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Lockdowns and research: what we lost and what we stand to gain theconversation.com/lockdowns-and-… via The Conversation Africa

My 8 y.o. loudly ask "Mom, is everyone in this zoom meeting epidemiologist?" I reply "no, some are obstetricians and gynecologists." She replied "I wonder if they knew the could have been epidemiologists instead?" The zoom crowd went wild. #epitwitter #MedTwitter #workingfromhome

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This is the Eurasian wryneck. what you are looking at is it’s ability to mimic a forest snake when necessary. These movements once seemed otherworldly and is where the word jinx originates, sadly they endured much cruelty in superstition/witchcraft before mimicry was understood

We had around 165 people from more than 20 countries login to listen to our first International Seminar from Joey Tanney. It was a very interesting talk on endophytes in Canada, naming them and using them to combat pests and pathogens. We can't wait for the next one! #IYPH2020

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Students Matt Jackson and Phophi Nethonondo making the most of their field trip | African Maize Stalk Borer Field Collections - and some nice #proudlysouthafrican music too - Enjoy youtu.be/R6k_goL2yLk FABI University of Pretoria

Our most recent publication on Basidiomycota in South Africa: Poroid Hymenochaetaceae associated with trees showing wood-rot symptoms in the Garden Route National Park of South Africa tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

How can you not like fungi?!

Me checking my MCMC runs

Finally our review paper is online: Fungal genomes enhance our understanding of the pathogens affecting trees cultivated in Southern Hemisphere plantations tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.298…

Our new interns in the SACTA/CPHB internship programme have a tour of our biocontrol facility. The programme will expose the interns to work and research in biocontrol, extension, diagnostics and resistance screening to grow capacity for South Africa #nextgeneration CPHB Plant Health

FABI is proud of Almuth Hammerbacher's publication hat-trick fabinet.up.ac.za/index.php/news… #fabinews UP Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences

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If there's something strange In your neighborhood Who you gonna call? #Mouldbusters ! Today Cobus Visagie and I were on a secret mission (🤐) on collecting some #indoorfungi! Stay tuned… But now you know who to call 😷😎

Today was the first time in two years that I have given a lecture in-person at a conference. Thank you #SASPP2022 for the opportunity to share our story about hte fungi in the Botryosphaeriaceae that are associated with a native tree species in South Africa.

If you can't get a keynote, deliver two talks back to back. Lisa Rothmann presents two cool talks, back to back, on Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and its rising prevalence in SAs sunflower fields. #SASPP2022 FABI Future Africa Platform

No way to escape global warming! #saspp2022 Prof Mark Liang is sharing shocking information regarding the climate crisis - it's real, it's here, and it is really really bad! #saspp2022

And now, "in front of a live studio audience" at #SASPP2022- Darryl Herron (Darryl Herron) 🤩 How can we assess the risk of a pathogen if we don't have a standardized assay? It's difficult... So Darryl made one, nbd.. 🤯

Not to criticise colleagues, but when isolates (e.g. fungal) forms a polytomy with a reference strain, instead of a monophyletic group, it does not mean that they are the same species as the reference strain. Just a friendly reminder …