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Iryna Yatsiuk

@irynaya.bsky.social

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PhD, mycologist, she/her myxomycetes taxonomy phylogenetics biodata Ukraine and cats

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Iryna Yatsiuk @irynaya.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

🧬It's time to Read the Slime! #Slimemoulds are weird, wonderful, and still understudied fungi-like organisms. You can help understand them. Join the new FunDive citizen science campaign to find and sequence them 👉 fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol... #ReadTheSlime #CitizenScience #Barcoding #FunDive

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Iryna Yatsiuk @irynaya.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Thrilled to join @jzpawlowska.bsky.social ’s group for a postdoc. I'll be still working on #myxomycetes! We’ll explore how species concepts shape our view of their distribution with conservation in mind. Plus, citizen science via the FunDive project: sequencing + public help = species discovery!

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Iryna Yatsiuk @irynaya.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

My regular column: Hello from the past, or what I find in old herbaria. Why don’t they make such stylish packs anymore? #herbarium #specimens

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IMA Fungus @imafungus.pensoft.net · 18/02/2025

Read the new issue here: imafungus.pensoft.net/issue/5041/

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IMA Fungus 16

 IMA Fungus, founded in 2010, is the flagship journal of the International Mycological Association (IMA).The IMA represents the interests of mycology and mycologists worldwide, through a series o...

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Iryna Yatsiuk @irynaya.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Our paper about good practice for species description in myxomycetes is among the first 10 published in @imafungus.pensoft.net with @pensoft.net publisher. Enjoy #openaccess doi.org/10.3897/imaf...

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Species descriptions in myxomycetes – can we settle on rules for good taxonomic practice?

Myxomycetes are a unique branch of life, recognisable by sporophores showing a fungus-like dispersal biology. These structures bear nearly all diagnostic characters for species identification and deve...

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Iryna Yatsiuk @irynaya.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Lowkey regretted that I quit smoking a while ago #herbarium #old_specimens

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Iryna Yatsiuk @irynaya.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Another strange #myxomycete from TAAM #herbarium. A Didymium, collected 50 years ago in Adygea, North Caucasus. At first glance, I thought it was one of pretty common species of D. iridis-complex.

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Iryna Yatsiuk @irynaya.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

How to describe a new species? Why studying slime moulds matters? Check out my popular science article in ERR Novaator. (In Estonian, activate google translation on a page) novaator.err.ee/1609529668/d... #slimemoulds #myxomycetes #biodiversity

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Iryna Yatsiuk @irynaya.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

And Amoebozoa are usually not even included in charts like this

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Iryna Yatsiuk @irynaya.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Myxophoto of the day: Cribraria cancellata. Wnite mycelium is a myxoparasitic fungus, probably Nectriopsis sp. #slimemoulds #myxomycetes #herbarium

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Iryna Yatsiuk @irynaya.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

My first post here. American myxomycetes in Estonia! I started digging into the herbarium of The Estonian University of Life Sciences (TAAM). The first and most astonishing discovery is that part of George Willard Martin's collection from the USA is quietly residing here in Tartu.

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