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so cool! academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... Nice work @martinsteinegger.bsky.social et al :)

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At long last, our manuscript ‘Rise up, Rhizoctonia: moving to one fungus, one name in the Ceratobasidiaceae’ has finally been published in Persoonia 🎉 Here we resolve several longstanding taxonomic issues within Ceratobasidiaceae and present a unified Rhizoctonia www.persoonia.org/images/Volum...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

#mycosky #mycology bluesky! I’m looking for some inspiration - what are some of your favourite recent (published within the last 1–3 years) fungal comparative phylogenomic studies that you’ve read?

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

26 freshly sequenced whole genomes of undescribed orchid-associated Rhizoctonia spp. 🤙 14 more genomes to go and then I’m on the home stretch for the PhD 🫨

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

After 372 days since submission, and 14 reviewers who committed to reviewing but didn’t wind up submitting a review, our Rhizoctonia nomenclature manuscript has finally been accepted for publication in Persoonia! 🥲

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Had such a great time over the weekend talking with artist Keg de Souza and panel chair Richard Morecroft about fungi and the intersections of art and science for ‘Magic Mycelium’ at the Bundanon Art Museum - such an incredible art space and landscape.

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

At long last, the final typeset version of our Diurideae manuscript has finally been published in Systematic Biology! Check it out at doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

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Australia’s university Vice-Chancellors are among the highest paid in the world. Australia’s PhD students are some of the lowest paid. That is not a sign of a healthy education system. Read more from @jack-thrower.bsky.social:

submitted 143 days ago • 3 comments

Out now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌍🦤🧬 #consgen #PopGen

submitted 149 days ago • 9 comments

“The PhD stipend is $33,511 … well below minimum wage of $47,627” “Universities can raise the stipend to a maximum of $52,352, but a ACGR survey found none have done so. The highest stipend is just over $40,000 … with the average at $34,244.” #RaiseTheStipend

submitted 162 days ago • 1 comment

In no particular order, here are my favourite books from 2024:

submitted 178 days ago • 1 comment

My entire team wrote an opinion paper about Common misconceptions of speciation research. Each section is written by 1-2 team members. The bulk of the writing happened during two writing retreats. It was a lot of fun and I am very happy with the result. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...

submitted 229 days ago • 16 comments

Finally deactivated my X account 🎉

submitted 181 days ago • 0 comments

Fascinating phylogenomic study of Oak Family by Shui‐Yin Liu et al. (including @carolsiniscalchi.bsky.social) showing that hybridization & ILS both generate gene-tree discordance in the family; ILS contributes ~3x as much as hyb'n to discordance in Quercus, but both matter. doi.org/10.1111/jipb...

submitted 183 days ago • 1 comment

Keeping track of new taxonomic changes and species descriptions can be tough, so I've created a living spreadsheet to document recent taxonomic works relating to Australian plants, and provide an easy to access central resource. It will be updated every week or two docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

submitted 185 days ago • 0 comments

Very excited to see this tool come out (and just before Christmas). I've been following it on Github and it looks incredible. "Unicore enables scalable and accurate phylogenetic reconstruction with structural core genes" 📝 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 💾 github.com/steineggerla...

submitted 186 days ago • 0 comments

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Well it all started when I tried to typeset this resume in LaTeX

submitted 188 days ago • 0 comments

Here is the Croatian cartoon from the 1960s that served as the inspiration for the ‘Worker and Parasite’ cartoon on The Simpsons. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuOc...

submitted 192 days ago • 7 comments

If you are a researcher or academic, please make it easy to find your contact details! This is an old talk of mine for the WA Young Stats Event but the advice still holds (just replace twitter with bsky or mastodon). 👩‍💻 "What every young statistician should know" emitanaka.org/slides/YSW2020

submitted 190 days ago • 0 comments

Stumbled upon this Orthoceras while looking for Pterostylis in the swamps at Dharawal. A species-poor genus containing only two species (one being O. strictum, pictured), sister to Diuris in the subtribe Diuridinae.

submitted 190 days ago • 0 comments

Boy did I have to work for this one. I think swamp might be my least favourite kind of habitat. Here’s Pterostylis uliginosa, standing about 20cm tall.

submitted 192 days ago • 0 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 16 / 20

submitted 195 days ago • 0 comments

Our last science contribution of the year Long-read genomics reveal extensive nuclear-specific evolution and allele-specific expression in a dikaryotic fungus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #mpmi #plantbiology #plantimmunity #plants #fungi. This was led by very talented Rita Tam plus great support

submitted 197 days ago • 1 comment

Yessss love this, let’s see those resupinate fungi 🙌🙌

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 15 / 20

submitted 198 days ago • 0 comments

Discordance Down Under: Combining phylogenomics & fungal symbioses to detangle difficult nodes in a diverse tribe of Australian terrestrial orchids https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39657584/

submitted 198 days ago • 0 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 14 / 20

submitted 199 days ago • 0 comments

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 13 / 20

submitted 201 days ago • 1 comment

Uneven distribution of prokaryote-derived horizontal gene transfer in fungi: a lifestyle-dependent phenomenon (mBio) journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... Fungi with different lifestyles have different levels of bacterial HGT - mycoparasites with the most and ectomycorrhizal fungi with the fewest:

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