address in the file browser so easily!?
- Hey, I'm recruiting for up to two funded PhD positions in #mycology or community #ecology. Please share! Good stipend, lovely location in the woods near the beach. Field, lab, and computational projects. Seeking wide interests and bold ideas! Lab: gzahn.github.io Apply: forms.gle/jK7bJkyrTAUH...
- Wow, that editor really used the desk-rejection of my paper to channel some of their disappointment and anger. I hope they feel better soon. We're all on the Titanic together.
- This. Yes. It's worse than you think
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- Reposted by Geoff ZahnIf you are a postdoc working on any topic related to environmental microbiology and are looking for exposure, the Thermal Biology Institute (tbi.montana.edu) has slots open for virtual talks via zoom this fall. Email me if you are interested! Seminars are most Mondays, 3-4 pm Mountain Time.
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- Awesome!
- Y'all, I just did this and it was total bliss, a terrifyingly immersive write-a-thon, full of excellent people, massively educational... And I wrote a whole-ass draft from scratch! 5 stars.
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- Reposted by Geoff ZahnNew paper out from the Cheeke Lab led by @raeberner.bsky.social with @balachaudhary.bsky.social & Geoff Zahn. Congrats Rae! academic.oup.com/femsle/advan...
- Fungal spores reveal a global climate footprint on microbes' traits! Incorporating microbial traits improves predictions of biogeographic shifts. Fun project w @balachaudhary.bsky.social @smriti-pehim-limbu.bsky.social @sturmer.bsky.social @aguilart.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Yay! My amazing undergrad, Austen Miller, has finally joined science bluesky. Give him a follow: @greenwoodthegreat.bsky.social He does cool #microbiome work, already knows how to bioinformaticize, and will be looking for PhD programs soon.
- Had such a lovely and productive meeting in Madison! #msafungi25
- Come check out my talk today (last slot of the agro-eco session) to hear about restoring soils #MSAFungi25
- #MSAFungi25 off to a great start. Too many cool sessions to choose from so I might just sit here instead
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- Coastal Virginia is so hot and muggy my legs are sticking together and I could.not.be.happier after the "longest winter of my life!"
- Any students want to apply for this to study microbiome assembly processes with simulations and microcosms?? Hit me up! www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
- Busy making "A field guide to Eastern mushrooms at cycling speed"
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- Very cool. Very important!
- Our paper shows that most ectomycorrhizal fungal species (83% of OTUs) are "dark taxa": species we detect in DNA, but can't match to known species names. We map global "darkspots" - the parts of the world most in need of more research. @spun.earth @ethz.ch www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Reposted by Geoff Zahn🚨🚨 Alarming NSF policy update By accepting an NSF award, an institution now must say it's: 1. Not engaging in boycotts of Israel (yes really) 2. Not advancing or promoting DEI in violation of anti-discrimination laws Announced via a footnote today: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/gc1-ma...
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- Currently in an NSF Intuit meeting and.... It's Orwellian. Like talking to a broken chat bot. "Should we use 15% indirect?" "Please refer to the new priorities document." "It's not clear, can you just tell us?" "Please refer to the new priorities document."
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- How ugly can you make a fasta file? Collaborator gave our class a fasta in a word doc, so we're returning our gene predictions similarly!
