I recently attended the British Mycological Society annual student and scientific meeting. It was a wonderful week of science and meeting fellow mycologists - looking forward to next year! #BMS2026

On the final day of the #BMS2026 Annual Scientific Meeting: 🏅 award lectures from Tariq Butt (Swansea University) and Olga Nev (University of Exeter) 📣 offered talks and a poster session ⭐ awards for best talks & posters by early career researchers www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/asm.html

Coming up this afternoon at the #BMS2026 Annual Scientific Meeting: BMS award-winner Carol Munro (University for Aberdeen) will present a lecture on medical mycology and antifungal therapeutics. ➡️ Read about Carol's career and research on the conference website www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/asm.html

Day 2 of #BMS2026 is packed with fungal science! We'll hear from Irene Teixido-Orries, in the BMS & ISM Naresh Magan Lecture Award. Plus talks on RNAi, fungal adaptation, ecology, genomics, pathogens, biotech, medical mycology & more. ➡️ Read about the research: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/asm.html

Talks at the #BMS2026 Annual Scientific Meeting start today with a themed session on Fungi and Climate Change. Covering topics from emerging fungal diseases and food security, to forest resilience and antifungal resistance. #Mycology #Fungi #ClimateChange #Research

Out now: Field Mycology July 2026.

Does your #PhD research involve fungi? 🍄 🔬 🧬 🧫 Become a BMS Postgraduate Member to access the latest #fungal research in our journals; apply for #grants to support training & learning; take part in meetings; join a #community of early career researchers www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/membership-c...

We're at Royal Holloway University of London for our Annual Scientific Meeting! Starting today with the Student Research Conference: invited speakers, short talks, posters & career discussions.👉 Find the speaker profiles & abstracts here: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/asm.html #BMS2026 #mycology #research

Delighted to have been awarded a @britmycolsoc.org.uk grant to run a passion project on Mucoromycotina Fine Root Endophytes and their hosts here at @umr-ecosols.bsky.social 🍄🍀

⭐#BMS2026 Speaker Highlight⭐ BMS award winner Olga Nev, University of Exeter, will talk about combining technologies to develop the ideal growing conditions for studies of Pneumocystis - a life-threatening fungal pathogen. Find out more: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/asm.html

⭐#BMS2026 Speaker Highlight⭐ Next week at our Annual Scientific Meeting, Lynne Boddy, Professor of Fungal Ecology at Cardiff University, will be talking about the effects of climate change on forest fungi. Want to know more? See: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/asm.html

⭐#BMS2026 Speaker Highlight⭐ Aaron Vogan, Uppsala University, Sweden. Aaron will discuss how combining insights from independent research has identified 'Starships' - large mobile DNA elements in fungal genomes that are actually part of the same group. www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/asm.html

⭐#BMS2026 Speaker Highlight⭐Weather & climate change play a major role in how fungal plant diseases spread & develop. At the BMS meeting in July, Dan Bebber, University of Exeter, will review research into these plant health challenges. www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/asm.html #fungi #climate #plants

Congratulations to Irene Teixido-Orries, University of Lleida - winner of this year's BMS & ISM Naresh Magan Lecture Award! Irene’s presentation takes place on Wednesday 15 July at the BMS Annual Scientific Meeting. Find out more: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/naresh-magan... #mycotoxins #mycology #fungi

New fungus-focused display at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew: find out about the lives & careers of pioneering women in #mycology. Open from 2 June to 26 August. @rbgkew.bsky.social

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Our new Reading Room display ‘Female Figures and Fungi: A Foray into the Mycological Past’ opens today! Come and learn more about the lives and careers of pioneering women in fungi, with many materials on display for the first time. Accessible from 10am-4pm Tuesday to Thursday until 26 August.

Here are some books we came across during a project in the mycology library last week. Our Library and Archives collections do not only cover plants, but also fungi and lichens. Some have very beautiful illustrations. Others (like the cordyceps) are rather gruesome... 🍄🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫 #KewLA

Booking deadline approaching! Registration for our Annual Scientific Meeting closes very soon. See the Programme and Invited Speaker abstracts on the website, and don't miss your chance to join us - register now: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/asm.html #BMS2026 #fungi #research #mycology

@britishecologicalsociety.org Soil Ecology in Practice Conference: 8-10 September 2026, University of Stirling, UK. Abstract submission deadline: June 30th, 2026. 👉 Find out more: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/soil... #fungi #mycology #microbiology #soil #research #ecology

⭐#BMS2026 Speaker Highlight⭐ Margherita Bertuzzi, University of Manchester. Margherita's research has shown how Airway Epithelial Cells, which cover the surface of the lungs, can defend against disease by recognising & clearing inhaled fungal spores. www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/asm.html

How do fungi colonise an artificial island? An article in #FungalEcology describes how metabarcoding was used to study the succession of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities on the Danish island of Peberholm.➡️Read the paper by López-García et al: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...

We’re excited to announce artist duo Baum & Leahy as recipient of the Massee Arts Grant 2026!⭐The project "Fluorescing in reciprocity" is a participatory light sculpture that invites audiences to encounter fungi through the living symbiosis of lichens. www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/massee.html

We’re excited to announce Paper Rhino as a recipient of the Massee Arts Grant 2026!⭐Their project "Fungi secrets" will be an animated poem explaining the wonder of fungi & enabling viewers to observe processes that are normally invisible or too slow to perceive... www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/massee.html

The Global Strategy for Fungal Conservation is open for public consultation. The strategy identifies the global biodiversity targets that will not be met unless fungal #biodiversity is protected and sustainably used. 👉 Give your feedback here bit.ly/4wCyVX2 by 22 June. #fungi #conservation

⭐#BMS2026 Speaker Highlight⭐ Matthew Fisher, Imperial College London, UK Matt will draw on data from Aspergillus fumigatus studies to show how agricultural substrates contaminated with fungicides drive the emergence of antifungal resistance. ➡️ www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/asm.html

📣 Final call for award nominations! Help us recognise & celebrate someone who is making an outstanding contribution to mycology ➡️ Submit a nomination for the #BMSawards2026. Deadline: 31 May. Details: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/awards.html

Major shakeup in the systematics of powdery mildews that attack tomatoes and many other plants. Analysis of 8 different genetic regions from 163 fungal samples collected in more than 20 countries >> 600 DNA sequences added to GenBank. #FungalBiology doi.org/10.1016/j.funbio.2026.101717

FunDive is a pan-European project that aims to raise awareness of fungi as crucial components of ecosystems, and encourage the generation of data to promote fungal conservation.➡️ Read more about @fundive-fungi.bsky.social in the BMS's #FieldMycology journal: doi.org/10.63482/php...

⭐#BMS2026 Speaker Highlight⭐ Alessia Buscaino, Quadram Institute, UK Candida albicans is a leading cause of infections in humans. Alessia will talk about characterisation of C. albicans RNAi - a conserved pathway in gene regulation & genome defence. www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/asm.html

BMS field meetings enable mycologists to find and record the fungi in different geographic areas and habitats, and contribute to our knowledge of fungal distribution and ecology in the UK. Read about the BMS 2026 Spring Field Meeting: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/field-events...

Taking place on May 26th: Fungi Forum - an experimental cross-disciplinary discussion, with and about fungi. Invited speakers include architects, researchers, foragers, artists and more. Organised by Emily Ford, fine art student at Newcastle University. 👉 See more on Instagram emilyford_art