Big surprise just out from our lab. Transcriptome from A. fumigatus conidiophore made at 50C is upregulated for MAT1-1. Why is this sexual master regulator up in asexual development? Maybe priming future progeny for survival? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

HAVE YOU SUBMITTED YOUR OMB PUBLIC COMMENT YET???? If not, join us tomorrow at 2pm et: events.standupforscience.net/stand-up-for...

news.ucr.edu/articles/202... fun stuff

Reminder — UW #Microbiology has an open search for an Assistant Professor, focusing on fundamental problems in #bacteriology! If you or someone you know would be suitable, here's the ad: apply.interfolio.com/185622

www.popsci.com/environment/... #fungi 🍄🌳

If you are an ASCB member, please consider nominating a junior colleague with a strong, promising research program who is already demonstrating leadership in their field, department, and the broader community for the WICB Junior Award for Excellence in Research. www.ascb.org/award/women-...

NEW PREPRINT: You may recall Joshua trees started flowering fully four months early this year. Was that due to climate change? Well, @colincarlson.bsky.social and I called in Chris Callahan to formally test that hypothesis, and the answer is... it probably wasn't! doi.org/10.64898/202...

Recently, Dr. Keller was featured on the podcast "The Life Lab by Death Clock," where she discussed molds and mycotoxins, and their impacts on the food supply chain. Curious? Listen here: Spotify (urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...) Apple Podcasts (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...)

doi.org/10.1093/g3jo... MK tests in python

Do consider coming to this premium fungal AMR conference in Bangkok in November. @youngecmm.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social @bsmm-meeting.bsky.social

Remember when RFK Jr downed a shot of raw milk in the White House to celebrate the release of his kooky MAHA Report on making children healthy—a report that failed to mention the #1 killer of US kids (guns) & that had fake citations & AI slop? Um, encouraging Americans to drink raw milk? BAD idea 👇

USDA says screwworm now confirmed in the United States.

beef prices are gonna be fun

open.substack.com/pub/elizabet... open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

Contribute to research science and preparedness for a crop disease with genomics and molecular biology skills on a project targeting Claviceps gigantea, which damages corn and produces toxic ergot alkaloids. 🌽🧬🖥️🌱🍄🦠 jobs.apsnet.org/job/postdoct... #plantpathsky #jobs #fungi #mycology #USDA

🧬 ⚒️ Phyling is a fast, scalable, and user-friendly tool supporting phylogenomic reconstruction of species phylogenies directly from protein-encoded genomic data. Discover more from @hyphaltip.bsky.social in the May issue of #G3journal: 🔗 buff.ly/0YI6jXN

Thrilled to announce that the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington, School of Medicine is hiring at the Assistant Professor level (tenure-track)! The Pacific Northwest is an awesome place to live and do science 🧪🦠. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/185622 Applications due 8/1.

anyone written skills training for AI for phylogenomics with aln + trim + concat + modeltest + ML[iqtree,raxml]/MP/Bayesian build expert tuners and codify it into good workflows with some separate tracks for gene tree, coalescence, data pruning? @jlsteenwyk.bsky.social? am exploring #phylogenetics

Excited to share our discovery of a new programmable RNA-guided DNA-targeting system hiding inside bacteriophages that predates CRISPR. We call it VIPR (Viral Interference Programmable Repeat), and it uses an entirely new logic to find its targets. Thread + link below.

Please repost: My department at USC is hiring for a teaching-track faculty position. We are looking for someone principally to teach statistics for biologists, but there will be opportunities for other courses in statistics & algorithms applied to biology usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

Trump fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. The letters read, “On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I’m writing to inform you that your position as a member of the National Science Board is terminated, effective immediately.”

Biscuits & Banjos is now featured at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in their ‘American Currents’ exhibit! Such a full circle moment to look back as we prepare for Biscuits & Banjos Presents: Beloved Community this Sunday and Monday.

We are hiring! We’re excited to recruit a postdoc to our lab at UC Davis to work on plant immune engineering and single-cell analyses of plant pathogen interactions. Apply by June 1. Please repost. www.coakerlab.org/postdoctoral...

Scientists are nervous about drug-resistant fungi www.npr.org/2026/04/17/g...

oh my gosh, they're making another installment of the Up series! Wow.

