Congratulations to Dr Margaret Bradshaw, who has done more than anyone to promote understanding and conservation of Upper Teesdale's unique arctic-alpine flora. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why the @royalsociety.org want to be tethered to this sinking ship is beyond me ☹️

A beautiful watercolour of an Amanita by Louis C. C. Krieger. The details are really astonishing. From University of Michigan Herbarium, Krieger's Watercolors of Fungi #FungiFriends #FungiFriday quod.lib.umich.edu/f/fuwatic

New name for Elon Musk's X just landed

Day 9 of my ‘getting through January vintage floral plates from books’, illustrations from Wild flowers of the British isles Isobel Adams 1904 #botanical-illustration. I feel very lucky to own a volume of this book with beautiful paintings and art nouveau lettering.

I was happy to find out that a book on the amazing fungus artist Hans Walty has recently been published: "Pilzwerk, Die fantastischen Farben, Formen und Fungi von Hans Walty" #FungiFriends #FungiFriday #MycoBookClub www.merianverlag.ch/en/produkt/k...

Kazuko M. "On the mandarin duck's wings a dust of snow ― such stillness!" Shiki Masaoka (image: Jakuchu Ito)

A phwy fysa ddim yn hoffi gweld delwedd o ‘feipen rhyfedd’ ar fore oer y gaeaf. --- And who doesn’t enjoy an image of a ‘freak turnip’ on a cold winter’s morning. "Book of newspaper cuttings" Dyddiad/Date : 1907-1910 BMSS/37787

Very disturbing news about one of India's climate NGO leaders and a stalwart advocate for adaptation funding for the Global South as well as fossil fuel phase-out and corporate accountability. A long-time @canclimateaction.bsky.social member. 🌎

Come on, in this there can be no dismay; My ships come home a month before the day.. Merchant of Venice Act 1, Scene 3. Glass by Mary Jane Newill 1905 at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery #shakespearesunday #stainedglasssunday

'Rebecca Harrison her book 1808' a great ownership inscription in a copy of Elizabeth Raffald's 'English Housekeeper'. There's also the name of who might be her daughter Ellen Harrison and her town, Pontefract, on the title page

The Guru Nanak Gurdwara looking quite striking from a train at Smethwickn Rolfe Street station

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

A few recent and particulary lovely finds of the #slimemould kind. #UKnature #Nature #decay

A little young to start 'em on mushrooms, I'd say, but, hey... the French. AMIRITE!?!?

The only fungus I saw the other day during some pretty cold temperatures! 🥶. Identified as an Octospora, probably O. musci-muralis growing with its host the common cushion-forming moss Grimmia pulvinata. 🍄‍🟫 🌿

Today is National Bird Day! 🪶 One of our favourite items in the collections is a 19th century volume containing 76 watercolour illustrations by an unknown artist of birds local to Devon and Cornwall. 📷 EUL MS 23; digitised by @dhlabexeter.bsky.social #NationalBirdDay #BirdDay #Archives

We're starting into the new year by announcing our first event! Join us on 10 February at 5:30pm at Mary Ward House (or Zoom) for our joint lecture with @royalhistsoc.org! Vinita Damodaran (@sussex.ac.uk) will speak about "Decolonising the Natural History Collections of Empire". 1/3

The cover art is finished for my new book and I LOVE IT! This safari tour of the life in soil and what is means to us, is now available for pre-order as ebook, soft and hardcover in the UK and Commonwealth. Published in August next year (US date soon), I hope it'll entice everyone to love soil! 🧪🪱

I often get asked about the Miyawaki method of forest restoration, usually by people who have heard extraordinary claims for it. Morales et al. (2025) have reviewed the evidence and found it to be weak or absent. 🌏🧪🌳🌲 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Weathering has revealed traces of Permian-Triassic sand dunes formed more than 200 million years ago

Did some work on my #FungiJournal the other day. A work in progress. I’ll finish it one day. Music: Detectorists - Johnny Flynn. #FungiFriends

#AI may indeed exacerbate our bad academic habits: #LLM science summaries were nearly five times more likely than human-authored science summaries to contain broad generalizations (95% CI [3.06, 7.70], p < 0.001). And newer models over-generalized more; not less! doi.org/10.1098/rsos... #philSci

It is John Aubrey’s 400th anniversary this year! My next book publishes his Natural History in full for the 1st time. It is not the quaint collection of random anecdotes suggested by the heavily edited 1847 version, but cutting edge c17 science all penned with Aubrey’s characteristic brilliance.

