Monika S. Fischer
@mofisch.bsky.social
Fungi. Fire. Genetics. Ecology. (she/her)
🍄🔥Assistant Prof at UBC Vancouver: @ubcbotany.bsky.social and @forestry.ubc.ca
📍grateful guest on the Salish Coast
Lab Website: fischerlab.botany.ubc.ca
🍄🔥Assistant Prof at UBC Vancouver: @ubcbotany.bsky.social and @forestry.ubc.ca
📍grateful guest on the Salish Coast
Lab Website: fischerlab.botany.ubc.ca
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New paper from our lab! ⤵️
#Lichens form their complex thalli through a partnership involving at least a fungus and an alga. But can these living structures be rebuilt in vitro? For more than a century, people have tried. With @spribille.bsky.social we revisited 150 years of #lichen #resynthesis to ask: has anyone succeeded?
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
New paper from our lab! ⤵️
My fellow profs at 🇨🇦Canadian universities! Please take a moment to read and sign this letter urging the Federal government to align its economic plans with climate change action and resilience:
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Sustainable Canada Dialogues – open letter
Canada must lead on climate An open letter from scholars at Canadian universities Dear Prime Minister, In the face of vocal opposition to climate action, we cannot remain silent. As scholars from acro...
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November 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
My fellow profs at 🇨🇦Canadian universities! Please take a moment to read and sign this letter urging the Federal government to align its economic plans with climate change action and resilience:
sustainabilitydigitalage.org/featured/sus...
sustainabilitydigitalage.org/featured/sus...
The one year anniversary of my arrival at UBC flew by a month ago. Thanks to fellow newPI and former grad school pal @mattolm.bsky.social for reminding me of one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned this past year: *make* time to reflect! Here are some reflections on my first year as a PI & prof… 🧵
October 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The one year anniversary of my arrival at UBC flew by a month ago. Thanks to fellow newPI and former grad school pal @mattolm.bsky.social for reminding me of one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned this past year: *make* time to reflect! Here are some reflections on my first year as a PI & prof… 🧵
Reposted by Monika S. Fischer
UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
ecoevojobs.net 2025-26
docs.google.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Please repost -- The Univ. California Davis dept of Plant Pathology is hiring a Fungal biologist / Mycologist
Applications due Dec 1
Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339
Screenshot shows part of the job posting (with alt-text of the same text)
Applications due Dec 1
Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339
Screenshot shows part of the job posting (with alt-text of the same text)
September 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Please repost -- The Univ. California Davis dept of Plant Pathology is hiring a Fungal biologist / Mycologist
Applications due Dec 1
Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339
Screenshot shows part of the job posting (with alt-text of the same text)
Applications due Dec 1
Application portal: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339
Screenshot shows part of the job posting (with alt-text of the same text)
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HELP WANTED!
Calling all mycophiles in California, Oregon, Washington, or British Columbia!
My research focuses on Laccaria amethysteo-occidentalis, pictured below. I need to collect mushrooms from wild and urban areas across its range.
Plz send mushrooms if you find any! I can pay shipping 💜 🍄🟫
Calling all mycophiles in California, Oregon, Washington, or British Columbia!
My research focuses on Laccaria amethysteo-occidentalis, pictured below. I need to collect mushrooms from wild and urban areas across its range.
Plz send mushrooms if you find any! I can pay shipping 💜 🍄🟫
September 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
HELP WANTED!
Calling all mycophiles in California, Oregon, Washington, or British Columbia!
My research focuses on Laccaria amethysteo-occidentalis, pictured below. I need to collect mushrooms from wild and urban areas across its range.
Plz send mushrooms if you find any! I can pay shipping 💜 🍄🟫
Calling all mycophiles in California, Oregon, Washington, or British Columbia!
My research focuses on Laccaria amethysteo-occidentalis, pictured below. I need to collect mushrooms from wild and urban areas across its range.
Plz send mushrooms if you find any! I can pay shipping 💜 🍄🟫
How is it possible that I only very recently learned about Hexaflexagons?! This is so bamboozlingly delightful! Math is just the coolest.
vimeo.com/147799851
vimeo.com/147799851
Hexaflexagons
Hooraaaay flexagons! Happy October. Historical Note: This video is based on a true story. Arthur H. Stone really did invent the hexaflexagon after playing with…
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August 31, 2025 at 7:25 PM
How is it possible that I only very recently learned about Hexaflexagons?! This is so bamboozlingly delightful! Math is just the coolest.
vimeo.com/147799851
vimeo.com/147799851
Sun is shining, birds are chirping, and a colleague just gave me a sack of 💩 (specifically some local alpine rabbit poops) …today is a good day and I officially have the best job ever!
