My favourite find from last week - Entoloma euchroum. A great record for the festival site. 😊 @atffungifestival.bsky.social #conservationphotography #allthingsfungi

Very much liking this mushroom I saw today in West Sussex. Amanita franchetii. New to me. Andy Overall says in his book, "The yellow velar patches quickly fade once mature", so it was a treat to find one looking like this. 🟡🍄🟡

The Biological Recording Company and the British Mycological Society are reviewing how fungi records in the Fungal Records Database of Britain and Ireland are verified and shared. Recorders are invited to join an online survey and workshop to help shape a new national verification protocol for fungi

Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews. #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky #MycoBookClub

OTD in 1881, Charles Darwin published his last book, on earthworms. It reflected a long interest in animal minds: “One alternative alone is left, namely, that worms, although standing low in the scale of organization, possess some degree of intelligence.” 🧪 🌱🐋🦋🦫 #HistSTM #philsci #pschsky #cogsci

Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews. #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky #MycoBookClub

The leaves are brown and the sky is grey, but there’s still plenty of wildlife to discover! Here are a few autumn sightings from our area, shared on iNaturalist this week: 1. Collared Earthstar (alexexploring on iNaturalist) 2. Knot Grass Moth (delrington) 3. Orange Peel Fungus (avoidasher)

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Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews. #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky #MycoBookClub #FungiFriday

Together with @fayrnhawk.bsky.social and other colleagues we are starting TODAY online sessions about #aquatichyphomycetes. Interested in knowing more about this beautiful group of aquatic fungi? Send your message to [email protected]. Looking forward to exchanging with YOU! 💧🍄

🍄 Opportunity alert! Natural England are looking for a UK-based collaborator to support analytics for a Fungal Red List for Great Britain. Tasks include bias assessment, Frescalo modelling, AOO/EOO, and data presentation (Shiny or Excel). 📩 Get in touch: [email protected]

SIGNED BOOK NEWS. Signed copies of "Fly Wild Swans", the sequel to Jung Chang's multi million copy bestselling memoir "Wild Swans", are now available from us. Which is wild! You can order one HERE. www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

Me: You aren’t allowed to buy any more British Library Tales of the Weird books until you read the ones you already have. Also me: But what about the fungus one? Surely the fungus one is okay?

"will o' the wisp", methane from rotting vegetable matter in a marsh. Low-temperature oxidation leads to blue–violet chemiluminescence ignited by bubble electrical charge. Unveiling ignis fatuus: Microlightning between microbubbles www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Every day is #UKFungusDay for me.

FREE online event: How to get involved in #Waxcap Watch🍄 Want to know more about grassland fungi & learn how to ID waxcaps? Take our training & join thousands of volunteers doing Waxcap surveys!🙌 📅6 October 🕢7pm 📍Online Book today👉 https://loom.ly/GfnOyjk

We’re excited to be featured in The Guardian, shining a spotlight on the incredible discoveries made by our 850 volunteer citizen scientists during our annual Waxcap Watch. 🍄💜 Catch the story here: https://loom.ly/2hhFiYs

I am in the paper being authoritatively impressed with all y'all citizen scientist types. ▶️ www.theguardian.com/science/2025... Power to the people. Fungi forever! Bravo @plantlifeuk.bsky.social - you're cool.

Field mycology in practice at the recent German Mycological Society in Springe (DGfM) - zoom in for details and see the amazing illustrations!

Lichen, algae, funghi ‘Plants and how they Live’ (1965) Artist: Ronald Lampitt

Fungi, galls and snoozing ladybirds from a walk along Sutton Bank, North Yorkshire, last week. 🐡 #fungi #invertebrates

Checking out the night moves of a couple of local craneflies. Pictured here under torchlight, making themselves at home on the sinister Entoloma sinuatum. ▶️ uk.inaturalist.org/observations...

I think this wins the 'weirdest book I can find in TK Maxx' award today @clareblencowe.bsky.social

Seeing Rhodotus palmatus (common name: wrinkled peach) in Białowieża National Park this week reminded me that I should finalize an old manuscript on this fungus in the USA. Spoiler: American collections of R. palmatus are a different species! #studentproject #summerschool #taxonomy 🍄🍑

Such a pleasure to be involved with this short film, filmed and scripted by the amazingly talented @amykingwild.bsky.social. Woods Mill is my local woodland managed by @sussexwildlife.bsky.social. Amy has captured it wonderfully - makes me want to go for an autumnal woodland scamper right now!

