Iryna Yatsiuk
@irynaya.bsky.social
PhD, mycologist, she/her
myxomycetes taxonomy phylogenetics biodata
Ukraine and cats
myxomycetes taxonomy phylogenetics biodata
Ukraine and cats
🧬It's time to Read the Slime!
#Slimemoulds are weird, wonderful, and still understudied fungi-like organisms. You can help understand them.
Join the new FunDive citizen science campaign to find and sequence them 👉 fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol...
#ReadTheSlime #CitizenScience #Barcoding #FunDive
#Slimemoulds are weird, wonderful, and still understudied fungi-like organisms. You can help understand them.
Join the new FunDive citizen science campaign to find and sequence them 👉 fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol...
#ReadTheSlime #CitizenScience #Barcoding #FunDive
July 25, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🧬It's time to Read the Slime!
#Slimemoulds are weird, wonderful, and still understudied fungi-like organisms. You can help understand them.
Join the new FunDive citizen science campaign to find and sequence them 👉 fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol...
#ReadTheSlime #CitizenScience #Barcoding #FunDive
#Slimemoulds are weird, wonderful, and still understudied fungi-like organisms. You can help understand them.
Join the new FunDive citizen science campaign to find and sequence them 👉 fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol...
#ReadTheSlime #CitizenScience #Barcoding #FunDive
Thrilled to join @jzpawlowska.bsky.social ’s group for a postdoc. I'll be still working on #myxomycetes! We’ll explore how species concepts shape our view of their distribution with conservation in mind. Plus, citizen science via the FunDive project: sequencing + public help = species discovery!
June 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Thrilled to join @jzpawlowska.bsky.social ’s group for a postdoc. I'll be still working on #myxomycetes! We’ll explore how species concepts shape our view of their distribution with conservation in mind. Plus, citizen science via the FunDive project: sequencing + public help = species discovery!
My regular column: Hello from the past, or what I find in old herbaria. Why don’t they make such stylish packs anymore? #herbarium #specimens
March 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
My regular column: Hello from the past, or what I find in old herbaria. Why don’t they make such stylish packs anymore? #herbarium #specimens
Reposted by Iryna Yatsiuk
Read the new issue here: imafungus.pensoft.net/issue/5041/
IMA Fungus 16
IMA Fungus, founded in 2010, is the flagship journal of the International Mycological Association (IMA).The IMA represents the interests of mycology and mycologists worldwide, through a series o...
imafungus.pensoft.net
February 18, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Read the new issue here: imafungus.pensoft.net/issue/5041/
Our paper about good practice for species description in myxomycetes is among the first 10 published in @imafungus.pensoft.net with @pensoft.net publisher. Enjoy #openaccess
doi.org/10.3897/imaf...
doi.org/10.3897/imaf...
Species descriptions in myxomycetes – can we settle on rules for good taxonomic practice?
Myxomycetes are a unique branch of life, recognisable by sporophores showing a fungus-like dispersal biology. These structures bear nearly all diagnostic characters for species identification and deve...
doi.org
February 18, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Our paper about good practice for species description in myxomycetes is among the first 10 published in @imafungus.pensoft.net with @pensoft.net publisher. Enjoy #openaccess
doi.org/10.3897/imaf...
doi.org/10.3897/imaf...
Lowkey regretted that I quit smoking a while ago #herbarium #old_specimens
December 17, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Lowkey regretted that I quit smoking a while ago #herbarium #old_specimens
Another strange #myxomycete from TAAM #herbarium.
A Didymium, collected 50 years ago in Adygea, North Caucasus. At first glance, I thought it was one of pretty common species of D. iridis-complex.
A Didymium, collected 50 years ago in Adygea, North Caucasus. At first glance, I thought it was one of pretty common species of D. iridis-complex.
December 3, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Another strange #myxomycete from TAAM #herbarium.
A Didymium, collected 50 years ago in Adygea, North Caucasus. At first glance, I thought it was one of pretty common species of D. iridis-complex.
A Didymium, collected 50 years ago in Adygea, North Caucasus. At first glance, I thought it was one of pretty common species of D. iridis-complex.
How to describe a new species? Why studying slime moulds matters?
Check out my popular science article in ERR Novaator.
(In Estonian, activate google translation on a page)
novaator.err.ee/1609529668/d...
#slimemoulds #myxomycetes #biodiversity
Check out my popular science article in ERR Novaator.
(In Estonian, activate google translation on a page)
novaator.err.ee/1609529668/d...
#slimemoulds #myxomycetes #biodiversity
November 24, 2024 at 10:15 AM
How to describe a new species? Why studying slime moulds matters?
Check out my popular science article in ERR Novaator.
(In Estonian, activate google translation on a page)
novaator.err.ee/1609529668/d...
#slimemoulds #myxomycetes #biodiversity
Check out my popular science article in ERR Novaator.
(In Estonian, activate google translation on a page)
novaator.err.ee/1609529668/d...
#slimemoulds #myxomycetes #biodiversity
And Amoebozoa are usually not even included in charts like this
The taxonomic biases in biodiversity data are growing over time. The amount of data we are collecting is growing, but the biases get bigger. We need to make a conscious effort to study the understudied!
#SciComms #Science #Taxonomy
🧪 image from Troudet et al 2018
@natureportfolio.bsky.social
#SciComms #Science #Taxonomy
🧪 image from Troudet et al 2018
@natureportfolio.bsky.social
November 20, 2024 at 11:04 AM
And Amoebozoa are usually not even included in charts like this
Myxophoto of the day: Cribraria cancellata. Wnite mycelium is a myxoparasitic fungus, probably Nectriopsis sp. #slimemoulds #myxomycetes #herbarium
November 15, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Myxophoto of the day: Cribraria cancellata. Wnite mycelium is a myxoparasitic fungus, probably Nectriopsis sp. #slimemoulds #myxomycetes #herbarium
My first post here.
American myxomycetes in Estonia! I started digging into the herbarium of The Estonian University of Life Sciences (TAAM). The first and most astonishing discovery is that part of George Willard Martin's collection from the USA is quietly residing here in Tartu.
American myxomycetes in Estonia! I started digging into the herbarium of The Estonian University of Life Sciences (TAAM). The first and most astonishing discovery is that part of George Willard Martin's collection from the USA is quietly residing here in Tartu.
November 12, 2024 at 4:13 PM
My first post here.
American myxomycetes in Estonia! I started digging into the herbarium of The Estonian University of Life Sciences (TAAM). The first and most astonishing discovery is that part of George Willard Martin's collection from the USA is quietly residing here in Tartu.
American myxomycetes in Estonia! I started digging into the herbarium of The Estonian University of Life Sciences (TAAM). The first and most astonishing discovery is that part of George Willard Martin's collection from the USA is quietly residing here in Tartu.