Susana C. Gonçalves 🍄🧪🌍👩🏻🔬💪💬
@cfemycolab.bsky.social
Dr of Ecology
Conservation Mycologist
Member @iucnfungi.bsky.social
One teenage boy 🏉🥁⚛️, two black cats 🐾
#CitizenScience #Bioinvasions #UrbanBiodiversity #Conservation #SustainableUse
Reuniting #WomenInMycology
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🔗 https://linktr.ee/cfe_mycolab
Conservation Mycologist
Member @iucnfungi.bsky.social
One teenage boy 🏉🥁⚛️, two black cats 🐾
#CitizenScience #Bioinvasions #UrbanBiodiversity #Conservation #SustainableUse
Reuniting #WomenInMycology
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🔗 https://linktr.ee/cfe_mycolab
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🍄 🧪🌍 #CitizenScienceMonth ends today, so I thought I'd share our review published last year in @consletters.bsky.social "The Power of Citizen Science to Advance Fungal Conservation"
#citizenscience #conservationscience #conservation #ICYMI
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#citizenscience #conservationscience #conservation #ICYMI
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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📣 The deadline for this @britmycolsoc.org.uk special issue on fungal conservation has been extended to 15th March 2026.
Spread the word and don’t hesitate to contact @cfemycolab.bsky.social or me if you have any questions.
We’re looking forward to receiving your submissions! 🍄
Spread the word and don’t hesitate to contact @cfemycolab.bsky.social or me if you have any questions.
We’re looking forward to receiving your submissions! 🍄
Thrilled to announce that the special issue on fungal #conservation that @cfemycolab.bsky.social and I are co-editing for the @britmycolsoc.org.uk c.org.uk journal Fungal Ecology is open for submissions!
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
January 14, 2026 at 1:00 PM
📣 The deadline for this @britmycolsoc.org.uk special issue on fungal conservation has been extended to 15th March 2026.
Spread the word and don’t hesitate to contact @cfemycolab.bsky.social or me if you have any questions.
We’re looking forward to receiving your submissions! 🍄
Spread the word and don’t hesitate to contact @cfemycolab.bsky.social or me if you have any questions.
We’re looking forward to receiving your submissions! 🍄
Reposted by Susana C. Gonçalves 🍄🧪🌍👩🏻🔬💪💬
New paper! Here we present the history, geographical distribution, and structure of organizations in #mycology across #Europe, as well as their activities—including journals, magazines, meetings, educational initiatives, and #citizenscience projects. doi.org/10.1007/s105... #FunDive
January 12, 2026 at 11:52 AM
New paper! Here we present the history, geographical distribution, and structure of organizations in #mycology across #Europe, as well as their activities—including journals, magazines, meetings, educational initiatives, and #citizenscience projects. doi.org/10.1007/s105... #FunDive
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A state-funded survey across California has uncovered hundreds of fungi new to science, part of a first-of-its-kind biodiversity effort.
Often overlooked, fungi support plant growth and store carbon — knowledge that could guide conservation and forest restoration as wildfires intensify.
Often overlooked, fungi support plant growth and store carbon — knowledge that could guide conservation and forest restoration as wildfires intensify.
Statewide survey aims to put California’s fungi on the conservation map
Getting to The Cedars, an ecological preserve in California’s Sonoma county, is a slog. Multiple rivers and creeks must be crossed, and it can be tough going on an often storm-destroyed road. But…
news.mongabay.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
A state-funded survey across California has uncovered hundreds of fungi new to science, part of a first-of-its-kind biodiversity effort.
Often overlooked, fungi support plant growth and store carbon — knowledge that could guide conservation and forest restoration as wildfires intensify.
Often overlooked, fungi support plant growth and store carbon — knowledge that could guide conservation and forest restoration as wildfires intensify.
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Are you an ECSA member or a presenter at the #ECSA2026 conference? 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 will be open exclusively for you from 27 October to 10 November.
https://www.ecsa2026.ngo/
https://www.ecsa2026.ngo/
October 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Are you an ECSA member or a presenter at the #ECSA2026 conference? 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 will be open exclusively for you from 27 October to 10 November.
https://www.ecsa2026.ngo/
https://www.ecsa2026.ngo/
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Tedersoo et al. shaking up fungal systematics, describing numerous new phyla, etc. based on relatively short eDNA data that we from beforehand know can give many spurious topologies in phylogenetic trees. (Interesting with a new phylum named Tartumycota 😳)
mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/1616...
mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/1616...
