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Toby Spribille
@spribille.bsky.social
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Microbial interactions; lichens; symbiosis. Naturalist, conservationist. Non-capitalist markets. Associate Professor/CRC in Symbiosis at University of Alberta
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neil-gow.bsky.social
Get ready for a feast of fungal biology at the GRC CMFB conference in Holderness, NH next year. @mrccmm.bsky.social @youngecmm.bsky.social @ishamycology.bsky.social @youngisham.bsky.social @britmycolsoc.org.uk @elainebignell.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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noelreports.com
Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.”

Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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newphyt.bsky.social
An arbuscular mycorrhiza from the 407-million-year-old Windyfield Chert identified through advanced fluorescence and Raman imaging

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Summary also available in French and Spanish.

@nhm-london.bsky.social #PlantScience
FLIM analyses of the fungal and plant structures.
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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mcsymbiont.bsky.social
Hey folks, we (the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University) are looking for an Assistant Teaching Professor in microbiology and immunology. Please pass this on to anyone you think might be interested, or check it out if you are interested yourself!

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November 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
spribille.bsky.social
Had fun chatting with @cabinradio.ca for this story. Some very keen naturalists in the north!

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iNaturalist has only seen these species once, and that was in the NWT
There are five species on the citizen science platform iNaturalist that have only ever been recorded in the NWT. We talked to some of the people who found them.
cabinradio.ca
November 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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cabinradio.ca
The Bathurst caribou herd is estimated to have gone from 470,000 animals in 1986 to about 3,600 now. Already tiny, the herd has halved in the past three years.
In one chart, the near-disappearance of a caribou herd
The Bathurst caribou herd is estimated to have gone from 470,000 animals in 1986 to about 3,600 now. Already tiny, the herd has halved in the past three years.
cabinradio.ca
November 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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fungage-lab.bsky.social
We're looking for a PhD student! If you're interested in #fungal #genomics & #TEs, meiotic drive, or pathogens, please consider applying. The project is about toxin/antidote genes in the human fungal pathogen A. fumigatus. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Image of yeast spotted on an agar plate. Some grow well, others are dying.
November 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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branacos.bsky.social
Bakethin Nature Reserve in November

#nature #naturephotography #autumn #kielderforest #fungus #northumberland
Fungus
November 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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mofisch.bsky.social
My department is hiring a non-seed plant assistant professor!! Come join us @ubcbotany.bsky.social! BC has spectacular non-seed plant diversity and I would love to nerd out with a future colleague about all those cute little green guys outside! 💚 pls share!

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University of British Columbia, Botany
Job #AJO31140, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN NON-SEED PLANT DIVERSITY (BRYOPHYTES, FERNS, LYCOPHYTES), Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
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November 17, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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fmartin54.bsky.social
We are delighted to let you know that your Plants, People, Planet article 'Demystifying Fungal Systematics: A Gateway to Fungal Literacy and Societal/Ecological Relevance Through Familiar Species' has been published on Early View.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Demystifying fungal systematics: A gateway to fungal literacy and societal/ecological relevance through familiar species
Fungal systematics can feel overwhelming given the vast species diversity within this kingdom, with numerous subgroups at every taxonomic rank. This often creates a disconnect between the undertsnidn...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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slcuplants.bsky.social
Confocal scanning laser microscopy, fluorescence lifetime imaging & Raman analyses allowed @nhm-london.bsky.social, @slcuplants.bsky.social & @cambridge-ee.bsky.social researchers to resolve plant & fungal structures fossil
Read in @newphyt.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/nph....

