If you're interested in exploring further, check out our review which summarises the history of parasite conservation concepts and efforts, and some of the barriers to progress 🪱🧪🌍 doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

The work reports on abiotic factors influencing the parasite-host interactions of a microfungus & the invasive harlequin ladybird (#Harmonia axyridis). @michieldegroot.bsky.social @adriaenstim.bsky.social @dhaelewa.bsky.social @teamlaboul.bsky.social @inbo.be Photo credit: Trey Wardlaw (CC-BY-NC)

Microbial dark matter! Can't see it, can't grow it, but we know it's there... This is some branding illustration I did for the microbial dark matter symposium this year. Thanks @katrinewhiteson.bsky.social and @zymoresearch.bsky.social for the fun commission! #microbes #ecoevo 🧪🐡🧫

🍄Microfungi on insects🍄 Fungi in the genus Hesperomyces are associated exclusively with ladybirds, visible as yellowish-greenish elongated balloons. We aim to map them in Europe and describe #newspecies. Join the #FunDive campaign! #Biodiversa fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol...

📣New paper alert📣 @michieldegroot.bsky.social ran laboratory experiments at the University of South Bohemia, which revealed that abiotic factors DO significantly affect parasitism of Harmonia axyridis by Hesperomyces harmoniae. Congratulations! Read more: doi.org/10.1111/een.... #TeamLaboul

Most of us use rDNA for community analyses of AM fungi. Intragenomic variation in rDNA of AM fungi can be pretty huge, depending on the region. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🍄Working in fungal conservation? Call for papers for our upcoming special issue in Fungal Ecology 'Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions' ! Deadline 31 January 2026 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Een tijdje geleden werd ik geïnterviewd in het kader van de cursus "Communicating Effectively" die ik samen met @robindevroe.bsky.social ga geven voor Nova Academy. De video is hier te zien: youtu.be/0I0ceynHGLg?... Inschrijven voor de cursus kan hier: nova-academy.be/en/programme...

During this evening's meetings with @jonathancazabonne.bsky.social and the @msafungi.bsky.social Electronic Communication Committee I will be having a Belgian beer. Much needed because, what a day. #newPI #academiclife 🇧🇪🍺

Stellar work by graduate students to build this comprehensive dataset of antifungal resistance mechanisms. Kudos and congratulations to the Landry lab @christianlandry.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I started this #Mycologists Starter Pack, aiming to get all professional fungal researchers on BlueSky in one place. DM if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/UMrVSsp

📣 Call for papers! Special issue of #FungalEcology on “Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions” co-edited by Susana C. Gonçalves @cfemycolab.bsky.social & Jonathan Cazabonne @jonathancazabonne.bsky.social. Deadline for manuscripts: 31 Jan 2026. Find out more: www.linkedin.com/company/brit...

Canada Post features fungi and lichen in new stamp series - Canada Post has unveiled its new stamp collection Wednesday featuring fungi and lichens found in the country.

I’m currently preparing two talks on fungal #conservation in #Québec and I came across this interesting result while analyzing @inaturalist.bsky.social data: only about ~24% of #fungi observations in the province fall within protected areas. Food for thought!

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...

What a week! #newPI 🍄 - Libelje submitted our Honduran checklist paper - drafted a manuscript on priorities for citizen science in mycology - Aimée started preparing for her PhD interview - planned fieldwork in #Brunei - started finalizing our #TeamLaboul best practices paper on #Laboulbeniomycetes

Beneath the pines, fungi fuel the forest 🌲❤️🍄 In her PhD thesis, Katharine King reveals how ectomycorrhizal fungi weather minerals and mobilize nitrogen—powering tree growth, nutrient cycling, and carbon storage in boreal forests. www.slu.se/en/news/2025...

📢🍄Job alert🍄📢 The @manaakiwhenua.bsky.social group of the @bioeconomyscience.bsky.social in Auckland, New Zealand is hiring a full-time permanent mycologist, to focus on fungal diversity and taxonomy. Deadline to apply: 12 September 2025. careers.sciencenewzealand.org/landcare-res...

Postdoc position available at our Laboratory of Fungal Ecology and Evolution at the Biology Centre of the @czechacademy.bsky.social, Institute of Entomology, České Budějovice, Czechia. #LFEE #newPI 🇨🇿

Shoutout to my PhD student Libelje Mortier who finalized her first PhD chapter, the #checklist of fungi for Honduras, and submitted it to #MycoKeys! A huge effort with the help of many, including @curataceae.bsky.social and the amazing Meike Piepenbring. #LFEE #LuminaQuaeruntur 🍄

Rethinking microbial carbon use efficiency in soil models. Hint consider microbial anatomy and physiology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

BMS is pleased to support the Fourth International Congress on Fungal Conservation, taking place in Cotonou, Benin, 3 - 7 November 2025. The call for abstracts is now open - deadline 31 August. See the Congress website: www.fungal-conservation.org/icfc4/

Our Fungal Conservation column is out in Field Mycology 26 (2). www.fieldmycology.org/index.php/jo... 🍄 Fungi and the Planning and Infrastructure Bill 🍄 British fungi on the Global Red List 🍄 An audit of nationally important fungal assemblages in Welsh SSSIs #fungi #fungalconservation #PIB

🍄 #Typification: fixing fungal names Many species of fungi were described long ago with only a short phrase or drawing-no type (reference) specimen! This #FunDive campaign aims to collect type specimens & sequence DNA to anchor names and stabilize taxonomy. #Biodiversa 🌍 fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol...

