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Sara Branco

@sbranco.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Denver. Fungal adaptation and everything related.

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Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org · 01/10/2026
We're committing $23M over 5 years to support research excellence at HBCUs through two new grants: the HBCU Centers of Excellence Program and the HBCU Faculty Fellowship Program. Now accepting applications: bit.ly/4zu6OdB #science #math #funding
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Apply Now: New Grants to Support HBCU Faculty and Research Excellence
Apply Now: New Grants to Support HBCU Faculty and Research Excellence on Simons Foundation
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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I'm looking to hire a postdoc to work on the RepAdapt + MacroMar projects, analysing genomic data from >130 species of plants, animals, and fungi (VCFs are processed, ready to go). Lots of potential for creativity and collaboration! yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...
Picture shows fireweed in foreground and Mt. Lougheed in background
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Friends! Do you know a lot of PhD-holding nerds?? I'm surveying people who came from abroad to complete a PhD in the US, after the Trump admin announced student visas will only cover 4 years and folks must then seek uncertain renewal from USCIS. Please share! www.porchpartynews.com/p/trump-rule...
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Were you an international student who got an American PhD? Take our survey!
A new Trump rule forces foreign doctoral candidates to apply mid-degree for an uncertain visa extension. What will that mean for academia and society—and people’s lives?
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Sara Branco @sbranco.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Yes!
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Sara Branco @sbranco.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Congrats Primrose!!!
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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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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Wondering what you shouldn't say in a proposal? Call your program officer. Wondering what happened in panel? Call your program officer. Wondering how the latest federal stuff may affect your proposal? Call your program officer. Call your PO. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/call-your-pr...
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Call your Program Officer
Yes, you. Schedule a phone call. This is the hidden curriculum.
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Lotus Lofgren @lotuslofgren.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Hey #fungal26 our lab is hiring a postdoctoral researcher for an NSF funded project in ectomycorrhizal competition. Come find me for more info! www.lotuslofgren.com/pd2026
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PD ad 2026 — The Lofgren Lab
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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics! My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026. We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems. #Postdoc #EcoEvo Pls RT!
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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Researchers in the US might be having feelings about writing grants atm-I know I am! We still need to write them. In this Evolution Exchange, I again chat with Sam Scheiner, who summarizes how to write a competitive proposal. His advice is gold, and helpful regardless of funder. Pls RT!
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
SSE is pleased to offer free virtual #Evol2026 registration to all SSE members residing in 152 countries and territories around the world including India, Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. Request your free registration code today! www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...
Evolution 2026 meeting logo. Clilp art of a globe and laptop showing a virtual presentation. Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Global Meeting Participation.
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Sara Branco @sbranco.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
The NSF strategic plan FY 2026-30 is available for public comment until Jan 27. Please make your voice heard! www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...
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NSF seeks public input on its Fiscal Year (FY) 2026–2030 NSF Strategic Plan
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Sara Branco @sbranco.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
The NSF strategic plan FY 2026-30 is available for public comment until Jan 27. Please make your voice heard! www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...
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NSF seeks public input on its Fiscal Year (FY) 2026–2030 NSF Strategic Plan
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Priscila Chaverri @pchaverri.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
We have reached 10% of our goal and have enough for one travel award! Amazing! Thank you to those who donated 🙏🏻 We aim to raise funds for nine more travel awards. Let’s keep the momentum! gofund.me/c8eaea7df @ima-mycology.org
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Donate to Supporting Fungal Scientists From Low-Income Countries, organized by Priscila Chaverri
Fungi are essential to life on Earth, supporting food product… Priscila Chaverri needs your support for Supporting Fungal Scientists From Low-Income Countries
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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Want to study the genomics of repeated adaptation with data from hundreds of species? New funding for non-Canadians @ grad or postdoc level. Internal competition at UCalgary with very short deadline so please get in touch ASAP!! sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/funding/o...
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Ted Morgan @tedmorgan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
NSF PDs will be @sicb.bsky.social. Stop by booth 308 if you would like to sign up to chat with us or catch us in the conference center. Informal workshop and Q and A session, Sunday Jan 4th from 12:15 to 1:15 in B110/111. #SICB2026.
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Priscila Chaverri @pchaverri.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Please consider donating to this cause. We started this fundraising initiative to help mycologists from low-income countries attend international mycological congresses. The next one is in South Korea 2027. Help us make fungi science more accessible! gofund.me/c8eaea7df @ima-mycology.com
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
This #postdoc position is now officially advertised: www.dannyhaelewaters.com/opening-for-.... #hiring #newPI #CzechScienceFoundation #LFEE
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Opening for another postdoctoral position in my lab
We are inviting applications for a postdoctoral researcher to support the Laboratory of Fungal Ecology and Evolution, and join our GAČR Junior Star project studying interactions and feedbacks among…
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Sara Branco @sbranco.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
NSF will host virtual office hours next week. Please register if you’d like to know more www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-b...
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NSF BIO Virtual Office Hour: Updates from the NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences
Please join the NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences for a virtual office hour on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, at 1 p.m. Eastern time.
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Sara Branco @sbranco.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
NSF policy changes - some updates that PIs should be aware of. www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...
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Policy Notice: Implementation of Policy Changes to Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) 24-1, Supplement 1
This notice implements several revisions to NSF's Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) 24-1.
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Sara Branco @sbranco.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Everything you always wanted to know about mushroom-forming fungi! Great collab with amazing mycologists. Thanks Laszlo Nagy for leading this effort! www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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The biodiversity, genomics, ecology and evolution of mushroom-forming fungi - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Mushroom-forming fungi have along evolutionary history and a suite of important ecological roles. This Review highlights advances in understanding of Agaricomycetes evolution and ecology driven by gen...
