As a graded assignment, the students at the MSc course Urban Ecology and Evolution, write blog posts for @litc-urbanevo.bsky.social. Go check them out at: urbanevolution-litc.com

📣New paper! "La-Bools, Mysterious Fungi that Deserve Your Attention", published in Frontiers for Young Minds 🍄🐞 doi.org/10.3389/frym... #Laboulbeniales #TeamLaboul #LFEE @jonathancazabonne.bsky.social @tommartin2024.bsky.social @frontiersin.bsky.social

Recent progress in genomics, phylogenetics & palaeontology yielded new insights into plant and fungal evolution since the 10th NPW. The 35th New Phytologist Workshop will highlight the progresses made since that time to move the field forward. www.newphytologist.org/events/35-npw

There are two!! meetings on insect-associated (fungal and other) pathogens taking place soon: 1) The Arthropod-Fungal Associations workshop (3rd edition) in Łódź, Poland, 20-22 May 2026 #AFAworkshop 2) The Insect Pathology Short Course in Ithaca, New York, 7-12 June 2026

Come and join us 🍄☘️🐜 sites.google.com/view/afa2026...

📣 🍄🐝The AFA workshop “Arthropod–Fungal Associations: From Parasites to Pathogens” is now traveling to Poland for its 3rd edition! 😊 📅 May 20–22, 2026 📍 Łódź & Spała, Poland 📝 Register by April 10th! Come and join us !! 🍄🐝🐛🐜 #Mycology #Entomology #insectpathology #Parasites #ScientificCommunity

John Lubbock (1883) on individuality of bees. It's always a bit sad when people write that individual differences in animal psychology are a recent discovery. Using the cutesy label of "animal personality" doesn't make it novel. The study of the phenomenon is as old as the study of animal behaviour.

OMG! A checklist of all the bark beetles of the world! All six and a half bloody thousand of them! zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php...

Huge milestone for #pollinators! 🐝🪰 Members of FLOWer Lab contributed to a new paper in Scientific Data led by the University of Mons. The study compiles 5.3M+ records of European bees & hoverflies, covering 97% of species! Vital data for pollinator conservation. 🌍📉 Infographic made with NotebookLM

Exciting postdoc position @KCGEB1 on an ambitious project on red palm weevil - Wolbachia research. Consider applying: Insect / beetle reserach is the next frontier! 🌴🪲🦠🧫 jobs.uaeu.ac.ae/Postings/Pos...

Vorholt Lab re-created endosymbiosis in the lab: injected bacteria into a fungus and evolved a heritable partnership. Evolution, fast-forwarded. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🍄🎊🐛Our new paper is out in the Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. Free-access link (valid for 50 days): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Many thanks to the co-authors for the great collaboration on this work 🍄😊

This question about oomycete macroevolution popped up—here are my two cents. 👇🏼

Enjoy the read ! #arthropod #fungi #pathogens #parasites #associations 🐛🍄🐜🍄🐝🍄🪲🍄🐞

📢 Looking for an exciting project? The team is fantastic, and I highly recommend it! 1-year Research Engineer (Mycology) working on Pandora formicae and ants 🐜🍄 Details & application: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... #insectpathology #mycology

I'm delighted to inform you that our paper "Ecological genomics of saprotrophy to biotrophy transitions in the genus Clitopilus" was published in IMA Fungus. A long standing collaboration with Zhilin Yuan at RISF, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Hangzhou: imafungus.pensoft.net/articles.php...

⚡️Fully funded #PhD position in my lab at Stockholm University / SciLifeLab! If you’re interested in #lichens, #symbiosis, fungal biology, or meta-omics, please apply. Deadline Feb 1. Read more here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

PhD studentship available to work on insect cognition in my team via the CSC scheme (Chinese applicants only; deadline January 28). See here: www.qmul.ac.uk/sbbs/postgra...

Our new paper assesses the potential of general-purpose AI tools in crop protection, highlighting opportunities for supporting agroecology and biological control with humans in the loop🌱🐛🤖 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This #postdoc position is now officially advertised: www.dannyhaelewaters.com/opening-for-.... #hiring #newPI #CzechScienceFoundation #LFEE

Oh! Taxacom is no more...

📣 Call for Papers – Special Issue in Plants (MDPI) “Solidifying the Foundation of IPM with Agroecology and Biological Control” 🗓 Submission deadline: 31 July 2026 👉 Submit your manuscript and help shape the future of IPM. www.mdpi.com/journal/plan...

The perfect paper title doesn't exi... - wonderful work just out in Science from Hugo Merchant and team: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Super excited to see the EU Delegation Act to monitor pollinators finally published: eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/...

Our smart bees in Shaastra, a science and technology magazine published by the Indian Institute of Technology

Do bees see nothing? Primates with damage to the visual cortex have no conscious visual experience, but display adaptive visual behaviour (a phenomenon called blindsight). Here I team up with two primate researchers to ask if bee vision could be similar to blindsight. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Your regular reminder that by throwing away nature, we throw away *everything*.

