Are you a researcher based in 🌍️ Africa who is interested in frontier research? Join the #EURAXESS webinars on ERC grants: 3 June (in French), 10:00 a.m. CEST, register: bit.ly/4nEcVqR 5 June 2026 (in English), 10:00 a.m. CEST, register: bit.ly/4fCNyUa #FrontierResearch #AfricaEU #AfricaDay

2 X Scholarships in microbial ecology, soil health and crop disease management are available in our lab @uwanews The University of Western Australia. Both domestic and international candidates can apply More details & how to apply - visit web-link below researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/scholarships...

Presenting Leotia chiricana to the world! This new blue Leotia is from tropical ectomycorrhizal forest of Panama and Colombia. It is named after the Chiriqui province of Panama where it was first found. You can read the full publication here link.springer.com/article/10.1... Enjoy! 🤩

Luego de tomar muestras del roble negro en Huila, científicos han estimado que unas 700 especies de hongos podrían estar asociadas a él. https://clck.ru/3SzQpo

This @sciencenews.bsky.social piece, featuring Michael Van Nuland, explores how a warming climate and increasing drought reshape the composition and function of soil microbial communities and how these changes could disrupt ecosystems, plant health, and the global carbon cycle. 🔗 buff.ly/P9YCSsD

How an underground fungal map of one of the world’s oldest, slowest-growing rainforest trees can boost the resilience of Earth’s long-term carbon sinks? New paper in Biodiversity and Conservation about our first expedition to the Chilean Coast Range: buff.ly/CumRGpU

New paper out! Lead by @camilletruong.bsky.social & with @spun.earth #FungiFoundation in Biod Conserv: “Large-diameter trees disproportionately contribute to soil fungal diversity in a coniferous forest with one of oldest living trees on Earth”. @tobykiers.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s105...

So many trees and so many fungi to study! Next one on Australian conifers? We found more #fungi in the rhizosphere of large trees, with many unique taxa beneath the millennial Alerce Abuelo, the Grandfather @spun.earth @esaplantsoilecol.bsky.social @ausmycsoc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s105...

Large-diameter trees disproportionately contribute to soil fungal diversity in a coniferous forest with one of oldest living trees on Earth - Biodiversity and Conservation

Soil fungi play major roles in ecosystem functioning and plant resilience to environmental stresses. However, they are often overlooked in ecosystem restoration plans. In the Coastal Range of southern...

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Les comparto un podcast muy bonito de Wimblu en el que hablo sobre micorrizas, mi trabajo con @spun.earth y también sobre mi relación con los hongos y la naturaleza 🍄🌱🌈🌎🧐. Hace parte de un especial sobre Paz en el que entrevistan a varios científic@s. Aquí va el link 👉 wimblu.com/volumen-10/m...

Más allá de lo que sabemos - Wimblu

Conversamos con Adriana sobre el recién reconocido reino Funga, sobre la importancia de mapear y comprender mejor a los hongos desde el conocimiento local y sobre cómo los hongos nos muestran que todo...

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@camilletruong.bsky.social , @adricorrales.bsky.social, @bethanfmanley.bsky.social, Michael E. Van Nuland, @thecrobe.bsky.social , Rocío Urrutia-Jalabert, Roberto Godoy, Merlin Sheldrake, Giuliana Furci, @tobykiers.bsky.social & @cmarin.bsky.social 📸: Tomás Munita

When happens to fungi when forests become farms? New research from @thecrobe.bsky.social and team shows agricultural conversion in the tropics eliminated ~80% of soil mycorrhizal fungal diversity. Open access paper: buff.ly/BsGYDht

📢 A new publication from our team is now out in the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social BULLETIN! 👉 doi.org/10.1002/bes2... It shows how community, collaboration, & multilingual science are not extras—they are essential for equity in ecology. 🌎 📢Please share to amplify Latin American voices!

Call for applications to the Postdoctoral Positions in the Tri-Institutional Molecular Mycology and Pathogenesis Training Program (Tri-I MMPTP) at Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University mmptp.mgm.duke.edu

I'm delighted to inform you that our paper "Ecological genomics of saprotrophy to biotrophy transitions in the genus Clitopilus" was published in IMA Fungus. A long standing collaboration with Zhilin Yuan at RISF, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Hangzhou: imafungus.pensoft.net/articles.php...

Ecological genomics of saprotrophy to biotrophy transitions in the genus Clitopilus (Fr. ex Rabenh.) P. Kumm. (Agaricales, Entolomataceae)

Transitions between saprotrophic and biotrophic lifestyles represent pivotal evolutionary events in fungal ecology; however, the genomic and physiological mechanisms underlying such shifts remain poor...

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Underground Explorer's funding call is open!! Take a look and apply 👇

Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN)@spun.earth · 9mo ago

📣 Become a 2026 Underground Explorer and help us map and protect the underground. Grant amount: Up to $10,000 USD Deadline: 22 March, 2026 at 23:59 UTC-10:00 (Hawaii) Link to apply: www.spun.earth/expeditions/apply

Are you a researcher translating fungal science into real conservation action? 📣 Call for abstracts now open 📍14–17 April 2026 in Uppsala, Sweden 🔗 Apply: www.slu.se/en/fce2026/ ⏰ Deadline: 25 Feb 2026

Fungal Conservation in Europe: Evidence to Action

We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming meeting: Fungal Conservation in Europe: Evidence to Action which will take place in Uppsala, Sweden 14-17 April 2026.

