@spribille.bsky.social
Microbial interactions; lichens; symbiosis. Naturalist, conservationist. Non-capitalist markets. Associate Professor/CRC in Symbiosis at University of Alberta
Congratulations!
17.02.2026 15:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Looks like Phlyctis argena
16.02.2026 00:14 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Also can’t resist the idea that Darwin, had he lived today, would be dropping f bombs. Fuck clovers
13.02.2026 16:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0I feel like I have had a multiples set of Darwin hate sentiments just this morning
13.02.2026 16:21 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
11.02.2026 19:56 — 👍 11859 🔁 4097 💬 84 📌 187
Christmas in February! My friend Seabrooke Leckie has come out with another fabulous moth book—and this one covers 1900 species of the tremendously diverse moth fauna of the West. Congratulations Seabrooke!
11.02.2026 01:11 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
The visualization of two bacterial genomes, of 50 and 52kb, representing independent instances of extreme genomic reduction in ancient heritable endosymbionts of planthoppers.
Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com is now online-early!
We describe independent evolution of bacterial genomes of only ~50–52 kb — the smallest known outside cellular organelles — revealing striking convergence toward minimal gene sets.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Our new paper is out!
We document the diversity of foliicolous lichens, including a lichenicolous fungus, based on extensive field surveys on Okinawa Island, southern Japan.
taiwania.ntu.edu.tw/abstract/2157
Taiwania
#lichens #foliicolouslichens #biodiversity #EastAsia
#Lichens #InariFox #Shinto #Japan
04.02.2026 13:55 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
#otd
175 years ago Lina Hähnle, pioneer in bird conservation, was born in Sulz am Neckar, Germany. She would lead the NGO later known as @nabu.de for almost 40 years
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_H%...
Die Rezensionen kommen allmählich
philelph.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/f...
Die Rezensionen kommen allmählich
philelph.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/f...
Rereading these two papers:
Holes in the hologenome: why host-microbe symbioses are not holobionts.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
The Hologenome Concept: Helpful or Hollow?
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
And I still find myself in general agreement with most of the points in them
Good to see you too!
01.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Educational short read on 2 billion years of fungal evolution from ancestral marine flagellates to mushrooms.
www.mycostories.com/post/two-bil... #fungi #evolution #symbiosis #mycorrhiza 🍄
I am thrilled to congratulate David Díaz Escandón @ddiazescandon.bsky.social on successfully defending his Ph.D. on lichen fungal comparative genomics at @ualberta.bsky.social — the culmination of a journey!
30.01.2026 00:42 — 👍 22 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Normandina pulchella (NO muslinglav) on a beech tree in Stavanger, SW Norway. In Danish it is called smuk konfettilav
30.01.2026 08:25 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Our #Bookofthemonth for January: Lichens of Britain and Ireland: An Introductory Guide by Frances Stoakley and Dr Rebecca Yahr. Filling a desired niche, it's a really useable and accessible guide for beginners and a faithful field guide for all! www.summerfieldbooks.com/product/lich...
28.01.2026 19:16 — 👍 31 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 4
I am thrilled to congratulate David Díaz Escandón @ddiazescandon.bsky.social on successfully defending his Ph.D. on lichen fungal comparative genomics at @ualberta.bsky.social — the culmination of a journey!
30.01.2026 00:42 — 👍 22 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Photo of Peltigera aphthosa lichen, with green lobes and dark cephalodia, emerging from snow.
Recently I've been getting into learning to identify the "freckled" Peltigera lichen species. It looks like we mainly have Peltigera aphthosa (Freckled Pelt) and Peltigera leucophlebia (Ruffled Freckled Pelt) are the regulars. But I'm watching out for P. chionophila and brittanica.
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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"Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus," Jonathan Rauch argues. "'Fascist' best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse." theatln.tc/wVq7MFaa
25.01.2026 15:52 — 👍 474 🔁 163 💬 68 📌 32Nobody wants “what the US has got”, pls keep your failed state ass out of our business.
23.01.2026 16:32 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
23.01.2026 16:01 — 👍 16255 🔁 20400 💬 216 📌 348Perhaps the most iconic lichen of the kelo trees is Letharia vulpina (NO ulvelav). Here from Skjåk, where it is really abundant on dead branches of pine trees.
20.01.2026 09:46 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Almost lost amidst the cow excitement (cow-motion?) was that @currentbiology.bsky.social featured a brilliant paper on #lichen fungi in this week’s issue by Victoria Keller et al. including @veera-t-nogerius.bsky.social — what is not to lichen about this new double ascomycete living arrangement
21.01.2026 18:11 — 👍 22 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below!
Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
Don’t be all surprised when the Democrats don’t win jack shit in the next election. I can think of other things going on in Minnesota right now
21.01.2026 20:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Inviting applications for #PhD (3y) & #Postdoc (2y) to work on alpine #lichens: evolution of #SecondaryMetabolism & #Chemodiversity.
#genomics #metabolomics #fungi #biosyntheticGenes.
Send your CV +motivation letter ➡️ Garima.singh@unipd.it
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I don’t do lichen puns very often so save this one
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