Kevin Ricks @KevinDRicks
PhD from @UofIllinois. Postdoc at University of Toronto. Plant-microbe interactions. Community and evolutionary ecology. 🏳️🌈🌿🍄🦠🌅🧗♂️ scholar.google.com/citations?user… Toronto, Ontario Joined May 2012-
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I may have become the postdoc who takes forever to finish their last PhD chapter 😅 But I'm proud of this preprint. We found mutualisms aren’t fragile under global change: here, rhizobia rapidly evolved to buffer their plant hosts against drought. doi.org/10.64898/2026.…
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Preprint of some of my postdoctoral research examining the evolution of beneficial microbial symbionts in duckweed biorxiv.org/content/10.648…
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The work of recent GEMS graduate @KevinDRicks was just featured on the @NSF’s website. Give it a read! new.nsf.gov/news/soil-micr…
This project has been a long time coming and huge slog, with me ultimately repeating an entire greenhouse experiment when we realized we were missing a necessary control. But I'm really excited that it's finally published! @RSocPublishing royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10…
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We thank the reviewers for their very helpful suggestions which we now have incorporated in our manuscript.
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This paper has too many great quotes to pick just one. Such a great read. link.springer.com/article/10.100…
While it might look like I'm taking notes on your talk at #ESA2022, and I probably should be, it's more likely I'm doodling 🫠
If you're at #ESA2022 and want to hear about the evolution of plant-microbe symbiosis and rhizobia, come check out my talk at 3:45PM on Monday in 516D (COS 38) ☘️🦠😃
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Realizing my PhD in microbial ecology is really a just a license to do multivariate stats in the dumbest ways possible
After a couple years, my parents are finally starting to understand how the academic system works. Consequently, when I talk to them these days, they’ve stopped asking me about why I won’t give them grandkids, but rather why I’m not publishing fast enough.
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@KevinDRicks and I are excited about our Brachypodium babies ❤️🌱
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Give your laptop a break @OpenAcademics @AcademicChatter #academictwitter
@bedwellbacteria I swear I don't remember the last time I went into a reading group and people actually liked the paper
what a surprise! everyone in the reading seminar hated this weeks paper because it *checks notes* weirdly formatted a table
no mom/dad, I can't just "get a postdoc" at the university in the same town that you live
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No one prepares you for the absolute high that comes with being able to help someone with their R code
A new microbial ecology PhD student, probably: what sort of microbes colonize the sandworms in Dune, and do they aid spice production?
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