Dear all, registration for the upcoming EMBO/EMBL Symposium on "the cellular mechanics of symbiosis" is now OPEN 🤩 ! Feel free to register ! www.embl.org/about/info/c... #EESSymbiosis #ProtistsOnSky #SymbioSky @hassansalem.bsky.social @berasymbionts.bsky.social @embl.org

Microbiologist Paula Welander studies fossils, but not dinosaur bones or ammonite imprints. Instead, she looks for microscopic clues left behind by microbes that lived millions of years ago.

MUSHROOM LOVERS & FUN GUYS, we've got something for you! Check out PUFFBALLS, EARTHSTARS, STINKHORNS, AND OTHER GASTEROID FUNGI OF EASTERN NORTHERN AMERICA, out now!

Love #protists? Then you'd love this! Beautiful collection of hand-drawn critters represented here at the Oxford-Japan symposium on ethological dynamics in diorama environments sites.google.com/view/oxford-... #ciliates #testateamoeba #diatoms

📢 The Darbaker Prize in Phycology nomination deadline has been extended to November 1st! 🌿 Learn more about this $2500 award and submit nominations: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025Awards #Phycology #AlgaeResearch #IamaBotanist

My department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

Excited to share our latest paper, now out in FPS: "Diverse nitrogen acquisition strategies of conifer-associated ectomycorrhizal fungi shape unique responses to changing nitrogen regimes" www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...

🎙️JOB ANNOUNCEMENT! I am seeking a scientist to design, implement, support, analyze, and report on research in the molecular biology of insect endosymbionts. Come join us in the tips of the Appalachian mountains for meaningful challenges in symbiosis science. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Staff/jo...

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...

Lots of tiny Holly Parachute fungi Marasmius hudsonii on rotting Holly leaves today, Buckfastleigh, Devon

🍄Microfungi on insects🍄 Fungi in the genus Hesperomyces are associated exclusively with ladybirds, visible as yellowish-greenish elongated balloons. We aim to map them in Europe and describe #newspecies. Join the #FunDive campaign! #Biodiversa fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol...

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Oh to be a little Tardigrade scratching its back on a bubble. 🫧🐻🧪

Nothing brightens the fall trails quite like the turning of the Mountain Ash. #ForestFriday #Montana #NaturePhotography

anyway I wrote about the girlboss ant queens that give birth to another species in order to exploit their offspring (slay ant queens!) defector.com/everything-y...

This drawing was converted from a photo of Parmotrema austrosinense using Gemini. It looks nice, though it still needs some refinements. #lichen

🍄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...

#地衣類 #lichen #fungifriends

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

This #lichen like the sun. Swirling golden prominences cast into space from areas of intense localised heat. Found on the bushes that skirt the turning circle of the ocean road where I walk my dog. This cul-de-sac hides amazing and wondrous things if you care to look #FungiFriends

I reflect on the changes in the past year and introduce and explain the rationale for JEM's newly established AI guidelines. Most importantly, this piece discusses what I see as the core mission of the journal: to provide a venue for the voices of Protistologists. Hope you like it.

New book! Just received my copy of the lovely 2025 „Lavar — en fältguide“ by the unblueskyed Roland Moberg, Göran Thor and Svante Hultengren. Great book, main selling point for me is that many species seldom depicted anywhere are shown with gorgeous photos. Made for Scand but useful all pts north

An opportunity of a lifetime for budding lichenologists. The National Trust and the Royal Botanics, Edinburgh are offering a PAID lichen traineeship in #Scotland! The work programme looks fascinating and a great opportunity to develop skills. Deadline: 3/10/2025. www.asva.co.uk/jobs/trainee...

I’m guessing the lichens’ personal favourites are the villagers who selflessly devote their bums to being dispersal vectors for lichen fragments

A beautiful orange rock posy lichen (Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca), from my time in Yellowknife, NT, Canada. #lichen #fungifriends

@nwlichenologists.bsky.social Jackpot! Acarospora macrospora on north facing limestone crevices...first find 2 yrs ago in Thompson Valley identified by Kerry Knudsen with help from Jana Kocourková; Nicola Valley Southern Interior BC Canada Aug.31/25 will send samples to Toby Spribille😁

The #lichen Brodoa oroarctica, and its habitat

Canada Post features fungi and lichen in new stamp series - Canada Post has unveiled its new stamp collection Wednesday featuring fungi and lichens found in the country.

I gave a symposium talk at the European Society for Evolutionary Biology 2025 (#eseb2025) meeting last week and this was my title slide showcasing how I was speaking as an independent scientist because @dalhousieu.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social has locked us out.

I missed this when it came out last September - excellent essay! Not-so-mutually beneficial coral symbiosis: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Just received a journal rejection for 'plaigiarizing' the thesis chapter upon which the work is based and cited, @tandfresearch.bsky.social The actual reviews? totally good! Is anyone still working? Or are we all AI nowadays? This is a barrier for graduates who need timely reviews #HigherEd

🍄 UGA Plant Pathology is hiring TT faculty in Mycology/Fungal Biology/Fungal Ecology at the Asst/Assc level! Please pass along this opportunity to anyone you know who may be interested. I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions. 🍄 www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/445...

MSU Plant Bio is hiring a new herbarium director! Our herbarium is a wonderful resource on campus and I'm excited to have the opportunity to make it even better by bringing in a new director. Details here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

🚨 Imagine a bacterium that refuses to follow the textbook: It grows as tangled filaments, divides unevenly, reshapes its own membranes… and even builds grappling hooks. Meet Litorilinea aerophila — and here’s why it blew our minds.

I highly recommend @ellenclarke.bsky.social's new book on biological individuality: amzn.to/4mLI5L7

Today in the studio: screenprinting Lichen #screnprinting #studioview #printmaking #lichen

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/...

New insights into pectin-degrading enzymes in plant-pathogen battles 👇  This recent study examines how a unique enzyme family, AA17 lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs), targets one of the plant cell wall’s key components: homogalacturonan (HG), the main form of pectin.

Happy Whipped Cream Wednesday! Lovely book, great info, awesome photography. Enjoy w/your favorite coffee topped w/the good stuff. Thanks Morton Arboretum’s Sterling Morton Library for the check-out! Cheers! #coffee #books #lichens @princetonupress.bsky.social #nature @mortonarboretum.bsky.social

Postglacial History of a Widespread Wood‐Decaying Fungus in Europe Suggests Migration out of Multiple Refugia Followed by Admixture onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Great to see our very own Arseniy Belosokhov presenting his preliminary experimental results in vitamin auxotrophy in lichen fungal symbionts at the 5th annual @canfunnet.bsky.social virtual conference

@canfunnet.bsky.social brings researchers together! Day 3 watch party for the 5th annual CanFunNet virtual conference here at UAlberta with @ahuereca.bsky.social

Very happy to have had the chance to present at the 5th Annual @canfunnet.bsky.social Conference yesterday about the state of fungal conservation in Quebec/Canada, and how citizen science-based organizations like @mycosphaera.bsky.social can help bridge gaps in fungal knowledge and conservation 🍄

With that, Day 1 of #CFN25 comes to a close. Can't wait to see you all tomorrow for another amazing line of speakers with some very cool and awesome topics of discussion. Also, don't forget to attend the Career Workshop tomorrow at 4 PM EST. Come prepared with all your career-related questions!

The concurrent sessions have started! Come into pheedloop and join us! Haven't registered yet? Not to worry, registration is still open. #CFN25 is happening right now!!

It’s conference day! Are you ready? If you are presenting, don’t forget to use the new #CFN25 zoom backgrounds (emailed to you already). Also, check out the photobooth in Pheedloop!!

CanFunNet25 🍄🇨🇦 starts tomorrow! So excited for all the presentations! Check out the conference website for more info: canfunnet.conferences.uwo.ca

observations of a naturalist in silicon valley

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

The lichen Sarcogyne regularis, a sprinkling of silver, the first colonizer on a recently lime mortared church wall #lichenGBI