Executive Director SPUN Professor of Evolutionary Biology (VU, Amsterdam) Evolution of Cooperation, Symbiosis, Fungi https://xitter.cf/t.co/lBs7l7gpZ2 / https://xitter.cf/t.co/0OMWTOYtY3 (she/her)
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Expeditions can be hard to maneuver as a mother & scientist.
Intense & exciting to have my essay published in @nytimes exploring how Expeditions can be an Academic Act of Defiance
Mapping fungi w/family @spununderground @nytopinion: tinyurl.com/5adc5cwf
(photo 2011, Kenya)
Calling all myconauts, let’s bring fungal networking to Blue Sky. Come find me here: tobykiers.bsky.social
Video time laspe of root (red) and mycorrhizal network (light blue) over 300hrs
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Delighted to being invited at the very beginning of the African Network of Soil Ecology lead by @ulzino and colleagues who I met trough @spununderground at #ICOM12 @mycorrhiza_ims
Im SO glad that our work at @southmycorrhiza inspires/contributes to other Global South Networks!
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Rob Ramos and @CamilleDelavaux visited us to sequence some of the collection. INVAM curators Jim Bever, Terra Lubin, Peggy Schultz and @lizkoziol spent hundreds of hours isolating #AMF spores, and Rob & Camille worked really hard to make sure this project was a success!
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Passionate about #citizenscience? Keen on #fungi? Worried about Russia’s war in Ukraine? Let's take a look at our recent article about @inaturalist and amateur mycology in #Ukraine.
Available at doi.org/10.5334/cstp.717
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'The whole project is very anti-colonial...it's like a revolution because we, as scientists in the Global South, didn't have a lot of participation & still don't...I thought “Why? Let’s change that.”'
@adri_corrales33 on the Underground Explorers Program bit.ly/3Nr1wtk
ALT Burenjargal Otgonsuren, who is part of the Underground Explorers program, holds up a mushroom in the boreal forests of Mongolia. She wears a SPUN navy blue t-shirt which says 'Protect the Underground'.
ALT Basile Houwannou, a PhD student at Prof. Nourou Yorou's lab from the University of Parakou in Bénin, takes a photo of fungi growing on exposed soil in a forest. There is a cocoa tree behind him.
ALT Valeria Reyes, a dedicated local researcher from Honduras who is part of the Evelin Yulisa Reyes Mendez's team, samples at a traditional beans farm in Catacamas, Olancho, Honduras. Evelin is part of the Underground Explorers program.
ALT Helbert Lim, who is part of the Underground Explorers program, samples for underground fungi with a colleague in a forest in Indonesia.
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Fungi could save one of the rarest plants in the world.
Na’u is a flowering tree on the brink of extinction in Hawaii. 🌸
Nicole Hynson, @uhmanoa & SPUN Underground Explorer, thinks fungi may hold the key to na'u's revival.
@goes_by_kim, @SmithsonianMag bit.ly/3AAX1JC
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Cutting edge research. Amazing supportive PI. Cool location. What more could you ask for as a postdoc?
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Last chance to apply for this stellar post-doc position to understand nuclear dynamics in mycorrhizal fungi
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Great piece in @Forbes about how @spununderground is using ML technologies to document underground systems - and why this matters for fungal conservation.
So proud of @Giulifungi @fungifoundation as they advocate for the Fungal Pledge at #COP16. forbes.com/sites/danieladelo…
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Our partners at @fungifoundation have been working tirelessly to protect fungi both above and belowground.
This is a massive moment for fungi. We urge all parties to sign this pledge to prioritize fungal conservation now. #COP16
theguardian.com/environment/…
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We need the best researchers from across the world to map underground #fungi before they're gone. But there’s a gap in the research coming out of the Global South.
SPUN's Underground Explorers Program tackles this issue. @adri_corrales33 explains how:
👉 bit.ly/3Nr1wtk
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Excited to see our work featured here. We're dedicated to empowering 100 African scientists & 3,000 smallholder farmers to co-create solutions that protect undervalued African crops, boost food security & contribute to sustainable livelihoods. Thanks to our team & collaborators.
Congratulations to @CarolIbe8 featured in @Forbes for her work on food security in Africa - forbes.com/sites/andrewwight… @JRbiotek @GatesAlumni @plantsci @Newnham_College
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Fantastic & very efficient sampling (40 samples) on Saturday with @spununderground #RewildingChile, Rocío Urrutia-Jalabert & #MateoBarrenengoa on Alerce Andino National Park. We’ll uncover relationships between AMF diversity & tree aboveground biomass. Beautiful experience!
Massive congrats @adri_corrales33 for winning the Maxwell Hanrahan Foundation award.
I had the honor joining Adriana on an expedition two weeks ago to the Amazon basin. She is an inspiration to field biologists everywhere bit.ly/3zDwxa4 @spununderground
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Including 🍄🟫🍄🟫— "The inclusion of fungi is not merely a matter of adding a category to wildlife trade policy but a pressing necessity for the conservation of biodiversity" By @r_oyanedel, Mários Levi and @Giulifungi @ConBiology
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.c…
Important and fascinating special issue of Conservation Biology considering importance of wildlife trade for wider biodiversity.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.c…
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#TempsForts #S43
Science Grand Format
Le monde extraordinaire des champignons de Sarah Laîné et @TomRisch
🍄Quels sont les incroyables pouvoirs des champignons ? Voyage à la découverte d’un mystérieux royaume
➡️ Jeudi 24/10 à 21.05 | #France5 & france.tv
Great to see our lab work stimulating debate. Plant-fungal exchange processes are complex, elegant, & still mysterious. We should be open to using all types of tools & frameworks to understand them
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…
BMT is a useful analytical tool for making mathematical predictions and testing hypotheses about resource exchange. This does not mean that fungi and plants are consistently rational traders. More here in our PNAS paper: pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pn…
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Brilliant new article by @AtmosMagazine explores the urgency of saving fungi before it’s too late. ⏰🍄
@Unwrinkling unpacks the diverse ways fungi benefit human lives and intertwines with most life on earth. Quotes @Giulifungi & SPUN's @adri_corrales33. bit.ly/3MrQwey
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Larger colony sizes favoured the evolution of more worker castes in ants nature.com/articles/s41559-0… @Gijsbertwerner @lross_evoento @juliet_turner6 @philiBeeDowning
