I don’t usually post personal news but Clinicians have told us to pull every lever. Our daughter has with #dipg Brain cancer. There is no cure and typically 9m life expectancy. If anyone knows of trials then please get in contact! #braincancer #childrenscancer Cancer Research UK

Me after answering one email

If anybody is looking for an extra reason to go on a foray, the O’ahu city nature challenge is coming back from April 27-May 1st! Get out there and document some incredible nature/wildlife with friends, I’ll be foraging for as many fantastic fungi as I can find :) City Nature Challenge: Oʻahu

Very happy with my new stickers! #Lichens #WeAreAllLichens

What are #mushrooms? Devil's fingers, reaching up from hell to feed the poor. So explains the lore in Lithuanian #mythology. There are plenty of examples of #fungi inspiring myths! (special thank to Sophie Strand for pointing out) Illustration: Jens Notroff

a helpful chart for those new to the field

Anybody else in the twitterverse going to the Mycological Society of America's annual meeting in Flagstaff, AZ? I'm hoping to make a friend and room together, or if you are nearby and are open to a couch surfing fungal enthusiast please reach out :) MSA Student and Postdoc Section Mycological Society of America moved to bluesky

Im giving my first big girl talk!! Join me for the NOAA IRC seminar series on June 8th at 2pm HST where I’ll be talking about how fungal parasites may impact phytoplankton communities and fisheries recruitment here in Hawai‘i 🌊🐟 NOAA NOAA Sea Grant urldefense.com/v3/__https://m…

Cool group doing cool things, and you could live in the coolest state ever, MICHIGAN!! 😁

Something I learned after my mom died to soon (of early onset alzheimer’s): When it comes to getting footage of your family on video as a parent, it’s *way* more important to record YOURSELF than to record your kids. Here’s why: (/1)

Gorgeous marine fungi #msafungi2023 Anthony Amend Anthony Amend 🍄

Hello twitterverse! Can anybody recommend some good pipelines for taxonomic analyses using 18S rRNA reads extracted from metatranscriptomic data sets? QIIME2 is proving difficult and I'm curious to know what others are using these days, thanks!!

Waiting for University reimbursement after paying for a conference out of pocket

Phenomenal fun pop-sci writeup of the state of marine fungi in Bio Science. w/ Cassie Ettinger, PhD Syrena Whitner 🍄🌊 Gladfelter Lab academic.oup.com/bioscience/art…

Help! Incredibly last minute, but does anybody have space in their room at Asilomar for the upcoming Fungal Genetics Conference? Please spread the word!

Once again pinging the twitterverse for anybody who is attending Fungal Genetics in Asilomar this March who has a spot (or open floor) in their room they'd be willing to provide to a last minute planning graduate student 😅

New publication just dropped!