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Luego de tomar muestras del roble negro en Huila, científicos han estimado que unas 700 especies de hongos podrían estar asociadas a él. https://clck.ru/3SzQpo
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
How an underground fungal map of one of the world’s oldest, slowest-growing rainforest trees can boost the resilience of Earth’s long-term carbon sinks?
New paper in Biodiversity and Conservation about our first expedition to the Chilean Coast Range: buff.ly/CumRGpU
New paper out!
Lead by @camilletruong.bsky.social & with @spun.earth #FungiFoundation in Biod Conserv:
“Large-diameter trees disproportionately contribute to soil fungal diversity in a coniferous forest with one of oldest living trees on Earth”.
@tobykiers.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s105...
So many trees and so many fungi to study!
Next one on Australian conifers?
We found more #fungi in the rhizosphere of large trees, with many unique taxa beneath the millennial Alerce Abuelo, the Grandfather
@spun.earth
@esaplantsoilecol.bsky.social
@ausmycsoc.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s105...
Les comparto un podcast muy bonito de Wimblu en el que hablo sobre micorrizas, mi trabajo con @spun.earth y también sobre mi relación con los hongos y la naturaleza 🍄🌱🌈🌎🧐. Hace parte de un especial sobre Paz en el que entrevistan a varios científic@s. Aquí va el link 👉 wimblu.com/volumen-10/m...
@camilletruong.bsky.social , @adricorrales.bsky.social, @bethanfmanley.bsky.social, Michael E. Van Nuland, @thecrobe.bsky.social , Rocío Urrutia-Jalabert, Roberto Godoy, Merlin Sheldrake, Giuliana Furci, @tobykiers.bsky.social & @cmarin.bsky.social
📸: Tomás Munita
When happens to fungi when forests become farms? New research from @thecrobe.bsky.social and team shows agricultural conversion in the tropics eliminated ~80% of soil mycorrhizal fungal diversity.
Open access paper: buff.ly/BsGYDht
📢 A new publication from our team is now out in the
@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social BULLETIN!
👉 doi.org/10.1002/bes2...
It shows how community, collaboration, & multilingual science are not extras—they are essential for equity in ecology. 🌎
📢Please share to amplify Latin American voices!
Call for applications to the Postdoctoral Positions in the Tri-Institutional Molecular Mycology and Pathogenesis Training Program (Tri-I MMPTP) at Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University mmptp.mgm.duke.edu
I'm delighted to inform you that our paper "Ecological genomics of saprotrophy to biotrophy transitions in the genus Clitopilus" was published in IMA Fungus. A long standing collaboration with Zhilin Yuan at RISF, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Hangzhou:
imafungus.pensoft.net/articles.php...
Underground Explorer's funding call is open!! Take a look and apply 👇
Are you a researcher translating fungal science into real conservation action?
📣 Call for abstracts now open
📍14–17 April 2026 in Uppsala, Sweden
🔗 Apply: www.slu.se/en/fce2026/
⏰ Deadline: 25 Feb 2026
A global map showing sites where AMF data were analyzed for this Fungal Ecology paper
A phylogeny showing the distribution of AMF fungi across different biomes.
What is the global richness of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF)? A recent paper in Fungal Ecology by @steffilutz.bsky.social and colleagues provides updated estimates of AMF richness from 4,733 sampling sites across the globe doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
A 20 year rewilding project in Colombia’s Magdalena River Valley.
Led by @adricorrales.bsky.social, with support from Micaela Tosi, Daniela León, Fundación Jardín Botánico de Medellín & Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation.
Read Adriana's SPUN Explainer: www.spun.earth/articles/rew...
Missed our latest webinar? 🎥
Our session on mycorrhizae is now available online. Watch it here: 👇
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Many thanks to @cmarin.bsky.social and @adricorrales.bsky.social for their excellent talks! 👏🍄
In this article, just out, I argue that scientists have a crucial role in the science-policy interface: keep making questions, especially those whose answers decision-makers don't know they want to know, or know they do not want to know.
Here's the link:
journals.plos.org/sustainabili...
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...
Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Dartmouth College Society of Fellows – Environmental Studies
Come join myself and Michael Cox, as we recruit a postdoc with specialization in forest carbon dynamics, climate policy, and nature-based solutions!
www.esacareercenter.org/job/2002606/...
A new fossil fungus discovered in Scotland shows evidence of plants and fungi sharing nutrients to survive on land.
The fossil, more than 400 million years old, offers hints about the origin of one of the greatest partnerships in the history of life on Earth.
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
📣 Job Opportunity: Plant Conservation Post Doctoral Associate (San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance)🌿
🌎 Escondido, CA
🧑💻 Using SDMs, plant collections, monitoring, & env. datasets, identify plant conservation action priorities in seed collections and translocations for CA rare plants
⌛ 3y FT
💸 $87k
Arbuscular mycorrhizal networks-A climate-smart blueprint for agriculture
in Plant Communications from Gary Gan (Wenzhou University)
with @mvanderheijden.bsky.social @manudelbaq.bsky.social
www.cell.com/plant-commun...
Figure 3 from the paper by Worobeic et al in Fungal Biology (August 2025) showing 10 pictures of fossil microsclerotia of dark septate endophytic fungi.
Fungal fossils tell a story of resilience: research by Worobiec et al. published in #FungalBiology (Aug 2025) traces dark septate endophytic (DSE) microsclerotia from the Eocene to today, revealing long-term plant–fungus associations.
👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Interested in Nanopore long-read ITS fungal metabarcode analysis? Our preprint is now out as journal article www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... There is more to do for improving long-read ITS analysis and we hope to advertise a PhD project around this soon.
Wow, nature is too cool! Structures on stinkbug hind legs that used to be interpreted as ears are actually chambers with fungi. The bugs coat their eggs in those fungi to protect them against parasitoid wasps. 🧪
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Excited to be delivering one of the the keynote talks at the #LivingData conference to share about our work in the Indigenous data governance task force and the importance of Indigenous leadership in biodiversity conservation 🌱
Very cool!! thank you and looking forward to meeting you there!
We have an article about integrating fungi in policy lead by
@catiacanteiro.bsky.social !! @spun.earth