August 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Sun is shining, birds are chirping, and a colleague just gave me a sack of 💩 (specifically some local alpine rabbit poops) …today is a good day and I officially have the best job ever!
Dear Microbial Ecologists - has anyone directly tested sampling effort spread out over time vs. space? For example, 100 samples collected at a single time-point, vs. 100 samples collected across multiple timepoints (neither time nor space are significant factors for community assembly/dynamics/etc.)
August 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Dear Microbial Ecologists - has anyone directly tested sampling effort spread out over time vs. space? For example, 100 samples collected at a single time-point, vs. 100 samples collected across multiple timepoints (neither time nor space are significant factors for community assembly/dynamics/etc.)
@biorender.bsky.social put numbers to the vibes in the US right now... "87% of labs affected or expecting disruption" 💔
www.biorender.com/2025-science...
www.biorender.com/2025-science...
2025 Report: U.S. Science & Federal Funding Cuts
How 300+ researchers are navigating federal funding cuts in science. This report reveals strategies, challenges, and what institutions are doing to stay afloat.
www.biorender.com
July 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
@biorender.bsky.social put numbers to the vibes in the US right now... "87% of labs affected or expecting disruption" 💔
www.biorender.com/2025-science...
www.biorender.com/2025-science...
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Our newest special issue is now live! Check it out to discover more about diverse and beautiful Fungi🍄🍄🟫🍄 On the cover: the fly agaric, Amanita muscaria, releasing its spores in the early morning light. www.cell.com/current-biol...
June 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Our newest special issue is now live! Check it out to discover more about diverse and beautiful Fungi🍄🍄🟫🍄 On the cover: the fly agaric, Amanita muscaria, releasing its spores in the early morning light. www.cell.com/current-biol...
Teaching prep for fall motivated me to revisit the awesome Oral History For Mycology project on YouTube. So many great stories, but shout out to @benwolfe.bsky.social for highlighting this incredible Bray-Curtis ordination from 1969 by Martha Christensen. So cool. So glad we have computers now 😅
July 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Teaching prep for fall motivated me to revisit the awesome Oral History For Mycology project on YouTube. So many great stories, but shout out to @benwolfe.bsky.social for highlighting this incredible Bray-Curtis ordination from 1969 by Martha Christensen. So cool. So glad we have computers now 😅
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We are looking for a Postdoc in the LaBella Lab!
Do you love fungi 🍄, genetics 🧬and bioinformatics 💻 - then this might be a good fit for you!
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/63307
Applications accepted through July 1
Do you love fungi 🍄, genetics 🧬and bioinformatics 💻 - then this might be a good fit for you!
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/63307
Applications accepted through July 1
June 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
We are looking for a Postdoc in the LaBella Lab!
Do you love fungi 🍄, genetics 🧬and bioinformatics 💻 - then this might be a good fit for you!
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/63307
Applications accepted through July 1
Do you love fungi 🍄, genetics 🧬and bioinformatics 💻 - then this might be a good fit for you!
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/63307
Applications accepted through July 1
“Distribution of haploid chromosomes into separate nuclei in two pathogenic fungi”🍄🧬 a plot twist in the story of multinucleate filamentous fungi! Really cool and bizarre new work from the lab of Xin Li! @science.ubc.ca @ubcbotany.bsky.social @science.org
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
www.science.org
May 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
“Distribution of haploid chromosomes into separate nuclei in two pathogenic fungi”🍄🧬 a plot twist in the story of multinucleate filamentous fungi! Really cool and bizarre new work from the lab of Xin Li! @science.ubc.ca @ubcbotany.bsky.social @science.org
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Inaugural Fischer Fire Fungi Lab field trip was a huge success! We collected so many familiar faces (Pyronema, Geopyxis, Tricharina, etc.), learned a bunch about pyrophilous insects, and fell in love with the monsoon-moistened sagebrush/pine forests on the doorstep of BC’s desert landscape. ❤️🔥🍄🟫
May 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Inaugural Fischer Fire Fungi Lab field trip was a huge success! We collected so many familiar faces (Pyronema, Geopyxis, Tricharina, etc.), learned a bunch about pyrophilous insects, and fell in love with the monsoon-moistened sagebrush/pine forests on the doorstep of BC’s desert landscape. ❤️🔥🍄🟫
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What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers
Reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career.
predirections.substack.com/p/what-i-wis...
Reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career.
predirections.substack.com/p/what-i-wis...
What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers
Thirty three reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career.
predirections.substack.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:08 AM
What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers
Reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career.
predirections.substack.com/p/what-i-wis...
Reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career.
predirections.substack.com/p/what-i-wis...
I’m so incredibly proud of Hemi Patel for presenting her Master’s thesis today, and humbled that she chose me to serve on her committee. She cultivated, in rigorous detail, a feasible method for rethinking the way we build, inhabit, and think about architecture using mycomaterials! 🍄
April 26, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I’m so incredibly proud of Hemi Patel for presenting her Master’s thesis today, and humbled that she chose me to serve on her committee. She cultivated, in rigorous detail, a feasible method for rethinking the way we build, inhabit, and think about architecture using mycomaterials! 🍄
I didn’t think it was possible, but I just reviewed a manuscript and I literally have no notes. It’s elegant. It’s concise. It’s crystal clear. I couldn’t even find a typo. Bravo authors!!! I can’t wait to hype up this manuscript once it’s officially published!!
April 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I didn’t think it was possible, but I just reviewed a manuscript and I literally have no notes. It’s elegant. It’s concise. It’s crystal clear. I couldn’t even find a typo. Bravo authors!!! I can’t wait to hype up this manuscript once it’s officially published!!
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🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
April 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
I’ve been thinking a lot about the power of the words and narratives that we choose to use because language is fundamentally how we communicate data, how we share our observations of the world, and how we connect with each other - there are big implications for scientific integrity and ethics… 🧵1/3
April 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I’ve been thinking a lot about the power of the words and narratives that we choose to use because language is fundamentally how we communicate data, how we share our observations of the world, and how we connect with each other - there are big implications for scientific integrity and ethics… 🧵1/3
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To combat long-overlooked fungal pathogens, researchers and regulators must embrace innovative science and policy
https://go.nature.com/4jbh96j
https://go.nature.com/4jbh96j
High time to tackle drug-resistant fungal infections
To combat long-overlooked fungal pathogens, researchers and regulators must embrace innovative science and policy.
go.nature.com
April 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
To combat long-overlooked fungal pathogens, researchers and regulators must embrace innovative science and policy
https://go.nature.com/4jbh96j
https://go.nature.com/4jbh96j
What a fun way to get a glimpse of my lab! Huge thanks to Conlan, Nicole, Siddharth, and Jag for choosing to interview me about cell-cell communication and Neurospora for their SCIE300 class project! @science.ubc.ca
read & watch here: medium.com/@leotard.tri...
read & watch here: medium.com/@leotard.tri...
April 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
What a fun way to get a glimpse of my lab! Huge thanks to Conlan, Nicole, Siddharth, and Jag for choosing to interview me about cell-cell communication and Neurospora for their SCIE300 class project! @science.ubc.ca
read & watch here: medium.com/@leotard.tri...
read & watch here: medium.com/@leotard.tri...
Huge News! It’s official - my lab has been awarded the NSERC Discovery Grant! Funding 5 years of fabulous fire fungi research! ✨🔥🍄🧫🔬🧬🍁
Huge thanks to @science.ubc.ca and @ubcbotany.bsky.social for supporting me through this big milestone! 🤓 #NewPI
Huge thanks to @science.ubc.ca and @ubcbotany.bsky.social for supporting me through this big milestone! 🤓 #NewPI
April 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Huge News! It’s official - my lab has been awarded the NSERC Discovery Grant! Funding 5 years of fabulous fire fungi research! ✨🔥🍄🧫🔬🧬🍁
Huge thanks to @science.ubc.ca and @ubcbotany.bsky.social for supporting me through this big milestone! 🤓 #NewPI
Huge thanks to @science.ubc.ca and @ubcbotany.bsky.social for supporting me through this big milestone! 🤓 #NewPI
Most days setting up a new lab feel a bit like xmas, but today REALLY felt like xmas! If you hunt mushrooms in Cascadia - you need this book!! 🍄 Mushrooms of Cascadia 🍄🟫 by the exceptional Schwarz & Siegel 🙌
April 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Most days setting up a new lab feel a bit like xmas, but today REALLY felt like xmas! If you hunt mushrooms in Cascadia - you need this book!! 🍄 Mushrooms of Cascadia 🍄🟫 by the exceptional Schwarz & Siegel 🙌
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This job at UBC (Vancouver Campus) also looks amazing.
forestry.ubc.ca/career-oppor...
forestry.ubc.ca/career-oppor...
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track): Wildfire Sciences | Job | UBC
Job Post: UBC Forestry is seeking an Assistant Professor in Wildfire Sciences to develop an novel research program and teach third-year courses. Apply now.
forestry.ubc.ca
March 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This job at UBC (Vancouver Campus) also looks amazing.
forestry.ubc.ca/career-oppor...
forestry.ubc.ca/career-oppor...