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Clare Blencowe

@clareblencowe.bsky.social

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Field mycologist with a passion for grassland fungi. Interested in the history of mycology. Bang into biological recording. Located in West Sussex, UK.

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Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · Jul 31

Got some more of the good stuff for you, myco people and #FungiFriends.

It's the latest issue of the Field Mycology publication 🍄📖😃

fieldmycology.org/index.php/jo...

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Isabel Fernandes (she/her) @isabelrfernandes.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 3d

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 · 26d

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 · 2d

🍄 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 · 6d

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 · 3d

"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 · 4d

Every day is #UKFungusDay for me.

Caloboletus calopus - Bitter Beech Bolete

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Plantlife @plantlifeuk.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 6d

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 · 7d

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

Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 8d

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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Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 8d

I love how you've captured the gills on that parasol.

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 8d

Fungi, galls and snoozing ladybirds from a walk along Sutton Bank, North Yorkshire, last week.
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#fungi
#invertebrates

Pen and watercolour sketches of fungi and oak galls

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Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 8d

This is an excellent idea, do you fancy writing one? 😃🍄💡

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Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 8d

I'm keen to get a blend of shorter and more accessible features, alongside the more technical articles reporting species new to Britain and wotnot. So perhaps 1500 words plus a two-page photo-spread?

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Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 9d

I'm thinking 'corticioid centrefold' and I have the power to make this happen if someone writes me the content.

MWAH HAH HA HAH HAHHH!!!

Could feature 12 stunning crusts and DEFY readers to be indifferent to them.

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Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 10d

It all counts! It is enough 👍

Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 10d

In 1946 the heimat (homeland) that Gramberg wrote of became Kaliningrad, still a Russian exclave on the Baltic sea.

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Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 10d

Reminds me that I got my Mum to translate the foreword to this for me, during lockdown.

I was fascinated by the history surrounding Gramberg who wrote «Pilze Der Heimat» in Königsberg, which he & his family later escaped from, at the end of WW2.

I think I meant to write it up but I never did.

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Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 11d

Checking out the night moves of a couple of local craneflies. Pictured here under torchlight, making themselves at home on the sinister Entoloma sinuatum.

▶️ uk.inaturalist.org/observations...

Two craneflies are perched on the cap of a greyish-cream coloured mushroom cap. The surroundings are a woodland floor: a stick and ivy leaves creeping over the leaf litter.

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 11d

I think this wins the 'weirdest book I can find in TK Maxx' award today @clareblencowe.bsky.social

Book cover: the diary of a drug fiend and other works by Alister Crowley

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Dr. Danny Haelewaters 🏳️‍🌈🍄🪰🦇🔬🧬 @dhaelewa.bsky.social · 11d

Seeing Rhodotus palmatus (common name: wrinkled peach) in Białowieża National Park this week reminded me that I should finalize an old manuscript on this fungus in the USA. Spoiler: American collections of R. palmatus are a different species! #studentproject #summerschool #taxonomy 🍄🍑

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Clare Blencowe @clareblencowe.bsky.social · 11d

I thought I saw your dog outside Tesco's in Kew village yesterday - looked at me just like that.