Toby Kiers

Executive Director SPUN
Professor of Evolutionary Biology (VU, Amsterdam)
Evolution of Cooperation, Symbiosis, Fungi
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[Toby Kiers @KiersToby]

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: https://t.co/VMzSxgm6EN
(photo 2011, Kenya)

[Toby Kiers @KiersToby]

Calling all myconauts, let’s bring fungal networking to Blue Sky. Come find me here: https://t.co/eegYrtcDoy

Video time laspe of root (red) and mycorrhizal network (light blue) over 300hrs

[Toby Kiers @KiersToby]

@amydiehl Maybe helpful? My op-ed about bringing kids on expeditions as an act of academic defiance in NYT: https://t.co/ryW5QYyDHK

[Dr. César Marín @cesarmarin203]

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!

[INVAM @FungiInvam]

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!

[Oleh Prylutskyi @oleh_prylutskyi]

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 https://t.co/okF3NCBUQr

[Toby Kiers @KiersToby]

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

[SPUN @spununderground]

'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 https://t.co/WIflw4g8dt

[SPUN @spununderground]

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 https://t.co/Q6j9Xdaf7Y

[Cameron Egan @cameronpegan]

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

[Toby Kiers @KiersToby]

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

[Toby Kiers @KiersToby]

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

[Toby Kiers @KiersToby]

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

[Toby Kiers @KiersToby]

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. https://t.co/DcsX5tx6k5

[Toby Kiers @KiersToby]

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

[SPUN @spununderground]

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

https://t.co/rLWYDl7C0p

[SPUN @spununderground]

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:
👉 https://t.co/WIflw4g8dt

[Toby Kiers @KiersToby]

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

[Dr. Carol N. Ibe @CarolIbe8]

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.

[Dr. César Marín @cesarmarin203]

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!

[Toby Kiers @KiersToby]

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 https://t.co/1D6DdZEA4Z @spununderground