🚨 There is less than one month to go until abstract submissions close! 🚨 Where do you think the biggest gaps in soil ecology policy lie at the moment? At this conference we aim to bring together practitioners and academics to discuss and influence soil ecology policy. shorturl.at/L4ehi

Really useful paper explaining why richness/diversity metrics are rarely informative when applied to microbial community sequencing data: enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Rethinking Alpha Diversity in Marker‐Gene Microbiome Studies: Dominance Matters More Than Richness

Marker-gene microbiome surveys systematically under-sample rare taxa, causing alpha diversity metrics to reflect dominance rather than true richness. This conceptual mismatch can lead to misleading e...

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📣 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

📣 Fully-funded PhD position at INRAE, within the Eco&Sols unit in Montpellier, France: General principles of detritivore faeces production in temperate ecosystems 📄Full description --> www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/fr028... Please get in touch to apply, or share in your network!

We are hosting our first conference! Join us in Stirling, UK 📍between the 8th and 10th of September 2026 📅 for an exciting line up of talks, workshops and field excursions 🥾 🪴. We can't wait to meet you all! www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/soil...

Assistant Professor of Environmental Biology position open at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota invites candidates to apply for a faculty position on a renewable three-year appointment in the department of Biology. Start date in August of 2026. www.smumn.edu/about/office...

This evening is the perfect time to get your submission for BIOGEOMON off your desk and into the submission stack: bit.ly/BIOGEOMON_Info 🌐🧪

Research landscape of experiments on #GlobalChange effects on #mycorrhizas A #Letter by Lehmann et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

A fun commentary with @christinakaiser.bsky.social inspired by a very cool paper in New Phyt by @fungidownunder.bsky.social et al. showing that EcM fungal functional traits affect soil C responses to elevated CO2. EcM species and traits really matter! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The role of ectomycorrhizal functional diversity in mediating soil carbon cycling under global change

Click on the article title to read more.

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Ballerina Waxcap 🩰 in a pasture on the West Coast of Scotland

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Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Terrestrial Microbial Ecology at SLU, Uppsala www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Associate Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor* in Terrestrial Microbial Ecology | slu.se

SLU - Science and Education for Sustainable Life

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Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology & Fungal Biology, UC Davis. 🍄🌱 recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339 Deadline Dec 1, 2025. 👀 "Primary teaching responsibilities will be teaching Introductory Mycology, an upper-division lab class, and SAS 30, Mushroom, Molds & Society"

Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Assistant Professorship in Plant or Fungal Genomics at the University of Wyoming eeik.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

The University of South Dakota has opened a position for Assistant Professor of Biology in Ecological Genomics to begin in August 2026. yourfuture.sdbor.edu/postings/45104

New outreach video from our work on pyrogenic carbon in tropical savannahs. timeforgeography.co.uk/videos-conta...

Video: Do wildfires play a role in the long-term carbon cycle?

Time for Geography brings together the geography and geoscience community to develop award-winning, open-access educational videos, inspiring more students to take the subject further in their edu...

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Mycology/Plant-Fungal Interactions illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

Assistant Professor Plant-Microbe Interactions

We seek a creative, collaborative, and visionary plant biologist to establish an internationally recognized research program at the forefront of plant-microbe interactions aimed at understanding how t...

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We have several open positions in my group, funded from the ERC Grant on the Early Sequestered Germline of Fungi. We search broadly for applicants at both PhD and master-level, with a dedicated interest in fungal evolutionary biology. Please forward and RT! Find the positions here: su.varbi.com

Lediga jobb vid Stockholms universitet

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Flooding: it stops enemy tanks and is good for nature www.politico.eu/article/russ...

From Kyiv to the Suwałki Gap, bogs return as Europe’s defensive shield

Restoring the EU’s drained bogs would stop both Russian tanks and planet-warming pollution.

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📢🍄Job alert🍄📢 The @manaakiwhenua.bsky.social group of the @bioeconomyscience.bsky.social in Auckland, New Zealand is hiring a full-time permanent mycologist, to focus on fungal diversity and taxonomy. Deadline to apply: 12 September 2025. careers.sciencenewzealand.org/landcare-res...

📢🍄Mycology job alert🍄📢 The Department of Plant Biology at @michiganstateu.bsky.social has a job opening for a herbarium/fungarium director at the Assistant, Associate or Full professor level. Review of applications start on 3rd October 2025. careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System - East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Working/Functional Title Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System Position Summary The Department of Plant Biology (PLB) at Michigan State University (MSU) seeks applications for a director of...

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🍄 #Typification: fixing fungal names Many species of fungi were described long ago with only a short phrase or drawing-no type (reference) specimen! This #FunDive campaign aims to collect type specimens & sequence DNA to anchor names and stabilize taxonomy. #Biodiversa 🌍 fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol...

It started as a master thesis project by Markus Hiltunen, and ended up in this publication in Science. What a fun project to work on! Thanks Markus - and all other coauthors, too, for a great team work! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Early germline sequestration in a basidiomycete fungus

In sexual organisms, inheritance of new mutations is highly dependent on the timing of germline definition. Here, we used the fairy ring–forming fungus Marasmius oreades to challenge the general assum...

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In this paper we should that the post-glacial migration pattern of a widespread forest fungus is similar to what have been observed in plants and animals, with multiple refugia, secondary admixture, etc. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Postglacial History of a Widespread Wood‐Decaying Fungus in Europe Suggests Migration out of Multiple Refugia Followed by Admixture

While postglacial migration patterns have been well-studied in plants and animals in Europe, the same is not true for microorganisms such as fungi, and it remains unclear whether fungi have followed ...

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Our new newsletter is now published! Dig into the latest updates on IMS’s 20th anniversary, ICOM2026 preparations, our new website & logo, top 10 research papers, and upcoming events. Read more at mycorrhizas.org/news. Stay connected! #Mycorrhiza

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We have changed! The International Mycorrhiza Society mycorrhizas.org has a new logo and website featuring current award winners, all our newsletters, searchable program abstracts from past ICOMs, info on future ICOMs, and beauty shots of fungi from our community. Enjoy! ⬇️

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🌱 Hello, BlueSky! 👋 We’re excited to join this space and connect with new communities! To celebrate, we’re launching our new logo and completely redesigned website Now available in English, Spanish & French Take a look 👉 mycorrhizas.org We’re just getting started here — follow us for updates!