Fungi. Fire. Genetics. Ecology. (she/her) 🍄🔥Assistant Prof at UBC Vancouver: @ubcbotany.bsky.social and @forestry.ubc.ca 📍grateful guest on the Salish Coast Lab Website: fischerlab.botany.ubc.cahttps://bsky.app/profile/mofisch.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/mofisch.bsky.social/post/3mjfysz3aus2rCurrently at my first @gsb2026.bsky.social conference! Loving this discussion about QUALITY over quantity - we need more [funding for] fundamental science, b/c that’s what populates our databases that *so*much* microbial eco is based off now. #GSB2026 #GSB413 Apr 2026 23:18 +0000at://did:plc:5bd4bw3u34ledraboqszfuke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjfysz3aus2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/mofisch.bsky.social/post/3mhh3pbrsfc2v👏 thank you Anne Pringle & Soleil Young for highlighting the history of sex/gender in Biology (only since 1974!), the inaccuracy of 🍄“23,000 sexes”, and encouraging us to eliminate anthropocentric gender/sex from non-human biological sciences #fungal2619 Mar 2026 22:51 +0000at://did:plc:5bd4bw3u34ledraboqszfuke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhh3pbrsfc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/mofisch.bsky.social/post/3mhgfdc6e2s2qYessss 👏 Lauren McIntyre👏 calling in everyone to thoroughly cite *all* the tools, packages, databases, etc. that we use in our papers. Cite in the refs, not just a web link! #Fungal2619 Mar 2026 16:11 +0000at://did:plc:5bd4bw3u34ledraboqszfuke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhgfdc6e2s2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/mofisch.bsky.social/post/3mhegujharc2cATTN: everyone at #Fungal26 ! Thursday night is official beach party night!18 Mar 2026 21:33 +0000at://did:plc:5bd4bw3u34ledraboqszfuke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhegujharc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/mofisch.bsky.social/post/3mhdu5uanbk2gWoohoo!!! Here we go! Excited for my 5th Fungal Genetics Conference! This is such a special conference for me and I’m so excited for a fun(gal) week with some my favorite fun-guys! #Fungal26 @hyphaltip.bsky.social18 Mar 2026 15:58 +0000at://did:plc:5bd4bw3u34ledraboqszfuke/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhdu5uanbk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/mofisch.bsky.social/post/3m5ufxnkt4k2rMy department is hiring a non-seed plant assistant professor!! Come join us @ubcbotany.bsky.social! BC has spectacular non-seed plant diversity and I would love to nerd out with a future colleague about all those cute little green guys outside! 💚 pls share! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31140 https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3114017 Nov 2025 23:48 +0000at://did:plc:5bd4bw3u34ledraboqszfuke/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5ufxnkt4k2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/mofisch.bsky.social/post/3m4lnydaoq22rMy fellow profs at 🇨🇦Canadian universities! Please take a moment to read and sign this letter urging the Federal government to align its economic plans with climate change action and resilience: https://sustainabilitydigitalage.org/featured/sustainable-canada-dialogues-open-letter/01 Nov 2025 18:52 +0000at://did:plc:5bd4bw3u34ledraboqszfuke/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4lnydaoq22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/mofisch.bsky.social/post/3m4dsbjooc22tThe one year anniversary of my arrival at UBC flew by a month ago. Thanks to fellow newPI and former grad school pal @mattolm.bsky.social for reminding me of one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned this past year: *make* time to reflect! Here are some reflections on my first year as a PI & prof… 🧵29 Oct 2025 15:48 +0000at://did:plc:5bd4bw3u34ledraboqszfuke/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4dsbjooc22thttps://bsky.app/profile/mofisch.bsky.social/post/3lxpswizezs2qHow is it possible that I only very recently learned about Hexaflexagons?! This is so bamboozlingly delightful! Math is just the coolest. vimeo.com/147799851 https://vimeo.com/14779985131 Aug 2025 19:25 +0000at://did:plc:5bd4bw3u34ledraboqszfuke/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxpswizezs2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/mofisch.bsky.social/post/3lvtm5ysto22jSun is shining, birds are chirping, and a colleague just gave me a sack of 💩 (specifically some local alpine rabbit poops) …today is a good day and I officially have the best job ever!07 Aug 2025 20:45 +0000at://did:plc:5bd4bw3u34ledraboqszfuke/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvtm5ysto22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/mofisch.bsky.social/post/3lvtkkwdwck23Dear Microbial Ecologists - has anyone directly tested sampling effort spread out over time vs. space? For example, 100 samples collected at a single time-point, vs. 100 samples collected across multiple timepoints (neither time nor space are significant factors for community assembly/dynamics/etc.)07 Aug 2025 20:16 +0000at://did:plc:5bd4bw3u34ledraboqszfuke/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvtkkwdwck23https://bsky.app/profile/mofisch.bsky.social/post/3lu44ruc3mk2v@biorender.bsky.social put numbers to the vibes in the US right now... "87% of labs affected or expecting disruption" 💔 https://www.biorender.com/2025-science-funding-report16 Jul 2025 19:13 +0000at://did:plc:5bd4bw3u34ledraboqszfuke/app.bsky.feed.post/3lu44ruc3mk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/mofisch.bsky.social/post/3lu3qp7smrc22Teaching prep for fall motivated me to revisit the awesome Oral History For Mycology project on YouTube. So many great stories, but shout out to @benwolfe.bsky.social for highlighting this incredible Bray-Curtis ordination from 1969 by Martha Christensen. So cool. So glad we have computers now 😅16 Jul 2025 15:37 +0000at://did:plc:5bd4bw3u34ledraboqszfuke/app.bsky.feed.post/3lu3qp7smrc22https://bsky.app/profile/mofisch.bsky.social/post/3lqhv2i22422n“Distribution of haploid chromosomes into separate nuclei in two pathogenic fungi”🍄🧬 a plot twist in the story of multinucleate filamentous fungi! Really cool and bizarre new work from the lab of Xin Li! @science.ubc.ca @ubcbotany.bsky.social @science.org https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abn781131 May 2025 13:46 +0000at://did:plc:5bd4bw3u34ledraboqszfuke/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqhv2i22422nhttps://bsky.app/profile/mofisch.bsky.social/post/3loqv7k27vc23Inaugural Fischer Fire Fungi Lab field trip was a huge success! We collected so many familiar faces (Pyronema, Geopyxis, Tricharina, etc.), learned a bunch about pyrophilous insects, and fell in love with the monsoon-moistened sagebrush/pine forests on the doorstep of BC’s desert landscape. ❤️‍🔥🍄‍🟫09 May 2025 16:52 +0000at://did:plc:5bd4bw3u34ledraboqszfuke/app.bsky.feed.post/3loqv7k27vc23https://bsky.app/profile/mofisch.bsky.social/post/3lnooe4e3is2gI’m so incredibly proud of Hemi Patel for presenting her Master’s thesis today, and humbled that she chose me to serve on her committee. She cultivated, in rigorous detail, a feasible method for rethinking the way we build, inhabit, and think about architecture using mycomaterials! 🍄26 Apr 2025 02:19 +0000at://did:plc:5bd4bw3u34ledraboqszfuke/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnooe4e3is2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/mofisch.bsky.social/post/3lnok7gjssc2sI didn’t think it was possible, but I just reviewed a manuscript and I literally have no notes. It’s elegant. It’s concise. It’s crystal clear. I couldn’t even find a typo. Bravo authors!!! I can’t wait to hype up this manuscript once it’s officially published!!26 Apr 2025 01:05 +0000at://did:plc:5bd4bw3u34ledraboqszfuke/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnok7gjssc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/mofisch.bsky.social/post/3ln4a57w72c2uI’ve been thinking a lot about the power of the words and narratives that we choose to use because language is fundamentally how we communicate data, how we share our observations of the world, and how we connect with each other - there are big implications for scientific integrity and ethics… 🧵1/318 Apr 2025 18:17 +0000at://did:plc:5bd4bw3u34ledraboqszfuke/app.bsky.feed.post/3ln4a57w72c2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/mofisch.bsky.social/post/3lmxaygnyik26What a fun way to get a glimpse of my lab! Huge thanks to Conlan, Nicole, Siddharth, and Jag for choosing to interview me about cell-cell communication and Neurospora for their SCIE300 class project! @science.ubc.ca read & watch here: https://medium.com/@leotard.trivets.6q/8cb375ca2e7a16 Apr 2025 18:48 +0000at://did:plc:5bd4bw3u34ledraboqszfuke/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmxaygnyik26