Isabel Fernandes (she/her)
@isabelrfernandes.bsky.social
Freshwater Ecologist 🏞️
Aquatic Fungi Lover 💧🍄
Aquatic hyphomycetes ❤️
Co-chair of IUCN SSC Aquatic Fungi Specialist Group @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social
FUNACTION project @funaction.bsky.social
MoSTFun project @mostfun.bsky.social
Aquatic Fungi Lover 💧🍄
Aquatic hyphomycetes ❤️
Co-chair of IUCN SSC Aquatic Fungi Specialist Group @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social
FUNACTION project @funaction.bsky.social
MoSTFun project @mostfun.bsky.social
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Biodiversity is in crisis—so let's act smarter 🌍
💧🍄 Aquatic fungi are key yet overlooked. Help us bring them into conservation & monitoring plans.
Take our quick survey (10–15 min)
🔗 forms.office.com/e/UjCrG1L8YV
#biodiversity #conservation #monitoring #aquaticfungi
💧🍄 Aquatic fungi are key yet overlooked. Help us bring them into conservation & monitoring plans.
Take our quick survey (10–15 min)
🔗 forms.office.com/e/UjCrG1L8YV
#biodiversity #conservation #monitoring #aquaticfungi
Fill and share widely the Better Together Survey 👇🏻
Help us implementing conservation and monitoring of #aquaticfungi. 💧🍄
Help us implementing conservation and monitoring of #aquaticfungi. 💧🍄
Does anyone knows if this model can still be found to buy second hand? Or a model with similar characteristics?
It is to be used for aquatic fungi isolations.
Any info would be much appreciated.
It is to be used for aquatic fungi isolations.
Any info would be much appreciated.
January 22, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Does anyone knows if this model can still be found to buy second hand? Or a model with similar characteristics?
It is to be used for aquatic fungi isolations.
Any info would be much appreciated.
It is to be used for aquatic fungi isolations.
Any info would be much appreciated.
Reposted by Isabel Fernandes (she/her)
Did you know that during the World Conservation Congress 2025, an important IUCN Resolutions was approved?
"Strengthening conservation efforts for fungi and invertebrates"
portals.iucn.org/library/node...
#FUNACTION is directly contributing to the efforts towards conservation of #aquaticfungi. 💧🍄
"Strengthening conservation efforts for fungi and invertebrates"
portals.iucn.org/library/node...
#FUNACTION is directly contributing to the efforts towards conservation of #aquaticfungi. 💧🍄
WCC-2025-Res-090 | IUCN Library System
portals.iucn.org
January 21, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Did you know that during the World Conservation Congress 2025, an important IUCN Resolutions was approved?
"Strengthening conservation efforts for fungi and invertebrates"
portals.iucn.org/library/node...
#FUNACTION is directly contributing to the efforts towards conservation of #aquaticfungi. 💧🍄
"Strengthening conservation efforts for fungi and invertebrates"
portals.iucn.org/library/node...
#FUNACTION is directly contributing to the efforts towards conservation of #aquaticfungi. 💧🍄
Reposted by Isabel Fernandes (she/her)
The World Champion of Fungus talks punk science in @nytimes.com. Thank you @alanburdick.bsky.social for sitting down with SPUN's @tobykiers.bsky.social, this year's @tylerprize.bsky.social Laureate.
🔗 Read here: buff.ly/4TVueaz
🔗 Read here: buff.ly/4TVueaz
January 19, 2026 at 5:53 PM
The World Champion of Fungus talks punk science in @nytimes.com. Thank you @alanburdick.bsky.social for sitting down with SPUN's @tobykiers.bsky.social, this year's @tylerprize.bsky.social Laureate.
🔗 Read here: buff.ly/4TVueaz
🔗 Read here: buff.ly/4TVueaz
Reposted by Isabel Fernandes (she/her)
📣 The deadline for this @britmycolsoc.org.uk special issue on fungal conservation has been extended to 15th March 2026.
Spread the word and don’t hesitate to contact @cfemycolab.bsky.social or me if you have any questions.
We’re looking forward to receiving your submissions! 🍄
Spread the word and don’t hesitate to contact @cfemycolab.bsky.social or me if you have any questions.
We’re looking forward to receiving your submissions! 🍄
Thrilled to announce that the special issue on fungal #conservation that @cfemycolab.bsky.social and I are co-editing for the @britmycolsoc.org.uk c.org.uk journal Fungal Ecology is open for submissions!
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
January 14, 2026 at 1:00 PM
📣 The deadline for this @britmycolsoc.org.uk special issue on fungal conservation has been extended to 15th March 2026.
Spread the word and don’t hesitate to contact @cfemycolab.bsky.social or me if you have any questions.
We’re looking forward to receiving your submissions! 🍄
Spread the word and don’t hesitate to contact @cfemycolab.bsky.social or me if you have any questions.
We’re looking forward to receiving your submissions! 🍄
Not yet registered?!
You still have time (but not much 😅).
Check the link below. 👇
You still have time (but not much 😅).
Check the link below. 👇
🚨NEW WEBINAR🚨
Want to know more about Joint Species Distribution Modelling (JSDM)?
Then don't miss our next webinar co-organized by #MoSTFun and @geobon.org "An introduction to Joint Species Distribution Modelling".
🕰️ 19 January 2026 at 18:00 CET
✍ Registration: mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Want to know more about Joint Species Distribution Modelling (JSDM)?
Then don't miss our next webinar co-organized by #MoSTFun and @geobon.org "An introduction to Joint Species Distribution Modelling".
🕰️ 19 January 2026 at 18:00 CET
✍ Registration: mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
January 18, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Not yet registered?!
You still have time (but not much 😅).
Check the link below. 👇
You still have time (but not much 😅).
Check the link below. 👇
Reposted by Isabel Fernandes (she/her)
🚨NEW WEBINAR🚨
Want to know more about Joint Species Distribution Modelling (JSDM)?
Then don't miss our next webinar co-organized by #MoSTFun and @geobon.org "An introduction to Joint Species Distribution Modelling".
🕰️ 19 January 2026 at 18:00 CET
✍ Registration: mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Want to know more about Joint Species Distribution Modelling (JSDM)?
Then don't miss our next webinar co-organized by #MoSTFun and @geobon.org "An introduction to Joint Species Distribution Modelling".
🕰️ 19 January 2026 at 18:00 CET
✍ Registration: mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
January 14, 2026 at 3:57 PM
🚨NEW WEBINAR🚨
Want to know more about Joint Species Distribution Modelling (JSDM)?
Then don't miss our next webinar co-organized by #MoSTFun and @geobon.org "An introduction to Joint Species Distribution Modelling".
🕰️ 19 January 2026 at 18:00 CET
✍ Registration: mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Want to know more about Joint Species Distribution Modelling (JSDM)?
Then don't miss our next webinar co-organized by #MoSTFun and @geobon.org "An introduction to Joint Species Distribution Modelling".
🕰️ 19 January 2026 at 18:00 CET
✍ Registration: mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Reposted by Isabel Fernandes (she/her)
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
@ima-mycology.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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
@ima-mycology.com
Reposted by Isabel Fernandes (she/her)
BMS Grants are now open for applications! Funds are available to support a range of activities in #mycology including #research, training, meetings, conference participation, #fieldwork, #education, #arts & #outreach.👉 Find out more: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/grants.html
#grants #funding
#grants #funding
January 9, 2026 at 9:58 AM
BMS Grants are now open for applications! Funds are available to support a range of activities in #mycology including #research, training, meetings, conference participation, #fieldwork, #education, #arts & #outreach.👉 Find out more: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/grants.html
#grants #funding
#grants #funding
Reposted by Isabel Fernandes (she/her)
⏳ 30 days to #IPBES12
"Engaging with nature is not optional for business – it is a necessity."
— Prof. Ximena Rueda Fajardo, Co-chair of the #BizBiodiversity Assessment
📍 Manchester, UK | 3–8 February 2026
Follow us for more updates & read more: https://ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG
"Engaging with nature is not optional for business – it is a necessity."
— Prof. Ximena Rueda Fajardo, Co-chair of the #BizBiodiversity Assessment
📍 Manchester, UK | 3–8 February 2026
Follow us for more updates & read more: https://ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG
January 4, 2026 at 9:45 AM
⏳ 30 days to #IPBES12
"Engaging with nature is not optional for business – it is a necessity."
— Prof. Ximena Rueda Fajardo, Co-chair of the #BizBiodiversity Assessment
📍 Manchester, UK | 3–8 February 2026
Follow us for more updates & read more: https://ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG
"Engaging with nature is not optional for business – it is a necessity."
— Prof. Ximena Rueda Fajardo, Co-chair of the #BizBiodiversity Assessment
📍 Manchester, UK | 3–8 February 2026
Follow us for more updates & read more: https://ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG
Reposted by Isabel Fernandes (she/her)
Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity.
Apply here no later than February 11 2026:
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1
Apply here no later than February 11 2026:
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity
The Department of Biology was established in 2010 through the merger of the Departments of Ecology, Cell and Organism Biology, Biological Undergraduate Education, and the Biological Museums. The depar
lu.varbi.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity.
Apply here no later than February 11 2026:
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1
Apply here no later than February 11 2026:
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1
Well done! I hope I will be able to join next time 🤗
FUNACTION members Andreas Bruder🇨🇭 and Diego Fontaneto🇮🇹 sampled for #aquaticfungi in the Val Grande National Park, Italy.
More data gathered on occurrence and distribution of aquatic fungi in Europe (particularly inside Protected Areas). 💪
Want to collaborate? Fill our survey: shorturl.at/VaHbD
More data gathered on occurrence and distribution of aquatic fungi in Europe (particularly inside Protected Areas). 💪
Want to collaborate? Fill our survey: shorturl.at/VaHbD
November 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Well done! I hope I will be able to join next time 🤗
Reposted by Isabel Fernandes (she/her)
The 2026 Workshop on Phylogenomics will take place between the 25th of January and 7th of February, in Cesky Krumlov, Czechia. 🧬🌳 Applications are now open! Deadline: 15th of November, 2025. Do not miss the chance to attend! Spread the word among colleagues! 🤗 evomics.org/apply-worksh...
September 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The 2026 Workshop on Phylogenomics will take place between the 25th of January and 7th of February, in Cesky Krumlov, Czechia. 🧬🌳 Applications are now open! Deadline: 15th of November, 2025. Do not miss the chance to attend! Spread the word among colleagues! 🤗 evomics.org/apply-worksh...
Reposted by Isabel Fernandes (she/her)
Reminder to submit your proposals for the SFS Innovation Fund Grant by Nov 15th. Help us advance our strategic plan with innovative ideas!
💡Have a great idea for SFS?
📆 Apply for an SFS Innovation Fund Grant by Nov 15th for funds to make it happen
🎯Projects must advance goals in the 2025-2030 Strategic Plan
🏆Awards available for 6 teams up to $5000 each
(1/2)
📆 Apply for an SFS Innovation Fund Grant by Nov 15th for funds to make it happen
🎯Projects must advance goals in the 2025-2030 Strategic Plan
🏆Awards available for 6 teams up to $5000 each
(1/2)
November 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Reminder to submit your proposals for the SFS Innovation Fund Grant by Nov 15th. Help us advance our strategic plan with innovative ideas!
Reposted by Isabel Fernandes (she/her)
🚨Join us at #WBF2026 to discuss how to overcome knowledge and policy gaps related to #fungi #biodiversity and #conservation meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess...
Make sure to submit your abstract by Nov 18th to participate in our session!
🍄🟫 🌊 🏝️
Make sure to submit your abstract by Nov 18th to participate in our session!
🍄🟫 🌊 🏝️
October 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
🚨Join us at #WBF2026 to discuss how to overcome knowledge and policy gaps related to #fungi #biodiversity and #conservation meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess...
Make sure to submit your abstract by Nov 18th to participate in our session!
🍄🟫 🌊 🏝️
Make sure to submit your abstract by Nov 18th to participate in our session!
🍄🟫 🌊 🏝️
Are you attending #livingdata2025?
Do you want to know more about #aquaticfungi?
I would love to connect with you!
Do you want to know more about #aquaticfungi?
I would love to connect with you!
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Are you attending #livingdata2025?
Do you want to know more about #aquaticfungi?
I would love to connect with you!
Do you want to know more about #aquaticfungi?
I would love to connect with you!
Reposted by Isabel Fernandes (she/her)
Last week Swiss #MoSTFun team sampled the Basòdino glacier in Ticino, to look for #aquaticfungi. 💧🍄
This is part of a larger sampling campaign to fill the knowledge gap on aquatic fungi diversity associated to glaciers.
Get in touch if you want to know more about our work or collaborate with us.
This is part of a larger sampling campaign to fill the knowledge gap on aquatic fungi diversity associated to glaciers.
Get in touch if you want to know more about our work or collaborate with us.
October 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Last week Swiss #MoSTFun team sampled the Basòdino glacier in Ticino, to look for #aquaticfungi. 💧🍄
This is part of a larger sampling campaign to fill the knowledge gap on aquatic fungi diversity associated to glaciers.
Get in touch if you want to know more about our work or collaborate with us.
This is part of a larger sampling campaign to fill the knowledge gap on aquatic fungi diversity associated to glaciers.
Get in touch if you want to know more about our work or collaborate with us.
1. You love aquatic fungi
2. You never heard about them but are curious
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
I would love to connect with you! 🍄💧🤗
Find me next week during #livingdata2025.
Let's talk about #aquaticfungi #conservation.
@funaction.bsky.social @biodiversa.eu @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social @iucnfungi.bsky.social
2. You never heard about them but are curious
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
I would love to connect with you! 🍄💧🤗
Find me next week during #livingdata2025.
Let's talk about #aquaticfungi #conservation.
@funaction.bsky.social @biodiversa.eu @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social @iucnfungi.bsky.social
📢Are you attending the Living Data 2025 next week?
@isabelrfernandes.bsky.social will present the preliminary results from #FUNACTION.
www.livingdata2025.com/program.html...
Find her during the week if you want to know more about our project and activities to conserve #aquaticfungi.
@isabelrfernandes.bsky.social will present the preliminary results from #FUNACTION.
www.livingdata2025.com/program.html...
Find her during the week if you want to know more about our project and activities to conserve #aquaticfungi.
October 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
1. You love aquatic fungi
2. You never heard about them but are curious
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
I would love to connect with you! 🍄💧🤗
Find me next week during #livingdata2025.
Let's talk about #aquaticfungi #conservation.
@funaction.bsky.social @biodiversa.eu @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social @iucnfungi.bsky.social
2. You never heard about them but are curious
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
I would love to connect with you! 🍄💧🤗
Find me next week during #livingdata2025.
Let's talk about #aquaticfungi #conservation.
@funaction.bsky.social @biodiversa.eu @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social @iucnfungi.bsky.social
Reposted by Isabel Fernandes (she/her)
⭐Stakeholders engagement was defined as a top priority⭐
In particular with stakeholders willing to share their samples/data to be reanalysed for assessing #aquaticfungi #biodiversity.
📢 That could be you?
Please fill our questionnaire👇
tinyurl.com/3s27jt7n
Lets work together! 🤝
In particular with stakeholders willing to share their samples/data to be reanalysed for assessing #aquaticfungi #biodiversity.
📢 That could be you?
Please fill our questionnaire👇
tinyurl.com/3s27jt7n
Lets work together! 🤝
Microsoft Forms
tinyurl.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
⭐Stakeholders engagement was defined as a top priority⭐
In particular with stakeholders willing to share their samples/data to be reanalysed for assessing #aquaticfungi #biodiversity.
📢 That could be you?
Please fill our questionnaire👇
tinyurl.com/3s27jt7n
Lets work together! 🤝
In particular with stakeholders willing to share their samples/data to be reanalysed for assessing #aquaticfungi #biodiversity.
📢 That could be you?
Please fill our questionnaire👇
tinyurl.com/3s27jt7n
Lets work together! 🤝
Reposted by Isabel Fernandes (she/her)
@biodiversa.eu #MoSTFun consortium had a hybrid mid-term meeting in Barcelona.
Fruitful discussions about what was achieved so far and the priorities for the second half of the project (see below👇).
#aquaticfungi #monitoring #biodiversity
Fruitful discussions about what was achieved so far and the priorities for the second half of the project (see below👇).
#aquaticfungi #monitoring #biodiversity
October 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
@biodiversa.eu #MoSTFun consortium had a hybrid mid-term meeting in Barcelona.
