Move over, starling murmurations. There’s a slimier, squirmier collective behavior in town. It's a living, twisting tower of worms. Everybody, meet the wormuration 🪱🪱 Latest paper by Daniela Perez, Serena Ding and team @uni-konstanz.de Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... youtube.com/shorts/F8QVc...

Have you ever seen a worm tower?

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Toby Kiers@tobykiers.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us in Amsterdam to explore the inner lives of mycorrhizal fungi using robotics, fluorescence microscopy & machine learning. Work at AMOLF w/ @thomasshimizu.bsky.social + more 📅 Application Deadline: 15 May, 2025 Advert here: amolf.nl/wp-content/u... Photo (!) @vkokkoris.bsky.social

Join us in Amsterdam as a #postdoc to explore the inner workings of #mycorrhizal #fungi using cutting-edge #fluorescence #microcopy, #robotics, and #machinelearning in Amsterdam. 📃 See advert: amolf.nl/wp-content/u... 📅 Application Deadline: 15 May, 2025 Video by Rachael Cargill & Joe Togneri

+Humbled by how beautifully this animated version of this week’s @nature.com cover captures two major themes of our paper – mycorrhizal fungi and the ‘wave nature of life’.

Kelly Krause@kellykrause.bsky.social · last yr.

1/4 What do fungal networks sound like? Have a listen! This week’s @nature.com cover is a multi-sensory spectacular, complete with the fascinating, almost wet sound of fungal networks spreading, recorded by artist @cosmosheldrake.bsky.social in an Araucaria forest on the side of a volcano Chile.

Excited(!) we got fungi front and center in the news cycle this week through this @nytimes.com piece – no mean feat at any moment, but especially during these turbulent times. Kudos to all the scientists/artists that contributed compelling visuals (individual credits at the end of the NYT piece):

Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN)@spun.earth · last yr.

Fungi in the spotlight. Extraordinary feature in @nytimes.com showing a behind the scenes look into our latest lab research. Led by scientists from Vrije Universiteit, Princeton University, SPUN & AMOLF, we're tracking underground fungal networks in real-time. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/s...

Fungi made Earth’s land liveable by building networks that released nutrients locked in primordial rock and supplied those nutrients to plant roots https://go.nature.com/41lvtBg

Revealing how fungi build planet-altering ‘road’ networks

Imaging study reveals how fungal networks are constructed.

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+Our paper now out in @nature.com. We designed and built at AMOLF a robot that maps & tracks fungal networks as they trade nutrients with plants. We discovered how fungi build and operate hyper-efficient 'supply chains' for underground ecosystems. www.nature.com/articles/s41...