Jo Rhodes
@drjorhodes.com
Yoga bunny. Cake guru. Scientist by day. Assistant Professor at @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Interested in fungal ‘omics and One Health, evolutionary biology and popgen, epidemiology and promoting women in STEM
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Interested in fungal ‘omics and One Health, evolutionary biology and popgen, epidemiology and promoting women in STEM
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Jo Rhodes
@drjorhodes.com
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A long time ago in this same galaxy, we asked ourselves "where does azole antifungal resistance in fungi come from?"
So we set about sampling Aspergillus fumigatus to build a collection of 1000+ samples spanning a century from 34 countries.
So we set about sampling Aspergillus fumigatus to build a collection of 1000+ samples spanning a century from 34 countries.
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If you are a field mycologist, fungal biology researcher, or mycology student, join our free webinar on 11 December to hear how publishing your work with BMS journals can support both your career & the global mycology community. 👉 Register now: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/mycology_pub...
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
If you are a field mycologist, fungal biology researcher, or mycology student, join our free webinar on 11 December to hear how publishing your work with BMS journals can support both your career & the global mycology community. 👉 Register now: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/mycology_pub...
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Join Dr Stephanie Lo's Seminar this Friday on ‘Genomic Surveillance to Inform Vaccine Impact and Design' Register here: microb.io/49tTbRS #JMM
November 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Join Dr Stephanie Lo's Seminar this Friday on ‘Genomic Surveillance to Inform Vaccine Impact and Design' Register here: microb.io/49tTbRS #JMM
Fungal friends: The University of Minnesota is hiring a tenure track medical mycologist, with emphasis on emergence of pathogens, genomics and evolution!
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
New Assistant Professor: Tenure Track - Fungal Biology/Medical Mycology - Minneapolis, Minnesota job with University of Minnesota - Medical School | 12848307
About the Job: The Department of Microbiology & Immunology and the Institute on Infectious Diseases (UMIID) at the University of Minnesota Medical ...
www.nature.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Fungal friends: The University of Minnesota is hiring a tenure track medical mycologist, with emphasis on emergence of pathogens, genomics and evolution!
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
But what else do we have to bring us cheer?!
Stop putting Christmas decorations up before December you maniacs
November 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
But what else do we have to bring us cheer?!
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1,000,000 species of plants and animals at risk of extinction.
- IPBES Global Assessment
- IPBES Global Assessment
November 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
1,000,000 species of plants and animals at risk of extinction.
- IPBES Global Assessment
- IPBES Global Assessment
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Have you heard of the Sanger Prize? It is a three-month undergrad placement at the Institute, and applications are open.
Hear from our current Sanger Prize holder Beatriz Rodrigues Estevam, here ⤵️
https://sangerinstitute.blog/2025/11/20/unravelling-the-mysteries-of-the-worm-through-bioinformatics/
Hear from our current Sanger Prize holder Beatriz Rodrigues Estevam, here ⤵️
https://sangerinstitute.blog/2025/11/20/unravelling-the-mysteries-of-the-worm-through-bioinformatics/
November 20, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Have you heard of the Sanger Prize? It is a three-month undergrad placement at the Institute, and applications are open.
Hear from our current Sanger Prize holder Beatriz Rodrigues Estevam, here ⤵️
https://sangerinstitute.blog/2025/11/20/unravelling-the-mysteries-of-the-worm-through-bioinformatics/
Hear from our current Sanger Prize holder Beatriz Rodrigues Estevam, here ⤵️
https://sangerinstitute.blog/2025/11/20/unravelling-the-mysteries-of-the-worm-through-bioinformatics/
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🌟 Watch Liam Shaw, author of Dangerous Miracle and Computational Biologist present: Dangerous Miracle: A Brief History of Antibiotics at the TARGetAMR monthly webinar series! 💊
💻 Now live on our Website & YouTube
➕ Dr Desy Muliana Wenas ECR Presentation
👉 www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/ta...
💻 Now live on our Website & YouTube
➕ Dr Desy Muliana Wenas ECR Presentation
👉 www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/ta...
November 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
🌟 Watch Liam Shaw, author of Dangerous Miracle and Computational Biologist present: Dangerous Miracle: A Brief History of Antibiotics at the TARGetAMR monthly webinar series! 💊
💻 Now live on our Website & YouTube
➕ Dr Desy Muliana Wenas ECR Presentation
👉 www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/ta...
