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The British Lichen Society @britishlichensociety.org.uk · Sep 4

BLS will welcome applications from members for travel grants to attend IAL10 next summer. The full details of the application process and closing date for applications are on the website.
britishlichensociety.org.uk/the-society/....

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Kathrin Rousk @kathrinrousk.bsky.social · 21d

Come to Copenhagen to work on #moss #cyanobacteria interactions! Still time to apply for this postdoc position!! 👇

Kathrin Rousk @kathrinrousk.bsky.social · Jul 7

Interested in deciphering how #moss and #cyanobacteria interact with each other? Want to come to #Copenhagen? Join us for a postdoc! candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... @voltcenter.bsky.social

1.5-Year postdoctoral position on Molecular Biology of Moss-Cyanobacteria Associations

A 1.5-year postdoc position in Biochemistry and Molecular Plant Biology with a focus on moss-cyanobacteria associations is available at the Department of Biolog

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Nathan Chrismas @thevagrantlichenologist.com · 20h

Also looks like it could be Ichmadophila ericetorum if you have it there?

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Nathan Chrismas @thevagrantlichenologist.com · 20h

Orphniospora moriopsis on gneissose granite, Strath Vaich. I think this thing is pretty underrecorded on account of it being a fairly mysterious black crust, but when it's mature it develops a distinct orange pruina which can help to tell it apart from other things

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Nathan Chrismas @thevagrantlichenologist.com · 20h

Instagram is driving me insane and I'm missing the old days of Twitter so I'm going to try and start being a bit more active on here.

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Nathan Chrismas @thevagrantlichenologist.com · 1d

...and here it is! Only known from a few snow beds high up on the Cairngorm plateau. Great to finally see it on home turf.

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Nathan Chrismas @thevagrantlichenologist.com · Jul 3

Some super lichens here in the Dolomites. A favourite of the trip so far is Bellemerea alpina, a species that's incredibly scarce in the Cairngorms but in the heart of its range here.

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Nathan Chrismas @thevagrantlichenologist.com · Jun 29

En route to the First Symposium of Alpine Lichenology. Very excited for this! I'll be discussing work from our Scottish hills and looking forward to putting it in the context of mountain environments on a wider scale.

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Nathan Chrismas @thevagrantlichenologist.com · May 9

Nice.

Nathan Chrismas @thevagrantlichenologist.com · May 9

Ok, I can see some vasculars on the article picture.

Nathan Chrismas @thevagrantlichenologist.com · May 9

Perhaps a bit of lichen blindness here - the effect of birds on driving lichen communities is well recognised to the point that we have a name for them - ornithocoprophilous, or bird-poop-loving.

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Nathan Chrismas @thevagrantlichenologist.com · May 9

Interesting looking study on the effects of seabird droppings on plant communities. Not read properly yet, but a quick skim and lichens are only mentioned once, despite being the only 'plant' visible in the lead photo (yes I know they're not plants, but)

Functional Ecology @funecology.bsky.social · May 9

📰Published📰 How seabird droppings change Arctic plants🪹

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How seabird droppings change Arctic plants

Ruben E. Roos, Julia Kemppinen, Pekka Niittynen, Vigdis Vandvik, Inge Althuizen, Pernille Bronken Eidesen, Brian J. Enquist, Geir Wing Gabrielsen, Jonathan J. Henn, Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir, Kari Kl…

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Nathan Chrismas @thevagrantlichenologist.com · May 7

Female Belted Beauty moth. This is the Scottish subspecies, Lycia zonaria atlantica, found on machair grassland in the Hebrides (here on Mingulay)

A wingless female belted beauty moth, Lycia zonaria.

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Nathan Chrismas @thevagrantlichenologist.com · Apr 2

Matt I hope we get to meet some time, I want to chat to you about music as much as I want to chat to you about lichens 😂

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Nathan Chrismas @thevagrantlichenologist.com · Mar 28

In Birmingham for our workshop on lichen microbiomes thanks to the NERC Arctic Office. Here's @ingeborgklarenberg.bsky.social talking about her work on lichen associated communities in Antarctica

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Nathan Chrismas @thevagrantlichenologist.com · Mar 13

Good to see the BBS has made it over here too

bbsbryology.bsky.social @bbsbryology.bsky.social · Mar 13

Some blue sky in this image of Wharfedale, Yorkshire, announces our move to this platform. The BBS will be having its annual Spring Field Meeting there, starting on Saturday, in this beautiful limestone countryside. It's been getting rather lonely on X/Twitter......

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Nathan Chrismas @thevagrantlichenologist.com · Mar 3

I'm sure we could put a template together and make it available on the BLS website

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Nathan Chrismas @thevagrantlichenologist.com · Mar 3

This is a great idea. Perhaps a 'frame' with a scale on would be a good way of standardising measurements? i.e. a square of paper with a 5x5cm window cut out with printed mm scale on one side that could be placed over the lichen so that images could be easily aligned.

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Nathan Chrismas @thevagrantlichenologist.com · Mar 2

Excellent Peter! I've been meaning to try something like this out myself so good to see the extent of growth you've seen in that time frame. Cool to see it outcompeting that little Caloplaca thing too.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Feb 28

A map that centers on New Zealand, which I guess is reparation for all the maps that leave New Zealand off entirely.

It's a map that projects the globe of the Earth in a way that distorts the Americas and Eurasia, but accurately represents Australasia. It's got white whispy clouds, blue water, and green to sand-yellow color on the landmasses.

Stolen from a Reddit post on /MapPorn, posted by user 'molfarus' in 2022.

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Nathan Chrismas @thevagrantlichenologist.com · Feb 27

Scorching! Hope your trip's going well too!

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Lennart Bach @bachlennart.bsky.social · Feb 19

Aquatic photosynthesis knowledge would be at a considerably lower level without John Raven. What a life and legacy! 🌊

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

John Raven, FRS, FRSE: a truly great innovator in plant physiology, photosynthesis and much more - Photosynthesis Research

This is a tribute to a truly inspirational plant biologist, Prof. John A. Raven, FRS, FRSE (25th June 1941– 23rd May 2024), who died at the age of 82. He was a leader in the field of evolution and phy...

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Nathan Chrismas @thevagrantlichenologist.com · Feb 27

Lots of this lovely Usnea ciliata to be found on the Grand Traverse of the Remarkables above Queenstown. A New Zealand endemic, one of its defining characteristics is the purple-black pigmentation at the ends of its branches

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Nathan Chrismas @thevagrantlichenologist.com · Feb 27

And here's the full article www.cell.com/current-biol...

Complexity of the lichen symbiosis revealed by metagenome and transcriptome analysis of Xanthoria parietina

Lichens are symbiotic associations of fungi, algae, and bacteria that result in large, self-assembling organisms. Tagirdzhanova et al. use metagenomics to profile taxonomic diversity within the sunbur...

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Nathan Chrismas @thevagrantlichenologist.com · Feb 27

Want a quick overview before diving into @metalichen.bsky.social et al's new work on Xanthoria -omics in @currentbiology.bsky.social? Read our commentary here www.cell.com/current-biol...

Genomics: A window into the molecular mystery box of lichen symbiosis

How is a symbiosis built? Lichen metagenomic and metatranscriptomic surveys comparing growth stages, experimental treatments and environmental settings identify a catalogue of candidate genes — and mi...

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