I am seeing more and more scientists and lefties chalking Artemis II up as a complete waste of money. This is so deeply concerning to me in an age of growing scientific skepticism and disbelief in the value of fundamental science.
Very happy to see this lab paper out in @newphyt.bsky.social - we identified genomic traits & environmental drivers of ectomycorrhizal fungal mycelium exploration in the soil and on roots.
Thanks to all our co-authors and to @tommansfield.bsky.social
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Apply now! Hit me up with questions about studying at the University of Vienna
Postdoc (2 years) in mycorrhizal fungal biogeography & species distribution modelling @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
Work with large-scale metabarcoding data and modelling.
Deadline is 30th April
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There are still a few weeks left to submit your abstract for @icom2026.bsky.social in Cairns, Australia. Consider applying to our special session on “Mycorrhizae and biogeochemical cycles under global change” (Session 23), co-organized by Prof. Tessa Camenzind and I.
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Please consider joining us at ICOM this year!
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We’ve posted a new preprint providing evidence that endophytic fungi facilitate resource transfer through common mycelial networks. A neat aspect of our study is that we measured fungal functional changes when connected to more than one plant, not just the plants!
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Great new article out by Solomon Maerowitz-McMahan on fungal production, composition, and fire response. Solomon presented this work at our mycorrhizal session last year the @egu.eu meeting (you can still submit to present your work at our 2026 session).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Working in academia can be stressful. Laurel Raffington suggests treating it as ‘just a job’ to reduce performance pressure and advocate for structural improvements."
"Academia is just a job"
by @laraffington.bsky.social (2025, Nature Human Behavior)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Precipitation increase promotes soil organic carbon formation and stability via the mycorrhizal fungal pathway | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #stableisotopes
Who runs the forest? Microbes. Our new paper shows soil microbiomes outweigh the effects of elevated CO2 on Scots pine growth, and differences in soil microbiomes influence how plants grow and respond to elevated CO2.
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Uuu yes, thank you!
How cool is this!
I think that’s a great point. I agree - especially considering stoichiometry, pH, and competition differences between those substrates. Probably bacterial interactions also modulate this quite a lot.
"A growing body of evidence that the ‘Gadgil effect’ is not universal, even in the N‐poor litter of temperate pine forests where it was first described"
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Very cool looking paper on bacterial AND fungal necromass contributions to SOC
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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!
This week as part of the @pilzfestspiele.at - our group showed mycorrhizal fungal colonized roots, our culture collection, posters of results, and we had a massive turnout! People are becoming increasingly interested in fungi @cemess.bsky.social @ter-cemess.bsky.social
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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...
Very interesting paper on fungal [necromass] traits and soil organic matter priming
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Amazing, congrats!
See our new study examining how P additions in tropical rainforests affect tree growth and feedback to AMF and EMF communities. Very interesting links to EMF biomass production strategies. Great work led by Qingshui Yu 🍄🟫🍄
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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/...
The first chapter of my dissertation is out in Ecology Letters! We pooled data from forest sites across the globe to understand how forests differ in their carbon investment in reproduction (flowers, fruits, seeds). #ForestEcology #GlobalEcology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Oh yeah, I may have made www.fungalecologylab.com team hats
What a week and almost 2 more to go sampling our Mycobiome x Climate Change exp (144/576 done)! We added isotopes to track 🍄 transfer, collected seedlings (so much 🍄🟫) and you can see the myco treatment effects! Grateful for such a great team in the lab! Thanks @snsf.ch and @wwtf.at for support!