Håvard Kauserud
@drhyfe.bsky.social
Professor in mycology at the University of Oslo, Norway. My account is a non-consistent mix of work-related stuff and other interests.
🇵🇸 #freepalestine
🇺🇦 #slavaukraini
🇵🇸 #freepalestine
🇺🇦 #slavaukraini
Det finns saker som man måste göra, annars är man ingen människa utan bara en liten lort
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Det finns saker som man måste göra, annars är man ingen människa utan bara en liten lort
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🌿🍄🟫🌱🍄We’re recruiting!!🌿🍄🟫🌱🍄
I’m looking for two postdocs and a technician to join my group @sheffielduni.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social to work with me on my exciting @royalsociety.org Faraday Discovery Fellowship project, details for each post as follows:
I’m looking for two postdocs and a technician to join my group @sheffielduni.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social to work with me on my exciting @royalsociety.org Faraday Discovery Fellowship project, details for each post as follows:
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🌿🍄🟫🌱🍄We’re recruiting!!🌿🍄🟫🌱🍄
I’m looking for two postdocs and a technician to join my group @sheffielduni.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social to work with me on my exciting @royalsociety.org Faraday Discovery Fellowship project, details for each post as follows:
I’m looking for two postdocs and a technician to join my group @sheffielduni.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social to work with me on my exciting @royalsociety.org Faraday Discovery Fellowship project, details for each post as follows:
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Nice light show in Botanical garden, Paris 🤩
November 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Nice light show in Botanical garden, Paris 🤩
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If you need a professional terrestrial phototroph you need a symbiont of plant+fungi. Lichen (Spongiophyton sp) colonized the land already at least in the Early Devonian:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
If you need a professional terrestrial phototroph you need a symbiont of plant+fungi. Lichen (Spongiophyton sp) colonized the land already at least in the Early Devonian:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology
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75-year trend of October temperatures. It's as if something has changed. 🤔
November 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
75-year trend of October temperatures. It's as if something has changed. 🤔
What a title!
Remote sensing of lichens with drones for detecting dinosaur bones
Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Remote sensing of lichens with drones for detecting dinosaur bones
Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Remote sensing of lichens with drones for detecting dinosaur bones
Brian Pickles and colleagues show that exposed dinosaur bones can be remote sensed
with drones by virtue of colored lichens growing on them.
www.cell.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:45 PM
What a title!
Remote sensing of lichens with drones for detecting dinosaur bones
Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Remote sensing of lichens with drones for detecting dinosaur bones
Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Mites & lichens 🤩
It seems that these common mites use C. rubrotincta as kindergarden. Our observations suggest that adult mites bite cavities into the lichen tissue and lay their eggs into them. We observed mite eggs and (the hitherto undescribed) juvenvile stages of the most commonly associated mites.
November 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Mites & lichens 🤩
Disse funnene passer mildt sagt ikke så godt med fortellingene til Sigrid Bratlie om covid‑pandemiens opphav.. @langsiktsenter.bsky.social
Med mindre koronavirusene i jungelen i Brasil har satt inn et "furin cleavage site" på pur f som del av en stor konspirasjon
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Med mindre koronavirusene i jungelen i Brasil har satt inn et "furin cleavage site" på pur f som del av en stor konspirasjon
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A divergent betacoronavirus with a functional furin cleavage site in South American bats
Bats are natural reservoirs for a wide range of RNA viruses. Members of the genus Betacoronavirus , including Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrom...
www.biorxiv.org
November 2, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Disse funnene passer mildt sagt ikke så godt med fortellingene til Sigrid Bratlie om covid‑pandemiens opphav.. @langsiktsenter.bsky.social
Med mindre koronavirusene i jungelen i Brasil har satt inn et "furin cleavage site" på pur f som del av en stor konspirasjon
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Med mindre koronavirusene i jungelen i Brasil har satt inn et "furin cleavage site" på pur f som del av en stor konspirasjon
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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“Furin cleavage site”, that is. Just casually, and naturally, sitting there in one of the most evolutionarily active parts of the genome.
