Hi fungal hive-mind friends! Does anyone know of citations on yeasts' interactions with mycelial fungi? I'm thinking yeasts as part of a mycelium's microbiome, or perhaps intra-hyphal yeasts. Could be no work on this so far! But also, it's hard to search for...

So excited to share that one of the chapters from my thesis has been published! In it we discovered that, despite previous assumptions, Escovopsis (a mycoparasite in the fungus growing ant symbiosis), has a complete MAT locus under purifying selection.

Genome Biology and Evolution@genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 2w ago

@soleilsolay.bsky.social et al. find that Escovopsis s.l. - specialized fungal parasite of the fungus-growing ant symbiosis - likely undergoes cryptic sex as all examined strains have a complete mating-type locus under purifying selection. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag160 #evolution #societyjournal

Our lab at Pitt is looking to hire a technician. Ideal candidate would be a recent graduate with some cell biology skills, looking to expand their experience before applying to a PhD program in a couple of years. If you are this person, interested in DNA replication, please email me. moiseevalab.com

Hi Friends! I just wanted to let you know that I'll be changing jobs soon! I'll be sad to leave Wheaton College, but am excited to start as an Associate Professor of Biology at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo this fall! Looking forward to working with new students and California yeasts!

Thrilled to announce that the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington, School of Medicine is hiring at the Assistant Professor level (tenure-track)! The Pacific Northwest is an awesome place to live and do science 🧪🦠. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/185622 Applications due 8/1.

Just want to announce a new peer-reviewed paper with THREE Wheaton student coauthors! This research was done in their Research Experience in Biology course, which fulfilled their Sophomore Experience requirement. @micropub7n.bsky.social www.micropublication.org/journals/bio...

Please share! My group at @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social is offering a post-doctoral position (4 years). We look for a structural biologist with experience in Cryo-EM/Cryo-ET to investigate the mechanisms of host invasion by pathogenic fungi. Deadline February 28th! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

If you participated in a yeast meeting in 2025, reach out to me about publishing your work from that meeting!

Yeast Journal@yeast-journal.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The deadline for the submission of papers to the special issue on the International Yeast Meetings of 2025 has been extended to 31 March. Papers should be connected to one of the meetings listed below. Hurry up and don't miss this chance! More information at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

There are lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to Nazi Germany and there are also lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to the post-1850 Fugitive Slave Act U.S. and it's *weird* how people respond with interest to the former but total confusion to the latter

🚨We’re hiring! Please help spread the word! Our lab at @TheSainsburyLab is recruiting a pre-doctoral intern to work on plant immunity research. Ideal for those who are planning to pursue a PhD and seeking research experience. tatsuyanobori.com

The Sainsbury Laboratory@thesainsburylab.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📣 VACANCY: Predoctoral Intern in the Nobori group @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social Join the team to work on plant immunity research at single-cell and spatial resolution 🌱 Apply online, deadline 26 Jan 2026 www.tsl.ac.uk/working-at-t... #PlantSciJobs #PlantScience #STEMJobs

Post-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

‼️Please RT: The CEPLAS Graduate School call for 2026 is now open! Detailed info on our website: bit.ly/4q19JWk @hhu.de @unicologne.bsky.social @mpipz.bsky.social @fz-juelich.de @leibnizipk.bsky.social @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social

Up to 10 doctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology now open for application! Start date September 2026. More info here: www.evolbio.mpg.de/imprs

Seconding this! I didn't know this until I started working at my current job (at a small liberal arts college). It often is cheaper than in-state tuition, depending on the details. I don't love the lack of price transparency, but absolutely it's worth applying to a program you're interested in.

Jacquelyn Gill@jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 8mo ago

As parents are helping their kids consider colleges, this is my perennial reminder that state schools often have lower price tags, yes, but private schools, including many small liberal arts schools, often have better aid packages, and are thus often cheaper in the end (but may be more competitive).

Check out this "journal club" article, by me and Matt Wengler, describing a cool recent paper on injecting bacteria into fungal mycelium. With some clever artificial selection, the fungus adapts to the presence of the bacteria, making the symbiosis stable! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Be careful everyone: California county sees increase in rare kind of poisoning www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

California county sees increase in rare kind of poisoning

Earlier this year, three people were hospitalized after eating poisonous mushrooms.

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The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 333 tenure-track positions and 48 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemchat ⚗️🧪

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List

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Just sent this to the Biological Data Analysis students and told them they could use it in their final projects 😆

Neil Lewis, Jr.@neillewisjr.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Hadley Wickham made a GenZ version of dplyr 😂 hadley.github.io/genzplyr/

The special issue will be guest-edited by @pjboynton.bsky.social (Wheaton College Massachusetts, USA) and Pei-Yun Jenny Wu (CNRS Bordeaux, France). You can find more information on the accepted topics and submission instructions by using the QR code below:

AI slop is making it harder for me to find useful information. Here's the ScienceDirect overview of "Fungal Metabolism":

I’m looking for folks to send me specimens of golden oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus citrinopileatus) collected from natural areas all over North America. I need specimens from everywhere other than Wisconsin: 2/n pringlelab.github.io/gom_communit...

We have an opening for postdoctoral training! Please apply by 15th August 2025 for full consideration. Here is the ad: hittinger.genetics.wisc.edu/People/Join/...

Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.

@pjboynton.bsky.social advertises our upcoming special issue about the #Yeast2025 conference in Paris

Hi Friends, what's a HELPFUL way of responding to someone who brags that they don't vote? I encountered someone IRL who did this yesterday (a stranger), and couldn't think of a productive response

Still working on that #ASMicrobe poster? This is your yearly reminder to write microorganism names correctly: genus is capitalized, species is not, and the whole thing should be italicized. You’re welcome @asm.org #Microbe2025 #ClinMicro #ASMMicrobe

Want to know more about the ecology of wild yeasts, their association with oak trees, temperature, and rainfall? Read the latest by @chloehbk.bsky.social and @javo-pinto.bsky.social

Chloé Haberkorn @chloehbk.bsky.social · last yr.

First paper of my postdoc is out: "Fermentative Yeast Diversity at the Northern Range Limit of their Oak Tree Host" - fun collab to study yeasts in my host country ft. JP, AT, MF and RS! dx.doi.org/10.1111/1758... Special thanks to @stelkens.bsky.social - also for the celebratory chocolate cake!

In the latest #Yeast research article of the series #FantasticYeasts, Pei-Jie Han, Feng-Yan Bai & team describe a new yeast species isolated from a Chinese forest: Saccharomycopsis yichangensis, that can prey on Saccharomyces cerevisiae and other yeasts 😲 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Saccharomycopsis yichangensis sp. nov., a Novel Predacious Yeast Species Isolated From Soil

Saccharomycopsis yichangensis sp. nov. occurs in soil from a subtropical forest in central China. This novel species is homothallic and produces asci containing four spheroidal ascospores, which can ...

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Inquiry deadline TOMORROW!

Will Shoemaker@shoestrapped.bsky.social · last yr.

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