Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoAaron Vogan @fungage-lab.bsky.social · 19/11/2025We're looking for a PhD student! If you're interested in #fungal #genomics & #TEs, meiotic drive, or pathogens, please consider applying. The project is about toxin/antidote genes in the human fungal pathogen A. fumigatus. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... 12130
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoGenetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 04/11/2025New research in #GENETICS suggests accessory chromosomes in #fungi #fusarium might be maintained because of Spok genes and not because of their beneficial effects on virulence. Learn more about this work from @fungage-lab.bsky.social and colleagues: buff.ly/R2CRa3O 0116
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoClare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Such a pleasure to be involved with this short film, filmed and scripted by the amazingly talented @amykingwild.bsky.social. Woods Mill is my local woodland managed by @sussexwildlife.bsky.social. Amy has captured it wonderfully - makes me want to go for an autumnal woodland scamper right now! 1125
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoAlexandra Dallaire @alexdallaire.bsky.social · 03/09/2025I’m super happy to present the first discoveries of the RIKEN-Cambridge Joint Crop Symbiosis Research Team, based in Japan 🇯🇵 doi.org/10.1101/2025... A thread 👇doi.orgReductive evolution of the DNA replication machinery in endosymbiotic fungiThe molecular machinery for replicating and repairing DNA accurately is critically important for life and highly conserved across the Tree of Life. Here we show that two major lineages of fungi, Glome... 65324
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoAnnie Hatmaker, Ph.D. @annemakerofhats.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Thrilled to share that the final chapter of my PhD with @rokaslab.bsky.social is now out in @natcomms.nature.com 🎉 Read it to find out how population structure impacts pathogenicity in Aspergillus flavus, a fungus that infects humans 🧪 rdcu.be/eATojrdcu.bePopulation structure in a fungal human pathogen is potentially linked to pathogenicityNature Communications - Genetic diversity between clinical and environmental fungal isolates of Aspergillus flavus is poorly studied. Here, the authors analysed genomic data from a global set of... 25120
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoMatt Wainhouse @funganaught.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Our Fungal Conservation column is out in Field Mycology 26 (2). www.fieldmycology.org/index.php/jo... 🍄 Fungi and the Planning and Infrastructure Bill 🍄 British fungi on the Global Red List 🍄 An audit of nationally important fungal assemblages in Welsh SSSIs #fungi #fungalconservation #PIBfieldmycology.org Fungal Futures: Conservation news and views | Field Mycology 0127
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoNew Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 17/07/2025The increasingly powerful term #mycorrhiza warrants attention #Editorial by Bonfante & Genre. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Inaccurate AI-generated image generated using: ‘Generate a photo of a plant root system interacting with fungal mycelium in a mycorrhizal interaction’. 1109
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoKew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 11/07/2025This #FungiFriday we're celebrating the monumental achievement of Kew Mycologist & Taxonomist Matteo Gelardi! Last week Matteo and his collaborators Michal Mikšík & Giampaolo Simonini released their book 'European Boletes Volume 1' 🎉 Find out more here: www.fungipress.eu/en/ 22211
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoJames O'Dwyer @jpodwyer.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Sally Otto @sarperotto.bsky.social and I are back with the next installment of “Reflections on the history of modeling and theory”, supported by @smtpb.bsky.social. Bob Holt shares his personal history and stories of his life in science: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8hX...youtube.comRobert D. Holt interviewYouTube video by SMTPB 15227
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoPaige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social · 14/05/2025#OnThisDay in 1856, Charles Darwin noted in his journal, "began...writing species sketch." This "sketch" would form the base of his book On the Origin of Species. 🏺 🧪 67730
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoJason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social · 09/05/2025www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...scientificamerican.comPrepare for ‘Sex, Drugs and Zombies’—Brood XIV Cicadas Are ComingAs 17-year cicadas emerge this spring, a zombifying fungus is waiting for them 012
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoSaccharomyces Genome Database @yeastgenome.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Virtual #Conference: 5th Annual CanFunNet #Fungal #Biology August 6-8 "From Local to Global" canfunnet.conferences.uwo.ca Abstract submissions, early registration open until May30 Topics include: Evolutionary Pathways of Fungal Pathogens, Fungal Genomics, Host Interactions, Fungal Resilience 185
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoKatie Field @katiefield4.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Check out these exciting opportunities for a dual award PhD in plant and soil sciences 🤩 at @sheffieldpps.bsky.social and @westsyduhie.bsky.social: www.sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/... each PhD project will involve at least 1 year spent at each institution - pls repost 🙏sheffield.ac.ukWorld class training - International dual award PhDs in Plant & Soil Science now openThese new studentships offer a unique opportunity to join a vibrant and collaborative research community spanning two world-class institutions in Sheffield, UK and Sydney, Australia. 0149
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoBenjamin Larue, Ph.D. @benjaminlarue.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Thought-provoking commentary by @amyforsythe.bsky.social just dropped on our recent study of individual heterogeneity in life-history trajectories! Always exciting to see the conversation evolve. @marcofesta.bsky.social 📄 Read it here: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... 154
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoSally Aitken 🇨🇦 @sallyaitken.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Brilliant new paper by Jill Anderson and colleagues using 9 years of transplant experiments and integral projection models to predict the capacity of populations for adaptation and persistence under new climates in Boechera stricta. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgAdaptation and gene flow are insufficient to rescue a montane plant under climate changeClimate change increasingly drives local population dynamics, shifts geographic distributions, and threatens persistence. Gene flow and rapid adaptation could rescue declining populations yet are seld... 05724
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoDaniel Croll @danielcroll.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Excited to do a postdoc in beautiful Neuchatel / Switzerland🇨🇭? We have several postdoc positions open at the moment! Check our website for the full ads here: pathogen-genomics.org/jobs Happy to answer any question and please spread the word to anyone who might be interested! 17764
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 13/04/20250. Vought, Vance, Rufo, and those attacking academia see scientists as bureaucrats—in the most pejorative sense of the term—who they can "put into trauma" and drive to quit. They don't understand that science is not just a job. It's a vocation, literally, in the original sense of *a calling*. 21787130
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoKew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Only 60 years ago we still thought fungi to be weird types of plants 🍄🤔🌱 With shared characteristics such as immobility, having a cell wall and growing out of substrates like soil, it was easy for early natural historians to group these two hugely diverse groups together. So how were they split? 🧵👇 19820
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoDaniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 02/03/2025If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti... Please share widelysites.google.comScientists' Stories - How to ContributeHow to contribute a Story 3410348
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoCamille Truong @camilletruong.bsky.social · 28/02/2025How do you study invisible organisms, such as fungi, from the environment? We provide a benchmarked meta-barcoding dataset for soil fungi in Australia and Antarctica, combined with +100 predictor variables to fast-track data exploration, research and conservation. rdcu.be/ebCeurdcu.beA curated soil fungal dataset to advance fungal ecology and conservation research in Australia and AntarcticaScientific Data - A curated soil fungal dataset to advance fungal ecology and conservation research in Australia and Antarctica 55721
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoKew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Exciting News! New research has found a plant’s past adaptations can help it survive pollution 🌿 Kew's Mike Fay & partners at Bangor University found Silene uniflora’s salt tolerance helped it adapt to toxic mine waste, giving hope for nature’s recovery! 👉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 3287
Anna Bazzicalupo @abazzical.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Here is our preprint on metal cross-tolerance evolution in yeast! @sarperotto.bsky.social Penny Kahn, Eully Ao, and Joel Campbell www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgEvolution of cross-tolerance to metals in yeastOrganisms often face multiple selective pressures simultaneously (e.g., mine tailings with multiple heavy metal contaminants), yet we know little about when adaptation to one stressor provides cross-t... 0124
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoRoberta Gargiulo @roberta-gargiulo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024✨Excited to share our new article on time lags/genetic extinction debts, online now in Trends in Ecology & Evolution #KewScience 🧬🧬🧬/1 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comMind the lag: understanding genetic extinction debt for conservationThe delay between disturbance events and genetic responses within populations is a common but surprisingly overlooked phenomenon in ecology and evolut… 185
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoGraham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Congratulations to Matt Osmond on publication of the final version of "Estimating dispersal rates and locating genetic ancestors with genome-wide genealogies" elifesciences.org/articles/72177elifesciences.orgEstimating dispersal rates and locating genetic ancestors with genome-wide genealogiesA new method to infer the spatial history of genetic ancestors from a sequence of trees along a recombining genome. 07229
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoWSL Umweltforschung @wslresearch.bsky.social · 20/12/2024#Sciencejob Alert! #PhD in #biology or #environmental sciences with a background in #microbiology and #ecology as well as skills in DNA/RNA sequencing? Our #Forest Soils and #Biogeochemistry research unit is looking for a #PostDoc! 🔬🧬https://apply.refline.ch/273855/1690/pub/1/index.html 094
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoBotanical University Challenge @bucbotany.bsky.social · 19/12/2024🌍🌎🧪🌎🌱🌾🌴🌳🌼🌻🌺🍄🟫🍄Lovely new plants and fungi from around the world. Found in biodiversity hot spots like Indonesia but also intensively recorded places like UK. Seen this year, maybe not again, as land use is changed. So sad. #BUC2025 www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comToadstool with teeth and ghostly palm among plant and fungus finds of 2024Scientists race to discover new species before destruction of natural world drives them to extinction 05218
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoClare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 09/12/2024I'm on an informative board!!! Congratulations Henfield on absolutely bossing your "Year of Biodiversity". 171
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoDaniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 07/12/2024A good chance to remind people that it’s not too late to apply to attend (and give a poster at) the Speciation Gordon Conference www.grc.org/speciation-c... And the GR Symposium. March 2-7 2025 in coastal California. Still open seats, please come!!grc.org2025 Speciation Conference GRCThe 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Speciation will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot. 173
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoJudith Mank @judithmank.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Recent studies have revealed unexpected Y chromosome diversity and suggest that the Y may play a big role in evolution. @vdbijl.bsky.social and I wrote this perspective for @evolletters.bsky.social with a few suggestions and requests. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan... Figs by www.jacelyndesigns.com 26129
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoChristian Landry @christianlandry.bsky.social · 28/11/2024For her PhD work, Carla Bautista in our group discovered that yeast hybrids adapted slower to stressful conditions, and she figured out why. See what she found here. #evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comHybrid adaptation is hampered by Haldane’s sieve - Nature CommunicationsHybrids have complex genomes that influence their adaptive potential. This study reveals that yeast hybrids adapt slower than their parental species in a new environment, primarily due to a reduced ra... 19041
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoJay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 19/11/20247. Bluesky's data servers are named after mushrooms! Some of them include morel, enoki, shiitake, puffball, oyster... 🍄 16112766756
Anna Bazzicalupo @abazzical.bsky.social · 27/09/2024Thank you @jmkreiner.bsky.social for delivering a fantastic talk on your research here at Kew! Such outstanding science🌱🧬💻 040
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoRike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 17/09/2024I wrote a little perspective article on "Speciation in Microbes" (a tall order, bear with me!) doi.org/10.1093/evol... Thanks to the great editors and reviewers at the Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society!doi.orgA Microbial Perspective on SpeciationAbstract. Understanding what a microbial species is and the process of speciation in microbes has been and still is a puzzle with many challenges. But ther 34215
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoClare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 13/09/2024Sick potatoes. Copyright status not known to me. Image accessed via The Memory database of The Netherlands. resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=... 121
