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Jennifer Anderson

@jandbio.bsky.social
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Mycologist & Evo biologist passionate about aquatic fungi, equal opps & diversity. she/her. views mine. 🇵🇸🇺🇦.

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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 7h
Excited to be in Stockholm @ #Naturvårdsverket presenting #MoSTFun at a meeting of 🇸🇪 @biodiversa.eu funded #BiodivMon projects. Together we are making vital advances in Biomonitoring to protect biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human health and culture.
Street scene in Stockholm showing the Naturvårdsverkey sign in the upper window of a dark red building we also see commuters, autumn colored trees, and a mostly cloudy sky.
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Check out this great opportunity to learn about Nagoya and ABS. Note, genetic resources are on our radar here and I think this is a confusing topic for many. 🌟Register and Join!🌟 The times listed are UTC. For Sweden this will start at 3 pm. The registration link will show your correct time.
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#FatBearWeek voting starts Tuesday 🐻 the brackets are set. Check it out. explore.org/fat-bear-week
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Fat Bear Week 2026 - Explore.org
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm a huge fan of #AquaticFungi, but do you know what else are amazing, important, and understudied? #Protists. I'm having a protist-filled Friday, starting with the fantastic ongoing defense of soon to be 'Dr.' @annewalraven.bsky.social of the @fburki.bsky.social lab. Check out her fantastic work 🎉
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Anne Walraven: Revealing the plastid symbioses in the marine centrohelid Meringosphaera: a novel model system for plastid evolution – Uppsala University
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#AquaticFungi on popular Swedish podcast Fråga Anders & Måns! 1️⃣ Someone sent in a question about fungi in water 😍 AND it was not me or anyone I know 😁. 2️⃣ Anders and Måns had listened to the recent interview with @zimingwang.bsky.social and I on #SverigesRadio 😍interview in Swedish/English link in 🧵
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Avsnitt 224: Uno Svenningsson är ingen svamp
Fråga Anders och Måns · Episode
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Check it out! The Aquatic Hyphomycetes @inaturalist.bsky.social group has 1521 observations!!!
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Aquatic Hyphomycetes
Species belonging to the ecological group: aquatic hyphomycetes. They are abundant in small streams but can be found in other ecosystems like ponds, lakes or tree holes. For unknown Aquatic Hyphomycet...
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I just found one of the papers from my Masters online @biodivlibrary.bsky.social 🎉 Don't be fooled, it was not written by some dude named John (correction request submitted). Meet Halosarpheia heteroguttulata's anamorph www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/415018
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A fun read for your Friday. Check out this 🧵
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Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Praise for all the microorganisms that help to degrade dead plant material in aquatic ecosystems. These include #aquatichyphomycetes. microscopesandmonsters.wordpress.com/2013/10/07/a...
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About crackers, peanut butter and marmite …
I’m a sucker for good metaphors and analogies when I’m teaching. These are great for linking the ideas that I am trying to communicate with things with which the students are already familiar. One …
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
2 minutes on #AquaticFungi on #SverigesRadio online now. The longer interview airs at 12:09. Great that @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social Was already mentioned the the short version🎉
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
📻 Monday 12:09 on channel P1 and online (mixed English & Swedish) Tune in to hear @zimingwang.bsky.social and I discuss #AquaticFungi with journalist Sara Sällström of #SverigesRadio! We hope people will be inspired to learn more! www.sverigesradio.se/vetenskap
Scientist Dr. Ziming Wang is in the middle of the Fyris River (which has very low water in this photo) with scientific equipment around him on the rocks. Ziming is taking water samples from the river for the study of aquatic fungi. Journalist Sara Sällström is navagiating the rocks to get close to Ziming with her microphone to record the sounds of doing this research. A spiky black piece of art appears over Sara's right shoulder. This is part of an art instillation at Ulva Kvarn at the time of the recording. Art by Johan Fremling "Den obekymrade vägvisaren" ("The carefree guide").
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#AquaticFungi included in this new Perspective paper. @isabelrfernandes.bsky.social's contribution to a workshop at WBF2024 and subsequently this paper has ensured that AF are on the radar when we talk about Arctic Biodiversity. @mostfun.bsky.social @funaction.bsky.social
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Envisioning desirable futures for Arctic biodiversity to overcome “doom and gloom”
“Doom and gloom” has become a dominant narrative about the impacts of climate change on the Arctic and its unique cold-adapted biodiversity. However, recent work highlights that such narratives can pr...
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Congrats to Rebecca Poms on completing a double MSc in the EnvEuro Master's program 🎉💧🍄 Rebecca dove into the world of #AquaticFungi and took up the challenge to start establishing approaches to monitor AF functions via qPCR. She also found cool interspecific variation for decomposition! Brava!
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Linking fungal dynamics and functional genes to environmental factors - Epsilon Archive for Student Projects
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Isabel Fernandes (she/her) @isabelrfernandes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
🚨Workshop Fungi in the Flow 🚨 Happening this October in Bucaramanga, Colombia. ⭐Grants available⭐ Check details. 👇🏻 Please share widely! eventos.uis.edu.co/congreso-de-...
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Workshop: Fungi In The Flow - Eventos de la Universidad Industrial de Santander
Workshop: Fungi in the flow ¡CONVOCATORIA ABIERTA! Taller de capacitación sobre la inexplorada biodiversidad de hongos acuáticos en Colombia Beca de participación Se seleccionaran 9 estudiantes Condic...
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
New to my ‘to read’ list. Check it out.
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Rubén del Campo @rubendelcampo.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
#Drying affects #river functioning at the network scale. Now, we know that local drying events interact w/ regional connectivity to control 🍂decomposition by shaping decomposers #diversity. Curious? Learn more in our new paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Drying Halves Decomposition Rates in River Networks by Decreasing Decomposer Diversity
Short drying events can have long-lasting impacts on the functioning of whole river networks. We found that just a few days without water reduced leaf decomposition by up to half, because drying redu...
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Have you heard of Oikopleura? These tiny pelagic tunicates make their own mucus "houses" that trap food as they float. Super amazing opportunity to study them in Barcelona!
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Look at figure 2B. Women as first author max ~35%, as corresponding author ~22%. Now think of all those hiring committees sitting around and recommending which candidates be hired based "high profile" paper(s). This happens every day--it is one way (of many) gender bias perpetuates in science.
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Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals
Analyses of deidentified data reveal complex interactions that quantify success at elite general science journals.
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Biodiversity Meets Data @bmd-project.eu · 02/07/2026
💡 Biodiversa+ (@biodiversa.eu) has published a new White Paper contributing scientific evidence to the ongoing discussion around the European Commission’s 2026 stress test of the EU Birds and Habitats Directives. 🔗 www.biodiversa.eu/2026/06/22/w...
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
How does #FUNACTION work to protect biodiversity? In addition to our own projects towards #aquaticfungi conservation, we contribute to important biodiversity policy dialogues. For the latest see below. @lauragarzoli.bsky.social @isabelrfernandes.bsky.social @funaction.bsky.social
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Martin Jung @martinjung.eu · 17/06/2026
Do consider attending! Also if you are interested in systematic conservation planning, we are offering a pre-conference training course (free) 😃
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Monni Böhm @monnikaboom.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Yesterday was a big day for #aquaticfungi at the #WorldBiodiversityForum in Davos. We had a great session on "Closing knowledge gaps in fungal biodiversity and its conservation", with several talks from Biodiversa+ funded consortia FUNACTION & MoSTFun! @funaction.bsky.social @mostfun.bsky.social
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
#AquaticFungi communicated as art at #WBF2026 by Sara Manfio with science collaborator Pietro Marchese! A unique invitation for the biodiversity community to engage with these diverse, ecologically important, and beautiful fungi 🎉 @funaction.bsky.social
Artist Sara Manfio stands before a large teal droplet shaped vertical exhibition space with multiple small painted canvases depicting life under water including spores of aquatic fungi. The installation includes several large Petri dishes with live fungal cultures.
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
It’s happening in Davos now Workshop at #WBF2026 Developing Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for Fungi and other microeukaryotes @mostfun.bsky.social @funaction.bsky.social @fundive-fungi.bsky.social @biodiversa.eu #DNASense
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
#AquaticFungi at World Biodiversity Forum 2026? Oh yes---including as art! Floating Life by Sara Manfio and Pietro Marchese worldbiodiversityforum.org/arts-at-wbf2...
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Arts at WBF2026
The science is clear, the facts are here, but where is the action? To embed science into society, facts alone do not reach the public. This is where the collaboration between art and science becomes n...
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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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Gernot Segelbacher 🪶 🧬 @gsegelbacher.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Genetic Diversity is important! And we need to monitor it to stop further loss. This should be done at local and international scale in policy and management. If you want to read more - read this review, led by the amazing Australian dream team: #consgen 🦤 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Halting genetic diversity loss, from local to international action and policy - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
The loss of genetic diversity is a major threat to population resilience, posing a challenge for conservation efforts. This Review highlights how the integration of large-scale biodiversity monitoring...
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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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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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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
16 years ago I sat with rapt attention in my car in the pouring rain listening to the Stierle's discussing the amazing organisms living in the devil's cocktail that is the Berkeley pit in Butte Montana, their chemistry, & potential for bioremediation. Now its your turn radiolab.org/podcast/9172...
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Even the Worst Laid Plans? - Transcript
Soren Wheeler takes us to Butte Montana, where an open pit copper mine’s demise leads to a toxic lake filled with corrosive runoff.
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British Mycological Society @britmycolsoc.org.uk · 26/05/2026
The Global Strategy for Fungal Conservation is open for public consultation. The strategy identifies the global biodiversity targets that will not be met unless fungal #biodiversity is protected and sustainably used. 👉 Give your feedback here bit.ly/4wCyVX2 by 22 June. #fungi #conservation
Screenshot of the feedback form, with a photo of pink fungi on a dark background
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Webinar Friday! Join us Friday 22 May to celebrate #BiodiversityDay
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IUCN SSC Aquatic Fungi Specialist Group @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
📢NEW WEBINAR Explore #aquaticfungi this #BiodiversityDay! Talks on aquatic hyphomycetes endophytes, aquatic fungi from South America, aquatic fungi stoichiometry, marine mycology. 🗓️ 22 May ⏰ 1pm UTC 💻 Online 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/aquaticfungi... #Fungi #funga #FungalDiversity #Conservation
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Aquatic Fungi Diversity 2026! Celebrate #BiodiversityDay with us 💧🍄This Friday💧🍄 4 talks highlighting marine and freshwater fungi by experts from around the world. Register here: tinyurl.com/aquaticfungi... @funaction.bsky.social @mostfun.bsky.social @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social & GCSS
Invitation to join webinar. Background photo is a stream flowing through lush forest with many shades of green. The stream reflects the green of the trees and the gray-blue of the sky. The main text reads: Aquatic Fungi Diversity 2026. Join us in the celebration of the International Day for Biological Diversity 2026. Learn about the wonderrul and diverse world of aquatic fungi with 4 talks on endophytic aquatic hyphomycetes, aquatic fungi
stoichiometry, aquatic fungi from South America and marine mycology.
This webinar will take place via Zoom.
22 MAY, 2026 13:00-14:15 (UTC)
Register now: https://tinyurl.com/aquaticfungi2026
The logos for the organizations and projects co-hosting the event are shown. They include: the FUNACTION and MoSTFun projects the Global Center for species Survival and the IUCN SSC Aquatic Fungi SG. The logo for Biodiversa+ and the EU flag are present to acknowledge funding and co-funding of the two research projects.
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
💧🍄 How to integrate #AquaticFungi into biodiversity monitoring? #MoSTFun is taking on this challenge through stakeholder engagement, sampling, exploring existing data and more. Last week, Andi Bruder brought aquatic fungi to the attention of policy and other key stakeholders at #BioMonWeek2026.
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
#FUNACTION-- Supporting evidence-based decisions to protect freshwater biodiversity #30x30 @funaction.bsky.social Daniel 👇 is building a start-to-finish tool for Systematic Conservation Planning with interactive maps that includes: ✅ Biodiversity ✅ Connectivity ✅ Real-world costs (💰/🚜/🎣)
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Rob Yaxley @robyaxley.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Two lichens that live below the high water mark on rocky shores. Wahlenbergiella mucosa and W. striatula. Also the marine lichen that lives on barnacles, Collemopsidium foveolatum - the tiny openings on the rough surface of the barnacle are formed by the lichen.
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Fungi get <0.2% of conservation $ Almost all ⬆️ $ is for 🍄 mushrooms <10% of fungi form 🍄 At the Fungal Conservation in Europe Conference @funaction.bsky.social, @mostfun.bsky.social & @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social brought aquatic micro-fungi to the fore. It's time to be included in conservation!