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Aaron Vogan @fungage-lab.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
We're looking for a PhD student! If you're interested in #fungal #genomics & #TEs, meiotic drive, or pathogens, please consider applying. The project is about toxin/antidote genes in the human fungal pathogen A. fumigatus. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Image of yeast spotted on an agar plate. Some grow well, others are dying.
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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
NSF is open again! A few comments: *Please be patient. During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails. *Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th. *POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I have an opening for a postdoctoral position in my Laboratory of Fungal Ecology and Evolution at the Biology Centre CAS, Institute of Entomology, in České Budějovice, Czechia. www.dannyhaelewaters.com/opening-for-... #LFEE #postdoc #hiring
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Opening for a postdoctoral position in my lab
We are inviting applications for a postdoctoral researcher to support the Laboratory of Fungal Ecology and Evolution, and join our project studying obligatory multitrophic interactions. Project Ove…
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Sara Branco @sbranco.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Interested in training students in fungal biology and genomics in your classroom? Myco-Ed is for you!! Amazing educational program supported by JGI and described in journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
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Myco-Ed: Mycological curriculum for education and discovery
Fungi are important and hyperdiverse organisms, yet chronically understudied. Most fungal clades have no reference genomes, impeding our understanding of their ecosystem functions and use as solutions...
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
We have a new paper out in Molecular Ecology, led by @devinbendixsen.bsky.social ! Reproductive isolation due to divergent ecological selection is accompanied by vast genomic instability in experimentally evolved yeast populations onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Candice Lumibao @clumi.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I have open position for a postdoctoral research associate in my lab. Additional information and how to apply: tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/TAMUCC...
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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I started this #Mycologists Starter Pack, aiming to get all professional fungal researchers on BlueSky in one place. DM if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/UMrVSsp
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Save NSF @savensf.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
AFGE Local 3403 President Jesus Soriano joined Rep. Zoe Lofgren and AFGE National President Everett Kelley to highlight the damage being done to NSF by the Trump Administration and discuss a letter sent to Congresswomen Lofgren signed by 150 NSF employees #SaveNSF #SaveScience #FundNSF
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Sara Branco @sbranco.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Congrats, Priscilla!! So great!
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Lotus Lofgren @lotuslofgren.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Inspired and overwhelmed after SuilluCamp No.1 - amazing science, nearly 50 attendees, and an outline for a new strategic plan for the International Suillus Consortium. I *could not be* more grateful for this community, or more excited for what we’re building together. Thank you #TeamSlime!
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Evolution Meetings @evolmtg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Late-breaking workshop news! The NSF will be offering an information session to discuss new and ongoing programs and the merit review process. Registration is free. More information here: www.xcdsystem.com/evolution/pr... #Evol2025
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Evolution 2025
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LaBella Lab @lablabella.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
We are looking for a Postdoc in the LaBella Lab! Do you love fungi 🍄, genetics 🧬and bioinformatics 💻 - then this might be a good fit for you! jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/63307 Applications accepted through July 1
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Sara Branco @sbranco.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Important and timely work from the Mycological Society of America.
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Maureen Kearney @maureenmkearney.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Tomorrow is NSF's 75th anniversary. 😪
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Sara Branco @sbranco.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Hang in there, Brian! And know that you’re amazing and did not deserve any of this
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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I am extremely pleased to share this feature articulating why I have lost my sanity lately. www.science.org/content/arti...
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U.S. scientists’ lives and careers are being upended. Here are five of their stories
As the second Trump administration sends U.S. science into upheaval, countless researchers are fighting for their futures
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Sara Branco @sbranco.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
#SaveNSF working to save funding for scientific grants through the U.S. National Science Foundation. Join in and distribute widely! www.savensf.com
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Home | Savensf
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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Why is the U.S. National Science Foundation important? Please share your stories! Use the hashtags #WithoutNSF or #WithoutScience
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Sara Branco @sbranco.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Congrats!!! Such great news
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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
For early-career scientists (postdocs, Assist. Profs) - a fun 6-day workshop on grant writing in the mountains of Virginia. Think, write, hike, and interact with colleagues. What’s not to love? Workshop Dates: July 20 - 26, 2025 Deadline to register: July 6 mlbs.virginia.edu/grant-writin...
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Grant Writing Workshop | Mountain Lake Biological Station, U.Va.
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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
NSF plans to reinstate all probationary employees who were fired on 18 Feb! NSF’s decision. 👏🏻👏🏻❤️
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Jeremy Koster @jeremykoster.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
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Sara Branco @sbranco.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
So unfair… I’m so sorry, Brian. You deserve so much better
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Sara Branco @sbranco.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Me! And Lotus Lofgren. Thanks Bala!
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Lotus Lofgren @lotuslofgren.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Jan 1, and my first day as an Asst. Professor at Berkeley. The lab opens in just a few weeks and I am currently staffing at all levels- www.lotuslofgren.com/new-page-1
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Join our team — The Lofgren Lab
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Aaron Vogan @fungage-lab.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Thrilled to have our recent review on giant #fungal #transposons, called Starships, featured on the cover of Trends in Genetics! Accompanied by some fantastic artwork! With @mycomile.bsky.social. www.cell.com/trends/genet...
Concept of a Starship transposon jumping out of a fungal culture. Illustration by Oen Gregory.
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Sara Branco @sbranco.bsky.social · 11/06/2024
Huge congrats Monika!!
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Anna Bazzicalupo @abazzical.bsky.social · 25/05/2024
Are you as excited about the Fungarium Sequencing Project as we are?! 🍄🧬 If so you’re in luck, we are looking for applicants in three different roles; Taxonomists, Sampling Leads, and Sampling Assistants. Check out the Kew Vacancies page to apply: tinyurl.com/56rwx5ha
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