@dromius.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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mkujawa.bsky.social
The forest embracing the stream. And yes, those are flakes of snow salting the air.
#ForestFriday
#Montana
November 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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rokaslab.bsky.social
Abstract submission open for #Fungal26 through Dec 4! Comparative & functional genomics, gene regulation, cell biology, biochemistry and metabolism, population & evolutionary genetics, host-pathogen interactions, ecology, and more. Can’t wait to see your science!
genetics-gsa.org/fungal-2026/...
November 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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garimasingh-gs.bsky.social
#Fungi at all levels matter! From tiniest to largest, they are an essential part of our world. Here we map familiar fungi on #fungal tree of life: doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.7…
@VaianaAnna @fmartin54.bsky.social, @spribille.bsky.social @rasmus kjolle#lichensn#mushroomo#yeasts#supermarioi#moldl#medicineses
November 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social
#FungiFriends (LichenFriends included)
belosokh.bsky.social Arseniy Belosokhov @belosokh.bsky.social · 17d
#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?
A screenshot of the "Making Fungal-Photobiont Symbioses in the Lab: Past, Present, and Future of the Elusive in Vitro Lichen" by Arseniy Belosokhov and Toby Spribille published in Annual Review of Microbiology, Volume 79, 2025. Link: https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-micro-051524-031834
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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metalichen.bsky.social
Our paper on the #genome of the Trebouxia #photobiont from Xanthoria is now out in @newphyt.bsky.social! Check below for a near-chromosome level assembly, secretome analysis, evidence of ancient HGT, and transcriptomic comparison of the alga in symbiosis and in pure culture
doi.org/10.1111/nph.70728
the top half shows two panels with microscopy images. Left is a light-microscopy image of a group of algal cells. The cells are round with different sizes. Two arrows point at sporangia: one looks as if someone stuffed 8 footballs in a thin elastic bag. The other is perfectly round and contains many small spores within. The right panel shows the same group of cells, but in fluorescent microscopy, where green color shows chloroplasts. In each cell the chloroplasts are globular with small lobes sticking out. The bottom half shows a photo of Xanthoria lichen - bright yellow and leafy growing on a tree branch
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
spribille.bsky.social
Northwest Montana right now
November 12, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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newphyt.bsky.social
Chromosome‐level #genome assembly of the #photobiont microalga Trebouxia sp. ‘A48’ from the #lichen Xanthoria parietina

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Tagirdzhanova et al.

@metalichen.bsky.social @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social @WileyPlantSci
Trebouxia sp. ‘A48’.
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
spribille.bsky.social
Have lichens ever really been resynthesized from their symbiotic components in vitro? Depends on how you define “resynthesized” and “lichen”. Our new review out in @annualreviews.bsky.social
belosokh.bsky.social Arseniy Belosokhov @belosokh.bsky.social · 17d
#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?
A screenshot of the "Making Fungal-Photobiont Symbioses in the Lab: Past, Present, and Future of the Elusive in Vitro Lichen" by Arseniy Belosokhov and Toby Spribille published in Annual Review of Microbiology, Volume 79, 2025. Link: https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-micro-051524-031834
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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newphyt.bsky.social
Moss shutdown-restart mechanism for drought survival

Xiao et al.

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Phenotypic responses and water loss dynamics in Physcomitrium patens gametophores and Arabidopsis thaliana plants during dehydration–rehydration treatments.
November 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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spribille.bsky.social
New paper from our lab! ⤵️
belosokh.bsky.social Arseniy Belosokhov @belosokh.bsky.social · 17d
#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?
A screenshot of the "Making Fungal-Photobiont Symbioses in the Lab: Past, Present, and Future of the Elusive in Vitro Lichen" by Arseniy Belosokhov and Toby Spribille published in Annual Review of Microbiology, Volume 79, 2025. Link: https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-micro-051524-031834
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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newphyt.bsky.social
Evolution of molecular communication in the permanent Azolla symbiosis

#TansleyInsight by Büyüktaş et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#plantscience
Transmission of cyanobionts in both reproductive cycles of Azolla.
November 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
spribille.bsky.social
New paper from our lab! ⤵️
belosokh.bsky.social Arseniy Belosokhov @belosokh.bsky.social · 17d
#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?
A screenshot of the "Making Fungal-Photobiont Symbioses in the Lab: Past, Present, and Future of the Elusive in Vitro Lichen" by Arseniy Belosokhov and Toby Spribille published in Annual Review of Microbiology, Volume 79, 2025. Link: https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-micro-051524-031834
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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belosokh.bsky.social
#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?
A screenshot of the "Making Fungal-Photobiont Symbioses in the Lab: Past, Present, and Future of the Elusive in Vitro Lichen" by Arseniy Belosokhov and Toby Spribille published in Annual Review of Microbiology, Volume 79, 2025. Link: https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-micro-051524-031834
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM