Sign the petition asking the Government to finally end peat compost sales with legislation in 2026 - no more delays. It’s been a long and tiring road to get peat compost banned and we need your signatures and shares now more than ever to get it done. actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...

What a delight to visit fragments of temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. These fragile and fragmented habitats were once much more extensive. Dripping with both rain and bryophytes.

I was so happy to attend the International Association of Bryologists conference in Taiwan last week - Organised by the Taiwan Biodiversity Research Institute and the Taiwan Bryological Society. Interesting presentations, good chat, and some time to get into the mountains to mingle with moss 💚

Journeying home from a fantastic @bbsbryology.bsky.social meeting this weekend - interesting to visit Thorne Moors, an area ravaged by industrial peat extraction which ceased in early 2000s. Conservation management in the region now focused on rewilding and restoring precious peatlands.

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Summertime on the allotment 💚

A magnificently illustrated guide to the bryophyte species found across the world. Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts of the World by Joanna Wilbraham is out now. Learn more and order your copy of this fascinating book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

It's publication day for Mosses, Liverworts and Hornworts of the World! Immerse yourself in the miniature world of these fascinating plants, delve into their evolutionary past and look ahead to what might be in store for their future. More details at: shorturl.at/Zmtfe

Stands of Fucus serratus (jagged edge) and Fucus vesiculosus (paired bladders) on the white sands of the Brittany coast #Seaweeds

Dense mounds of Leucobryum moss - a joy to see on our walk through humid Oak woodland today 💚

An unprecedented in-depth look at these exquisitely beautiful and often overlooked organisms. Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts of the World publishes August 5. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... @jowilbraham.bsky.social‬

New job posting!! We are currently hiring for a new Curator in the Natural History Museum London's Cryptogamic Herbarium. This role will focus around the amazing algae collections ❤️ See link for further info: jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... @nhm-london.bsky.social

And so ends a magnificent week mossing around Frieberg and the Black Forest! Huge thanks to Michael @milueth.bsky.social for leading our excursion and sharing some very special places and plants with us. - BBS excursion to SW Germany @bbsbryology.bsky.social

Today we lunched amongst castle ruins home to four Schistidium species. A good chance to compare, contrast and be confused by this tricky genus. - BBS excursion to SW Germany @bbsbryology.bsky.social

Today, we bryologised atop Feldberg, Germany's highest (after the Alps..) mountain at 1400m. Many wonderful species, with Ptychostomum (Bryum) schleicheri and Bryum weigelii looking particularly sensational. - BBS spring meeting in the Black Forest @bbsbryology.bsky.social

Fantastic to see SO MANY Grimmia species on our trip around SW Germany. These cushions are Grimmia montana. Apparently the female plants of this species (quite rare) typically form more rounded cushions than the flatter males... @bbsbryology.bsky.social

Bryum alpinum in a suitably alpine habitat today up near a ski resort - very nice

Spent a lovely morning on the Rhine pottering over river rocks with three species of Cinclidotus and riverside trees with many nice epiphytes such as this Dialytrichia mucronata @bbsbryology.bsky.social BBS Spring Meeting SW Germany

Today we hiked into the Black Forest on a quest to find Mielichhoferia mielichhoferiana - an ellusive moss restricted to rocks laden with heavy metals @bbsbryology.bsky.social Spring Meeting SW Germany

First day of the BBS meeting in the Schwarzwald region of southern Germany - moss highlight for me was luxorious Rhytidium rugosum in the chalk grassland @bbsbryology.bsky.social

Beautiful encounter with Pasqueflower - Pulsatilla vulgaris - in the Schwarzwald region of southern Germany

Visited a Sphagnum bog this week - there to look at the bryophytes but also fun to check in on the desmid algae situation! These tiny green jewels were hiding in submerged Sphagnum cuspidatum

I was introduced to a tiny moss (new to me) at the weekend on our BBS London group walk over chalk grassland. Seligeria calycina grows directly on the chalk, visible from afar only as small dark brown patches around the edge of pebbles.

Porella platyphylla - a lovely big leafy liverwort, always a nice one to find. We spotted this one on the London BBS local group outing today. Sunshine and liverworts - top day!

I'm thrilled to share news of my new book - Mosses, Liverworts and Hornworts of the World - which is now available for pre-order at some book shops and will hit the streets in August. Published by Princeton University Press: tinyurl.com/Mosses-of-th...

Thamnobryum alopecurum reaching lofty heights in South London woodland. Usually a moss of the forest floor, don't think I've seen this as an epiphyte before!

💚 Happy Valentine's Day 💚

Lophocolea heterophylla, perhaps the commonest leafy liverwort in Britain, looking lovely with capsules elongated on translucent seta. Happened upon on a rotting log on South London woodland. #MossMonday sensu lato!

Zygdon conoideus in South London woodland this weekend #MossMonday

Had a lovely time with Leucobryum in the forest earlier today

For #MossMonday looking back to a wonderful mossin' trip to Hungary last spring. Here are just some of the nice pleurocarpous (mat forming) mosses encountered - names in the alt text!

Frosty Bryum capillare waiting for the thaw

It's #MossMonday and here's a very lovely cushion of Campylopus atrovirens var falcatus encountered on a trip to Inner Hebrides, Eigg, in 2015

A silky carpet of the moss Dicranella heteromalla in woodland-heath of South London - very tactile 💚

For #PhycologyFriday here's some lovely Dictyota with iridescent Chondrus crispus. From an amazing trip to Inner Hebrides back in 2016 💚

Syntrichia montana looking nice and hydrated on a damp morning

For #MossMonday here's a beautiful cushion of the moss Imbribryum alpinum on a riverside boulder - from a trip around North Wales back in 2013!

Just arrived - and here's my favourite liverwort Pleurozia gigantea to celebrate!

It's National Moss Day, YES! Mosses (and liverworts) are amazing, how about looking closely at some today and marvelling at their miniature world

There has never been a more critical time to conserve seaweed diversity and determine species at risk of decline. Today at #EPC8 I talk about our work on a Red List of British Seaweeds. New paper 👇@NHM_Botany @NHM_Science @ZSLScience rdcu.be/dknht

First day of the European Phycological Congress #EPC8 - a huge gathering of algal researchers from across the globe. There is science..... but also art!

I took a trip to Meise Botanic Garden herbarium to study the African bryophyte collections and I wrote about it here ⬇️@NHM_Botany @BBSbryology @BGM_coll_res britishbryologicalsociety.org.uk/society-news/b…

Annual pilgrimage to our local bluebell woodland - Surrey, England #bluebells

An algal find from the English Lake District last month whilst out with @BBSbryology - a lovely freshwater red - probably Paludicola turfosa - #phycologyfriday

My PhD thesis brings together a decade of taxonomic detective work on the moss family Orthotricaceae in tropical Africa, Madagascar & Indian Ocean Islands and is available now on @ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication/36…

Autumn 😍

Elaborately pressed herbarium specimen of the day: brown seaweed Mesogloia vermiculata, collected by Edward George, 1895, Isle of Man

Nice to find the occasional mini-painting when searching through herbarium specimens; this specimen a tropical Macromitrium possibly from Mauritus, collected mid 1800s @NHM_Botany

Not sure what I expected to find at the back of the freshwater spirit store... definitely not a box of gremlin balls

Today I was asked, 'what's the most "exotic" specimen in the seaweed herbarium?' ...Immediately retrieves Claudea elegans folder...: