I will never tire of looking at the gills of waxcap fungi.

I'm sick of people cuntsplaining how to be disabled with zero income, frankly, Rachel. BUT HERE WE ARE.

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This morning I revisited the site where I found the Date Waxcaps (Hygrocybe spadicea) to take a better look and get more photos. There are more than I thought - they're well camouflaged - perhaps a dozen, some still just emerging brown bumps. Still buzzing from the find. 😍💚 #fungi @sewbrec.org.uk

1/11/25 Cumbria - The fruiting bodies of the brightly coloured Caterpillar Club #fungus (Cordyceps militaris) mark the grisly demise of the unfortunate insect pupa it is a parasite of, growing from the remains of its host beneath the soil #fungi

A colourful display of #waxcaps on today's @nenature.bsky.social fungi foray. Scarlet, Parrot, Butter, Blackening and Golden were recognisable, but several others, not so much! 🍄

New #GBRedList for vascular plants is published today by a team led by @bsbibotany.bsky.social with partners @naturalengland.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social @naturescot.bsky.social @natreswales.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social @plantlifeintl.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @thebotanics.bsky.social

#Invasive aquatic plants increasingly cause havoc in aquatic ecosystems. Learn to identify introduced aquatics at @bsbibotany.bsky.social's free #AquaticPlantProject webinar, led by Nick Stewart & funded by @npwsireland.bsky.social. Book at www.tickettailor.com/events/botan... #waterplants

And here I was thinking growing ferns from spores would be tricky! Having sown them in June, I am swimming in Brittle Bladder-ferns. Not entirely sure what I will do with them all, the significant other already thinks we have way too many 😬 #ferns

How communities can work together to preserve genetic diversity of wildflowers www.wildway.info/p/preserving...

A cluster of, I think, earwig eggs (although I didn't see the mother, who typically would be guarding them). What I especially like are the micro-droplets of condensation; each egg is at most 1 mm., so the droplets are incredibly small. Shot at 2X, ten handheld images stacked. 🐙🌿📷 #Bugsky 🥚

#Bugsky 🐙🌿 Who wants another baby earwig update? Everyone? Thought so. The babies are now two days old and slightly darker than when they hatched. Mama is guarding them and will stay on the job until their second molt. Btw, in the earlier post, the newly-hatched babies only had--

“It isn’t people seeking sanctuary who are tearing our country apart. It’s toxic, racist narratives and the scapegoating of migrants for crises they did not cause.” Carla Denyer challenges the Home Secretary's new immigration reforms saying they just fuel far-right narratives.

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Musk fired 80% of staff when he bought Twitter. Bezos firing 14,000 people to replace with AI. Microsoft firing 9,100 to replace with AI. Intel cutting up to 25% or staff to replace with AI. What's that about billionaires creating jobs?

Yes, even in “"'liberal'"” New York, prisoners can legally be paid as little as a dime an hour. Less than a dollar for eight hours of work. There is a reason that people who want to abolish prisons are called abolitionists. Prisons are modern-day slavery. www.ilr.cornell.edu/carow/carow-...

UK Health Secretary keeps taking donations linked to private health (& gave your NHS data to Palantir) The latest donations bring the total Streeting has accepted from private health-linked interests since 2015 up to £372,000 “What do those backers think they are getting for their money?"

Frosty bonnet #fungifriends

Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇

New paper led by @metalichen.bsky.social from our group presenting a chromosome-level assembly of the Trebouxia photobiont alga from the lichen Xanthoria parietina - a resource we hope will enable significant new insight into the symbiosis @newphyt.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Unapologetically lighting up again tonight. The wind has dropped and it's feeling mild. #teammoth #moths

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Friends, can I ask a favour. Our latest Honest Government out is a serious warning to Canada from Australia, which acts as a cautionary tail about the harms of the gas (LNG) export industry... Hence the cameo (spoiler alert) from our own aussie climate criminals, Woodside Energy 1/🧵

Harebell just clinging on , fox-and-cubs , yarrow and red dead-nettle this week for #wildflowerhour

Dandelion, Daisy, Bush vetch & Ragwort, all in flower today. #wildflowerhour

Devil's bit Scabious on the Eastbourne Downs on Saturday #wildflowerhour

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Whilst at Whitlingham C.P. today I walked past this thistle rosette and twigged that it looked slightly unusual. I stopped and had a closer look, noticing that one of the leaves has edged by the slime mould Diachea leucopodia.

Doesn’t get much better than dangling on a rope counting Tufted Saxifrage rosettes 🥰🤪 Great talk by Gus to close the #ScotBotanistsConf, big thanks to @plantlifeuk.bsky.social for organising the survey, and watch out for Gus’s final report coming soon…

A cascade of Sedum in a niche on my new favourite wall.

Ram's Horn Galls caused by the wasp Andricus aries spotted in Middlesbrough today. Never recorded this far north before (species.nbnatlas.org/species/NHMS...). Bonus Oak Marble Galls - nature has a sense of humour 😉

When you boycott and sanction the UAE not only are you helping Sudan but also cutting off one of the many tentacles propping up Trump and MAGA.

We in @friendlyevalley.bsky.social would like to thank all at @oxconservation.bsky.social vols for a great work session last weekend, raking cuttings up & lots of scrub work at the #LyeVally #SSSI south #fen section. This maintains this tiny site in private ownership's stunningly rich biodiversity.👏

This should concern all of us living in the UK. Not just is this practice inhumane and humiliating, it is also a gross misuse of people's personal data. The public deserve the know all the details (including names) of how this practice came about, so those responsible can take responsibility.

Häxan (1922), an early example of a horror film that was framed as a documentary

Good day recording around Cahore, Co. Wexford today. Nephus redtenbacheri agg. was my 29th Irish ladybird. Rhyzobius litura was the most numerous species with 50 individuals seen, beaten from grass and rush tussocks.

Israel is bombing tents again with F35 jets. They commit genocide with impunity. There was no ceasefire, they broke it every single day. They must be held to account. Speak up. Take action. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Requiem for a hillfort Until the 1960s, the outline of Madmarston Iron Age hillfort #Oxfordshire was defined by fieldbanks and hedgerows 📷 © 1962 CUCAP AFQ74 @camdiglib.bsky.social Since then it has been sadly obliterated by agriculture ☹️ 📷 © 2022 HE Archive 27618_002 #HillfortsWednesday

Siham Hassan, a former member of Sudan’s Parliament who ran community kitchens to feed the hungry and starving in her hometown of Al-Fashir, was executed by UAE-backed RSF terrorists.

Surprise! Bog Bean rearing to flower by Halloween. #WildflowerHour #Anglesey #WalesPeatlandAction @natreswales.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbicymru.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Just watching a couple of YouTubers, & the Troubles in Northern Ireland came up. She hadn’t heard of it [but has visited Ireland] but he had, so he explained. The mad thing here, is that these are two young Americans with no education & they know more than UK govts [who run the place]

Emotionally all my hair is gray Also physically we’re well on our way so

I don’t know about you but I’ve seen lots of fungi this week, shall we have a #WildFungiHour tomorrow for #WildFlowerHour & celebrate all those wonderful diverse grasslands that ‘flower’ in the autumn too! All the wild blooms that you’ve spotted in the last week are welcome too of course! See ALT ⬇️

Cladonia #lichen

If Labour is continuing to lose votes, just got 11% in a by-election in a seat they've held for 100 years and in a few recent polls is equal to or just behind the Greens maybe we should stop suggesting they're the only thing that can defeat Reform.