Jennifer Anderson
@jandbio.bsky.social
Mycologist & Evo biologist passionate about aquatic fungi, equal opps & diversity. she/her. views mine. 🇵🇸🇺🇦
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The #AquaticHyphomycete online group have another great programme lined up this week. @zimingwang.bsky.social will be talking to us about isolating living spores for culture work. We'll also be talking about the importance of recording these fungi and whether there is a best way to do that.
November 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The #AquaticHyphomycete online group have another great programme lined up this week. @zimingwang.bsky.social will be talking to us about isolating living spores for culture work. We'll also be talking about the importance of recording these fungi and whether there is a best way to do that.
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Join our Fungal Biodiversity Course 23–27 February 2026👇
The Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute invites you to an intensive, hands-on course exploring the vast and fascinating kingdom of fungi.
🔗 More information & registration: https://wi.knaw.nl/CourseFungalBiodiversity
The Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute invites you to an intensive, hands-on course exploring the vast and fascinating kingdom of fungi.
🔗 More information & registration: https://wi.knaw.nl/CourseFungalBiodiversity
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Join our Fungal Biodiversity Course 23–27 February 2026👇
The Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute invites you to an intensive, hands-on course exploring the vast and fascinating kingdom of fungi.
🔗 More information & registration: https://wi.knaw.nl/CourseFungalBiodiversity
The Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute invites you to an intensive, hands-on course exploring the vast and fascinating kingdom of fungi.
🔗 More information & registration: https://wi.knaw.nl/CourseFungalBiodiversity
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🕷️ Working with cave spiders? Fascinated by trait-based ecology?
We've just updated the checklist of European cave spiders, plus a fresh database of their traits.
Read it now on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.32942/X2D...
We've just updated the checklist of European cave spiders, plus a fresh database of their traits.
Read it now on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.32942/X2D...
November 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
🕷️ Working with cave spiders? Fascinated by trait-based ecology?
We've just updated the checklist of European cave spiders, plus a fresh database of their traits.
Read it now on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.32942/X2D...
We've just updated the checklist of European cave spiders, plus a fresh database of their traits.
Read it now on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.32942/X2D...
‘Smartest person in the room.’ Someone whose self-perceived, society-supported ‘greatness’ and ‘correctness’ is so powerful that their destructive, vile acts are ‘justified’.
Harm from folks like this shapes the lives & careers of many.
Damaging Science & scientists.
Harm from folks like this shapes the lives & careers of many.
Damaging Science & scientists.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
‘Smartest person in the room.’ Someone whose self-perceived, society-supported ‘greatness’ and ‘correctness’ is so powerful that their destructive, vile acts are ‘justified’.
Harm from folks like this shapes the lives & careers of many.
Damaging Science & scientists.
Harm from folks like this shapes the lives & careers of many.
Damaging Science & scientists.
Sexism, racism, homophobia…
& science. Do not sugar-coat his legacy— #Watson dead at 97
“I think having all these women around makes it more fun for the men but they’re probably less effective.”
www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
& science. Do not sugar-coat his legacy— #Watson dead at 97
“I think having all these women around makes it more fun for the men but they’re probably less effective.”
www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Sexism, racism, homophobia…
& science. Do not sugar-coat his legacy— #Watson dead at 97
“I think having all these women around makes it more fun for the men but they’re probably less effective.”
www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
& science. Do not sugar-coat his legacy— #Watson dead at 97
“I think having all these women around makes it more fun for the men but they’re probably less effective.”
www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
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Oligonucleotide design meets big data:
We present oligoN-design, a simple, reproducible and versatile open-source tool to design specific primers and probes directly from large environmental DNA datasets.
🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
👉 github.com/MiguelMSandi...
We present oligoN-design, a simple, reproducible and versatile open-source tool to design specific primers and probes directly from large environmental DNA datasets.
🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
👉 github.com/MiguelMSandi...
November 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Oligonucleotide design meets big data:
We present oligoN-design, a simple, reproducible and versatile open-source tool to design specific primers and probes directly from large environmental DNA datasets.
🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
👉 github.com/MiguelMSandi...
We present oligoN-design, a simple, reproducible and versatile open-source tool to design specific primers and probes directly from large environmental DNA datasets.
🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
👉 github.com/MiguelMSandi...
What a terrible terrible idea…
EPA eyes another ‘forever chemical’ approval for crops - E&E News by POLITICO
www.eenews.net/articles/epa...
www.eenews.net/articles/epa...
EPA eyes another ‘forever chemical’ approval for crops
The proposal marks the fifth PFAS pesticide backed under this Trump administration and comes despite the agency finding links to higher health risks.
www.eenews.net
November 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
What a terrible terrible idea…
Didn’t make it to Colombia for #LivingData2025? Don’t worry! You can always learn about #FUNACTION & check out our digital resources online. There is still time to engage with us via our survey too <- available in 5 languages.
All at your fingertips 👇
All at your fingertips 👇
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Didn’t make it to Colombia for #LivingData2025? Don’t worry! You can always learn about #FUNACTION & check out our digital resources online. There is still time to engage with us via our survey too <- available in 5 languages.
All at your fingertips 👇
All at your fingertips 👇
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🚨 Free, interactive online course "International Environmental Agreements: How can Science-Policy-Practice Interfaces help with National Implementation"! 🌍
📚 English & French
🏆 Certificate upon completion
The course is open to all — register now! elearning.cabes.online/course/view....
📚 English & French
🏆 Certificate upon completion
The course is open to all — register now! elearning.cabes.online/course/view....
November 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
🚨 Free, interactive online course "International Environmental Agreements: How can Science-Policy-Practice Interfaces help with National Implementation"! 🌍
📚 English & French
🏆 Certificate upon completion
The course is open to all — register now! elearning.cabes.online/course/view....
📚 English & French
🏆 Certificate upon completion
The course is open to all — register now! elearning.cabes.online/course/view....
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🚨Join us at #WBF2026 to discuss how to overcome knowledge and policy gaps related to #fungi #biodiversity and #conservation meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess...
Make sure to submit your abstract by Nov 18th to participate in our session!
🍄🟫 🌊 🏝️
Make sure to submit your abstract by Nov 18th to participate in our session!
🍄🟫 🌊 🏝️
October 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
🚨Join us at #WBF2026 to discuss how to overcome knowledge and policy gaps related to #fungi #biodiversity and #conservation meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess...
Make sure to submit your abstract by Nov 18th to participate in our session!
🍄🟫 🌊 🏝️
Make sure to submit your abstract by Nov 18th to participate in our session!
🍄🟫 🌊 🏝️
Based on the MEMEs I have met—this is an excellent program.
Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu
October 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Based on the MEMEs I have met—this is an excellent program.
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Amazing opportunity for a postdoc. Can't think of a more exciting place (speaking from experience)
Applications are now open for two two-year UBC Biodiversity Postdoc Fellowships biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and.... $77,000 /y + benefits and $7000 /y research funds.
October 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Amazing opportunity for a postdoc. Can't think of a more exciting place (speaking from experience)
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Another amazing talk is happening on November 5th 🌲🍄🧬🌳🍄🧬🌲. We are pleased to welcome Prof. Francis M. Martin @fmartin54.bsky.social , a leading researcher in forest microbiology. Join us!
#foresthealth, #soilhealth, #soilmicrobiome
#foresthealth, #soilhealth, #soilmicrobiome
October 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Another amazing talk is happening on November 5th 🌲🍄🧬🌳🍄🧬🌲. We are pleased to welcome Prof. Francis M. Martin @fmartin54.bsky.social , a leading researcher in forest microbiology. Join us!
#foresthealth, #soilhealth, #soilmicrobiome
#foresthealth, #soilhealth, #soilmicrobiome
At #LivingData2025? @isabelrfernandes.bsky.social presents @funaction.bsky.social tomorrow (Thursday)! Check it out 🌟
Are you attending #livingdata2025?
Do you want to know more about #aquaticfungi?
I would love to connect with you!
Do you want to know more about #aquaticfungi?
I would love to connect with you!
October 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
At #LivingData2025? @isabelrfernandes.bsky.social presents @funaction.bsky.social tomorrow (Thursday)! Check it out 🌟
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Are you attending #livingdata2025?
Do you want to know more about #aquaticfungi?