📣🍄🦇🍄🦇🍄📣 I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher for my lab in Ceske Budejovice, Czechia. We study biodiversity monitoring, ecology, conservation, and microbiology. Some of our work deals with bats, most with fungi! Email at danny dot haelewaters at gmail dot com if interested. #TeamLaboul #newPI

Really nice metastudy of citizen science contributing to ecology & biodiversity research @inaturalist.bsky.social @aibsbiology.bsky.social 👀🔎🍄🧪🌎🌐 iNaturalist accelerates biodiversity research academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

After collecting 490 soil samples for carbon stocks and fungal eDNA analysis, surveying fallen woody debris over a distance of 1.4 km, and measuring over 1,000 living and dead trees, the second part of our field season is finally over! Two long and demanding months, but we did it! 🌲🍄

Very happy to have had the chance to present at the 5th Annual @canfunnet.bsky.social Conference yesterday about the state of fungal conservation in Quebec/Canada, and how citizen science-based organizations like @mycosphaera.bsky.social can help bridge gaps in fungal knowledge and conservation 🍄

With that, Day 1 of #CFN25 comes to a close. Can't wait to see you all tomorrow for another amazing line of speakers with some very cool and awesome topics of discussion. Also, don't forget to attend the Career Workshop tomorrow at 4 PM EST. Come prepared with all your career-related questions!

Did you know that the Copper Spike Mushroom (Chroogomphus rutilus) is a species complex with at least 8 similar species in Europe? Hiking in the pine forest on vacation? Help us map Chroogomphus distribution by sampling specimens from different European regions! #CitizenScience #Chroogomphus

The first overview of the history of fungal conservation in Yugra, Russia: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.... #conservation #fungi #biodiversity

📣 GSBI's latest blog has just been published 🎉 In this blog, Dr. Laura Van Galen discusses the mystery of dark taxa in ectomycorrhizal fungi 🍄 Read it here 👇 www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/blog-beneath...

Ecosystem Engineers at Risk: Underground Maps Reveal 90% of Mycorrhizal Fungal Biodiversity Hotspots Lie Outside Protected Areas Read at: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

More than 90% of the planet’s below-the-surface fungi are not found in protected parts of the globe, according to a new study. scim.ag/3J0uwJ9

Who lives underground? Find out now in our new paper published in @nature.com. Key finding: 90% of predicted mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas. Read here: buff.ly/WmDqAP3 🧵

Conservation des #champignons, le troisième F (Fonge !), #comestibilité, #économie, propriétés médicinales, #pathogènes… autant de sujets que j’ai eu le plaisir d’aborder au micro d'Isabelle Perron sur @qubradio.bsky.social En deux parties: www.qub.ca/video/redif-... www.qub.ca/video/perron...

Have you heard about MycoEd yet? A model educational program offering training for students on fungal genome sequencing and analysis. how powerful!! #mycofam #thefutureisfungal journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

J’ai eu le plaisir une nouvelle fois d’écrire pour le magazine Le Couvert Boréal un article sur les #champignons forestiers, où je donne quatre bonnes raisons de croire qu’ils sont bien plus qu’une simple histoire de comestibilité 🍄 afat.qc.ca/numeros/ete-...

The database of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in Australia is out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... You can access data summaries via the website www.ausamf.com We have data from 610 sites with data from another 500 locations to be added by the end of the year! Thanks to all collaborators

Please help spread the word - and consider joining - this exciting conference on fungal conservation in Benin!

Over the past month, we inventoried woody debris, standing live and dead trees, and stumps to estimate aboveground carbon stocks at the stand level across 35 old-growth #forest plots in northwestern Quebec. Next step: #soil sampling for #carbon stock and environmental #DNA analyses! 🍄 🧬

Very happy to share that we have described three new species of Cortinarius from New Caledonia found in Nothofagus aequilateralis forests: C. caeloculus, C. luteigemellus and C. perpensus. ➡️ Just published in the latest Fungal Planet description sheets: doi.org/10.3114/pers...

🎉A moment to celebrate!🎉 There is now an IUCN SSC Centre for Species Survival dedicated to Fungi! (see post 👇) This is super important to advance conservation actions for #aquaticfungi.💧🍄 Well done Terra - Expo City Dubai. www.linkedin.com/posts/visitt...

Lycogala, historically considered a small, morphologically uniform group of myxomycetes, is shown to be quite diverse, with 24 new species being described This study reveals the power of integrating molecular and morphological approaches for resolving Lycogala taxonomy Link below 👇

New online! A genomic perspective on fungal diversity and evolution

Our newest special issue is now live! Check it out to discover more about diverse and beautiful Fungi🍄🍄‍🟫🍄 On the cover: the fly agaric, Amanita muscaria, releasing its spores in the early morning light. www.cell.com/current-biol...

I am at the International Congress for Conservation Biology. So many great talks. I will be talking about aquatic fungal conservation on Wednesday at 3:27pm in P4. Aquatic fungi are data deficient and incredibly important for ecosystem functions. How can we conserve them? #ICCB2025

The final version of this viewpoint paper is now out in @funecology.bsky.social Clarifying the definition of common mycorrhizal networks besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Follow-up papers: see thread

📣 Field season is on! This year, we are exploring the links between variations in carbon stocks—in living biomass, dead organic matter, and soil—and belowground fungal communities across a gradient of old-growth boreal forests in northwestern Quebec🌲🍄

Our paper shows that most ectomycorrhizal fungal species (83% of OTUs) are "dark taxa": species we detect in DNA, but can't match to known species names. We map global "darkspots" - the parts of the world most in need of more research. @spun.earth @ethz.ch www.cell.com/current-biol...