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Mosses and ferns
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Enjoying learning about mosses and ferns, liverworts, hornworts…

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rogerhorton.bsky.social
Difficult to photo on a wall soaked by a cascade of running water from a leaking pipe outside Dobbies Garden World #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk. Could this be Myriocoleopsis minutissima, Minute Pouncewort? 🤔
#Bryophytes #Bryology #BonkersForBryophytes
February 10, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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boomskaiju.bsky.social
30 seconds of calm
Take care and have a good one
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#VancouverIsland #BritishColumbia #Canada #nature #naturevideo #forest #trees #creek #water #waterfall #ferns #moss #calm
February 13, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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watershed-i.bsky.social
"It is so important for carbon storage, for flood mitigation, for cleaning our water but also for our wildlife and the people who use these places and want to enjoy the wildness of them."

@yorkshirepeat.bsky.social reintroduce locally extinct moss to Dales:

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BBC News 'Rare moss species are fighting climate change' by Michelle Lyons and Grace Wood. Report about reintroduction of species of sphagnum moss into blanket bogs, and peatlands in the Yorkshire Dales, and at Marsden Moor between Manchester and Huddersfield. Sphagnum Austinii went extinct in Yorkshire and scarce on Marsden Moor during the industrial revolution as the species cannot endure exposure to the high levels of sulphur and lead released in the explosion of industrialisation. Plugs of the moss have been sourced from Scotland and cultivated in a nursery for planting out by the Yorkshire Peat Partnership who say the moss has been vital to peat formation in these regions for years & flourishing sphagnum moss is crucial to reducing wildfire risk.
February 13, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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freedomtodoubt.bsky.social
here's one such place in Shropshire ..
February 13, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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carolannie.bsky.social
Nodding thread moss
#Photography #SeattleWashington #Mosses #Bryophytes #OurNeighborhood #MapleLeafNeighborhood
A patch of green moss growing on the side of a stone fence has little sporophytes sporting green sporangia with translucent opercula at their tips. The thin sporophyte stem is reddish and fades to a translucent green, the sporangium is like a small, long green barrel, and the operculum is like a green water drop at the tip of of the sporangia. The leafy stems, called gametophytes, are very green and wet.
February 13, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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duckinwales.bsky.social
A great #FernFriday today. Spent the day at the World Museum in Liverpool identifying our filmy ferns from #Honduras. #BritishPteridologicalSociety #EdgeHillUniversity
Thin green frond of Hymenophyllum showing a clam shaped sorus containing spherical sporangium. A delicate Trichomanes frond showing bell shaped involucria Pinnules with immersed involucria and long trichomes. A frond being held up with two people in the background.
February 13, 2026 at 7:25 PM
fernymoss.bsky.social
These tiny moss piglets (tardigrades) are often found living in and feeding on mosses and lichens.
sailorrooscout.bsky.social Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 1d
Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪
February 13, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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cianoceallaigh.bsky.social
Coill i Cluain na binne, thuaidh ó Maigh cuilinn. Very lush limestone woodland and some Neckera crispa and Ctenidium molloscum sporophytes, never consciously noticed these before
February 12, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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chloelewis.bsky.social
Ivy, harts tongue ferns, pennyworts & moss on stone bank #Devon #WildflowerHour
Old stone wall covered in moss studded with pennyworts, harts tongue ferns, trailed with ivy.
February 8, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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chloelewis.bsky.social
Old bank, high on hillside - a semi-permeable barrier to slow water flowing off the hills, reducing flood risk in the valley below, preventing soil from washing away in runoff. An abundance of plant life drinking up that slowed water, supporting birds & animals.
Stone bank, once the base of a hedgerow. Now the hedge shrubs have grown out into full size trees, the roots of the trees growing down through the gaps between the moss covered rocks, creating an even more complex network of spaces to shelter wildlife. The grass, moss & wild plants create habitat and food for all sorts of tiny invertebrates & nesting material for birds.
February 13, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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FACETS Journal is on the lookout for a Co-Editor-in-Chief! If you have expertise in evolutionary ecology, conservation, biodiversity, or environmental sciences, we want to hear from you.

