"it is important to remember that this does not change the science or the relevance of that science to the lives and livelihoods of people in every community, in every part of the world."

How much do we know about #AquaticFungi in peatlands? Very very very little. Just FYI--in case anyone is looking for interesting ideas....

Who's with me? Anyone else see this headline and get excited about what the #AquaticFungi are doing?

This January, I’m hosting a FREE 4-day online bootcamp for scientists focused on grant writing. Thousands of people have attended our previous bootcamps, but this one will be the first one to help you get funded 💰 I want to share why. #NewPI #ECRchat #MSCA #ERCCoG #ERCStG #ERCadv

Happy new year! Women Advancing River Research (WARR) 2026, featuring woman scientists from around the world. 3rd Thursday each month, 11 – 12 noon US ET Pls spread the word. Register: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @waterbarnes.bsky.social @agu-h3s.bsky.social @aguwaterquality.bsky.social

Hi friends—consider this 👇 Let’s work together to bring amazing mycologists together in South Korea in 2027! gofund.me/5cc978d4d

🚨 Postdoctoral Opportunity for Female Scientists🚨 The University of Vienna is awarding at least 20 fully funded 4 year postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists Interested? Get in touch via direct message careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... #MicroSky 🧪 #PostDoc @univie.ac.at

A recent study concludes that the uninhibited pumping of groundwater by farmers, cities and corporations around the world now accounts for 68% of the total loss of fresh water at the latitudes where most people live. (Published July 2025)

Want to work on biodiversity in the Alps? ⛰️ We are offering several internship positions for the upcoming spring and summer in collaboration with the Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol 🕷️🦋🦇🐜🌼🦗🪱 biodiversity.eurac.edu/interns-want...

New preprint out! Using ~75k environmental OTUs + 77 fossil calibrations, we reconstructed a Proterozoic timeline of eukaryote evolution. Our results show crown eukaryotes were already diversifying >1.6 Ga, long before the first undisputed fossils (~1.05 Ga). 🔗 DOI: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚨🚨🚨Call for submissions!!!🚨🚨🚨 We're excited to announce our upcoming special issue in the journal Diversity: "Innovating & Integrating Conservation Tools to Address the Global Extinction Crisis & Prevent Ecosystem Collapse". More info: www.mdpi.com/journal/dive... @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social

I had ❓❓❓ @dorassessment.bsky.social had answers 👍 😁 Researchers— it is important we and our unions engage in these efforts. Our interests are diverse & may differ strongly from funding agencies, universities, etc. — who ARE engaged in this work & ARE powerful. @sulf-union.bsky.social #SACO

Does anyone know how these groups are interacting with researchers as stakeholders? I've written CoARA twice with no answers. Are they developing a a new path for research assessment without us--cuz that doesn't seem ok to me? All for reform 👍--but as stakeholders--we need a direct voice.

Don't forget all these repulsive men who helped boost Jeffrey Epstein's reputation even after his horrific deeds were well known. observer.co.uk/news/interna... People like Martin Nowak, Steven Pinker, Alan Dershowitz, Larry Summers, Lawrence Krauss, et al

Join our Fungal Biodiversity Course at the Westerdijk Institute 👉 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: https://wi.knaw.nl/CourseFungalBiodiversity

A nice way to finish the year, with the publication of our new species, genus and family. This is yet another new species from a little creek in Scott Creek Conservation Park. So many undescribed species! #fungi #aquatic_fungi #freshwater_fungi phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/v...

🌟Indigenous people, sadly barely mentioned by SVT, led the dam removal🌟 Restoration of cultural heritage, broad societal benefits 🎣🛶, biodiversity boost and ecosystem restoration…. We can learn from this in Sweden. @svtnyheter.bsky.social news.mongabay.com/2024/10/larg...

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)

Your periodic reminder that science is not done by a few selected "stars scientists". Science is done by hundred of thousands. Siloed money mean a few flashy discoveries and a lot of waste. Want to change things? Make funding accessible and stop funding calls with less than 2% success rate.

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

Fungal friends: The University of Minnesota is hiring a tenure track medical mycologist, with emphasis on emergence of pathogens, genomics and evolution! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

I love that soils are being revealed to us with the help of talented scientists/artists/authors. 🪱🍄 See the upcoming book below and similarly titled book with amazing illustrations by the wonderful James Nardi. 💦 Do we have similar books for life in freshwater? Shouldn’t we?

Diversity, geographical distribution and environmental adaptations of snow molds doi.org/10.47371/myc... 仮訳：雪腐病菌の多様性、地理的分布及び環境適応 2025 年 66 巻 6 号 p. 334-349 #菌学会 #Mycoscience

I am recruiting graduate students to my genomics-focused lab in EEB at Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Please spread the word if you know any students with an interest in a computational focus to genomics research! evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

It’s World #AMR Awareness Week. Did you know misusing antibiotics leads to drug resistance and side effects? Learn about #AntimicrobialResistance (AMR) 👉bit.ly/AMRweek2025#AMR

Funded PhD Opportunity: Seagrass Disease Ecology Explore how the pseudofungus Phytophthora gemini impacts Zostera marina and restoration success. Lab + fieldwork @thembauk.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social & OCT. Combine microbiology, ecology & restoration science 🌱 👉 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK439/p...

