Matt Kasson

@kasson_wvu

Assistant Professor of , | Director | Fungus-insect interactions | Environmental microbiologist | Tweeting as an individual.

Morgantown, WV
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Joined September 2015
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jul 30

    Such an honor to have tell our story!

    These mind-controlling fungi dose cicadas with an amphetamine, and with psilocybin, the hallucinogen found in shrooms. Also, they make the cicadas' butts fall off.
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  2. 6 hours ago

    What we know...

    THREAD: I just got an update from one of the 's curators, Débora Pires, on the current status of the collections. Here's what we know has been lost, what we know has been saved, and what's still unknown. 1/
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  3. Sep 4

    A canker by any other name would still be as target-shaped!

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  4. Sep 4

    Some dead oak also had or . Not sure which name is current. Help

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  5. Sep 4

    USFS Forest Pathologist Dani Martin () & I are excited to be back in Pocahontas County surveying and sampling where all this started.

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  6. Sep 4

    A very productive first day in the field with grad student & coring & cutting (thanks to Ken Beezley) dead & dying oak for our regional canker project. Oak wilt likely a player in some areas!

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  7. Retweeted
    Sep 4

    So much was lost in Brazil's devastating museum fire--irreplaceable fossils, now-fully-dead languages, artifacts, careers, knowledge. It's hard to put the loss into words, but I tried:

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  8. Sep 3

    They were obsessed with hunting Scleroderma citrinum mostly because they were everywhere!

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  9. Sep 3

    Had a spectacular day tromping around Shavers Mountain with and my 8 and 4 year old. Great location and day for beech bark disease research!

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  10. Sep 3

    The scene: A recreation area deep in the mountains of West Virginia. The curiosity: a bear proof side-by-side garbage can covered in blow flies. The prize: enough -infected to feed a LC-MS for a week!

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  11. Sep 2

    Thousands of rare, venomous insects missing from Philadelphia Insectarium in possible inside job via

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  12. Sep 1

    Woman in front of me in a crowded line at coffee shop: “You smell that? It reminds me of summer. I’m not sure what it is but it reminds me of the summer.” Me: (smells air to confirm what she is smelling. I look down at my caladryl clear lacquered poison-ivy rash) “sure does!”

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  13. Aug 31

    When I think about all the time we put into this manuscript and how many people contributed to get it here, I have to ask “how do lone wolf academics accomplish anything?”

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    Aug 29

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  15. Aug 30

    How effective are systemic against canker on oak? grad students and @LynSavvy and collaborating with and Cornell to figure it out! @ForestPathology

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    Aug 30

    We tested a few headlines, and this one won, and I am delighted.

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  17. Retweeted
    Aug 30

    The intimate relationships between seeds and fungi

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  18. Aug 30

    Parasitic Vines That Feed on Parasitic Wasps That Feed on Trees

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  19. Aug 30

    3000 Followers milestone! Thank you for sharing your science and lives with me. You can expect more forest pathology, fungus-insect interactions, and young kids horror stories here! Stay tuned...

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  20. Retweeted
    Aug 29

    Here's a of Stamnaria, a genus of tiny cup that is strictly associated with stems (horsetail). If you see something like this in North America, let me know! 🍄

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  21. Aug 28

    Nothing and I literally mean nothing can ever prepare you for catching your potty-training toddler using YOUR toothbrush to scratch their butt hole. The horror! The horror!

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