I started this #Mycologists Starter Pack, aiming to get all professional fungal researchers on BlueSky in one place. DM if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/UMrVSsp

Have you heard about MycoEd yet? A model educational program offering training for students on fungal genome sequencing and analysis. how powerful!! #mycofam #thefutureisfungal journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Diversify Microbiology is now open to all professionals working in the microbiology field. Nominate yourself at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Dream job in an awesome lab if anyone is looking for a technician position: sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

Mark your calendar for the International Monarch #MonitoringBlitz! 🦋 From July 25 to August 3, 2025 you can snap pictures of milkweed plants and monarch butterflies in any life stage - egg, caterpillar, chrysalis or adult - and upload your observations to iNaturalist.

New paper out from the Cheeke Lab led by @raeberner.bsky.social with @balachaudhary.bsky.social & Geoff Zahn. Congrats Rae! academic.oup.com/femsle/advan...

Another fun year at the Oregon Country Fair

Fun times at #MSAFungi2025

Mojave Desert Land Trust is hiring a Field Coordinator with the Mojave Desert Seed Bank! 🫘 #seedjobs 2 positions posted, hiring 1 candidate depending on quals & experience. Coordinator/Lead – min 1 yr experience, $23-25/hr Supervisor – 2-5 yrs exp., $25-28/hr saveplants.org/forums/topic...

Microbiologists! Check out the the🧵below and then sign up for #BinningSingletons @ #ASMicrobe 2025 in LA! 🧪 binningsingletons.com/singleton/bi...

The Zahn lab is transitioning into the TIDAL Lab this Fall and moving to the Appl. Sci. Department at William & Mary. Would love to chat with students interested in doing a PhD at the nexus of microbial ecology and data science (starting 2026). RP please! gzahn.github.io

Are you a microbiologist looking to move to Alaska? There is an opening for a microbiologist in a clinical lab in Bethel. Only requires a BS. Please share with your networks, they really need to hire someone ASAP. phh.tbe.taleo.net/phh01/ats/ca... #AlaskaSky #Microjobs 🧪🦠🔬

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 The Battelle NPO manages the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) & is hiring a Field Ecologist II. Tucson, AZ $19.33-22.74/ hr 🌎🌾🧪🌿🌲🌳🌱🍁🪻🌵🏜️ #PlantScience #GenerationRestoration #JobAlert

Does anyone know where to get hairy root cultures of Daucus carota in the US? A grad student in my lab is looking for a source for their mycorrhizal research & can only find suppliers in Canada or Belgium, which are apparently proving difficult for material transfer agreements.

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Ecology! Applications are open for the #TysonResearchCenter Undergraduate Fellows Program at WashU’s field station, including opportunities to join our summer forest #biodiversity & #fireecology team 🌳 🔥 Applications due Feb. 15 Reposts appreciated!

#Diets affect the gut #microbiome, e.g. red #meat is a driver of #omnivore microbiomes linked to poor cardiometabolic #health, inflammatory bowel #disease, colorectal #cancer & low short-chain fatty acids; #vegan ones are linked to favorable markers: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #plant-based #nutrition

Today I taught my 1st class of the term, Micro for non-majors. When I asked them what they were most excited to learn about, almost all said they were only taking the class bc they needed the credits. I’ll see if I can turn things around & help them learn to love microbes this semester!

New faculty job at UC Davis! We are recruiting an Assistant Professor of Applied Viticulture, based at the Oakville research station in the heart of Napa Valley. A dream job for anyone passionate about viticulture and industry outreach. Apply by March 15. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06900

UCR REU applications are open! If you’re interested in plant bio or plant-microbe interactions and you are a second or third year undergrad, please apply below. Community college applicants encouraged. Please reskeet. #REU #Plants #UCR etap.nsf.gov/award/7573/o...

📣GSBI Speaks is back this December. Join us in the second of the series to learn about the role of biological soil crusts (biocrusts) in soil 🎉 Dec. 12, 2024, 7:00 MST, 9:00 EST, 14:00 GMT, 15:00 CET Register 👇 zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Because of popular demand we have now a number II Conservation Science starter pack since the first one is full since a while 🙃. If you are not yet on the first one, pass me message. I preferentially add folks with clear conservation research focus in profile and skeets. go.bsky.app/9RdjmCX

🌾🌱🧪🦠🌍 New study out today! Please share! Meta-analysis of 302 globally sourced AMF inoculant trials. Only 12% of commercial products both boosted crop growth and had effective root colonization by mycorrhizal fungi. #soilscience #PlantScience #mycosky nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Congrats to WSU grad student & Cheeke lab member Dr. Shawnee Kasanke who passed her PhD defense this week with flying colors! Stay tuned for her upcoming papers on tripartite interactions among N-fixing bacteria, AM fungi, & an important biofuel crop. Great work, Shawnee!

With more #MycoSky arriving here by the day, lets gather everyone and rebuild. Please let me know if I’ve missed out on you or anyone relevant 🍄‍🟫😎 go.bsky.app/FYRJn6M

I made ,some time ago, a starter pack for Microbial #Symbiosis. I'm 100% sure it's incomplete, but short on time lately... You can reply and suggest prople/feeds/etc to add! #MicroSky #SymbioSky go.bsky.app/T8VUWCz

go.bsky.app/scQ6YL The AMF starter pack! I'm could use help growing the list! Request to add or nominate an AMF college in the comments.

Register for the Pride in STEM Virtual Symposium to hear more from our fabulous lineup of speakers from Medical and Clinical Microbiology Session! 🌈 🥼 🔬 Link here to register: https://forms.gle/kYKJKn1CaywBzJgV9 #PrideinMicrobiology #PiM #PrideinSTEM

The Cheeke lab seeks a PhD student to join ongoing research investigating the role of soil microbes in post-fire forest regeneration. The student will be co-advised by Dr. Stephanie Porter at WSU & work with collaborator Dr. Geoff Zahn. Review begins 11/18/24

Anyone have recommendations for field clothes/boots/gloves to protect against snake bites? Or ideas to encourage snakes to move from the area? I’ll be planting at a restoration site where rattlesnakes have apparently moved in. I’m hoping to find a way to work safely & avoid harm to them or us.

I am looking for a very accessible introductory paper on the ecological impacts of invasive plant species for undergrads taking their first botany class. A review paper would be ideal. Any suggestions?

New article out from the Cheeke lab --> Potential to take root in viticulture? An evaluation of mycorrhizal inoculants on the growth and nutrient uptake of young wine grapes planted in live field soil academic.oup.com/jambio/artic...

new #NSF DCL to broaden participation of #LGBTQIA+ individuals in STEM!! 🎉🎉 so happy to be part of the team that made this happen ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🖤 www.nsf.gov/pubs/2024/ns...