Gulnara Tagirdzhanova

absolutely! whenever I see anyone portraying themselves as having unwavering enthusiasm about their work it's always feels a bit sus

I find Darwin unironically inspiring in this way - as a proof that you can have bad days when you feel nothing but resentment towards your work but that doesn't make you a bad scientist

Åtta månader gamla Emanuel ska utvisas till Iran - Ekot Emanuel föddes i Sverige i maj förra året och har fått ett utvisningsbeslut, fast hans familj har uppehållstillstånd här.Mamman fick arbetstillstånd efter ...

The Swedish gov’t intends to deport an 8-month-old baby to Iran, even though he was born in Sweden and both parents are legal residents: www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/migr...

“Lichens of Britain & Ireland” by Rebecca Yahr and Frances Stoakley is finally available for purchase. This has been a much needed ID guide for beginners to intermediates and the publication is finally here!! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/lichens-o... #bloomsbury #lichens

Firmly believe this would serve multiple needs.

Huge congrats to @ddiazescandon.bsky.social and @spribille.bsky.social! What a massive amount of work and such exciting results!

Can't wait for this meeting!

One week left to apply for the PhD position in my group in Stockholm!

Check out this amazing paper on the Umbilicaria lichen and a black yeast fungus that appears to be its ever-present component!

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
Please share 😊

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

The Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social has two open PhD positions, help us spread the word! 📣

We are looking for a PhD student in Lichen Biology, and one in Ecology & Evolution. Find more information and apply by 1 February below!

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

Want to get the data out of a PDF figure? As in, the actual data – not a rough trace-along-the-lines version?

I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/

It all started a few years ago... 🧵

MetaLichen Lab at SciLifeLab & Stockholm University. Our work focuses on fungal-algal symbioses, known as lichens. How is it possible that multiple microbes - fungi, algae, bacteria - self-assemble into a lichen, wh...

The lab opens in April 2026, and now the new lab website is live, check it out!
metalichenlab.github.io

Black field with a macro image of a bright orange lichen Xanthoria in one of the corner. Little diagrams showing a structure of a lichen thallus with different layers in grey and green, a phylogenetic tree, and an alphafold generated structure of a protein. White text says "PhD position in Stockholm University / SciLifeLab. Lichen Biology, Symbiosis, Microbial Ecology & Evolution,Meta-omics Fully funded for 4 years. Start Apr-Sep 2026. Deadline for application: Feb 1st."

⚡️Fully funded #PhD position in my lab at Stockholm University / SciLifeLab! If you’re interested in #lichens, #symbiosis, fungal biology, or meta-omics, please apply. Deadline Feb 1. Read more here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

upper part: a bar with leather chairs and wooden tables. In the backgroun can se part of a silhouette of a guitarist playing. On the table, there is a laptop with a google doc window open an a glass of beer. lower part: a screen grab with text saying: "structures of molelules and lomecule complexes" (yep, managed to mispel the word molecule in two different ways

My (recent) work environment vs the quality of work that actually gets done there

So once upon a time, I got savaged on Twitter for saying that all a man in the games industry had to do to end a woman’s employment at the same company was sexually harass her. As soon as it happened, the timer began counting down. (Thread)

Genomic analysis of a lichen photobiont alga | Plantae Lichens are complex assemblies that are composed of at least two organisms, a fungus (the mycobiont) and a photosynthetic partner, the photobiont. Lichen lifestyles have emerged several times…

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Genomic analysis of a lichen photobiont alga (New Phytol.) @metalichen.bsky.social @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social (Summary by Mary Williams @PlantTeaching.bsky.social) buff.ly/IQC6qOT

#PlantaePSRW

Stockholm on track for darkest December since 1934 The Swedish capital has recorded just a half-hour of sunlight in the first half of this month, putting it on track for the darkest December since 1934 if the trend continues.

Doing great here, yes, thanks for asking: “Stockholm on track for darkest December since 1934” www.thelocal.se/20251216/sto...

Some studies analyzed bacterial communities in lichens vs the surrounding environment, and it appears that specific bacteria are in some way 'selected' by the lichen from the substrate (where they are present but rare), and I'd assume this is how it works in most cases

I'd say it tend to be complicated, in part because of how diverse lichen symbioses are. For some we definitely know that bacteria can co-transmit with the 'main' eukaryotes that constitute the lichen, for others only horizontal acquisition is assumed, but there's a lot of unanswered questions here..

glad you liked the paper! @spribille.bsky.social

Thank you Silvia!

Thanks Philipp!

thank you!

Thank you John!

Thank you and thanks for all your support these years!!

thank you!!