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Geoff Zahn @geoffzahn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Select all > Mark as read Works every time

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Leho Tedersoo @tedersoo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

EUKARYOME v2.1 - a major release now available (eukaryome.org): added JGI metagenomes, several long-read datasets + fully updated taxonomies for fungi and protists, including recently described phylum-level lineages

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Michelle Momany @mcmomany.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Join us in UGA Fungal Group! Dept of Microbiology is hiring tenure track Associate or Full prof in Medical Mycology pursuing translational and/or fundamental understanding of human fungal pathogens using any experimental or computational system. www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/508...

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Geoff Zahn @geoffzahn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Have heard some tenure situations requiring these as "evidence of service to the profession" But mostly I want a certificate proving I've seen inbox-zero. Nobody believes it

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Geoff Zahn @geoffzahn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

...I promise you are an interesting person! ...I also promise that 15 other people sent me a functionally identical email this week The only way to find a position that's a good fit for the real you... is to relentlessly be yourself 😎

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Geoff Zahn @geoffzahn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

- show your humanity - *explain why* you want a specific lab setting (not just *that* you want it) - describe your vision - it's okay to show excitement - it's okay to show nervousness - it's excellent to ask targeted questions - ask to begin a conversation Because:

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Geoff Zahn @geoffzahn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Seriously, using a chatbot to broadcast applications isn't a great idea. I have a Claude subscription already, and you are much more expensive, so why should I hire you if all I've seen is a CV and ChatGPT spam. Instead:

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Geoff Zahn @geoffzahn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Bonus if my research in [quote from website] *strongly aligns with* your interests in [unrelated topic]. Please keep the lab and school names in bold to show where you pasted into the template. These things demonstrate intentionality and sincerity.

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Geoff Zahn @geoffzahn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I fed your website into the chat bot and want to do a PhD with you! I'm particularly interested in [really old project]. Your work with [didn't read the paper] is especially impressive because [not x, but y] and is well aligned with my skills in Microsoft office.

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Geoff Zahn @geoffzahn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Really proud of my lab crew. Lovely people gently becoming the next leaders of conservation science and filing me with much-needed optimism 🌿🍄🌊

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Omaya Dudin 𓂆 ¦🍉¦🦠¦🔬¦ @dudinlab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We wanted to share this asap for everyone to use ! This will remain a #preprint for the time being. We are happy to recieve feedback, hear whether or not ot works in your hands and continue to apply it across #eukaryotes as part of #ExÂME You want to know more : www.dudinlab.com/exame

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ExÂME is the Expansion Microscopy Atlas of Microbial Eukaryotes, a community-driven project uncovering the hidden cellular architectures of protists and microbial eukaryotes. Supported by the Moore Fo...

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Lavisha Parab @lavishaparab.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Hi #microbiomesky and #mevosky and also #phagesky maybe? Some of us want a microbiome journal club to catch up on microbiology/evolution related microbiome research. Monthly@15:00 CET/09:00 EST/18:30 IST or so Please text my LMU email address if you're interested (not typing it here to avoid spam)

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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

📣 Postdoc opportunity in the StatDivLab (aka the Willis Lab) at the University of Washington. Amy Willis is doing the some of the most exciting/impactful work in microbiome biostats right now. Highly recommend. Job ad below👇 apply.interfolio.com/188571

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Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D. @annemakerofhats.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Related: if you know a great undergrad interested in grad school (or if YOU are interested), & they'd like to work in fungal biology using population genomics to study pathogenicity and genome plasticity, please encourage them to reach out! See annehatmaker.com/contact/ for more info on how

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Geoff Zahn @geoffzahn.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

First R package generated almost entirely by Codex (just for fun). It is an incredibly important tool that you can't live without. #mycofam #rstats github.com/gzahn/ggshroom

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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

💧🍄 Didn't get to join us live for our Celebration of @BiodiversityDay 2026? It's not too late to learn from our four speakers on topics of freshwater and marine fungi! Check it out online and be inspired! 💧🍄 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsyG...

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Aquatic Fungi Diversity 2026

YouTube video by FUNACTION

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Geoff Zahn @geoffzahn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Somebody has been submitting a lot of HPC jobs

17,252 messages from SLURM about completed jobs

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I'm hiring a postdoc to lead sedimentary aDNA reconstructions of alpine plant biodiversity as part of a broader project exploring the mechanisms of alpine plant resilience. Come join a collaborative team working in beautiful places! Bonus: postdocs at UMaine are unionized!

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Postdoctoral Research Associate

The University of Maine is a community of more than 11,900 undergraduate and graduate students, and 2,500 employees located on the Orono campus, the regional campus in Machias, and throughout the stat...

