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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬

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Luna's dad | biodiversity monitoring, conservation, ecology, genomics | PI Laboratory of Fungal Ecology and Evolution, Biology Centre CAS #TeamLaboul | Guest Prof Ghent University | #scicomm | 1stgen/queer/he/him | PhD #Harvard | dannyhaelewaters.com

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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 10h
Finally took some time to make a webpage presenting my team. Or maybe more accurately—teams, at Ghent University and the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Entomology. #LFEE #TeamLaboul www.dannyhaelewaters.com/our-team/
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Our team
Prof. Dr. Danny HaelewatersLaboratory HeadBiology Centre CAS & Ghent University Daniela HlávkováLab ManagerBiology Centre CAS Dr. Danushka S. TennakoonSenior Postdoctoral ResearcherBiology Cent…
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Never forget the human factor in academia
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A true biologist isn't afraid to make his hands dirty. These are horse feces, full of beautiful rove beetles. Time for dinner now!
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Stropharia alcis, on elk dung.
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is a sclerotium of Claviceps purpurea. When ingested, it causes hallucinations, erratic behavior, nausea, burning sensations in the limbs, seizures—in the Middle Ages, the condition was referred to as St. Antonius Fire. 📸 Sør-Varanger, Norway
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Gymnosporangium cornutum on Sorbus aucuparia, from Sør-Varanger, Norway 🇳🇴 #fungaldiversity
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My PhD student Aimée Blondelle is currently catching #bats in Rochefort, Belgium. The cutie on the picture is Rhinolophus ferrumequinum, the greater horseshoe bat. It was parasitized by Phthiridium bat flies! 🇧🇪🦇🪰 @teamlaboul.bsky.social
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Melampsoridium betulinum, from Sør-Varanger. Greetings from Norway 🇳🇴🍄
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The editors of @plosone.org fucked up, cannot give me any specifics about why or how they fucked up, but as a result of their fucking up they issued an 'expression of concern' alongside our #StandardDeviation paper. Hey PLoS, will you return the APC now? doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
RIP Dolly. She blessed us with music and so much love. When we still lived in the USA, my now 9yo daughter Luna received a (free) book every month from the Dolly Parton Imagination Library. That woman was an inspiration 🎼👢❤️
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
FunDive designed a questionnaire with the goal to better understand motivations behind individuals joining and remaining engaged in #citizenscience projects in #mycology! Please complete it if you are a volunteer or share/forward to individuals who are: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Survey on motivation factors in volunteer mycology projects
Dear Respondent, This questionnaire was designed to investigate the primary reasons why individuals join and remain engaged in citizen science mycology projects. It aims to capture the motivations an...
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
FunDive designed a questionnaire with the goal to better understand motivations behind individuals joining and remaining engaged in #citizenscience projects in #mycology! Please complete it if you are a volunteer or share/forward to individuals who are: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Survey on motivation factors in volunteer mycology projects
Dear Respondent, This questionnaire was designed to investigate the primary reasons why individuals join and remain engaged in citizen science mycology projects. It aims to capture the motivations an...
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
After almost 6 yrs, the book I have edited is nearing completion. Titled "Biodiversity and Conservation of Fungal Parasites and Pathogens", it consists of 18 chapters with 76 authors. I am exhausted but also proud of this accomplishment. Soon available #OA via @pensoft.net!
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
📢 NEW PAPER 📢 Our review on the state of #mycology in #Honduras reveals major knowledge gaps + logistical, institutional, and funding challenges limiting progress. We outline priorities for the future, along with #stakeholders and their roles. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #openaccess
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Congratulations @zakisaati.bsky.social with this amazing paper! Some of those samples were ours from Belgium 🇧🇪
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Today I received updates from my two research teams who are doing remote fieldwork in #Honduras and #Panama, capturing bats, collecting mushrooms, insects, and entomopathogenic fungi, and conducting surveys with local communities. Very, very proud PI ❤️ #TeamLaboul #LFEE
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Marta Tischer @marta-tischer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
🍄 6th FunDive Webinar: Tuesday 30.06 at 8:00 PM CET Topic: Beyond the Microscope - Laboulbeniomycetes by @dhaelewa.bsky.social Registration: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/8f26d2... 🍄See you at the Webinar! @fundive-fungi.bsky.social @teamlaboul.bsky.social
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Jonathan Cazabonne @jonathancazabonne.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Very happy to see that this picture is featured on the cover of Volume 33(2) of Northeastern Naturalist, echoing our paper that can be found open-access here: doi.org/10.1656/045.... 🍄🐞 @michieldegroot.bsky.social @dhaelewa.bsky.social @teamlaboul.bsky.social
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ExpendableMudge (he/him) @expendablemudge.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
@spiegelandgrau.bsky.social brings us FOREST EUPHORIA: The Abounding Queerness of Nature, a book that offers a bracing dose of Reality to "gender essentialists" by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian. #PrideMonth reading at its best! #Booksky 🌈📚 expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/05/fore...
