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INVAM @invam.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🍄🌱 What does it mean to maintain a living fungal collection? Maintaining the world's largest living collection of AM fungi is a daily commitment. Take a look at what it takes to keep this living collection thriving. Learn more & support INVAM: launchku.org/campaigns/su... #Fungi #Mycorrhizae

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INVAM @invam.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

🍄 INVAM is launching a fundraising campaign! We maintain the world’s largest living collection of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi—microscopic partners that support plant health, soils, and ecosystems. Help keep this unique resource alive 🌱 launchku.org/campaigns/su...

Scientist looking at microscope view of fungal spores

Plant hosts cultivating AM fungal spores in the greenhouse

Microscope view of fungal spores and root fragments

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INVAM @invam.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Beautiful AMF spore images

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Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) @spun.earth · 02/02/2026

Massive thanks to those that have been rallying to help save @invam.bsky.social. Research on fungal life, climate resilience, agriculture, and ecosystem restoration depends on living collections like INVAM and on the staff who sustain them. 🔗 Donate: invam.ku.edu/donate

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INVAM @invam.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Research collections like INVAM don’t exist without community support. Thank you to everyone helping amplify why this work matters.

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INVAM @invam.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

🍄 Invest in the future of fungal science! The INVAM Endowment at KU has a new Donor Support page. Your gift sustains INVAM's global fungal collection and supports research worldwide. 👉Help spread the word through your fungal network. invam.ku.edu/donate

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

A poster on 8.5 x 11 inch paper saga Fishtown fish facts: red lipped catfish or of ocephalus Darwini. Then a pic of that freaky fish with 4 limbs it rests on the ground and then the words “stg this fish real red-lipped batfish walk ocean floor with they flippers RLBF have RBF, not they fault
RLBF have a bioluminescent lure that glows to attract dinner
RLBF lipgloss is popping, RLBF lipgloss is cool, all the fish keep jockin, they chase RLBF after school
RLBF got scales like armor and shine bright like a diamond
Red-lipped batfish will teach you how to dougie, I can promise u that.

@yaboyni
Take a moment
And and realize the moment
You took has already passed
Thank you
See you next time

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INVAM @invam.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Thrilled to see the INVAM fungal collection—and our dedicated curators—featured in the Fall issue of @sierramagazine.bsky.social Preserving the world’s largest library of mycorrhizal fungi to power ecosystem restoration, science, and sustainable ag. 🦠🌱🌍 🔗 digital.sierramagazine.org/publication/...

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Sierra Magazine Fall 2025: The Library of Spores

Behind the effort to grow mycorrhizal fungi for ecosystem restoration Photos by Arin Yoon Share This Article NESTLED AMID KANSAS’S rolling hills and …

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INVAM @invam.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Apply for a research grant to come visit us at INVAM!

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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

If you're looking to visit (a) herbarium collection(s), or improve or maintain small collections of plants/fungi/algae, consider applying for an @iaptglobal.bsky.social Research Grant or Small Collections Grant! Applications for the 2026 round will open soon. www.iaptglobal.org/grants

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British Mycological Society @britmycolsoc.org.uk · 28/08/2025

📣 Call for papers! Special issue of #FungalEcology on “Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions” co-edited by Susana C. Gonçalves @cfemycolab.bsky.social & Jonathan Cazabonne @jonathancazabonne.bsky.social. Deadline for manuscripts: 31 Jan 2026. Find out more: www.linkedin.com/company/brit...

Cover of the BMS's Fungal Ecology journal

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César Marín @cmarin.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Call for symposia at @ICOM2026 is open until 15 October. The 13 conference of @mycorrhiza_ims #Mycorrhiza will take place in Cairns, Australia, 12-17 July 2026! @southmycorrhiza @karst_justine @fmartin1954 @1pantunes #soil #fungi icom2026.org/symposia/

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INVAM @invam.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

A landscape architect visited INVAM. We showed that while our compound scope + $$$$ camera setup takes stunning shots of fungi in roots, you can still get surprisingly good ones with a $300 box-store scope and a phone. Check out these roots—AM fungal structures stained dark blue, absolutely loaded!

Microscope eyepiece in focus with a cell phone camera.

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Liz Koziol @lizkoziol.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

We are hiring a full time lab technician to assist with several long-term richness/biodiversity/microbe/drought/restoration manupulation experiments at the KU field station. Applications due this week! Please share. Job Posting - Research Technician share.google/GsSTtiW4rIm5...

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Jean-Michel Ané @jeanmichelane.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The latest publication from our lab! The famous "glomalin" from arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi is not a protein but a polysaccharide from AM fungi, so we renamed it "glomalose". Glomalin-related proteins are bacterial proteins stuck in this glomalose. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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INVAM @invam.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

This podcast explores INVAM, the world's largest AM fungi collection housed at @universityofkansas.bsky.social, to uncover what makes #mycorrhizae great! 🧪🦠🔬🍄🌏

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Celia Llopis-Jepsen @celialj.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

New episode of Up From Dust! Soil health is all the rage. It's also big $$$. But what if the products you're buying aren't worth the dough? Come learn about a kind of microbe everyone wants in their soil -- and the billion-dollar industry that sells it. www.kcur.org/2025-04-01/t...

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Liz Koziol @lizkoziol.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Teaching the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi lab next week at @universityofkansas.bsky.social! I’ve prepped spores from ten different species to showcase the diversity in color, shape, and size. Fungal diversity is truly beautiful! 🍄🧪🦠🌏 Huge thanks to @invam.bsky.social for donating the materials!

Nine species of AM fungal spores. So pretty!

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Dr. Bala Chaudhary @balachaudhary.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Hey BlueSky! I made a starter pack for folks working on mycorrhizal symbioses. LMK who else to include! go.bsky.app/285P8Tn

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Dr Katherine Duncan @kateduncan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I’ve merged both starter packs - here’s 71 microbial natural products researchers - want to be added? Let me know! go.bsky.app/72NeGsT #microsky #secmet #naturalproducts #specializedmetabolites

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Sidney Stürmer @sturmer.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

How resilient are AMF cultures? Gi. decipiens SCT711C and Paraglomus sp. SCT771G stored for 8 years at 4C still kicking and alive. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year for you all folks!! Cheers

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Liz Koziol @lizkoziol.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Happy holidays y'all #mycosky 🦠

Spores of AM fungi in the shape of a Christmas tree.

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Sidney Stürmer @sturmer.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Second day of the X Workshop on Taxonomy of Glomeromycota and we already discussed the spore development model, observed 10 spp. in Gigasporaceae, discussed methods to grow these fungi and visited facilities of CICG. We are ready to dive in Acaulosporaceae and Entrophosporaceae tomorrow!!

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hello, I think we need a starter pack on mycorrhizal ecology, don't you think? I started on one, who did I miss... go.bsky.app/bqwe5h

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Mycorrhizal ecology

Join the conversation

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Botanical University Challenge @bucbotany.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

🌾🌍🌱🍄🌿🌳🌺🧪Articles in latest newsletter #BUC2024 by students who competed in it. What is a Fungarium? Read about RBG Kew's Fungarium and work on taxonomy, identification and distribution of fungi. Download the whole article at botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/

Picture of young man with rows and rows of boxes holding dried fungal specimens behind him. Second photo of some of specimens on a trolly being taken for DNA profiling. Text around pictures about work of Fungarium. Read full article at https://botanicaluniversitychallenge.co.uk/the-thymes/ Image credit: Kew/Finn Harrigan

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Sidney Stürmer @sturmer.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Lab is all set and organized to receive students, technicians and researchers from Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina and Peru to attend the X Workshop on Taxonomy of Glomeromycota. Four days learning about AMF spore morphology, spore wall, germinal walls, and how to grow them. Excited!!

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INVAM @invam.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Rob Ramos and @CamilleDelavaux visited us to sequence some of the collection. INVAM curators Jim Bever, Terra Lubin, Peggy Schultz and @lizkoziol.bsky.social spent hundreds of hours isolating #AMF spores, and Rob & Camille worked really hard to make sure this project was a success! 🧪 🍄📷🔬

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INVAM @invam.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

A starter pack for biological collections. go.bsky.app/5bEgvUF

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INVAM @invam.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

The INVAM team had the pleasure of hosting Endy and Djanira from K-State last month to train on morphological spore ID, chat about collaborations, and discuss their research projects! #AMF #fungi

Image of the INVAM team with the visitors.

Liz Koziol shows Endy some spores at the microscope.

Terra Lubin shows Dja some spores at the microscope.

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INVAM @invam.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Some AMF spores in sorghum roots!

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