Nobody wants “what the US has got”, pls keep your failed state ass out of our business.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Perhaps the most iconic lichen of the kelo trees is Letharia vulpina (NO ulvelav). Here from Skjåk, where it is really abundant on dead branches of pine trees.

Almost lost amidst the cow excitement (cow-motion?) was that @currentbiology.bsky.social featured a brilliant paper on #lichen fungi in this week’s issue by Victoria Keller et al. including @veera-t-nogerius.bsky.social — what is not to lichen about this new double ascomycete living arrangement

Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below! Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage

Don’t be all surprised when the Democrats don’t win jack shit in the next election. I can think of other things going on in Minnesota right now

Inviting applications for #PhD (3y) & #Postdoc (2y) to work on alpine #lichens: evolution of #SecondaryMetabolism & #Chemodiversity. #genomics #metabolomics #fungi #biosyntheticGenes. Send your CV +motivation letter ➡️ [email protected] Please share 😊

Almost lost amidst the cow excitement (cow-motion?) was that @currentbiology.bsky.social featured a brilliant paper on #lichen fungi in this week’s issue by Victoria Keller et al. including @veera-t-nogerius.bsky.social — what is not to lichen about this new double ascomycete living arrangement

10 years of this shit

I can’t go to the grocery store alone right now because ICE is racially profiling and abducting people who aren’t white

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

1/🧵 Major milestone unlocked for mycology! 🍄 We just published a massive genomic resource in 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚, releasing 2,695 complete circular mitochondrial species assembled from public data This single dataset nearly 𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐒 📈the known mitochondrial diversity of the Kingdom Fungi rdcu.be/eYZ2h

Our revised manuscript is up on BioRxiv and is coming soon to an ASM journal in your neighborhood. We show that metabolome & transcriptome profiles are frozen in desiccated Arthrobacter and that water vapor induces resuscitation. Happy to answer any Qs. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

⚡️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/...

Quick, someone tell Danielle Smith.

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

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

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.