Beautiful "light-bulb" fungus, Ophiocordyceps buquetii, infecting a Polyrhachis found dead biting onto low epiphytes in Ghana. An African Zombie lineage. Soon in Mycologia Mycological Society of America moved to bluesky 🇬🇭

It was found in a building that formerly housed gunpowder. trib.al/SIz2MY7

My thoughts as a zombie ant loving evolutionary biologist on what just happened to global aid. It is an extinction level event. PlantVillage will continue and focus its work on Agentic AI scaling to hundreds of millions of farmers globally linkedin.com/posts/david-hu…

Scientists have just discovered the new fungus Gibellula attenboroughii on cave spiders in Ireland during the filming of BBC’s Winterwatch! Named after Sir David Attenborough, this “zombie-fungus” manipulates spiders to leave their webs and die in exposed spots, allowing the

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I am hiring 2 postdocs to work on parasitic and endosymbiotic fungi associated with Hemiptera insects! Ideal candidates will have experience working with symbionts, dissecting insects, meta/phylogenomics and confocal/FISH techniques (or some of these). Info below. Please RT.

Happy to see our recent paper covered by The New York Times! Scared of Spiders? Also Scared of Zombies? We Have Some Bad News. nytimes.com/2025/02/07/sci…

Reviewers and subject-editors should be paid for the jobs done for the journals !!!

🎉It's OFFICIAL! 🍄#IMAFungus begins publishing on its new #journal website powered by ARPHA as part of our #openaccess portfolio! 🤝Last year, along with several changes at #IMAFungus, IMAmycology moved their flagship #journal to us. 👉See: blog.pensoft.net/2025/02/18/ima…

Every path has a price. #TheLastOfUs returns April 13 on Max.

The 2025 - SymbNET PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses, Oeiras (Lisbon), Portugal – is open for application. Application Deadline - March 28 gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-sch… See you in Portugal! #Symbiosis #Evolution #PhD

From octopuses to snails, the complicated molluscan family tree has now been mapped in unprecedented detail, researchers report in Science. This includes sequences for 13 new complete genomes from across the phylum. scim.ag/41FhFDm

第166回　冬虫夏草に「花が咲いた」: 今回はこれまで撮りためてきた一般的に冬虫夏草と呼ばれているキノコをドシドシ紹介してゆきます！（西田賢司「コスタリカ昆虫中心生活」） dlvr.it/TJPX1V

Had a great time in Krakow discussing our Science at VILLUM Hemiptera fungal Parasite/Symbiont collaborative project! Very exciting times ahead for insect-fungi research! Anna Michalik Piotr Łukasik Henrik Licht Yu Matsuura 松浦 優 मत्सूरा यू Antonelli Lab JunchenDeng Edouard Bessette

JOB ALERT! The Natural History Museum Denmark wishes to appoint a Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator in Vertebrate Paleontology. Please RT. bit.ly/3XPIQcg

Check out this last piece at National Geographic about how Cordyceps can help to save the world and how my work with Science at VILLUM and NaturalHistoryDK relates to it. nationalgeographic.com/environment/ar… photos by Roberto García-Roa.

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Our new paper is out! Two new species of Paleoophiocordyceps. Cretaceous entomopathogenic fungi illuminate the early evolution of insect–fungal associations | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.10…

It was very nice to have participate on this study where we describe 2 novel fossil species of Paleoophiocordyceps, also providing insights into the evolution of animal-associated fungi