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Teresa O'Meara @teresaomeara.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

We are hiring @umichmicroimmuno.bsky.social ! Tenure-track assistant professor position in our Microbiology and Immunology department. We are especially looking for someone working in bacterial pathogenesis

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Susana C. Gonçalves 🍄🧪🌍👩🏻‍🔬💪💬 @cfemycolab.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

On David Attenborough’s 100th birthday 🎂 🎉, I recall the 2019 Red List workshop in the building named after him in Cambridge, UK, that inspired me to launch MyCoLAB. From 91 to 195 Red List fungal assessments in one week — and 1,302 today. Thank you for the inspiration, Sir David ❤️

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Geoff Zahn @geoffzahn.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

That's essentially how I spent my 20s, so you're getting younger and more vibrant

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Geoff Zahn @geoffzahn.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

End of the year lab party was scheduled to be a celebration of failure and mediocrity, but we all just got big wins all year 🥰 So grateful to the team

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Tanya Cheeke @tanyacheeke.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

If anyone would like to do PhD work in my plant-soil-microbe & restoration ecology lab at WSU, please email me about this opportunity. Apps due by June 30

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Charlie Anderson @candersonlab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Penn State Biology is hiring! We have an opening for a tenure-line faculty position in plant biology - if you'd like to pursue awesome science in a supportive and interdisciplinary community of researchers, consider applying! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

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Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Plant Biology

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

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IUCN SSC Aquatic Fungi Specialist Group @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

IUCN SSC Aquatic Fungi Specialist Group was presented at the Conference Fungal Conservation in Europe: Evidence to Action (lnkd.in/eAf88AEW) by @isabelrfernandes.bsky.social. It was a great opportunity to highlight the work being done towards #aquaticfungi #conservation💧🍄‍🟫 📸 @zimingwang.bsky.social

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Geoff Zahn @geoffzahn.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This sort of thing is why I gave up tenure and fled Utah. (Lack of water was another reason)

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Geoff Zahn @geoffzahn.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Thrilled for my first funded project in my new lab! Now I just gotta actually do the damn thing 😳 reviverestore.org/ai-guided-mi...

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AI-guided Microbiome Tools for Seagrass Resilience - Revive & Restore

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Ammar Abdalrahem @ammarabdalrahem.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

1/🧵 Major milestone unlocked for mycology! 🍄 We just published a massive genomic resource in 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚, releasing 2,695 complete circular mitochondrial species assembled from public data This single dataset nearly 𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐒 📈the known mitochondrial diversity of the Kingdom Fungi rdcu.be/eYZ2h

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Carlos Aguilar-Trigueros @aguilart.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Disperal ecology meets fungi! It is more than just spores people! Check this paper led by ECR @sarahcuprewich.bsky.social and Kristin Barbour! Fun collab supported @cu-esiil.bsky.social One hundred unanswered questions on the dispersal ecology of fungi url: academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

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One hundred unanswered questions on the dispersal ecology of fungi

Abstract. Fungi comprise millions of species that play numerous varied roles in Earth’s natural and managed ecosystems, engaging in a multitude of positive

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Geoff Zahn @geoffzahn.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

In Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, faster-than-light travel is enabled by math based on restaurant bills. I propose that numbers in collaborative grant budgets follow the same rules of non-determinism. I just can't.

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Geoff Zahn @geoffzahn.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Upon this rock, I will build my church.

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Fungal Ecology 🍄 @fungal-ecology.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

What fungi live in the leaves of Pando, the massive aspen clone in Utah, USA? And how do they vary across the spatial extent of this 43 hectare clonal plant? Find out in this article in our latest issue of Fungal Ecology: doi.org/10.1016/j.fu... (photo by US Forest Service)

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Geoff Zahn @geoffzahn.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Sunrise commute and supercomputer. Two good things.

Pedestrian canopy boardwalk with early sunrise through trees

Squeaky clean new server room with multiple tower racks

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Geoff Zahn @geoffzahn.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

New paper is out with the amazing @greenwoodthegreat.bsky.social We used the largest tree on Earth (Pando) to test edge effects on microbial assembly without the background noise of host genetic variation! authors.elsevier.com/a/1mPqy6ExPy...

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Geoff Zahn @geoffzahn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

And for my next trick, a scrap-wood centrifuge!

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Auriel Fournier @rallidaerule.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I'm hiring a postdoc to work with myself, Dr Jim Lyons and the entire NOAA Firebird team on the adaptive management part of our larger project focused on the impacts of prescribed fire on Gulf Coast wetlands Accepting applications until Feb 15th blogs.illinois.edu/view/7426/19...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate - NOAA Firebird - Illinois Natural History Survey/PRI - Application Deadline: February 15, 2026

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Geoff Zahn @geoffzahn.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

And, the lab space is finally shaping up!

Glassware cabinet looking very organized and beautiful

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Geoff Zahn @geoffzahn.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

This week I welcome @taliamycota.bsky.social as my first ever postdoc in the lab! She's gonna be working on microbial communities and learning to eat oysters without a fork. Very excited!

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 10/01/2022

It's the most magical time of the year — when estimates of last year's global average temperature anomaly come out. Time to dust off my "last year was hot" auto-response.

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

for the turning of the year...

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