Chris Schadt
@chrisinknox.bsky.social
Scientist, Dad, Husband (not necessarily in that order). Believer that a diverse science, leads to the the best science. Views are my own. He/him
Great new study about a group of fungi first reported in my dissertation work! -- Short‐ and long‐read metabarcoding of Archaeorhizomycetes reveals high phylogenetic diversity structured by vegetation and climate --New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Short‐ and long‐read metabarcoding of Archaeorhizomycetes reveals high phylogenetic diversity structured by vegetation and climate
Archaeorhizomycetes is a class of globally widespread soil-dwelling fungi, originally proposed to be associated with plant roots, but their ecology and nutritional mode are not clearly defined. To i...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Great new study about a group of fungi first reported in my dissertation work! -- Short‐ and long‐read metabarcoding of Archaeorhizomycetes reveals high phylogenetic diversity structured by vegetation and climate --New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Final peat coring campain of our decade+ effort on the SPRUCE experiment in MN this last week. We had a big team effort to complete 4X as many cores as in past campaigns (more replicates and archive material!),
August 31, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Final peat coring campain of our decade+ effort on the SPRUCE experiment in MN this last week. We had a big team effort to complete 4X as many cores as in past campaigns (more replicates and archive material!),
Just pulled out my plots/sensors from Oregon on Wychus Creek the week before last. Last night 1 of those sites looks to have burned (top center circle) in Flat Fire, and fire is approaching another site just decommissioned at Camp Polk (bottom left circle) and outskirts of Sisters OR.
August 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Just pulled out my plots/sensors from Oregon on Wychus Creek the week before last. Last night 1 of those sites looks to have burned (top center circle) in Flat Fire, and fire is approaching another site just decommissioned at Camp Polk (bottom left circle) and outskirts of Sisters OR.
Field work! Weedy edition… Can you find the Populus deltoides?
August 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Field work! Weedy edition… Can you find the Populus deltoides?
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Keep sciencing. We are living through a time when looking at a rock and wondering how old it is qualifies as an act of resistance.
August 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Keep sciencing. We are living through a time when looking at a rock and wondering how old it is qualifies as an act of resistance.
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Come work at the UMich Biological Station as a Michigan Fellow (you don't have to be a biologist)! Apply today: societyoffellows.umich.edu/uncategorize...
Apply Now: Michigan Society of Fellows 2026-2029 Postdoctoral Fellowships – University of Michigan Society of Fellows, Established 1970
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August 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Come work at the UMich Biological Station as a Michigan Fellow (you don't have to be a biologist)! Apply today: societyoffellows.umich.edu/uncategorize...
And on the 6th day the lord created Illumina, and he said, “Damn, that craps expensive!”
Legend says the ancient Babylonians once tried to sequence and annotate God's own genome, and for their ambition and hubris they were forever cursed to have different annotation formats and standards so they could never do genomics with ease again.
July 26, 2025 at 1:16 AM
And on the 6th day the lord created Illumina, and he said, “Damn, that craps expensive!”
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Kenyon is hiring a TT microbiologist! Please share widely. I’m the search chair & am happy to answer any questions. careers.pageuppeople.com/695/cw/en-us...
Kenyon College - Details - Assistant Professor of Biology (Tenure-Track)
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July 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Kenyon is hiring a TT microbiologist! Please share widely. I’m the search chair & am happy to answer any questions. careers.pageuppeople.com/695/cw/en-us...
Chaos on the way home from the beauty shop! FYI - photos were taken at pickup and in driveway. No laws were broken during drive. 😉
July 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Chaos on the way home from the beauty shop! FYI - photos were taken at pickup and in driveway. No laws were broken during drive. 😉
“Highlight”…. Not a single Regional office or Research station in the PNW. States with most majestic forest and some greatest producers of forest products
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July 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
“Highlight”…. Not a single Regional office or Research station in the PNW. States with most majestic forest and some greatest producers of forest products
New paper alert! We are in the last year of the of our SPRUCE project now. Hope to get a few more from data in hand and collected this summer! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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July 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
New paper alert! We are in the last year of the of our SPRUCE project now. Hope to get a few more from data in hand and collected this summer! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dismantling these departments that warn us about the weather is in Project 2025, and the core reason is they say these departments (RIGHTLY) drive “climate chang alarmism”, which “is harmful to future prosperity” (aka BIG OIL PROFITS)
July 6, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Dismantling these departments that warn us about the weather is in Project 2025, and the core reason is they say these departments (RIGHTLY) drive “climate chang alarmism”, which “is harmful to future prosperity” (aka BIG OIL PROFITS)
This is the age we live in… they are just trying to punish all those involved in seeking truth.