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#CallForApplications #EditorInChief
A serene forest stream flowing over moss-covered rocks with text inviting applications for Co-Editor-in-Chief at FACETS.
February 11, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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mosssafari.bsky.social
Ever seen a live Moss Safari? Here's your chance. Join me for one or all five one hour sessions to discover what lives in moss. Learn to see the world differently. Book Now - Limited Spaces www.ticketebo.co.uk/moss-safari
Promotional poster for “Moss Safari Monthly”. Green illustrated design advertising live online microscopy sessions exploring the same moss habitat over five months. Text highlights one-hour Zoom events on the fourth Wednesday of each month from February to June 2026, 7–8pm UK time. Includes pricing (£10 per session or £40 for all five), recordings included, and a limit of 25 participants. Dates are listed alongside microscope, moss, and calendar illustrations, with buttons for “More Information” and “Book Now” and the website mosssafari.com.
February 8, 2026 at 9:16 AM
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robyaxley.bsky.social
Hi George @ilichenmoss2.bsky.social any idea what this might be on Metzgeria furcata? 🙏
February 13, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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pilning.bsky.social
A few from Wednesday with the wildlife group in a limestone quarry near Pant. Grey Shoulder-knot found on a rock face, the striking #bryophyte Neckera crispa and possible Trichia meylanii, a slime-mould on a rotting log. #teammoth
Grey Shoulder-knot found by one of the group who was looking for lichens. Neckera crispa on moist slopes of limestone quarry. Good site for bryophytes but I didn't photograph many. A slime mould on a rotting log, Trichia meylanii was suggested as an ID by the most slime-mould-acquainted person in the group
February 13, 2026 at 10:27 AM
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celsii-botanicals.bsky.social
Hymenophyllum tunbrigense for #fernfriday
I visited this fern where it was originally found in Tunbridge Wells (hence the namesake) and coming from the NW of England, was amazed to find a stronghold of traditionally Atlantic species hidden in the gorges of the Weald 🪴

#botany #plants
#ferns #nature
Tunbridge Filmy Fern was almost completely lost here due to collection and destruction during Victorian fern mania. So, if you do go searching- treat it with utmost care!
February 13, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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markavery.bsky.social
Or is it just identifying that fern?
lbflyawayhome.bsky.social Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 11d
“The cat on the path is looking at the blue-tits, as cats do at birds they cannot reach”

Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL GrantWatson
February 13, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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jessiewhchen.bsky.social
I'm working on an article about early microscopic observations of ferns and the resulting images. Taking the opportunity, the core team of #VisualizingtheUnknown returned to the Museum Boerhaave yesterday for a MicroLab to observe fern sporangia and spores through early modern microscopes together!
February 13, 2026 at 2:21 PM
fernymoss.bsky.social
Spores getting launched!

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Fern Spores under a microscope
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February 12, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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tenoaks6.bsky.social
where news is forgotten

#peace #nature #photography #wellbeing #forestwalks #art
the smell of moss on a winters day clears the mind of now. it's everywhere in this open break of dense forest. it covers the ground debris like a blanket of calm absorbing everything that once lived high in the trees. cheeky ferns tease, 'you can't get me' but there is no competition for all is well and watched over by the sentries who for generations have minded this land. in the distance a sunbeam enfolded in blue sky.
February 12, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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henkw28.bsky.social
Het is nevelachtig weer, mooi om er op uit te trekken met een camera. Op de foto het Gewoon Muursterretje (Tortula muralis).

#mos #macrofotografie #regendruppels #natuurfotografie
February 11, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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treebeard793.bsky.social
Whilst out Snowdrop hunting for the @bsbibotany.bsky.social @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social Flora of Cumbria Recording Group, we found some lovely patches of Manton''s Polypody, Polypodium x mantonii, & a large stand of Rustyback, Asplenium ceterach. Underbarrow, #Cumbria
#WildFernHour #wildflowerhour
Manton''s Polypody Polypodium x mantonii Rustyback Asplenium ceterach
February 8, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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htsbiotechmoss.bsky.social
My good friend and director of the natural history museum of Denmark is looking for a curator for #bryophytes. Thus, if you like these small #plants, you should really apply. Great place to work, great city and amazing plants.

#sciencejobs #plantscijobs

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We are hiring a Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator in Bryology at the National Natural History Museum Denmark, in central Copenhagen. Duties are collection-based research, curation of a… ...
We are hiring a Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator in Bryology at the National Natural History Museum Denmark, in central Copenhagen. Duties are collection-based research, curation of a h...
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February 11, 2026 at 8:59 AM
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celsii-botanicals.bsky.social
Bazzania trilobata
One of the largest UK liverworts identifiable by its hummock formimg behaviours and three-lobed 'feet' that create a millipede-like appearance.

#moss #bryophytes
#ukbotany #marcophotography #uknature #plants
Bazzania trilobata showing its three-lobed leaves and thread-like branches. It forms loose, upright hummocks that stand out immediately compared to other oceanic liverwort species. Displaying it's more open, flat form. A humidity loving species that grows over rocks, trees, and sometimes just woodland floors in the wetter Western parts of the UK. In drier places, you're more likely to find it associated with microclimates such as ravines and wooded gorges.
February 12, 2026 at 7:39 AM
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nature-in-charge.bsky.social
Pylaisia polyantha. An attractive silky epiphyte, once an infrequent species but doing well at Broughton Sanctuary, Skipton - now seen in 3 wet woods. Slender erect capsules on dark setae, conical lids and capsule exothecial cells have uniformly thickened cell walls. @bbsbryology.bsky.social
Moss in situ; capsules have dark setae and conical lids Leaf; ~1mm, similar to Hypnum resupinatum Capsule outer surface (left) and inner surface (right) Capsule exothecial cells with uniformly thickened cell walls
February 11, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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10-day time-lapse of moss growth | 2021 Small World in Motion Competition
Wojtek Plonka - 10-day time-lapse of moss growth
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February 11, 2026 at 3:43 PM