Sally Fryar 🍄💧 🇦🇺 🧬 🔬
@sally-mycology.bsky.social
Freshwater fungi, marine fungi, taxonomy, phylogenetics, evolution, conservation, ecology, biodiversity, Flinders University, Australia, Co-chair IUCN SSC Aquatic Fungi Specialist Group
https://freshwaterandmarinefungiaustralia.com
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I have made a starter pack for people and organisations involved in fungal conservation. Comment below if you would like to be added. #fungi 🌍 🧪 🦤 #conservation go.bsky.app/MaBDXD9
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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
@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
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
@funaction.bsky.social
@fayrnhawk.bsky.social
@peterbraubach.bsky.social
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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...
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
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...
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...
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Another fine outcome of my long-standing collaboration with Zhilin Yuan and Long Peng at RISF in Hangzhou:
Endophytes with mycorrhizal potentials: biological and ecological implications - New Phytologist
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Endophytes with mycorrhizal potentials: biological and ecological implications - New Phytologist
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Another fine outcome of my long-standing collaboration with Zhilin Yuan and Long Peng at RISF in Hangzhou:
Endophytes with mycorrhizal potentials: biological and ecological implications - New Phytologist
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Endophytes with mycorrhizal potentials: biological and ecological implications - New Phytologist
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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As dozens of frog species have declined across Central America, scientists have witnessed a remarkable chain of events: With fewer tadpoles to eat mosquito larvae, rates of mosquito-borne malaria in the region have climbed, resulting in a fivefold increase in cases. https://wapo.st/4paBuuT
November 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
As dozens of frog species have declined across Central America, scientists have witnessed a remarkable chain of events: With fewer tadpoles to eat mosquito larvae, rates of mosquito-borne malaria in the region have climbed, resulting in a fivefold increase in cases. https://wapo.st/4paBuuT
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One thing to do, especially if you’re a science writer or editor, is when you have occasion to mention the names of the discoverers of the structure of DNA, just say “Watson, Crick, and Franklin.” No one can stop us, and it is correct.
November 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
One thing to do, especially if you’re a science writer or editor, is when you have occasion to mention the names of the discoverers of the structure of DNA, just say “Watson, Crick, and Franklin.” No one can stop us, and it is correct.
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All issues of Mycotaxon (1974–2024) are now digitised, #OpenAccess & discoverable in BHL! Thx to the work of Diane Rielinger & BHL’s Team #RetroPIDs, every article now has a DOI, connecting 50 years of #Mycology to today’s scholarly network. #Fungi 🍄 🧪
🔗 www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography...
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November 5, 2025 at 1:24 AM
All issues of Mycotaxon (1974–2024) are now digitised, #OpenAccess & discoverable in BHL! Thx to the work of Diane Rielinger & BHL’s Team #RetroPIDs, every article now has a DOI, connecting 50 years of #Mycology to today’s scholarly network. #Fungi 🍄 🧪
🔗 www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography...
🔗 www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography...
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Fascinating and oddly beautiful Proboscis #Monkeys of #Malaysia #Indonesia, have webbed feet and live in harems. Now #researchers discovered why they have such long noses! Help them survive when you #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-5G6
Demystifying the Strange Beauty of the Proboscis Monkey’s Large Nose
Of all the #monkey species around the world, one stands out with its large, bizarre nose. In male proboscis monkeys, their bulbous noses will often hang past their mouths. But why did they evolve s…
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October 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Fascinating and oddly beautiful Proboscis #Monkeys of #Malaysia #Indonesia, have webbed feet and live in harems. Now #researchers discovered why they have such long noses! Help them survive when you #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-5G6
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Bow to? How about *work with* the Greens and respect the carefully considered advice of environment and climate experts!
It's really not the hard, should @australianlabor.bsky.social want to do the right thing.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
It's really not the hard, should @australianlabor.bsky.social want to do the right thing.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Labor needs to bow to Liberals or Greens or its environment law revamp is dead
Albanese government will need to make major concessions to pass promised federal nature laws as Liberals attack ‘nature positive 2.0’
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Bow to? How about *work with* the Greens and respect the carefully considered advice of environment and climate experts!
It's really not the hard, should @australianlabor.bsky.social want to do the right thing.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
It's really not the hard, should @australianlabor.bsky.social want to do the right thing.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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In this paper, we show that photobiont diversity increases as lichens age. Interestingly, as the thallus grows, autosporine algae become more prevalent at the expense of zoosporine algae, likely because the latter play a key role in lichen establishment. 1url.cz/@Proto
October 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM
In this paper, we show that photobiont diversity increases as lichens age. Interestingly, as the thallus grows, autosporine algae become more prevalent at the expense of zoosporine algae, likely because the latter play a key role in lichen establishment. 1url.cz/@Proto
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Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs
Dinidorid stinkbugs were reported to possess a conspicuous tympanal organ on female hindlegs. In this study, we show that this organ is specialized to retain microbial symbionts rather than to perceiv...
www.science.org
October 19, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Registration open for #Fungal26 genetics-gsa.org/fungal-2026/ at Asilomar.
