Assistant Professor @NCStateAEC. she/they. teaching innovation ✨ gut microbiomes 🦠 advocate 🌈 baker 🍞 fermenter 🫙🥬 artist 🎨 blacksmith. BLM. Views mine.
Joined December 2020
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29 May 2024
So excited for this summer's PD program from @NCStateOFE!
28 May 2024
Summer Program Alert 🎆📣
2024 SPARK Summer Professional Development program: The Paper Trail! This asynchronous program is crafted to empower academics in maximizing the impact of their projects through comprehensive publication strategies. go.ncsu.edu/thepapertrail
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28 May 2024
Medical Emergency Cards are now available on our Resources page! Simply download, fill out, and fold. Keep the card in your wallet or somewhere convenient in case of a field emergency. These compact cards are great for professional and recreational use!
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18 Jan 2024
Have you checked out our Field Gear Closet? FREE field gear items, making the field more accessible one item at a time! Become a member today to claim.
“Shop” our closet: fieldinclusive.org/shop-our-…
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13 Dec 2023
Have any general questions about applying to my lab or my new M.S. positions? Check out this FAQ section on my website!👇🏽
mlburgess.org/my-lab
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25 Oct 2023
Advertising our summer REU program in Tropical Ecology and Evolution in Puerto Rico. Details in ramirezlab.net/reu
Thanks to Vamery / @vamerygonzalez / for being our REU ambassador.
#elverde_REU
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4 Oct 2023
Very excited to have this out in the wild. Many thanks to the visionaries at @AgentschangeEJ and keep an eye out for the companion essay coming soon👀
4 Oct 2023
LISTEN: Jan-Michael Archer @PronouncedYan, senior fellow and Ph.D. Candidate at @UMDPublicHealth, joins the podcast to discuss community-driven science in Alabama’s Black Belt and his role in fighting for workers’ rights at his university. Listen here: ehn.org/environmental-justic…
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4 Oct 2023
New pub!
Sourdough starters exhibit similar succession patterns but develop flour-specific climax communities.
We compared starters grown from 10 flours, using methods that reflect common baking practices.
@BoultedBread @LaurenMNichols @RRobDunn
peerj.com/articles/16163/
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We measured pH and rise, and recorded aromas produced by starters across 14 days. We identified functionally distinct stages of succession, and sequenced microbial DNA from each stage to characterize bacterial succession cross stages and flour types.
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4 Oct 2023
Bacterial succession is broadly similar across flour types, though communities develop flour-specific membership and structure, and produce unique aromatic profiles, by day 10.
Our findings support bakers' knowledge and practice suggest ways to manipulate bread flavor.
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4 Oct 2023
New pub!
Sourdough starters exhibit similar succession patterns but develop flour-specific climax communities.
A collab with teachers @BoultedBread to compare starters grown from 10 different flours, using methods that reflect common baking practices
peerj.com/articles/16163/
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2 Oct 2023
Our paper on using broccoli sprouts to reduce symptoms of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in mouse models of Crohn's Disease was accepted in mSystems!!!
The raw sprouts worked great in younger mice but not as well in older mice, and we are already working on figuring that out.
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6 Sep 2023
1. university professor
2. manuscript editor
3. nutrition & research intern at Disney's Animal Kingdom
4. bowling alley technician
5. veterinary assistant
4 Sep 2023
Quote with five jobs you have had:
1. University professor
2. Biotech researcher
3. Fiction author
4. Library worker
5. Computer payroll delivery driver.
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6 Sep 2023
How did I not include teaching at NC Governor's School????
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My Applied Ecology textbook is publicly available!
doi.org/10.1002/978111985000…
A culmination of 4 yrs of student assignments / curriculum redesign, co-edited with grad student Emily Rund, funded by @ncsulibraries Alt-textbook grant facilitated by @Tuffy_Librarian Hillary Fox
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25 Aug 2023
The textbook is 95% student-created content, highlighting ecology in North Carolina and diverse researchers of diverse systems. Emily Rund created skeletal outlines to guide students' notetaking. I provide templates for the assignments, in case educators want to use / adapt. 2/n
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25 Aug 2023
Huge thanks to the students and librarians who inspired and supported this project; the students who attended a focus group in Dec 2022, whose comments refined the format to maximize usability; and Lucie Ciccone for creating the gorgeous cover art!!
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12 Jul 2023
What’s it take to be a field biologist? Often years of unpaid gigs & safety threats. Marginalized groups suffer more, excluding many.
Let's change this.
I’m so proud of this @audubonsociety story & thankful for the time & emotional energy from the 30 people I interviewed.
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11 Jul 2023
It's often said: White kids, upon being taught the history of racism, will feel guilty or bad about being White. In fact, White kids who receive antiracist history lessons exhibit fewer racist ideas about Black people while their attitudes about White people are unaffected.
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12 Jul 2023
READ THIS👇🏽
“Eager young scientists dream of careers outdoors, studying and protecting wildlife and ecosystems. To succeed, they need something that’s proven elusive; a feeling of safety. - @jenny_howard9
- Summer 2023 issue of @audubonsociety magazine.
audubon.org/news/fieldwork-a…
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12 Jul 2023
The second installment of @NCStateOFE Summer of What If? featured @DrDixonECSU Chancellor Karrie Dixon's inspiring path and approach to leadership at @ECSU.
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@DrDixonECSU describes the challenges of striving for work-life balance, particularly when so many aspects of her role involve supporting people through personal challenges – whether a student struggles with housing, or a faculty struggles with colleagues.
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12 Jul 2023
People are important. Relationships are important. @DrDixonECSU strives for transparency, accountability and responsibility – and to invite the faculty to share in that.
"It's not about I, it's not about me, it's not about we."
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