Elena Litchman
@elenalitchman.bsky.social
Microbial community ecologist, professor at Michigan State University | Traits, temperature, biodiversity, resilience, microbiomes, harmful algal blooms
https://www.kl-lab.group
📷: Lake Michigan
https://www.kl-lab.group
📷: Lake Michigan
Reposted by Elena Litchman
It was great to talk to @kitopie.bsky.social, @davidwengrow.bsky.social and @ldietrich.bsky.social about this work.
Original paper available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Original paper available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
State formation across cultures and the role of grain, intensive agriculture, taxation and writing - Nature Human Behaviour
Opie and Atkinson conduct a global phylogenetic analysis of 868 cultures and find evidence indicating that cereal grain cultivation, not agricultural surplus, drove state formation. Their findings als...
www.nature.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
It was great to talk to @kitopie.bsky.social, @davidwengrow.bsky.social and @ldietrich.bsky.social about this work.
Original paper available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Original paper available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Elena Litchman
Policy to Power the Microbes of the Future.
Mining the “Microbial Dark Matter” Using Artificial Intelligence: Where We Are and How to Proceed?
Long-Term Dynamics of Environmental Microbiomes.
Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Phages and Their Roles in Horizontal Gene Transfer.
Mining the “Microbial Dark Matter” Using Artificial Intelligence: Where We Are and How to Proceed?
Long-Term Dynamics of Environmental Microbiomes.
Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Phages and Their Roles in Horizontal Gene Transfer.
November 25, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Policy to Power the Microbes of the Future.
Mining the “Microbial Dark Matter” Using Artificial Intelligence: Where We Are and How to Proceed?
Long-Term Dynamics of Environmental Microbiomes.
Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Phages and Their Roles in Horizontal Gene Transfer.
Mining the “Microbial Dark Matter” Using Artificial Intelligence: Where We Are and How to Proceed?
Long-Term Dynamics of Environmental Microbiomes.
Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Phages and Their Roles in Horizontal Gene Transfer.
Reposted by Elena Litchman
It’s awful. I’ve finally decided I need to demo how bad it is. In my intro lecture, I have several in class activities where I show the students chat GPT output and have them identify what’s wrong.
This attempt at the carbon cycle was in this week’s classes.
This attempt at the carbon cycle was in this week’s classes.
November 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It’s awful. I’ve finally decided I need to demo how bad it is. In my intro lecture, I have several in class activities where I show the students chat GPT output and have them identify what’s wrong.
This attempt at the carbon cycle was in this week’s classes.
This attempt at the carbon cycle was in this week’s classes.