Toby Kiers

Expeditions can be hard to maneuver as a mother & scientist. Intense & exciting to have my essay published in @nytimes exploring how Expeditions can be an Academic Act of Defiance Mapping fungi w/family @spununderground @nytopinion: tinyurl.com/5adc5cwf (photo 2011, Kenya)

Calling all myconauts, let’s bring fungal networking to Blue Sky. Come find me here: tobykiers.bsky.social Video time laspe of root (red) and mycorrhizal network (light blue) over 300hrs

@amydiehl Maybe helpful? My op-ed about bringing kids on expeditions as an act of academic defiance in NYT: nytimes.com/2024/04/26/opi…

For women in academia, barriers to having children aren't just finding partners or preserving fertility. It's systemic barriers—relentless relocations, temporary contracts, focus on individual achievement—planning for a family is like an impossible luxury.science.org/content/articl…

Delighted to being invited at the very beginning of the African Network of Soil Ecology lead by @ulzino and colleagues who I met trough @spununderground at #ICOM12 @mycorrhiza_ims Im SO glad that our work at @southmycorrhiza inspires/contributes to other Global South Networks!

Rob Ramos and @CamilleDelavaux visited us to sequence some of the collection. INVAM curators Jim Bever, Terra Lubin, Peggy Schultz and @lizkoziol spent hundreds of hours isolating #AMF spores, and Rob & Camille worked really hard to make sure this project was a success!

Passionate about #citizenscience? Keen on #fungi? Worried about Russia’s war in Ukraine? Let's take a look at our recent article about @inaturalist and amateur mycology in #Ukraine. Available at doi.org/10.5334/cstp.7…

@BandoJun @spununderground @ucdavis so wonderful to reconnect at COP

'The whole project is very anti-colonial...it's like a revolution because we, as scientists in the Global South, didn't have a lot of participation & still don't...I thought “Why? Let’s change that.”' @adri_corrales33 on the Underground Explorers Program bit.ly/3Nr1wtk

Fungi could save one of the rarest plants in the world. Na’u is a flowering tree on the brink of extinction in Hawaii. 🌸 Nicole Hynson, @uhmanoa & SPUN Underground Explorer, thinks fungi may hold the key to na'u's revival. @goes_by_kim, @SmithsonianMag bit.ly/3AAX1JC

Cutting edge research. Amazing supportive PI. Cool location. What more could you ask for as a postdoc?

Last chance to apply for this stellar post-doc position to understand nuclear dynamics in mycorrhizal fungi

@cesarmarin203 @InstitutoSINCHI @adri_corrales33 @spununderground go team go!

Now at #COP16 with Clara Peña & Daniel Castro (@InstitutoSINCHI) @adri_corrales33 (@spununderground) and myself. Soil biodiversity team at #COP16

@Martin_A_Nunez @LinkedIn I like it - needs more scientists. Will be great to have you there.

I just joined @LinkedIn I heard that it is very good for networking. Will see:) Anyone here also there? Lets connect! linkedin.com/in/martin-nune…

Great piece in @Forbes about how @spununderground is using ML technologies to document underground systems - and why this matters for fungal conservation. So proud of @Giulifungi @fungifoundation as they advocate for the Fungal Pledge at #COP16. forbes.com/sites/danielad…

@Kokkoris_Vas This is a dream job. Come join our team

Our partners at @fungifoundation have been working tirelessly to protect fungi both above and belowground. This is a massive moment for fungi. We urge all parties to sign this pledge to prioritize fungal conservation now. #COP16 theguardian.com/environment/20…

We need the best researchers from across the world to map underground #fungi before they're gone. But there’s a gap in the research coming out of the Global South. SPUN's Underground Explorers Program tackles this issue. @adri_corrales33 explains how: 👉 bit.ly/3Nr1wtk

@CarolIbe8 So wonderful to see your amazing work highlighted in Forbes

Excited to see our work featured here. We're dedicated to empowering 100 African scientists & 3,000 smallholder farmers to co-create solutions that protect undervalued African crops, boost food security & contribute to sustainable livelihoods. Thanks to our team & collaborators.

Fantastic & very efficient sampling (40 samples) on Saturday with @spununderground #RewildingChile, Rocío Urrutia-Jalabert & #MateoBarrenengoa on Alerce Andino National Park. We’ll uncover relationships between AMF diversity & tree aboveground biomass. Beautiful experience!

Massive congrats @adri_corrales33 for winning the Maxwell Hanrahan Foundation award. I had the honor joining Adriana on an expedition two weeks ago to the Amazon basin. She is an inspiration to field biologists everywhere bit.ly/3zDwxa4 @spununderground