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Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 1h

Very much liking this mushroom I saw today in West Sussex.

Amanita franchetii. New to me.

Andy Overall says in his book, "The yellow velar patches quickly fade once mature", so it was a treat to find one looking like this. 🟡🍄🟡

A yellow mushroom pictured against a background of brown autumn leaves (Beech and Hornbeam). The cap is covered in yellow warts. The stipe is bulbous with yellow girdles around the base.

Similar to picture 1 on this post. A yellow mushroom pictured against a background of brown autumn leaves. This photo shows more of the stipe in focus. It is white towards the top and yellow towards the bottom, with yellow girdles around the base.

A close up photo of the cap of a mushroom. It is covered in yellow warts. Where the warted veil is breaking up, you can just about see a darker fawn coloured cap underneath.

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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 5h

The Biological Recording Company and the British Mycological Society are reviewing how fungi records in the Fungal Records Database of Britain and Ireland are verified and shared. Recorders are invited to join an online survey and workshop to help shape a new national verification protocol for fungi

The Fungi Verification Consultation Project

The Biological Recording Company and the British Mycological Society are reviewing how fungi records in the Fungal Records Database of Britain and Ireland are verified and shared. Recorders are invited to join an online survey and workshop to help shape a new national verification protocol for fungal data in the UK.

biologicalrecording.co.uk

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 14h

Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews.
#Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky #MycoBookClub

Mushrooms & Toadstools by JOHN RAMSBOTTOM

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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 2d

OTD in 1881, Charles Darwin published his last book, on earthworms.

It reflected a long interest in animal minds: “One alternative alone is left, namely, that worms, although standing low in the scale of organization, possess some degree of intelligence.”

🧪 🌱🐋🦋🦫 #HistSTM #philsci #pschsky #cogsci

Caricature by Edward Linley Sambourne from Punch in 1882 titled “Man is but a Worm,” depicting human evolution, commencing with Chaos, through worm, monkey, culminating in Darwin himself.

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Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like Ainsworth will be quite a contrast. He doesn't go in for a lot of superfluity.

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Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't read Radical Mycology but I would read Ainsworth first! Or at least the chapters you're most interested in.

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Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 1d

I rely on @lesserspotnet.bsky.social for all my Lesser Spot news :)

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Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 1d

This book is so good.

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 1d

Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews.
#Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
#MycoBookClub

INTRODUCTION TO THE MISTORY OF MYCOLOGY

By G. C. Ainsworth

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EcoRecord @ecorecord.bsky.social · 2d

The leaves are brown and the sky is grey, but there’s still plenty of wildlife to discover! Here are a few autumn sightings from our area, shared on iNaturalist this week:

1. Collared Earthstar (alexexploring on iNaturalist)
2. Knot Grass Moth (delrington)
3. Orange Peel Fungus (avoidasher)

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Plantlife @plantlifeuk.bsky.social · 2d

🍄‍🟫FREE online waxcap training course🍄‍🟫

Whether you’re a beginner, regular citizen scientist for #WaxcapWatch, a land manager or simply someone who loves learning about nature - our free fungi course is for you. 🍄

Take your waxcap knowledge to the next level 👉 https://loom.ly/-W0_R_4

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 2d

Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews.
#Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky #MycoBookClub #FungiFriday

José Manuel Castro Marcote

Guía de setas dunares

Descripción de un sistema dunar completo 80 fichas de setas

Macro- y microfotografias a todo color

Observaciones de todas las especies

EllagoEdiciones

Jacques Guinberteau

LE PETIT LIVRE DES CHAMPIGNONS DES DUNES

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Isabel Fernandes (she/her) @isabelrfernandes.bsky.social · 4d

Together with @fayrnhawk.bsky.social and other colleagues we are starting TODAY online sessions about #aquatichyphomycetes.
Interested in knowing more about this beautiful group of aquatic fungi?

Send your message to [email protected].

Looking forward to exchanging with YOU! 💧🍄

Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social · 7d

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...

