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Disheartening to learn that after 18 years, founder Ken-ichi Ueda has left iNaturalist, citing irreconcilable differences in the direction of the company. kueda.net/blog/2026/01... He has a Patreon while he figures out his next move: www.patreon.com/cw/kueda

To show some good progress on the Lobaria pulmonaria translocations: this instance in Naddle Forest Haweswater was done in March 2021. The photos show it after 1.5 years and 4.5 years, with mesh removed. It's attached and grown with upturning outer lobes. #LichenGBI @britishlichensociety.org.uk

Another big form genus, Lecanora, bites the dust. Actually, it started a while ago. These changes will affect names for many species on all continents. Ivanovich-Hichins et al. in the latest Lichenologist. doi.org/10.1017/S002...

The 12 days of crustose lichens Day 6: The one and only Alpine Bloodspot (Ophioparma ventosa). This one was in alpine tundra on Big Timothy Mountain near Hendrix Lake, BC. 🌿

A v important addition to the collection. The Lives of Lichens, A Natural History by Lücking and Spribille. Seen here with the two-volume Fungi of Temperate Europe which I already owned. Found it at the Mycoboutique in Montreal!

Went out today to size up the wind damage in the drainage behind the ranch following the recent storm, and it wasn’t too bad. Salish Mountains, Montana

Lichen collage on lakeside rock. Northwest Territories, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Ever wondered about the funny moss growing on trees? Chances were good that you were looking at #lichen! These hybrid fungal-algae/cyanobacterial colonies are biosynthetically surprisingly diverse, as we show in our newest publication led by @garimasingh-gs.bsky.social doi.org/10.1099/mgen... (1/5)

Great news for the Kootenays!

This is really cool and important.

Just on time for the holidays! Happy to share the published version of the discovery of leptophytes, a new deep-branching and widespread group of microalgae based on plastid MAGs (ptMAGs). Now with additional support from a mitochondrial MAG (mtMAG) of leptophytes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New contribution to the study of post-fire fungi in Australia @ausmycsoc.bsky.social www.taxonomyaustralia.org.au/ajt/papers/o...

But many of them are around long after the ambitious and their offspring have kicked the bucket

The Paradox of the Organism: Adaptation and Internal Conflict is now out! Get your copy directly from @harvardpress.bsky.social

Polar night vs. midnight sun in early/mid-December... Animation looks downward at the North Pole (left; 🌙) and South Pole (right; ☀️) over a 24-hour period.

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Genomic analysis of a lichen photobiont alga (New Phytol.) @metalichen.bsky.social @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social) buff.ly/IQC6qOT #PlantaePSRW

How the small host the small: cryptogam trait-mediated structuring of Antarctic microarthropod communities Very happy to share that our paper is now out in Ecography 🎉 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

I missed this the first time and lovely to see it published from Rob Finn's group and Toby Spribrille's group on the complicated (so complicated!) world of Lichens. They are complex communities which... are sort of a bit like species. (but not)

Arctic saucer lichen, Ochrolechia frigida. Newfoundland, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Holy cow the Zhou lab at UCLA is cooking with Isonet 2 - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Averaging-free direct visualization of ribosome translational state! #teamtomo #cryoet

Good morning from the Peace Country in northern Alberta.

Now officially published in Current Biology 🥳🥳 @mfseidl.bsky.social @binfutrecht.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

Check out this "journal club" article, by me and Matt Wengler, describing a cool recent paper on injecting bacteria into fungal mycelium. With some clever artificial selection, the fungus adapts to the presence of the bacteria, making the symbiosis stable! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled for you, Gulnara. And great news for the field of lichen symbiosis research

Thrilled to share that I recently got a position of an Assistant Professor/SciLifeLab Fellow at Stockholm University, where I will continue my work on #lichen symbiosis. The lab opens in April 2026, and if you are interested in joining please get in touch! #newPI

Lichen collage. On lakeside rock, Northwest Territories, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

