Justin Stewart

Thesis accepted. Now just to defend!!!

SPUN is #hiring 👉 spun.bamboohr.com/careers

We're looking to fill the following positions:

1. Fungal Molecular Ecologist
2. Designer
3. Communications Assistant

Apply now and share with your networks 🌍

#Careers #Fungi #ScienceJobs #ScienceCommunication #Mycology

FLIM analyses of the fungal and plant structures.

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

Excited for this!

Please Reviewers. If you have a comment and see it was answered later in the paper, go back and remove your comment.

1. Postdoc in plant-fungal interactions: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...

2. Postdoc in molecular plant-microbe interactions: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...

3. Research technician: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...

(Pls share!)

🌿🍄‍🟫🌱🍄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:

🚨Job Alert!🚨Faculty position in #Geochemistry at University of Delaware. Stable isotopes, environmental, critical #minerals, carbon sequestration. #geosciences ⚒️🧪

careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...

Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Power of Numeric Evidence in Science Communication
doi.org/10.1177/0963...

Ignoring non‐English‐language studies may bias ecological meta‐analyses Ignoring non-English-language literature may bias outcomes of ecological meta-analyses, due to systematic differences in effect sizes between studies published in English and non-English languages.

Ignoring non-English-language studies may bias ecological meta-analyses. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

High-resolution profiling of bacterial and fungal communities using pangenome-informed taxon-specific long-read amplicons - Microbiome Background High-throughput sequencing technologies have greatly advanced our understanding of microbiomes, but resolving microbial communities at species and strain levels remains challenging. Results...

Still using 16S/ITS profiling? You might want to reconsider👀

Our new paper presents pangenome-informed amplicons that provide up to 10× higher phylogenetic resolution than full-length ribosomal markers- while remaining cost effective and scalable!
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Fig. 2 Phylogenetically distinct structures produced by the arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal mycelium.

✨ Paper spotlight ✨

Mycelial Dynamics in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

(🧵 1/5) Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi form vast underground hyphal networks that support plant life.

New study overturns long-held assumptions about how plants spread to islands A new study from Iceland’s Surtsey island shows that birds carried most of the plants that colonised the island, overturning long-held assumptions in biology that seed or fruit shape and so-call...

Great to see our #ecologyletters paper on seed dispersal to a new island out @ebdonana.bsky.social www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity As droughts become longer and more intense, impacts on terrestrial primary productivity are expected to increase progressively. Yet, some ecosystems appear to acclimate to multiyear drought, with cons...

New paper out 🥳
Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@stockholm-uni.bsky.social

The role of ectomycorrhizal functional diversity in mediating soil carbon cycling under global change Click on the article title to read more.

A fun commentary with @christinakaiser.bsky.social inspired by a very cool paper in New Phyt by @fungidownunder.bsky.social et al. showing that EcM fungal functional traits affect soil C responses to elevated CO2. EcM species and traits really matter!

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

Huge congrats Vasilis!!!

oh no, this is not the place for that. hope it changes!

do i have the energy to fight a frequentist today?

Disruption of the oak tree microbiome with urbanization - Nature Cities Urbanization disrupts oak tree microbiomes by reducing beneficial fungi and increasing plant and human pathogens across leaves, roots and soils, with consequences for tree health, urban climate mitiga...

🌳 Big news! My paper “Disruption of the oak tree microbiome with urbanization” is now out in Nature Cities! 🏙️🌿
Cities are full of life we don’t see, including microbes that live in and on trees.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s442...

To Meet Pledges to Save Forests Spending Must Triple, U.N. Report Says Four years after a global pledge to end deforestation, the amount of money going toward conserving and restoring forests is not enough, the analysis found.

A new UN report found that to meet various international climate, biodiversity and land restoration goals, annual global spending needs to triple to $300 billion by 2030.

🧪If you are interested in #microbial growth data, you may have have a look at μGrowthDB; an open repository designed to store, visualize, analyze & share quantitative measurements of species abundances and metabolite profiles from monocultures & communities of known composition.
#microsky #mevosky

Global warming reduces the carrying capacity of the tallest angiosperm species (Eucalyptus regnans) - Nature Communications Climate change threatens mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans) forests, which are among Earth’s most carbon-dense ecosystems. This study finds that a projected 3∘ C warming by 2080 could reduce tree density and carbon storage in these forests by 24%

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In #drylands, plants don’t grow randomly — they self-organize into disordered hyperuniform patterns that help them use water wisely & endure extreme aridity. A beautiful hidden logic of nature, revealed in a new @pnas.org study doi.org/10.1073/pnas... including #Maestrelab alumni

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

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...

So excited to be representing @spun.earth at the #IUCNCongress! 🌍✨ I’m eager to connect with you and explore how we can integrate mycorrhizal fungi into your conservation strategies. Schedule a time to meet up: www.spun.earth/events/iucn-...

🪸🧪 We’re hiring! Join our ERC-funded group at the @hifmb.de in Oldenburg, Germany to explore the cellular origins of photosymbiosis:⁣
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𝟏 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜 + 𝟐 𝐏𝐡𝐃𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬.⁣
Deadlines: Oct 29 & Nov 5. Links below. ⁣

Questions: nils.raedecker@hifmb.de⁣
#Photosymbiosis #HIFMB #ERC #AcademicJobs

Biology - UMass Boston Biology - UMass Boston

UMass Boston seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in microbial ecology, starting September 1, 2026. Apply by December 1, 2025. Details: http://www.umb.edu/academics/csm/biology #job

I’m super glad to have the opportunity to be a speaker at LivigData representing the SPUN team! I would love to connect with anyone here that is attending 🙌🏽