When happens to fungi when forests become farms? New research from @thecrobe.bsky.social and team shows agricultural conversion in the tropics eliminated ~80% of soil mycorrhizal fungal diversity. Open access paper: buff.ly/BsGYDht

📢 A new publication from our team is now out in the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social BULLETIN! 👉 doi.org/10.1002/bes2... It shows how community, collaboration, & multilingual science are not extras—they are essential for equity in ecology. 🌎 📢Please share to amplify Latin American voices!

Call for applications to the Postdoctoral Positions in the Tri-Institutional Molecular Mycology and Pathogenesis Training Program (Tri-I MMPTP) at Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University mmptp.mgm.duke.edu

I'm delighted to inform you that our paper "Ecological genomics of saprotrophy to biotrophy transitions in the genus Clitopilus" was published in IMA Fungus. A long standing collaboration with Zhilin Yuan at RISF, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Hangzhou: imafungus.pensoft.net/articles.php...

Underground Explorer's funding call is open!! Take a look and apply 👇

Are you a researcher translating fungal science into real conservation action? 📣 Call for abstracts now open 📍14–17 April 2026 in Uppsala, Sweden 🔗 Apply: www.slu.se/en/fce2026/ ⏰ Deadline: 25 Feb 2026

What is the global richness of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF)? A recent paper in Fungal Ecology by @steffilutz.bsky.social and colleagues provides updated estimates of AMF richness from 4,733 sampling sites across the globe doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...

A 20 year rewilding project in Colombia’s Magdalena River Valley. Led by @adricorrales.bsky.social, with support from Micaela Tosi, Daniela León, Fundación Jardín Botánico de Medellín & Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation. Read Adriana's SPUN Explainer: www.spun.earth/articles/rew...

Missed our latest webinar? 🎥 Our session on mycorrhizae is now available online. Watch it here: 👇 youtube.com/playlist?lis... Many thanks to @cmarin.bsky.social and @adricorrales.bsky.social for their excellent talks! 👏🍄

In this article, just out, I argue that scientists have a crucial role in the science-policy interface: keep making questions, especially those whose answers decision-makers don't know they want to know, or know they do not want to know. Here's the link: journals.plos.org/sustainabili...

Everything you always wanted to know about mushroom-forming fungi! Great collab with amazing mycologists. Thanks Laszlo Nagy for leading this effort! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Dartmouth College Society of Fellows – Environmental Studies Come join myself and Michael Cox, as we recruit a postdoc with specialization in forest carbon dynamics, climate policy, and nature-based solutions! www.esacareercenter.org/job/2002606/...

A new fossil fungus discovered in Scotland shows evidence of plants and fungi sharing nutrients to survive on land. The fossil, more than 400 million years old, offers hints about the origin of one of the greatest partnerships in the history of life on Earth. www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

📣 Job Opportunity: Plant Conservation Post Doctoral Associate (San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance)🌿 🌎 Escondido, CA 🧑‍💻 Using SDMs, plant collections, monitoring, & env. datasets, identify plant conservation action priorities in seed collections and translocations for CA rare plants ⌛ 3y FT 💸 $87k

Arbuscular mycorrhizal networks-A climate-smart blueprint for agriculture in Plant Communications from Gary Gan (Wenzhou University) with @mvanderheijden.bsky.social @manudelbaq.bsky.social www.cell.com/plant-commun...

Fungal fossils tell a story of resilience: research by Worobiec et al. published in #FungalBiology (Aug 2025) traces dark septate endophytic (DSE) microsclerotia from the Eocene to today, revealing long-term plant–fungus associations. 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interested in Nanopore long-read ITS fungal metabarcode analysis? Our preprint is now out as journal article www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... There is more to do for improving long-read ITS analysis and we hope to advertise a PhD project around this soon.

Wow, nature is too cool! Structures on stinkbug hind legs that used to be interpreted as ears are actually chambers with fungi. The bugs coat their eggs in those fungi to protect them against parasitoid wasps. 🧪 Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Excited to be delivering one of the the keynote talks at the #LivingData conference to share about our work in the Indigenous data governance task force and the importance of Indigenous leadership in biodiversity conservation 🌱

This is a beautiful volume in the Current Biology magazine about Fungi with gorgeous illustrations! highly recommended 🧡 🍄🍄 🤩 www.currentconservation.org/issues/19-3/

📢 NEW REPORT 📢 The @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social report for 2024-2025 is now published. 👇 iucn.org/sites/defaul... Get in touch if you want to collaborate with us to advance the #conservation of #aquaticfungi. 💧 🍄 @iucnfungi.bsky.social @protectspecies.bsky.social