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Isabel Fernandes (she/her) @isabelrfernandes.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Super proud of my former PhD student Diana Graça for publishing another paper from her PhD. 🎉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... More to come in the future! Stay tuned!!! #aquaticfungi #fungi #funga #biodiversity #multiplestressors #drying #freshwaters
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Species Matter: Aquatic Fungal Richness and Identity Enhances Recovery From Drying Events
The increasing human population growth raises water demand, while global change brings additional challenges, such as higher temperatures, nutrient enrichment and altered precipitation patterns. T...
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
#FCE2026 @catiacanteiro.bsky.social used #AquaticFungi in her talk on the upcoming Global Strategy for Fungal Conservation An Aniptodera photo by @huzefaraj.bsky.social
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
#FCE2026 is underway! Fungal Conservation in Europe this week at SLU in Uppsala. This conference has brought together amazing mycologists, conservation professionals and citizen scientists focusing on fungi in conservation!
Greg Mueller presenting talk “From ignored kingdom to global priority: integrating fungi in policy and action”.
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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Exciting fungi book news: Ascomycete.org will publish the first volume of a series of books titled Pézizomycètes d'Europe this year. Edited by Nicolas Van Vooren, with contributions from specialists from several countries #MycoBookClub #FungiFriends
Book cover: Pézizomycètes d'Europe with a macro photo of a small fungus with asci and spores visible
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Global Center for Species Survival @protectspecies.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Voting is still open! The Final Round of the Uproar Conservation Challenge is here, and it's up to you to decide which of the final four species takes home the $10,000 conservation prize. Vote now at UproarChallenge.com until 1:30pm EST on April 4, winner announced at 2pm #uproarchallenge
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
It was a privilege to present today on Tetracladium at #Fungal26 in this conference’s first session focused on #AquaticFungi! Also featured were novel chemistry from aquatic fungi, pelagic, deep sea and hypersaline fungi, and even how chytrid spores crawl! Find this session @
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Homepage - 33rd Fungal Genetics Conference
Visit our website to learn more.
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
🍄 Don’t forget to vote for fungi in the sweet 16 round in the Uproar Conservation Challenge. 2 fungi made it to this round—only your votes can keep them in the competition. 🍄 #UproarChallenge #fungi #conservation uproar.indianapoliszoo.com
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Uproar Conservation Challenge, presented by T-Fiber – A New Initiative of the Indianapolis Zoo
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FUNACTION @funaction.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
FUNACTION coordinator @jandbio.bsky.social walked in Pacific Grove California as part of the MOSTFUNACTION team #WorldWaterRun Jennifer is attending the Fungal Genetics Conference, which is having a session on aquatic fungi for the first time! #aquaticfungi #WorldWaterDay2026
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
#AquaticFungi will make a splash at the upcoming Fungal Conservation in Europe meeting. 🌟 I know of 3 oral presentations featuring work to build capacity, raise awareness of aquatic fungi, and integrate them into conservation and monitoring. @mostfun.bsky.social @funaction.bsky.social
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Fungal Conservation in Europe: Evidence to Action
We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming meeting: Fungal Conservation in Europe: Evidence to Action which will take place in Uppsala, Sweden 14-17 April 2026.
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Loving that Team Indianapolis Zoo is thinking about #AquaticFungi during #WorldWaterRun26!
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Jennifer Anderson @jandbio.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Team Mostfunaction I’m participating in #WorldWaterRun26 from #Fungal26 at Asilomar (California)—where the conference features a session on #AquaticFungi for the first time! @mostfun.bsky.social @funaction.bsky.social
Seagulls on the beach at Asilomar State Park, California in the early morning. There is a beautiful orange-pink stripe where the water meets the sky.
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Monni Böhm @monnikaboom.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
EVERYBODY LOVES AN UNDERDOG STORY! You can read more about the discovery of the Indiana Sooty-Spored Freshwater Fungus in this blog post! Then vote for this amazing species that's been hiding in plain (well, wet) sight for so long! uproar.indianapoliszoo.com www.indianapoliszoo.com/gcss/blog/zo...
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Indianapolis Zoo Grant Fungi Discovery
Two Indianapolis Zoo grant recipients and a team of Conservation Coordinators with the Global Center for Species Survival have discovered an entirely new kind of freshwater fungus in Indiana.
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