Thrilled our paper is now published in PNAS—thanks to our fantastic team BU Biology Boston University, Earth & Environment🥰!!! "Urbanization and edge effects interact to drive mutualism breakdown and the rise of unstable pathogenic communities in forest soil" 🏙️🍄 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Flora, fauna and … funga: UN backs new term for conservation talks ⁦Fungi Foundation⁩ ⁦Merlin Sheldrake⁩ ⁦FaunaFloraFunga⁩ #funga ⁦UN Biodiversity⁩ ⁦The Guardian⁩ ⁦Mattha Busby⁩ ⁦IUCN Species Survival Commission⁩ theguardian.com/environment/20…

Excited to collaborate with Joint Genome Institute on metatranscriptome analysis to understand soil fungal functions in urban green spaces with varying disturbance intensities 🍄🏙️So honored and grateful for this award!!😊

"Mycorrhizal Fungi: Key Roles in Forest Soil Function and Vulnerability to Urbanization" - for our first seminar of the Fall term, we'll hear from Chikae Tatsumi of BU Biology. Join us online Wednesday, September 13 at 11:00am EDT! PM us for the Zoom link + pswd (same as always)

US science agencies on track to hit 25-year funding low go.nature.com/48KxkCA

I was so honored today to present my work on urban trees at the MortonArboretum the place where my curiosity about trees started! A big shoutout to Dr. Luke McCormack and his entire team for the warm welcome. Thank you for the opportunity to share ideas about #urbanforestry.

Global restoration is not about planting as many trees as possible. It is about distributing the flow of wealth towards millions of local communities, indigenous populations and farmers that promote biodiversity across the globe. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Congratulations, Dr. Hannah Aichelman! And thank you so much to both you and @DaviesswPhD for mentoring me through my first research project as a graduate student as a part of this work; I had the best experience learning from you.

🗣️🗣️🗣️WHAT DOES Elizabeth Warren want the BU admin to know???

The vivid, poetic prose of “The Vortex” transforms the rainforest into a living being, “a green hell” that fights back against its persistent invaders. The message is that, if the destruction of ecosystems persists, humans suffer econ.st/3QkJEC0 👇

Really nice session #ESA2024 on "The leading edge of microbial ecology" where PhDs and postdocs given platform to give a vision on the future of the field. Main take aways: don't overlook fungi, back to culturing and it is importance to take microbial function into account

Check out the *cover article*, “Fungi are the Future” by K. J. E. Hickman (they/them) and myself! 👀

Did you know that fungi are more closely related to animals than plants? For the Volume V front cover, K. J. E. Hickman (they/them) and Kathryn Atherton explore ways to leverage these ubiquitous but understudied organisms to advance conservation, health, and technology policy. doi.org/10.38105/spr.4…

It’s been a delight to work on this article with Kathryn Atherton for the MIT Science Policy Review at MIT. I’m proud to finally share it with you. My greatest hope is that this article will act as a catalyst to enhance the inclusion of fungi in public policy initiatives. Enjoy 🍄

Emergency bulletin! 14 journals have co-published an urgent call for the deployment of microbial solutions against climate catastrophe, by Raquel Peixoto et al. nature.com/articles/s4156…