Ian Senior
@ians4ad.bsky.social
4AD nut, shoegazer, ex Plant Biologist now Web Developer at Oxford Uni. Committee Member of the Friend's of Earlham Cemetery. Fungi botherer & flora finder with some of Norfolks best botanists & field mycologists
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Twitter: @Ians4AD
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Twitter: @Ians4AD
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Waxcap 37 - Vermilion Waxcap (Hygrocybe miniata). A species generally found on more acidic soils. Cap is red/orange but usually closer to orange and slightly domed. Gill attachment is usually adnate. A finely squamulose species best confirmed with microscopy.
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Waxcap 37 - Vermilion Waxcap (Hygrocybe miniata). A species generally found on more acidic soils. Cap is red/orange but usually closer to orange and slightly domed. Gill attachment is usually adnate. A finely squamulose species best confirmed with microscopy.
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Waxcap 42 - Date Waxcap (Hygrocybe spadicea). A very shy fruiting species so not often encountered and also restricted to the better sites. Stipe is yellow with brown fibrils, gills generally yellow but can be orange. The brown conical cap is incredibly distinctive!
November 24, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Waxcap 42 - Date Waxcap (Hygrocybe spadicea). A very shy fruiting species so not often encountered and also restricted to the better sites. Stipe is yellow with brown fibrils, gills generally yellow but can be orange. The brown conical cap is incredibly distinctive!
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Waxcap 41 - Orange Waxcap (Hygrocybe aurantiosplendens). A chunky species and good indicator of special sites. The hygrophanous umbonate cap can start a deep red but is usually orange and fading to yellow. The large contorted stipe is often yellow but can also be orange.
November 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Waxcap 41 - Orange Waxcap (Hygrocybe aurantiosplendens). A chunky species and good indicator of special sites. The hygrophanous umbonate cap can start a deep red but is usually orange and fading to yellow. The large contorted stipe is often yellow but can also be orange.
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I was super pleased to find the Lesser Calamint, Clinopodium nepata, still in flower at Lesnes Abbey (LB Bexley) on Tuesday. I thought I had missed it for this year. It has a delicious minty aroma. #WildflowerHour
November 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I was super pleased to find the Lesser Calamint, Clinopodium nepata, still in flower at Lesnes Abbey (LB Bexley) on Tuesday. I thought I had missed it for this year. It has a delicious minty aroma. #WildflowerHour
Night flowering catchfly flowering in the Norfolk gloom. Huge plant for round here too. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour
November 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Night flowering catchfly flowering in the Norfolk gloom. Huge plant for round here too. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour
Wild carrot from yesterday's Norfolk Flora group meeting @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour
November 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Wild carrot from yesterday's Norfolk Flora group meeting @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour
Fiddleneck from yesterday's Norfolk Flora group meeting #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Fiddleneck from yesterday's Norfolk Flora group meeting #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Hybris violet from yesterday's Norfolk Flora group meeting @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour
November 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Hybris violet from yesterday's Norfolk Flora group meeting @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour
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Olive Oysterling mushrooms (Sarcomyxa serotina or Panellus serotinus) aka Late Oyster taken today on a dead tree near Red Moss of Balerno Nature Reserve. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #Nikon @scotwildlife.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Olive Oysterling mushrooms (Sarcomyxa serotina or Panellus serotinus) aka Late Oyster taken today on a dead tree near Red Moss of Balerno Nature Reserve. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Photography #Nikon @scotwildlife.bsky.social
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A little early for #Wildflowerhour, but I need to get on and cook dinner now ... we had a #NorfolkFloraGroup meeting yesterday on a 'less rainy than expected' sort of day and found shed-loads of pale galingale Cyperus eragrostis growing around a flooded concrete pad near Tunstead, East Norfolk.
November 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A little early for #Wildflowerhour, but I need to get on and cook dinner now ... we had a #NorfolkFloraGroup meeting yesterday on a 'less rainy than expected' sort of day and found shed-loads of pale galingale Cyperus eragrostis growing around a flooded concrete pad near Tunstead, East Norfolk.