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On Sticks, Karats, and Charades: The Structural Dismantling of American Science
The displacement of NSF employees from their headquarters opens a new front in the dismantling of American leadership in science.
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June 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This is the age we live in… they are just trying to punish all those involved in seeking truth.
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Just took a walk on the trail along the Columbia River here in Richland. Pretty much every Populus I saw appears to be introduced or naturalized Eastern Cottonwood (Populus deltoides) rather than PNW native Black Poplar (P. trichocarpa) - 1/2
June 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Just took a walk on the trail along the Columbia River here in Richland. Pretty much every Populus I saw appears to be introduced or naturalized Eastern Cottonwood (Populus deltoides) rather than PNW native Black Poplar (P. trichocarpa) - 1/2
Good friday afternoon read!
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The biogeography and conservation of Earth’s ‘dark’ ectomycorrhizal fungi
In this review, van Galen et al. use global soil metabarcoding databases to evaluate
current estimates of the total number of ectomycorrhizal (EcM) fungal species on Earth,
outline the current state o...
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June 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Good friday afternoon read!
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Our oldest serving -80 is on its way to the scrap heap. Inherited it when I got to ORNL in 2003 although I think it’s at least 5yrs older than that. RIP old faithful!
June 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Our oldest serving -80 is on its way to the scrap heap. Inherited it when I got to ORNL in 2003 although I think it’s at least 5yrs older than that. RIP old faithful!
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The Trump administration’s proposed budget slashes about 90% of the funding for one of the country’s cornerstone biological and ecological research programs. 🌐🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/c...
Trump’s Proposed Budget Would Cut a Major Ecology Program
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June 1, 2025 at 5:57 AM
The Trump administration’s proposed budget slashes about 90% of the funding for one of the country’s cornerstone biological and ecological research programs. 🌐🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/c...
An analysis of the presidents budget impacts on Science. Overall DOE Office of Science seems to fair a little better but even this new budget release fails to detail where the nearly 14% cut is going to fall.
The White House Vision for Dismantling Science in One Simple Plot
(Proposed NIH, NSF, and NASA budgets would be catastrophic for innovation and discovery. But they aren’t reality yet. The time to speak up is now.)
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(Proposed NIH, NSF, and NASA budgets would be catastrophic for innovation and discovery. But they aren’t reality yet. The time to speak up is now.)
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May 31, 2025 at 3:39 PM
An analysis of the presidents budget impacts on Science. Overall DOE Office of Science seems to fair a little better but even this new budget release fails to detail where the nearly 14% cut is going to fall.
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How bad will it be? Catastrophic.
Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.
But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.
Speak up now before it is too late.
(inflation adjusted $-s below)
Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.
But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.
Speak up now before it is too late.
(inflation adjusted $-s below)
May 31, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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This represents a systematic dismantling of the US STEM ecosystem that will create lasting negative consequences for innovation and competitiveness.
Trump administration cuts to NSF will result in more than 200,000 FEWER people per year involved in basic science, training, and education - what should have been the next generation of US scientists. This isn't even eating your seed corn, it is setting your seed corn on fire and salting the earth.
May 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM
This represents a systematic dismantling of the US STEM ecosystem that will create lasting negative consequences for innovation and competitiveness.
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New study out - we developed a pipeline for targeted assembly of genomes from (complex) soil metagenomes to examine the strain-level diversity and ecology of a dominant soil bacterial genus (Bradyrhizobium). Feedback appreciated. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Continent-wide assessment of the strain-level diversity of Bradyrhizobium, a dominant soil bacterial genus
Global surveys of soil bacteria have identified several taxa that are nearly ubiquitous and often the most abundant members of soil bacterial communities. However, it remains unclear why these taxa ar...
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May 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
New study out - we developed a pipeline for targeted assembly of genomes from (complex) soil metagenomes to examine the strain-level diversity and ecology of a dominant soil bacterial genus (Bradyrhizobium). Feedback appreciated. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...