Thanks for writing this! I’ll be adding a link to it in my lab handbook and on the website for my undergrad scientific writing course.

Mycelial biomass growth stage at death determines fungal necromass decay dynamics Fungal necromass is increasingly recognized as a major component of soil organic matter, and identifying the factors that govern its formation is crit…

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Excited to share our latest publication, just out. It has been a fantastic collaboration that took a lot of meticulous lab work and image analysis from Roos, and led to long discussions and deep dives into mycelial development and fungal life histories. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/6ZEPAC...

My colleague Christian Poll offers a PhD position in our group at University of Hohenheim, we would be glad if you share this opportunity with potential candidates. His project EcoFuture KAP4 is an interesting collaborative project with University of Tübingen. dbges.de/assets/Uploa...

Please join us at #ICOM2026 in Cairns, Australia, this summer. @anthomycota.bsky.social and me are organising a special session on mycorrhizae and biogeochemical cycles at the International Conference on Mycorrhiza (Session 23, icom2026.org). Abstract submission is open until February 28, 2026.

Congratulations to Sophia Kaschper on her first article published, based on her excellent master thesis 🎉 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
How can we translate individual traits to functions in a community context? Functional traits do not simply add up, all interactions within the community are unique.

Excellent study by Yolima Carrillo how fungal traits relate to necromass mineralization. Necromass mineralization (13C labeling) did not only depend on fungal melanin and C:N contents, but also reduced native soil carbon mineralization by negative priming onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Frontiers | Multilevel selection theory informs context-dependent mycorrhizal functioning Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi form widespread, ancient, and critically important symbioses with plants, but their functioning and beneficial effects are ...

Check out our new paper, Multilevel selection informs context-dependent mycorrhizal functioning! This is my very first first-authored publication, and I worked w some incredible folks to make it happen:

@meafkhami.bsky.social @balachaudhary.bsky.social
and Nancy Johnson!

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Morels were among the species analyzed. This delicious group is well known for thriving in burnt areas. Stock photo.

Pyrophilous fungi are fungal species that thrive after wildfire. A genetic analysis of this group uncovered an ecologically important tradeoff between fast growth and the ability to break down post-fire aromatic carbon compounds. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/1A2P50XVxZc

Join us at #EGU26 in Vienna for our session SSS4.2 on microbial physiology, co-organized with @jpausch.bsky.social and @aguilart.bsky.social, featuring @edithhammer.bsky.social as Invited Speaker - meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
Deadline for abstract submissions is 15th of January.

I experience the same as Editor, but also so many Review requests per week, it´s crazy. Just too many submissions are flooding the system. There could be a solution, when every author holding a PhD would have to review for Journals they got articles accepted. Fair distribution of the work?

The peer-review crisis: how to fix an overloaded system Journals and funders are trying to boost the speed and effectiveness of review processes that are under strain.

As a writer, teacher, AE, and reviewer, i share lots of their views. We need to work together to improve the system.
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With a new fungal isolate collection derived from specialized carbon media, we developed the FungiResp approach for soil fungal carbon use trait characterization. Phylogenetic trait imputation allowed to characterize functional shifts of soil fungal communities in response to substrate availability

Many common fungi sequenced in agricultural soils showed surprisingly limited activity on complex carbon sources like cellulose and starch. Complex carbon use ability was an important trait differentiating fungal isolates, predicting functional community shifts in soil.

What are all these soil fungi doing? Complex carbon use ability as a predictive trait for fungal community functions Fungal communities in soil play important roles in decomposition processes and soil organic carbon cycling. These communities are tremendously diverse, making it challenging to assign relevant functio...

Happy to share this big piece on saprobic fungal traits and soil carbon cycling. Great collaboration in the SPP SoilSystems @dfg.de , with Damien Finn, Sören Thiele-Bruhn, Denise Vonhoegen, @mrillig.bsky.social and many others contributing to the study. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Looks like a very useful tool, congrats to the group of Fernanda Pinheiro. A parallel R package would be nice :)

Systematic pairwise co-cultures uncover predominant negative interactions among human gut bacteria - Microbiome Background Understanding pairwise bacterial interactions in the human gut is crucial for deciphering the complex networks of bacterial interactions and their contributions to host health. However, the...

Systematic pairwise co-cultures uncover predominant negative interactions among human gut bacteria

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Cross-kingdom comparative genomics reveal the metabolic potential of fungi for lignin turnover in deadwood - Nature Ecology & Evolution This study uses comparative genomics and phylogenetics to analyse the distribution and evolution of key enzymes involved in the catabolism of lignin-related aromatic compounds in the bacterial and fun...

This is awesome work on fungal lignin breakdown. And I like this "simplified" overview graph of lignin breakdown. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Depiction of growth system categorization and network criteria used in this study.

Systematic mapping of experimental approaches to studying common #mycorrhizal networks in arbuscular mycorrhiza

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From glomalin to glomalose: unraveling the molecular identity of the MAb32B11 antigen Glomalin, a substance produced by arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi, has well-documented benefits for plant and soil health, including water retention and soil aggregation. Glomalin quantification h...

Alptekin et al. suggest glomalin is a carbohydrate - glomalose. I wonder how this is different from EPS?
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Raunkiæran shortfalls: Challenges and perspectives in trait‐based ecology Trait-based ecology, a prominent research field identifying traits linked to the distribution and interactions of organisms and their impact on ecosystem functioning, has flourished in the last three....

The Raunkiæran shortfalls to trait ecology. Great read on the limitations of trait concepts, and solutions. Led by Francesco de Bello
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What does colonisation tell us? Revisiting the functional outcomes of root colonisation by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi Click on the article title to read more.

Very important topic on the functional significance of AM root colonization
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Postdoktor i utveckling av Ramanspektroskopi av jordmikrober Särskild ämnesbeskrivning Jordmånen är grunden för vårt samhälle och vår livsmedelssäkerhet, men den är fortfarande en av de sista domänerna i vårt moderna liv som teknologiseras. Jordmikr

Exciting postdoc opportunity with Milda Pucetaite and us in the Soilchip group: Become the spectroscopy expert in our multimodal fungal recognition project within our interdisciplinary VR research environment:) lu.varbi.com/what:job/job...

And congratulations to Yongxing Cui to this global analysis of microbial nutrient limitations, just published in @pnas.org Thank you for the fun collaboration

Constituent of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) produced by a range of soil bacteria and fungi - BMC Microbiology Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) produced by soil bacteria and fungi are crucial for microbial growth and provide many functions for the soil and its microbes. EPS composition may depend on mi...

In case somebody is still here, getting really quiet in blue skies..
There is some new research on EPS production under different resource conditions in bacteria and fungi, led by Rebeca Leme Oliva. Great collaboration with Rainer Joergensen bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Wind Patterns Influence the Dispersal and Assembly of North American Soil Fungal Communities Wind is the primary vector of fungal spore dispersal. We document that windflow patterns, both the direction and magnitude, exhibit a significant influence on the composition and diversity of soil fu....

Wind dispersal shapes fungal communities, especially mushroom forming species. Nice study design by Peter Pellitier and @mykophile.bsky.social ‬ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Fungal cell wall biogenesis: structural complexity, regulation and inhibition The cell wall is the defining organelle of filamentous and yeast-like fungi. It is responsible for morphology, biotic and abiotic interactions and its…

When thinking about soil microbial necromass composition and biomarker significance, having good knowledge of microbial cell wall composition is crucial.
Another great review on the fungal cell wall by Neil Gow
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The AmazonFACE project is offering post doc scholarships, based in Manaus, Brazil!