"A treat for nature lovers and mushroom aficionados." First pre-pub review for FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS by @aravensgrace.bsky.social is in from @publisherswkly.bsky.social 🤩🍄 www.publishersweekly.com/9781469689791

my book of essays inspired by the hunt for mushrooms is available for pre-order, y’all! 🥳 uncpress.org/book/9781469... i put everything into FSD, and hope you’ll find some of that everything in its pages when you hold it in your hands in October 🖤🐦‍⬛🍄‍🟫🐦‍⬛🖤 share widely & message for discount code

THE BIRDING DICTIONARY, a small and dare I say very funny book, comes out May 6. Preorder it wherever you love to buy books. I think this will make a good gift for any birder, funny person, or parrot who enjoys shredding things. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem....

are you northeast loves ready with your food thermometers to check ground temps daily in anticipation of the arrival of these weirdos? #morchella #whoelsearewefightingfor

this is your trickster exposure therapy channel tricks are for kids and adults and the dead this hedgehog mushroom makes a fragrant ceiling for anansi’s drama can you get down with the shenanigan? the future is a prank. both jumpscare and rich, psychological thriller. are you a prankster? #hydnum

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

some Oudemansiella species can look like they’re growing right from the soil, but all it takes is determined digging to see that what you’ve got is an iceberg among mushrooms, and it’s growing from buried deadwood sometimes as deep as a 6 inches beneath the surface!

who else are we fighting for? ‘bleeding tooth’ fungi i encountered in Oaxaca a couple augusts ago. these mushrooms are know for their blood red guttation, that is, the excess liquid they exude as a metabolic byproduct (like when we sweat!) #hydnellum

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What nature and science podcasts should I interview with?

what else are we fighting for? that every creature should decompose nobly rather than being snuffed by the preventable

who else are we fighting for? insect pathogens, who keep the balance here Cordyceps militaris appears as orange clubs periscoping from hawk moth pupae in New Hampshire #cordycepsmilitaris

who else are we fighting for? lion’s mane. these beautiful saprobes/ weak parasites might be mistaken for a tribble or your cheerleader sibling’s pom pom, but they’re mushies found last month when i delivered the keynote at Sonoma County Mycological Association’s annual camp! #hericiumerinaceus

low-key obsessed that O. sinensis can do both, that is-- live on a plant as an endophyte till it gets munched by its eventual lepidopteran host!🥰 if you're impatient for season two of The Last Of US in April, peep my pinned post to read about how everything is clearer viewed through a fungal lens

the first time my mom saw a cybertruck, she was wracked by instant nausea, hurried home & googled “ugly car” as she gagged. despite the enshittification of google that first page knew exactly what she meant

all the shock and awe distraction they’re using to keep us confused & give us whiplash, under the assumption we’ll be too stunned, do too much infighting to move as a unit—as several units, as makeshift assemblages? remember how well it works when when planning ~your~ actions #apioperdonpyrifrome

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

The protests going on right now are not the same as 2016 or 2020. You are seeing a social movement in its Proto phases before we know what the final form looks like.This is something much bigger than anything We’ve seen probably since occupy much larger and angrier then 2016 or 20 time to turn it up

i wrote about “The Last of Us” and how moving past mycophobia here in the US could heal a lot of shit needs healing

in honor of “president’s day,”Craterellus, Strobilomyces, Ramaria, and Lactifluus mycelium ask how much we’re really gonna let them get away with this notion, this illusion, of absolute, centralized, discrete power even old man of the woods is like whut

who else are we fighting for? the milky charm of latex-producing milk cap mushrooms. this “milk” is similar in chemical composition to what issues from a rubber tree upon tissue damage and is thought to be an attempt to deter those who would monch #corrugatedmilkcap #lactifluushygrophoroides

For too long the rage that sits, simmering within people across the United States has been stuffed down, delegitimized, squashed. But we need it. We need it now. And we need vehicles to allow its unleashing to topple oligarchs and help usher in a new era. My latest: www.jphilll.com/p/your-anger...

that look we give when we’re about to poison a 𝚏̶𝚊̶𝚜̶𝚌̶𝚒̶𝚜̶𝚝̶ ::ahem:: chanterelle hunter jack-o-lantern mushrooms glow in the dark, just like this hat they only look like chanterelles to overeager eyes #omphalotusilludens

who else are we fighting for? Berkeley’s polypore, whose mycelia break down the roots and basal heartwood of hardwoods they smell strongly of anise—i know of a tree that was cut down and the stump, though it no longer makes mushrooms, still radiates the scent in early summer #bondarzewiaberkeleyi

who else are we fighting for? the under-cap shock of the red-gilled cort #cortinariussemisanguineus

who else are we fighting for? hygroscopic earthstars clinging to pine needles like ectomycorrhizal gymnasts or frightened sea stars #astraeus

imagine 2001: A Space Odyssey/ Also Sprach Zarathustra levels of auditory bombast as you enjoy this loving graphic caress of 🐓 of the 🌲🌲🌲 may that soundtrack follow you today as you fuck shit up and are ungovernable out in the streets and in your care for one another #laetiporussulphureus

Every single stupid conversation I’ve had with a scientist about anticipatory obedience and historical comparisons over the last week has had me thinking about how scientists’ political incompetence is one of the major arguments for a liberal arts education Like you’re literally a tool without it

been thinking a lot about the Cottingley Fairies and what it has meant to believe one’s eyes shit’s never been more fraught anyway, here’s Phallus duplicatus, the netted stinkhorn, as Ziwe

topical/oblique sporting event reference/ mushroom post alert: Pseudoboletus parasiticus only occurs with the poison ~pigskin~ puffball, Scleroderma citrinum eh? eh? 🏈 the cap and stem mushroom is parasitizing the lil puff nugget cos if it’s one thing a fungus’ll do it’s get in where it fits in

when it’s time to pack it in, they auto-deliquesce/ self digest turn to literal ink to spread their spores like—the first scribe was biting Coprinus comatus’ style, probably

found this beaut on a technicolor october day under misting rain. was ‘supposed’ to be working, not biking to the woods she had an almondy aroma and i called her Agaricus sylvicola and isn’t she gorgeous with her perfectly pressed skirt and balletic grace

migrating some favorites from the other place: dusky salamander flanked by hedgehogs

it would be nice to share the living ground with you, too