The BHL online collection just hit 200,000 titles! A title could be a single rare book or an entire 200-year journal run, so 200,000 titles is huge (63+ million pages!). Check out BHL's MAMMOTH collection here: www.biodiversitylibrary.org 📖 🧪 🦣 #OpenAccess #OpenScience #ILoveBHL

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

The August edition of our State of the Thing newsletter has gone out to more than 1 million subscribers! This month we're celebrating LibraryThing's 20th birthday, and our issue went out on the big day! See the 🧵 below for more details, and be sure to catch up on old issues online. #💙📚 #Booksky

Abortion should never be criminalized. Evidence shows that criminalization of abortion drives women and girls towards unsafe procedures – to the detriment of their safety, their health and their rights.

#Viewpoint: Bring back the #phenotype César Marín & Michael J. Wade 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

So excited to be part of this collaboration describing a new Russula especies from endemic black oak forest in Colombia 🇨🇴 🩷 Russula esperanzae! This is so far the only Russula with a strict mycorrhizal association with black oak 🌳(Trigonobalanus excelsa) www.ingentaconnect.com/content/wfbi...

After 6 years of work (since ICOM Mérida 2019) with #NancyCollinsJohnson our “Functional team selection as a framework for local adaptation in plants and their belowground microbiomes” is out in @isme-microbes.bsky.social Journal! doi.org/10.1093/isme... #Mycorrhiza #Holobiont #MultilevelSelection

Finally finished dataset of citations of @boldsystems.bsky.social datasets and uploaded it to Zenodo doi.org/10.5281/zeno... using @makedatacount.bsky.social format. This dataset lists DNA barcoding datasets with @datacite.org DOIs and the papers that cite (and/or publish) them.

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine. If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.

infinitylists: A Shiny application & R package for rapid generation of place-based species checklists In #AppsPlantSci by @thebeachcomber.bsky.social @fontikar.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social ‬& @willcornwell.bsky.social ‬ bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @unswbees.bsky.social

Computer Vision Suggestion de @inaturalist.bsky.social es inútil para hongos fuera del Global North. La comunidad de usuarios voluntarios sigue siendo lo más valioso que tiene la plataforma. Arriesgar eso por 1,5 MUSD es un despropósito.

(1/3) This is shared directly in the thread, too: Hi everyone, please know we’re reading every comment and having a lot of discussions on our end. We're working on a response that should answer most of the major questions people have and provide more clarity. We'll share this as soon as possible.

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...

In Chile we have 803 ocurrences of 71 Glomeromycota species. Marín C, Turbay Villarroel A, Riquelme C, Goto B T (2025). Lista sistemática de registros y especies de Glomeromycota en Chile. Version 1.0. South American Mycorrhizal Research Network. Occurrence dataset. doi.org/10.15468/b99...

The first generative AI drug to get to a Phase 2 randomized clinical trial. The small molecule in pill form, rentosertib, showed signs of efficacy for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis @naturemedicine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Oh boy. OK: Biologists use agential metaphors all the time, & they don't mean cells or molecules are sentient & have desires and intentions. Yes. Got it. I never for a moment thought otherwise, or objected to it. AND: It's valid & important to interrogate what those metaphors are trying to convey...

Bibliografía micológica de Chile. Más de mil referencias bibliográficas actualizadas regularmente, en un archivo de formato RDF compatible con @zotero.org. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

No matter where you are, every photo you share adds to our understanding of the world’s biodiversity. 🦋🍄🦎🌸 All observations mentioned: www.inaturalist.org/observations...

"Hey GBIF, what day is it?" Us: "The best day of the year - #InternationalDayForBiologicalDiversity!" 🤩🐛🧬 As a global biodiversity data infrastructure, GBIF works with our international network to provide anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth.💚 #BiodiversityDay

Hello fellow mycological societies! Give us a follow and let us know if you're on Bluesky — we're curating a dedicated feed strictly for official mycological societies. We'd love to include you! #Mycology #Fungi #MycologicalSociety #BlueskyScience #ScienceFediverse #CitizenScience #FungalDiversity

Can you believe we once coexisted with at least four other human species? I’m writing a whole book about it and still can’t get over it.

