Katie Field
@katiefield4.bsky.social
#Mycorrhiza #Soil #Evolution #PlantScience #Fungi #Sustainability, leads @sheffieldpps.bsky.social at @sheffielduni.bsky.social, Senior Editor @funecology.bsky.social, Deputy EiC @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social
Steak for breakfast anyone?
August 21, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Steak for breakfast anyone?
Pina colada flapjack is an absolute WIN 🍹🍍🥥
August 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Pina colada flapjack is an absolute WIN 🍹🍍🥥
Such a fantastic time over the last few days in Tartu 🇪🇪 at the @newphyt.bsky.social symposium to celebrate Maarja Öpik’s appointment as EiC. Super enjoyable and inspiring meeting! 🤩🦠🍄🌱🌍
July 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Such a fantastic time over the last few days in Tartu 🇪🇪 at the @newphyt.bsky.social symposium to celebrate Maarja Öpik’s appointment as EiC. Super enjoyable and inspiring meeting! 🤩🦠🍄🌱🌍
I did not want to like this… and yet… here we are…
July 4, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I did not want to like this… and yet… here we are…
Super plenary talk by @frantecol.bsky.social in the beautiful McEwan Hall today - the huge, long-term experiments she’s running highlight how important a longer term approach can be for getting meaningful data from field-based research 🤯
June 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Super plenary talk by @frantecol.bsky.social in the beautiful McEwan Hall today - the huge, long-term experiments she’s running highlight how important a longer term approach can be for getting meaningful data from field-based research 🤯
Excited to be heading to Edinburgh today for Rhizosphere 6! 🦠🍄🟫🌱
June 15, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Excited to be heading to Edinburgh today for Rhizosphere 6! 🦠🍄🟫🌱
Velvet shank, King Alfred’s
cakes and and turkey tails all fruiting on the same old stump 🤩
cakes and and turkey tails all fruiting on the same old stump 🤩
February 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Velvet shank, King Alfred’s
cakes and and turkey tails all fruiting on the same old stump 🤩
cakes and and turkey tails all fruiting on the same old stump 🤩
Firth court looking shiny bright this morning! #SheffieldIsSuper
January 30, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Firth court looking shiny bright this morning! #SheffieldIsSuper
A perfect snowy Sunday in #Sheffield ☃️
January 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
A perfect snowy Sunday in #Sheffield ☃️
In other “things I learned today” - puff pastry dug out from the freezer with a use by date of 05-01-2021 will puff up when cooked but it does *not* taste good…
December 26, 2024 at 5:47 PM
In other “things I learned today” - puff pastry dug out from the freezer with a use by date of 05-01-2021 will puff up when cooked but it does *not* taste good…
Finding an enormous personalised Toblerone on your pillow is an *excellent* start to Christmas Day…
December 25, 2024 at 7:05 AM
Finding an enormous personalised Toblerone on your pillow is an *excellent* start to Christmas Day…
In love with my cosy sparkly mushroom mitts, hand made by @luehea.bsky.social 🤩 - think I got the better end of Christmas mitts-for-mincemeat exchange!! 🥹🎄
December 12, 2024 at 8:48 AM
In love with my cosy sparkly mushroom mitts, hand made by @luehea.bsky.social 🤩 - think I got the better end of Christmas mitts-for-mincemeat exchange!! 🥹🎄
Huge congratulations to Nathan Howard on passing his PhD viva yesterday, my first @sheffieldpps.bsky.social PhD student! 🥹 🥳🥂Big thanks to Dave Johnson and @garethphoenix.bsky.social for being excellent examiners and ERC for funding - so happy for you Nathan!
December 6, 2024 at 5:24 AM
Huge congratulations to Nathan Howard on passing his PhD viva yesterday, my first @sheffieldpps.bsky.social PhD student! 🥹 🥳🥂Big thanks to Dave Johnson and @garethphoenix.bsky.social for being excellent examiners and ERC for funding - so happy for you Nathan!
It’s that time of the year where I consider quitting my job and just make festive wreaths instead… here is this year’s effort:
November 28, 2024 at 8:39 AM
It’s that time of the year where I consider quitting my job and just make festive wreaths instead… here is this year’s effort:
Made close to a tonne of mincemeat this afternoon… let mince pie season commence!!
November 23, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Made close to a tonne of mincemeat this afternoon… let mince pie season commence!!
Absolutely LOVE this unbelievably eggcellent painting by #Sheffield artist Daniel Halksworth that just arrived today - cracking! 😁 🍳
November 23, 2024 at 2:51 PM
Absolutely LOVE this unbelievably eggcellent painting by #Sheffield artist Daniel Halksworth that just arrived today - cracking! 😁 🍳
So if you’ve listened to this, you’ll probably be almost as excited as I was this morning to find these popping up! But…. Did they glow??? YES THEY DID!! 🤩🍄
November 22, 2024 at 8:22 PM
So if you’ve listened to this, you’ll probably be almost as excited as I was this morning to find these popping up! But…. Did they glow??? YES THEY DID!! 🤩🍄
Same, Kipper… Same…
November 21, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Same, Kipper… Same…
Have had an absolute blast today chatting #fungi for an upcoming episode of Curious Cases for #BBCR4 with @fryrsquared.bsky.social and @daraobriain.bsky.social - can’t wait to hear how it turns out! 🍄🟫🍄🍄🟫🍄
November 19, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Have had an absolute blast today chatting #fungi for an upcoming episode of Curious Cases for #BBCR4 with @fryrsquared.bsky.social and @daraobriain.bsky.social - can’t wait to hear how it turns out! 🍄🟫🍄🍄🟫🍄
Sort of. He used 13C/15N labelled glycine to trace what was happening and found 13C progressively accumulated in the plant and *decreased* in the fungus as N in the agar increased 🤔
November 19, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Sort of. He used 13C/15N labelled glycine to trace what was happening and found 13C progressively accumulated in the plant and *decreased* in the fungus as N in the agar increased 🤔
When Nathan increased the N concentration of the agar, the fungus transferred progressively less N from glycine to the plant! So function of MFRE symbionts is affected by environmental availability of nutrients to plants… just like arbuscular mycorrhizas?
November 19, 2024 at 4:35 PM
When Nathan increased the N concentration of the agar, the fungus transferred progressively less N from glycine to the plant! So function of MFRE symbionts is affected by environmental availability of nutrients to plants… just like arbuscular mycorrhizas?
He found a clear and consistent preference by the fungus for the amino acid glycine, on its own 🥃, in a cocktail 🍹; that fungus just loves glycine! But…
November 19, 2024 at 4:35 PM
He found a clear and consistent preference by the fungus for the amino acid glycine, on its own 🥃, in a cocktail 🍹; that fungus just loves glycine! But…
Nathan established an elegant plate-based microcosm approach to offer a choice of labelled N sources to MFRE-plant cultures…
November 19, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Nathan established an elegant plate-based microcosm approach to offer a choice of labelled N sources to MFRE-plant cultures…