Now that the scaffolding is gone, you can get a good look at a rare artform — heraldic palaeontology — above the Downing Street door of the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social

Did educational resources peak with late 19th century wall charts? Discuss.

Extremely taken with the Winifred Joseph exhibition at Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery. 👉 www.petersfieldmuseum.co.uk/events/where... ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

@waxcapscooch.bsky.social I'm in The Malverns and thought of you cos it's anthill-tastic here on Castlemorton Common.

An admirable project. Can it succeed…?

So I'm editing the Edinburgh Edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. Relatedly, if you're in the UK and you or your library possess the deluxe large paper British edition (1912 or 1914 versions), please let me know. It's the version with Iguanodon footprints on the cover.

These #worms fell down from the sky, maybe, in 1672 Europe, and lived for another couple of days. However fantastic the #earlymodern story of the falling "Würmer" is, I do like the alien-freakish styled insects a lot. Zoom in and choose your favorite:

Heterotrichia ferruginea. Kicin, Wielkopolska (western Poland). #slimemoulds #slimemolds #śluzowce #Myxogastria #Eumycetozoa #Amoebozoa

Man sculptures of Kent. Left: by Anthony Gormley in Canterbury Cathedral Crypt Right: by Jason Decaires Taylor at St Mary of Charity Church in Faversham.

Everyone loves to talk about Mothman, but almost no one including those in the cryptozoology community is willing to talk about the biggest threat to its survival, Akanthomyces, the unapologetic moth-destroying fungus! #Mushrooms #FungiFriends

#ArtDD2025 Woodland fungi Quick little sketch from a lovely 📷 by @sophiecarr.bsky.social with thanks. @saocousins.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social

@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social raising a great question of government

Am I allowed a bit more shameless self-publicity? Available for pre-order! 💚 @pelagic.bsky.social pelagicpublishing.com/products/the...

Curious about lichens? Lichens of Britain & Ireland is a beautifully illustrated beginner’s guide to 200 species you can identify with just a magnifying lens. Available to pre-order now!

2 seeds of Sea Purslane and 2 bio-beads. Ducks filter out the saltmarsh seeds, so let's hope they can recognise the Southern Water bio-beads as not being food! #biobeads

Great Hairy Willowherb seeds being released from the seedpod. #seeds @bsbibotany.bsky.social

The workplace exclamation point is too powerful. It can have so many meanings. Enthusiasm. Mild rage. Friendship. War.

Are there mycologists or publishers out there who need a Mycological illustration artist? This is the only place I’d even ask this question. 😁 Putting it out in the world that I’d love to take on a detailed project & illustrate a fungi book! Willing to build a portfolio if this is a possibility ⬇️

This is about as big as news gets in my neighbourhood. The toilets at Woods Mill are closed from tomorrow (10 November) for a few days.

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.

I bought these old RSPB magazines for their CF Tunnicliffe cover pictures. They look so good together (with that delicious typeface!)

November Moon https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-nash/november-moon-1942

📄A new paper by Louis Mielke and colleagues, published in Field Mycology, explains FunDive's goals and sums up its first results. 🔗Read more about connecting citizen science, eDNA and type specimens of fungi: doi.org/10.63482/php... open access

Hey, mushroom fans. How come we never talk about the video for Tom Petty's Don't Come Around Here No More? #FungiFriends youtu.be/h0JvF9vpqx8?...

Does anyone know where the Iguanodon footprints found in the Greensand near Arthur Conan Doyle's house in May 1909, and which ended up on display in his billard room, are today? I suspect they remained with the family, but there are a lot of potential museums they could have ended up in.

Eugène Delacroix's 'Liberty Leading the People' (1830) is the great revolutionary icon and this is the only known sketch he made in oil - it depicts the moment when public protests forced the abdication of the unpopular King Charles X.

Well looky look what's arrived! In the same month that it's got written on the cover! I think that's a first for this editor. Field Mycology magazine ▶️ fieldmycology.org/index.php/jo...

Ooh, it's like a teaser for the Danish dream-team's next book. Worth checking out!

