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NSF seeks public input on its Fiscal Year (FY) 2026–2030 NSF Strategic Plan

The NSF strategic plan FY 2026-30 is available for public comment until Jan 27. Please make your voice heard! www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...

NSF seeks public input on its Fiscal Year (FY) 2026–2030 NSF Strategic Plan

The NSF strategic plan FY 2026-30 is available for public comment until Jan 27. Please make your voice heard! www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...

We have reached 10% of our goal and have enough for one travel award! Amazing! Thank you to those who donated 🙏🏻 We aim to raise funds for nine more travel awards. Let’s keep the momentum! gofund.me/c8eaea7df
@ima-mycology.org

Want to study the genomics of repeated adaptation with data from hundreds of species? New funding for non-Canadians @ grad or postdoc level. Internal competition at UCalgary with very short deadline so please get in touch ASAP!!
sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/funding/o...

NSF PDs will be @sicb.bsky.social.

Stop by booth 308 if you would like to sign up to chat with us or catch us in the conference center.

Informal workshop and Q and A session, Sunday Jan 4th from 12:15 to 1:15 in B110/111. #SICB2026.

Please consider donating to this cause. We started this fundraising initiative to help mycologists from low-income countries attend international mycological congresses. The next one is in South Korea 2027. Help us make fungi science more accessible! gofund.me/c8eaea7df

@ima-mycology.com

This #postdoc position is now officially advertised: www.dannyhaelewaters.com/opening-for-.... #hiring #newPI #CzechScienceFoundation #LFEE

NSF BIO Virtual Office Hour: Updates from the NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences Please join the NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences for a virtual office hour on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, at 1 p.m. Eastern time.

NSF will host virtual office hours next week. Please register if you’d like to know more
www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-b...

Policy Notice: Implementation of Policy Changes to Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) 24-1, Supplement 1 This notice implements several revisions to NSF's Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) 24-1.

NSF policy changes - some updates that PIs should be aware of.

www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...

The biodiversity, genomics, ecology and evolution of mushroom-forming fungi - Nature Reviews Biodiversity Mushroom-forming fungi have along evolutionary history and a suite of important ecological roles. This Review highlights advances in understanding of Agaricomycetes evolution and ecology driven by gen...

Everything you always wanted to know about mushroom-forming fungi! Great collab with amazing mycologists. Thanks Laszlo Nagy for leading this effort!

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Image of yeast spotted on an agar plate. Some grow well, others are dying.

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/...

NSF is open again!

A few comments:

*Please be patient.
During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails.

*Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th.

*POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.

Opening for a postdoctoral position in my lab We are inviting applications for a postdoctoral researcher to support the Laboratory of Fungal Ecology and Evolution, and join our project studying obligatory multitrophic interactions. Project Ove…

I have an opening for a postdoctoral position in my Laboratory of Fungal Ecology and Evolution at the Biology Centre CAS, Institute of Entomology, in České Budějovice, Czechia. www.dannyhaelewaters.com/opening-for-... #LFEE #postdoc #hiring

Myco-Ed: Mycological curriculum for education and discovery Fungi are important and hyperdiverse organisms, yet chronically understudied. Most fungal clades have no reference genomes, impeding our understanding of their ecosystem functions and use as solutions...

Interested in training students in fungal biology and genomics in your classroom? Myco-Ed is for you!! Amazing educational program supported by JGI and described in journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

We have a new paper out in Molecular Ecology, led by @devinbendixsen.bsky.social ! Reproductive isolation due to divergent ecological selection is accompanied by vast genomic instability in experimentally evolved yeast populations onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I have open position for a postdoctoral research associate in my lab. Additional information and how to apply: tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/TAMUCC...

I started this #Mycologists Starter Pack, aiming to get all professional fungal researchers on BlueSky in one place. DM if you want to be added.

go.bsky.app/UMrVSsp

AFGE Local 3403 President Jesus Soriano joined Rep. Zoe Lofgren and AFGE National President Everett Kelley to highlight the damage being done to NSF by the Trump Administration and discuss a letter sent to Congresswomen Lofgren signed by 150 NSF employees
#SaveNSF #SaveScience #FundNSF

Congrats, Priscilla!! So great!

Inspired and overwhelmed after SuilluCamp No.1 - amazing science, nearly 50 attendees, and an outline for a new strategic plan for the International Suillus Consortium. I *could not be* more grateful for this community, or more excited for what we’re building together. Thank you #TeamSlime!

Late-breaking workshop news! The NSF will be offering an information session to discuss new and ongoing programs and the merit review process. Registration is free. More information here:

www.xcdsystem.com/evolution/pr...

#Evol2025

We are looking for a Postdoc in the LaBella Lab!

Do you love fungi 🍄, genetics 🧬and bioinformatics 💻 - then this might be a good fit for you!

jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/63307

Applications accepted through July 1

Important and timely work from the Mycological Society of America.

Tomorrow is NSF's 75th anniversary. 😪

Hang in there, Brian! And know that you’re amazing and did not deserve any of this

U.S. scientists’ lives and careers are being upended. Here are five of their stories As the second Trump administration sends U.S. science into upheaval, countless researchers are fighting for their futures

I am extremely pleased to share this feature articulating why I have lost my sanity lately. www.science.org/content/arti...

#SaveNSF working to save funding for scientific grants through the U.S. National Science Foundation. Join in and distribute widely! www.savensf.com

Why is the U.S. National Science Foundation important?

Please share your stories!

Use the hashtags #WithoutNSF or #WithoutScience

Congrats!!! Such great news