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Louis Mielke @myconet.bsky.social · 22h

Okay, now I’m leaning toward Tricholoma saponicum 😅

Louis Mielke @myconet.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, apparently so! Unimproved grasslands, although this one is more of a mowed mossy grass area in a park setting on campus xD

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Louis Mielke @myconet.bsky.social · 3d

I think I’ve found my first Pseudotricholoma

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Louis Mielke @myconet.bsky.social · 8d

Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Terrestrial Microbial Ecology at SLU, Uppsala

www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Associate Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor* in Terrestrial Microbial Ecology | slu.se

SLU - Science and Education for Sustainable Life

www.slu.se

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Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social · 16d

Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology & Fungal Biology, UC Davis. 🍄🌱 recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339 Deadline Dec 1, 2025. 👀 "Primary teaching responsibilities will be teaching Introductory Mycology, an upper-division lab class, and SAS 30, Mushroom, Molds & Society"

Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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Louis Mielke @myconet.bsky.social · 16d

Telamonias 💜

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Louis Mielke @myconet.bsky.social · 18d

Assistant Professorship in Plant or Fungal Genomics at the University of Wyoming eeik.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Asst Professor - Plant or Fungal Genomics

The Department of Botany and the School of Computing at the University of Wyoming invites applications for a tenure-track position in Plant or Fungal Genomics at the rank of Assistant Professor. We in...

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nikogeldner.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social · 21d

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!

career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)

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Louis Mielke @myconet.bsky.social · 26d

The University of South Dakota
has opened a position for Assistant Professor of Biology in Ecological Genomics to begin in August 2026.

yourfuture.sdbor.edu/postings/45104

Assistant Professor of Biology

Assistant Professor of BiologyThe Department of Biology at the University of South Dakota is recruiting an Assistant Professor in Ecological Genomics to begin August 2026.Responsibilities:Use genomics...

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Jens-Arne Subke @jasubke.bsky.social · 29d

New outreach video from our work on pyrogenic carbon in tropical savannahs.

timeforgeography.co.uk/videos-conta...

Video: Do wildfires play a role in the long-term carbon cycle?

Time for Geography brings together the geography and geoscience community to develop award-winning, open-access educational videos, inspiring more students to take the subject further in their edu...

timeforgeography.co.uk

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Louis Mielke @myconet.bsky.social · 29d

Mycology/Plant-Fungal Interactions

illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Assistant Professor- Department of Plant Biology

Duties & Responsibilities

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Dan Sloan @sloanevolab.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word!

jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

Assistant Professor Plant-Microbe Interactions

We seek a creative, collaborative, and visionary plant biologist to establish an internationally recognized research program at the forefront of plant-microbe interactions aimed at understanding how t...

jobs.colostate.edu

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Hanna Johannesson @hannajohannesson.bsky.social · Sep 7

We have several open positions in my group, funded from the ERC Grant on the Early Sequestered Germline of Fungi. We search broadly for applicants at both PhD and master-level, with a dedicated interest in fungal evolutionary biology. Please forward and RT!
Find the positions here: su.varbi.com

Lediga jobb vid Stockholms universitet

Jobb

su.varbi.com

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Caroline de Gruyter @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social · Aug 26

Flooding: it stops enemy tanks and is good for nature
www.politico.eu/article/russ...

From Kyiv to the Suwałki Gap, bogs return as Europe’s defensive shield

Restoring the EU’s drained bogs would stop both Russian tanks and planet-warming pollution.

www.politico.eu

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Mycological Society of America @msafungi.bsky.social · Aug 21

📢🍄Job alert🍄📢

The @manaakiwhenua.bsky.social group of the @bioeconomyscience.bsky.social in Auckland, New Zealand is hiring a full-time permanent mycologist, to focus on fungal diversity and taxonomy. Deadline to apply: 12 September 2025.

careers.sciencenewzealand.org/landcare-res...

Researcher - Mycologist - Manaaki Whenua - Careers at Science New Zealand

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Mycological Society of America @msafungi.bsky.social · Aug 21

📢🍄Mycology job alert🍄📢

The Department of Plant Biology at @michiganstateu.bsky.social has a job opening for a herbarium/fungarium director at the Assistant, Associate or Full professor level. Review of applications start on 3rd October 2025.

careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System - East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Working/Functional Title Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System Position Summary The Department of Plant Biology (PLB) at Michigan State University (MSU) seeks applications for a director of...

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FunDive: Monitoring and mapping fungal diversity for nature cons @fundive-fungi.bsky.social · Aug 18

🍄 #Typification: fixing fungal names
Many species of fungi were described long ago with only a short phrase or drawing-no type (reference) specimen!
This #FunDive campaign aims to collect type specimens & sequence DNA to anchor names and stabilize taxonomy. #Biodiversa
🌍 fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol...

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Hanna Johannesson @hannajohannesson.bsky.social · Aug 14

It started as a master thesis project by Markus Hiltunen, and ended up in this publication in Science. What a fun project to work on! Thanks Markus - and all other coauthors, too, for a great team work! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Early germline sequestration in a basidiomycete fungus

In sexual organisms, inheritance of new mutations is highly dependent on the timing of germline definition. Here, we used the fairy ring–forming fungus Marasmius oreades to challenge the general assum...

www.science.org

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Håvard Kauserud @drhyfe.bsky.social · Aug 7

In this paper we should that the post-glacial migration pattern of a widespread forest fungus is similar to what have been observed in plants and animals, with multiple refugia, secondary admixture, etc. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Postglacial History of a Widespread Wood‐Decaying Fungus in Europe Suggests Migration out of Multiple Refugia Followed by Admixture

While postglacial migration patterns have been well-studied in plants and animals in Europe, the same is not true for microorganisms such as fungi, and it remains unclear whether fungi have followed ...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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International Mycorrhiza Society @mycorrhizaims.bsky.social · Jul 23

Our new newsletter is now published!
Dig into the latest updates on IMS’s 20th anniversary, ICOM2026 preparations, our new website & logo, top 10 research papers, and upcoming events. Read more at mycorrhizas.org/news. Stay connected! #Mycorrhiza

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Louis Mielke @myconet.bsky.social · Jul 26

Mountain birch ectomycorrhizas

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Justine Karst 🇨🇦 @j-karst.bsky.social · Jul 3

We have changed! The International Mycorrhiza Society mycorrhizas.org has a new logo and website featuring current award winners, all our newsletters, searchable program abstracts from past ICOMs, info on future ICOMs, and beauty shots of fungi from our community. Enjoy! ⬇️

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · Jul 1

Very cool paper!
It is shocking how few forest areas in Europe are not managed www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Map of Europe and their forest use. Very little (1%?) is not managed at all

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Louis Mielke @myconet.bsky.social · Jun 30

I couldn’t have done this without the help of my co-authors Björn Lindahl, Roger Finley, Julian Klein, Alf Ekblad and notably, my PhD supervisor, Karina Clemmensen!

Louis Mielke @myconet.bsky.social · Jun 30

❔There were big differences in mycelial ingrowth likely due to a summer drought in the second year of the experiment - it really makes me think about the transience of mycorrhizosphere processes. Nature doesn’t always cooperate with our plans 😉

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