Want to learn about #AquaticFungi? Don’t be shy—jump right in. Check out these fantastic first results from Peter—member of the online #AquaticHyphomycete group 🥳 @funaction.bsky.social @fayrnhawk.bsky.social @peterbraubach.bsky.social

FUNACTION members Andreas Bruder🇨🇭 and Diego Fontaneto🇮🇹 sampled for #aquaticfungi in the Val Grande National Park, Italy. More data gathered on occurrence and distribution of aquatic fungi in Europe (particularly inside Protected Areas). 💪 Want to collaborate? Fill our survey: shorturl.at/VaHbD

The #AquaticHyphomycete online group have another great programme lined up this week. @zimingwang.bsky.social will be talking to us about isolating living spores for culture work. We'll also be talking about the importance of recording these fungi and whether there is a best way to do that.

Join our Fungal Biodiversity Course 23–27 February 2026👇  The Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute invites you to an intensive, hands-on course exploring the vast and fascinating kingdom of fungi. 🔗 More information & registration: https://wi.knaw.nl/CourseFungalBiodiversity

🕷️ Working with cave spiders? Fascinated by trait-based ecology? We've just updated the checklist of European cave spiders, plus a fresh database of their traits. Read it now on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social: doi.org/10.32942/X2D...

‘Smartest person in the room.’ Someone whose self-perceived, society-supported ‘greatness’ and ‘correctness’ is so powerful that their destructive, vile acts are ‘justified’. Harm from folks like this shapes the lives & careers of many. Damaging Science & scientists.

Sexism, racism, homophobia… & science. Do not sugar-coat his legacy— #Watson dead at 97 “I think having all these women around makes it more fun for the men but they’re probably less effective.” www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

Oligonucleotide design meets big data: We present oligoN-design, a simple, reproducible and versatile open-source tool to design specific primers and probes directly from large environmental DNA datasets. 🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.1101/2025... 👉 github.com/MiguelMSandi...

What a terrible terrible idea…

Didn’t make it to Colombia for #LivingData2025? Don’t worry! You can always learn about #FUNACTION & check out our digital resources online. There is still time to engage with us via our survey too <- available in 5 languages. All at your fingertips 👇

🚨 Free, interactive online course "International Environmental Agreements: How can Science-Policy-Practice Interfaces help with National Implementation"! 🌍   📚 English & French 🏆 Certificate upon completion   The course is open to all — register now! elearning.cabes.online/course/view....

🚨Join us at #WBF2026 to discuss how to overcome knowledge and policy gaps related to #fungi #biodiversity and #conservation meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess... Make sure to submit your abstract by Nov 18th to participate in our session! 🍄‍🟫 🌊 🏝️

Based on the MEMEs I have met—this is an excellent program.

Amazing opportunity for a postdoc. Can't think of a more exciting place (speaking from experience)

Another amazing talk is happening on November 5th 🌲🍄🧬🌳🍄🧬🌲. We are pleased to welcome Prof. Francis M. Martin @fmartin54.bsky.social , a leading researcher in forest microbiology. Join us! #foresthealth, #soilhealth, #soilmicrobiome

At #LivingData2025? @isabelrfernandes.bsky.social presents @funaction.bsky.social tomorrow (Thursday)! Check it out 🌟

Are you attending #livingdata2025? Do you want to know more about #aquaticfungi? I would love to connect with you!

🌊 As the need to restore Europe’s freshwaters becomes ever more pressing, so too does the demand for funding to support ambitious restoration projects. 🤝 A new @merlin-project.bsky.social publication guides you through the grant funding landscape. freshwaterblog.net/2025/10/22/h...

Pelagic #AquaticFungi in the ocean, no big deal? Wrong! 🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋 🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋 🐳🐋 x 1 million blue whales-worth of carbon Check out the paper 👇 and the associated commentary www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New #AquaticFungi to start your Wednesday! Check out the dazzling array of new CLASSES of fungi--including those with highest frequency in freshwater. Congrats to our #FunAqua friends, whose project features prominently in these finds! 🧡 @kristelpanksep.bsky.social @vprins.bsky.social

Check out our latest dispatch where we make a (very convincing ☺️) case that marine #mycology is the next big thing and highlight a recent paper by Breyer et al. Marine fungi have biomass = 22 MILLION blue whales! Free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3QW8S... #aquaticfungi #microbiome #fungi

#LivingData2025 Happening today! @eirikafi.bsky.social "Opportunities for monitoring aquatic fungi with earth observation data" @mostfun.bsky.social @aquamycota.bsky.social

In Europe, biodiversity data sends a clear message: 🌳 81% of habitats & 63% of species are in poor condition 🐝 Pollinators down by up to 30% 🌾 60% of soils show degradation At #BIOTraCes, we turn numbers into action for nature. 💚 #WorldStatisticsDay #Biodiversity #EUResearch

I value this incredible resource-- Biodiversity Heritage Library. BHL’s future depends on the generosity of its global community. Join me in helping keep the world’s biodiversity knowledge open and free for everyone. ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLDona...