Hey Yaniv Brandvain is not on Bluesky but his most recent biostats ebook is live ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/. His stats resources have been so helpful to me as I develop my own stats course, so check it out. Github repo here: github.com/ybrandvain/b...

Registration open for #Fungal26 genetics-gsa.org/fungal-2026/ at Asilomar.

This week, I was awarded a MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant. So proud to be included among individuals recognized for “extraordinary originality & dedication in their creative pursuits”. This research has been possible because I collaborate with the most incredible teams. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/a...

Invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi in South America 📖 buff.ly/ZgIX5IC #TansleyInsight by @nahpo.bsky.social and @martin-nunez.bsky.social @uh.edu @WileyPlantSci #PlantSci Image source: Colección y Archivo Visual Patagónico; Photographer: Antonio Lynch; courtesy of Federico Silin.

🌱Tenure-track Assistant Professor Position OPEN🌱 -Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity- at The Univ. Texas at Austin, Molecular BioSciences. Deadline Nov 1st. Please spread the words and APPLY! Contact me if you have any questions. apply.interfolio.com/175001

Transposable elements are vectors of recurrent transgenerational epigenetic inheritance | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Excited to share our latest paper, now out in FPS: "Diverse nitrogen acquisition strategies of conifer-associated ectomycorrhizal fungi shape unique responses to changing nitrogen regimes" www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...

Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computational Ecology and/or Evolution @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. Deadline to apply September 30. Reach out if you have questions. apply.interfolio.com/172496

Comparing EcoFab 2.0 results from 5 labs on 3 continents‼️ Breaking the reproducibility barrier with standardized protocols for plant–microbiome research @plosbiology.org by Vlastimil Novak et al from Trent Northen @jgi.doe.gov journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Really cool new results from @fritzlaylin.bsky.social , they got actual working homology-directed transformation working in a chytrid fungus! There are so, so many interesting questions that still need explaining in this group, and molecular genetics can answer a lot! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our study on a mycovirus that boosts fungal virulence is now out — and beautifully covered in this Behind the Paper piece by Amariliz Rivera Huge thanks for capturing the heart of the story so thoughtfully. @natmicrobiol.nature.com rdcu.be/eB9yg

Stellar work by graduate students to build this comprehensive dataset of antifungal resistance mechanisms. Kudos and congratulations to the Landry lab @christianlandry.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our department (Berkeley PMB) is hiring an asst. prof. in Plant Resilience to Climate Change! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05049

📢🍄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 Professor of Mycology at UGA - Go be part of a Legendary Fungal Group fungi.franklinresearch.uga.edu and dept of plant pathology plantpath.caes.uga.edu www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/445...

Assistant Professor position in Traditional Ecological Knowledge at Stanford University. Applications due Sept 30, 2025 facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

New Article Out 📣 Open Access 📣 @newphyt.bsky.social “Fungal guild interactions slow decomposition of boreal forest pine litter and humus” nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Inspired and overwhelmed after SuilluCamp No.1 - amazing science, nearly 50 attendees, and an outline for a new strategic plan for the International Suillus Consortium. I *could not be* more grateful for this community, or more excited for what we’re building together. Thank you #TeamSlime!

Plz repost. Fresh Preprint led by @alexguyon.bsky.social When a pathogen pushes into a cell already occupied by a symbiotic fungus, things change. New membrane phospholipids at pathogen haustoria! This may impact immune receptor positioning & defense secretion. - And the roots are more resistant!

🧪🧬Should we reignite genetic manipulation attempts on #arbuscular #mycorrhizal #fungi? Our review in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social suggests the time is ripe. With: Midge Woodward @paszkowskilab.bsky.social @alexdallaire.bsky.social Open access🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... #scicomm

Happy to announce that I will be opening my lab in the PMB department at UC Berkeley this July. Our lab will study nectary development and evolution using non-conventional models. We are actively recruiting. Join us if you are also enthusiastic about development or evolution!

Saprotrophy-to-symbiosis continuum in fungi I enjoyed writing this piece with Tan Hao for the Current Biology special issue on Fungi www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

1/6 🧬📊 Curious about the buzz around NLP in biology? Feeling overwhelmed by the rapid developments? We've got you covered! Our review on NLP applications in genomics, by the wonderful Ella Rannon, is now out as a pre-print! #NLP #Bioinformatics arxiv.org/abs/2506.02212

Yale School of the Environment is hiring an open-rank professor in temperate forest resilience! Come be my colleague!!!!! environment.yale.edu/jobs/faculty...

We are looking for a Postdoc in the LaBella Lab! Do you love fungi 🍄, genetics 🧬and bioinformatics 💻 - then this might be a good fit for you! jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/63307 Applications accepted through July 1

Students of Slime! Reminder that today is the last day to submit an abstract for trainee lightning talks at SuilluCamp - the inaugural Suillus pre-meeting on June 28th! Submission portal here: msa.joynconference.com/v2/?c=submis...

imafungus.pensoft.net/article/1556... Sharing this important roadmap for other scientific societies in unprecedented times. To my colleagues who contributed to this writing, and all the work it encompasses over the last decade, but remain unnamed because of concerns over retaliation- thank you.

Proud to announce a new publication from the lab: EvoWeaver: large-scale prediction of gene functional associations from coevolutionary signals www.nature.com/articles/s41...

antiSMASH8: The Ocho Manuscript is out! doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

Metabolites are not genes — avoiding the misuse of pathway analysis in metabolomics www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Every US scientist needs to 100% clear that this is a fundamental attack on the process of science itself. If allowed to stand it will be the end of US science as we know it. Staying quiet because it does not (yet) target your work is not an option. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Interested in #fungal accessory chromosomes or toxin/antidote genes? Check out our new preprint! We show that the Spok gene family in Fusarium include active toxin/antidote genes. We present a model for how these genes influence the evolution of fungal genomes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

NSF plans to reinstate all probationary employees who were fired on 18 Feb! NSF’s decision. 👏🏻👏🏻❤️

A must read for AM symbiosis afficionados nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Collaborators fired at USDA. Program officers fired at NSF. Study sections suspended indefinitely at NIH (also firings). It's impossible to just keep your head down and do the work, as the work and the people are vanishing in front of us. 🧪

Yesterday was the darkest day of my professional life so far. Many of NSF’s best and brightest people fired indiscriminately. The terms of their firing cruel. My colleagues matter, they are valued and they make a difference. I have no words. www.npr.org/2025/02/18/n...

Hivemind- as we get up and running, I’m looking for formalize how we track and inventory our culture collection with a QR or barcode system. Anyone have recommendations for set up (batch QR generators, database, label printer etc.)?

To end the morning, Solene Moulin tells us about a fascinating symbiosis that allowed Episthemia spp to fix nitrogen. Can Crocosphera-based symbioses teach us how to make N-fixing plants? For more about the wonderful world of symbiosis, see this fantastic @plosbiology.org collection plos.io/3UncV1j

Jan 1, and my first day as an Asst. Professor at Berkeley. The lab opens in just a few weeks and I am currently staffing at all levels- www.lotuslofgren.com/new-page-1

Try it out!! Completely refactored, much faster and with a range of new features, including new interactive exploration options in the output user interface.

Excited to share our new study in @ismepublications.bsky.social showing that microbial niche breadth specialisation (being a generalist or a specialist) impacts ecological and evolutionary adaptation following environmental change doi.org/10.1093/isme...

New in Nature Comms, we show that azole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus are more likely to evolve resistance to new antifungals due to variants in their DNA mismatch repair system rdcu.be/d3Iyc @natureportfolio.bsky.social #microsky #fungi #amr

Benchmarking indicates OrthoHMM outperforms currently available methods www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The final version of our latest Starship manuscript is out!🚀We study the evolution of a gene cluster for formaldehyde resistance to show that #HGT mediated by giant Starship #transposons is a recurrent force in #fungal adaptation. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

My department is hiring a fungal biologist! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01990

Anyone looking for an assistant professor position in biodiversity research? Not one but three positions available at Stockholm U: www.su.se/department-o...