Homepage - 33rd Fungal Genetics Conference
Visit our website to learn more.
genetics-gsa.org
October 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Registration open for #Fungal26 genetics-gsa.org/fungal-2026/ at Asilomar.
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job alert: UC Davis is looking to hire a 9 month tenure-track Assistant Professor of Mycology in the Department of Plant Pathology. More details below, for full consideration submit by 1 December 2025
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339
Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
October 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
job alert: UC Davis is looking to hire a 9 month tenure-track Assistant Professor of Mycology in the Department of Plant Pathology. More details below, for full consideration submit by 1 December 2025
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339
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Thrilled to launch yet another #CitizenScience campaign for @fundive-fungi.bsky.social 🙃
The campaign' accompanying flyer is published in the open-access platform Zenodo, free to download, share, and cite: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#UrbanBiodiversity #FunDive #Mycology #Conservation #iNaturalist
The campaign' accompanying flyer is published in the open-access platform Zenodo, free to download, share, and cite: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#UrbanBiodiversity #FunDive #Mycology #Conservation #iNaturalist
September 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Thrilled to launch yet another #CitizenScience campaign for @fundive-fungi.bsky.social 🙃
The campaign' accompanying flyer is published in the open-access platform Zenodo, free to download, share, and cite: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#UrbanBiodiversity #FunDive #Mycology #Conservation #iNaturalist
The campaign' accompanying flyer is published in the open-access platform Zenodo, free to download, share, and cite: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#UrbanBiodiversity #FunDive #Mycology #Conservation #iNaturalist
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📢 NEW REPORT 📢
The @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social report for 2024-2025 is now published. 👇
iucn.org/sites/defaul...
Get in touch if you want to collaborate with us to advance the #conservation of #aquaticfungi. 💧 🍄
@iucnfungi.bsky.social @protectspecies.bsky.social
The @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social report for 2024-2025 is now published. 👇
iucn.org/sites/defaul...
Get in touch if you want to collaborate with us to advance the #conservation of #aquaticfungi. 💧 🍄
@iucnfungi.bsky.social @protectspecies.bsky.social
iucn.org
October 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
📢 NEW REPORT 📢
The @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social report for 2024-2025 is now published. 👇
iucn.org/sites/defaul...
Get in touch if you want to collaborate with us to advance the #conservation of #aquaticfungi. 💧 🍄
@iucnfungi.bsky.social @protectspecies.bsky.social
The @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social report for 2024-2025 is now published. 👇
iucn.org/sites/defaul...
Get in touch if you want to collaborate with us to advance the #conservation of #aquaticfungi. 💧 🍄
@iucnfungi.bsky.social @protectspecies.bsky.social
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🍄💧New Aquatic Fungus Discovered!🍄💧
Our group member @huzefaraj.bsky.social together with colleagues, described a new genus and species of freshwater fungus: Atromagnispora indianensis.
🔗 Full story: www.indianapoliszoo.com/gcss/blog/zo...
#aquaticfungi #conservation #IUCNSSCAquaticFungiSG
Our group member @huzefaraj.bsky.social together with colleagues, described a new genus and species of freshwater fungus: Atromagnispora indianensis.
🔗 Full story: www.indianapoliszoo.com/gcss/blog/zo...
#aquaticfungi #conservation #IUCNSSCAquaticFungiSG
Indianapolis Zoo Grant Fungi Discovery
Two Indianapolis Zoo grant recipients and a team of Conservation Coordinators with the Global Center for Species Survival have discovered an entirely new kind of freshwater fungus in Indiana.
www.indianapoliszoo.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
🍄💧New Aquatic Fungus Discovered!🍄💧
Our group member @huzefaraj.bsky.social together with colleagues, described a new genus and species of freshwater fungus: Atromagnispora indianensis.
🔗 Full story: www.indianapoliszoo.com/gcss/blog/zo...
#aquaticfungi #conservation #IUCNSSCAquaticFungiSG
Our group member @huzefaraj.bsky.social together with colleagues, described a new genus and species of freshwater fungus: Atromagnispora indianensis.
🔗 Full story: www.indianapoliszoo.com/gcss/blog/zo...
#aquaticfungi #conservation #IUCNSSCAquaticFungiSG
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I've been working on #climate issues for years, but every now and then I step back & think how unbelievable (and sad) it is that scientists have shown for decades we're literally changing — in a bad way — the climate of the entire planet and yet society refuses to deal with that existential threat.
September 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I've been working on #climate issues for years, but every now and then I step back & think how unbelievable (and sad) it is that scientists have shown for decades we're literally changing — in a bad way — the climate of the entire planet and yet society refuses to deal with that existential threat.