Coming soon! Mycology for Architecture: Methods and Applications of Mycelium Materials in the Built Environment edited by Dilan Ozkan 📖 Learn more ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/2wfkch7f #myceliumbasedmaterials #biodesign #biofabrication #circulardesign #regenerativematerialsystems

I known it seems futile to do this sort of thing, but I think we should all do what little we can to fight the awfulness of the world and not giving money (or giving less money) to evil people is probably a good place to start.

Sunday book review: Pan-species Listing by @graemelyons.bsky.social Publisher: @pelagic.bsky.social Review: markavery.info/2026/01/04/s... "Hardly anyone has the knowledge to write this book & even fewer could write it so well!"

The Oxford Book of Flowerless Plants (1966) covered land, freshwater & marine species including fungi, lichens, mosses, liverworts, ferns and seaweeds.

Discussions of collecting references yesterday makes me want to share one of my favorite people making videos, Crime pays But Botany Doesn't. I can't tell you how much I've learned and absorbed watching these, my curiosity on botany absolutely unlocked www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvb-...

A few UV fluorescent organisms from an accidental night hike yesterday in the Oakland Hills. I’ll have an article out about UV Fluorescence in the SF Bay Area in the next issue of Bay Nature Magazine. #UVF #fluorescence

Velvet shank, jelly ears, scarlet elf cups and turkey tails growing on stumps or fallen trees in the Tyne Riverside Country Park at Prudhoe, Northumberland #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

Bartheletia paradoxa on Ginkgo biloba and European mistletoe hyperparasitic fungus, Sphaeropsis visci found on today's walk with the boys. #fungifriends

Edwin Lees comments suggest that botanising in January was much less inviting in the much cooler climate of the 1850s. Source: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography...

The purple shoots of Elder, getting ready for the new year

#happynewyear to all! We hope you enjoyed our 2025 offerings and here’s to more in 2026. This 1908 seasonal greeting is from George Phillip Lempriére who helped found the Midland Aero Club. Lempriére was interred in Handsworth new cemetery. Ref - MS 1575/3/7/2/1 #LibraryofBham

New book repair project: 'the lady's assistant' by Mrs Charlotte Mason from 1801

🎄#GothicAdvent

We call the very upper-atmospheric lightnings elves and sprites (which is itself great), and these events don't appear everywhere. The analysis in this study argues that elves are mostly occur along the tectonic plates' boundaries, which is slightly crazy. 🧪⚒️ Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Place happiness, health, wellbeing & wonderment at the heart of your New Year’s resolutions and kick off by joining me for a FREE guided bird walk with the volunteers who help Brum look after the fabulous Quinton Meadows LNR. 10:00am-11:30am this Saturday 3rd January 😎 @bosfonline.bsky.social

My latest blog post: Zythia resinae (aka Sarea resinae). Small orange discs growing on conifer resin. www.jeremybartlett.co.uk/2025/12/30/z... #Fungi #FungiFriends

#TrilobiteTuesday One from the archives, Cybantyx anaglyptos, a small Silurian trilobite from Much Wenlock, Shropshire.

Really worth looking through all Barry Webb's marvellous photographs of these tiny aliens #photography #nature www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Atlas des champignons comestibles et vénéneux Paris, P. Klincksieck, 1891. (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/22673) #nature #illustration #art

Xylethrus superbus is a fabulous species of orb weaving spider from the Amazon rainforest. While she looks a bit like a strawberry, eating her is not recommended. #Arachtober Cuyabeno Reserve, Ecuador 2022

Continuing my Herefordshire series with Carduispongia, Thanahita, Protaster, Haliestes, Nymphatelina, and some more Offacolus. See comment for key. #sciart #paleoart #art #invertefest

This seems to be a fairly common situation. What's promised in section 106 agreements is either not delivered or is far less than planned. There doesn't seem much appetite for enforcement either

Our third most popular story published in 2025 is... 'Beatrix Potter's other life: the mushroom fanatic' 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/beatrix-potters-other-life-the-mushroom-fanatic 🍄 'Flammulina velutipes' by Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) 📷 The Armitt Museum and Library

Morning BSKy - Scarlet Elf ? Learn more about this bright red early winter fungi and how to differentiate the two species #SacrletElfCup #RubyElfCup #Sarcoscypha #Sarcosyphaaustriaca #Sarcoscyphacoccinea Please help the channel to continue by subscribing on youtube t/you youtu.be/EQLCoS0orFc

🌏 Comprehensive catalogue of Queensland plants Brisbane, A. J. Cumming, government printer[pref. 1909] [Source]

Although rare in the south of the uk I was delighted to find chrysomphalina grossula, green navel, for the second time this year in Bernwood forest. Both times on old ,mossy stumps, probably spruce. #fungifriends #mycology #naturephotography