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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · Nov 17

Hi new followers! I am Danny, a mycologist interested in diversity, ecology, host-parasite interactions, and conservation, #newPI of Laboratory of Fungal Ecology and Evolution at the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and head of #TeamLaboul. Also dad to my 7yo daughter Luna. 🍄🐞🦇

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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 2h

Awesome! @trcava.bsky.social, can you please add your project to this Google Form? Thanks!

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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 1d

Preparing my introductory PPT while on my way to Drøbak, Norway to teach a workshop on #Laboulbeniales together with my PhD student Warre Van Caenegem and Dr. Vladimir Gusarov from @uio.no. Funded by #Artsdatabanken. www.forbio.uio.no/events/cours... @prfju.bsky.social #TeamLaboul

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NPR @npr.org · 7d

JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91

Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 7d

Done! 🍄

Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 8d

Amidst the craziness that is being a #newPI and teaching classes, we also have four children and are renovating a house. Living life at the fullest. This evening I'm taking a break from the rate race: just a dinner & evening stroll 👌

Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 9d

Incredibly proud of this manuscript. Two reviews came back with no – no! – input other than praise for our writing. This is my PhD student Libelje's first chapter presenting the first checklist of fungi from #Honduras. So excited to seeing this published! 🍄❤️ #LFEE #LuminaQuaeruntur #newPI

Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 9d

Our group discussion during the first class on #WritingScience revealed many good and bad habits to writing. Fun to see what works for some but doesn't for others. @ds-ugent.bsky.social @michieldegroot.bsky.social

Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 11d

Seeing Rhodotus palmatus (common name: wrinkled peach) in Białowieża National Park this week reminded me that I should finalize an old manuscript on this fungus in the USA. Spoiler: American collections of R. palmatus are a different species! #studentproject #summerschool #taxonomy 🍄🍑

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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 11d

We are starting to prepare a manuscript on #FunDive for this special issue!

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Jonathan Cazabonne @jonathancazabonne.bsky.social · Aug 25

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...

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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 12d

De link werkt helaas niet. Kan je hem nog eens delen aub? Dank!

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pawmarkwitz.bsky.social @pawmarkwitz.bsky.social · 13d

Reflections after #mbkceesme2025: the Science Communication round table with Svetlana Ugarcina Perovic (@svetlanaup.bsky.social), Mary Allen, Danny Haelewaters & Christina Pavloudi was inspiring - a reminder that science is also about sharing knowledge. Thanks @mikrobiokosmos.bsky.social! #edusky

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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 13d

We took a hike in the strict protected area deep in Białowieża Forest, and found the beautiful – and rare – Rhodotus palmatus, the wrinkled peach (among others)! 🇵🇱🍄 #fieldmycology

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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 14d

On my way to Białowieża Forest to help in the #FieldMycology summer school 'from fungal morphology to genotype'. This is the 5th edition, and my 2nd time participating as teacher. Very excited to be in one of the last remaining parts of the ancient forest once covering northeastern Europe.

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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 14d

Mycena citriformis is a pathogenic fungus causing leaf spots on coffee plants. It also infects stems, leaves, and fruits of other plants. And it is a hotspot for enzymes that break down pectin, a complex plant fiber. I learnt this from Dr. Lene Lange at #mbkceesme2025 @mikrobiokosmos.bsky.social

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14d

Jimmy Kimmel:

"The president of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from their job. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can’t take a joke."

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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 15d

Collega Francis Meerburg en ik schreven een opiniestuk over #biopiraterij voor @eoswetenschap.bsky.social. Van kurkuma, de Afrikaanse San-bevolkingsgroep en basmatirijst, tot wat jij kan doen als consument. #scicomm

www.eoswetenschap.eu/natuur-milie...

Van supermarkt tot apotheek: hou je ogen open voor biopiraterij

Biopiraterij rooft kennis en genetisch materiaal van inheemse gemeenschappen, terwijl wij – meestal onbewust – profiteren.

www.eoswetenschap.eu

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 16d

The work reports on abiotic factors influencing the parasite-host interactions of a microfungus & the invasive harlequin ladybird (#Harmonia axyridis).

@michieldegroot.bsky.social @adriaenstim.bsky.social @dhaelewa.bsky.social @teamlaboul.bsky.social @inbo.be

Photo credit: Trey Wardlaw (CC-BY-NC)

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 16d

Why might one use a hotdog roller in research? Have a read of this new #OpenAccess research in #RESEcolEnt and find out!

Effects of #temperature & #humidity on the presence & prevalence of a common fungal #parasite on an invasive ladybird
doi.org/10.1111/een.70014

Video courtesy of article authors

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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 16d

"Fungi make me happy, but what about you?"

Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 17d

The lab is looking for a (voluntary) Data Specialist!
beetlehangers.org/2025/09/20/l... #database #LFEE #TeamLaboul

Looking for a Data Specialist

Volunteer Position Posting: Data SpecialistBiology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences – Laboratory of Fungal Ecology and Evolution OverviewThe Laboratory of Fungal Ecology and Evolution (LFEE)…

beetlehangers.org

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 17d

Environmental challenges, like extreme weather events & critical changes in Earth systems, remain a priority, underlining the importance of risk mitigation in an interconnected world.🌐⚠️
—WEF Global Risks Report 2025

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/01/global-risks-report-2025-bleak-predictions/

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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 19d

This evening it was getting crazier even. They were pulling up people 🙉

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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 19d

This past month I have been called vile, petulant, unreasonable, and disrespectful. I gotta make sure I remember all this. Quite a list already.

Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 19d

Always something going on in Bruges. Now they're placing ... a huge spider on the Belfry? ⚫️🟡🔴

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