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FOREST EUPHORIA: The Abounding Queerness of Nature offers a bracing dose of Reality to "gender essentialists"
FOREST EUPHORIA: The Abounding Queerness of Nature PATRICIA ONONIWU KAISHIAN Spiegel & Grau ( non-affiliate Amazon link) $14.99 ebook...
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) was a pioneering naturalist, entomologist & scientific illustrator whose meticulous artwork & observations: 🦋 Revolutionized the study of insects 🐜 Laid early groundwork for #ecology 🐞 Permanently changed how we understand insect life It's #InsectWeek #WomenInSTEM
A side-by-side image of the German-Dutch naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717), celebrated for her groundbreaking contributions to entomology and ecology. On the left, a formal historical oil portrait depicts Merian as a young woman from the chest up against a dark, minimalist backdrop. Facing forward with a slight turn to the right, she maintains a calm, serious expression. She wears a black dress accented by a wide, sheer white lace collar draped over her shoulders, a dark jeweled brooch, a double-strand pearl necklace, and large teardrop pearl earrings. Her brown curly hair is partially covered by a black fabric head cap. On the right is a vibrant book cover titled "Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis." The cream-colored cover features her detailed scientific illustrations, including a large blue and brown butterfly, a yellow butterfly, a lizard, caterpillars, a large blue passionflower, and assorted foliage, showcasing her legacy of documenting insect life cycles and host plants.
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This photo will be featured on the cover of the upcoming issue of #NortheasternNaturalist, which includes our paper on @inaturalist.bsky.social observations revealing new records of Hesperomyces harmoniae in Québec! 🇨🇦🍄🐞🥳 doi.org/10.1656/045.... @bioone.bsky.social
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Can you see the greenish-yellowish fruiting bodies sticking out of the rear of this ladybird? This is Hesperomyces harmoniae! #Laboulbeniales Observation by Pierre Pesant, www.inaturalist.org/observations... @inaturalist.bsky.social
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
When I was a student, I barely noticed that my professors were also publishing papers. Somehow, 20 years later, I publish papers myself—and people actually read and cite them! For all my shortcomings and uncertainty about my academic future, 10K citations is a milestone I'm proud of❤️🎓
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Please take the time to review and sign this petition in support of the U.S. National Fungus Collections, which are being threatened in the face of the USDA reorganization efforts. c.org/KQWY7fNhGw 🍄
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Sign the Petition
Preserve and support the U​.​S. National Fungus Collections
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
📣New paper! "La-Bools, Mysterious Fungi that Deserve Your Attention", published in Frontiers for Young Minds 🍄🐞 doi.org/10.3389/frym... #Laboulbeniales #TeamLaboul #LFEE @jonathancazabonne.bsky.social @tommartin2024.bsky.social @frontiersin.bsky.social
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Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com · 27/05/2026
ICYMI: New online! Running the numbers on biodiversity change
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Running the numbers on biodiversity change
Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s44358-026-00163-zPredictive modelling and attribution science have advanced further in climate science than in biodiversity science, despite a history of strong quantitative approaches in ecology. Efforts to attribute biodiversity loss to anthropogenic drivers are escalating, given the urgency of providing evidence of biodiversity loss and identifying effective interventions.
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Mohammad will be supported by a Researchers at Risk Fellowship by the @czechacademy.bsky.social. I'm looking forward for him to be doing research in a safe research environment! @ms-fungi.bsky.social
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
With my new postdoc, Dr. Danushka Tennakoon, who will focus on deciphering a species complex in #Laboulbeniales and describing #microfungi associated with forest plants in Czechia. Welcome Danu! #LFEE #TeamLaboul #JuniorStar 🇱🇰
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Climate-induced shifts in #ectomycorrhizal explorations from long to short strategies along an elevation gradient 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Chen et al. @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience
Ectomycorrhizal morphotypes are defined by one or multiple fungal species.
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Mycological Society of America @msafungi.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The proposed closure of the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center threatens the U.S. National Fungus Collections—vital for agriculture, biosecurity, and research. The Mycological Society of America calls for continued preservation and enhanced support! msafungi.org/wp-content/u...
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The paper is also available #openaccess now! doi.org/10.1656/045.... @bioone.bsky.social @teamlaboul.bsky.social #TeamLaboul
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I am teaching two short courses at the #ScienceAcademy for lifelong learning. Registration is open! WRITING SCIENCE (Fall 2026) science-academy.ugent.be/en/program/w... and COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY, with @robindevroe.bsky.social (Spring 2027) science-academy.ugent.be/en/program/c...
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Remembering Adriana Romero-Olivares by sharing our paper "Ten simple rules for Global North researchers to stop perpetuating #HelicopterResearch in the #GlobalSouth" published in PLoS Computational Biology. doi.org/10.1371/jour... @plos.org @nmsu.edu #ResearchEthics @martin-nunez.bsky.social
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Congratulations to my student Fatima El Madani, who defended her bachelor thesis today on screening insects in the @taxonexpeditions.bsky.social collection for the presence of #Laboulbeniales. She reported some new host records and at least one possible #newspecies of Laboulbenia! #TeamLaboul
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Just received the news of Dr. Adriana Romero-Olivares' unexpected passing. She was a dear colleague, mycologist, microbial ecologist, Assistant Professor at @ucirvine.bsky.social, engaged member of @msafungi.bsky.social, and a supporter of #inclusive science. My condolences to her young family.
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
VERY proud of this one. Possibly our most significant contribution to #Laboulbeniales systematics thus far (but 2 other important works are underway). Integrative data show clearly that #Stigmatomyces should be split in six genera—all we need to do this are sequences for the type species!
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Jonathan Cazabonne @jonathancazabonne.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
📣 New paper! We showed @inaturalist.bsky.social can be used for “next-level” applications to document the occurrence of Hesperomyces harmoniae on its host, using Québec as a case study. ▶️ www.eaglehill.us/NENAonline/a... @michieldegroot.bsky.social @dhaelewa.bsky.social @teamlaboul.bsky.social
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
📢New paper alert📢 My PhD student Jie Xie studied non-target effects of Hesperomyces harmoniae, fungal ectoparasite of the globally invasive Harmonia axyridis. She performed laboratory bioassays with 3 ladybird species and found differential susceptibility. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... #TeamLaboul
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I’ve just signed this birthday card for Sir David Attenborough’s 100th -- thought you might like to add your name too! act.gp/4uiak8e
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Wish Sir David Attenborough a happy 100th birthday
We are putting together a 100th birthday card from all of us who care about people, nature and planet as much as David does, to celebrate this incredible milestone. Will you add your name today?
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Mycological Society of America @msafungi.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
There are two!! meetings on insect-associated (fungal and other) pathogens taking place soon: 1) The Arthropod-Fungal Associations workshop (3rd edition) in Łódź, Poland, 20-22 May 2026 #AFAworkshop 2) The Insect Pathology Short Course in Ithaca, New York, 7-12 June 2026
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
📢CALL FOR COLLABORATION📢 My PhD student Warre is looking for flies infected with #Laboulbeniales fungi. Especially Musca domestica! If you have any, store in 96% ethanol or in the freezer, record on @inaturalist.bsky.social, and/or contact Warre. #TeamLaboul #LFEE #LuminaQuaeruntur
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The 3rd edition of our ARTHROPOD-FUNGAL ASSOCIATIONS workshop is taking place in Łódź, Poland, 20-22 May 2026. If you're interested in fungal parasites and pathogens, then you ought to register! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #AFAworkshop
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The 3rd edition of our ARTHROPOD-FUNGAL ASSOCIATIONS workshop is taking place in Łódź, Poland, 20-22 May 2026. If you're interested in fungal parasites and pathogens, then you ought to register! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #AFAworkshop
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
📢CALL FOR COLLABORATION📢 My PhD student Warre is looking for flies infected with #Laboulbeniales fungi. Especially Musca domestica! If you have any, store in 96% ethanol or in the freezer, record on @inaturalist.bsky.social, and/or contact Warre. #TeamLaboul #LFEE #LuminaQuaeruntur
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Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬 @mossplants.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Check out our new paper focusing on unaccessioned herbarium specimens. nhcm.pensoft.net/article/1829... We found that bryophytes and fungi/lichens were over-represented in the specimen backlog, compared to vascular plants. This highlights the need for more bryophyte and fungi/lichen identification!
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The state of herbarium specimen backlogs: Perspectives from bryophyte collections
An herbarium must have its specimens processed, identified and accessioned so that members of the botanical community can readily consult these materials. However, many herbaria struggle to keep up wi...
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Camille Truong @camilletruong.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Two new species of cup-forming #fungi from Australia @ausmycsoc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0027...
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Exploring the diversity of Peziza echinospora (Ascomycota, Pezizomycetes) and related species in Australia, with descriptions of the new species P. austroechinospora and P. meridionalis
Peziza echinospora (Ascomycota, Pezizomycetes) is a species of cup-forming fungi that bears spiny, ellipsoid ascospores and is typically found on burnt ground as a saprotrophic species. It has a co...
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
My almost-complete group in #Czechia. Very very proud supervisor! #LuminaQuaeruntur #JuniorStar #LFEE
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
We found Rickia wasmannii, an ant-specific microfungus, on an ant nest-inhabiting rove beetle! Photo: André De Kesel. From our new paper in @insectessociaux.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1007/s000... #OpenAccess #TeamLaboul
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Alan Rockefeller @alanrockefeller.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
A cool little Mycena that I photographed in Oxapampa, Perú. Never seen one with this cool stem texture before, no idea which species it could be. Olympus OM-1 / 90 mm macro lens / 180 images stacked, ISO 200, f/5. #mushrooms #mycena #fungifriends #olympus
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
And today I spent the day driving the moving van back to Belgium. Beautiful sights in 🇨🇿, a much-needed 🇩🇪 breakfast, and... traffic jams from the moment I crossed the border with 🇧🇪. Let's get back to work!
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