Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D.
@annemakerofhats.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Fungal Biology at the University of Georgia | bioinformatics & genomics | she/her | opinions are my own & may not reflect the views of my employer or funding agencies | annehatmaker.com
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If you weren't at the Cellular and Molecular Fungal Biology Gordon Research Conference, I hope this helps you decide to go next time. It's such a great community!
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A decade ago, a “weird” kitten was found on a road near a Bolivian forest. Too small to be a housecat, he had a scrunched-up face, short round ears, long whiskers, & a coat of leopard-like spots. DNA analysis now reveals him as the very first of a newly discovered species & I think I'm in love. 😻🧬🧪👇
Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years
A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.
www.nationalgeographic.com
September 17, 2026 at 7:08 PM
A decade ago, a “weird” kitten was found on a road near a Bolivian forest. Too small to be a housecat, he had a scrunched-up face, short round ears, long whiskers, & a coat of leopard-like spots. DNA analysis now reveals him as the very first of a newly discovered species & I think I'm in love. 😻🧬🧪👇
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My lab is hiring a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on machine learning, model misspecification, and population genetics! Flexible start-date!
Learn more about the lab: smithlabbio.github.io
Job Ad: explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Please reach out if you have any questions!
Learn more about the lab: smithlabbio.github.io
Job Ad: explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Please reach out if you have any questions!
The Smith Lab — Mississippi State University
The Smith Lab at Mississippi State University studies diversification using genomic data, with a focus on terrestrial snails and slugs.
smithlabbio.github.io
September 16, 2026 at 3:08 PM
My lab is hiring a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on machine learning, model misspecification, and population genetics! Flexible start-date!
Learn more about the lab: smithlabbio.github.io
Job Ad: explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Please reach out if you have any questions!
Learn more about the lab: smithlabbio.github.io
Job Ad: explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Please reach out if you have any questions!
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I have released my most powerful & high-yielding corn yet. It has already escaped my field & invaded three soybean farms. I fear it will soon kill all humans. But rather than quit corn & work to stop the apocalypse, I'm releasing even better corn in 3 months. Meanwhile, please use corn responsibly.
September 14, 2026 at 3:33 PM
I have released my most powerful & high-yielding corn yet. It has already escaped my field & invaded three soybean farms. I fear it will soon kill all humans. But rather than quit corn & work to stop the apocalypse, I'm releasing even better corn in 3 months. Meanwhile, please use corn responsibly.
@jabbur.bsky.social yet more sad beige :(
September 13, 2026 at 1:40 PM
@jabbur.bsky.social yet more sad beige :(
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The RAxML-NG v2.0 preprint is out:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
v2.0 features integrated model testing, fast branch support metrics, automatic parallelization, phylogenetic difficulty prediction, genotype evolution models, to name but the most important features. And it is A LOT FASTER of course
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
v2.0 features integrated model testing, fast branch support metrics, automatic parallelization, phylogenetic difficulty prediction, genotype evolution models, to name but the most important features. And it is A LOT FASTER of course
RAxML-NG 2: Automatic model selection, novel tree search heuristics, and fast branch support metrics
RAxML-NG is a widely used tool for maximum likelihood based phylogenetic inference. In the seven years since the last RAxML-NG publication, we have continuously improved and extended the code. Here, w...
www.biorxiv.org
September 12, 2026 at 11:08 AM
The RAxML-NG v2.0 preprint is out:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
v2.0 features integrated model testing, fast branch support metrics, automatic parallelization, phylogenetic difficulty prediction, genotype evolution models, to name but the most important features. And it is A LOT FASTER of course
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
v2.0 features integrated model testing, fast branch support metrics, automatic parallelization, phylogenetic difficulty prediction, genotype evolution models, to name but the most important features. And it is A LOT FASTER of course
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Plants of the National Parks is available for pre-order from your favorite bookseller.
geni.us/Ywmh
#NationalParks #Plants #WildPlants #NPS #PlantsOfTheNationalParks #Botany #NativePlantsUSA #NatureBooks #PublicLands #PlantScience #NatureEducation
geni.us/Ywmh
#NationalParks #Plants #WildPlants #NPS #PlantsOfTheNationalParks #Botany #NativePlantsUSA #NatureBooks #PublicLands #PlantScience #NatureEducation
September 6, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Plants of the National Parks is available for pre-order from your favorite bookseller.
geni.us/Ywmh
#NationalParks #Plants #WildPlants #NPS #PlantsOfTheNationalParks #Botany #NativePlantsUSA #NatureBooks #PublicLands #PlantScience #NatureEducation
geni.us/Ywmh
#NationalParks #Plants #WildPlants #NPS #PlantsOfTheNationalParks #Botany #NativePlantsUSA #NatureBooks #PublicLands #PlantScience #NatureEducation
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We're looking for a plant pathologist 🌱 🍄 to join our department (cals.ncsu.edu/entomology-a...)!
The position is fairly broad/open to different disciplines in plant pathology, but heavy in teaching. Please go to the following link for more info & to apply.
jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/233...
The position is fairly broad/open to different disciplines in plant pathology, but heavy in teaching. Please go to the following link for more info & to apply.
jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/233...
August 27, 2026 at 12:38 PM
We're looking for a plant pathologist 🌱 🍄 to join our department (cals.ncsu.edu/entomology-a...)!
The position is fairly broad/open to different disciplines in plant pathology, but heavy in teaching. Please go to the following link for more info & to apply.
jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/233...
The position is fairly broad/open to different disciplines in plant pathology, but heavy in teaching. Please go to the following link for more info & to apply.
jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/233...
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Two faculty searches at Berkeley Plant & Microbial Bio @PMB_Berkeley
Submit applications by Sept 30
Plant Responses to Environmental Changes aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382
Plant-Microbe Communities aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522
Submit applications by Sept 30
Plant Responses to Environmental Changes aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382
Plant-Microbe Communities aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522
Assistant Professor - Plant Responses to Environmental Changes - Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
September 9, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Two faculty searches at Berkeley Plant & Microbial Bio @PMB_Berkeley
Submit applications by Sept 30
Plant Responses to Environmental Changes aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382
Plant-Microbe Communities aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522
Submit applications by Sept 30
Plant Responses to Environmental Changes aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382
Plant-Microbe Communities aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522
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New paper showing that it took 7 years post-inoculation to see effects on plant communities, highlighting the importance of longterm studies in restoration research esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Inoculation with old‐growth microbes improves restoration quality and reduces non‐native encroachment after seven years
Understanding the mechanisms that promote native seedling establishment in disturbed ecosystems is key to improving the biodiversity and function of landscape restorations. Over seven growing seasons...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 10, 2026 at 4:57 AM
New paper showing that it took 7 years post-inoculation to see effects on plant communities, highlighting the importance of longterm studies in restoration research esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Reposting this ongoing search (any discipline of biology) for an Assistant to Associate level colleague in the Division of Basic Sciences at Fred Hutch.
Great city, great colleagues, great core facilities, great trainees.
Great city, great colleagues, great core facilities, great trainees.
Come be our colleague. I have been in this Division for 27 years (4 as a postdoc and 23 as a PI). It is an amazing place to work, collaborate, and be inspired. If you are applying to be an Assistant or Associate Professor this Fall, don't miss this deadline.
Join @FredHutch.org's Basic Sciences Division as an Assistant or Associate Professor and help shape the future of fundamental biology. We welcome applicants whose work will complement, extend, or bring new directions to the division.
September 10, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Reposting this ongoing search (any discipline of biology) for an Assistant to Associate level colleague in the Division of Basic Sciences at Fred Hutch.
Great city, great colleagues, great core facilities, great trainees.
Great city, great colleagues, great core facilities, great trainees.
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I'm looking to hire a postdoc to work on the RepAdapt + MacroMar projects, analysing genomic data from >130 species of plants, animals, and fungi (VCFs are processed, ready to go). Lots of potential for creativity and collaboration!
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September 8, 2026 at 7:04 PM
I'm looking to hire a postdoc to work on the RepAdapt + MacroMar projects, analysing genomic data from >130 species of plants, animals, and fungi (VCFs are processed, ready to go). Lots of potential for creativity and collaboration!
yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...
yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...
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#Fungi sustain food, medicine & climate resilience, but #mycologists from low-income countries often can't afford to attend global conferences.
