Fungi and ferns, the perfect combination on a damp weekend. Amanita muscaria & Polypodium cf. vulgare on Betula. #fernFriday #Coniston #LakeDistrict

I have thousands of #marineplankton microscopy images and measurements and would like to make these available to researchers. Where’s the best place to put them and how do scientists like their metadata? 🧪🦑

Dermatocarpon miniatum (Leather lichen) on a hard Carboniferous limestone outcrop at Denbigh Castle #ValeOfClwyd

A productive couple of hours scouring a shoreline in the rain and sifting through hundreds of broken specimens. Managed to find a handful of #Isoetes quills 😊 and a few invasive non-natives 🙁. #Quillwort

A smack of fried egg jellyfish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium #MarineLife #PhacellophoraCamtschatica #WestCoast #Pacific #Jellies #MontereyBay #MBARI #Cnidaria

Stopped to pick up this beautiful adult Tawny Owl today (RTA fatality) mainly to check for a ring and have a close look at such a stunning bird.

⬆️ If you would like to visit our Public Reading Room or learn more about our collections, please use the link in our bio. #NaturalHistoryMuseum #SpecialCollections #Ephemera #PostageStamps #NatureInArt #ZoologicalArt #EntomologicalArt #BotanicalArt #Art #SciArt

I had a great morning yesterday on the way back from Broughton at Menai! Read about it here analternativenaturalhistoryofsussex.blogspot.com/2025/08/soft...

A nice find in the charity shop: The Flora of Svalbard by Olaf Rønning 1996. Maybe not the most up to date taxonomically but nice maps and community descriptions. #Svalbard #NatureBookChallenge #botany

IT'S FINISHED! The Art of #InverteFest April 2025 Edition A digital art book showcasing the work of 86 artists from around the world, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna. Thank you to the human artists who contributed to our art book! Download here drive.google.com/file/d/1JvEx...

Flourishing chemosynthetic life at the greatest depths of hadal trenches www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊

Just 10 days left to join us on the Millennium Seed Bank Seed Conservation Techniques course - running online on 13-24 October 🌱 We'll cover the ins and outs of seed storage behaviour, genetic diversity sampling, seed bank design, and much more ❄️🧪🏛️ ⏰ July 31 2025! www.kew.org/science/trai...

Acid heath over Dalradian limestone next to the sea, including Harebells and virtually adjacent Grass of Parnassus; Port Ramsay, #IsleOfLismore #HarebellChallenge #Wildflowerhour

Marooned in Stirling for a couple of days with car trouble; any must see or nature related recommendations?

An exhausting day immersed in nature. Leeches, snails, lichens, clubmosses, flowers and fish. Time for bed! #IsleOfLismore #BiologicalRecording #Scotland

A slightly surprising find today, Lobaria pulmonaria (non-fertile) on an old dying Fushia magellanica #IsleOfLismore #lichen #lismore @britishlichensociety.org.uk

Finally, a wet day and chance to write up some holiday observations #biologicalRecording #IsleOfLismore

Any malacologists out there able to confirm this is Wireweed? Didn't bring my seaweed books on hols, DOH!!! #IsleofLismore

It was very nice to catch up this week with the lovely colony of Anglesey Horsetail (Equisetum x robertsii) I discovered at Traeth Lligwy 25 years ago. It’s remarkably rare given its parents (E. arvense & telmateia) are as common as muck. It has a very special place in my heart #wildflowerhour

In wake of yet another failed attempt to persuade ScotGov to give protection to common land, I'll be speaking at this meeting where we'll have to devise a plan of action within framework of existing inadequate land law to protect the small area of common land in parish that has not yet been stolen.

Top marks Dan and Dave, running 10 Park runs for charity, currently running no 8, #Ruthin and it's 27 degrees!!! For Move against Cancer.

The British Mycological Society are now on Bluesky - follow them for fungus-related content! 🍄

A nice unexpected find on the walk home this evening, a Mountain male fern (Dryopteris oreades), a rather fine looking garden plant #UrbanPlants #ferns #Rhuthun #Rhedyn

A Male fern (Dryopteris filix-mas) brightening up the local streets #UrbanPlants #FernFriday

Found one last year with my students. A good news story for a change. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For #FernFriday, here’s my favourite urban fern - Rustyback (Asplenium ceterach) - in a local town. I can spend *hours* scouring urban cliffs (or ‘walls’ as some people call them) for ferns and other plants. There’s a whole chapter on them in Urban Plants www.bloomsbury.com/uk/urban-pla...

Full house and standing ovation this evening for @tudur.bsky.social and cast at @stiwt.bsky.social. Incredibly, incredibly moving play. Laughter and tears.

Nice, a new @rbgkew.bsky.social book in the library should provide some good lunchtime reading 😊 #LibrariesChangeLives

MAJOR MILESTONE for fungal science! 🍄💻 Our entire Fungarium - 1.1 million dried fungi specimens - is now fully imaged!👇1/4 ow.ly/w9JX50VT9FA

After urban botanising in the morning, retreated to a lovely wet woodland LNR on Ynys Môn. A lovely Dryopteris understory (all the affinis group) plus a established garden throw outs including a Western Sword fern! @cofnod.org.uk #CommonLand #YnysMôn #Fern #inns

A great morning leading a botanical amble around Caernarfon; a relaxed pace, fine weather and good crowd looking at ferns, bryophytes, Lichens and flowering plants. #LibrariesChangeLives #ferns

Oooh, just spotted some Adiantum gametophytes nestling beneath a plant - amazing little things. #Fern

What an opportunity!!

Cofnod is at Pensychnant Biodiversity Fair this weekend. Lots going on and a few new site records too.

Late to the party, but by no means the last, Dryopteris wallichiana croziers unfurling with characteristic dark scales #FernFriday

@fernway.bsky.social Hi Fay-Wei, do you know who I can contact re a bulk order for the BPS?

Meet the authors behind Ferns: Lessons in Survival from Earth's Most Adaptable Plants! BTI's @fernway.bsky.social and Jacob S. Suissa explore the ancient, resilient world of ferns — plants that have thrived for over 400 million years. Learn more go.btiscience.org/ferns. #FernsBook #PlantScience

The Ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris) looking glorious today at @treborthbg.bsky.social today. #ferns

For #HighUpPlants the diminutive but incredibly tough little Wall Rue (Asplenium ruta-muraria), the croziers just unfurling #ferns

An arctic wind today on top of Moel Famau, but persistence paid off and I was rewarded with 24 tiny Moonworts (Botrychium lunaria) 💚 #FernFriday

Bracken crozier's unfurling at the moment, and the extra-floral nectarines are really visible. #FernFriday

Sceptridium dissectum (Ophioglossaceae) is a wintergreen fern native to eastern North America. Distinguished by its dissected trophophores. Photo: Jacob Suissa #Pteridology #Ophioglossaceae #AmericanFerns #FernFriday

‪ It's SEWBReC #SquareOfTheMonth time! For May we are highlighting 1km squares with zero #Beetle records: ST3787 nr Llanwern, #Newport SS7889 in Goytre, #NeathPortTalbot Could you help fill these map gaps? Gwent: www.sewbrec.org.uk/sqothm/185 Glam: www.sewbrec.org.uk/sqothm/184

Our Library & Archive teams are hosting a show-and-tell session on 12 May as part of @urbantreefest.bsky.social! 🌳 Come along to see great materials all to do with Kew's trees. It's first come first serve, so make sure to book soon! ⏰ #KewLA Find out more 👇 urbantreefestival.org/trees-in-kew...

Tafod yr hydd / Hart's-tongue/ Asplenium scolopendrium; always a favourite.

Lemon-scented fern, Oreopteris limbosperma finally putting in an appearance, covered in their distinctive white scales which quickly disappear.

"A New Future for the Biodiversity Heritage Library" blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-... Important changes for BHL @biodivlibrary.bsky.social which can no longer be hosted at #Smithsonian and needs a new home.

Revelling in the rain: the Black Spleenworts on our lane are now flushing gorgeous new fronds that have never looked so… ferny #ferns @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Well the Selaginella douglasii (Douglas' selaginella) seems to enjoy Welsh winters! A beautiful little Spikemoss native to Oregon, Washington and Idaho #Lycophytes