Danny Haelewaters
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2019 in numbers

2019 top 10 posts by view:

  1. Parasites of parasites: blood-sucking bat flies infected with enigmatic Laboulbeniales fungi
  2. Genetische modificaties: voor of tegen?
  3. Exserohilum rostratum, the killing fungus
  4. Forensic Mycology: Taking Hebeloma to Court
  5. Has evolutionary history led us to today’s rapes?
  6. Sea turtles under pressure
  7. In the field: bats in Panama
  8. Great research, unexpected conclusion – Why fish is so good for you (?)
  9. New fungal taxa from a Panamanian cloud forest
  10. Parasite host specificity related to host susceptibility to be killed?

16,568: the highest number of impressions received by one of my tweets in 2019. That top tweet was about our massive review of the Basidiomycota that had just been published.

Also this week, we published a 70-author, 263-page overview of the #Basidiomycota in #FungalDiversity. It's not perfect but it forms a good starting point for new scholars in basidios! https://t.co/1ggHTvlWCH pic.twitter.com/3gCv8HnFc2

— Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🇧🇪🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 (@dhaelewa) December 1, 2019

8,031: funding received in 2019, from the Indiana Academy of Science, Purdue University, and SYNTHESYS+ (European Commission). That’s not very much, but I only applied for one larger grant (as a Co-PI). I did, however, win a Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek), which caused quite some stress. The anticipated starting date was October 2019 and it was almost ‘expected’ that I was to give up my current position at Purdue, which I thought was a bit strange. I ended up postponing until November 2020, but I was only able to do this by giving up one year of the funding I had just won 🙁

7,478: number of visitors to my website. I started my website in April 2015 (with the help of Marianne Lourens of ML media) and received 1,375 visitors during that year, followed by 3,488 in 2016; 6,030 in 2017; 5,012 in 2018; and 7,478 in 2019. The drop in number of visitors in 2018 is explained by the fact that I did not post anything on the website that year, I’m surprised anyone visited at all. It is quite interesting how in these days of social media a single tweet can have a much larger effect compared to posts on a website, but I enjoy writing non-academically and so I will keep the website active.

310: number of citations. That’s more than any year before! I never imagined writing scientific papers, let alone being cited by other researchers. Total number of citations has increased to a little above 900. These are just numbers but I am excited about passing the milestone of 1,000 citations.

210: number of co-authors. This number is particularly dazzling because of the two multi-author papers I was involved in. Since a few years, these multi-author papers seem to be a new trend in mycology. When not accounting for these two papers, the number decreases to 73, still a decent amount of co-authors in one year. Thank you all for collaborating!

37: days in the field. Most of these (31) were in Cusuco National Park, Honduras where I joined the Operation Wallacea-managed surveying project as a chiropterologist. I also did an opportunistic fungal survey and will continue fungal sampling efforts in 2020. So. Much. Undescribed. Stuff! I also did fieldwork in Indiana (5) and in Belgium (1).

19: posters and presentations, including invited talks. I especially liked my poster with graduate student Alden C. Dirks from the University of Michigan, which we had submitted as Diversity on the continental edge. We presented this poster about a group of poorly known crust-like fungi from the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area at the annual meeting of the Mycological Society of America.

My graduate assistant slash collaborator Alden Dirks and I will present a poster about the fascinating #crust genus Athelia. Does it come as a surprise we deem its #taxonomy as problematic? #MSAfungi19 #fungaldiversity #betterposter pic.twitter.com/AD5Th9RnHM

— Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🇧🇪🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 (@dhaelewa) August 9, 2019

16: papers published in peer-reviewed journals, of which 4 as first author and 3 as senior author. I think everything came together in 2019, one of my core PhD papers, side projects (some of which had been on the back burner for years), and larger papers that I somehow stumbled into. Highlights are the description of the third order of Laboulbeniomycetes (Herpomycetales) [pdf] with long-term Hungarian and Polish collaborators, my first paper as a Purdue postdoc in which I helped graduate student Blaise Jumbam to describe his new Hericium from Cameroon [pdf], and my friend and collaborator Jasmin Camacho’s first chapter paper about the role of peramorphosis in the amazing skull diversity in phyllostomid bats [pdf].

4: number of formal affiliations in 2019: Purdue University (postdoctoral research assistant), University of South Bohemia (10% researcher), Harvard University Herbaria (associate researcher), Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí (associate researcher). Oh, I was also contracted by Operation Wallacea as a chiropterologist in Honduras for one month. During my first job interview, I was introduced as the young man who was looking for yet another job [everybody laughs].

1: I wrote an op-ed with Dr. Adriana Romera-Olivares from the University of New Hampshire, about challenges during fieldwork for people who identify as LGBTQIA+ or who are gender-nonconforming.

https://t.co/xkb49ZGBaK
1)Inform people about LGBTQIA+
2)Have sufficient funding available for fieldwork.
3)Develop an emergency protocol.
4)Avoid intolerant areas.
5)Implement a zero-tolerance policy.
Thanks to @dhaelewa for leading this effort in the D&I Committee @MSAFungi

— Adriana, PhD (@fungi_lover) December 10, 2019

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