This is what happens when there is no knowledge of or appreciation for herbaria!!!

I will be hiring 1-2 PhD students for this project: dannyhaelewaters.com/biodiversity-m…. Please get in touch if you're interested: [email protected]! Tom Martin Dr Morgan Hughes 🇸🇪 🇭🇷 🇬🇧

Happy to announce the main outcome of my PhD Internship based at Amgueddfa Caerdydd last year. Here, we aim to showcase the usefulness of bryophyte herbarium specimens in containing rare bryophilous fungi inadvertently collected with them tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 1/

Though grapes are easy to find in the produce section, finding fossils of this fruit is another story. New research from botanist Gregory Stull and others, documents nine species of prehistoric grapes, including one named in honor of Jun Wen. Read more: s.si.edu/4bXsPoA

Are you interested in plant-fungal interactions? Would you like to start a career with the USDA-ARS? Come and join our Food and Feed Safety Research Unit as a permanent scientist in vibrant New Orleans! Please RTW 🙏 usajobs.gov/job/803567200

Made it to Maastricht for #IMC12 🍄🧫 I’m giving a talk on collaborative work studying Arctic fungal endophytes. It’s in the Paris room tomorrow at 18:20. I would love to meet and connect with folks (especially as I’ll be entering the postdoc market this year!) Can’t wait 🙂

It used to be that when we designed information retrieval systems the most important metrics were precision (no wrong results) and recall (all of the right results) and then response time. LLMs are wildly worse on all of these than what people were making for decades before.

Come & learn more about the amazing #Lichen research going on in the #Tropics 12th International Mycological Congress (IMC12) #IMC12 #WeAreAllLichens Fort Worth Botanic Garden Dr. Marcela Cáceres Annie Evankow Paul Muigai Kirika Gothamie Weerakoon

It's my honor to announce the official mushroom of the State of Illinois — the Giant Puffball! Through the hard work and dedication of the young leaders at the Prairie School, our new state symbol is a testament that even the youngest among us can make a difference.

Since 2017, the “Objects of Wonder” exhibit has displayed some of the museum’s greatest hits, but this September it will close to make way for a new exhibit, sending many specimens back into the collections. Read more for eight objects you'll want to see: s.si.edu/3WAn7Ui

My first dissertation chapter has been published!! 🎉 Read about cumulative adversity indices and how they lower lifespan. Cumulative adversity and survival in the wild - Ortiz‐Ross - 2024 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…

Could not be happier with this #newpaper by my PhD student Jeff describing five #newspecies of Chlorosplenium! Based on integrative taxonomy of specimens from fieldwork in 🇭🇳🇵🇦🇺🇸🇦🇺🇳🇿 and fungaria. #Leotiomycetes #IMC12

A lot of the debates about whether to bring politics into science, teaching, or other spheres of public life would be easily avoided if people remembered that being political is not the same as being partisan.

A postdoctoral fellow in the museum's Mineral Sciences department, Wriju Chowdhury is part of an expedition searching for 4-billion-year-old crystals that could uncover the secrets behind Earth’s early history. Read more here: s.si.edu/3WX0rz1

Passionate about plant development? 🧬🌿 Our Laboratory of Integrative Biodiversity Research seeks a postdoctoral research associate to help investigate the evolution and development of sporangia in ferns. 🥼 More details here: nybg.org/about/work-wit… 🌱 #NYBGscience

Scholars at the Smithsonian, including myself, are recruiting postdoctoral and graduate student fellows through the SIFP program. Apps due Oct 15. Please reach out if interested, fellowships.si.edu/SIFP

Some mycologists were unhappy at how #IMC12 ended but channeled these emotions into a positive letter directed to IMAmycology leadership, promoting #inclusive communication that embraces cultural differences and promotes dialogue. link.medium.com/sr6e8pLsfMb

My lab at UC Riverside is looking to hire a *lab manager/technician*. We are a evolutionary genetics lab and we are especially looking for someone with experience working with fish (or a desire to learn!). See here for details: samuklab.com/files/TechAd.p…

Enjoy this video one of our graduate students made of the UNM Herbarium! Thanks Lisa! Museum of Southwestern Biology youtu.be/4lCDt_lUoAY?si…