Mystery solved.
Mystery solved.
CIDRAP: New coronavirus subspecies with SARS-CoV-2–like mutation discovered in Brazilian bat
by Mary Van Beusekom
@cidrap.bsky.social
bit.ly/4hHRfam
by Mary Van Beusekom
@cidrap.bsky.social
bit.ly/4hHRfam
November 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
“Furin cleavage site”, that is. Just casually, and naturally, sitting there in one of the most evolutionarily active parts of the genome.
Mystery solved.
Mystery solved.
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Her skriver Document en sak hvor de sammenligner innvandrere med rotter og dette gir vi 2.7 millioner i året i pressestøtte
www.document.no/2025/10/30/r...
www.document.no/2025/10/30/r...
Rotten i Danmark lukter fælt
Forestill deg situasjonen: Kjøkkenet lukter så vondt at alle kaster opp og ingen vil spise noe. Stanken har nå spredt seg til hele huset. Selv hunden nekter å oppholde seg innendørs, og familiemedlemm...
www.document.no
October 31, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Her skriver Document en sak hvor de sammenligner innvandrere med rotter og dette gir vi 2.7 millioner i året i pressestøtte
www.document.no/2025/10/30/r...
www.document.no/2025/10/30/r...
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Nei. Det har utløst en ekkel stråmannsdebatt om ytringsfrihet mens det vi burde hatt var en hard debatt om meningsinnhold.
Vårt offenlige ordskifte er på ville veier når absolutt alle diskusjoner om fæle meninger blit en avledende debatt om ytringsfrihet, ytringsklima og kansellering.
Vårt offenlige ordskifte er på ville veier når absolutt alle diskusjoner om fæle meninger blit en avledende debatt om ytringsfrihet, ytringsklima og kansellering.
November 1, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Nei. Det har utløst en ekkel stråmannsdebatt om ytringsfrihet mens det vi burde hatt var en hard debatt om meningsinnhold.
Vårt offenlige ordskifte er på ville veier når absolutt alle diskusjoner om fæle meninger blit en avledende debatt om ytringsfrihet, ytringsklima og kansellering.
Vårt offenlige ordskifte er på ville veier når absolutt alle diskusjoner om fæle meninger blit en avledende debatt om ytringsfrihet, ytringsklima og kansellering.
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Happy Halloween. Trickle-down economics is nothing more than a cruel hoax designed to enrich corporations and the super-rich. For working people, it's been 40 years of all trick and no treat. Enough.
October 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Happy Halloween. Trickle-down economics is nothing more than a cruel hoax designed to enrich corporations and the super-rich. For working people, it's been 40 years of all trick and no treat. Enough.
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“In my work with the (Nuremberg Trial) defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy... a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army
- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army
October 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
“In my work with the (Nuremberg Trial) defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy... a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army
- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army
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As an author, I frequently encounter reviewers who should be overruled -- gatekeepers. My main complaint is has been that many editors do not have the confidence/expertise to do so (but some do). a) Thank goodness for preprints, b) I review with the expectation that the paper will be published.
Remember, reviewers make recommendations, not decisions. Editors make decisions. If an editor ignores your comments, that's their prerogative
October 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
As an author, I frequently encounter reviewers who should be overruled -- gatekeepers. My main complaint is has been that many editors do not have the confidence/expertise to do so (but some do). a) Thank goodness for preprints, b) I review with the expectation that the paper will be published.
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Israel är en terrorstat — Defense Minister Israel Katz signs order to ban Red Cross visits to thousands of Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Defense Minister Katz continues ban on Red Cross visits to Palestinian prisoners
***
www.haaretz.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Israel är en terrorstat — Defense Minister Israel Katz signs order to ban Red Cross visits to thousands of Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Mushrooming in the Appennines today 🤩
October 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Mushrooming in the Appennines today 🤩
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DNA from Napoleon’s 1812 army identifies the pathogens likely responsible for the army’s demise during their Russian retreat. www.cell.com/current-biol...