PhD Position in Taxonomic and Molecular Diversity of Epiphytic Lichens, Bryophytes & Microorganisms at Future Forests, University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg’s Excellence Cluster Future Forests invites applications for a PhD position researching the taxonomic and molecular diversity of…

新スマホを早速なくしかけたので絶対忘れないカバーにしてみたよ！超いい！ #地衣類 #lichen

Lichens of Manitoba Workshop December 8, 7 pm. Registration is required for this event. Visit manitobamushroomsociety.ca/workshops.html

Two new lichen species, 𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑎 𝑛𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑖 and 𝐶. 𝑛𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑠𝑒𝑢𝑑𝑜𝑏𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑖 are described based on material collected in Bolivia. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/myco...

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8006730... #3342 - Siphula sp. - Water Lichens Probably Siphula coriacea, which is widespread in SW Australia. Growing in moss beds on Sullivan Rock.

Gulnara Tagirdzhanova nous a présenté ses recherches sur les interactions au sein des lichens à partir d’approches omics.

I swear maybe once a decade in public, and this is the moment. This fucking racist and all the gibbering racists nodding along behind him are the ruination of our country. Our fucking job for the next fucking year is to fucking destroy them in the next election. Fuck them.

Lichens that grow on lichens... #lichenicolous #lichens #ecology themeaningofwater.com/2025/06/01/l...

4 pm Wednesday, Dec 3rd, Mo Prairie Fdn webinar Lichens in the Tallgrass Biome presented by Douglas Ladd, conservation biologist, plant ecologist, conservation director for The Nature Conservancy’s Mo program Register grownative.org/event/mpf-we... See blog for more nature and garden events

New online! The biodiversity, genomics, ecology and evolution of mushroom-forming fungi

Huge congratulations @puginiercamille.bsky.social for receiving the Prix Locoq from the French Academy of science @academiesciences.bsky.social !! @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social www.univ-tlse3.fr/actualite-de...

Congratulations @puginiercamille.bsky.social for this prize rewarding this important work on lichen symbiosis www.univ-tlse3.fr/actualite-de...

Cladonia lichens. Newfoundland, Canada.

The Rocky Mountain Trench Inland Sea... #ecofiction #books #water #NAWAPA #reservoirs #Canada #Canadianreservoirs themeaningofwater.com/2020/01/11/a...

The beauty of Jackman Flats in #BritishColumbia #Xeric #ecosystems #beauty themeaningofwater.com/2022/09/04/j...

New preprint: 🚀🧬 Starship in the genome of the lichen fungus Xanthoria. Discovery of giant transposons Starships challenged what we thought we knew about fungal genomes. But what about Starships in #lichen fungi? Let us present Tangerine! 🖥️ 🧪 🦠 🧫 #SymbioSky doi.org/10.1101/2025...

So happy to announce our new preprint, “A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.” We cultured a novel amoeba from Lassen Volcanic NP (CA, USA) that divides at 63°C (145°F) 🔥 - a new record for euk growth! #protistsonsky 🧵

My former colleague Patricia Zecua, me and the Zuccaro group published a new story about how autophagy restricts cell death and regulates root colonization by beneficial fungi: academic.oup.com/plphys/advan...

Get ready for a feast of fungal biology at the GRC CMFB conference in Holderness, NH next year. @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social @britmycolsoc.org.uk @elainebignell.bsky.social

Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.” Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.

An arbuscular mycorrhiza from the 407-million-year-old Windyfield Chert identified through advanced fluorescence and Raman imaging 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Summary also available in French and Spanish. @nhm-london.bsky.social #PlantScience

Hey folks, we (the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University) are looking for an Assistant Teaching Professor in microbiology and immunology. Please pass this on to anyone you think might be interested, or check it out if you are interested yourself! apply.interfolio.com/176994

Had fun chatting with @cabinradio.ca for this story. Some very keen naturalists in the north! cabinradio.ca/263239/news/...