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Jennifer Anderson
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Mycologist & Evo biologist passionate about aquatic fungi, equal opps & diversity. she/her. views mine. 🇵🇸🇺🇦
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Fungal friends: The University of Minnesota is hiring a tenure track medical mycologist, with emphasis on emergence of pathogens, genomics and evolution!

www.nature.com/naturecareer...
New Assistant Professor: Tenure Track - Fungal Biology/Medical Mycology - Minneapolis, Minnesota job with University of Minnesota - Medical School | 12848307
About the Job: The Department of Microbiology & Immunology and the Institute on Infectious Diseases (UMIID) at the University of Minnesota Medical ...
www.nature.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I love that soils are being revealed to us with the help of talented scientists/artists/authors.

🪱🍄 See the upcoming book below and similarly titled book with amazing illustrations by the wonderful James Nardi.

💦 Do we have similar books for life in freshwater? Shouldn’t we?
November 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Diversity, geographical distribution and environmental adaptations of snow molds
doi.org/10.47371/myc...

仮訳:雪腐病菌の多様性、地理的分布及び環境適応

2025 年 66 巻 6 号 p. 334-349

#菌学会 #Mycoscience
November 20, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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I am recruiting graduate students to my genomics-focused lab in EEB at Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Please spread the word if you know any students with an interest in a computational focus to genomics research! evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
https://evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldir/GradStudentPositions//UIllinois.EEB.Genomics
The Catchen Lab (https://catchenlab.life.illinois.edu/), in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is recruiting graduate students to join...
evol.mcmaster.ca
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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It’s World #AMR Awareness Week.

Did you know misusing antibiotics leads to drug resistance and side effects?

Learn about #AntimicrobialResistance (AMR) 👉bit.ly/AMRweek2025
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Funded PhD Opportunity: Seagrass Disease Ecology
Explore how the pseudofungus Phytophthora gemini impacts Zostera marina and restoration success. Lab + fieldwork @thembauk.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social & OCT. Combine microbiology, ecology & restoration science 🌱
👉 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK439/p...
November 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Want to learn about #AquaticFungi? Don’t be shy—jump right in. Check out these fantastic first results from Peter—member of the online #AquaticHyphomycete group 🥳

@funaction.bsky.social
@fayrnhawk.bsky.social
@peterbraubach.bsky.social
My first #AquaticHyphomycetes sample. Lots of photos, no idea about the species yet 😅.
November 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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FUNACTION members Andreas Bruder🇨🇭 and Diego Fontaneto🇮🇹 sampled for #aquaticfungi in the Val Grande National Park, Italy.

More data gathered on occurrence and distribution of aquatic fungi in Europe (particularly inside Protected Areas). 💪

Want to collaborate? Fill our survey: shorturl.at/VaHbD
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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The #AquaticHyphomycete online group have another great programme lined up this week. @zimingwang.bsky.social will be talking to us about isolating living spores for culture work. We'll also be talking about the importance of recording these fungi and whether there is a best way to do that.
November 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Join our Fungal Biodiversity Course 23–27 February 2026👇 

The Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute invites you to an intensive, hands-on course exploring the vast and fascinating kingdom of fungi.

🔗 More information & registration: https://wi.knaw.nl/CourseFungalBiodiversity
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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🕷️ Working with cave spiders? Fascinated by trait-based ecology?

We've just updated the checklist of European cave spiders, plus a fresh database of their traits.

Read it now on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social:

doi.org/10.32942/X2D...
November 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
‘Smartest person in the room.’ Someone whose self-perceived, society-supported ‘greatness’ and ‘correctness’ is so powerful that their destructive, vile acts are ‘justified’.

Harm from folks like this shapes the lives & careers of many.

Damaging Science & scientists.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Sexism, racism, homophobia…
& science. Do not sugar-coat his legacy— #Watson dead at 97

“I think having all these women around makes it more fun for the men but they’re probably less effective.”

www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Oligonucleotide design meets big data:
We present oligoN-design, a simple, reproducible and versatile open-source tool to design specific primers and probes directly from large environmental DNA datasets.
🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
👉 github.com/MiguelMSandi...
November 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
What a terrible terrible idea…
November 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Didn’t make it to Colombia for #LivingData2025? Don’t worry! You can always learn about #FUNACTION & check out our digital resources online. There is still time to engage with us via our survey too <- available in 5 languages.

All at your fingertips 👇
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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🚨 Free, interactive online course "International Environmental Agreements: How can Science-Policy-Practice Interfaces help with National Implementation"! 🌍
 
📚 English & French
🏆 Certificate upon completion
 
The course is open to all — register now! elearning.cabes.online/course/view....
November 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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🚨Join us at #WBF2026 to discuss how to overcome knowledge and policy gaps related to #fungi #biodiversity and #conservation meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess...

Make sure to submit your abstract by Nov 18th to participate in our session!

🍄‍🟫 🌊 🏝️
October 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Based on the MEMEs I have met—this is an excellent program.
Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu
October 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Amazing opportunity for a postdoc. Can't think of a more exciting place (speaking from experience)
Applications are now open for two two-year UBC Biodiversity Postdoc Fellowships biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and.... $77,000 /y + benefits and $7000 /y research funds.
October 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Another amazing talk is happening on November 5th 🌲🍄🧬🌳🍄🧬🌲. We are pleased to welcome Prof. Francis M. Martin @fmartin54.bsky.social , a leading researcher in forest microbiology. Join us!
#foresthealth, #soilhealth, #soilmicrobiome
October 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
At #LivingData2025? @isabelrfernandes.bsky.social presents @funaction.bsky.social tomorrow (Thursday)! Check it out 🌟
Are you attending #livingdata2025?
Do you want to know more about #aquaticfungi?

I would love to connect with you!
October 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Are you attending #livingdata2025?
Do you want to know more about #aquaticfungi?

I would love to connect with you!
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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🌊 As the need to restore Europe’s freshwaters becomes ever more pressing, so too does the demand for funding to support ambitious restoration projects.

🤝 A new @merlin-project.bsky.social publication guides you through the grant funding landscape.

freshwaterblog.net/2025/10/22/h...
How to find grant funding for your freshwater restoration project
Image: Cottonbro Studio | Pexels Creative Commons As the need to restore Europe’s freshwaters becomes ever more pressing, so too does the demand for funding to support ambitious restoration project…
freshwaterblog.net
October 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Pelagic #AquaticFungi in the ocean, no big deal?
Wrong!
🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋
🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋
🐳🐋 x 1 million
blue whales-worth of carbon
Check out the paper 👇 and the associated commentary www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The contribution of pelagic fungi to ocean biomass
Metagenomic analysis has recently unveiled the widespread presence of pelagic fungi in the global ocean, yet their quantitative contribution to carbon…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:54 AM