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Yeast biologist interested in metabolism and genomics. Cultivated meat skeptic. If you misuse the word "fermentation", I *WILL* come after you. Allergic to buzzwords in general. Any opinions expressed here are my own, nothing to do with my employer.
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As of today(ish), I've officially been a fan of @radiohead.bsky.social for thirty years. And this is the song – released on this day thirty years ago – that got me hooked from the very first listen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qFf...

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Happy #TaphrinaTuesday to all who celebrate!

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Crop improvements from 1961–2015 reduced cropland expansion, lowered greenhouse gas emissions from land use change, and prevented thousands of species extinctions, compared with a counterfactual scenario without crop improvements. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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As long as there's still snow on the ground on #MushroomMonday I'll have no other choice than to keep raiding the archives for contributions.

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For this week's #FungiFriday I offer you an e-flask with some #yeast in it. (The culture appears whitish because I was culturing the cells on chemically defined minimal medium, which is near-colorless.)

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Taphrina padi-infected bird cherry (photographed last summer) for this week's #TaphrinaTuesday

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Another golden oldie from the vaults for this week's #MushroomMonday

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Going non-mushroom for #FungiFriday yet again. Sampling my living room for fungal spores back in October. Two hour exposure (lid off) followed by six days incubation at room temperature with the lid closed. This handsome red chap might be Epicoccum but I never got a chance to look for conidiophores.

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My department at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala has just advertised a position for senior lecturer/assistant professor in #anaerobic microbial #biotechnology. Application deadline is March 3rd. #microbiology #scijobs #AcademicJobs #AcademicSky www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

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It'll have to be another nugget from the archives for this week's #MushroomMonday

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Five years ago this month, some scientists were warning that Covid might be airborne--and they were ignored. Here's my story about researchers are raising similar questions about bird flu, as it gains some worrying mutations. [Gift link] www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/h...

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These fun guys are literally on the fence about this week's #FungiFriday

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Can't believe that my pet #lichen is already five years old! They grow up so fast. (*snif*)

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A gem from the archives for this week's #TaphrinaTuesday : Alder tongue gall caused by the #yeast Taphrina alni. (Photographed in Mölndal outside Gothenburg last summer.)

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Some snug 'shrooms for #MushroomMonday

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#mycoprotein as aquaculture feed. www.feednavigator.com/Article/2025...

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Saving this screenshot for posterity. I doubt NOAA will even exist in a few weeks (or at most a few months) time. At least they went down fighting.

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Even with #MushroomMonday #FungiFriday and #SaprotrophSaturday I feel like there aren't enough weekday-based hashtags dedicated to fungi. So I hereby declare today the first ever #TaphrinaTuesday !

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Is it #MushroomMonday already?

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I have no idea what fungus(?) this is – but from the way it looks, I feel it ought to be named after @thehorrormaster.bsky.social in recognition of his visual style. #SaprotrophSaturday

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It's peak jelly fungus season in Änggårdsbergen nature reserve just outside central Gothenburg. #FungiFriday

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I got myself a new macro set-up for Christmas and while I'm waiting for the weather outside to improve, I decided to do some portraits of two of my pet rocks. 🙂📸

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Several degrees below freezing outside and lots of snow so it'll have to be yet another gem from the archives for this week's #MushroomMonday : My long-awaited first encounter with the amethyst deceiver (Laccaria amethystina) back in 2023.

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Hey, who says only mushrooms can partake in #FungiFriday ? This here is a respectful close-up of the yeast Pichia membranifaciens growing on an agar surface. Not sure exactly why they go to all this trouble, most yeasts just form a smooth surface when growing on agar.

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Selected highlights from 2024: Learning about the existence of the so-called rose bedeguar gall – or "moss gall", caused by the gall wasp Diplolepis rosae.

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Selected highlights from 2024: Adopting one more pet rock. (Ok, several more pet rocks.)

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Selected highlights from 2024: Discovering the "Hermanos" taqueria in Gothenburg. It has now become a mandatory destination every time I visit.

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Selected highlights from 2024: Seeing the Bronze Age carvings at Tanum in western Sweden.

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Selected highlights from 2024: Seeing the full Stockholm two-night residency by the Magnetic Fields for the 25th anniversary tour of their classic triple album "69 Love Songs". All 69 songs played in sequence over two nights. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Zy...

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Selected highlights from 2024: Publishing a forward-looking review on #mycoprotein in Current Opinion in Food Science. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Some days with light rain and a few degrees above freezing was enough to deliver this week's contribution for #MushroomMonday

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I honor of #FungiFriday, a real gem from the archives: this stunning sulfur polypore (I'm guessing Laetiporus sulphureus) that I found in a forest cemetery at Skogsö nature reserve just east of central Stockholm. (July 2023)

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One from the vaults. A laughing kookaburra chilling in the Darebin Parklands, Melbourne. (November 2022)

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Made some new friends in Gothenburg last week. Don't think I've encountered this species before.

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Some jerk wrote an essay in the NYT claiming industrial agriculture is actually good for forests and the climate. That jerk is me! Here’s a free link: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/o...

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Another one from the vaults. Trollhättan, Sweden (August 2021).

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