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Thanks to everyone who came along/tuned in to my PhD exit seminar! What a thing to do at the end of almost four years. So close to submitting, just need to tidy up this last chapter and I’m done! PS does anyone need a mycology/botany genomics/systematics postdoc? 👀
September 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Thanks to everyone who came along/tuned in to my PhD exit seminar! What a thing to do at the end of almost four years. So close to submitting, just need to tidy up this last chapter and I’m done! PS does anyone need a mycology/botany genomics/systematics postdoc? 👀
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🍄Working in fungal conservation? Call for papers for our upcoming special issue in Fungal Ecology 'Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions' ! Deadline 31 January 2026 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Fungal Ecology | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Fungal Ecology | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Read the latest articles of Fungal Ecology at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
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September 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
🍄Working in fungal conservation? Call for papers for our upcoming special issue in Fungal Ecology 'Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions' ! Deadline 31 January 2026 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
It's always a good day when you have new sequences to play with :-). #fungi #aquatic_fungi
September 9, 2025 at 4:59 AM
It's always a good day when you have new sequences to play with :-). #fungi #aquatic_fungi
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#AquaticFungi, marine biodiversity, ascomycetes, nutrient cycles, metabarcoding from eDNA, taxonomy....this paper has it all. Exciting start to my Friday.
Thanks to Daniel Guerra-Mateo, Josepa Gené, Pierre Becker, and José F. Cano-Lira
Thanks to Daniel Guerra-Mateo, Josepa Gené, Pierre Becker, and José F. Cano-Lira
Researchers unveil six novel onygenalean fungi from Mediterranean marine sediments, highlighting their global diversity, salty adaptability, and potential roles in ocean nutrient cycles.
🔗 doi.org/10.3897/imaf...
🔗 doi.org/10.3897/imaf...
Onygenales from marine sediments: diversity, novel taxa, global distribution, and adaptability to the marine environment
The Onygenales represent a versatile group of fungi that primarily inhabit soils, degrading cellulose and/or keratin. While some are known human pathogens, others are osmotolerant or colonize chitin s...
doi.org
September 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
#AquaticFungi, marine biodiversity, ascomycetes, nutrient cycles, metabarcoding from eDNA, taxonomy....this paper has it all. Exciting start to my Friday.
Thanks to Daniel Guerra-Mateo, Josepa Gené, Pierre Becker, and José F. Cano-Lira
Thanks to Daniel Guerra-Mateo, Josepa Gené, Pierre Becker, and José F. Cano-Lira
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I started this #Mycologists Starter Pack, aiming to get all professional fungal researchers on BlueSky in one place. DM if you want to be added.
go.bsky.app/UMrVSsp
go.bsky.app/UMrVSsp
September 1, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I started this #Mycologists Starter Pack, aiming to get all professional fungal researchers on BlueSky in one place. DM if you want to be added.
go.bsky.app/UMrVSsp
go.bsky.app/UMrVSsp
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Can a forest be restored without fungi?
Successful forest restoration relies not only on trees, but on their belowground fungal partners and our strategies need to reflect that.
See the diagram providing guidelines to enhancing restoration success and read the full paper here: buff.ly/K5AHz0u
Successful forest restoration relies not only on trees, but on their belowground fungal partners and our strategies need to reflect that.
See the diagram providing guidelines to enhancing restoration success and read the full paper here: buff.ly/K5AHz0u
September 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Can a forest be restored without fungi?
Successful forest restoration relies not only on trees, but on their belowground fungal partners and our strategies need to reflect that.
See the diagram providing guidelines to enhancing restoration success and read the full paper here: buff.ly/K5AHz0u
Successful forest restoration relies not only on trees, but on their belowground fungal partners and our strategies need to reflect that.
See the diagram providing guidelines to enhancing restoration success and read the full paper here: buff.ly/K5AHz0u
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📣 Call for papers! Special issue of #FungalEcology on “Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions” co-edited by Susana C. Gonçalves @cfemycolab.bsky.social & Jonathan Cazabonne @jonathancazabonne.bsky.social. Deadline for manuscripts: 31 Jan 2026. Find out more: www.linkedin.com/company/brit...
August 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
📣 Call for papers! Special issue of #FungalEcology on “Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions” co-edited by Susana C. Gonçalves @cfemycolab.bsky.social & Jonathan Cazabonne @jonathancazabonne.bsky.social. Deadline for manuscripts: 31 Jan 2026. Find out more: www.linkedin.com/company/brit...
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Whether you call them REAHs or ACEs, gotta love aquatic hyphomycete & endophytic fungi! Check out this lovely work by Saima Altaf and Saraswati Bisht.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Root endophytic aquatic hyphomycetes from the Nandhaur River, India - Vegetos
Nandhaur River, an unexplored water body in the Kumaun Himalayan foothill region, was investigated for the root endophytic aquatic hyphomycetes (REAHs) by the examination of collected root samples of ...
link.springer.com
August 27, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Whether you call them REAHs or ACEs, gotta love aquatic hyphomycete & endophytic fungi! Check out this lovely work by Saima Altaf and Saraswati Bisht.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...