Thirty novel fungal lineages: formal description based on environmental samples and DNA
Molecular analyses of soil and water commonly reveal large proportions of fungal taxa that cannot be assigned to any taxonomic or functional groups. Some of these so-called dark taxa have been encoded...
mycokeys.pensoft.net
October 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Tedersoo et al. shaking up fungal systematics, describing numerous new phyla, etc. based on relatively short eDNA data that we from beforehand know can give many spurious topologies in phylogenetic trees. (Interesting with a new phylum named Tartumycota 😳)
mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/1616...
mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/1616...
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Wow, nature is too cool! Structures on stinkbug hind legs that used to be interpreted as ears are actually chambers with fungi. The bugs coat their eggs in those fungi to protect them against parasitoid wasps. 🧪
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs
Dinidorid stinkbugs were reported to possess a conspicuous tympanal organ on female hindlegs. In this study, we show that this organ is specialized to retain microbial symbionts rather than to perceiv...
www.science.org
October 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Wow, nature is too cool! Structures on stinkbug hind legs that used to be interpreted as ears are actually chambers with fungi. The bugs coat their eggs in those fungi to protect them against parasitoid wasps. 🧪
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A fun commentary with @christinakaiser.bsky.social inspired by a very cool paper in New Phyt by @fungidownunder.bsky.social et al. showing that EcM fungal functional traits affect soil C responses to elevated CO2. EcM species and traits really matter!
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The role of ectomycorrhizal functional diversity in mediating soil carbon cycling under global change
Click on the article title to read more.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
A fun commentary with @christinakaiser.bsky.social inspired by a very cool paper in New Phyt by @fungidownunder.bsky.social et al. showing that EcM fungal functional traits affect soil C responses to elevated CO2. EcM species and traits really matter!
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Thrilled to announce that the special issue on fungal #conservation that @cfemycolab.bsky.social and I are co-editing for the @britmycolsoc.org.uk c.org.uk journal Fungal Ecology is open for submissions!
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
August 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Thrilled to announce that the special issue on fungal #conservation that @cfemycolab.bsky.social and I are co-editing for the @britmycolsoc.org.uk c.org.uk journal Fungal Ecology is open for submissions!
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Reposted by Susana C. Gonçalves 🍄🧪🌍👩🏻🔬💪💬
Mario likes mushrooms! www.popsci.com/science/real...
Mario's super-sized mushroom exists in real life
While they actually power-up trees and not plumbers, the 40 year-old video game helped make toadstools mainstream.
www.popsci.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Mario likes mushrooms! www.popsci.com/science/real...
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Article I wrote for Rewilding Magazine, also featuring some of my photography. Check it out.
www.rewildingmag.com/why-rewilder...
www.rewildingmag.com/why-rewilder...
Why rewilders shouldn’t forget about fungi
These mostly hidden life forms have a big role to play in rewilding – and need its support, too.
www.rewildingmag.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Article I wrote for Rewilding Magazine, also featuring some of my photography. Check it out.
www.rewildingmag.com/why-rewilder...
www.rewildingmag.com/why-rewilder...
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"Improving citizen science: Co-creating recommendations with researchers and the public"
A pre-print about an exciting project with Science for All, supported by the Australian Citizen Science Association & the Australian Academy of Science
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#citizenscience #public #science
A pre-print about an exciting project with Science for All, supported by the Australian Citizen Science Association & the Australian Academy of Science
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#citizenscience #public #science
October 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"Improving citizen science: Co-creating recommendations with researchers and the public"
A pre-print about an exciting project with Science for All, supported by the Australian Citizen Science Association & the Australian Academy of Science
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#citizenscience #public #science
A pre-print about an exciting project with Science for All, supported by the Australian Citizen Science Association & the Australian Academy of Science
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#citizenscience #public #science
Reposted by Susana C. Gonçalves 🍄🧪🌍👩🏻🔬💪💬
I made a flyer! Know anyone in CA, OR, WA, or BC who might be interested in collecting mushrooms for research purposes? #mycology #citizenscience
Please share widely! 🧪 🍄🟫 🌲
A PDF version can be found here: drive.proton.me/urls/W1MM4FG...
Please share widely! 🧪 🍄🟫 🌲
A PDF version can be found here: drive.proton.me/urls/W1MM4FG...
