Welcome to #Mycotheca. www.patreon.com/posts/158282...

I quit my job at #iNaturalist, the product I co-founded. If you'd like me to keep working on natural history software, support me on Patreon: patreon.com/kueda. FWIW, I'm building an iNat backup tool and an app for viewing geologic maps. Or, if you think you'd like to hire me, get in touch!

Iconic British naturalist David Attenborough, whose work has shaped science for decades, turns 100 today go.nature.com/4dbRFUB

I've released my experimental Open Tree of Life browser at iphylo.org/ott-viewer. You can navigate the Open Tree of Life synthesis tree in all its (complicated) glory. Single click on a node for information, double click to focus on that node, search for node by name.

There’s something quietly mesmerizing about #mushrooms, and Violetta White Delafield knew it well. 🍄 A collection from @bardcollege.bsky.social’s Montgomery Place brings together her detailed, annotated watercolor studies of fungi. See the full collection: https://bit.ly/47oaiT9

#mycoBaseCL: An updated catalogue of the Fungi of Chile. Interactive sunburst diagram: cristianriquelme.com/mycobasecl/ Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1970...

Four years ago as @gbif.org passed 2 billion records, I tweeted that GBIF was, to a first approximation a database of birds x.com/rdmpage/stat.... Four years later we have nearly twice as many records (3.6 billion) and... it's still a mostly a database of birds www.gbif.org/occurrence/t...

📢CALL FOR COLLABORATION📢 My PhD student Warre is looking for flies infected with #Laboulbeniales fungi. Especially Musca domestica! If you have any, store in 96% ethanol or in the freezer, record on @inaturalist.bsky.social, and/or contact Warre. #TeamLaboul #LFEE #LuminaQuaeruntur

Abundant empirical evidence of multilevel selection revealed by a bibliometric review by @cmarin.bsky.social et al. (2026). doi.org/10.3389/fevo...

Find these and more in the #inaturalist project for UV Fluorescent Organisms www.inaturalist.org/projects/uv-...

Hi friends—consider this 👇 Let’s work together to bring amazing mycologists together in South Korea in 2027! gofund.me/5cc978d4d

Open letter: A global call to strengthen national soil biodiversity action through coordination and harmonization César Marín and 127 co-authors 📨 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PlantScience #LatestIssue

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...

“Overall, these findings suggest that the value of natural history collections as global research infrastructure is eroding due to decreased collecting of specimen data across species, locations, and time.“ doi.org/10.1038/s414... Interesting analysis based on @gbif.org data.

All issues of Mycotaxon (1974–2024) are now digitised, #OpenAccess & discoverable in BHL! Thx to the work of Diane Rielinger & BHL’s Team #RetroPIDs, every article now has a DOI, connecting 50 years of #Mycology to today’s scholarly network. #Fungi 🍄 🧪 🔗 www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography...

Using long-read sequences, DNA-based taxonomy, and phylogenetics, researchers described species higher taxa of the most common previously unrecognised fungal lineages. Read more on the @pensoft.net blog: blog.pensoft.net/2025/10/22/s...

[email protected] and 127 co-authors present a global call to strengthen national #SoilBiodiversity action, in an #OpenLetter to policymakers at 27th meeting of the @unbiodiversity.bsky.social SBSTTA taking place in Panamá City this week. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #SBSTTA27

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...

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 ➡️

📊 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...