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Though I’ve only encountered it a handful of times, the aborted form of the blushing rosette (Abortiporus biennis) is among my favorite fungi! These coral-like projections are not filled with basidiospores, but instead are filled with ellipsoid to subglobose asexual chlamydospores! #Mushrooms
November 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Though I’ve only encountered it a handful of times, the aborted form of the blushing rosette (Abortiporus biennis) is among my favorite fungi! These coral-like projections are not filled with basidiospores, but instead are filled with ellipsoid to subglobose asexual chlamydospores! #Mushrooms
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When I went to the woods today, I did not expect to find so many depressed hedgehogs (Hydnum umbilicatum). Needless to say, only the hedgehogs were depressed. #Mushrooms #FungiFirst
November 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
When I went to the woods today, I did not expect to find so many depressed hedgehogs (Hydnum umbilicatum). Needless to say, only the hedgehogs were depressed. #Mushrooms #FungiFirst
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Although these findings from JWST are yet to be confirmed, they mark the closest astronomers have come to locating the universe’s most ancient stars
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
The James Webb Telescope May Have Seen the First Stars in the Universe
Although these findings from JWST are yet to be confirmed, they mark the closest astronomers have come to locating the universe’s most ancient stars
www.scientificamerican.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Although these findings from JWST are yet to be confirmed, they mark the closest astronomers have come to locating the universe’s most ancient stars
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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Discovery of rare #protist reveals previously unknown branch of eukaryotic tree of life phys.org/news/2025-11...
Rare microbial relict sheds light on an ancient eukaryotic supergroup www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Protists #Microbes #Evolution #Eukaryotes #TreeOfLife
Rare microbial relict sheds light on an ancient eukaryotic supergroup www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Protists #Microbes #Evolution #Eukaryotes #TreeOfLife
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Discovery of rare #protist reveals previously unknown branch of eukaryotic tree of life phys.org/news/2025-11...
Rare microbial relict sheds light on an ancient eukaryotic supergroup www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Protists #Microbes #Evolution #Eukaryotes #TreeOfLife
Rare microbial relict sheds light on an ancient eukaryotic supergroup www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Protists #Microbes #Evolution #Eukaryotes #TreeOfLife
Like their Australian counterparts, UK cemeteries are places preserving high biodiversity, which is otherwise lost in their surrounding builtup environments.
Interesting article about rare orchids in cemeteries in Australia.
Interesting article about rare orchids in cemeteries in Australia.
The critically endangered Pale Yellow Doubletail orchid (Diuris flavescens) thrives in a NSW cemetery
#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #conservation #nature
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #conservation #nature
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Rare orchids and wattles thrive in old cemeteries
Australian cemeteries have become a safe haven for flora and fauna affected by urban expansion, including a rare orchid unique to a small patch of the NSW Mid North Coast.
www.abc.net.au
November 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Like their Australian counterparts, UK cemeteries are places preserving high biodiversity, which is otherwise lost in their surrounding builtup environments.
Interesting article about rare orchids in cemeteries in Australia.
Interesting article about rare orchids in cemeteries in Australia.
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Penstemon moffatii, our Moffat's Beardtongue, blooming in
Bangs Canyon #nativeplants
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to May 22 🌿
Bangs Canyon #nativeplants
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to May 22 🌿
November 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Penstemon moffatii, our Moffat's Beardtongue, blooming in
Bangs Canyon #nativeplants
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to May 22 🌿
Bangs Canyon #nativeplants
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to May 22 🌿
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Xerocomellus diffractus - a likely ID - is known as the Cracked-cap Bolete. This one was in a perfect and colorful stage.
📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/15, ISO 400
Stack of 29 images
10/23/25
Mt. Hood, Oregon
#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms
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📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/15, ISO 400
Stack of 29 images
10/23/25
Mt. Hood, Oregon
#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms
🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄🟫
November 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Xerocomellus diffractus - a likely ID - is known as the Cracked-cap Bolete. This one was in a perfect and colorful stage.
📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/15, ISO 400
Stack of 29 images
10/23/25
Mt. Hood, Oregon
#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms
🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄🟫
📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/15, ISO 400
Stack of 29 images
10/23/25
Mt. Hood, Oregon
#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms
🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄🟫
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The US ice core research community, with international partners, has recovered valuable records of past climate from the Arctic & Antarctic since the 1950s.
Here is a sampling of cores—including 6,000,000 year old ice via NSF Center for Oldest Ice Exploration—at the NSF Ice Core Facility.
Here is a sampling of cores—including 6,000,000 year old ice via NSF Center for Oldest Ice Exploration—at the NSF Ice Core Facility.
November 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The US ice core research community, with international partners, has recovered valuable records of past climate from the Arctic & Antarctic since the 1950s.
Here is a sampling of cores—including 6,000,000 year old ice via NSF Center for Oldest Ice Exploration—at the NSF Ice Core Facility.
