I love doing this experiment with students every year for the #microorganism 's class. Good way to illustrate that they are everywhere and so beautiful! (from top, left to right: cough, phone, bathroom sit; bottom left to right: laptop keyboard, fingers, door handle)

“we really can’t be relying on any individual result or any individual study to tell us the whole story”. agree

What's your favourite #protist? Magnificent protist image resource from Yana Eglit & @pjkeelinglab just out in PLOS Biology journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

How do mycorrhizal fungi navigate through microchips? Exciting work showing hyphal navigation strategies through 'tortuous' passages. Proud to be part of this pioneering work led by Kristin Aleklett Edith Hammer w/ Carlos Arellano Pelle Ohlsson et al. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

My students asked me yesterday if researchers do have fun sometimes with experiments. This sounds like one of those (or it appears as fun to me, anyways) ⬇️

Postdoc opportunity in the beautiful city of Montpellier!

FUNGUS IN SPACE!!! 🍄🚀 Equal parts cosmic horror and nature being metal, let's talk about the lichen that grew on the OUTSIDE of the International Space Station! Get your tea and curl up, because I PROMISE you wanna hear about these fungal cosmonauts 🧑‍🚀 🧵

I see, something is wrong. Beautiful failed graph. #R

Absolutely recommend reading. Paper on #Helotiales (#Ascomycota) and their role in plant nutrition. They can form ericoid-mycorrhizae, EcM or "mycorrhizal-like" associations. Very mysterious group. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our Observation of the Day is this Insect Destroyer #fungus (potentially in the genus Pandora) infecting a springtail, seen in #France by macroblaster2000. More details at: inaturalist.org/observations/2… #nature #insect

Looking at some spores from the agricultural fields today :)

Do you love fungi? Or at least like them enough to spend few years studying their traits in more detail? I am offering a 2-year post-doc position in my group working on my Vidi project on fungal traits and soil functions. Apply before April 28th! universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2024…

Expeditions can be hard to maneuver as a mother & scientist. Intense & exciting to have my essay published in The New York Times exploring how Expeditions can be an Academic Act of Defiance Mapping fungi w/family SPUN New York Times Opinion: tinyurl.com/5adc5cwf (photo 2011, Kenya)

Thrilled to be participating! I'll talk about spore colour and sizes. #ICOM12

There is only one occasion in life where I go from super happy, to anger, to laughing, to frustration within few minutes... And that happens when I'm grading exams.

Are you ready for this? #ICOM12 Since I'll be on maternity leave, I am recording my participation. Hope you will still enjoy my talk on spore traits!

3 days, and 3 requests to review papers. How to decide which one to review? Time is lacking, and they always request in 2 or 3 weeks. I have other priorities, and you are not paying me (rather we pay when publishing... urgh).

Has anyone heard of journal.trialanderror.org ? I was wondering where to publish a "failed" experiment with still interesting hypotheses and methods. I found this in a Nature news: nature.com/nature-index/n…

Ok #researchers, where are we going now? Twitter was nice. Time to leave, but where are you all going so I can join?

Près d’un tiers des champignons recensés sont menacés d’extinction theconversation.com/pres-dun-tiers… via The Conversation France