Great to collaborate with @DomainOfScience on this new video, with our scientists inputting on the fascinating map of fungi 🍄🌍 From medicines to forests, fungi are a kingdom of life shaping our world. Discover just how important they are in 20 minutes 👇 ow.ly/u4fc50X2JRo

We had a blast at the Fungi Festival debuting our new Fungi Workshop + Foraging Game! 🍄🌧 Big thanks to everyone who joined us in the rain + mud, and congrats to our game winners! We've also teamed up with the Great Science Share to create 3 fab fungi resources - check them out here: buff.ly/bK2LCnZ

You heard right! I'll be announcing an online self-help group tomorrow that will include some teaching. @jandbio.bsky.social will be involved along with other professional researchers. And I have tutors signed up for an in-person training in autumn2026!

Collecting #AquaticHyphomycete spores is easy. They get caught up in large numbers in river foam. Foam can be scooped up into a jar. @funaction.bsky.social @britmycolsoc.org.uk @panspecieslisting.bsky.social @msafungi.bsky.social

I've been managing BHL's #Bluesky account for 4 months now. It's an honour to share such beautiful & significant content, particularly at this critical time. BHL's future is uncertain, but hopeful. Follow along @biodivlibrary.bsky.social & on the #BHLblog: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/tag/transition

An opportunity of a lifetime for budding lichenologists. The National Trust and the Royal Botanics, Edinburgh are offering a PAID lichen traineeship in #Scotland! The work programme looks fascinating and a great opportunity to develop skills. Deadline: 3/10/2025. www.asva.co.uk/jobs/trainee...

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-wonder.... I’m giving a talk.

Beatrix Potter (1866-1943), mycology study, author/artist who contributed to science and natural history #womensart

BMS Talk: Using environmental DNA (eDNA) for fungal metabarcoding in soils. Ben Gregson highlights how eDNA allows researchers to detect & compare complex fungal communities soils from a wide range of climates & land uses. Find out more & book: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/bms-talks.html

🍄 One month until Fungi Field Day 2025!! 🍄 Held on UK Fungus Day (4th October) @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social, this event celebrates the fungal kingdom, featuring science, games, walks, talks, face-painting and much more for all ages. Please spread the word! www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/whats-on/fun...

The Scarce Fungus Weevil lays its eggs only in Cramp Balls (or King Alfred's cakes) - fungi that grow on dead Ash wood. With Ash dieback & the felling of Ash trees threatening their habitat, the beetle's future is uncertain.🌳 Read the #UKFungusDay blog: www.ukfungusday.co.uk/anecessarywe...

My recent talk - Reintroducing @britmycolsoc.org.uk's Field Mycology publication - is now up on YouTube ▶️ youtu.be/bN-B1pxpYIs?... The main message being... we hope you'll read it! ▶️ fieldmycology.org You can subscribe to the print edition if you want to: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/fm-journal

“Prof Bardgett warns against viewing compost extracts as a quick fix [for soil health] ‘it’s better to change the soil environment first, to make it more amenable for the organisms already in the soil to flourish. Otherwise, most [of them] will simply die’” 👏👏👏👏 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The genome sequence of the Oak Polypore, Buglossoporus quercinus (Schrad.) Kotl. & Pouzar #OakPolypore #Buglossoporus wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-...

Whilst wet weather might not be everyone’s cup of tea, Kew’s Mycologists are celebrating this rainy #FungiFriday, with hopes it will instigate some welcome fungal activity! Many fungi use rain to spread their spores, such as often-over-looked bird’s nest fungi, also known as “splash cups”.

🔍 Help us improve GB Red Listing! If you use the GB Red List data on our webpage, we’d love your feedback. 📋 Take a short survey to help us enhance how we share this vital information: 👉 jncc.gov.uk/our-work/red... 🗓️ Survey closes 10 October 2025

📣 Call for papers! Special issue of #FungalEcology on “Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions” co-edited by Susana C. Gonçalves @cfemycolab.bsky.social & Jonathan Cazabonne @jonathancazabonne.bsky.social. Deadline for manuscripts: 31 Jan 2026. Find out more: www.linkedin.com/company/brit...

Macrofungi long term inventories are key for improving taxonomic discovery and complete biodiversity assessments of fungi! This long term inventory found 546 species in only one site: The Ordway-Swisher Biological Station in Florida www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thrilled to announce that the special issue on fungal #conservation that @cfemycolab.bsky.social and I are co-editing for the @britmycolsoc.org.uk c.org.uk journal Fungal Ecology is open for submissions! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

My new paper is out! 🧪🦠 Seven years later: native AMF inoculation improves grassland restoration successional stage, floristic quality index, and diversity, while suppressing weeds: academic.oup.com/femsle/artic... Why microbes matter in restoration 🧵

Our Fungal Conservation column is out in Field Mycology 26 (2). www.fieldmycology.org/index.php/jo... 🍄 Fungi and the Planning and Infrastructure Bill 🍄 British fungi on the Global Red List 🍄 An audit of nationally important fungal assemblages in Welsh SSSIs #fungi #fungalconservation #PIB

Sunday book review: A Brush with Fungi by David Mitchell Publisher: author Review: markavery.info/2025/08/17/s... 'A big book full of beauty' 'An economy of words but a feast of information' #fungi #naturewriting #natureillustration @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @britmycolsoc.org.uk 🍄

