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....

Great new article out by Solomon Maerowitz-McMahan on fungal production, composition, and fire response. Solomon presented this work at our mycorrhizal session last year the @egu.eu meeting (you can still submit to present your work at our 2026 session). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Save your data! peerj.com/articles/204...

"Working in academia can be stressful. Laurel Raffington suggests treating it as ‘just a job’ to reduce performance pressure and advocate for structural improvements." "Academia is just a job" by @laraffington.bsky.social (2025, Nature Human Behavior) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Precipitation increase promotes soil organic carbon formation and stability via the mycorrhizal fungal pathway | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #stableisotopes

Who runs the forest? Microbes. Our new paper shows soil microbiomes outweigh the effects of elevated CO2 on Scots pine growth, and differences in soil microbiomes influence how plants grow and respond to elevated CO2. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How cool is this!

"A growing body of evidence that the ‘Gadgil effect’ is not universal, even in the N‐poor litter of temperate pine forests where it was first described" besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Very cool looking paper on bacterial AND fungal necromass contributions to SOC academic-oup-com.uaccess.univie.ac.at/ismecommun/a....

Coming to the @egu.eu General Assembly in 2026? Consider submitting an abstract to our mycorrhizae session if you are working on these organisms and their linkages to ecosystem functioning. Last year, this new session was a huge hit, so let's make year two even better!

This week as part of the @pilzfestspiele.at - our group showed mycorrhizal fungal colonized roots, our culture collection, posters of results, and we had a massive turnout! People are becoming increasingly interested in fungi @cemess.bsky.social @ter-cemess.bsky.social www.fungalecologylab.com

Thrilled to announce that the special issue on fungal #conservation that @cfemycolab.bsky.social and I are co-editing for the @britmycolsoc.org.uk c.org.uk journal Fungal Ecology is open for submissions! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Very interesting paper on fungal [necromass] traits and soil organic matter priming onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

See our new study examining how P additions in tropical rainforests affect tree growth and feedback to AMF and EMF communities. Very interesting links to EMF biomass production strategies. Great work led by Qingshui Yu 🍄‍🟫🍄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Come be my colleague in Vienna!

A fun commentary with @christinakaiser.bsky.social inspired by a very cool paper in New Phyt by @fungidownunder.bsky.social et al. showing that EcM fungal functional traits affect soil C responses to elevated CO2. EcM species and traits really matter! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The first chapter of my dissertation is out in Ecology Letters! We pooled data from forest sites across the globe to understand how forests differ in their carbon investment in reproduction (flowers, fruits, seeds). #ForestEcology #GlobalEcology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

What a week and almost 2 more to go sampling our Mycobiome x Climate Change exp (144/576 done)! We added isotopes to track 🍄 transfer, collected seedlings (so much 🍄‍🟫) and you can see the myco treatment effects! Grateful for such a great team in the lab! Thanks @snsf.ch and @wwtf.at for support!

Interested in doing a PhD in ecophysiology? This is the place place to do it, amazing team, friendly environment and great supervision!

Wow, this is totally fascinating and surprising to me!

“…when organisms interact can largely determine how they interact.” #Viewpoint: Is it all about timing? Identifying the symbiosis critical points that govern interactions among #bacteria, ectomycorrhizal #fungi, and land #trees By Louis Berrios 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Into tropical forest restoration? Check out our new review led by @nadike.bsky.social discussing pathways of SOC gain and loss during active restoration | out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social Let's get more C back into these soils! www.cell.com/current-biol...

I'm so excited to share our new paper in Global Change Biology: A network of 18 wildfire chronosequences reveals key environmental drivers and knowledge gaps in the boreal nitrogen balance, with @michael-gundale.bsky.social and others. doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

So happy for Alejandro and congrats on securing one of these competitive @oeaw.bsky.social fellowships for his PhD project! Can’t wait to share the results 😊

Are you in the USA, interesting in greater stability, and looking for a postdoc with excellent funding? Write me to discuss this opportunity to come to Austria under the APART-USA program from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Uni Wien. stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/en/fellowshi...

Our new results challenge the expectation that climate warming will offset carbon losses caused by heat and drought with a longer growing season in forests: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Mark explores the ecology and evolution of fungi, using genomic tools. His team investigates how soil fungi respond to environmental challenges — from invasive species to global warming. Catch his talk on October 12 in the Audimax of the University of Vienna. . 🎤✨ @anthomycota.bsky.social

This is a really unique and exciting opportunity for a full professorship in Vienna. Come be my colleague @ter-cemess.bsky.social and join a fantastic group of scientists!

Not surprising results (and subject to change as it's not published work) -- but something we really need to grapple with striking a balance around as educators.

Out now in its final peer-reviewed form @asm.org's Journal of Virology! doi.org/10.1128/jvi.... @dome-vienna.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @amersocvirology.bsky.social

I feared becoming a prof would mean not doing some things I rly value. Yet these last weeks, I did loads of lab work (👋 again PLFA) and bioinformatics (new ONT long read data 🫶), and all between teaching, paper writing, grant chats, and meetings (so many). It’s a great job and I’m lucky to be in 🇦🇹!

Fungal diversity, decomposition, substrate chemistry, and all their interconnections to understand how the environment shapes fungal communities and wood decay - led by the very talented @zhiyuanxu.bsky.social 🪵🍄🍄‍🟫 kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

SPECIAL FOCUS: MYCORRHIZAL NETWORKS besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652435...

Our current administration is filled with crackpots who use AI-generated crap to sound intelligent.

We are launching the Austrian Microbiome Research Awards 2025! 🇦🇹🔬 Calling all Austrian microbiome researchers to submit your best MSc/PhD thesis or research paper by June 7, more info: microplanet.at @fwf-at.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

This is absolutely wild! Really an incredible discovery with big implications for understanding eukaryote evolution!

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE! Have you taken three minutes to save the political independence of the civil service? It’s easy! Here’s how you can do it: news.chanda.science/archive/urge...

A review written by PhD candidate (when he was still a Msc student...) @stevendegoede.bsky.social on fungal induced soil aggregation mechanisms and its effects on soil C stocks. Publishing this was a long process, but hope this is helpful for all (especially early careers)! doi.org/10.1093/isme...

For Australian Domestic students interested in pursuing a PhD in molecular mycorrhizal studies, please consider applying for a scholarship-funded position in my lab (tinyurl.com/jxcdhp3p) - our lab is a diverse group studying plant-microbe interactions from genes to landscapes

Do not treat this as fait accompli. We are winning in courts and public opinion. Nominees are being withdrawn. Congress is shook. Musk is leaving. Organize. Call. Appeal. Sue. Keep the pressure on your bosses. Do the same for trans and immigrant rights, public health, and more. Solidarity forever.

Interesting use of #qSIP to detect microbial partners incorporating labeled substrates, enhancing understanding of fungal-bacterial interactions in soil. @jeffinerca.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... #soilmicrobiology

Off to CH 🇨🇭 to fix our climate change x mycobiome experiment after a surprise and massive snowfall in Valais clobbered a bunch of trees!

#EGU2025 has been a bop! I’m having a great time, especially at the poster sessions! The Fungal Ecology Lab was well also represented today with @zhiyuanxu.bsky.social and Christos 🍄🌲💧

It's timely that I re-post a tweet from July, 2022 (if you know why, you know), which I made soon after I left my first postdoc. Many empathized with me then and still do today. *the original tweet is gone b/c I quit Twitter, but it has been archived elsewhere: www.instagram.com/p/CgCRxO5OIG...

AIT Austrian Institute of Technology 🇦🇹 has an open SCIENTIST (F/M/D) position for plant microbiome research & applications jobs.ait.ac.at/Job/250520

Eukfinder: a pipeline to retrieve microbial eukaryote genome sequences from metagenomic data journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

Happy to share that our paper "Analyses of Transposable Elements in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Support Evolutionary Parallels With Filamentous Plant Pathogens" is out. academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

Most surprising discover of my career to date 😲. Most assume mustard plants do not associate w/ AMF. Our research shows that AMF promote invasive mustard growth without forming arbuscules 🤯. This may be a new pathway in which AMF can enhance plant growth 🍄🌱 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🙃 I’m expecting the USA to get placed on my university’s authoritarian nation list any day now….