💻 Now live on our Website & YouTube
➕ Dr Desy Muliana Wenas ECR Presentation
👉 www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/ta...
As if my group outing would include anything other than cake
November 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
As if my group outing would include anything other than cake
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Our latest pre-print on TE-mediated tandem duplication of the ToxB effector is now online...still a puzzle for us but we think it is in a Helitron! Together with amazing collaborators, Reem Aboukhaddour and Ryan Gourlie #TE #fungi
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The virulence gene ToxB is both amplified and disrupted by transposons in the wheat pathogen Pyrenophora tritici-repentis
### Competing Interest Statement
The authors have declared no competing interest.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, https://ror.org/051dzs374
Alberta Grain
Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commissio...
www.biorxiv.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Our latest pre-print on TE-mediated tandem duplication of the ToxB effector is now online...still a puzzle for us but we think it is in a Helitron! Together with amazing collaborators, Reem Aboukhaddour and Ryan Gourlie #TE #fungi
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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Hey Labour
Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety?
We're still over here 👋
Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety?
We're still over here 👋
November 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Hey Labour
Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety?
We're still over here 👋
Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety?
We're still over here 👋
Can attest to using this company for graphical illustration - the team have scientific backgrounds so understand what you're trying to illustrate and have amazing and creative ideas. Have used for grants, interviews, websites....cannot recommend enough.
Have you considered us for your #graphicalabstract or #grantapplication? 🐟🧪🎨
November 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Can attest to using this company for graphical illustration - the team have scientific backgrounds so understand what you're trying to illustrate and have amazing and creative ideas. Have used for grants, interviews, websites....cannot recommend enough.
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Regretfully (for the sake of the authors and journal staff), I have this morning declined an invitation to review for a @royalsociety.org journal because of the Society’s continued refusal to stand up for its values in dealing with Elon Musk FRS.
November 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Regretfully (for the sake of the authors and journal staff), I have this morning declined an invitation to review for a @royalsociety.org journal because of the Society’s continued refusal to stand up for its values in dealing with Elon Musk FRS.
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📢 Save the Date!
✨We’re thrilled to announce the first TARGetAMR Annual Conference!
🗓 Thursday 14 – Friday 15 May 2026
📍The Studio, Birmingham
🔎Theme: Building the Future of AMR Genomics
🔗Registration opens soon – stay tuned! www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/sa...
#TARGetAMR26
✨We’re thrilled to announce the first TARGetAMR Annual Conference!
🗓 Thursday 14 – Friday 15 May 2026
📍The Studio, Birmingham
🔎Theme: Building the Future of AMR Genomics
🔗Registration opens soon – stay tuned! www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/sa...
#TARGetAMR26
November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
📢 Save the Date!
✨We’re thrilled to announce the first TARGetAMR Annual Conference!
🗓 Thursday 14 – Friday 15 May 2026
📍The Studio, Birmingham
🔎Theme: Building the Future of AMR Genomics
🔗Registration opens soon – stay tuned! www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/sa...
#TARGetAMR26
✨We’re thrilled to announce the first TARGetAMR Annual Conference!
🗓 Thursday 14 – Friday 15 May 2026
📍The Studio, Birmingham
🔎Theme: Building the Future of AMR Genomics
🔗Registration opens soon – stay tuned! www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/sa...
#TARGetAMR26
I don't understand how funding intended to fight global warming cannot be traced to the extent that "official data is not extensive enough to trace all the recipients of climate finance". Or am I being naive? www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
China and Saudi Arabia among nations receiving climate loans, analysis reveals
Investigation by Guardian and Carbon Brief finds just a fifth of funds to fight global heating went to poorest 44 countries
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I don't understand how funding intended to fight global warming cannot be traced to the extent that "official data is not extensive enough to trace all the recipients of climate finance". Or am I being naive? www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Was pleased to contribute a chapter to this! Looking forward to reading the other contributions. Big thanks to @acgerstein.bsky.social @shapirorebecca.bsky.social and @ene-lab.bsky.social for bringing us all together and editing this epic tome.
