"Bond’s work leaves behind an inconvenient lesson for an era of climate urgency: that speed is not a substitute for understanding, and that good intentions, applied without care, can erase ancient worlds as efficiently as neglect." A beautiful tribute to William Bond. Forever missed by many.

Resources for assessing protein-protein interactions in #arbuscular #mycorrhizal roots: CKL2 as a case study 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #CommunityResource by Ivanov et al. @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience

252 species of invertebrates on Hazel! It’s mind blowing.

Happy Holidays!

Sorting through the mushroom photos I took last autumn in Vosges Mountains, I am struck again by their astonishing diversity. The clouded agaric (Clitocybe nebularis) emerged from the needle litter, pale and ghostlike, perfectly attuned to the quiet strangeness of the place

Caloplaca sp. #lichen on seaside cliffs. #Newfoundland Canada. #fungi #fungifriends

We need more of these kinds of studies. A better grip on these fundamentals of AM fungal biology & ecology is needed if we hope to actually use AM fungi either as predictive signals or in land-management etc. @sturmer.bsky.social @1pantunes.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#TansleyReview: Mycelial dynamics in arbuscular mycorrhizal #fungi Vasilis Kokkoris 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Mycorrhizal control of microbial gene transcription and taxonomic composition in the rhizosphere and bulk soil #ISMEJournal from Ricardo Arraiano-Castilho academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

The same tree 2022 vs 2025 Always life goes on 🤎

We’ve posted a new preprint providing evidence that endophytic fungi facilitate resource transfer through common mycelial networks. A neat aspect of our study is that we measured fungal functional changes when connected to more than one plant, not just the plants! doi.org/10.21203/rs....

The last PhD defense of the year! Congratulations Dr. Elodie Muller on your thesis on the #ecological #dynamics of an invasive #pathogen, Cryptostroma corticale, causing #SootyBarkDisease of #Maple trees! 👏👏👏👨‍🎓🎓🌳🍄📊📈 #ForestHealth #ForestPathology

My article on aeonophiles (ultra-long lived organisms) came out in Aeon Magazine today!

L'INRAE recrute : @umr-iam.bsky.social devrait prochainement proposer un poste permanent de chargé(e) de recherche sur l’effet du #microbiote sur la #santé des #arbres. Rendez-vous sur jobs.inrae.fr/concours/con... fin janvier 2026 pour postuler !

INRAE is recruiting: @umr-iam.bsky.social should soon be offering a permanent position as a research scientist to study the effect of #microbiota on #tree #health. Visit jobs.inrae.fr/en/open-comp... at the end of January 2026 to apply !

So excited to share our recent paper on the street tree microbiome in urban environments, published in Nature Cities! Huge thanks to Katie @k8eatherton.bsky.social for leading such fantastic work and for her excellent summary (check out her post)!

Colombages anciens Pavés luisants sous la nuit— Noël murmure

Biogeography and host associations of Russula subsection Xerampelinae based on large-scale analysis of UNITE sequence data nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Shoutout to @annualreviews.bsky.social “In a sea of polished, plausible noise, expertise matters more than ever.” New blog 👇🏾

Prioritizing carbon reserve over growth: how aging trees mitigate carbon starvation risk nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Commentary by Fang highlighting the recent work by Zhang et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/YWNADQ...

Review: A genomic view of Earth’s biomes by Gitta Szabó, @emileyeloe-fadrosh.bsky.social, @jeffinerca.bsky.social & Tanja Woyke @jgi.doe.gov go.nature.com/3VTLImU

Impressions…

Noctambules…

Gros-Horloge #Rouen

Soil viruses are important regulators of ecosystem function, but what are their roles in environments that face long-term degradation and restoration? In our paper published today in Nature Micro, we asked how soil viruses influence peatland recovery, and vice versa. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Des œufs de papillon à l’hybridation des ours polaires : conversation avec la réfugiée scientifique Camille Parmesan theconversation.com/des-oeufs-de...

Fungi are among the most important and beautiful soil organisms. 🍄 Explore the fungal tree of life, with an emphasis on the macroscopic diversity of fungi. 📷 Laszlo G. Nagy

We need to make #worldsoilday more about the soils of THE WHOLE WORLD. Across African datasets, there are fewer than 5 mycorrhizal samples per 1 million square kilometers, making the continent 48 times less sampled than Europe. Today, we celebrate SPUN’s 38 Underground Explorers across Africa 🧵

An interesting study from Japan observes how animal-dispersed truffle-like fungi are more prone to genetic isolation due to forest fragmentation. Not a surprising finding, but interesting to consider from a conservation standpoint! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

An array of great speakers, including Steven Strauss, Jerry Tuskan (Prize recipient), Dario Grattapaglia, CJ Tsai and Sanushka Naidoo, speak to the impact of genomic technologies on forest tree improvement programs and the future of forestry. youtu.be/zIYfSZ1FZLs?...

A beautiful orange rock posy lichen (Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca) on rose coloured rock. Northwest Territorie, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Big congratulations to our five @umr-iam.bsky.social scientists featuring in the 2025 Global Ranking of the World’s Top 2% Scientists 🏆 prepared by Stanford University: Aurélie Deveau, @fmartin54.bsky.social, Pascale Frey-Klett, Annegret Kohler and Nicolas Rouhier. 👏👏👏 🍾🥂🎉

Mid-week #mycorrhiza 🍄 Motivated by a seminar from @tomthirkell.bsky.social, I've delved back into my image archives of mycorrhizal fungi in random plant species. This beautifully bunchy fungal arbuscule in a buttercup root needed sharing!🔬🏵️ #mycosky #fungi #microscopy #outreach

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...

The first chapter of my dissertation is finally published in @esajournals.bsky.social! We determined which microbial characteristics best explain soil nutrient cycling and their importance compared to plant and soil factors 🍄🌱 doi.org/10.1002/ecs2... @nahpo.bsky.social @k8eatherton.bsky.social

#OurNewPaper in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com 👇

🧪🌾 @cathbell62.bsky.social works @umeauniversitet.bsky.social & @ijpb-versaillescly.bsky.social in France and has been instrumental to establish #INUPRAG, a collaboration between @umeaplantsciencecentre.se, @inrae-france.bsky.social & @cragenomica.bsky.social.

I just published: ERC-Plus: jackpot science or missed chance to fix academia? My reflections on ERC-Plus, Europe’s newest ultra-competitive research grant and what it tells us about the academic culture we’re building. medium.com/p/erc-plus-j...

New online! The biodiversity, genomics, ecology and evolution of mushroom-forming fungi

The faster you warm the climate the more will burn at the same time resulting in a non-linear feedback reaction if warming rate thresholds are breached... We should be near now... #climate

The Roman Empire needed wood for building and burning. Tree-ring analysis of over 20,000 samples reveals how Roman expansion drove intensive logging across Central-Western Europe, eventually leading to overexploitation of old-growth forests. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/tWR150XAhVA

The 17 Newsletter is now available: mycorrhizas.org/wp-content/u... It includes @YouTube interviews with @mrillig #BeaBock #SmritiPehim (@BalaChaudhary lab). Tools by #CamilleDelavaux & @ManjuMGupta Top 10 mycorrhizal papers. @ICOM2026 info & more! Thanks @cesarmarin203 for this 🤗

Our consensus statement led by @jgi.doe.gov on standards for technical reporting in #environmental and host-associated #microbiome studies #STREAMS @norwichmicro.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Endophytes with mycorrhizal potentials: biological and ecological implications #mycorrhizalpotentials nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Explore how soil food webs withstand droughts and heatwaves, and what this means for tree regeneration in Swedish forests! 🌲🪱🌳🍄Become a PhD student in the WIFORCE Research School and work with us at SLU-Uppsala @mycopat.bsky.social #climate #forest #microbes #nematodes www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Profile of Lin Zhang nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New preprint from our group led by @metalichen.bsky.social on the discovery of a Starship giant transposable element in the genome of a lichen-forming fungus.

Pourquoi les 🌳🌲 meurent-ils autant du manque d’💧 que des 🦠🍄🪱 ? La réponse par @mireiagoga.bsky.social (@umr-iam.bsky.social) dans @lefigaro.fr 👇 #ForestHealth #ForestPathology www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/pou...

Our paper on Zymoseptoria tritici 3D genome organization is officially out! @iglavincheska.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#Prix&Distinctions 🏆 Toutes nos félicitations à Frédéric Thomas (UMR Mivegec), Sylvain Gandon (UMR Cefe) et Jonathan Lenoir (UMR Edysan) ! 🥳 www.inee.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...