Mya A. Darsan

Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance:

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”

After taking our #Spartina belowground biomass cores at North Inlet-Winyah Bay, we sorted that biomass into three categories. Do different #nitrogen inputs to #saltmarshes affect allocation to long-lived rhizomes, root tissues devoted to resource acquisition, or turnover into the dead biomass pool?

What an amazing team of students who made this possible, Henry and Defne, and especially @myadarsan.bsky.social ! Thank you. That was a wrap on fieldwork for the Not All Nitrogen project (Sept. 2025)! Stay tuned for results and publications.

Picture of a screen announcing the winners of a graduate student award for best oral presentation at this years coastal estuarine research federation meeting.

Congratulations to @myadarsan.bsky.social (and the other winners!) for winning the best grad student talk award at CERF! So well deserved! Thanks for another amazing meeting @cerfscience.bsky.social can’t wait until 2027!

i won best grad student talk!!! first cerf was a success!!!

talk title: exploring fungal-Spartina interactions along an elevation gradient to inform carbon dynamics in salt marshes. Date and time: 11/13/2025 at 2;00PM Room E10-D

mya laying in spartina patens eating a beef stick

Are you still at CERF tomorrow at 2???

Then you should come to my talk and learn about Spartina (alterniflora and patens a double whammy 👀), fungi, and carbon (oh my)!!

You’ll get to see why I had to lie down every sampling point to have snack time this past field season!!!

#CERF2025

talk title: exploring fungal-Spartina interactions along an elevation gradient to inform carbon dynamics in salt marshes. Date and time: 11/13/2025 at 2;00PM Room E10-D

mya laying in spartina patens eating a beef stick

Are you still at CERF tomorrow at 2???

Then you should come to my talk and learn about Spartina (alterniflora and patens a double whammy 👀), fungi, and carbon (oh my)!!

You’ll get to see why I had to lie down every sampling point to have snack time this past field season!!!

#CERF2025

A group of six people stand around a display table under a shade tent to talk about using current methods in microbiology to identity sources and types of microbial contamination that may be present in estuarine waters, especially after a rainstorm.

A group of six people, standing under a shade tent, watch a demonstration of oysters and softshell clams filter the water held in separate aquaria, and compare them to an aquarium with clear water, and one with water clouded by microalgae but containing no shellfish.

Fun Trails and Sails event this week showcasing new work centered on how estuary and shellfish health are intertwined and the need for people to foster both. We always get engaged attendees from the local community and make great new connections! 1/5
trailsandsails.org

Mya and Jen stand at their table, with a graphical poster behind them describing current microbial methods and examples of coliform bacteria colonies growing on culture plates displayed on the table. The two methods are to be used side by side.

But if contaminants are in the water, shellfish may ingest those as well, with negative effects on the shellfish and harvestability. @bowenlab.bsky.social and @myadarsan.bsky.social are using new approaches to better identify sources and types of contaminants which may help mediate inputs. 3/5

it’s hot out i wasn’t mentally prepared for the 50f -> 85f yet

Putting Science Engagement into Practice with Dr. Matthew Costa | COMPASS Dr. Matthew Costa’s path to conservation and coastal science began as a curious kid drawn to explore coastal ecosystems in his hometown. That early fascination deepened in college, where hands-on […]

Putting Science Engagement into Practice with Dr. Matthew Costa | COMPASS www.compassscicomm.org/putting-scie...

Tomorrow! May 7.

Learn all about careers outside of academia—from tribal consultants to private sector work and beyond.

Register at: lternet.edu/events/91881/

Check out today’s YouTube release, Why Do LTERs Matter to Natural Areas Practitioners?

Special thanks to the Bureau of Land Management, the USDA Forest Service, Esri, and @uslter.bsky.social.

Stay tuned! We're dropping new YouTube content every Friday at 11 a.m. ET.

Link in profile.

chopped all my baby spartinas roots off… fingers crossed the root induction media does its job!!!! 🧪🧫🌱

Know any soon to graduate or recently graduated undergrads interested in a full year, paid postbac research position in microbiome sciences? Have them join our zoom Q&A session on Friday, April 11, 11:30am-12:30pm PST. More info here: sites.google.com/berkeley.edu...

This is absolute insanity. We must do everything we can to protect our international students right now.

All she did was write an op-ed. That's it. One of my past mentees is a current international student at Tufts. This is absolutely terrifying.

hope to see many of you there!!!

Are you a scientist or student heading to a @standupforscience.bsky.social ‬rally this Friday?

We want to hear from you. Tell us about yourself and why you’re going, how far you’re traveling, why you’re fired up, and whether there will be car snacks. Call or text us at (646) 767-6532.

If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti...
Please share widely

Flyer for Massachusetts stand up for science, at the Massachusetts state capitol in Boston on March 7th from 12-4 PM. More info at standupforscience2025.org

HEY BOSTON! 📣☀️

MARCH 7TH, MASSACHUSETTS STATE CAPITOL!

Join us to #standupforscience2025 and make your voice heard!

SEE YOU THERE!

www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience20225

Map of Stand Up for Science events, with official SUFS events in Red and solidarity events in Blue

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!?

Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!

#standupforscience2025

a spartina alterniflora seed with a tiny root and tiny shoot (just sprouted) in water

not a drill first hypothetical “sterile” baby spartina alterniflora popped up today 🌱🌱🌱🥹🥹🥹🧫🧫🧫

Flood it.
Bombard it.
Wreck it.

Protect US racial affinity groups On its first day, the Trump administration released several executive orders terminating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, calling them “illegal,” “immoral,” and “discriminatory” (1, 2)...

Proud to be part of this awesome team! Thanks to @balachaudhary.bsky.social and @khadlily.bsky.social, unstoppable forces in EcoEvo 💜💜
@wocineeb.bsky.social has done a lot for me and other POC in EcoEvo so please help us protect groups like this www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

As a former REU student, this sucks. The REU program was my first taste in R1 research while attending a liberal arts college. We need REUs.

soil in a cup with a single spartina sprout!!

AND THERE IS A SINGLE BABY YALL I AM A PLANT MOM!!!

If you are the parent, close relative, mentor, or part of the village of a Black, Latine, or Native college student, then PLEASE check on, pour into, and affirm them.

Trust me when I tell you they are STRUGGLING right now. You don't have to attended the school to remind them "I'm here."

thank you!!! best part it’s on wheels so i can just scooch it around!!!!

soil in a cup with a single spartina sprout!!

AND THERE IS A SINGLE BABY YALL I AM A PLANT MOM!!!