Take a moment and check out these best science images of 2025 and the stories behind them. Some very amazing images.

Time-lapse of various species of mushrooms growing

Coming to the @egu.eu General Assembly in 2026? Consider submitting an abstract to our mycorrhizae session if you are working on these organisms and their linkages to ecosystem functioning. Last year, this new session was a huge hit, so let's make year two even better!

SPUN is #hiring 👉 spun.bamboohr.com/careers We're looking to fill the following positions: 1. Fungal Molecular Ecologist 2. Designer 3. Communications Assistant Apply now and share with your networks 🌍 #Careers #Fungi #ScienceJobs #ScienceCommunication #Mycology

We are delighted to let you know that your Plants, People, Planet article 'Demystifying Fungal Systematics: A Gateway to Fungal Literacy and Societal/Ecological Relevance Through Familiar Species' has been published on Early View. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New study from @mvanderheijden.bsky.social lab, showing that many commercial mycorrhizal inoculants are snake oil. So important for this data to be published! Between this, @lizkoziol.bsky.social and Matt Salomon’s work… well I think we make a strong point. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

That's a nice office view of #Rouen. Not my office, unfortunately.

One of my students found and recognized it as the #blob. They haven't even done their mycology classes yet. Nature and science outreach is working :)

Little surprises while on a field trip with students

Notre petit article de vulgarisation sur les méthodes pour évaluer la santé des sols: theconversation.com/du-slip-trou...

Thrilled to launch yet another #CitizenScience campaign for @fundive-fungi.bsky.social ‪🙃 The campaign' accompanying flyer is published in the open-access platform Zenodo, free to download, share, and cite: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #UrbanBiodiversity #FunDive #Mycology #Conservation #iNaturalist

Expérience incroyable, je suis passée sur @franceinter.fr dans l'émission La Terre au Carré, pour parler de champignons et de la liste rouge de l'UICN avec Florian Kirchner. www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

Is it just an impression or amazing research and discoveries are poping up everywhere about mycorrhizal fungi? A thread of research that I want to catch up on (and maybe you do too):

Who lives underground? Find out now in our new paper published in @nature.com. Key finding: 90% of predicted mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas. Read here: buff.ly/WmDqAP3 🧵

Contre la loi Duplomb? Au cas où vous ne l'ayez pas encore fait, voici la pétition: petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...

During my PhD, I did an additionnal experiment that is inconclusive and it would not be possible to publish. The method and concept were worth it and I want to put it out there. Now I'm aiming for journal.trialanderror.org

Another great tool for community analyses: www.davidzeleny.net/anadat-r/dok...

Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Attention fellow mycologists of BlueSky: I’m looking for live cultures of several Laccaria species (including this one) for my PhD research. Please send me a DM if you have cultures available or any info as to where I might find some to work with in the lab! 🍄🌲 #laccaria #mycology #mycorrhiza

New game to promote #microbiology to all. Make your #protist and see if it can thrive in lots of watery habitats! Collect #protists for your journal too! Play the game 31st May at the Norwich Game Festival #NFG25 #scicomm #zoology #ecology #sciencecommunication #protistology #publicengagement

@aguilart.bsky.social did you change your name? Did you see your new name in datadryad.org/dataset/doi:... By the way, amazing resource on AM fungal spores!

Après l'article sur les champignons qui rendent les insectes zombis, voici l'article sur les champignons menacés d'extinction dans #TheConversation theconversation.com/pres-dun-tie...

Leaf absorption contributes to accumulation of microplastics in plants www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In 2020, we completed our National campaign collecting soils in Ireland. All the data related to 16S, ITS, soil physicochemical properties, qPCR, soil potential nitrification and denitrification is available here: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

#PhD offer at UMR IAM @umr-iam.bsky.social on detoxification systems of ectomycorrhizal fungi in a context of inter-species competition 🍄🌳please contact me by email

Reading in (online) journal club Poor hypotheses and research waste in biology: learning from a theory crisis in psychology @itchyshin.bsky.social et al. bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Dear fellow researchers: how do researchers study climate change at the level of the ecosystem? There is the translocation experiments (SZ and China), the FACE platforms (USA and AUS), rainout shelters. What else exists out there?

Our @3dforecotech.bsky.social Summer School on Forest Ecosystems will be in Oxford from 4-8 August 2025. Applications are open with 40 fully-funded places for students and ECRs from COST countries. Apply now! 3dforecotech.eu/news/interdi...

Island biogeography ^^ (Inoculated by my second year students)

It’s the first time a frog—or any amphibian—has been observed pollinating a plant, researchers reported in 2023. Learn more on #WorldFrogDay: scim.ag/4kGdvCy

Paper published...a small contribution to AMF systematics synonymizing two species with Rhizophagus clarus, in collaboration with Jim Bever ( @FungiInvam ), Coline Deveautour, Steve Bentivenga and Karl Kemmelmeier. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I’m very happy to share our latest paper on arbuscular mycorrhizal traits. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Absolutely majestic, have a look! Maybe one day we will have the same for #fungi in soil and oceans?

Bonjour Bluesky! Notre article dans The Conversation sur les pratiques agricoles et gaz à effet de serre. Un travail remarquable de mon collègue Murilo Veloso. theconversation.com/les-sols-aus...

I'm throwing a bottle into the sea (or bluesky). Is there any textbook for teaching basic environmental biotechnologies? Including GMOs, bioremediation, waste management...

Still on the topic of statistics, I continue to recommend this paper to get started on data exploration (detect outliers, heterogeneity of variance, collinearity, ...). Simple, easy to read... (maybe outdated?) doi.org/10.1111/j.20...

I keep recommending this website for multivariate analyses for microbial ecology: sites.google.com/site/mb3gust...