I would love to connect with you!
Do you want to know more about #aquaticfungi?
I would love to connect with you!
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Are you attending #livingdata2025?
Do you want to know more about #aquaticfungi?
I would love to connect with you!
Do you want to know more about #aquaticfungi?
I would love to connect with you!
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🌊 As the need to restore Europe’s freshwaters becomes ever more pressing, so too does the demand for funding to support ambitious restoration projects.
🤝 A new @merlin-project.bsky.social publication guides you through the grant funding landscape.
freshwaterblog.net/2025/10/22/h...
🤝 A new @merlin-project.bsky.social publication guides you through the grant funding landscape.
freshwaterblog.net/2025/10/22/h...
How to find grant funding for your freshwater restoration project
Image: Cottonbro Studio | Pexels Creative Commons As the need to restore Europe’s freshwaters becomes ever more pressing, so too does the demand for funding to support ambitious restoration project…
freshwaterblog.net
October 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
🌊 As the need to restore Europe’s freshwaters becomes ever more pressing, so too does the demand for funding to support ambitious restoration projects.
🤝 A new @merlin-project.bsky.social publication guides you through the grant funding landscape.
freshwaterblog.net/2025/10/22/h...
🤝 A new @merlin-project.bsky.social publication guides you through the grant funding landscape.
freshwaterblog.net/2025/10/22/h...
Pelagic #AquaticFungi in the ocean, no big deal?
Wrong!
🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋
🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋
🐳🐋 x 1 million
blue whales-worth of carbon
Check out the paper 👇 and the associated commentary www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Wrong!
🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋
🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋
🐳🐋 x 1 million
blue whales-worth of carbon
Check out the paper 👇 and the associated commentary www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The contribution of pelagic fungi to ocean biomass
Metagenomic analysis has recently unveiled the widespread presence of pelagic fungi in the global ocean, yet their quantitative contribution to carbon…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Pelagic #AquaticFungi in the ocean, no big deal?
Wrong!
🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋
🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋
🐳🐋 x 1 million
blue whales-worth of carbon
Check out the paper 👇 and the associated commentary www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Wrong!
🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋
🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳🐋
🐳🐋 x 1 million
blue whales-worth of carbon
Check out the paper 👇 and the associated commentary www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New #AquaticFungi to start your Wednesday!
Check out the dazzling array of new CLASSES of fungi--including those with highest frequency in freshwater.
Congrats to our #FunAqua friends, whose project features prominently in these finds! 🧡 @kristelpanksep.bsky.social @vprins.bsky.social
Check out the dazzling array of new CLASSES of fungi--including those with highest frequency in freshwater.
Congrats to our #FunAqua friends, whose project features prominently in these finds! 🧡 @kristelpanksep.bsky.social @vprins.bsky.social
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...
doi.org
October 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
New #AquaticFungi to start your Wednesday!
Check out the dazzling array of new CLASSES of fungi--including those with highest frequency in freshwater.
Congrats to our #FunAqua friends, whose project features prominently in these finds! 🧡 @kristelpanksep.bsky.social @vprins.bsky.social
Check out the dazzling array of new CLASSES of fungi--including those with highest frequency in freshwater.
Congrats to our #FunAqua friends, whose project features prominently in these finds! 🧡 @kristelpanksep.bsky.social @vprins.bsky.social
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Check out our latest dispatch where we make a (very convincing ☺️) case that marine #mycology is the next big thing and highlight a recent paper by Breyer et al.
Marine fungi have biomass = 22 MILLION blue whales!
Free link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3QW8S...
#aquaticfungi #microbiome #fungi
Marine fungi have biomass = 22 MILLION blue whales!
Free link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3QW8S...
#aquaticfungi #microbiome #fungi
authors.elsevier.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Check out our latest dispatch where we make a (very convincing ☺️) case that marine #mycology is the next big thing and highlight a recent paper by Breyer et al.
Marine fungi have biomass = 22 MILLION blue whales!
Free link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3QW8S...
#aquaticfungi #microbiome #fungi
Marine fungi have biomass = 22 MILLION blue whales!
Free link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3QW8S...
#aquaticfungi #microbiome #fungi
#LivingData2025
Happening today!