October 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I made a flyer! Know anyone in CA, OR, WA, or BC who might be interested in collecting mushrooms for research purposes? #mycology #citizenscience
Please share widely! 🧪 🍄🟫 🌲
A PDF version can be found here: drive.proton.me/urls/W1MM4FG...
Please share widely! 🧪 🍄🟫 🌲
A PDF version can be found here: drive.proton.me/urls/W1MM4FG...
Reposted by Susana C. Gonçalves 🍄🧪🌍👩🏻🔬💪💬
"If we lose hope, we're doomed."
We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.
We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.
October 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"If we lose hope, we're doomed."
We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.
We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.
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“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
October 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
Reposted by Susana C. Gonçalves 🍄🧪🌍👩🏻🔬💪💬
October 1, 2025 at 3:28 AM
The kind of science I want on a Friday afternoon 😜
Truly chuffed for our fearless food physicists @mpipks.bsky.social + collabs from AT @istaresearch.bsky.social, IT & ES who won this year’s Ig Nobel - the #NobelPrize of hearts❤️for cracking the science of perfect pasta !🍝Kudos to all for intrepidly consuming lots of cheese in the name of science!😋
The Secret to a Smooth Pasta Sauce Wins Ig Nobel Prize
Italian researchers studied how the ingredients of the traditional Roman dish cacio e pepe emulsify into a creamy sauce, winning the 2025 Physics Ig Nobel Prize.
www.the-scientist.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The kind of science I want on a Friday afternoon 😜
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I just passed my 50,000th identification on @inaturalist.bsky.social! Identifying is a huge but often ignored part of the #iNaturalist community and dataset so I wanted to share why and how I identify. 1/14
🧪 #ecology #taxonomy #botany #CommunityScience
🧪 #ecology #taxonomy #botany #CommunityScience
September 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I just passed my 50,000th identification on @inaturalist.bsky.social! Identifying is a huge but often ignored part of the #iNaturalist community and dataset so I wanted to share why and how I identify. 1/14
🧪 #ecology #taxonomy #botany #CommunityScience
🧪 #ecology #taxonomy #botany #CommunityScience
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Very excited to share that my first 1st author publication is available at the journal of #NewPhytologist !
Congratulations to the entire team that worked on this project including the #KewFungarium Team. 👏 🍄🟫
If you are interested in the topic, feel free to read it here: doi.org/10.1111/nph....
Congratulations to the entire team that worked on this project including the #KewFungarium Team. 👏 🍄🟫
If you are interested in the topic, feel free to read it here: doi.org/10.1111/nph....
Whole genome sequencing of historical specimens from the world's largest fungal collection yields high‐quality assemblies
High-throughput molecular studies of museum specimens (museomics) have great potential in biodiversity research, but fungal historical collections have scarcely been examined, leading to no comprehe...
doi.org
September 16, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Very excited to share that my first 1st author publication is available at the journal of #NewPhytologist !
Congratulations to the entire team that worked on this project including the #KewFungarium Team. 👏 🍄🟫
If you are interested in the topic, feel free to read it here: doi.org/10.1111/nph....
Congratulations to the entire team that worked on this project including the #KewFungarium Team. 👏 🍄🟫
If you are interested in the topic, feel free to read it here: doi.org/10.1111/nph....
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Pangeneric analyses reveal the divergent genome
evolution and ecologies between morels and truffles
in the Morchellaceae published in
@currentbiology.bsky.social
1/n
Photo: M. Vulgaris (Ph Clowez)
evolution and ecologies between morels and truffles
in the Morchellaceae published in
@currentbiology.bsky.social
1/n
Photo: M. Vulgaris (Ph Clowez)
August 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Pangeneric analyses reveal the divergent genome
evolution and ecologies between morels and truffles
in the Morchellaceae published in
@currentbiology.bsky.social
1/n
Photo: M. Vulgaris (Ph Clowez)
evolution and ecologies between morels and truffles
in the Morchellaceae published in
@currentbiology.bsky.social
1/n
Photo: M. Vulgaris (Ph Clowez)
Thrilled to launch yet another #CitizenScience campaign for @fundive-fungi.bsky.social 🙃
The campaign' accompanying flyer is published in the open-access platform Zenodo, free to download, share, and cite: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#UrbanBiodiversity #FunDive #Mycology #Conservation #iNaturalist
The campaign' accompanying flyer is published in the open-access platform Zenodo, free to download, share, and cite: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#UrbanBiodiversity #FunDive #Mycology #Conservation #iNaturalist
September 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Thrilled to launch yet another #CitizenScience campaign for @fundive-fungi.bsky.social 🙃
The campaign' accompanying flyer is published in the open-access platform Zenodo, free to download, share, and cite: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#UrbanBiodiversity #FunDive #Mycology #Conservation #iNaturalist
The campaign' accompanying flyer is published in the open-access platform Zenodo, free to download, share, and cite: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#UrbanBiodiversity #FunDive #Mycology #Conservation #iNaturalist
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🌍 Call open for #ECCB2026!
