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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🚦

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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
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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

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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

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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.
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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
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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

.National Geographic publishes 1st cover story on fungi in its history! Edition features 4 articles on fungi & commitment by @insidenatgeo to fungal research.

It also includes a story on lol Initiative led by @giulifungi of @FungiFoundation NYU @moth_rights & Merlin Sheldrake

Why 'funga' is just as important as flora and fauna nationalgeographic.com/science/articl… via National Geographic FFungi #thinkfungi

Tuesday, March 26, 7pm: Join us for Films About Fungi! This double feature includes the World Premiere of National Geographic's FLORA, FAUNA, FUNGA + a conversation with Merlin Sheldrake, Toby Kiers, & Giuliana Furci! Tickets here: tinyurl.com/FungiDCEFF

Thanks to everyone. We had a blast.

The 'proud tree' is known as Uapaca guineensis. It has several medicinal uses.

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

Time of collection of soil samples in Mount Cameroon. It is very interesting to understand how mycorrhization can contribute to the difference in vegetation present in the mountain. SPUN Adriana Corrales INRAE_International Bethan Manley Dr. Carol N. Ibe

This week, we are training 12 brilliant scientists from 7 African countries (and our host's staff scientists) to use more accessible technologies to identify and characterize soil microbial species to accelerate scientific research progress at their home institutions.