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoSam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 26/08/2024Now in press: Local adaptation in 25 distantly-related plant species tends to involve genes with higher pleiotropy rdcu.be/dR0r6 With global adaptation, we found the opposite pattern (reduced pleiotropy), consistent with migration-selection theory www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...rdcu.beThe genetic architecture of repeated local adaptation to climate in distantly related plantsNature Ecology & Evolution - Analysis of genomic data from 25 distantly related plant species shows signatures of selection on the same gene families and functions that repeatedly contributed... 13318
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoS Otto @sarperotto.bsky.social · 09/08/2024Congratulations @jtono.bsky.social for seeing this paper across the finish line: a clear case where ploidy affects evolutionary rescue (tl;dr: evolution often rescues haploid but not diploid yeast populations) cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/... #Evolution #Genetics #Mycologycdnsciencepub.comThe limit to evolutionary rescue depends on ploidy in yeast exposed to nystatinThe number of copies of each chromosome, or ploidy, of an organism is a major genomic factor affecting adaptation. We set out to determine how ploidy can impact the outcome of evolution, as well as th... 0176
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoDaniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 22/07/2024Evolutionary biologists! Mark your calendars: the next Gordon Research Conference on Speciation will happen in California March 2-7 2025 (with the Gordon Research Symoposium March 1-2). Join us there to talk all things speciation: www.grc.org/speciation-c.... Please share!grc.org2025 Speciation Conference GRCThe 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Speciation will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot. 11814
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoDr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 29/05/2024Frolicking among the fungi. A glorious scene from the title page of Johan Theodor Holmskjold’s book on Danish fungi (Copenhagen, 1790). The motto nestled among the mushrooms - ‘nec fungi me indigni’ - means ‘fungi do not displease me’. Cambridge UL S370.a.79.2. 12510
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoStephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 28/05/2024If you're at #CSEE2024 and would like a signed copy of one of my books ('The Scientist's Guide to Writing', or 'Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider') - I have a few copies of each. Find me, or ping me here! ($30 cash/etransfer) 001
Anna Bazzicalupo @abazzical.bsky.social · 25/05/2024Are you as excited about the Fungarium Sequencing Project as we are?! 🍄🧬 If so you’re in luck, we are looking for applicants in three different roles; Taxonomists, Sampling Leads, and Sampling Assistants. Check out the Kew Vacancies page to apply: tinyurl.com/56rwx5ha 021
Anna Bazzicalupo @abazzical.bsky.social · 19/05/2024www.thetimes.co.uk/article/can-...thetimes.co.ukCan these mushroom detectives find the next penicillin?Scientists at Kew are sequencing the DNA of the world’s biggest collection of fungi and hope to uncover secrets that could save lives 010
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoJeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 15/05/20242024 Molecular Ecology Prize goes to Michael Whitlock, for foundational contributions to the study of population genetics in space www.molecularecologist.com/2024/05/15/2...molecularecologist.com2024 Molecular Ecology Prize goes to Michael Whitlock, for foundational contributions to the study of population genetics in spaceThe Molecular Ecology Prize Committee has announced the 2024 recipient of the award, which recognizes an outstanding scientist who has made significant contributions to the still-young field of mol… 03713
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoBen Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 16/05/2024Excellent to see Sally Otto receiving such well-deserved recognition royalsociety.org/news/2024/05... 11610
Reposted by Anna BazzicalupoS Otto @sarperotto.bsky.social · 10/05/2024To help SMTPB grow & build a community in modeling, theory, simulations, & data analysis in population biology (widely interpreted, incl. ecology, evolution, epidemiology, systematics...), please share this widely, join the listserv (email lbond@stanford.edu), & consider membership (smtpb.org)!smtpb.wildapricot.orgSociety for Modeling and Theory in Population Biology - Join 02120
Anna Bazzicalupo @abazzical.bsky.social · 11/05/2024Hello Spanish speakers! Here is a population genomics course in Spanish with slides and practicals: github.com/Enricobazzi/... 🐈github.comGitHub - Enricobazzi/EBD-PopGenIntroContribute to Enricobazzi/EBD-PopGenIntro development by creating an account on GitHub. 032
Anna Bazzicalupo @abazzical.bsky.social · 04/05/2024Senior Project Manager to sequence whole genomes of the Kew Fungarium: careers.kew.org/vacancy/seni...careers.kew.orgSenior Project Manager - Fungarium Sequencing Project - Careers | Kew GardensMenuClose menu 020
