Cladonia verticillata #lichen. Newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends

📍 Online Lecture 📆 Jan 23, 12:30 -1:30 ✨ Join Simon Pooley as he discusses the okapi, a rainforest giraffid which has become a symbol of scientific curiosity, colonial power, and conservation challenges. Grab your free tickets here: buff.ly/CGq6rfy

“Shhhh, Zog! … Here come one now!”

House of Correction, Penarlâg/Hawarden, Flintshire. A late 1750's 'lock up' for the village drunkards, vagrants and ner-do-wells. #portal

#NewSpecies! Telipogon villonacoensis A newly discovered orchid from #ecuador! Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/3499AED5-... Publication: doi.org/10.5091/plec... #Plecevo #TelipogonVillonacoensis #FAIRdata #OA #openaccess #biology #ecology #taxonomy #botany #flowers #plants #orchidaceae #orchids

My kind of drain pipe for #FernFriday. Asplenium trichomanes (Maidenhair spleenwort), Dryopteris filix-mas (Male fern) and hiding away a few Asplenium adiantum-nigrum (Black spleenwort). #UrbanFerns #Chester #BritishPteridologicalSociety

A bit of urban ferning last #FernFriday whilst walking through Warwick, the beautiful winter fronds of an urban Pteridium aquilinum (Bracken)

#NewSpecies! New mountain vole from #tibet just came in: Alticola yarlungia Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/DF350893-... Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zse.... #ZoosystematicsAndEvolution #AlticolaYarlungia #FAIRdata #biodiversity #nature #conservation #animals #mammals #rodentia #rodents #voles

Vanishing experts, vanishing species: The taxonomy crisis Training a new generation of taxonomists is urgent and new research maps where help is most needed to close the skill gaps. www.kew.org/read-and-wat...

Spore morphology and evolution in Isoetes, with some great SEM images. #Quillwort #Isoëtes academic.oup.com/botlinnean/a...

#NewSpecies! Polystichum oligodontum A newly discovered fern from #china! Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/00D2F038-... Publication: doi.org/10.3897/phyt... #PhytoKeys #PolystichumOligodontum #FAIRdata #OA #biology #ecology #taxonomy #nature #biodiversity #conservation #botany #plants #fern

Highly recommended if you need to get your head around the status of UK clubmosses. #clubmoss #BPS

A #fernFriday friend this week. Selaginella involvens, a sub tropical lycophyte from South east Asia #BritishFernSociety #BPS #RBGE

Something a bit warmer for this #FernFriday. Sticheropsis truncata, an upland fern from Indonesia. The fronds appear to fork, but actually extend continuously, with a hidden bud in the fork allowing the plant to spread out seeking light in forest gaps. #BritshFernSociety #BPS #RBGE

Osmunda regalis 'Cristata' (Crested Royal Fern) still looking very green in the protected cloisters of Chester Cathedral #FernFriday #BritishFernSociety

Behind-the-scenes tours of the fernery & the Electron Microscopy Suite are just 2 of the extras on offer at #BIBConf25 on 29 November! With 8 talks, a panel discussion, 40+ exhibits, #WildFlowerID quizzes & a pop-up bookshop, maybe we're giving people too much to choose from? Better than not enough!

Great to see the paper by @ecology-digest.bsky.social and I on the new British woodlouse (Chaetophiloscia elongata) now available. Check it (and other great material) out at bmig.org.uk/view/resourc...

A great morning at Edge Hill University yesterday; students receive their Plant Heritage National Collection status for their collection of native and naturalised ferns. (Nice to see some of my plants on display too). Nice to see a young thriving plant horticulture group. #BritishFernSociety

Fern with a view. Asplenium ruta-muraria (Duegredynen y muriau/Wall Rue) at home on the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct overlooking the River Dee, Denbighshire. #FernFriday #BritishFernSociety

Major revision of #GBRedList of plants published today shows 25% of our native & archaeophyte flora threatened with extinction. Many iconic widespread species classified as threatened for first time including Betony, Marsh Marigold, Devil’s-bit Scabious and Harebell. Another wake-up call for action!

A great long weekends ferning in the Moffat area of Scotland, finishing at a British Pteridological Society members garden. Struthiopteris (Blechnum) spicant 'Rickard's serate' #fern #FernFriday #BritishFernSociety

When #seismology meets #meteorology! Ground shaking across #VancouverIsland is ramping up (but not felt) as the remnants of Tyhpoon Nakri approach the west coast. The ground shaking started increasing just after midnight Pacific time (07:00 UTC on this figure) Oct. 17, as the storm gets closer. ⚒️🧪🌀🇨🇦

Bloody brilliant 👇

Tis fungi season 🙂. We briefly get to see a whole other kingdom of life that we don't see for the rest of the year ( other than on the supermarket shelf).

Ye God's !!! High altitude nocturnal hunting...

Not your usual wall fern. A stunning multi-crowned Royal fern (Osmunda regalis) in a metaquartz wall top. A sign condition must be pretty damp! #FernFriday

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! 🍄