Adding to my reading list!

S. Lorena Ament@loreament.bsky.social · 8h ago

How do fungi distinguish conspecific self from non-self? The genetics of this fascinating topic are plagued with misunderstandings even amongst mycologists. We wrote a review/rant to address this confusion, out now! 🍄 #fungi #allorecognition #HETgenes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It was great to present my postdoc work at #IAL10, the International Association for Lichenology congress in Trieste! Thanks to the organizers for the invitation!

Thanks to everyone who organized the great event and selected me for a Margalith Galun Award! Congratulations to the other winners. Already looking forward to following up on all the new connections and ideas #IAL10

It's a big honour to be recognized by my community! Huge thanks to IAL and thanks Toby for nominating me!

Toby Spribille@spribille.bsky.social · 5d ago

Congratulations to Gulnara Tagirdzhanova @metalichen.bsky.social on receiving the Aino Henssen Award last night for outstanding postdoctoral research on lichen symbiosis from the International Association for Lichenology! #IAL10

Excited to see @puginiercamille.bsky.social presenting on secreted proteins in Xanthoria. I'm blown away by the work on algal cultures and protein-protein interaction modeling! #IAL10

A teaser from @spribille.bsky.social on lichen fungi G protein-coupled receptors in the context of the symbiosis evolution. A lot of independent data points to them being a key to the symbiosis #IAL10

Very clever study design by @ddiazescandon.bsky.social, who grouped lichen fungi based on which sugar they receive from their symbiotic partner and discovered patterns in their genomes that reflect how this fungi evolve to rely on their partners. Coming soon to the bioRxiv near you! #IAL10

Absolutely ground breaking stuff presented by @veera-t-nogerius.bsky.social. Structurally chimeric lichen made by intertwined hyphae of an ascomycete and a basidiomycete present in nearly 1:1 ratio! #IAL10

Very happy to attend the 10th International Association for Lichenology symposium in Trieste ! #IAL10 And very honoured to be presenting tomorrow our work on lichenization in Xanthoria parietina

Amazing talk by @skaloud.bsky.social on parallels between coral and lichen symbioses, with lots of exciting data on photobiont switching #IAL10

Toby Spribille@spribille.bsky.social · last wk.

Pavel Škaloud opens day two of #IAL10 with a riveting lecture on symbiosis from the distant mists of time up to the present. Nice to have this much emphasis on symbiosis at this IAL meeting!

Excited to present during the workshop on overcoming hurdles in lichen omics. Thanks to @philippresl.bsky.social and Julia Gerasimova for the invitation! #IAL10

It was very nice to present some of our work on antimicrobial proteins in lichens at the IAL10! Stop by at my poster number 4 today or tomorrow afternoon for further discussion #IAL10

Thank you Nick!

Nick Talbot@talbotlabtsl.bsky.social · last wk.

Proud that @thesainsburylab.bsky.social alumna @metalichen.bsky.social will be a keynote speaker at the IAL10 Congress presenting our effector investigation in Xanthoria. #celebratingalumni

And the lichenology congress #IAL10 is officially open!

Excited for the kick-off of the International Association of Lichenology symposium in person for the first time in 10 years in Trieste, Italy. Looking forward to lots of great talks over the next week. #IAL10

After spending four blissful days in Croatia and acquiring a sizeable set of scratches and bruises from snorkling around sharp rocks, I'm finally heading to the International Association for Lichenology congress in Trieste! 10 years since the last in-person IAL, this is going to be a blast! #IAL10

For anyone who ever wants to read (or re-read) @trungles.com's Pride & Prejudice readthrough commentary w/o having to slog through needing to constantly expand the original thread, I put it all together on a google doc! 135 glorious pages! 💙📚 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Pride & Prejudice Commentary by Trung

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Was so great to be part of this study, which explores iron exchange as one of the aspects of #lichen #symbiosis, a first study of its sort. Big thanks to Isidor Happacher and Hubertus Haas for putting this together! #SymbioSky 🖥️ 🧪 🦠 🧫

Nick Talbot@talbotlabtsl.bsky.social · last mo.

The mycobiont of the lichen Xanthoria parietina produces the siderophore ferrichrome which enables iron acquisition and nutrient exchange with its algal photobiont. Great collaboration with my group & @metalichen.bsky.social led by Hubertus Haas 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A super exciting study: a pangenome of Peltigera lichens with lots of cool details on TEs and G protein–coupled receptors!

Björn Usadel@usadellab.bsky.social · last mo.

1/8 What if the genomic features we associate with fungal pathogens were also used by mutualists? We assembled 41 scale lichen genomes across 11 Peltigera species with 30 chromosome scale and 5 T2T revealing an unexpected genomic toolkit behind lichen symbiosis. doi.org/10.64898/202... #lichen

🍄 New study on #fungal #isocyanide synthases (#ICSs)! With @grantnickles.bsky.social @kellerlab.bsky.social (Uni. Wisconsin-Madison) @currentbiology.bsky.social @unipd.bsky.social Thanks all for the great teamwork! doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.… #Lichens #SecondaryMetabolism #biosyntheticGenes #fungi

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

I'm so endlessly sad about Western societies deciding, by and large, that the human drive to defy the circumstances of their birth and choose where and how to live their lives is a problem to be aggressively managed, not an affirmative good as it aught to be seen

Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity. “You are not numbers or case files. “You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV

As promised: We have an open 2-year postdoc position in my lab at HHU Düsseldorf, starting September 2026. Come join us and help pioneering structural biology of fungal GPCRs! More about the lab: altegoerlab.de Apply here: karriere.hhu.de/index.php?ac... Please share with interested candidates!

Postdoc (m/f/d) structural biology of fungal G-Protein coupled receptors

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Altegoerlab@faltegoer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We just received funding for a 2yr postdoc position on cryoEM of fungal gpcrs. Official call will open soon. Contact me if you‘re interested!

Delighted to see this out in its final form! doi.org/10.1093/isme... We established a discussion group focussed on the history of community ecology and how it informs our understanding of microbiota. This review distils those discussions to provide a guide for microbiologists entering the field

A microbiologist’s field guide to community ecology

Abstract. Many microbiological outcomes are shaped by the determinants of community composition, including the factors that allow pathogens to invade healt

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I've spent a lot of time at the world's leading institutes in my field & while they haven't all been particularly supportive of diversity as a social good, at none of them could you go to the institute coffee break and find more than a small handful of researchers sharing a common country of origin.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2mo ago

"Please provide a justification for the foreign collaboration." Science.

A great day of talks and posters - looking forward to tomorrow. Especially @metalichen.bsky.social’s talk! #Mendel_ECR_26

Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology@gmivienna.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Day 1 of the Mendel Early Career Symposium! 100 international researchers gathered for networking, engaging talks & posters, keynote by @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social, & workshop on ChimeraX/AlphaFold. Thanks to the sponsors for supporting expanding horizons in #PlantBiology. #Mendel_ECR_26

The Swedish 🇸🇪 Parliament just approved a law that would create a tiered citizenship scheme, with a 1st class (mostly for the native born) that cannot be revoked and a 2nd class (mostly for the naturalized) that can: www.svt.se/nyheter/inri... Only two parties (Left and Green) voted against.

Medborgarskap ska kunna återkallas

Personer med dubbla medborgarskap ska kunna fråntas sitt svenska medborgarskap om de döms för brott som allvarligt skadar Sveriges vitala intressen, enligt ett beslut som nu fattats i riksdagen. Då de...

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Super stoked to be at @gmivienna.bsky.social for MECS2026. Huge thank you to the organizers for the invitation! #Mendel_ECR_26

Interested in working on the evolution of photosynthetic endosymbioses? Come join us! I have 2 open positions in my new group @cemess.bsky.social in Vienna 3yr postdoc info: tinyurl.com/4emkjpn4 4yr PhD info: tinyurl.com/mtxmsjpy Apply by 1st June! Please share/repost #Protists #Symbiosis #PhD