It's our favorite time of the year, checkout the full agenda for #BlackInMicro Week 2025. See who's presenting and more! View the agenda: tinyurl.com/BIMW25 or Register to attend: linktr.ee/BlackInMicro#BlackInMicro(see links in bio)

New paper! I am excited about it, since it has some very cool contributions on: -Status of Invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi -Definition of what is a invasive mycorhizal 🍄 -Cool picture of trees being brought from Europe in 1920! Lead by @nahpo.bsky.social! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi: belowground insights from South America - Policelli - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I’m super glad to have the opportunity to be a speaker at LivigData representing the SPUN team! I would love to connect with anyone here that is attending 🙌🏽

Led by SPUN's @adricorrales.bsky.social, we visited Huila, Colombia with -196°C liquid nitrogen to collect fungal RNA. RNA offers a look into the function of fungal genes, but it degrades quickly, so all samples had to be frozen immediately. Full field update from Colombia coming soon.

⚠️ Rising sea levels and salt intrusion are disrupting essential fungi linked to pines, jeopardizing South Florida's ecosystem. Read more about this research from U of Florida: buff.ly/ATSoWC1 Authors: Elena Karlsen-Ayala, @majusino.bsky.social, Matthew E. Smith, Romina Gazis. 📸 Elena Karlsen-Ayala

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...

🌸 We are delighted to share that Sara Sofia Pedraza Narvaez (University of California, Los Angeles) is the winner of the 2025 Graduate Student Dissertation Award in Phylogenetic Comparative Plant Biology. Learn more here: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist

🍄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...

A well conducted study and well balanced discussion of CMNs … Mycorrhizal Network and Symbiotic N-Fixer Jointly Enhance the Interplant Nitrogen Sharing onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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

#TansleyReview: Microbial drivers of root plasticity Dini-Andreote, et al. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Our department (Berkeley PMB) is hiring an asst. prof. in Plant Resilience to Climate Change! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05049

Media coverage of our article -Reviving Soil: Bioremediation of Heavy Metals scienmag.com/reviving-soi... Original paper published in Nature Reviews Bioengineering www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Over 70% of Earth's ecoregions have yet to be sampled for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. By analyzing eDNA sample locations, we found most soils are unsampled. Drylands are especially overlooked despite covering almost 1/3 of the Earth's terrestrial land. academic.oup.com/femsle/artic...

New paper out today. Fluid mechanics within mycorrhizal networks: exploring concepts, traits, and methodologies I ask: How do fungal networks move water, nutrients and signals underground? Why does this matter? See thread ⬇️ nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Thrilled to announce that the special issue on fungal #conservation that @cfemycolab.bsky.social and I are co-editing for the @britmycolsoc.org.uk c.org.uk journal Fungal Ecology is open for submissions! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Macrofungi long term inventories are key for improving taxonomic discovery and complete biodiversity assessments of fungi! This long term inventory found 546 species in only one site: The Ordway-Swisher Biological Station in Florida www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢🍄Job alert🍄📢 The Department of Plant Pathology of the University of Georgia is accepting applications for an Assistant/Associate Professor in Fungal Biology/Mycology. Anticipated start date of May 2026. Open until filled, so apply now! www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/445...

Michigan State University is hiring a new Director of our herbarium! This is an open rank, tenure-stream faculty position, with research focus in plant or fungal systematics, ecology, and/or evolution Please consider applying and help spread the word! plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

DgeaHeatmap: An R Package for Transcriptomic Analysis and Heatmap Generation academic.oup.com/bioinformati... 🧬🖥️🧪 gitlab.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/spittaulab/D... #Rstats

New paper: ‘Soil inoculation improves tree seedling growth in substrates containing bitumen, but the effect varies by species and inoculum source’ led by James Franklin @jamesfranklin, a past PhD from my group. 🧵 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🍄 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...

Underground networks of mycorrhizal fungi quietly support life on Earth, but scientists say they're often overlooked. A new digital atlas puts the spotlight on these hidden ecosystems and where they need more protection. 🌍🍄 buff.ly/mnehGPg

Magic mushrooms: how scientists discovered fungi are the secret ingredient for restoring the world’s forests

Our Fungal Conservation column is out in Field Mycology 26 (2). www.fieldmycology.org/index.php/jo... 🍄 Fungi and the Planning and Infrastructure Bill 🍄 British fungi on the Global Red List 🍄 An audit of nationally important fungal assemblages in Welsh SSSIs #fungi #fungalconservation #PIB

BMS is pleased to support the Fourth International Congress on Fungal Conservation, taking place in Cotonou, Benin, 3 - 7 November 2025. The call for abstracts is now open - deadline 31 August. See the Congress website: www.fungal-conservation.org/icfc4/

🍄 #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...