A few years ago, I said yes to editing a book about fungal #parasites and #pathogens. After endless revisions, emails, and deadline reminders, it’s finally coming together. The book will be out in 2026, but 11 chapters are already online as #Preprints. www.dannyhaelewaters.com/preprints-of...

See last article on "The cognitive side of communication in social insects", just published in @TrendsCognSci . Free access under this link! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

New @royentsoc.bsky.social #ResearchHighlight available! A new article examines which factors influence the growth of a parasitic fungus on an invasive ladybird. Read more ⬇️ buff.ly/DVDCgIt Video courtesy of article authors, videographer E. Liu.

New biology: stink bugs inoculate their eggs with a fungus that protects them from parasitoids www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...

Too much bracken is a sign of severe ecological imbalance, caused by prolonged overgrazing. It can be a serious barrier to the return of trees and a richer, natural ecosystem like rainforest. But it is a native fern, and turns a very beautiful blend of russets, oranges, and yellows in the autumn.

Calling all nature people and orgs, please consider adding your name to Naturalists for Palestine. It's essential we recognise that ecocide and genocide are two sides of the same coin, and resist both. share.google/gLPRtQzDGC3v...

I’m sad to hear the news that the wonderful Jane Goodall is no longer in the world. Her work with chimpanzees at Gombe in Tanzania taught us to look at other apes - and ourselves - differently. I was privileged to meet her later in life and tell her what an inspiration she was to me.

Why might one use a hotdog roller in research? Have a read of this new #OpenAccess research in #RESEcolEnt and find out! Effects of #temperature & #humidity on the presence & prevalence of a common fungal #parasite on an invasive ladybird doi.org/10.1111/een.70014 Video courtesy of article authors

Which fungal 🍄 molecules cause zombie 🧟‍♀️ ant 🐜 behaviors? @williamycete.bsky.social has begun to answer this question! He found a peptide that binds to scramblase and affects important odor-dependent behaviors in ants. Spoiler: worms 🪱 played a key role in this research 🧐 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

🌿 Pulses and soils: a dynamic duo that sustain one another! 🌍 Pulses improve soil health and well-maintained soils allow pulses to thrive. Explore this complementary relationship with @fao.org  ⤵️ #SaveSoil

Paper just out, a review paper written together with the group of Fang Wang at ISS-CAS, Nanjing Microplastics and antibiotics in agricultural soil: mechanisms and implications of co-contamination www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Free share link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1loaZ7spEi...

Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust (one of my WT employers) is recruiting for an Assistant Reserve Officer at Rutland Water. An amazing opportunity to work at one of the UK's most well-known and loved nature reserves.

🚀The Future is Fungi Award is back—ready to back the next wave of fungi innovators!  The awards' mission is to catalyze groundbreaking fungal innovations that address some of humanity’s biggest environmental challenges—and to support the startups and science entrepreneurs pioneering these solutions.

🍄Working in fungal conservation? Call for papers for our upcoming special issue in Fungal Ecology 'Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions' ! Deadline 31 January 2026 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

📢🍄Job alert🍄📢 The Department of Plant Biology at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is hiring an Assistant Professor in Mycology/Plant-Fungal Interactions. Deadline to apply: 31 October 2025. illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

The French version of The Mind of a Bee is now available- 13 translations already! 😊

📣🍄🦇🍄🦇🍄📣 I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher for my lab in Ceske Budejovice, Czechia. We study biodiversity monitoring, ecology, conservation, and microbiology. Some of our work deals with bats, most with fungi! Email at danny dot haelewaters at gmail dot com if interested. #TeamLaboul #newPI

We are looking for a Postdoc (up to 5 years) who wants to study neural mechanisms of spatial memory in honeybees. This includes tetrode recordings in behaving honeybees. Application Deadline is 1st of October 2025. More details: www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/services/...

This #NationalMothWeek, help the pollinators on the night shift! 🦋Avoid pesticide use in your garden 🌸Plant a diversity of native plants 💡Reduce artificial lighting at night 🍂Leave a little wild space for moths to shelter and grow Get started at xerces.org/resources

In this blog post, Yunhui Liu and team share insights from their recent global meta-analysis on how cover crop mixtures can enhance agricultural sustainability by promoting multiple ecosystem functions 🌱💭 appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/07/24/c...

Such a nice team 💜☘️

Our paper shows that most ectomycorrhizal fungal species (83% of OTUs) are "dark taxa": species we detect in DNA, but can't match to known species names. We map global "darkspots" - the parts of the world most in need of more research. @spun.earth @ethz.ch www.cell.com/current-biol...

A pure pleasure to work with such a wonderful friend and happy that our workshop is getting the attention of young scientists and fungal-insect enthusiasts 🐜🍄 ❤️ The 3rd edition will bring us to the beautiful Poland 🤗 🦋🍄🐜🐝☘️