Really useful paper explaining why richness/diversity metrics are rarely informative when applied to microbial community sequencing data: enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📣 New paper! We showed @inaturalist.bsky.social can be used for “next-level” applications to document the occurrence of Hesperomyces harmoniae on its host, using Québec as a case study. ▶️ www.eaglehill.us/NENAonline/a... @michieldegroot.bsky.social @dhaelewa.bsky.social @teamlaboul.bsky.social

📣 Fully-funded PhD position at INRAE, within the Eco&Sols unit in Montpellier, France: General principles of detritivore faeces production in temperate ecosystems 📄Full description --> www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/fr028... Please get in touch to apply, or share in your network!

We are hosting our first conference! Join us in Stirling, UK 📍between the 8th and 10th of September 2026 📅 for an exciting line up of talks, workshops and field excursions 🥾 🪴. We can't wait to meet you all! www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/soil...

Assistant Professor of Environmental Biology position open at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota invites candidates to apply for a faculty position on a renewable three-year appointment in the department of Biology. Start date in August of 2026. www.smumn.edu/about/office...

This evening is the perfect time to get your submission for BIOGEOMON off your desk and into the submission stack: bit.ly/BIOGEOMON_Info 🌐🧪

Research landscape of experiments on #GlobalChange effects on #mycorrhizas A #Letter by Lehmann et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

A fun commentary with @christinakaiser.bsky.social inspired by a very cool paper in New Phyt by @fungidownunder.bsky.social et al. showing that EcM fungal functional traits affect soil C responses to elevated CO2. EcM species and traits really matter! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ballerina Waxcap 🩰 in a pasture on the West Coast of Scotland

Hygrocybe coccinea 🍒

Crimson Waxcap ♥️

Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Terrestrial Microbial Ecology at SLU, Uppsala www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology & Fungal Biology, UC Davis. 🍄🌱 recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339 Deadline Dec 1, 2025. 👀 "Primary teaching responsibilities will be teaching Introductory Mycology, an upper-division lab class, and SAS 30, Mushroom, Molds & Society"

Assistant Professorship in Plant or Fungal Genomics at the University of Wyoming eeik.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

The University of South Dakota has opened a position for Assistant Professor of Biology in Ecological Genomics to begin in August 2026. yourfuture.sdbor.edu/postings/45104

New outreach video from our work on pyrogenic carbon in tropical savannahs. timeforgeography.co.uk/videos-conta...

Mycology/Plant-Fungal Interactions illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

We have several open positions in my group, funded from the ERC Grant on the Early Sequestered Germline of Fungi. We search broadly for applicants at both PhD and master-level, with a dedicated interest in fungal evolutionary biology. Please forward and RT! Find the positions here: su.varbi.com

Flooding: it stops enemy tanks and is good for nature www.politico.eu/article/russ...

📢🍄Job alert🍄📢 The @manaakiwhenua.bsky.social group of the @bioeconomyscience.bsky.social in Auckland, New Zealand is hiring a full-time permanent mycologist, to focus on fungal diversity and taxonomy. Deadline to apply: 12 September 2025. careers.sciencenewzealand.org/landcare-res...

📢🍄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...

🍄 #Typification: fixing fungal names Many species of fungi were described long ago with only a short phrase or drawing-no type (reference) specimen! This #FunDive campaign aims to collect type specimens & sequence DNA to anchor names and stabilize taxonomy. #Biodiversa 🌍 fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol...

It started as a master thesis project by Markus Hiltunen, and ended up in this publication in Science. What a fun project to work on! Thanks Markus - and all other coauthors, too, for a great team work! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In this paper we should that the post-glacial migration pattern of a widespread forest fungus is similar to what have been observed in plants and animals, with multiple refugia, secondary admixture, etc. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our new newsletter is now published! Dig into the latest updates on IMS’s 20th anniversary, ICOM2026 preparations, our new website & logo, top 10 research papers, and upcoming events. Read more at mycorrhizas.org/news. Stay connected! #Mycorrhiza

Mountain birch ectomycorrhizas

We have changed! The International Mycorrhiza Society mycorrhizas.org has a new logo and website featuring current award winners, all our newsletters, searchable program abstracts from past ICOMs, info on future ICOMs, and beauty shots of fungi from our community. Enjoy! ⬇️

Very cool paper! It is shocking how few forest areas in Europe are not managed www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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/...

Interested in unusual fungi? New article is out discussing the witches cauldron and devils urn #fungi #mushrooms #mycology forestpathology.cfans.umn.edu/sites/forest...

Really cool study on ectomycorrhizal decomposers, that use manganese peroxidases to degrade organic matter (most likely to mine nitrogen). The authors identify 10 taxa as EcM decomposers (mostly Cortinarius spp.) and look into their niches 👇🧪🌍🍄 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

After a few decades post clear cutting, ectomycorrhizal fungal communities are still slowly recovering and certain species are still more likely to be found in the forest rather than on the forest edges or openings.

In an attempt to exculpate invasive species or downplay their impacts, some people have claimed that "native invaders" cause as much disruption. In terms of global biodiversity loss, this claim is contradicted by empirical evidence: redpath-staff.mcgill.ca/ricciardi/Bl...

For Australian Domestic students interested in pursuing a PhD in molecular mycorrhizal studies, please consider applying for a scholarship-funded position in my lab (tinyurl.com/jxcdhp3p) - our lab is a diverse group studying plant-microbe interactions from genes to landscapes

Gorillas in Congo’s Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park scratch the ground for truffles, not for insects as long assumed, study says. With these findings, Gaston Abea becomes Ndoki's first Indigenous lead author of a peer-reviewed scientific paper. 🌍 bit.ly/4cwC3Ky

Very nice thread and in-depth look on legacy effects of forest fertilisation in rotational management.

Excellent 👍🏻 Viewpoint out on ectomycorrhizal trait space with an emphasis on CUE and nitrogen dynamics. Check it out 🍄‍🟫

New paper out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social ! We studied carry-over effects of nitrogen fertilization in Swedish production forests. 🌲🧪🌍 🧵(1/7) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

However, in a previous article we already reported that forest fertilization effects on harvestable tree volumes are context dependent and not as extensive as commonly assumed. (7/7)

The fact that I have to pay turbo tax, e-file or some other company to fill a foreign tax form online as a U.S. citizen is absurd. My only legal requirement is to show that I don’t need to pay any taxes bc I make less than 100k overseas. I’m going for the paper route this time 📝

So it turns out that lingonberry and bilberry shrubs both form mutualistic partnerships with ericoid mycorrhizae and these fungi might actually help these plants colonize decomposing wood. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Job Alert! Interested in cutting edge forest science, fieldwork and data analysis? 🍁 x2 Roles: Data analyst/modeller Closing date for application: 15th April Salary: £32,089 Duration: Fixed term, May 2025 - March 2026 possibility of extension www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

Post-Doc position for 3 years available jointly between University of Tartu (Estonia) and University of Aarhus (Denmark) on soil microbiome and biogeography. Skills required: bioinformatics, metagenome analysis, microbiology Contact: [email protected]

Selection of forests for preservation is a high priority in Sweden. But this selection is mainly based on a subset of aboveground characteristics and fail to capture important parts of the soil fungi, particularly in northern Sweden. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

**CLOSING SOON** Special issue on "Multi-Organismal Approaches to Understanding Mycorrhizal Functioning Editors: David Johnson, Alan Wanke & Joanna Weremijewicz Deadline: 31st March 2025 Manuscripts welcomed, please contact us (bit.ly/JXBissues) #JXBspecialissues 🌱 🌿 🧪 #plantscience (1/2)

Impressive work by @myconet.bsky.social and colleagues, looking at how the conservation value of a boreal forest relates to diversity of soil fungi. As is often the case in ecology, the conclusion is: 'It's complicated' 🍄🌳🧪🌍 @mycopat.bsky.social conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A well-executed study from the Swedish colleagues on the relationship between forest structure and soil fungal diversity. 60 soil cores from each of the 74 sites — what a dataset!