First data are in and show that Clathrus archeri, native to Australia and New Zealand, has conquered central Europe. Can't wait to see its distribution widen as the fruiting season begins in other parts of Europe! 👉 www.inaturalist.org/projects/eye... #BiologicalInvasions #CitizenScience #FunDive

Our UK Fungus Day #photography competition is now open! 📸 The competition is free to enter & open to all, with three age categories: up to 11 years; 12-17 years; 18 and over (with two sub-categories: Amateur and Professional). Find out more: www.ukfungusday.co.uk/photography #fungi #nature

Very happy to be launching a new #CitizenScience campaign within the scope of ‪@fundive-fungi.bsky.social‬. You can download, share (and cite!) the campaign' accompanying flyer published in the the open-access platform Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1679... #FunDive #Mycology #Conservation #iNat

New paper! The Increased Environmental Niche of Dual‐Mycorrhizal Woody Species. Ecology Letters: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Dual-host woody species occupy a broader geographical range and environmental niche space compared to those associating exclusively with either AM or EM.

#Conservation maps miss #fungal hotspots by focusing on #plants ... | #biodiversity | #fungi | #ecosystems | #Mycorrhiza | By @spun.earth via @sciencex.bsky.social

Ouch. “If we plan restoration targets to match future climatic conditions and consider state transitions of currently natural ecosystems due to climate change, the potential for natural climate solutions related to ecosystem restoration is close to zero.”

Our new global study led by @smriti-pehim-limbu.bsky.social is now out in @pnas.org. TLDR: Certain spore traits were linked to climate AND species range sizes! YES we can use traits to gain insight into env adaptations for microbes. #mycorrhizas #spores #NSFfunded www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

We did it! We caught Starship #transposons moving between #fungal species in the lab, including between species separated by ~100my. We think Starships are a mediator of HGT in fungi, akin to conjugative elements in bacteria. Check out the preprint. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Is it just an impression or amazing research and discoveries are poping up everywhere about mycorrhizal fungi? A thread of research that I want to catch up on (and maybe you do too):

Happy to share this big piece on saprobic fungal traits and soil carbon cycling. Great collaboration in the SPP SoilSystems @dfg.de , with Damien Finn, Sören Thiele-Bruhn, Denise Vonhoegen, @mrillig.bsky.social and many others contributing to the study. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Currently working on series of #FungiFriday blog posts about mushrooms by country. Does anyone have any info on mushrooms in Wales? I have a lot of ecology info but struggling to find anything cultural, or related to the Welsh language. Thank you :-) #WelshFungi #WelshMushrooms

New Article Out 📣 Open Access 📣 @newphyt.bsky.social “Fungal guild interactions slow decomposition of boreal forest pine litter and humus” nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We’ve refreshed our strategic plan! While our core priorities remain strong, the updated strategy outlines new actions to boost impact and visibility. We're committed to advancing fungal science and field mycology across the UK - and beyond. www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/strategy_new...

This, to be considered by the House of Commons this afternoon, needs to cause as much political trouble for the government as the welfare bill. Ask your MP to stand up for the right to protest.

Very cool paper! It is shocking how few forest areas in Europe are not managed www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Just recorded a Turtle Dove in a fenland bird survey, but no way of knowing if it’s a wild bird or one of these idiotic amateur releases. This really matters for conservation. Treating Turtle Doves like pheasants masks the decline. Maybe that’s the point... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A new pre-print outlining 15 case-studies of natural colonisation of woodland over multiple decades in uplands & lowlands in England & Scotland: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

The gilted edges of Hymenochete rubiginosa. I wander if theres a purpose to this golden fringe?

After a few decades post clear cutting, ectomycorrhizal fungal communities are still slowly recovering and certain species are still more likely to be found in the forest rather than on the forest edges or openings.

Excited to teach #lichen beginners this weekend at lovely FSC Flatford Mill! Well-recorded site: 89 lichen species found from 1965 to 2014. But no records since then, so I was happy to add couple new species while on recce there, including this Ramalina fastigiata. One or two places left: join me! ⬇️

Yesterday, we had the chance to present our proposal to the Estonian Environmental Board and Climate Ministry: 29 more fungal species for protection, in addition to the ~40 already listed. My favorite: Rigidoporus crocatus—locally common in wet alder forests, globally rare. Our responsibility!

Use or need information on aquatic biodiversity for your work? Collect 💧 or e🧬 samples from aquatic ecosystems? We want to better help you AND find collaborative fungi-inclusive approaches for biodiversity monitoring & mapping. Please take and share our "Better Together" survey!

The scope of #fungi #biodiversity is only beginning to be fathomed. Every day almost ten new species are described. 🍄🤯 David Hibbett László Nagy and Henrik Nilsson introduce the fungal tree of life. www.cell.com/current-biol...

The Fungal Kingdom as a Rosetta Stone for biological discovery – a long-time Current Biology advisory board member, Joseph Heitman, introduces the special issue on ‘The Fungi’. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Fungal diversity, decomposition, substrate chemistry, and all their interconnections to understand how the environment shapes fungal communities and wood decay - led by the very talented @zhiyuanxu.bsky.social 🪵🍄🍄‍🟫 kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

Amazing paper, w/ stunning 1st figure + journal cover, on historical legacies of land management on temperate woodland biodiversity 🪲🦅🦔🍀 #historical #ecology at its best 🤩😍 ➡️ #ancient #woodlands 🌳🌳🌳🌳 in 🌾🌾🌾🌾 matter for #biodiversity & the provision of #ecosystem #services shorturl.at/Ssir1