Some Christmas/Hanukkah/Sinterklaas season reading for people interested in fungal diseases: Emerging Human Health Problems Caused by Pathogenic and Immuno-activating Fungi. New book chapter just out! With a section on indoor mold evaluation.
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Was pleased to contribute a chapter to this! Looking forward to reading the other contributions. Big thanks to @acgerstein.bsky.social @shapirorebecca.bsky.social and @ene-lab.bsky.social for bringing us all together and editing this epic tome.
A long time ago in this same galaxy, we asked ourselves "where does azole antifungal resistance in fungi come from?"
So we set about sampling Aspergillus fumigatus to build a collection of 1000+ samples spanning a century from 34 countries.
So we set about sampling Aspergillus fumigatus to build a collection of 1000+ samples spanning a century from 34 countries.
November 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
A long time ago in this same galaxy, we asked ourselves "where does azole antifungal resistance in fungi come from?"
So we set about sampling Aspergillus fumigatus to build a collection of 1000+ samples spanning a century from 34 countries.
So we set about sampling Aspergillus fumigatus to build a collection of 1000+ samples spanning a century from 34 countries.
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🔥 At conferences, who asks the questions shapes who gets seen. Across 24 ID&CM meetings, women were 55% of delegates but asked 36% of questions.
💬 When women moderate or speak first, others follow.
Let’s change the pattern
bit.ly/47VL0eH
🙏 @maudsalmona.bsky.social & MicroID EmpowHERment consortium
💬 When women moderate or speak first, others follow.
Let’s change the pattern
bit.ly/47VL0eH
🙏 @maudsalmona.bsky.social & MicroID EmpowHERment consortium
November 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
🔥 At conferences, who asks the questions shapes who gets seen. Across 24 ID&CM meetings, women were 55% of delegates but asked 36% of questions.
💬 When women moderate or speak first, others follow.
Let’s change the pattern
bit.ly/47VL0eH
🙏 @maudsalmona.bsky.social & MicroID EmpowHERment consortium
💬 When women moderate or speak first, others follow.
Let’s change the pattern
bit.ly/47VL0eH
🙏 @maudsalmona.bsky.social & MicroID EmpowHERment consortium
A great genomics paper from my friend and colleague @drandiwilson.bsky.social on the expansion of heat stress related proteins in Rhizina undulata bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Thermotolerance and post-fire growth in Rhizina undulata is associated with the expansion of heat stress-related protein families - BMC Genomics
Background Rhizina undulata is an important tree pathogen, infecting a wide variety of conifer species, including those in the genus Pinus. The fungus relies on heat shock-mediated activation of its a...
bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
A great genomics paper from my friend and colleague @drandiwilson.bsky.social on the expansion of heat stress related proteins in Rhizina undulata bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Pre-docs not only give you valuable experience, they allow students to test drive the group environment and research area before deciding on which PhD to do, and avoid toxic environments!
Do a predoc, young grasshoppers!https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/do-a-predoc-young-people-155c32d094a @adnroide
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Pre-docs not only give you valuable experience, they allow students to test drive the group environment and research area before deciding on which PhD to do, and avoid toxic environments!
Genomic and phenotypic insights into the expanding phylogenetic landscape of the Cryptococcus genus journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
Genomic and phenotypic insights into the expanding phylogenetic landscape of the Cryptococcus genus
Author summary Cryptococcus is a genus of fungi that includes both pathogenic species capable of causing life-threatening infections in humans and many environmental species that inhabit soil, fruit, ...
journals.plos.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Genomic and phenotypic insights into the expanding phylogenetic landscape of the Cryptococcus genus journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...
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Jeremy, I have followed your science advocacy on this platform with respect, but I find this thread deeply hurtful and sad and I am going to tell you why. While my wife did her postdoc at CSHL, she and our many dear friends had to endure the racist rhetoric of this man, which did constant harm
On one evening, the speakers were divided up and went to dinner parties hosted by some of the wealthy folks who lived around Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island. My dinner was delightful, with good conversation with our host (the mayor of a nearby village), his friends, and some other speakers.
34/41
34/41
November 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Jeremy, I have followed your science advocacy on this platform with respect, but I find this thread deeply hurtful and sad and I am going to tell you why. While my wife did her postdoc at CSHL, she and our many dear friends had to endure the racist rhetoric of this man, which did constant harm
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If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.
If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.