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John Taylor @mycotajohn
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Land Rover advert blows it again. Lazy young people taking a lift in a beautiful spot where no vehicle should be. youtube.com/watch?v=qtd0_F4t…
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Anyone who uses a fungal protein or makes a fungal protoplast should raise a glass to Professor Peberdy.
Neil Gow@neil_gow
15 May 2020
Very sad news. A real inspiration to a generation of mycologists. @BMS_Scientific @MicrobioSoc
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Will mycology courses and societies see more interest due to this memoir? I'm guessing, yes! A Unique and Affecting Memoir Combines Grief and Mushrooms nyti.ms/2HkzEp9

A Unique and Affecting Memoir Combines Grief and Mushrooms (Published 2019)

In “The Way Through the Woods,” Long Litt Woon writes about diving into an obsession with learning about the fungi, and how it helped her mourn for her husband and embrace life again.

nytimes.com
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A Unique and Affecting Memoir Combines Grief and Mushrooms nyti.ms/2HkzEp9

A Unique and Affecting Memoir Combines Grief and Mushrooms (Published 2019)

In “The Way Through the Woods,” Long Litt Woon writes about diving into an obsession with learning about the fungi, and how it helped her mourn for her husband and embrace life again.

nytimes.com
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#msafungi19 section of Camarops showing fresh perithecia and long ostioles above old ones
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#msafungi19 Camarops fruiting body. Dog nose fungus. Cedar Ck LTER
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#msafungi19 Xylaria cross section. Note asci protruding from perithecia
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#msafungi19 foray at Cedar Ck LTER
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Queen has indoor air concerns? Note Dyson air purifier and conditioner (or look-alike) in the corner.
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Fellow mycologists, Petition Elsevier in support of UC's fight, which also includes all of Norway, Sweden and Germany: change.org/p/elsevier-boycot… thecostofknowledge.com/ Resigned assoc ed of FGB, JTaylor @mycotajohn

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Not everything with hooves if cows were among the 93.5% that survived. Bar-On et al., PNAS 2018 :)
Mat Fisher@fisher_mat
29 Mar 2019
"Imagine if a new disease started wiping out 6.5 percent of all mammal species—that would be roughly everything with hooves and everything with flippers. The world would freak out" Ed Yong on 'the doomsday fungus' theatlantic.com/science/arch… @NERCscience funded for over a decade
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MSA students rock #IMC11
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CBS (Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures) renamed as the Westerdijk Fungal Biology Institute, to honor Johanna W! westerdijkinstitute.nl/
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DOI:10.1289/ehp.1307922 The best, recent meta-analysis of fungi and asthma relies on one, 1-minute air sample. #asmchats
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So important. The best, recent meta-analysis of fungi and asthma relies on one, 1-minute air sample. #asmchats x.com/polsiewski/status/7333…

Paula Olsiewski
@polsiewski
19 May 2016
T6 Good study design important bit.ly/20ajhvH #ASMChats #MicroBEnet
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T6 DNA tracking of Built Environment Microbes made them visible. New challenge - are they alive, are the active, and how? #asmchats
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T5 Fungi resistant to our best anti-fungal drugs are now in hospitals, due to agricultural overuse? #ASMchats doi: 10.1093/cid/civ885
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T5 Litigation about built environment microbes has focused on disease, intoxication and allergy. #ASMchats
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T4 Fungi are everywhere, fungi eat wood & paper, buildings are made of wood & paper (covering wall board), add water and it rots. #ASMchats
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T3 People carry microbes indoors in their clothes. In one study, one participant studied mushrooms that only appeared with her #ASMchats
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