Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson

@hilaryrosed.bsky.social

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It's all about plants in the end (and truffle diversity | soil carbon) she/her 🏳️‍🌈 🌾🍄👩🏼‍🔬⛰️🌱 #WomenInSTEM #botany #fungi #seeds PhD from UOregon 🇺🇸 Postdoc at the Australian National Uni 🇦🇺 #MSCA postdoc UiBergen '26 🇳🇴 HilaryRoseDawson.wordpress.com

Slide screenshot of Australian Mountain Research Facility Student and Early Career Travel and Conference Support grant. The Aim is to support attendance at scientific conferences, symposia, and professional workshops, and assist in the development of crucial skills in science communication and professional network development. The grant scheme recognises applicants at two levels. All applications will receive personalised feedback from AMRF/TERN and the video may be published by AMRF in educational and outreach contexts offering a science communication output for their professional portfolio. The highest rated applicants in each round will receive up to $1000 AUD to support participation in a scientific conference, or participation in other technical workshops/forum events where AMRF-supported research is presented. Applications are due 15 Sep 2026. For further info, email penny.burrell [at] anu.edu.au.
Slide screenshot for AMRF Summer Cadet Program 2026/27. Applications are open from 1 Aug to 31 Aug. Program runs 10 to 14 weeks, November 2026 to March 2027. For more info, email penny.burrell[at]anu.edu.au
Screenshot of a slide detailing PhD Top Up Scholarship for Q1 2027 start, with projects including understanding the physiology, functional ecology and genomics of the snow gum group to inform mitigation and management, using dendrochronology to reconstruct history of snow gum dieback events, the natural history of Phoracantha mastersi and potential parasitoids of Eucalyptus pauciflora subspecies. Anticipated advert date 31 Aug 2026.
A Phoracantha mastersi beetle from above drawn in pixels as if it's going to run around a video game devouring snow gum trees.
Screenshot of a New Phytologist article that has a large 'Try AI Companion' bubble that persistently floats on top of the text in a not-subtle way.
Heather sits in an oak tree with her fluffy res golden retriever truffle dog Rye standing on his hind legs to reach her.
Video image is of scrubby forest understory with a vague lyrebird shape perched on one of the branches. The audio is a series of lyrebird clicks and whistles, including one time where it makes the kookaburra's signature laughing call.
Forked-leaf sundew stretching its two sticky leaves out of a grassy seep.
Expansive view across a Eucalyptus forest with stone pillars to the left and wide stone plateaus in the distance.
Heatmap of the assessed risk category associated with each broad threat category reported to affect each Australian alpine ecosystem type based on the IUCN Threat Classification Scheme.
An open book where each page is a sleeve that holds a view-master reel
Golden hour light filters through backlit Eucalyptus trees with a broad dirt path leading down the mountain
Two bright planets and a couple stars hovering in a deep blue sky above a yellow lit building.
Streak of lime green fading into golden yellow and orange on a slender Eucalyptus perriniana trunk
A handful of yellow-orange California poppies pop in front of a large field of vibrant purple camas and grass.
Four light brown egg sacs of impressive size (each a couple centimetres long) hanging in a row from an ornamental shrub branch.
Heatmap of Felt It report data showing the epicenter near Boorowa, NSW, as a yellow pixel and fading out to lilac in Canberra and Sydney.
A screencap of a quote post of the original post with Alexander Kustov saying "P.S. This post was entirely generated and posted on Substack by agentic AI using my new Claude Code (Opus 4.6) workflow. Make of that what you will."
Top down view of a large orange-yellow-brown polypore fungus with a boot for scale.
Photograph of active warming perspex heatwave chambers deployed in an alpine grassland with distant mountain peaks and dramatic clouds.
A ten panel figure showing how five truffle genera (Mesophellia, Hysterangium, Arcangeliella, Thaxterogaster, and Austrogautieria) change in presence and abundance in potoroo scat based on climate variables such as weekly max temp and quarterly min temp.
Heather smiling in front of her title slide that says "The cryptic underground near and far: Unearthing truffle diversity and ecology across local and regional scales". The slide is decorated with a dog and truffles that she drew.
Screenshot of a Web of Science search bar showing document types to filter by, including Article, Book Chapters, Review Article, Correction, and Editorial Material.
A pug stands and stares expectantly while waiting for her human to find the truffle she indicated.
A handful of snow-capped yellow mushrooms that look like small chanterelles
A just-frozen lake ringed by tall conifers dusted with fresh snow
Drafting set up with clear rulers, lines drawn on white batting, and sewing paraphernalia
Hilary Rose standing in a black doctoral gown with green super soft velvet and gold piping.
Email screenshot saying "Hi RSB, Has anyone misplaced a monitor? Lace monitor, that is – the reptilian kind, not the HDMI kind. One has turned up in the (blacked out) building level 3 east, just near the kitchenette. See attached images. We haven't been able to figure out how it got up here, very strange! If it’s an escapee from someone’s project or a pet, please let us know so we can get it back where it needs to be. Stephen (cc) is looking after it for the time being. If no one claims it, we’ll assume it’s a wild visitor and organise for it to be treated as such. Cheers"
Two mounted photos of magnified seeds hanging on a brick wall.
A map showing mean species leaf width being narrower in the northern hemisphere and broader in the southern, with leaf silhouettes shown for broad-leaved conifers and nonbroad-leaved woody angiosperms.
Three phylogenetic trees showing animal emoji increases in 2015, 2019, and 2022.
A graph showing climate optimal time on the y axis and life span of plant tissues on the x axis. Leaf, root, and shoot are marked along a positive linear relationship.
A diagram of a snow depth sensor above a grassland community with a graph in the background where the y axis is height and the x axis date. Phenophases are marked along the x-axis.
Four people sitting at the front of the room ready to answer questions on a panel, including Jay on the right in a bright shirt.
Eight people collecting data in a fenced off grassland plot with a stone cabin and breathtaking fjord views in the background.
A group of forty people arranged in chromatic order based on their colourful rain gear
Screenshot of the iNat classic app upload screen with captive/cultivated set to 'yes'
A big circle made up of little circles, each representing 1,000 iNaturalist users. A tiny fraction are in the top 8,000 identifiers, a little larger fraction represents the bottom 93,000 identifiers, and the rest are white indicating no identifications made. Next to it is a pie chart showing that the top 1,000 identifiers have contributed 70% of IDs, 1-2,000 top identifiers contributed 17% of IDs, 2-4,000 top identifiers contributed 7% of IDs, 4-8,000 top identifiers contributed 3% of IDs, and the bottom 93,000 top identifiers contributed 3% of IDs.
A popup box warning of a potential identification disagreement. The text says "Is the evidence provided enough to confirm this is Plume Thistles (genus Cirsium)?" The green button reads "I don't know but I'm sure this is Sunflowers, Daisies, Asters, and Allies (Family Asteraceae)" and the orange button reads "No, but it is a member of Sunflowers, Daisies, Asters, and Allies (Family Asteraceae)".
A big circle made up of lots of little circles, each of which represents 1,000 iNaturalist users. 51% of the circles are green, indicating someone who has observed but not identified. 4% are yellow or peach indicating at least one observation for others. The remainder are white, indicating neither observing nor identifying.
Two bolete mushrooms cut in half, showing the vivid blue staining on yellow flesh.
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Rye the golden retriever licks his lips after smelling a Hydnotrya truffle held out to him.
Andrew stands at the podium presenting a slide of Quercus rugosa with magenta acorn seeds.
Take home messages slide saying evolutionary responses are small and few, maybe related to local maladaptation, and range position did not clearly predict components of breeder equation.
Jill Anderson stands at the podium introducing her study species Boechera stricta on a slide.
Bess Bookout stands to the side of a slide with a published graph showing how plant diversity is higher with bison presence and an example fenced prairie plot with very dense biomass.
Alyssa presents results on individual and neighbourhood damage impacts on tree mortality.
A slide showing how Sentinel satellite data can help locate orchid populations presented by Allison standing to the side.
Melanie Davis stands at the podium presenting a discussion slide on Yucca results.
Summary slide on pyrodiversity and biodiversity presented by Rebecca standing to the side.
A slide on Venus flytrap range in North Carolina.
Marian Lea presents a slide showing the layout of a NEON site.
A concrete bench painted with rainbow stripes. On the end are painted several realistic cactus species in clay pots.
Title slide for Beyond Boundaries: Investigating species boundaries in complex groups and accessibility in fieldwork with Caroline presenting standing to the side.
A slide for Where do we go from here? Including talk about axiological assumptions, provide context for who the founders were, increase field site transparency, and advocate for inclusion. Haley is presenting sitting to the side.
Slide for "A microcosm of science" with Ash sitting to the side presenting from their wheelchair.
Title slide for "Locke's demonstration garden as vehicle for cultural connection in transnational communities on the Sacramento Delta" with Mayra standing at the podium.
Title slide for "Disabled in the field: navigating nature as a disabled botanist (and why orchids are amazing)" with Kelsey sitting to the side presenting from their wheelchair.