Celebrating a major milestone this week. 🎉 My first issue as editor of the British Mycological Society’s Field Mycology publication is now online and available #OpenAccess for all to read. ➡️ fieldmycology.org Please read and share!

The Biodiversity Heritage Library has just surpassed 63 million pages! Spanning 1469–2025, BHL provides invaluable #OpenAccess to the foundation of our understanding of biodiversity. 🌎 📚 🌱 #ILoveBHL #BHLib ➡️ www.biodiversitylibrary.org

Change is in the air for BHL! In 2026, BHL hosting will transition away from the Smithsonian, opening doors to reimagine our future. Rest assured, our 63 million pages of biodiversity knowledge remain secure and accessible. Learn what's next for BHL ➡️

@inaturalist.bsky.social as a platform for documenting Chilean funga. doi.org/10.30550/j.l...

📊 Data update: We've just updated the data in hundreds of our charts on food and agriculture!

Anyone remember how MOOCs were a "Tsunami coming" for higher education?

Kseniia Petrova took my course mcb111 "mathematics in biology" two years ago. Great scientist and scholar. As Hillary Clinton says: it is just plain dumb www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o... www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/27/m...

"It’s not clear how or why Geier, who is not a physician and has an undergraduate degree from the Univ. of Maryland at Baltimore County, was chosen... "He was disciplined by Maryland regulators over a decade ago for practicing medicine without a license... www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

HHS's Office of Long COVID Research and Practice has been DOGEd. Closing this week.

From a systematic review of 28 studies of air pollution: "We found a significant association of PM2.5 (fine particulate matter) with Alzheimer’s disease" @natureaging.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🍄 Way more species are found in the soil than above ground but these species are typically lacking in forest conservation assessments. Around the world, one composite metric representing the ’conservation value’ of forests is commonly used to select set-aside sites of high biodiversity 📈

In these unprecedented dark times for American life science and medical research (no less well beyond biomedicine), my coping mechanism is to laser focus on the unremitting and remarkable daily advances, and the fervent hope these will not be slowed or interrupted.

As Measles Spreads, Kennedy Embraces Remedies Like Cod Liver Oil. Story by @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/4ir9cJc

Mycotaxon, a journal on fungal taxonomy and names, ceased publishing last year www.mycotaxon.com and @biodivlibrary.bsky.social is (slowly) making issues available www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography.... So much of our basic knowledge of biodiversity is in small, often hard to find journals.

We hear people are introducing themselves, and thought we'd give it a go! LibraryThing was founded in 2005, and is a book cataloging and social networking site. We offer detailed cataloging options, as well as a lively social atmosphere and lots of fun programs. www.librarything.com 💙📚🧵

It has been brought to my attention that my article has been censored to exclude certain terms: asm.org/Articles/202... web.archive.org/web/20250114... #MicroSky

I have run out of patience with the apparent silence of most US science institutions (and not just US) in the face of Trump & Musk's rampage. There are of so many facets of that, but in this column for @chemistryworld.com I talk about the assaults on inclusion. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...

I want to read you an email that I was asked to keep confidential because I think it explains some of my worries about academia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=shFU...

📢 Calling all underground researchers 🔬 We’re working with almost 100 experts sampling Earth's mycorrhizal #fungi in the underexplored corners of our world. Would you like to join our global community? Apply now for funding and support:

This idiotic cult of Musk that the media has created and endlessly recycled has done tremendous damage.

happy first birthday to Bluesky, and what a year it's been! with every day, the need for an open network that puts people first becomes increasingly clear. we're glad to be building this with you. after all, the heart of a social network is the people.

Tiny plastic particles may accumulate at higher levels in the human brain than in the kidney and liver, with greater concentrations detected in postmortem samples from 2024 than in those from 2016, suggests a paper in Nature Medicine. https://go.nature.com/414lf9S #Medsky 🧪

It's #InternationalLegoDay! What's Lego made of? Why is treading on one excruciatingly painful? Why shouldn't you put 1970s Lego in your mouth? Here's a graphic and post that attempt to answer all that: bit.ly/4aB1o4Z #ChemSky 🧪

🧉 #YerbaMate makes the third most popular caffeinated drink in the world, but it’s unrelated to tea and coffee. The first reconstruction of its genome is helping us understand how multiple species have evolved to synthesise caffeine. https://buff.ly/4jnWk82