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.

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!"

There are two other lichen guides for Britain and Ireland in print. But this is the first one written by a northern team. If you live in the North of the UK, then this is definitely the one for you.

Looking good. Great to see lichens included.

Interested in moth trapping? Wondering which trap to use? Or if different bulbs collect different species? Using 100k samples from @gardenmothscheme.bsky.social our new paper looks at these questions and more! With with Bill Kunin and @katatrepsis.bsky.social #mothsmatter #teammoth

On Sunday February 22nd I'm doing a lichen walk and talk at Higham Hall near Cockermouth. More info here: highamhall.com/course/liche...

Which theme will your best pictures fit into? Don't forget to give your photos titles to get people's attention. You'll want to win as many votes as possible!

The theme for this meeting is Lichens in Churchyards and on Man-made structures. Come and hear how lichens can form a protective layer over stone.

Such a perfect posy.

Gulnara Tagirdzhanova nous a présenté ses recherches sur les interactions au sein des lichens à partir d’approches omics.

An amazing photograph! Will we receive work of this calibre for the British Lichen Society photo competition? Details at britishlichensociety.org.uk/the-society/...

What an amazing resource this will be!

Some fungi are so small they are only likely to be found by deliberate searching. This curiosity was shown to me today at Whitlingham. The 'large' structure here is an old nail gall on a lime tree leaf caused by Eriophyes tiliae. The fungus, Ophiognomonia melanostyla, is the tiny black prongs on it!

I’ve seen quite a few of these tiny Mycena pseudocorticolas recently, always amongst moss on damp tree trunks. I like em.

Had a lovely time chatting to Ellie, The Curious Geographer, about stone lichens and how they challenge our thinking about the natural world and our cultural heritage @britishlichensociety.org.uk @oxfordgeography.bsky.social youtu.be/9tO_5yBvQmw

Small coffee-bean shaped fungi on bark. There are a few species, but this is probably the commonest - Hysterium angustatum, distinguished by the 4 celled spores with rounded ends. Foxley Wood.

These are amazing! So creative and unique.

Fabulous. I'd love to see more of these as you work through your data. What part of the country were you in? I'm not seeing some of those pathogens. I probably just need to look harder!

Key findings: • 42% loss of rough grassland, heath and wetland since 1930 • Pastures and meadows reduced by 29% • Arable land up by one third by 1990 • Urban areas rose from 13% to 20% A fresh perspective on how our landscapes changed over 90 years www.ceh.ac.uk/press/maps-c... 3/ #LandUse

This is the first British & Irish lichen book, that I am aware of, which is not focused on species common in southern England. Definitely the best beginners' lichen book to buy if you live in the north. That's one benefit of Scottish authors!

A great book. Enjoy.

Mother: Excellent. Can you do me another? Me: Thanks Mum. What were you thinking? Mother: Holly and ivy with snowman. Me:

We are delighted to let you know that your Plants, People, Planet article 'Demystifying Fungal Systematics: A Gateway to Fungal Literacy and Societal/Ecological Relevance Through Familiar Species' has been published on Early View. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#naturewriting I’ve now read Trevor Dine’s Urban plants twice and keep dipping in. It’s one of the most compelling, captivating, well researched books I’ve read in years. To combine scholarship with such engaging prose and a brilliant choice of images is the work of a writer of real distinction.

You have at least six well photographed species here. Bring your photos to the next #AquaticHyphomycete online session and we can help you. Meanwhile look up Clavariopsis aquatica and Tetracladium marchalianum to start with.

Gorgeous. The best photo of a lichen community that I've seen for ages.

You've missed my birthday list this year too. But I'm happy to take a voucher for a pre-order for Christmas! I'll let my family know. We'll done @sarahwhild.bsky.social

The #AquaticHyphomycete online group have another great programme lined up this week. @zimingwang.bsky.social will be talking to us about isolating living spores for culture work. We'll also be talking about the importance of recording these fungi and whether there is a best way to do that.

Gorgeous. I love it when a painting reaches out a 'speaks' to me.

How I wish I had the skills to do this!! Your work is beautiful @alicelaigle.bsky.social and so meaningful too. Does anyone have some tips on how someone who cannot draw can achieve the same purpose in a notebook?

Waxcap 26 - Grey Waxcap (Cuphophyllus lacmus). A beautiful and uncommon species. The decurrent gills are a smoky grey and the cap a very stunning lilac grey. The cap often has some striations.

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Another great issue of this newly open access journal. Enjoy!

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

New OA publication from TreE_PlaNat project @uktreescapes.bsky.social in Ecological Solutions and Evidence: Creating woodland through natural processes: Current understanding and knowledge gaps in Great Britain besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Large citizen science datasets are powerful tools for biodiversity science, but they may have biases. Nice new paper from @louisbackstrom.bsky.social et al. showing that for eBird and Birdtrack lists there is a tendency for rare species to be over-represented onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Last week Swiss #MoSTFun team sampled the Basòdino glacier in Ticino, to look for #aquaticfungi. 💧🍄 This is part of a larger sampling campaign to fill the knowledge gap on aquatic fungi diversity associated to glaciers. Get in touch if you want to know more about our work or collaborate with us.

We had a thoroughly enjoyable, and very informative, first meeting of the online #AquaticHyphomycete group yesterday. @isabelrfernandes.bsky.social gave us methodology and tips for collecting and fixing foam samples.

Only three days now until our first online session on #AquaticHyphomycetes There’s still time to sign up by emailing [email protected] Andi Bruder will be giving us a quick overview of this special ecological group...

The app makes this a great survey for teenagers (as well as the rest of us!)

I’m working backwards through time at this waterfall. September’s sample contained only two spores from #AquaticHyphomycetes: one each of Tricladium splendens and Triscelophorus accuminata.

I collected another sample from this waterfall today. I've now got monthly collections from April to September and I intend to keep collecting through the winter. Just need to find time to look at how the species composition changes through the year.

The Freshwater Biology Association still has stocks of Ingold’s book ‘Guide to #AquaticHyphomycetes’. This illustrates not only the spores that he found, but how they developed from hyphae on the surface of leaves www.fba.org.uk/shop/p/book-10

Great photos!

I think this looks lovely! Definitely 'arty'.

Snap! A broken off stem in this case, with the seed head lying on the ground.

#AquaticHyphomycetes are sometimes known as Ingoldian fungi. CT Ingold of University College, Leicester was the first researcher to study this group of fungi when he looked at species growing on alder leaves in a stream doi.org/10.1016/S000...

People are starting to sign up for this online learning and sharing group. I'm looking forward to learning to ID more species with the help of Andreas Bruder @isabelrfernandes.bsky.social @jandbio.bsky.social and @zimingwang.bsky.social

Thrilled to launch yet another #CitizenScience campaign for @fundive-fungi.bsky.social ‪🙃 The campaign' accompanying flyer is published in the open-access platform Zenodo, free to download, share, and cite: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #UrbanBiodiversity #FunDive #Mycology #Conservation #iNaturalist

What would you like to learn about #AquaticHyphomycetes if you came along to these online sessions? How aquatic hyphomycetes fit into the ecology of streams and rivers? How to collect them? How to identify them? Where to find ID resources? What questions would you want to pose?