The International Mycological Association is raising $30k for #IMC13 travel awards. You can help make fungal science more inclusive 👇
#gofundme #science
The International Mycological Association is raising $30k for #IMC13 travel awards. You can help make fungal science more inclusive 👇
#gofundme #science
Supporting Fungal Scientists From Low-Income Countries
Fungi are essential to life on Earth, supporting food production, ecosystem health, medicine, and climate resilience. Yet many scientists studying fungi, especially those working in low-income countri...
imafungus.pensoft.net
September 9, 2026 at 11:00 AM
#Fungi sustain food, medicine & climate resilience, but #mycologists from low-income countries often can't afford to attend global conferences.
The International Mycological Association is raising $30k for #IMC13 travel awards. You can help make fungal science more inclusive 👇
#gofundme #science
The International Mycological Association is raising $30k for #IMC13 travel awards. You can help make fungal science more inclusive 👇
#gofundme #science
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Would you like to work here?
The search for the next director of Flathead Lake Bio Station is re-opened (search suspended last year due to admin issue).
FLBS is in terrific shape, physically, financially, & academically with exciting prospects for the future. 🧪
Apply: apply.interfolio.com/192695
The search for the next director of Flathead Lake Bio Station is re-opened (search suspended last year due to admin issue).
FLBS is in terrific shape, physically, financially, & academically with exciting prospects for the future. 🧪
Apply: apply.interfolio.com/192695
September 4, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Would you like to work here?
The search for the next director of Flathead Lake Bio Station is re-opened (search suspended last year due to admin issue).
FLBS is in terrific shape, physically, financially, & academically with exciting prospects for the future. 🧪
Apply: apply.interfolio.com/192695
The search for the next director of Flathead Lake Bio Station is re-opened (search suspended last year due to admin issue).
FLBS is in terrific shape, physically, financially, & academically with exciting prospects for the future. 🧪
Apply: apply.interfolio.com/192695
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Our lab is looking for PhD students to join us in 2027 🎓🎉
The projects can be structured around our research directions:
- Transposable element dynamics
- Fungal pangenomics
- ML/language model genomics applications
- Pathogen adaptation
More here pathogen-genomics.org ("Jobs") and please share! 🙏
The projects can be structured around our research directions:
- Transposable element dynamics
- Fungal pangenomics
- ML/language model genomics applications
- Pathogen adaptation
More here pathogen-genomics.org ("Jobs") and please share! 🙏
Evolutionary genomics of pathogens
Croll lab at University of Neuchatel. The lab of Daniel Croll wants to understand how pathogens evolve to cause disease. For this, we mainly focus on major crop pathogens to unravel mechanisms of rapi...
pathogen-genomics.org
September 4, 2026 at 7:32 AM
Our lab is looking for PhD students to join us in 2027 🎓🎉
The projects can be structured around our research directions:
- Transposable element dynamics
- Fungal pangenomics
- ML/language model genomics applications
- Pathogen adaptation
More here pathogen-genomics.org ("Jobs") and please share! 🙏
The projects can be structured around our research directions:
- Transposable element dynamics
- Fungal pangenomics
- ML/language model genomics applications
- Pathogen adaptation
More here pathogen-genomics.org ("Jobs") and please share! 🙏
In a few years perhaps we could all have 🎵 chestnuts roasting on an open fire 🎶
After years of testing, USDA has just approved releasing GMO American chestnut trees, potentially giving us the chance to bring back an iconic species destroyed in the early 20th century by an imported disease. (Chauvinistic note: I've had American chestnuts, and they are better than European ones.)
USDA Approval Advances Efforts to Restore the American Chestnut
Efforts by researchers at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) to restore the American chestnut tree to the American landscape took a significant leap forward with an approved desi...
www.esf.edu
September 1, 2026 at 8:20 PM
In a few years perhaps we could all have 🎵 chestnuts roasting on an open fire 🎶
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After years of testing, USDA has just approved releasing GMO American chestnut trees, potentially giving us the chance to bring back an iconic species destroyed in the early 20th century by an imported disease. (Chauvinistic note: I've had American chestnuts, and they are better than European ones.)
USDA Approval Advances Efforts to Restore the American Chestnut
Efforts by researchers at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) to restore the American chestnut tree to the American landscape took a significant leap forward with an approved desi...
www.esf.edu
September 1, 2026 at 4:21 PM
After years of testing, USDA has just approved releasing GMO American chestnut trees, potentially giving us the chance to bring back an iconic species destroyed in the early 20th century by an imported disease. (Chauvinistic note: I've had American chestnuts, and they are better than European ones.)
Reposted by Annie Hatmaker, Ph.D.
In a global first, Mexico approves use of RNA-based fungicide.
Oifirax, created by GreenLight Biosciences, uses RNA molecules to kill the fungus responsible for powdery mildew on grapes.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Oifirax, created by GreenLight Biosciences, uses RNA molecules to kill the fungus responsible for powdery mildew on grapes.
www.science.org/content/arti...
In a global first, Mexico approves use of RNA-based fungicide
Oifirax, created by GreenLight Biosciences, uses RNA molecules to kill the fungus responsible for powdery mildew on grapes
www.science.org
August 27, 2026 at 3:22 PM
In a global first, Mexico approves use of RNA-based fungicide.
Oifirax, created by GreenLight Biosciences, uses RNA molecules to kill the fungus responsible for powdery mildew on grapes.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Oifirax, created by GreenLight Biosciences, uses RNA molecules to kill the fungus responsible for powdery mildew on grapes.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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It ys trulye ynspiringe to see an outpouringe of love for a trulye goode person who did goode thinges and lyved a full and creatyve and free and lovinge lyfe. It ys a greate blessinge to be reminded of the love that love kan create.
August 26, 2026 at 3:15 AM
It ys trulye ynspiringe to see an outpouringe of love for a trulye goode person who did goode thinges and lyved a full and creatyve and free and lovinge lyfe. It ys a greate blessinge to be reminded of the love that love kan create.
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For all the fungi hunters out there, the Heitman Lab at Duke University is looking for Cryptococcus luteus found associated with crust fungi on fallen logs. Every sample helps!
#mycology
#mycology
August 26, 2026 at 5:57 PM
For all the fungi hunters out there, the Heitman Lab at Duke University is looking for Cryptococcus luteus found associated with crust fungi on fallen logs. Every sample helps!
#mycology
#mycology
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We're launching a search for two open-rank positions with preference for Assistant/Associate Professors in the Department of Cell Biology at University of Virginia.
If you're a card-carrying cell biologist, consider applying here now:
apply.interfolio.com/191024
If you're a card-carrying cell biologist, consider applying here now:
apply.interfolio.com/191024
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ALT: Bill Belichick Looking For A New Job Meme
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August 26, 2026 at 8:13 PM
We're launching a search for two open-rank positions with preference for Assistant/Associate Professors in the Department of Cell Biology at University of Virginia.
If you're a card-carrying cell biologist, consider applying here now:
apply.interfolio.com/191024
If you're a card-carrying cell biologist, consider applying here now:
apply.interfolio.com/191024
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I've seen social media react to numerous high-profile deaths. Live your life like Dolly Parton.
August 25, 2026 at 6:31 PM
I've seen social media react to numerous high-profile deaths. Live your life like Dolly Parton.
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Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.
August 25, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.
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Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
imaginationlibrary.com
August 25, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
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This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
August 25, 2026 at 6:28 PM
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
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We have a (dry lab) Postdoc Position in Viral Genomics & Pathogen Surveillance here in wonderful and sunny San Diego 🏄♂️☀️!
We're looking to continue to build our AI and broader infectious disease surveillance efforts, with a focus on our outbreak.info platform.
Read more: andersen-lab.com/about/
We're looking to continue to build our AI and broader infectious disease surveillance efforts, with a focus on our outbreak.info platform.
Read more: andersen-lab.com/about/
About | Andersen Lab
Learn more about the Andersen Lab, as well as jobs and career opportunities.
andersen-lab.com
August 24, 2026 at 8:44 AM
We have a (dry lab) Postdoc Position in Viral Genomics & Pathogen Surveillance here in wonderful and sunny San Diego 🏄♂️☀️!
We're looking to continue to build our AI and broader infectious disease surveillance efforts, with a focus on our outbreak.info platform.
Read more: andersen-lab.com/about/
We're looking to continue to build our AI and broader infectious disease surveillance efforts, with a focus on our outbreak.info platform.
Read more: andersen-lab.com/about/