Here is a sampling of cores—including 6,000,000 year old ice via NSF Center for Oldest Ice Exploration—at the NSF Ice Core Facility.
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Waxcap 40 - Blushing Waxcap (Neohygrocybe ovina). This one's my favourite! A chunky species, often early fruiting and restricted to the best sites. Cap is grey to black and often splitting, resembling cowpats. The gills and stipe are a beautiful grey and the gills bruise red!!
November 22, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Waxcap 40 - Blushing Waxcap (Neohygrocybe ovina). This one's my favourite! A chunky species, often early fruiting and restricted to the best sites. Cap is grey to black and often splitting, resembling cowpats. The gills and stipe are a beautiful grey and the gills bruise red!!
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The second Rubus hybrid seen with #NorfolkFloraGroup today was Rubus ulmifolius x vestitus, a common hybrid worth knowing. Intermediate with parents: hairy purple primocanes, rounded terminal lobes with white undersides. Inflorescences typically not developing fruit.
November 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The second Rubus hybrid seen with #NorfolkFloraGroup today was Rubus ulmifolius x vestitus, a common hybrid worth knowing. Intermediate with parents: hairy purple primocanes, rounded terminal lobes with white undersides. Inflorescences typically not developing fruit.
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"A roadmap to the halting of deforestation was dropped from the final deal, a bitter disappointment for nature advocates at this 'Rainforest COP'":
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff
Wealthy countries agree to triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
"A roadmap to the halting of deforestation was dropped from the final deal, a bitter disappointment for nature advocates at this 'Rainforest COP'":
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Yesterday's walk to Crummock Water is now on my site here:
andrewswalks.co.uk/crummock-wat...
andrewswalks.co.uk/crummock-wat...
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Yesterday's walk to Crummock Water is now on my site here:
andrewswalks.co.uk/crummock-wat...
andrewswalks.co.uk/crummock-wat...
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Cortinarius vanduzerensis
The most impressive slime veil of any mushroom that I am familiar with in California. Why invest so much energy in a slimy cap? Could be the ability to trap arthropods attempting to eat the gills or just a way to deal with rain.
#mushrooms #fungi #mendocino #california
The most impressive slime veil of any mushroom that I am familiar with in California. Why invest so much energy in a slimy cap? Could be the ability to trap arthropods attempting to eat the gills or just a way to deal with rain.
#mushrooms #fungi #mendocino #california
November 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Cortinarius vanduzerensis
The most impressive slime veil of any mushroom that I am familiar with in California. Why invest so much energy in a slimy cap? Could be the ability to trap arthropods attempting to eat the gills or just a way to deal with rain.
#mushrooms #fungi #mendocino #california
The most impressive slime veil of any mushroom that I am familiar with in California. Why invest so much energy in a slimy cap? Could be the ability to trap arthropods attempting to eat the gills or just a way to deal with rain.
#mushrooms #fungi #mendocino #california
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Russia's ambassador to the UK, Yakovenko, boasted about Brexit to another diplomat:
“We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees and will not rise for a very long time”
Today, Farage’s close ally, leader of Reform in Wales, was sentenced to 10yrs for taking bribes from Russia.
“We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees and will not rise for a very long time”
Today, Farage’s close ally, leader of Reform in Wales, was sentenced to 10yrs for taking bribes from Russia.
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.
bloom.bg
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Russia's ambassador to the UK, Yakovenko, boasted about Brexit to another diplomat:
“We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees and will not rise for a very long time”
Today, Farage’s close ally, leader of Reform in Wales, was sentenced to 10yrs for taking bribes from Russia.
“We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees and will not rise for a very long time”
Today, Farage’s close ally, leader of Reform in Wales, was sentenced to 10yrs for taking bribes from Russia.
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The Covid Inquiry report doesn't offer any surprises. The huge mistakes made were knowable at the time and repeatedly warned against by many of us.
And in relation to preparing for the burden of post viral chronic disease, I don’t think we’re in any better position with a future pandemic.
And in relation to preparing for the burden of post viral chronic disease, I don’t think we’re in any better position with a future pandemic.
November 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The Covid Inquiry report doesn't offer any surprises. The huge mistakes made were knowable at the time and repeatedly warned against by many of us.
And in relation to preparing for the burden of post viral chronic disease, I don’t think we’re in any better position with a future pandemic.
And in relation to preparing for the burden of post viral chronic disease, I don’t think we’re in any better position with a future pandemic.