Fay Newbery @fayrnhawk.bsky.social · Sep 12

A new Zoom-based chat group focussing on #AquaticHyphomycetes will be starting on 8th October. Join us in the evening (BST) to chat and learn about this fascinating group of fungi. Contact me at [email protected] if interested. @britmycolsoc.org.uk @funaction.bsky.social

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bes-quantitativegroup @bes-quantitative.bsky.social · 6d

🍄 Opportunity alert!

Natural England are looking for a UK-based collaborator to support analytics for a Fungal Red List for Great Britain.

Tasks include bias assessment, Frescalo modelling, AOO/EOO, and data presentation (Shiny or Excel).

📩 Get in touch: [email protected]

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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 10d

SIGNED BOOK NEWS.

Signed copies of "Fly Wild Swans", the sequel to Jung Chang's multi million copy bestselling memoir "Wild Swans", are now available from us.

Which is wild!

You can order one HERE.

www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

The front cover of Fly Wild Swans by Jung Chang

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Rex Burrows @improbablerex.bsky.social · Aug 10

Me: You aren’t allowed to buy any more British Library Tales of the Weird books until you read the ones you already have.

Also me: But what about the fungus one? Surely the fungus one is okay?

Paperback copy of Spores of Doom: Dank Tales of the Fungal Weird. Edited by Aaron Worth.

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Philip Amies @amiesphilip.bsky.social · 7d

"will o' the wisp", methane from rotting vegetable matter in a marsh. Low-temperature oxidation leads to blue–violet chemiluminescence ignited by bubble electrical charge.

Unveiling ignis fatuus: Microlightning between microbubbles
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

"will o' the wisp", a light over a marsh, a started traveller

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Bernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 8d

Every day is #UKFungusDay for me.

Caloboletus calopus - Bitter Beech Bolete

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Plantlife @plantlifeuk.bsky.social · 10d

FREE online event: How to get involved in #Waxcap Watch🍄

Want to know more about grassland fungi & learn how to ID waxcaps?

Take our training & join thousands of volunteers doing Waxcap surveys!🙌

📅6 October
🕢7pm
📍Online

Book today👉 https://loom.ly/GfnOyjk

A few Scarlet Waxcaps growing in short green grass under a clear blue sky. They are red, moist and domed in appearance.

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Plantlife @plantlifeuk.bsky.social · 9d

We’re excited to be featured in The Guardian, shining a spotlight on the incredible discoveries made by our 850 volunteer citizen scientists during our annual Waxcap Watch. 🍄💜

Catch the story here: https://loom.ly/2hhFiYs

Fungi finds: UK citizen scientists make rare pink and purple discoveries

Plantlife charity enlisted help of 850 volunteers to look for waxcaps in places such as private gardens

www.theguardian.com

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Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 9d

I am in the paper being authoritatively impressed with all y'all citizen scientist types.

▶️ www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Power to the people. Fungi forever!

Bravo @plantlifeuk.bsky.social - you're cool.

Fungi finds: UK citizen scientists make rare pink and purple discoveries

Plantlife charity enlisted help of 850 volunteers to look for waxcaps in places such as private gardens

www.theguardian.com

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Pedro Crous @funguscrous.bsky.social · 9d

Field mycology in practice at the recent German Mycological Society in Springe (DGfM) - zoom in for details and see the amazing illustrations!

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 10d

Lichen, algae, funghi
‘Plants and how they Live’ (1965)

Artist: Ronald Lampitt

An illustrative diagram showing range of different fungi etc, set under a tree in autumn

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Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 11d

You'll have to get that bit in about staring at piles of leaflitter to... (I have forgotten the details).

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Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 12d

Yes, end of October is my cut-off for submissions that could go into issue 26-4 (the next issue I'll be working on, as 26-3 is full already).

If we have a surfeit of submissions, some articles might need to be held over to next one. But best to get it submitted and I can put it through review 👍

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