📢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

The state of herbarium specimen backlogs: Perspectives from bryophyte collections An herbarium must have its specimens processed, identified and accessioned so that members of the botanical community can readily consult these materials. However, many herbaria struggle to keep up wi...

Check out our new paper focusing on unaccessioned herbarium specimens. nhcm.pensoft.net/article/1829...
We found that bryophytes and fungi/lichens were over-represented in the specimen backlog, compared to vascular plants. This highlights the need for more bryophyte and fungi/lichen identification!

Dear CanFunNet community, we are happy to announce the return of our virtual conference this year between August 5-7! We encourage you to save the date and hope to see you all again this year! More information on registration and abstract submission to come soon! #CFN26

We found Rickia wasmannii, an ant-specific microfungus, on an ant nest-inhabiting rove beetle! Photo: André De Kesel.

From our new paper in @insectessociaux.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1007/s000... #OpenAccess #TeamLaboul

Distinct diversity trajectories of boreal wood‐inhabiting fungi following fire versus clear‐cutting Retaining high deadwood volumes and structural complexity can help maintain fungal diversity in managed forests, however maintaining old-growth stands is essential for conserving highly diverse commu...

Distinct diversity trajectories of boreal wood‐inhabiting fungi following fire versus clear‐cutting - Buness - 2026 - Journal of Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

On Tuesday, 24.02, at 8:00 PM CET, we continue the FunDive Webinar series!

Topic: North American citizen science initiatives

To join, please register here:
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c19ef7...

@jonathancazabonne.bsky.social
@mycosphaera.bsky.social

Researchers sampling forest communities

Gullenhaugen Nature Reserve in Norway, where the research in Fungal Ecology was conducted

Four components of functional diversity of dead wood

What characteristics of dead wood promote fungal species richness in forests? And how can we use this information to manage fungal biodiversity?

New research on the functional diversity of dead wood in Norwegian forests provides some answers.
doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...

📷 @jenninorden.bsky.social

New #Preprint! 📢
A direct result of a roundtable discussion at the 2024 workshop on arthropod-associated fungal parasites and pathogens. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as we did writing it! "Ecology and management perspectives in arthropod–fungal associations": doi.org/10.22541/au....

Fungal ecology in the age of 'omics The advancement of technology in recent decades has given us an unprecedented ability to observe the natural world. With modern sequencing and bioinformatics technologies, we can obtain more informat...

Reading in journal club

Shelton et al.
Fungal ecology in the age of 'omics

@newphyt.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Poster for upcoming webinar. Title: Fungal Conservation in the New Year: Species Discovery, Action, Policy, and a Global Strategy. Seven February 2026 11AM PST / 2PM EST / 4PM BRT / 7PM GMT with a registration link. Photos of presenters with talk titles. Huzefa Raja: Discovery is the first step toward conservation: Atromagnispora, a newly identified genus of freshwater ascomycete fungus from Indiana. Kelmer Martins-Cunha: From fungal neglect to action: shifting paradigms in Brazilian conservation. Greg Mueller: Developing A global strategy for fungal conservation. Images of 4 fungi are followed by the text "A webinar presented for Reverse the Red Day" and the logos of Reverse the Red, IIUCN SSC Mushrooms, Brackets, and Puffballs Specialist Group. Global Center for Species Survival at the Indianapolis Zoo. IUCN SSC FUNCC. IUCN SSC Brazil Fungal Specialist Group.

I just saw this and am excited to share!

🍄 Reverse the Red Day 7 Feb.
"Fungal Conservation in the New Year: Species Discovery, Action, Policy, and a Global Strategy"

us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

In this review in Fungal Ecology, Håvard Kauserud (@drhyfe.bsky.social) argues that while the ITS region is by far the best DNA (meta)barcoding marker for fungi, we should not use it naively or simplistically doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...

The deadline is coming up soon - Submit your abstract now!

Mapping the landscape of mycological organizations in europe: where citizen science meets professional mycology - Biodiversity and Conservation Fungi have been used by humans since prehistoric times. Informal structures or groups for knowledge exchange regarding mushrooms and lichens probably existed for ages. Only recently, mycological activ...