FREE fungus events!🍄 Want to know more about fungi & learn how to ID waxcaps before joining the #WaxcapWatch campaign? Good news! 🙌We’re running 10 training events across the UK & an online webinar! Spaces are limited so book tickets quickly👉 https://loom.ly/GfnOyjk#WaxcapWatch #WaxcapWatch #Fungi

Trying to search for info on the use of headstones and footstones in Sussex, and all I get are business websites trying to sell a headstone to me. Not yet, people!!! Can anyone share info with me about these, and when they became popular? Photo is from Seaford's St. Leonard's Churchyard.

What would Orwell have made of TK Maxx, I wonder.

Mycologists finding ourselves at a feast of fungi photo books this year. This is another one I hadn't seen coming 👇

Started a new job in June and a colleague is showing me waxcaps outside the office already. Really landed on my feet. Hygrocybe conica, Blackening Waxcap - the pioneer

This is a fantastic (and rare) photo of the Megalosaurus in it’s red paint scheme, which lasted from the 1970s through to 1982/3 Note the harsh contrast between the red and the green tones of accumulated dirt, moss, algae etc

Hard repost

Psyched for today's fungus conservation meeting - haven't left the house this early for a meeting in a while!

ツチグリを見つけると、どうしてもツンツンしたくなります。中から胞子がバフっと出てくるのが楽しいのです。 そもそもは雨粒が落ちてくる力を利用して胞子を飛ばしているのでしょうけど、人間もなかなか貢献していると思います。

Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews. #Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky #FungiFriends #MycoBookClub

I've been managing BHL's #Bluesky account for 4 months now. It's an honour to share such beautiful & significant content, particularly at this critical time. BHL's future is uncertain, but hopeful. Follow along @biodivlibrary.bsky.social & on the #BHLblog: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/tag/transition

Why have I never heard of "giraffe wood" before? Beautiful patterns of fungal interaction. Xylaria sp.?

My last day today on the Polish Mycological Society foray. Interesting thing about foraying abroad is seeing species you think you sort of recognise, but they are not the one you know. Here is Trichaptum biforme, growing on Betula.

Polish Mycological Society foray: Day 3. The scheduled site for today was a coniferous nature reserve and the dry conditions continue... Still, managed to find a Geastrum in the car park that will go to the Fun-Dive project. ▶️ fun-dive.eu/en/get-invol...

Beautiful Fomitopsis pinicola in a Polish pine forest today, with very impressive guttation. Also observed (not quite so photogenic), it's associate: Pycnoporellus fulgens.

Day 2 on the Polish Mycological Society foray: Sparassis crispa for breakfast. "Cooked by Polish mycology expert". New experience for me. Surprisingly nutty.

Struck by the pervasive presence of Hoof Fungus (Fomes fomentarius) in the woods today in Poland. I'm more used to seeing Birch Polypore (Fomitopsis betulina) on all the birch trees back in southern England. We saw that today too, but more occasionally.

I've had some delicious rye bread for breakfast, I've downloaded the PlutoF recording app and I've got my Polish Mycological Society sticker on. Ready for a day out surveying fungi in Jedlnia with the FunDive crew. Very excited!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-wonder.... I’m giving a talk.

Surprise publication day! Earlier than anticipated, you can now read my #firstbook (digital version in #openaccess) or order a printed copy through the link. Official announcement and info on book presentation event coming soon! brill.com/display/titl... #NatHist, #HistNatHist, #flowers

I'll be back at @allthingsfungi.bsky.social in a couple of weeks, 12–14 Sep 2025, giving the talk that no one thought they needed in their lives, A Beginners Guide to Crust Fungi: The Fascinating World of Corticioids and other Resupinate Fungi! See you there! www.allthingsfungi.co.uk/contributors...

Why paint a marrow bed? (1927) Well, aside from an exercise in form and light, in later life Stanley Spencer wrote: 'When I feel a certain degree of strength in my feelings and passions has been reached, I want to transform some disliked thing into something I shall love.'

My recent talk - Reintroducing @britmycolsoc.org.uk's Field Mycology publication - is now up on YouTube ▶️ youtu.be/bN-B1pxpYIs?... The main message being... we hope you'll read it! ▶️ fieldmycology.org You can subscribe to the print edition if you want to: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/fm-journal

📣 Call for papers! Special issue of #FungalEcology on “Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions” co-edited by Susana C. Gonçalves @cfemycolab.bsky.social & Jonathan Cazabonne @jonathancazabonne.bsky.social. Deadline for manuscripts: 31 Jan 2026. Find out more: www.linkedin.com/company/brit...

Our Fungal Conservation column is out in Field Mycology 26 (2). www.fieldmycology.org/index.php/jo... 🍄 Fungi and the Planning and Infrastructure Bill 🍄 British fungi on the Global Red List 🍄 An audit of nationally important fungal assemblages in Welsh SSSIs #fungi #fungalconservation #PIB