Nicolás Rascovan & colleagues
@currentbiology.bsky.social
Nicolás Rascovan & colleagues
@currentbiology.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
DNA from Napoleon’s 1812 army identifies the pathogens likely responsible for the army’s demise during their Russian retreat. www.cell.com/current-biol...
Nicolás Rascovan & colleagues
@currentbiology.bsky.social
Nicolás Rascovan & colleagues
@currentbiology.bsky.social
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26 October 1908 | Norwegian Jew, Jacob Scharff, was born in Oslo. A violinist.
In #Auschwiz from 1 December 1942.
No. 79213
He perished in the camp the same month.
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Online lesson about Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/
In #Auschwiz from 1 December 1942.
No. 79213
He perished in the camp the same month.
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Online lesson about Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/
October 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
26 October 1908 | Norwegian Jew, Jacob Scharff, was born in Oslo. A violinist.
In #Auschwiz from 1 December 1942.
No. 79213
He perished in the camp the same month.
---
Online lesson about Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/
In #Auschwiz from 1 December 1942.
No. 79213
He perished in the camp the same month.
---
Online lesson about Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/
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Great new study about a group of fungi first reported in my dissertation work! -- Short‐ and long‐read metabarcoding of Archaeorhizomycetes reveals high phylogenetic diversity structured by vegetation and climate --New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Short‐ and long‐read metabarcoding of Archaeorhizomycetes reveals high phylogenetic diversity structured by vegetation and climate
Archaeorhizomycetes is a class of globally widespread soil-dwelling fungi, originally proposed to be associated with plant roots, but their ecology and nutritional mode are not clearly defined. To i...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Great new study about a group of fungi first reported in my dissertation work! -- Short‐ and long‐read metabarcoding of Archaeorhizomycetes reveals high phylogenetic diversity structured by vegetation and climate --New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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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Altså ... hvor skal man begynne på ting Erna tolererte da hun var statsminister ...
October 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Altså ... hvor skal man begynne på ting Erna tolererte da hun var statsminister ...
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A daily reminder that #RussiaIsATerroristState
Those minutes until you find your child after the kindergarten is shelled. If you need to explain what hell is, this is it.
The world's biggest child kidnapper, Putin, hit a kindergarten in Kharkiv. There are injured children. There is a fire in the kindergarten.
The world's biggest child kidnapper, Putin, hit a kindergarten in Kharkiv. There are injured children. There is a fire in the kindergarten.
October 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
A daily reminder that #RussiaIsATerroristState
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High phylogenetic diversity in #Archaeorhizomycetes structured by vegetation and climate
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Thoen et al.
@WileyPlantSci
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Thoen et al.
@WileyPlantSci
October 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
High phylogenetic diversity in #Archaeorhizomycetes structured by vegetation and climate
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Thoen et al.
@WileyPlantSci
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Thoen et al.
@WileyPlantSci
Sigrid Bratlies skriverier om covid-epidemiens opprinnelse og anklager mot ledende forskere er og blir konspirasjonsteorier. En skandale at hun har fått så mye backing fra @langsiktsenter.bsky.social , kunnskapsløse journalister og kolleger
www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...
www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...
Forskningen peker mot våtmarkedet – ikke laboratoriet
Sigrid Bratlie forsøker å fremstille debatten om pandemiens opphav som en kamp for akademisk ytringsfrihet. Men hun går på tomgang i de faglige argumentene.
www.aftenposten.no
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Sigrid Bratlies skriverier om covid-epidemiens opprinnelse og anklager mot ledende forskere er og blir konspirasjonsteorier. En skandale at hun har fått så mye backing fra @langsiktsenter.bsky.social , kunnskapsløse journalister og kolleger
www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...
www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...