- EEB undergrad Brianna Jarvis is a Sustainability Cultural Organizer with Student Life Sustainability. They are hosting a "Disc-Oh No!: Flood on the Dance Floor" event at the end of this semester with hopes that it will encourage community building and climate resilience skill-building for participants. The event takes place in the Michigan League Underground on April 9 at 7pm, April 10 at 2pm, and April 10 at 7pm. Tickets and more info are here. 

- Here's a great paper about ants as engineers of microbial landscapes by PhD student Jacob Longmeyer, Nikesh Dahal (PhD '25), Nicholas Medina (PhD '23), and John Vandermeer. There's also an insightful blog post with photos here. 

- Carolyn Graham (PhD '25), undergrad Samantha Molina, Addison Yerks (BS '25), and Marjorie Weber have a paper in American Journal of Botany investigating biomineralization of calcium oxalate in riverbank grape (Vitis riparia). 

- Congratulations to Abbey Soule in the Weber Lab! Abbey was selected to receive a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship.

- If you missed it, here's a fun story featuring Aly Baumgartner at mlive that was perfectly timed for St. Patrick's Day. 

- Alden Dirks (PhD '24), Michelle Orozco-Quime, Eva Schwarz (BS '22), Tim James and colleagues recently rediscovered Sorochytrium milnesiophthora, a necrotrophic pathogen of tardigrades, in a lichen sample from Finland. The pathogen was previously known only from its type locality in the Appalachian mountains and had not been documented in over 35 years. 

- Finally, Kristen Wacker (PhD '25) and Ben Winger recently published a paper in Evolution where they used whole genomes from a congeneric set of eight habitat-generalist canopy frugivore birds (Tangara tanagers) to compare the phylogeography of tropical Andean versus lowland Amazonian species to characterize intraspecific diversification dynamics associated with these distinct but adjacent biomes.