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What is the global richness of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF)? A recent paper in Fungal Ecology by @steffilutz.bsky.social and colleagues provides updated estimates of AMF richness from 4,733 sampling sites across the globe doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...

A 20 year rewilding project in Colombia’s Magdalena River Valley. Led by @adricorrales.bsky.social, with support from Micaela Tosi, Daniela León, Fundación Jardín Botánico de Medellín & Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation. Read Adriana's SPUN Explainer: www.spun.earth/articles/rew...

Missed our latest webinar? 🎥 Our session on mycorrhizae is now available online. Watch it here: 👇 youtube.com/playlist?lis... Many thanks to @cmarin.bsky.social and @adricorrales.bsky.social for their excellent talks! 👏🍄

ConCiencia En Las Américas 2025 - YouTube

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César Marín@cmarin.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Muchas gracias al capítulo América Latina de @esalatamcarib.bsky.social #EcologicalSocietyOfAmerica por esta amable invitación junto a la gran @adricorrales.bsky.social de @spun.earth Siempre un gusto hablar de micorrizas. Y mejor: en español! www.youtube.com/live/2Fjs6ht...

In this article, just out, I argue that scientists have a crucial role in the science-policy interface: keep making questions, especially those whose answers decision-makers don't know they want to know, or know they do not want to know. Here's the link: journals.plos.org/sustainabili...

Everything you always wanted to know about mushroom-forming fungi! Great collab with amazing mycologists. Thanks Laszlo Nagy for leading this effort! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The biodiversity, genomics, ecology and evolution of mushroom-forming fungi - Nature Reviews Biodiversity

Mushroom-forming fungi have along evolutionary history and a suite of important ecological roles. This Review highlights advances in understanding of Agaricomycetes evolution and ecology driven by gen...

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Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Dartmouth College Society of Fellows – Environmental Studies Come join myself and Michael Cox, as we recruit a postdoc with specialization in forest carbon dynamics, climate policy, and nature-based solutions! www.esacareercenter.org/job/2002606/...

Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Society of Fellows – Environmental Studies - Hanover, New Hampshire job with Environmental Studies Program, Dartmouth College | 2002606

The Society of Fellows at Dartmouth College invites applications for a fellowship in the Department of Environmental Studies.

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A new fossil fungus discovered in Scotland shows evidence of plants and fungi sharing nutrients to survive on land. The fossil, more than 400 million years old, offers hints about the origin of one of the greatest partnerships in the history of life on Earth. www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

Ancient fossil reveals how plants and fungi first developed on land | Natural History Museum

A new fossil fungus discovered in Scotland shows evidence of plants and fungi sharing nutrients to survive on land.

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Arbuscular mycorrhizal networks-A climate-smart blueprint for agriculture in Plant Communications from Gary Gan (Wenzhou University) with @mvanderheijden.bsky.social @manudelbaq.bsky.social www.cell.com/plant-commun...

Arbuscular mycorrhizal networks—A climate-smart blueprint for agriculture

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungus–plant hyphosphere networks serve as a keystone ecological infrastructure for sustainable agroecosystems. Exploring AM fungal functionality can lead to increased nutr...

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Fungal fossils tell a story of resilience: research by Worobiec et al. published in #FungalBiology (Aug 2025) traces dark septate endophytic (DSE) microsclerotia from the Eocene to today, revealing long-term plant–fungus associations. 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interested in Nanopore long-read ITS fungal metabarcode analysis? Our preprint is now out as journal article www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... There is more to do for improving long-read ITS analysis and we hope to advertise a PhD project around this soon.

Benchmarking fungal species classification using Oxford nanopore technologies long-read ITS metabarcodes

The gold standard for fungal classification has long been specimen or culture-based, however, many Fungi display simple morphological characteristics,…

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Wow, nature is too cool! Structures on stinkbug hind legs that used to be interpreted as ears are actually chambers with fungi. The bugs coat their eggs in those fungi to protect them against parasitoid wasps. 🧪 Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs

Dinidorid stinkbugs were reported to possess a conspicuous tympanal organ on female hindlegs. In this study, we show that this organ is specialized to retain microbial symbionts rather than to perceiv...

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Excited to be delivering one of the the keynote talks at the #LivingData conference to share about our work in the Indigenous data governance task force and the importance of Indigenous leadership in biodiversity conservation 🌱

GBIF@gbif.org · last yr.

Don't miss an incredible opportunity to hear from the four keynote speakers at #LivingData2025! 🌿 Dr. Alice Hughes 🌎 Dr. Lydia Jennings 📊 Dr. Sabina Leonelli 🦋 Dr. Rudolf Meier 🔗 www.livingdata2025.c... #DatosVivos2025 @tdwg.org @gbif.org @obis.org @geobon.org #InstitutoHumboldt