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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Move over, starling murmurations. There’s a slimier, squirmier collective behavior in town. It's a living, twisting tower of worms. Everybody, meet the wormuration 🪱🪱 Latest paper by Daniela Perez, Serena Ding and team @uni-konstanz.de Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... youtube.com/shorts/F8QVc...

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Have you ever seen a worm tower?

YouTube video by Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

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Tom Shimizu @thomasshimizu.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Apply & come join our team in Amsterdam ⬇️

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Tom Shimizu @thomasshimizu.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Join us in Amsterdam as a #postdoc to explore the inner workings of #mycorrhizal #fungi using cutting-edge #fluorescence #microcopy, #robotics, and #machinelearning in Amsterdam. 📃 See advert: amolf.nl/wp-content/u... 📅 Application Deadline: 15 May, 2025 Video by Rachael Cargill & Joe Togneri

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Tom Shimizu @thomasshimizu.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

+Humbled by how beautifully this animated version of this week’s @nature.com cover captures two major themes of our paper – mycorrhizal fungi and the ‘wave nature of life’.

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Tom Shimizu @thomasshimizu.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Excited(!) we got fungi front and center in the news cycle this week through this @nytimes.com piece – no mean feat at any moment, but especially during these turbulent times. Kudos to all the scientists/artists that contributed compelling visuals (individual credits at the end of the NYT piece):

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Nature @nature.com · 28/02/2025

Fungi made Earth’s land liveable by building networks that released nutrients locked in primordial rock and supplied those nutrients to plant roots go.nature.com/41lvtBg

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Revealing how fungi build planet-altering ‘road’ networks

Imaging study reveals how fungal networks are constructed.

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Tom Shimizu @thomasshimizu.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

+Our paper now out in @nature.com. We designed and built at AMOLF a robot that maps & tracks fungal networks as they trade nutrients with plants. We discovered how fungi build and operate hyper-efficient 'supply chains' for underground ecosystems. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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