keir starmer calling infantino to try and get that red card overturn and it somehow ends with harry kane getting suspended for the rest of the tournament

New preprint! We used global observations and ML-informed niche modeling to understand the drivers of mycorrhizal fungal distributions and predict their sensitivity to climate change, finding big differences between guilds. Many people to thank! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The recent NY Times article on Oath (a soil inoculant company) warrants a mini-thread, so here we go: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/b... (1/9)

After Prison, a Financial Titan Plots an Unlikely Comeback

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Devastating loss of Dr. Adriana Romero-Olivares this week. She was an amazing mycologist, a leader in her field, & my friend & collaborator. This is a tremendous loss for mycology, science, & the world. There is a meal train for her husband & two small children www.mealtrain.com/trains/l3kg64

Meal Train for Jovani Catalan (Spouse of Adriana Romero Olivares)

Hi all, Please help out the family of Adriana Romero Olivares. Her husband, Jovani, and kids can be helped with meals over the next weeks as Adriana recovers.

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Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe@aaberhe.com · 3mo ago

Prof. Adriana Romero-Olivares, UC Riverside, was doing incredible work on how fungi and ecosystems respond to global change. A rising voice, a dynamic scientist and educator, a young mother, wife and daughter gone far too soon. A huge loss. Her family, students and community are in my thoughts.

Very happy to see this lab paper out in @newphyt.bsky.social - we identified genomic traits & environmental drivers of ectomycorrhizal fungal mycelium exploration in the soil and on roots. Thanks to all our co-authors and to @tommansfield.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Ecological and genomic variation in ectomycorrhizal fungal exploration types

Ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF) produce mycelia with variable extension and complexity, which can be classified according to soil ‘exploration types’ (ETs). ETs have received attention as one of the few.....

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This needs attention. Suzanne Simard threatened legal action against a journalist asking critical questions. This is not how science works. Brave of @aislingirwin.bsky.social to report.

@aislingirwin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Journalists have in general failed to probe her scientific work. That is why she was astonished, and threatened legal action, when I asked her critical questions during an interview for this piece www.nature.com/articles/d41... @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

New paper out! 🎉 Led by Jenickson Costa @uspoficial.bsky.social @cirad.bsky.social @jenicksoncosta.bsky.social Forest Ecosystem Multifunctionality: A Systematic Review of Measures and Drivers 🌳🌲 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@invam.bsky.social collection, prairies, and AMF all featured in the awesome article Defunding fungi: US’s living library of ‘vital ecosystem engineers’ is in danger of closing www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Defunding fungi: US’s living library of ‘vital ecosystem engineers’ is in danger of closing

These fungi boost plant growth and restore depleted ecosystems, but federal funding for a library housing them has been cut – and it may be forced to close

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Our new study linking bacterial and AM fungal phosphorus cycling is out now in mSystems! 🦠🏔️ This work was done by a great team based at @rmblscience.bsky.social, including @skivlin.bsky.social and @aclassen.bsky.social doi.org/10.1128/msys...

Nutrient limitation shapes functional traits of mycorrhizal fungi and phosphorus-cycling bacteria across an elevation gradient | mSystems

Phosphorus (P) limits plant productivity in high-elevation ecosystems, yet the microbial networks that mobilize P, including arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and phosphorus-cycling bacteria (PCBs), r...

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The first chapter of my dissertation is finally published in @esajournals.bsky.social! We determined which microbial characteristics best explain soil nutrient cycling and their importance compared to plant and soil factors 🍄🌱 doi.org/10.1002/ecs2... @nahpo.bsky.social @k8eatherton.bsky.social

I had such fun thinking, reading and writing this Tansley Review on #arbuscular #mycorrhizal #fungal mycelia. We need a more fungal-centric view to better understand not only the AM fungi, but also their many ecological roles. @newphyt.bsky.social 🔗 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/DHGB3S....

New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · 9mo ago

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ Mycelial Dynamics in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (🧵 1/5) Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi form vast underground hyphal networks that support plant life.

Before / after 2 years in the ground for these root & fungal ingrowth cores

🚨 Early Career Researcher Travel Award! 🚨 Open to grad students & postdocs presenting at #ICOM2026 @ICOM2026 Apply now! All info👉 url-shortener.me/6QQF 🗓️ Deadline: Nov 14, 2025 📢 Decisions: Jan 30, 2026

They aren’t fun emails to receive, but I deeply appreciate it when a job I applied for lets me know I’m not being considered anymore. It’s so crazy to me this only happens maybe 10% of the time.