Fruitful discussions about what was achieved so far and the priorities for the second half of the project (see below👇).
#aquaticfungi #monitoring #biodiversity
Fruitful discussions about what was achieved so far and the priorities for the second half of the project (see below👇).
#aquaticfungi #monitoring #biodiversity
Reposted by Isabel Fernandes (she/her)
If you feel you're missing out - which you are! - it's not too late to sign up at [email protected] and join @jandbio.bsky.social @zimingwang.bsky.social and others on alternate Wednesday evenings. @funaction.bsky.social @britmycolsoc.org.uk
October 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
If you feel you're missing out - which you are! - it's not too late to sign up at [email protected] and join @jandbio.bsky.social @zimingwang.bsky.social and others on alternate Wednesday evenings. @funaction.bsky.social @britmycolsoc.org.uk
Reposted by Isabel Fernandes (she/her)
A number of questions were raised which we will cover at future meetings, including: how to isolate living spores and grow them in culture; how to collect aquatic hyphomycetes from leaves; and how to DNA barcode these tiny fungi. Plus we'll be getting tips to improve our identification skills.
October 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
A number of questions were raised which we will cover at future meetings, including: how to isolate living spores and grow them in culture; how to collect aquatic hyphomycetes from leaves; and how to DNA barcode these tiny fungi. Plus we'll be getting tips to improve our identification skills.
Reposted by Isabel Fernandes (she/her)
We had a thoroughly enjoyable, and very informative, first meeting of the online #AquaticHyphomycete group yesterday. @isabelrfernandes.bsky.social gave us methodology and tips for collecting and fixing foam samples.
October 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
We had a thoroughly enjoyable, and very informative, first meeting of the online #AquaticHyphomycete group yesterday. @isabelrfernandes.bsky.social gave us methodology and tips for collecting and fixing foam samples.
Together with @fayrnhawk.bsky.social and other colleagues we are starting TODAY online sessions about #aquatichyphomycetes.
Interested in knowing more about this beautiful group of aquatic fungi?
Send your message to [email protected].
Looking forward to exchanging with YOU! 💧🍄
Interested in knowing more about this beautiful group of aquatic fungi?
Send your message to [email protected].
Looking forward to exchanging with YOU! 💧🍄
Only three days now until our first online session on #AquaticHyphomycetes There’s still time to sign up by emailing [email protected] Andi Bruder will be giving us a quick overview of this special ecological group...
A new Zoom-based chat group focussing on #AquaticHyphomycetes will be starting on 8th October. Join us in the evening (BST) to chat and learn about this fascinating group of fungi. Contact me at [email protected] if interested. @britmycolsoc.org.uk @funaction.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Together with @fayrnhawk.bsky.social and other colleagues we are starting TODAY online sessions about #aquatichyphomycetes.
Interested in knowing more about this beautiful group of aquatic fungi?
Send your message to [email protected].
Looking forward to exchanging with YOU! 💧🍄
Interested in knowing more about this beautiful group of aquatic fungi?
Send your message to [email protected].
Looking forward to exchanging with YOU! 💧🍄
Older people care increases the gender gap in academia 👇
"At the institutional level, older care is an ‘invisible’ problem, for which interviewees reported not getting any support from
their institutions."
There is work to do!
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
"At the institutional level, older care is an ‘invisible’ problem, for which interviewees reported not getting any support from
their institutions."
There is work to do!
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Older people care increases the gender gap in academia - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Older people care increases the gender gap in academia
doi.org
October 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Older people care increases the gender gap in academia 👇
"At the institutional level, older care is an ‘invisible’ problem, for which interviewees reported not getting any support from
their institutions."
There is work to do!
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
"At the institutional level, older care is an ‘invisible’ problem, for which interviewees reported not getting any support from
their institutions."
There is work to do!
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Important and timely 👇
"Remote-Control Science in Ecology: A Hidden Face of Scientific Neocolonialism"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
"Remote-Control Science in Ecology: A Hidden Face of Scientific Neocolonialism"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Important and timely 👇
"Remote-Control Science in Ecology: A Hidden Face of Scientific Neocolonialism"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
"Remote-Control Science in Ecology: A Hidden Face of Scientific Neocolonialism"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....