My first book RHS Fungi for Gardeners is out now! Such an amazing opportunity to write for RHS and with such fantastic publishers as DK. Better yet is that doing it enabled me to get my own compound microscope 🤩🍄 Check how the hyphae bend out at 90° on Mycena leptocephala stems #fungifriends

What a perfect birthday present! 🎁 Read the blog post: w.wiki/FrK9  Curious what a #DPG is? Find #Wikidata and others on the #DPGRegistry: digitalpublicgoods.net/registry#DPG#Wikidata#DPGRegistry#OpenSourceForGood

I was not previously familiar with the concept of #DigitalPublicGood but it sounds very cool and much needed in these times we are living in. Bravo Wikidata community.

I decided to make a list of my #fungi finds from IUCN Red List together with short info about their habitat and threats, describing my localities, sharing info about local status in Czechia, perhaps adding (preliminary) assessed species as found at redlist.info #mycology #fungifriends

Big comms day in the UK team at the Millennium Seed Bank! My boss, Ted, is in episode 2 of the Unearthed podcast, collecting Yellow Rattle seeds ▶️ www.kew.org/about-us/vir... My colleague Isabel has written about seed-based landscape restoration w/ Changing Chalk ▶️ www.kew.org/read-and-wat... 👏

Today I found an Ent

If you are interested in wildfire and environmental change, you might want to follow this guy 👇

For a gentle introduction to aquatic hyphomycetes, try my article out today in Field Mycology 26(3) fieldmycology.org/index.php/jo...

«Cœur de sorcière» is an incredible name for a fungus. It needs its own film adaptation with a name that good.

Field Mycology issue 26(3) is up on the internets 😎 ▶️ doi.org/10.63482/cjr... I think it's a good one -- you should read it. It's free! cc. @britmycolsoc.org.uk

BRAND NEW SENTENCE LEVEL RESEARCH Dinidorid stinkbug females are armed with leg holsters containing cordyceps species that they use to inoculate their egg clusters & grow a fuzzy fungal blankie that excludes parasitic wasps. There is a LOT going on down there! #虫🌎 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My book has got a great endorsement from Chris Packham: "This clever and immensely resourceful book is an overdue gem". There's also a few pages up on the website too! It's up for pre-order here with publication set for January pelagicpublishing.com/products/pan...

Geastrum britannicum British Earthstar at its type location under pines in west Norfolk today

Just a 1399 unicorn watermark from a paper manufacturer from Valencia to make your day. Friends of #paperhistory know that these paper sheets of around 1400 are among the first sheets of European paper to appear on the market. European #bookhistory was a different game afterwards. #skystorians

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

Hi, we would really like to grow our following a little here in the skyblue realm. If you think you have followers who might appreciate our posting of beautiful and interesting books please do consider reposting this so they can consider giving us a follow. Thank you...

I had a great time this morning learning to use the Scanning Electron Microscope. Here are urediniospores of Puccinia rusts from the grassland restoration projects of @donnarainey4.bsky.social and @ceanncait.bsky.social . I'm hoping it will help with ID! #FungiFriends #PlantPathogens

Delighted to hear that my co-editor on the Field Mycology publication, Alick Henrici, has been awarded the @britmycolsoc.org.uk Benefactors' Medal 🏅 Alick's knowledge and enthusiasm for field mycology is very motivating - and his grasp of English grammar and punctuation is invaluable!

Happy to see this map of the network of fungus recording groups associated with the British Mycological Society has become official. Making it just that little bit easier for fungi-curious folks to find their people. 🍄

Took a little video of this sporulating cup fungus. Extra breeze provided by yours truly. I believe it to be a species of Geopora. I've seen the incredibly similar Cedar Cup (Geopora sumneriana) before, but the habitat - open grassland with no trees nearby - I think rules out that species as an ID.

Sketches of moths caught at light this week: Merveille du Jour, Common Marbled Carpet, The Vestal and Red-green Carpet, Buckfastleigh, Devon

This could really mess with my plan to get the next issue of Field Mycology to the printer today 😬