We are lending Britain an iconic jewel of our shared history: the Bayeux Tapestry. This is the first time this national treasure will leave French soil. It marks an unprecedented cultural partnership between our two countries — a powerful symbol of our Entente amicale.

With President Emmanuel Macron and my team French Embassy UK🇫🇷🇪🇺 at the French residence in London. Grateful to the remarkable collective effort behind the State Visit and the 37th 🇫🇷🇬🇧 Summit. Thanks & congrats to my wonderful team for the organisation of this historical State Visit!

⚠️The website's new look ⬇️🎊 palass.org #Website #palaeontology

One year from today, we will be welcoming the mycorrhizal community to the International Conference on Mycorrhiza in Cairns, Australia! Remember to mark your calendar, and keep up to date via the website: icom2026.org

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#OMGN2025 Paula Ortega ̶ Exploring the Evolution of Saprolegniales: Were ancestral Oomycetes Parasites? - most probably animal parasites

From 11 News reports in our The ISME Journal paper “Functional Team Selection” with #NancyCollinsJohnson, this one in Earth.com is the best one! Eric Ralls: “Plants have microbiomes like humans do, now scientists have learned how they work” earth.com/news/plants-ha… #Holobiont

White Cliffs. David Hockney

Sean Carroll quoting Jacques Monod’s letter to a 13-year-old boy: “The hatred of lies…” — “La haine du mensonge”

Meet your ancestors with ⁦Dr. Briana Pobiner + @brianapobiner.bluesky.social⁩

In July 1898, Marie Skłodowska Curie and Pierre Curie published work where they mentioned the term radioactivity for the first time. During that year, the two Nobel Prize laureates discovered two new elements: polonium and radium. #NobelPrize

I’m happy to have arrived in Cologne for #ismpmi2025! Come see me at the New Phytologist stand to talk all things plant-microbe interactions and learn about the work of the New Phytologist Foundation.

🇫🇷 President Emmanuel Macron, Ministers Jean-Noël Barrot, Eric Lombard, and Clara Chappaz at the French Residence in London with the French Embassy UK🇫🇷🇪🇺 team. A remarkable collective effort made the historic #StateVisit and the 37th Franco-British Summit possible. 🇫🇷🤝🇬🇧

The BMS tradition is to auction mycology memorabilia and curiosities. The 2025 auction raised >£1600 for the student travel fund and (as well as a few eyebrows!).

Thanks to all who took part in the auction at our Annual Scientific Meeting! #BMS2025

"... prompting an OpenAI language model to generate an image of a mycorrhizal interaction resulted in a whimsical and scientifically inaccurate depiction, reflecting AI's current limited understanding of specialized scientific topics."

Le Pic du Midi est un sommet de beauté et de savoirs. C’est un patrimoine vivant, un trésor de sciences et de nature. Faisons-le entrer au patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO !

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It was such a great time a couple weeks ago getting to go to Gulaga Gold Truffles and digging for these amazing fungi as part of the NSW Fungi Feastival!

Did you know flowers can tell time? 🌼🕰️ In the 1700s, botanist Carl Linnaeus dreamed up a “flower clock” made of plants that open and close at specific hours of the day. 🌸💡 Imagine a garden where blooms unfold like clock hands—dandelions at 8 a.m., goat’s beard by noon, and