The 8th European Congress for Conservation Biology (Leiden, July 6–10 2026) seeks proposals for symposia, panels, workshops & training.
📅 Deadline: Oct 31, 2025
🔗 eccb26leiden.eu/calls/
Join us in building effective biodiversity conservation.
The 8th European Congress for Conservation Biology (Leiden, July 6–10 2026) seeks proposals for symposia, panels, workshops & training.
📅 Deadline: Oct 31, 2025
🔗 eccb26leiden.eu/calls/
Join us in building effective biodiversity conservation.
CALLS – ECCB 2026
eccb26leiden.eu
eccb26leiden.eu
September 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🌍 Call open for #ECCB2026!
The 8th European Congress for Conservation Biology (Leiden, July 6–10 2026) seeks proposals for symposia, panels, workshops & training.
📅 Deadline: Oct 31, 2025
🔗 eccb26leiden.eu/calls/
Join us in building effective biodiversity conservation.
The 8th European Congress for Conservation Biology (Leiden, July 6–10 2026) seeks proposals for symposia, panels, workshops & training.
📅 Deadline: Oct 31, 2025
🔗 eccb26leiden.eu/calls/
Join us in building effective biodiversity conservation.
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We have several open positions in my group, funded from the ERC Grant on the Early Sequestered Germline of Fungi. We search broadly for applicants at both PhD and master-level, with a dedicated interest in fungal evolutionary biology. Please forward and RT!
Find the positions here: su.varbi.com
Find the positions here: su.varbi.com
Lediga jobb vid Stockholms universitet
Jobb
su.varbi.com
September 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
We have several open positions in my group, funded from the ERC Grant on the Early Sequestered Germline of Fungi. We search broadly for applicants at both PhD and master-level, with a dedicated interest in fungal evolutionary biology. Please forward and RT!
Find the positions here: su.varbi.com
Find the positions here: su.varbi.com
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A UE quer reverter proteções ambientais vitais. Prazo para travar isto: 10 de setembro ⏰
Diz-lhes para manterem as suas #HandsOffNature 👉 spea.pt/campanhas/ha...
Diz-lhes para manterem as suas #HandsOffNature 👉 spea.pt/campanhas/ha...
Não deixe a UE destruir a proteção da natureza | #HandsOffNature - SPEA
Temos 10 dias para impedir a Comissão Europeia de destruir proteções ambientais vitais. Diga-lhes para deixarem a natureza em paz.
spea.pt
September 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A UE quer reverter proteções ambientais vitais. Prazo para travar isto: 10 de setembro ⏰
Diz-lhes para manterem as suas #HandsOffNature 👉 spea.pt/campanhas/ha...
Diz-lhes para manterem as suas #HandsOffNature 👉 spea.pt/campanhas/ha...
Reposted by Susana C. Gonçalves 🍄🧪🌍👩🏻🔬💪💬
📣 Call for papers! Special issue of #FungalEcology on “Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions” co-edited by Susana C. Gonçalves @cfemycolab.bsky.social & Jonathan Cazabonne @jonathancazabonne.bsky.social. Deadline for manuscripts: 31 Jan 2026. Find out more: www.linkedin.com/company/brit...
August 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
📣 Call for papers! Special issue of #FungalEcology on “Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions” co-edited by Susana C. Gonçalves @cfemycolab.bsky.social & Jonathan Cazabonne @jonathancazabonne.bsky.social. Deadline for manuscripts: 31 Jan 2026. Find out more: www.linkedin.com/company/brit...
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An exciting full-time permanent mycology job with a focus on taxonomy in Auckland, New Zealand! PhD and some postdoc experience required. Apply here: careers.sciencenewzealand.org/jobdetails?a... #mycology #jobs
August 25, 2025 at 7:23 AM
An exciting full-time permanent mycology job with a focus on taxonomy in Auckland, New Zealand! PhD and some postdoc experience required. Apply here: careers.sciencenewzealand.org/jobdetails?a... #mycology #jobs