Carl Caldito🔻

Cordyceps club! 💀

Meet the fungi that live in the sea Despite being known to science for over a century thanks to a few early pioneering marine mycologists, most people have never heard of marine fungi.

🌊 #Marine #fungi thrive from the deep sea to rocky shores, yet we know little about them! These #microscopic wonders play vital roles in nutrient cycling & breaking down organic matter.

Learn more in @marinemicrobes.bsky.social latest article for @uk.theconversation.com ➡️

Me with a chunk of live rock in Kaneohe bay

Proud of our new paper in which we force-feed plastic to marine fungi, and watch them evolve to eat it more efficiently. Plastic is the fastest growing new habitat on our planet, fungi can help recycle it.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hereʻs a link to the PDF:
amendlab.com/wp-content/u...

SHIMINET ANYMORE! #ImpeachSaraDuterte 🦑

Want to make beautiful scientific figures? Easy!

The NIH released a library of 2000+ free scientific illustrations called *BioArt*.

Check it out! bioart.niaid.nih.gov

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky 🧠🟦 🧪

The new outline of fungi and fungus-like taxa is out now. Why do we need to do this so often? Because there are so many fungal species and only about 5-10% have descriptions. New genera, families etc are frequently being added to the tree. 🧪 🌍 #fungi #mycosky www.mycosphere.org/pdf/MYCOSPHE...

first post (or is it called skeet?) :>