HELP WANTED! Calling all mycophiles in California, Oregon, Washington, or British Columbia! My research focuses on Laccaria amethysteo-occidentalis, pictured below. I need to collect mushrooms from wild and urban areas across its range. Plz send mushrooms if you find any! I can pay shipping 💜 🍄‍🟫

“So here’s to you, old Tennessee, our alma mater true.“ Had a great time this weekend as part of the Herbert College of Agriculture Young Alumni Council at UTK! Really excited that we were able to participate in Ag Day this year 🧡🍊 #gbo #vfl #GoVols

Congrats Khalil Khamassi for this nice study on gluten free alternatives to wheat flour: Substituting Soft Wheat Flour with Field Bean (Vicia faba) Flour Varying in Tannin Content: Impacts on Nutritional, Physical, and Sensory Characteristics of Cookies www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

www.cell.com/cell/abstrac... A host organelle (in sea slugs) integrates stolen chloroplasts for animal photosynthesis

Population structure in a fungal human pathogen is potentially linked to pathogenicity rdcu.be/eBecK

I have funding for a 2-year dry-lab postdoc to join our team @humanevouu.bsky.social 🧪 (Deadline Oct 21st) The project will utilize modern and #aDNA data from humans and sheep to study environmental adaptation (including method development and simulations). Please share! www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

My former colleague @meganphillips.bsky.social has posted a preprint from her ongoing Ph.D. project on S. aureus and mobile genetic elements!

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

I am ecstatic to announce the new Latin American Chapter of the Mycological Society of America!! This is going to have a great impact on the Latin American mycological community. Please spread the word and join for only $15/year! msafungi.org/latin-americ... @msafungi.bsky.social

Just became aware of this from @carpentries.carpentries.org — they had to say no to a huge grant from the US government because of their commitment to diversifying the software industry. I donated and hope you’ll think about it too. carpentries.org/blog/2025/06...

We often talk about THE whole genome duplication in yeasts, but we find new evidence of additional whole genome duplications in other yeast species! Check out this preprint led by @kylethedavid.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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...

We asked Americans about 16 federal agencies. The National Park Service and National Weather Service were among the most favorable. www.pewresearch.org/...

Excited to share our new publication, out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41.... @kanchanj.bsky.social led this fascinating fungal-bacterial interaction project. We are grateful for our wonderful collaborators Brian Peters and David Underhill.

New #Yeast paper out from the series #FantasticYeasts!!! @hittingerlab.bsky.social , Dana Opulente & team describe a novel species, Lachancea rosae, isolated from the wild rose Rosa californica 🌹 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Today I wrote about a general tendency to accept atrocious premises, and the need to reject fascism's false choices in order to find expansive and imaginative paths forward. Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursing everything. www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...

A little more than 2 weeks to apply for a Postdoc position in our lab @leibniz-hki.de 👇🏻

Just a few more days to apply! ⏰

A federal-state partnership that monitors for foodborne illnesses quietly scaled back its operations nearly two months ago. As of July 1, the critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight, a spokesperson for the CDC says.

Our EEB department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is hiring an assistant professor in evo-devo. See go.illinois.edu/EEBAsstProf for details. Please share!

ASM, ASBMB, ASCB & FASEB are deeply disappointed in the Supreme Court ruling allowing cancellation of $800M in NIH grants, threatening labs, jobs, and early-career scientists. Stable funding is vital for U.S. science. Read more: www.ascb.org/society-news...

We're hiring in my Division of Berkeley MCB. Come be my new colleague!

I thought the Aspergillus fumigatus pan-genome was pretty wild when we started this project. Aspergillus flavus said, "hold my beer..." Not only does it have a strong population structure with differences between environmental and clinical strains, only 58%of genes are conserved across the species!

Our Pitt Microbiology and Molecular Genetics department in the School of Medicine is recruiting.. Microbiologists! 🧫🦠🔬🧪 Please apply to join our faculty and enjoy these views 👀 while doing great science cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...

See @annemakerofhats.bsky.social map the global diversity of #Aspergillus flavus! 300 isolates → 5 genetic populations. Population D causes most human infections. Big step toward linking fungal genetics + disease. https://loom.ly/XulfImI#Aspergillus#Evolution

And today was the @carpentries.carpentries.org Welcome Session, with @tobyhodges.bsky.social (the director or curriculum himself!) Making my way toward instructor checkout 👀 and I’m excited to become more involved in this community!

Thrilled to share that the final chapter of my PhD with @rokaslab.bsky.social is now out in @natcomms.nature.com 🎉 Read it to find out how population structure impacts pathogenicity in Aspergillus flavus, a fungus that infects humans 🧪 rdcu.be/eAToj

Really interesting work. Bottom line: re-annotate everything using the same pipeline for pangenome studies!

Pls RT: We are recruiting a postdoc (and potentially an RA or staff scientist) to work on the evolution of stage-structured immune systems! Experimental evolution, natural variation in immunity, and/or evo genomics in flour beetles (Tribolium). See ad here: my.vanderbilt.edu/tatelab/join...

1) Are you an Assistant Professor studying evolutionary biology? 2) Are you in the US? 3) Would you like to give a research seminar in Iowa? 4) Are you available to travel September 4-6? If you can answer YES x4, please DM me ASAP, or comment below.

Please help us spread the word! Please amplify! We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝 Applications are due October 6 2025. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C... #AcademicJobs #EvoBio

Looking for a #postdoc in evolutionary biology? Come join the Budke Lab! Read more about the lab jmbudke.github.io & apply at this link fa-ewlq-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... This is the last weekend to apply before applications will be evaluated and zoom interviews scheduled.

Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money.

Today I finished the instructor training workshop from The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org which was educational! I’m not a certified instructor yet, but soon I will be able to teach the Data Carpentries’ exceptionally useful Genomics curriculum! Lmk if you’d like to co-host a workshop!

WE ARE #HIRING‼️ Join the @hittingerlab.bsky.social to study yeast evolution, ecology, and bioenergy applications of yeast species as a Research Associate. Apply by August 15 www.glbrc.org/about/job-op... #research #job

🍄Mark your calendars for March 17-22, 2026 for #Fungal26! Registration will open October 25, 2025. We can’t wait to see you at Asilomar in absolutely beautiful Pacific Grove, California. Start planning today! 🔗Stay updated on all the important information at buff.ly/BjAlE2j.

Have you heard about MycoEd yet? A model educational program offering training for students on fungal genome sequencing and analysis. how powerful!! #mycofam #thefutureisfungal journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Clearly she is a Tennessee Volunteer, Go Big Orange #GBO #VFL

🚨 New paper in @natcomms.nature.com After a constructive and rewarding peer-review process (huge thanks to our editors and reviewers) we can finally share it: 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

Just watched an amazing talk from @linder-surprise.bsky.social at #CFN25 on mechanisms driving high glycolytic rates in yeast. @canfunnet.bsky.social Linda already announced on here, but it still makes me really happy to know she will be starting as faculty at the University of Guelph next month!

Obviously a lie, since the definition of PhD-level expertise, standard across universities worldwide, is that you can produce original knowledge.

An even bigger deal: it appears that all federal grant announcements are frozen until a new review process is developed.

Also, 30,000 fake papers out of 1 million+ does not indict or threaten science as a whole. This entire "science is in crisis from within" narrative is a right-wing myth.

Ready for day 2 of #CFN25 with my @canfunnet.bsky.social mug from the 2023 meeting!

Amazing work from Dr. Anne Hatmaker @annemakerofhats.bsky.social at @canfunnet.bsky.social #CFN25 She takes us on a deep dive into the diversity of Penicillium isolates from diverse habitats

First plenary: @kamounlab.bsky.social discusses the evolution of Magnaporthe oryzae, minichromosomes, and the fieldwork done in the “blastmobile” (love this vehicle name!) #CFN25

Excited to tune into the CanFunNet meeting! @canfunnet.bsky.social Check out our trainee Isha Jain's presentation on Friday in the Fungal Genetics & Genomics VI starting at 3:50pm #CFN25 Great introduction to CanFunNet with Dr. Horianopoulos @linder-surprise.bsky.social