I'm hiring a postdoc (start date flexible) and a PhD student (for Fall 2027) to work in any area of computational phylogenetics! More info here: mhibbins.github.io I will be attending both PEQG and Evolution in June, so please reach out if you want to chat at these meetings!

The global mycology community calling for an effort to combat drug‑resistant - Closing the gap on antifungal resistance www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/ BRAKER4 hatched! The Earth BioGenome Project is on track to sequence ~1.5M eukaryotic species. Every one needs a structural annotation. No Perl monolith was going to survive that. So we rewrote BRAKER from the ground up. github.com/Gaius-August...

Check out Hannah Reid's new album 🍄🎻 with some spoken words by Fungi Foundation's Giuliana Furci www.hannahread.com/vol-2

The United States National Herbarium is seeking a Lead Collections Manager! For complete requirements and application procedures, please visit USAJOBS (www.usajobs.gov/job/864499200). Applications and all supporting documentation must be received online by 1 May 2026.

New paper from Greg Jedd's lab on chloroplast subcompartment in green alga Caulerpa lentillifera where bacterium-derived plastid DNA (ptDNA) is contained within a single cup-like starch granule www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... authors.elsevier.com/a/1mt4B3QW8S...

Some reflections on #Fungal26 This was a great meeting as always but set against some turbulent times of course, which meant many regular attendees were not present. This thread is mainly for them. However, the proportion of first-time attendees was very high and very international. #Fungal26 1/15

And of course there was a lot more! I’ve only revealed a few themes. Thanks to Antonis Rokas and Meritxell Riquelme for the program. The sun shone and the band played again! And I met several new John Taylors #Fungal26 15/15

We are hiring POSTDOC now!🚨please repost! Fully-funded 5-year position 👩🏻‍🔬👨‍🔬🧬Looking forward to your application!✉️

#Fungal26 need something to read on the flight home? Now obsessed with tRNAs? New Preprints! Genes near tRNAs are enriched in translational machinery: tinyurl.com/zshnf835 Hidden Diversity in Yeast tRNAs: Comparative Genomics and Modification Mapping in a Eukaryotic Subphylum tinyurl.com/3j6f3up2

What an honor and privilege to organize #fungal26 with the one and only Meritxell Riquelme! Thank you fungal community and @genetics-gsa.bsky.social for making this such a great meeting !

Ben Wolfe wowing us with cheese and fungi and ecology and metabolites. Field sites from the forest to the cheese caves. #fungal26 @benwolfe.bsky.social

Erin Carr giving polyextremotolerant fungi their platform as last plenary talk.

Morning #fungal26 and giving and getting some morel support with Greg Bonito

Now out in @natcomms.nature.com : versions 2.0 of both BiG-SCAPE and BiG-SLiCE! With significant speed and accuracy increases, as well as new interactive functionalities. Read the full paper here #openaccess: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out this blog from @catarinacarolina.bsky.social on the story behind the paper: communities.springernature.com/posts/making... A story of overcoming challenges, careful engineering and collaborative teamwork.

Can filamentous and budding yeasts be friends? More than that - filamentation can be induced (and predicted!) in Saccharomycotina. Awesome talk by Christina Chavez at #fungal26 - read more here: academic.oup.com/femsyr/artic...

If you're a senior PhD student or recent graduate interested in doing work at the intersection of AI and microbial genomics and/or microbiomes, please feel free to reach out to discuss the possibility of applying together for an MIT Novo Nordisk Fellowship engineering.mit.edu/novo-nordisk

The every two year return to Asilomar for #fungal26 is happening. A spore cloud of fungal genetics experts and mycologists is descending to the peninsula to chat fungal biology, pathogenesis, make new friends and see some of my fav people. Safe travels all!

Wondering why NIH and NSF aren't making new grants? We explain what's happening at OMB. www.science.org/content/arti...

www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/pivot-... - a terrific opportunity for a cross-disciplinary focused postdoc training

💬 In the second installment of The Evolution Exchange, retired NSF Program Officer Dr. Sam Scheiner returns to discuss how to craft a successful research proposal. Watch or read the transcript here: www.evolutionsociety.org/the-evolutio...

Rosalie & Harold Rea Brown Distinguished Endowed Chair in Plant Pathology at Washington State University to lead a highly impactful research & extension program on diseases in Pacific Northwest dryland cropping systems. Apply by March 3, 2026 wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo....