After almost 6 yrs, the book I have edited is nearing completion. Titled "Biodiversity and Conservation of Fungal Parasites and Pathogens", it consists of 18 chapters with 76 authors. I am exhausted but also proud of this accomplishment. Soon available #OA via @pensoft.net!

📢 NEW PAPER 📢 Our review on the state of #mycology in #Honduras reveals major knowledge gaps + logistical, institutional, and funding challenges limiting progress. We outline priorities for the future, along with #stakeholders and their roles. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #openaccess

Congratulations @zakisaati.bsky.social with this amazing paper! Some of those samples were ours from Belgium 🇧🇪

Zaki Saati-Santamaría@zakisaati.bsky.social · last mo.

Our paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social 🎉 We analyzed 1,921 soils from 33 countries to show how climate and agriculture shape soil microbiomes. Pesticides & fertilizers reshape microbial communities and ecological networks despite higher diversity in agricultural soils. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Today I received updates from my two research teams who are doing remote fieldwork in #Honduras and #Panama, capturing bats, collecting mushrooms, insects, and entomopathogenic fungi, and conducting surveys with local communities. Very, very proud PI ❤️ #TeamLaboul #LFEE

🍄 6th FunDive Webinar: Tuesday 30.06 at 8:00 PM CET Topic: Beyond the Microscope - Laboulbeniomycetes by @dhaelewa.bsky.social Registration: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/8f26d2... 🍄See you at the Webinar! @fundive-fungi.bsky.social @teamlaboul.bsky.social

Very happy to see that this picture is featured on the cover of Volume 33(2) of Northeastern Naturalist, echoing our paper that can be found open-access here: doi.org/10.1656/045.... 🍄🐞 @michieldegroot.bsky.social @dhaelewa.bsky.social @teamlaboul.bsky.social

Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬@dhaelewa.bsky.social · last mo.

This photo will be featured on the cover of the upcoming issue of #NortheasternNaturalist, which includes our paper on @inaturalist.bsky.social observations revealing new records of Hesperomyces harmoniae in Québec! 🇨🇦🍄🐞🥳 doi.org/10.1656/045.... @bioone.bsky.social

@spiegelandgrau.bsky.social brings us FOREST EUPHORIA: The Abounding Queerness of Nature, a book that offers a bracing dose of Reality to "gender essentialists" by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian. #PrideMonth reading at its best! #Booksky 🌈📚 expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/05/fore...

FOREST EUPHORIA: The Abounding Queerness of Nature offers a bracing dose of Reality to "gender essentialists"

FOREST EUPHORIA: The Abounding Queerness of Nature PATRICIA ONONIWU KAISHIAN Spiegel & Grau ( non-affiliate Amazon link) $14.99 ebook...

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Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) was a pioneering naturalist, entomologist & scientific illustrator whose meticulous artwork & observations: 🦋 Revolutionized the study of insects 🐜 Laid early groundwork for #ecology 🐞 Permanently changed how we understand insect life It's #InsectWeek #WomenInSTEM

This photo will be featured on the cover of the upcoming issue of #NortheasternNaturalist, which includes our paper on @inaturalist.bsky.social observations revealing new records of Hesperomyces harmoniae in Québec! 🇨🇦🍄🐞🥳 doi.org/10.1656/045.... @bioone.bsky.social

Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬@dhaelewa.bsky.social · last mo.

Can you see the greenish-yellowish fruiting bodies sticking out of the rear of this ladybird? This is Hesperomyces harmoniae! #Laboulbeniales Observation by Pierre Pesant, www.inaturalist.org/observations... @inaturalist.bsky.social

Can you see the greenish-yellowish fruiting bodies sticking out of the rear of this ladybird? This is Hesperomyces harmoniae! #Laboulbeniales Observation by Pierre Pesant, www.inaturalist.org/observations... @inaturalist.bsky.social

When I was a student, I barely noticed that my professors were also publishing papers. Somehow, 20 years later, I publish papers myself—and people actually read and cite them! For all my shortcomings and uncertainty about my academic future, 10K citations is a milestone I'm proud of❤️🎓

Please take the time to review and sign this petition in support of the U.S. National Fungus Collections, which are being threatened in the face of the USDA reorganization efforts. c.org/KQWY7fNhGw 🍄

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📣New paper! "La-Bools, Mysterious Fungi that Deserve Your Attention", published in Frontiers for Young Minds 🍄🐞 doi.org/10.3389/frym... #Laboulbeniales #TeamLaboul #LFEE @jonathancazabonne.bsky.social @tommartin2024.bsky.social @frontiersin.bsky.social

ICYMI: New online! Running the numbers on biodiversity change

Mohammad will be supported by a Researchers at Risk Fellowship by the @czechacademy.bsky.social. I'm looking forward for him to be doing research in a safe research environment! @ms-fungi.bsky.social

Laboratory of Fungal Ecology and Evolution@teamlaboul.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In September, the lab will expand with an Iranian postdoc, Dr. Mohammad Javad Pourmoghaddam. He is interested in fungal (chemo-)taxonomy and phylogeny. At #LFEE, he will work on Hypocreales and Xylariales from our long-term projects in the #BostonHarborIslands and #Honduras. Welcome! 🇮🇷

With my new postdoc, Dr. Danushka Tennakoon, who will focus on deciphering a species complex in #Laboulbeniales and describing #microfungi associated with forest plants in Czechia. Welcome Danu! #LFEE #TeamLaboul #JuniorStar 🇱🇰

Climate-induced shifts in #ectomycorrhizal explorations from long to short strategies along an elevation gradient 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Chen et al. @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience

The proposed closure of the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center threatens the U.S. National Fungus Collections—vital for agriculture, biosecurity, and research. The Mycological Society of America calls for continued preservation and enhanced support! msafungi.org/wp-content/u...

The paper is also available #openaccess now! doi.org/10.1656/045.... @bioone.bsky.social @teamlaboul.bsky.social #TeamLaboul

Jonathan Cazabonne@jonathancazabonne.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📣 New paper! We showed @inaturalist.bsky.social can be used for “next-level” applications to document the occurrence of Hesperomyces harmoniae on its host, using Québec as a case study. ▶️ www.eaglehill.us/NENAonline/a... @michieldegroot.bsky.social @dhaelewa.bsky.social @teamlaboul.bsky.social

I am teaching two short courses at the #ScienceAcademy for lifelong learning. Registration is open! WRITING SCIENCE (Fall 2026) science-academy.ugent.be/en/program/w... and COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY, with @robindevroe.bsky.social (Spring 2027) science-academy.ugent.be/en/program/c...

Remembering Adriana Romero-Olivares by sharing our paper "Ten simple rules for Global North researchers to stop perpetuating #HelicopterResearch in the #GlobalSouth" published in PLoS Computational Biology. doi.org/10.1371/jour... @plos.org @nmsu.edu #ResearchEthics @martin-nunez.bsky.social

Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬@dhaelewa.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Just received the news of Dr. Adriana Romero-Olivares' unexpected passing. She was a dear colleague, mycologist, microbial ecologist, Assistant Professor at @ucirvine.bsky.social, engaged member of @msafungi.bsky.social, and a supporter of #inclusive science. My condolences to her young family.

Congratulations to my student Fatima El Madani, who defended her bachelor thesis today on screening insects in the @taxonexpeditions.bsky.social collection for the presence of #Laboulbeniales. She reported some new host records and at least one possible #newspecies of Laboulbenia! #TeamLaboul

Just received the news of Dr. Adriana Romero-Olivares' unexpected passing. She was a dear colleague, mycologist, microbial ecologist, Assistant Professor at @ucirvine.bsky.social, engaged member of @msafungi.bsky.social, and a supporter of #inclusive science. My condolences to her young family.

VERY proud of this one. Possibly our most significant contribution to #Laboulbeniales systematics thus far (but 2 other important works are underway). Integrative data show clearly that #Stigmatomyces should be split in six genera—all we need to do this are sequences for the type species!

Laboratory of Fungal Ecology and Evolution@teamlaboul.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢New paper alert📢 Our PhD student Warre Van Caenegem discusses the paraphyletic genus Stigmatomyces based on morphometrics, molecular phylogenetic data, and ecology. doi.org/10.1080/0027... #OpenAccess #TeamLaboul #taxonomy #Laboulbeniales

📣 New paper! We showed @inaturalist.bsky.social can be used for “next-level” applications to document the occurrence of Hesperomyces harmoniae on its host, using Québec as a case study. ▶️ www.eaglehill.us/NENAonline/a... @michieldegroot.bsky.social @dhaelewa.bsky.social @teamlaboul.bsky.social

📢New paper alert📢 My PhD student Jie Xie studied non-target effects of Hesperomyces harmoniae, fungal ectoparasite of the globally invasive Harmonia axyridis. She performed laboratory bioassays with 3 ladybird species and found differential susceptibility. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... #TeamLaboul

I’ve just signed this birthday card for Sir David Attenborough’s 100th -- thought you might like to add your name too! act.gp/4uiak8e

Wish Sir David Attenborough a happy 100th birthday

We are putting together a 100th birthday card from all of us who care about people, nature and planet as much as David does, to celebrate this incredible milestone. Will you add your name today?

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There are two!! meetings on insect-associated (fungal and other) pathogens taking place soon: 1) The Arthropod-Fungal Associations workshop (3rd edition) in Łódź, Poland, 20-22 May 2026 #AFAworkshop 2) The Insect Pathology Short Course in Ithaca, New York, 7-12 June 2026

📢CALL FOR COLLABORATION📢 My PhD student Warre is looking for flies infected with #Laboulbeniales fungi. Especially Musca domestica! If you have any, store in 96% ethanol or in the freezer, record on @inaturalist.bsky.social, and/or contact Warre. #TeamLaboul #LFEE #LuminaQuaeruntur

The 3rd edition of our ARTHROPOD-FUNGAL ASSOCIATIONS workshop is taking place in Łódź, Poland, 20-22 May 2026. If you're interested in fungal parasites and pathogens, then you ought to register! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #AFAworkshop