Applications are OPEN for the 2026 MSA Award Period! Deadline 1 February 2026. New this year is the "Don Pfister Graduate Fellowship Award", for graduate students requiring work in fungaria. msafungi.org/application-... #MSAfungi #mycology

Why does the ocean matter? Let me count the ways...💙 We know YOU know... so leave your thoughts in the comments! To show our appreciation, we're giving away a WHOI membership and free goodies! 👉Enter before midnight on Aug 10: go.whoi.edu/oceanmatters-sweepstakes #OceanMatters #sweepstakes

Aquatic fungi deserve a place in conservation & monitoring 🌊🍄 Help shape a better approach—share your expertise and/or needs in the Better Together Survey (10–15 min)! 🔗 forms.office.com/e/UjCrG1L8YV #biodiversity #aquaticfungi #conservation #monitoring

The Zahn lab is transitioning into the TIDAL Lab this Fall and moving to the Appl. Sci. Department at William & Mary. Would love to chat with students interested in doing a PhD at the nexus of microbial ecology and data science (starting 2026). RP please! gzahn.github.io

We are on the lookout for postdocs for two different projects at the intersection of ecology, evolution, and the human microbiome. See thread for more information and reach out!

Thank you everyone who came to see my talk at #ASLO yesterday! Been having such an inspiring time hearing, seeing, and talking about amazing aquatic science! Also Charlotte has been so beautiful this spring! So much fun exploring with @akrinos.bsky.social and @kjehickman.bsky.social!

PLOS has issued a statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity. We are determined to stand firmly behind our mission, our values and our principles, and against any attempt at censorship or undermining of the core principles of scientific inquiry. plos.io/3D4O8cH

Custom PhD positions in my team: High-quality motivated candidates are welcome to design their doctorate research topic for a project competition in the University of Tartu, Estonia. Keywords: bioinformatics, biodiversity, fungi, metagenomics, databases, mycorrhiza, DNA-based taxonomy, biogeography

“The actions of Trump and his billionaire supporters have already begun to generate popular resistance […] in order to best fight for a better future for working people, we will need to develop a political organization, such as a labor party, that is independent of the Democratic Party.”

Fellows are workers ✊🏼🌊

Great job alert! ProPublica is hiring a climate reporter. Come join us. Remote OK. Salary range: $95K-$170K. Apply here: boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

RP PLS! Iʻm hiring 3 postdocs at U Hawaiʻi to study yeast diversity and evolution, marine fungi, and the genomics of microbiomes in experimental foodwebs. All of these projects have existing datasets and LATITUDE to pursue individual interests and "blue sky" ideas www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5d7u4...

The new outline of fungi and fungus-like taxa is out now. Why do we need to do this so often? Because there are so many fungal species and only about 5-10% have descriptions. New genera, families etc are frequently being added to the tree. 🧪 🌍 #fungi #mycosky www.mycosphere.org/pdf/MYCOSPHE...

We must mainstream nature. Economy, security, & health depend on nature but current policy development often overlooks nature's critical roles. Siloed approaches are insufficient-integrated policies that consider the interconnections among policy domains are needed www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

MIT announced that it would eliminate tuition costs next fall for all undergraduate students whose families earn less than $200,000 per year — following a national movement to try to make higher education more accessible. nyti.ms/3V6GVia

Good Night New England! - Sunset from Boston Harbor!

Fully Funded PhD Opportunity in Evolutionary Biology at the U of Rhode Island. Join us to explore the origin and early evolution of eukaryotes using cutting-edge comparative (meta)genomics and molecular evolution approaches. Applications are due December 15th. Contact me ASAP at [email protected]

My latest pub explores a few potential implications that fungi could have in policy! If your interested, here’s a thread 🪡🧵 sciencepolicyreview.pubpub.org/pub/av7npje2...

Happy to share a fun and hopefully useful paper written with my former student, @kjehickman.bsky.social with advice for running a successful undergraduate research lab! Please share with PUI folks and anyone who has undergrads in their lab. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Newly discovered deep-sea enzyme breaks down PET plastic Plastic pollution is increasingly affecting the health of coasts and oceans. One well-known problem is plastic bottles made from polyethylene terephthalate, or PET. phys.org/news/2023-09...

US GO-SHIP is looking for students and early career scientists/technicians to participate in a 2024 hydrographic expedition; a re-occupation the 95E meridional line in the southeastern sector of the Southern Ocean aboard the R/V Thomas Thomspon. usgoship.ucsd.edu/2023/10/07/u...

🤯 Supposedly running ONT flow cells in the dark drastically increases output.