🌟 New position announcement! 🍄 I’m happy to share that I’ve started a new position as a Postdoc at @naturalis.bsky.social, within the Understanding Evolution group. In this role, I will be working on the next volume of the Flora Agaricina Neerlandica, focusing on the genus Russula.

Happy 2026! 🥳🍾

I have an opening for a postdoctoral position in my Laboratory of Fungal Ecology and Evolution at the Biology Centre CAS, Institute of Entomology, in České Budějovice, Czechia. www.dannyhaelewaters.com/opening-for-... #LFEE #postdoc #hiring

🍄 Of the roughly 1,300 species of fungi on the IUCN Red List, more than 400 are at risk of extinction. Threats include agricultural expansion, climate change and deforestation. Read more from @mongabay.com :

Russula subpallidospora sp. nov. - an uncommon, cream-spored milk-white brittlegill species. We validated this name, introduced ad interim in 2014 by Helga Marxmüller (who made the beautiful aquarelles). Read more about it in Zeitschrift für Mykologie 91(2): 295-318.

@fundive-fungi.bsky.social is a Europe-wide project to better understand & protect fungi. Find, photograph & document fungi and join us to help reveal Europe's fungal diversity! Follow @fundive-fungi.bsky.social and check https://fun-dive.eu/en/get-involved/ for more information!

🧬It's time to Read the Slime! #Slimemoulds are weird, wonderful, and still understudied fungi-like organisms. You can help understand them. Join the new FunDive citizen science campaign to find and sequence them 👉 fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol... #ReadTheSlime #CitizenScience #Barcoding #FunDive

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