Do forest fungi prefer to grow in/on specific substrates? Two new papers, including one in Fungal Ecology, examine substrate specificity of boreal forest fungi. doi.org/10.1016/j.fu... doi.org/10.1111/mec.... @tedersoo.bsky.social @drhyfe.bsky.social @sundymaurice.bsky.social

Out Now! Communicating microbiology effectively #MicroSky

Apply to be an editor at an ASM Journal! Open call for editors at mBio, mSphere, mSystems, and Microbiology Spectrum. This is a very fulfilling way to share your expertise and give back to our society journals. @asm.org journals.asm.org/asm-call-for...

The science writing over at @asimovpress.bsky.social is fantastic! From the origin of the lab vortex, to the history of Xenopus, their content is creative, beautiful, and thoughtfully researched. Consider assigning some of their pieces in science courses. www.asimov.press/p/vortex?utm...

Making the Vortex Mixer

The forgotten story of an invention found in every biology lab.

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The superb lyrebird makes remarkable songs in Australian forests. It also displaces ∼150 tonnes per hectare per year of litter/soil in search of food. A new paper in Fungal Ecology explores how fungi respond to the lyrebird's disturbances: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu... www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0...

Amazing! Bird Sounds From The Lyre Bird - David Attenborough - BBC Wildlife

YouTube video by BBC Studios

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📣 The deadline for this @britmycolsoc.org.uk special issue on fungal conservation has been extended to 15th March 2026. Spread the word and don’t hesitate to contact @cfemycolab.bsky.social or me if you have any questions. We’re looking forward to receiving your submissions! 🍄

Jonathan Cazabonne@jonathancazabonne.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Thrilled to announce that the special issue on fungal #conservation that @cfemycolab.bsky.social and I are co-editing for the @britmycolsoc.org.uk c.org.uk journal Fungal Ecology is open for submissions! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

It’s bad. At least a dozen people have ingested Death Cap mushrooms in the Bay Area, especially in the South Bay. We are trying to get the word out with local health and parks agencies and distributing a warning poster in Spanish. Please be careful when picking wild mushrooms. bayareamushrooms.org.

Registration open for #Fungal26 genetics-gsa.org/fungal-2026/ at Asilomar.

Homepage - 33rd Fungal Genetics Conference

Visit our website to learn more.

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🍄🌱 Gardens can be fungal hotspots — if we let them! In this blog for #UKFungusDay, Jassy Drakulic @jassydrak.bsky.social at The RHS explores how garden practices can encourage (or suppress) fungi & why that matters for #SoilHealth & #Biodiversity. www.ukfungusday.co.uk/fungiingardens #Gardening

Such a delight to share our work on the evolution of a cheese rind fungus in @currentbiology.bsky.social. This is the fantastic PhD work of @nicolasleonlouw.bsky.social and resulted from amazing collaborations, a wedding proposal(!), an undergrad course, & more! 🧵 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Long-term monitoring of a North American cheese cave reveals mechanisms and consequences of fungal adaptation

Using a unique longitudinal sampling approach, Louw et al. demonstrate how a cheese-associated Penicillium population has adapted in an artisan cheese production facility in Vermont, USA. Adaptation i...

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📣 Call for papers! Special issue of #FungalEcology on “Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions” co-edited by Susana C. Gonçalves @cfemycolab.bsky.social & Jonathan Cazabonne @jonathancazabonne.bsky.social. Deadline for manuscripts: 31 Jan 2026. Find out more: www.linkedin.com/company/brit...

Thrilled to announce that the special issue on fungal #conservation that @cfemycolab.bsky.social and I are co-editing for the @britmycolsoc.org.uk c.org.uk journal Fungal Ecology is open for submissions! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

New lab pre-print up! "Twelve species of human parasites make up half the literature on microbial eukaryotes" doi.org/10.1101/2025... We (led by UG Joanna Lepper and with @hbrappap.bsky.social) quantified all mentions of protist species in the scientific literature 🧵 #protistsonsky #microsky

Twelve species of human parasites make up half of the literature on microbial eukaryotes

Although microbial eukaryotes comprise the majority of eukaryotic phylogenetic diversity and inhabit nearly all ecosystems globally, most research focuses on only a few species of human parasites. Her...

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We are on the lookout for postdocs for two different projects at the intersection of ecology, evolution, and the human microbiome. See thread for more information and reach out!

Huge thanks to the amazing team at @currentbiology.bsky.social for highlighting fungi in this special issue. Many excellent reviews and perspectives from so many mycological heroes. Lots of great material to use in teaching/outreach. 🍄

Current Biology@currentbiology.bsky.social · last yr.

Our newest special issue is now live! Check it out to discover more about diverse and beautiful Fungi🍄🍄‍🟫🍄 On the cover: the fly agaric, Amanita muscaria, releasing its spores in the early morning light. www.cell.com/current-biol...

We are hiring a postdoctoral scholar to join us in the sometime in the next ~6 months. oliveriolab.org with a focus on microbial eukaryotes in extreme environments. Please email w/CV if you'd like to chat. Official ad soon. #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky #ProtistsOnSky

Check out my latest paper on fitness costs and benefits of hosting a killer virus if you're a yeast in the forest! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Send us your exciting microbial ecology and evolution manuscripts! Embracing the systems complexity of microbial ecology and evolution: call for papers | mSystems journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Embracing the systems complexity of microbial ecology and evolution: call for papers | mSystems

Microbial ecology and evolution are broad disciplines that seek to understand the underlying processes that drive the diversification, distributions, and dynamics of microbial cells, populations, comm...

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Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

Get in Dorks, we are going protesting. STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS. More information to come.

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · last yr.

Intraspecies associations from strain-rich metagenome samples https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.07.636498v1

And Academic T&P committees, maybe take a beat & consider how the continuous & unsustainable push for CV conspicuous production has been a competitive inhibitor of scientists & scholars being engaged in their communities in meaningful ways as a bulwark to the shitstorm happening now.

a woman in a black and white jacket is sitting at a table in a diner .

Alt: a woman in a black and white jacket is sitting at a table in a diner saying "There, I said it."

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That's how it's done! Nice and easy. Good job Mycological Society of America.

Interested in doing a postdoc at the intersection of microbial ecology and agricultural engineering? We are recruiting for a collaborative project with me and Chris Voigt, Darcy McRose, Dave DesMarias, and Sixian You. See project announcement and reach out: jwafs.mit.edu/projects/202...

Our NSF-funded basic research in microbiology is providing useful knowledge/training/data for US food businesses that support rural economies. This workshop was one of the most rewarding projects I've worked on as a scientist. now.tufts.edu/2025/01/28/t...

‘These Cheeses Have a Life, They Have a Story’

After a microbiology workshop, cheesemakers and mongers have a new way to talk about their tasty, funky products.

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How does variation in ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity affect tree growth? What are the knowledge gaps to more fully answering this question? See my review out today in Fungal Ecology: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...

Gentle reminder that if you truly value diversity in the workforce, top down executive orders may/will change implementation but it shouldn’t change your dedication to building the best possible team/group/cohort/generation of researchers

I am super excited to work with @fungaldreamteam.bsky.social‬ as co-EIC at Fungal Ecology! We have amazing editors who prioritize high-quality science and careful review of your manuscripts. Please consider sending your work to Fungal Ecology in 2025!

Allison Walker 🇨🇦🌊🍄🔬🧬@fungaldreamteam.bsky.social · 2y ago

Honoured to be incoming co-Editor-in-Chief of Fungal Ecology! Send us your best work. 🍄https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/fungal-ecology @benwolfe.bsky.social

Have questions about #bioinformatics, #genomics, #evolution or stuck on a project? 🧬💻 I want to help! Happy to discuss data, figures, writing, academia/industry or chatting just for kicks—no strings attached Drop questions below, DM, or schedule a meeting Science together is better than alone 🙌

Everyone talks about "strains", but what are they? Within the lab, we often come back to the review "Diversity within species: interpreting strains in microbiomes" by Thea Van Rossum (2020) when discussing at which phylogenetic resolution we do see different signals www.nature.com/artic...

Diversity within species: interpreting strains in microbiomes

Nature Reviews Microbiology - Large-scale metagenomic analyses are vastly increasing the rate of discovery of variation within species but they are also leading to scientific and semantic...

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