🍄New publication! Our FunDive paper on mycological societies in Europe, a collaborative effort involving 44 authors from 29 countries, is now published in Biodiversity and Conservation. Many thanks to all co-authors, reviewers & editors! 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s105...
📝Surveys fun-dive.eu/en/dissemina...

New paper! Here we present the history, geographical distribution, and structure of organizations in #mycology across #Europe, as well as their activities—including journals, magazines, meetings, educational initiatives, and #citizenscience projects. doi.org/10.1007/s105... #FunDive

Congratulations to Dr Toby Kiers, winner of the @tylerprize.bsky.social Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement 🌱

Her ERC-funded research revealed how underground plant-fungal networks sustain life on Earth and shape global conservation thinking.

#ChooseEuropeforScience

📣 The deadline for this @britmycolsoc.org.uk special issue on fungal conservation has been extended to 15th March 2026.

Spread the word and don’t hesitate to contact @cfemycolab.bsky.social or me if you have any questions.

We’re looking forward to receiving your submissions! 🍄

Last month, we organized a workshop on FUNGAL PHYLOGENOMICS, with 16 participants from Czechia, Hungary, Italy, and Poland. I presented an open lecture about #Laboulbeniomycetes (of course 😊🍄🪲). The workshop was funded through our Visegrad Fund grant no. 22420237.

Donate to Supporting Fungal Scientists From Low-Income Countries, organized by Priscila Chaverri Fungi are essential to life on Earth, supporting food product… Priscila Chaverri needs your support for Supporting Fungal Scientists From Low-Income Countries

Hi friends—consider this 👇
Let’s work together to bring amazing mycologists together in South Korea in 2027!

gofund.me/5cc978d4d

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!

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...

The role of ectomycorrhizal functional diversity in mediating soil carbon cycling under global change Click on the article title to read more.

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/...

Statewide survey aims to put California’s fungi on the conservation map Getting to The Cedars, an ecological preserve in California’s Sonoma county, is a slog. Multiple rivers and creeks must be crossed, and it can be tough going on an often storm-destroyed road. But…

A state-funded survey across California has uncovered hundreds of fungi new to science, part of a first-of-its-kind biodiversity effort.

Often overlooked, fungi support plant growth and store carbon — knowledge that could guide conservation and forest restoration as wildfires intensify.

This is it! Frederik De Wint is defending his #PhD on entomopathogenic fungi and interactions with their hosts along environmental gradients. It was a pleasure to work together with Frederik and I am looking forward to continue working together (he applied for a postdoc position in my group).

Researchers have compiled the first fungal checklist for Honduras, resulting in a dataset containing 1365 species across 4011 records.

🔗 doi.org/10.3897/myco...

This #postdoc position is now officially advertised: www.dannyhaelewaters.com/opening-for-.... #hiring #newPI #CzechScienceFoundation #LFEE

Did you publish with researchers outside your lab during grad school? Or published as faculty with a student not under your supervision?

I’m collecting examples of cross-lab collaboration in graduate training.

Please share your experience & this post!

Repository: bit.ly/4pT66BE

Presenting Danny gives engaging lectures on mycology for the broader public, sharing stories from his field expeditions to remote regions and insights from his research. He also offers workshops on science wr…

Since I am getting more and more invited for presentations, workshops, and roundtable discussions, I decided to add a PRESENTING page to my website, drawing inspiration from friends and colleagues. Have a look if you're curious about what I offer. www.dannyhaelewaters.com/presenting/

Our lab’s first paper is out! 📢
A multi-year effort resulted in the checklist of fungi for #Honduras — a major milestone that is the starting point for future research. Congratulations to Libelje on publishing the first chapter of her #PhD! doi.org/10.3897/myco... #LFEE #LuminaQuaeruntur

Global sampling decline erodes science potential of natural history collections - Nature Communications Natural history collections hold over two billion specimens representing Earth’s biodiversity, but their scientific value depends on continued specimen collection and digitisation. This study demonstr...

“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.