📢📢📢 New peer-reviewed Comment in @springernature.com Climate Change authored by @yalecncc.bsky.social Scientific Leadership Team member and Yale School of the Environment Professor Mark Bradford on "Upstream data need to prove soil carbon as a climate solution." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Upstream data need to prove soil carbon as a climate solution - Nature Climate Change

Causal approaches employed at the scale of commercial agriculture are required to build high-quality evidence that climate-smart agricultural interventions result in real emissions reductions and removals. Such project-scale empirical data are additionally required to demonstrate and advance the viability of process-based models and digital measurement, reporting and verification as tools to scale soil carbon accounting.

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Feels so good when a new(ish) paper gets its first citation :)

Got a grant rejection today with some very valuable feedback. Apparently 3 months after a disturbance is too late to start sampling, but anything before a year is too early. I’ll keep that in mind for next time!

Happy to share this big piece on saprobic fungal traits and soil carbon cycling. Great collaboration in the SPP SoilSystems @dfg.de , with Damien Finn, Sören Thiele-Bruhn, Denise Vonhoegen, @mrillig.bsky.social and many others contributing to the study. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What are all these soil fungi doing? Complex carbon use ability as a predictive trait for fungal community functions

Fungal communities in soil play important roles in decomposition processes and soil organic carbon cycling. These communities are tremendously diverse, making it challenging to assign relevant functio...

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I’m thrilled to announce that next summer I’ll be joining the University of Maryland Department of Biology as an assistant professor! The Van Etten lab will study how horizontal processes (DNA and gene transfer + organelle acquisition) drive and are driven by ecology and evolution. vanettenlab.org

Plant phylogeny and life history predict AM fungal species and genetic composition, but only life history and genetic composition predict feedback https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.10.664051v1

Labeling chambers are up and running so these dual-mycorrhizal plants are incorporating 13-CO2 to measure how much they give their fungal mutualists

Excited to be talking about where rarity comes from and how it persists through evolutionary time tomorrow at #Evol2025! Swing by the Evolutionary Ecology IV session at 4:45 PM to hear more about the evolution of multidimensional rarity in plants 🌱

Fungal endophytes may not be a reliable way to improve plant resilience to global change. Warmer temperatures disrupt symbiosis between plants and fungal endophytes by reducing fungal colonization and diversity in plant tissues, with stronger effects in leaves than roots. dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Warming Disrupts Plant–Fungal Endophyte Symbiosis More Severely in Leaves Than Roots

Warmer temperatures associated with climate change disrupt relationships between plants and the fungi living in their leaves and roots by reducing the abundance and diversity of these fungi—especiall...

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Acomplished a meaningless goal in my dumb game and now all the serotonin is gone

Friendly reminder that it’s very, very cool to not use AI art as a journal cover

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

Dive into our latest issue!🌊 www.cell.com/issue/S0960-... On the cover:Yangtze porpoises in troubled waters🐬 by Yaoyao Zhang and colleagues www.cell.com/current-biol...

Did you ever wonder when to use "conifer", "gymnosperm", "needleleaf", "angiosperms" and "broadleaves"? Us too so we transformed the discussion into this viewpoint. I hope you enjoy the reading as much as we enjoyed the writing! @kateplantphys.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Cones and consequences: the false dichotomy of conifers vs broad‐leaves has critical implications for research and modelling

In plant science research and modelling, particularly from the northern hemisphere, the terms ‘needle-leaved’ and ‘conifer’ along with ‘broad-leaved’ and ‘angiosperm’ are often used synonymously, cre...

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Bacteriophages as important considerations for mycorrhizal symbioses in our changing world @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Forum by @louberrios.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/micro...

Bacteriophages as important considerations for mycorrhizal symbioses in our changing world

Bacteriophages, bacteria, and mycorrhizal fungi are key members of plant microbiomes, yet connections among them remain unexplored. This forum article highlights the potential importance of bacterioph...

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Fungal endophytes may not be a reliable way to improve plant resilience to global change. Warmer temperatures disrupt symbiosis between plants and fungal endophytes by reducing fungal colonization and diversity in plant tissues, with stronger effects in leaves than roots. dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Warming Disrupts Plant–Fungal Endophyte Symbiosis More Severely in Leaves Than Roots

Warmer temperatures associated with climate change disrupt relationships between plants and the fungi living in their leaves and roots by reducing the abundance and diversity of these fungi—especiall...

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📰 Published📰 Ectomycorrhizal trees can have unique impacts on soils🌳 🧪🌍

Ectomycorrhizal trees can have unique impacts on soils

Joseph D. Edwards, James W. Dalling, Jennifer M. Fraterrigo, William C. Eddy, Wendy H Yang This is a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Trees that associate with ectomycor…

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