Time for fungi to abound!

I'm thinking this is a suillis ("slippery Jack")- what do u folks think?

Definitely a polypore. Didn't have time to check for details, but it's in my front yard so I can look again. (No idea how to do spore prints etc and I don't care that much I'm just curious). Unlike the slug I'm not interested in tasting them!

Ps-
I'm curious if the altbot thing is giving a good enough description or not, too.

#fungi #mycology #Mushrooms #amateurScience #altbot @altbot

Rate my extraction protocol:

I want to extract quinine sulphate from some tablets I have.

This is how I propose to go about it.

https://gist.github.com/g7uvw/cf6e20dd92a86852e718aae96a020c8b

I need the product pure for some optics experiments - making polarisers.

#Chemistry #AmateurScience

Registration and booking done for #ASMicrobe2025 woot!

I'll be presenting a poster on methylation patterns of an Archaeal genus members with focus on their MGE & rrn operons. It's something I've been tinkering with at the warehouse lab in Queens, hopefully building up to something interesting

#microbiology #asmicrobe2025 #archaea #amateurscience

If anyone wants to talk shop on archaea, evolutionary microbiology, long-read sequencing and etc, drop me a note whenever!

Michael J. Coren: Why you should become a volunteer #urban #biodiversity scientist: Next time you pick up your phone to snap a seflie, try grabbing a photo of the life around you.

"Mountain lions prowl near downtown San Francisco. Leopards stalk the Mumbai suburbs. And kororā, or little penguins, nest under porches in New Zealand’s capital.

If you thought wildlife lived outside cities, you’re missing the wilderness outside your front door.

Tens of thousands of species coexist with humans in the concrete jungles that live up to their name. These plants and animals are just out of sight — unless, that is, you try to look for them."

#nature #amateurscience #inaturalist
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/05/14/city-biodiversity/

Second pub from @ATinyGreenCell is finally live, and this one putting amateur sciences front and center. Looking forward to more independent research/amateur biology publications this year!

https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aps3.11562

#amateurscience #publication