@eirikafi.bsky.social
"Opportunities for monitoring aquatic fungi with earth observation data"
@mostfun.bsky.social @aquamycota.bsky.social
Happening today!
@eirikafi.bsky.social
"Opportunities for monitoring aquatic fungi with earth observation data"
@mostfun.bsky.social @aquamycota.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
#LivingData2025
Happening today!
@eirikafi.bsky.social
"Opportunities for monitoring aquatic fungi with earth observation data"
@mostfun.bsky.social @aquamycota.bsky.social
Happening today!
@eirikafi.bsky.social
"Opportunities for monitoring aquatic fungi with earth observation data"
@mostfun.bsky.social @aquamycota.bsky.social
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In Europe, biodiversity data sends a clear message:
🌳 81% of habitats & 63% of species are in poor condition
🐝 Pollinators down by up to 30%
🌾 60% of soils show degradation
At #BIOTraCes, we turn numbers into action for nature. 💚
#WorldStatisticsDay #Biodiversity #EUResearch
🌳 81% of habitats & 63% of species are in poor condition
🐝 Pollinators down by up to 30%
🌾 60% of soils show degradation
At #BIOTraCes, we turn numbers into action for nature. 💚
#WorldStatisticsDay #Biodiversity #EUResearch
October 21, 2025 at 7:01 AM
In Europe, biodiversity data sends a clear message:
🌳 81% of habitats & 63% of species are in poor condition
🐝 Pollinators down by up to 30%
🌾 60% of soils show degradation
At #BIOTraCes, we turn numbers into action for nature. 💚
#WorldStatisticsDay #Biodiversity #EUResearch
🌳 81% of habitats & 63% of species are in poor condition
🐝 Pollinators down by up to 30%
🌾 60% of soils show degradation
At #BIOTraCes, we turn numbers into action for nature. 💚
#WorldStatisticsDay #Biodiversity #EUResearch
I value this incredible resource-- Biodiversity Heritage Library. BHL’s future depends on the generosity of its global community. Join me in helping keep the world’s biodiversity knowledge open and free for everyone.
ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLDona...
ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLDona...
Donate to the Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open-access digital library of biodiversity literature and archives. BHL's future depends on the generosity of its global community. Your...
ancrywkv.donorsupport.co
October 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I value this incredible resource-- Biodiversity Heritage Library. BHL’s future depends on the generosity of its global community. Join me in helping keep the world’s biodiversity knowledge open and free for everyone.
ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLDona...
ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLDona...
#NoKings #NoDictators Day of Defiance STOCKHOLM
October 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
#NoKings #NoDictators Day of Defiance STOCKHOLM
Reposted by Jennifer Anderson
🚀 Big news from BHL! 🌱
We’ve launched our Transition Fundraising Campaign to help BHL navigate the move to independence and secure a sustainable, global future for open biodiversity knowledge. #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL #OpenAccess
🔗 Read more and donate: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/10/dona...
We’ve launched our Transition Fundraising Campaign to help BHL navigate the move to independence and secure a sustainable, global future for open biodiversity knowledge. #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL #OpenAccess
🔗 Read more and donate: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/10/dona...
BHL Transition Update #6: Fundraising Campaign – Support the Future of Open Biodiversity Knowledge
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is launching a new public fundraising campaign to help us navigate our transition to independence. This is our first major campaign since the announcement th…
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org
October 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
🚀 Big news from BHL! 🌱
We’ve launched our Transition Fundraising Campaign to help BHL navigate the move to independence and secure a sustainable, global future for open biodiversity knowledge. #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL #OpenAccess
🔗 Read more and donate: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/10/dona...
We’ve launched our Transition Fundraising Campaign to help BHL navigate the move to independence and secure a sustainable, global future for open biodiversity knowledge. #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL #OpenAccess
🔗 Read more and donate: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/10/dona...
Reposted by Jennifer Anderson
Registration open for #Fungal26 genetics-gsa.org/fungal-2026/ at Asilomar.
Homepage - 33rd Fungal Genetics Conference
Visit our website to learn more.
genetics-gsa.org
October 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Registration open for #Fungal26 genetics-gsa.org/fungal-2026/ at Asilomar.