How do you discover a new species? Sometimes it starts in an herbarium cabinet. In this case, the OSC truffle collection (the largest in the world!!) helped rewrite the story of one of the PNWs most prized fungi, the Oregon Black Truffle. #OregonMycology #Truffles #OSCHerbarium #Cascadia 🐶🍄 🧬

Exsudoporus frostii showing some wicked reticulation and absolutely abundant guttation #fungifriends #mycology #nature

My team at ATCC is growing! New #bioinformatics position open now! More to come too! If you’re an early career bioinformatics professional, have a passion for #genomics standards, quality and scientific reproducibility - then take a look!🧬🖥️ 🧫🦠🔬🚀 Let’s go! careers-atcc.icims.com/jobs/3992/bi...

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...

Hey #rstats, #pydata, #julialang & #dataviz folks! 😊 What are some iconic data visualizations, similar to @edhawkins.org‘s warming strips & climate spiral?

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ Microbial drivers of root plasticity doi.org/10.1111/nph.... (🧵 1/6) Plant roots have evolved mechanisms to adjust their development within the highly heterogeneous soil matrix, integrating local environmental conditions into their endogenous developmental programs.

Can we use NGS data for pooled strain phenotyping & association mapping as a tool for the genetic dissection of trait variation in BSL3 fungi? Why yes we can. academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...

27 million herbarium specimens digitized—and still going strong! #Botany2025 sponsor Picturae makes natural history collections globally accessible with precision digitization. Learn more: www.picturae.com

Join us in BPP!! We are searching for a new Herbarium Director. This open rank, tenure-track/tenured position will direct/manage the OSC herbarium, lead a robust plant systematics/ecology/evolution research program, teach UG/grad courses and more! (see PD linked below) Full consideration: Aug 31

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Congratulations to these faculty members receiving promotions in the BPP department! Jessie Uehling - Associate Professor with Indefinite Tenure James Mickley - Sr. Instructor I Jenny Lorang - Sr. Instructor I Jessica Lodwick - Sr. Instructor I Bill Thomas - Sr. Research Associate I

AutoMLST2: a web server for phylogeny and microbial taxonomy academic.oup.com/nar/advance-... #jcampubs

So awesome to have @benwolfe.bsky.social for the Dallice & Mary Mills Seminar in BPP. What a treat.

A microfluidic wearable device for wound exudate management and analysis in human chronic wounds | Science Translational Medicine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...?

Conventional and organic farms with more intensive management have lower soil functionality | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I had an amazing visit to Oregon State University complete with a fungi walk in the rainy forests. Grateful to the Uehling lab for hosting me! #NewPI 🍄🌲

FYI, the theme of the #MSAfungi25 meeting will be "Fungal Features: Cultivating Mycology and Mycologists"

Two cool post-doc positions available at Umeå Uni to work on David Wardle's unique long-term experiments on lake islands in N-Sweden! One position focuses on microbial communities, the other on above-belowground linkages. Please, share! 🧬🦠🌲🍂 www.umu.se/en/work-with... www.umu.se/en/work-with...

Are you a post- doc interested in soil health and other dimensions of regenerative agriculture? We are looking to appoint a post-doc for a 4.5 yr position leading a monitoring programme in a large project on regenerative agriculture (ReGeNL). Read more here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

Take the students outside and compassionately help them learn from failures. I thoroughly enjoyed this article and hope to incorporate some of these concepts in my classes and lab.

Psilocybin decreases (MADRS score) depression symptoms in COVID frontline healthcare workers, new small double-blind randomized clinical trial finds jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Proud of our new paper in which we force-feed plastic to marine fungi, and watch them evolve to eat it more efficiently. Plastic is the fastest growing new habitat on our planet, fungi can help recycle it. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Hereʻs a link to the PDF: amendlab.com/wp-content/u...

There’s something rather lovely about witnessing the cycle of Life. Seedlings sprouting through 💩. Recyclers recycling. Pilobolus sp. Captured at #kneppwilding #fungifriends #fungi #naturephotography #allthingsfungi

#plant #microbs #host #coevolution #symbiosis #symbiosky #AMF "Host-microbe co-evolution" Conference Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei Roma - Palazzo Corsini - Via della Lungara 10 Streaming available www.lincei.it/it/manifesta...

Applications open for several research positions here in Cambridge including evolutionary genetics, genomics and population genetics. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49389/

Have undergraduates interested in getting experience in research? ✅ out the Infectious Diseases Sciences Summer Scholars Internship Program that provides support for students for an ~8 wk summer research experience w/ ID faculty @fredhutch.bsky.social More information and app: twtr.to/TQv2A

#species #distribution #modeling #diversity #software #R #RProject Achieving higher standards in species distribution modeling by leveraging the diversity of available software doi.org/10.1111/ecog...

Check out this cool paper from the lab of Jacob Corn using @nanoporetech.com to look at large scale genomic alterations following genome editing. A big thank you for acknowledging the contributions of @fgcz-en.bsky.social team members #genomics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A 'sum of their parts' usually happens when you inoculate plants with bacteria AND mycorrhizal fungi – but not always. Read our recent article in @ISMEComms to understand more. academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

How do ectomycorrhizal fungi alter soil food webs? Evidence from our multi-omics analysis suggests that they help suppress plant pathogens and enrich bacterial indicators of plant and fungal health. Check out our mSystems article to find out more: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/....

@blugenes.bsky.social we're glad to see you here, stan 👏 and take the freedom to "retweet" your post from Sep 15, 2021 where you said: "What science needs is more gedanken! Nice piece in Nature on an excess of data vs dearth of ideas." Without further comment 😄 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Just out in mBio 🧪 "Transcription factor-dependent regulatory networks of sexual reproduction in Fusarium graminearum" 🧪, in which we characterize the transcription factors governing the development of the F. g. multicellular body plan during sexual reproduction. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

We are looking for a new PhD student, exploring whether ancient microbiomes can help us to develop a more sustainable agriculture. Deadline for application: 15th of December. We have a very nice team (I think...) and this is in an excellent consortium with top scientists from all over the World.

A Blackening Waxcap, Hygrocybe conica for black fungi Friday #FungiFriends #FungiFriday

#lichen Xanthoria parietina

2x professorships available in Manchester Institute of Biotechnology including in Microbial Engineering area (broadly defined to include microbiomes, environmental biotech etc) — join us! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Job Fairy Our MRC UK-China AMR project DETECTIVE-II needs a post doc. Please reach out if you are interested edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Associate Professor / Professor of Evolutionary Genomics www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49389/

If you're interested in trying out LLMs in #rstats but don't know where to begin, I've added a few two vignettes to elmer: elmer.tidyverse.org/articles/elm... and elmer.tidyverse.org/articles/pro...

Thank you so much to whoever put this very comprehensive list of #science Bsky starter packs together. This is just amazing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction Graphic from Edward Tufte More graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 🧪

RP PLS! Iʻm hiring 3 postdocs at U Hawaiʻi to study yeast diversity and evolution, marine fungi, and the genomics of microbiomes in experimental foodwebs. All of these projects have existing datasets and LATITUDE to pursue individual interests and "blue sky" ideas www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5d7u4...

📣 📣 📣 Still lots of TT jobs being advertised: The 2024-2025 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

HIV/AIDS and COVID-19: Shared Lessons from Two Pandemics Anthony Fauci and Greg Folkers @cidjournal.bsky.social #IDSky academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...

Early Registration for ECFG17 satellite meetings on 2 March are still open till Dec 6. The Basal (zygos and chytrids) Fungal Symposium should be a a fun one to participate in! www.ecfg17.org

Hot off the press today in @currentbiology.bsky.social, our very latest on Mucoromycotina ‘fine root endophyte’ #mycorrhizas! led by Nathan Howard, we show N source preference and exogenous C metabolism by #MFRE: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... short 🧵

​Interested in “Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Applications in Fungal Genetics and Biology.” @lablabella.bsky.social and I are editing a special issue #Fungi #AI please re-skeet and share with anyone interested. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

OrthoDB and BUSCO update: annotation of orthologs with wider sampling of genomes academic.oup.com/nar/advance-... #jcampubs