“As time went on, I began to embrace the decision to bring my kids with me on my expeditions, not as an exigency of parenting but as a kind of feminist act,” the evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers writes.

Read: nyti.ms/3JzDKJp

More rainforest adventures with Jacob Ulzen. We have been wrangling fungi from soils in Ankasa & Kakum National park.

In case of elephants sightings, we were taught to hide under adventitious roots of so-called 'proud' trees, which form perfect protective cages SPUN

Thank you Paul Q de Vries for the interview for 'We are the ReGeneration'. It was wonderful to talk all things fungal.

re-generation.cc/longread/opini…

Two weeks remain to add your signature to the NEW 2030 Declaration on Scientific Plant and Fungal Collecting! 🖊️

Emerging from the 2023 #SOTWPF Symposium, this declaration unifies us in filling key knowledge gaps in plant and fungal diversity 🌱🍄👇

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Excited to share our new meta-analysis in New Phytologist 🥳. Spoiler: presence of mycorrhizal fungi was associated with a 6.7% increase in decomposition . Thanks Dr. Kathleen Treseder for your support!
doi.org/10.1111/nph.19…

🍄With your help we want to integrate information on mycological societies across Europe. Please complete this Google Form. #FunDive
See you at 12th International Mycological Congress (IMC12) meeting on the cooperation of mycological groups and societies!
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New paper📣

🚦Roadside disturbance promotes plant communities with arbuscular mycorrhizal associations in mountain regions worldwide🚦

nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec…

HE&Me: the evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers, co-founder of the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (@spununderground), discusses the importance of fungal networks, the optimism of academic life and why science is creative
bit.ly/3PEw7VI

Bravo to the Dutch who are starting a movement to protect underground ecosystems by removing pavement & tiles SPUN

The 'strange new sport' called 'tegelwippen' has municipalities competing to get rid of the most paved infrastructure

theguardian.com/environment/20…

Wonderful to see mykophile bring clarity to this debate. Read the thread. Read it all.

We partnered with JR Biotek Foundation, CSIR-Crops Research Institute, & Oxford University Nanotechnology & Nanomedicine to co-host a Metagenomics Training Workshop in Kumasi, Ghana last month.

12 scientists from across Africa came together to learn cutting-edge FUNGAL sequencing techniques. What an incredible team.

Take a look at this new article in Trends in Ecology & Evolution!

Inclusivity in Science is the way forward!!!

We discuss here our work on @ipbes and the fundamental role of inclusivity for global research
And the challenges we face

authors.elsevier.com/a/1inUscZ3X04ij

PhD student wanted for investigating fungal ecology in boreal forests! The candidate will investigate the roles of ectomycorrhizal and ericoid mycorrhizal fungal communities for tree seedling performance and soil dynamics.
Read more and apply here: slu.se/en/about-slu/w…

New research linking fungal diversity and forest carbon storage at a continental scale. Congrats Mark Anthony & team

Final days to apply! Submit your application to explore underground ecosystems by March 17.

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Urban ectomycorrhizal trees can host a high number of EMF in their roots 👍🥳
But
Urban pollution could be favoring stress tolerant communities that are completely different from rural sites 👎😖

New from Adriana Corrales & J.D. Sanchez-Tello
bit.ly/3Vm7m4b

Happy to support a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow for Universidade de Coimbra 🇵🇹 (eligible for ERA grants) with Diogo Veríssimo diogoverissimo.bsky.social University of Oxford 🇬🇧 to delve into the human dimensions of #fungi 🍄conservation!

Interested? Get in touch, informal inquiries are welcome 😊
#postdoc MarieSkłodowskaCurie