Cognition without brains? Learning and memory in microorganisms
@cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Review by Andreas Messer, Leonardo Oña, and @kostchristian.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
Chemical dialogues at the crossroads of host–bacteria interactions
@cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social by Emtinan Diab, Nicola Thome, Somayah Elsayed, @raaijmakersjm.bsky.social and @gillesvanwezel.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
Characteristics of ectomycorrhizal fungal exploration types.
Ecological and genomic variation in ectomycorrhizal fungal exploration types
Mansfield, et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@tommansfield.bsky.social @Anthomycota.bsky.social
#PlantScience
⚡️20,570 Ukrainian children have been deported or forcibly displaced by Russia since the full-scale invasion, according to Bring Kids Back UA.
Discover more about how Russia kidnaps Ukrainian children, including those who have parents, and changes their identity:
ukraineworld.org/en/podcasts/...
🔥Boreal fungi recover very differently after fire vs. clear-cutting. Fires leave long-lasting deadwood that supports rich and red-listed species; clear-cuts do not. High deadwood + structural complexity are key, but old-growth remains irreplaceable 👉️ buff.ly/DLExOE9
Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Ukrainalainen ympäristötutkija kertoo, millaista tuhoa sota on tehnyt luonnolle www.hs.fi/alueet/art-2...
Micro-scale spatial metagenomics opens a new era in microbiome ecology
@cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Opinion from @mizrahilab.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/micro...
On the architecture and evolution of prokaryotic multicellularity
Preprint from @escolizzi.bsky.social
www.authorea.com/doi/full/10....
This @sciencenews.bsky.social piece, featuring Michael Van Nuland, explores how a warming climate and increasing drought reshape the composition and function of soil microbial communities and how these changes could disrupt ecosystems, plant health, and the global carbon cycle.
🔗 buff.ly/P9YCSsD
📢 3 #postdoc and 1 #PhD positions with Gustaf Hugelius @stockholm-uni.bsky.social (Department of Physical Geography) on permafrost and peatland mapping, funded via two new exciting collaborative projects, offering a chance to work with great international teams. See links below:
New preprint from my last postdoc on beetle–fungal networks in deadwood 🪲🍄
Across deadwood tree species and types, we show strongly modular co-occurrence networks of fungi and beetles
Why are two co-signers of the Budapest Memorandum so obsessed with pushing Ukraine to abandon its own sovereign territory?
Trading real land, people and fortification for guarantees that will likely never materialize? Does the U.S. even honor any of its commitments?
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
Yesterday, Russia launched 948 drones against civilians in various cities across Ukraine. They attacked a maternity hospital in Ivano-Frankivsk, private homes in Kherson, the central park in Vinnytsia, a train in the Kharkiv region, and the historic center of Lviv, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
🧪🌾VACANCY - Postdoc in fungal ecology & modelling🧬
This 2-year postdoc focuses on mycorrhizal fungal biogeography using large-scale metabarcoding data and species distribution models.🌍
Join the group of @frewecologist.bsky.social and work with us @umeaplantsciencecentre.se!
📅 Apply by 30 April
Tuesday midday terror
Iranian-Russian drones are attacking Ukraine rn
An astoundingly strong heat wave has pulverized records across the western U.S. (even more records have fallen since the article was written!)
The history of Ukraine helps explain the present - if you want to understand how we got to where we are now, the Holodmor
Research and Education Consortium has created a free course in the history of the Ukrainian famine. Sign up here:
www.coursera.org/learn/holodo...
Postdoc (2 years) in mycorrhizal fungal biogeography & species distribution modelling @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
Work with large-scale metabarcoding data and modelling.
Deadline is 30th April
www.umu.se/en/work-with...
Our new paper in New Phytologist.
Establishing a setup to study plant responses to complex microbiomes. Arabidopsis thaliana grew larger and showed enhanced resistance to Botrytis cinerea on a microbiome conditioned by maize (benzoxazinoids). Defence priming uncouple the growth–defence trade-off.
1/2. He took the greatest military force in history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, & demanded the media lie about this & everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone mistakes this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength.
Ukraine is holding back Russia and thus fulfilling the entire traditional mission of NATO without any soldiers or sailors from other countries. Trump is meanwhile demanding NATO allies leave the continent they are supposed to be defending to join him in a doomed adventure he chose in the Middle East
I have a new review out in TiG titled, “The ecology of horizontal gene transfer”! I’ve been thinking about these ideas for years and this field is growing so fast it’s becoming impossible to review it. I hope this paper sparks discussion on different ways we can look at DNA transfer!
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
New paper out in Journal of Ecology!
How do wood-inhabiting fungi recover after disturbance in boreal forests?
We compared 2 chronosequences:
🔥 unmanaged fire (4–375 yrs)
🪓 managed clear-cut (1–109 yrs)
Very different diversity trajectories! 👇
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Having a hard time keeping up with the fast-moving field of origin of eukaryotes/Asgards archaea? Our new perspective article can help, we review the status of research over the last decade and where it's going.
The archaeal roots of eukaryotic life
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Four years ago, Mariupol was under siege. Journalist Evgeniy Maloletka captured some of the war’s most powerful images. Years later, he recorded every moment in The Siege of Mariupol.
This is how he remembers the strike on the city’s maternity hospital 🧵
This is an unprecedented move by the US presidential administration. For the first time in five years of full-scale invasion, America has lifted sanctions against Russian oil.
