soleilsolay.bsky.social
(she/her) Mycologist/evolutionary biologist. NSF PRFB Postdoc in the Lofgren lab at UC-Berkeley. Interested in the evolution of sex and intersection of science and philosophy 🍄
👤 Joined on 14 March 2025
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@soleilsolay.bsky.socialLove this paper by soleilsolay.bsky.social and Anne Pringle! Fabulous insights from mycology that I think will matter for the biological sex debate. I got to talk pluralism at the fungal sex symposium Soleil organized at MSA this summer, and her work there and in this paper are sharpening my views.
Show PostLove you forever @wmata.com but this advertising makes me feel ill. The way we are justifying/normalizing gambling in all contexts is so repulsive and damages us all.
Show Post1. A basic, and massive, scientific error. David states unambiguously that Ebola outbreaks end with the last human case, and cannot re-emerge without zoonotic spillover. This is categorically false, and has been consequentially false in just the last few years.
Show PostI'm happy to share my new paper "A new conceptual framework for host-microbe symbiosis" If you've seen me give a talk in the last 5 years, then you've seen me talk about this. It's been a journey. academic.oup.com/ismehm/artic... #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky
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