Håvard Kauserud

Not Extremely Plastic: Testing the Limits of Morphological Plasticity in Fungal Mycelia in Response to Soil Grazers Using image analysis to track the development of fungal networks in the presence of predators, we found that even in modular organisms, plasticity is more nuanced and limited than previously assumed....

Excited to share our new paper! (1/4)

Fungi grow as networks, but how much these networks actually vary?
Turns out: not as much as we think.
Across four species, network traits stayed consistent, even when grazed by soil fauna!

doing.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.70281

YouTube video by Smerz Smerz - A thousand lies

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NRK har den prinsipielle holdningen at de hverken er for eller mot folkemord.

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...

Dette er gøy

"Jeg har ikke tenkt å høre på hva du sier"
"OK, da stikker jeg"
"Hva, vil du ikke være med å påvirke?"

Exactly 80 years ago this precise moment (8:40am Hamburg time, Nov. 30, 1945), German submarine commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and two of his former subordinates on the U-852 were shot by Allies in Hamburg for killing the survivors of a ship they had sunk. Pete Hagueseth needs to lawyer up immediately.

Department of War Crimes…

The image is the front cover of "All That the Rain Promises and More: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms" by David Arora. It depicts a joyful man with a beard, dressed in a formal black tuxedo, complete with a bow tie. He is standing under an overcast sky in a pastoral setting with oak trees and a wooden fence visible in the background. The man is holding a shiny brass trumpet in his left hand, and in his right, he cradles a large, fleshy cluster of golden-brown wild mushrooms. His pose suggests a spirited connection between music, nature, and the hobby of mushroom foraging.

this is the face of joy and madness

Endophytes with mycorrhizal potentials: biological and ecological implications Generally, the root mycobiome is dominated by endophytic and mycorrhizal fungi with mutualistic potential to enhance plant fitness. In some cases, however, the distinction between the two biotrophic ...

Endophytes with mycorrhizal potentials: biological and ecological implications

#mycorrhizalpotentials

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New preprint: 🚀🧬 Starship in the genome of the lichen fungus Xanthoria. Discovery of giant transposons Starships challenged what we thought we knew about fungal genomes. But what about Starships in #lichen fungi? Let us present Tangerine! 🖥️ 🧪 🦠 🧫 #SymbioSky doi.org/10.1101/2025...

A Native American asking when (white) immigrants will leave.

An old meme …

Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.

Norges forsvarsminister har invitert Pete Hegseth til Norge. Men hvordan mottar vi en krigsforbryter? (Siden det ikke er noen krig, er han ganske enkelt en morder). Med røp løper eller håndjern? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

They did it again!

Oslos articulated buses love to gather in roundabouts!

Ofattbara scener. Två unga palestinier i Jenin kommer ut från ett hus med händerna på huvudet. De beordras tillbaka in i huset av israeliska soldater, bara för att mördas i fullt dagsljus och med andra palestinier som bevittnar händelsen en bit bort. Soldaterna vet att de knappast riskerar straff.

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Visual representation of the Environmental Mismatch Hypothesis

Homo sapiens and the environmental mismatch hypothesis

"It is possible that the rapid industrialisation of our habitat is outpacing our adaptive capacity & is imposing selective pressures that threaten our evolutionary fitness." Longman & Shaw
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🧪🏺 #ecoevo

6 small umbrella-shaped toadstools on long slender stalks, all in pale brown shades, with green fern at their feet.

#ArtDD2025
Woodland fungi

Quick little sketch from a lovely 📷 by @sophiecarr.bsky.social with thanks.

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Functional diversity of dead wood promotes species-rich communities of fungi Dead wood is a vital structural element in boreal forests, supporting diverse fungal and insect communities. Wood-inhabiting fungi, in particular, are…

New paper from the EcoForest project: "Functional diversity of dead wood promotes species-rich communities of fungi" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Reviewer asking the authors to add 10 references from their lab

Ectomycorrhizal networks and seedling establishment during early primary succession

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Earthstars 🤩
Geastrum michelianum, apparently. Named after the influential Pier Antonio Micheli en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_An...

Donald Trump shaking hands with a beaming Cristiano Ronaldo in the Oval Office.

And it's a tie at the World Narcissism Grand Final.

Some of today's findings, the first one a Piptoporus with split personality

Ancient fossil reveals how plants and fungi first developed on land | Natural History Museum A new fossil fungus discovered in Scotland shows evidence of plants and fungi sharing nutrients to survive on land.

A new fossil fungus discovered in Scotland shows evidence of plants and fungi sharing nutrients to survive on land.

The fossil, more than 400 million years old, offers hints about the origin of one of the greatest partnerships in the history of life on Earth.

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Is it a flagellate? A tiny ball with tentacles? Contamination in my ciliate culture? NEW SUPERGROUP OF EUKARYOTES? Yes to all 4! Meet Solarion - just out in #Nature doi.org/10.1038/s415... Huge congrats to Marek Valt, Cepicka Lab & the star team! Very happy to be part of this project. #ProtistsOnSky

🚨 PhD project offer linked to Fungarium Sequencing Project! Do you like bioinformatics? fungal genomics? historical DNA? check this out 👇
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Mushrooming in northern France 🤩

"Hvis Hamas bare frigir gislene kan de stoppe krigen på dagen"...