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Toby Spribille @spribille.bsky.social · Jul 7

A fun collaboration led by Alan Fryday, @ddiazescandon.bsky.social, Tracy Thai and several colleagues from the Grootbos Nature Reserve in South Africa, with a bonus revisit of the class Lichinomycetes plus a novel, very strange ITS insertion link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The genus Caeruleum (Lichinomycetes, incertae sedis): A new species from South Africa and a preliminary revision of the genus in North America - Mycological Progress

We describe the new species Caeruleum terricola from Grootbos Private Nature Reserve in the Overstrand Municipality of Western Cape Province, South Africa. The new species occurs on consolidated soil ...

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Joe DiMeglio @dimeglio.bsky.social · Jul 8

Good times at MSA @uehlinglab.bsky.social @fungaljess.bsky.social

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jul 8

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

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Bruce McCune @brucemccune.bsky.social · Mar 30

A big revision for the Lecanora saligna group -- six new species in Lecanoropsis. This is a common group of crustose lichens in western North America and elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Jesse Miller @texosporium.bsky.social · Mar 25

I'm happy to share that @wyowildbotany.bsky.social and I have published a report on the status of federally listed and recently delisted plants in WA.

We report on population trends and synthesize research on some of Washington's rarest plants.

www.dnr.wa.gov/publications...

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Mar 24

"What has made our universities the greatest in the world, however, is not just the quality of our undergraduate education, but our ability to fulfill one of the central quests of modern life: the production of new knowledge thru discoveries that change the world."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/o...

Opinion | Universities Gave Us the iPhone, the Jet Engine and Gatorade. We’re Tossing That Away.

The postwar compact on research that powered America’s economic and military dominance is under threat.

www.nytimes.com

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Joe DiMeglio @dimeglio.bsky.social · Mar 21

Good for him

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John Villella @jvillella.bsky.social · Mar 21

Pannaria oregonensis is a rare species endemic to moist lowland habitats of northwest North America, seen here on Hooker’s willow in a costal dune complex on the central Oregon coast.

Foliose gray-purple pannarioid with red marginate apothecia forming a rosette on a willow branch

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · Mar 17

Orchid Bee, Colombia #BlueMonday
Males (like this) collect volatile chemicals, from orchids and other sources, to create complex scents to impress females. They collect chemicals with their front legs, transfer them to the middle legs, then finally into storage pockets in the enlarged rear legs.
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A macro photo of a brilliant blue metallic bee clinging to a flake of brown lichen or fungus, with out of focus vegetation in the background.

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Joe DiMeglio @dimeglio.bsky.social · Mar 18

That Orchid Bee is pretty cool, but Sticta she’s landed on is RADICAL!! My favorite lichen genus.

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PeterBMeme @peterbmeme.bsky.social · Mar 15

The #ElectoralCollege is #DEI for #RedStates

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John Villella @jvillella.bsky.social · Mar 15

Gabura insignis is a unique hypercoastal cyanolichen in the Pacific Northwest distinguished by its wrinkled warty isidiate thallus that greatly expands when wet, seen here in a dry state growing on conifer twigs at the mouth of the Salmon River, Lincoln County Oregon.

Black jelly lichen with warty laminal ididia growing on twigs

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Joe DiMeglio @dimeglio.bsky.social · Mar 14

Spineless cuck

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John Villella @jvillella.bsky.social · Mar 12

Letharia columbiana is a common endemic wolf lichen in the inland Northwest. It is distinguished by the chartreuse colored thallus from vulpinic acid and the prominent brown apothecia, seen here near Cottonwood Meadow Lake in Fremont-Winema National Forest, Lake County, Oregon.

Brown apothecia on chartreuse fruticose thallus

Vulpinic colored lichen on conifer branch

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Joe DiMeglio @dimeglio.bsky.social · Mar 11

Rubio is a scumbag.

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John Villella @jvillella.bsky.social · Mar 11

Pseudocyphellaria rainierensis is a specklebelly lichen restricted to ancient stands of old-growth and endemic to the Pacific Northwest temperate rainforest, seen here along the Ohanapecosh River, Lewis County, Washington.

Large foliose lichen with strap-like lobes with mint green upper surface, light orangish white underside with white spots (pseudocyphellae) and prolific marginal lobules

Large colony of old-growth specklebelly in ancient forest understory

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John Villella @jvillella.bsky.social · Mar 9

Parmelina coleae is a epiphytic lichen characteristic of the Mediterranean type climate of the California Floristic Province, seen here growing on an ancient Garry oak at the northern edge of its range at Upper Table Rock in Jackson County, Oregon.

White foliose lichen with adnate lobes and large maroon apothecia

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John Villella @jvillella.bsky.social · Mar 7

Ricasolia amplissima ssp. amplissima occurs only as a dendriscocauloid cyanomorph in southern Oregon, seen here growing on a horizontal branch of an ancient Garry oak in a lichen rich oak savannah near Antelope Creek in the foothills of the Cascade Mountain of Jackson County.

Fruticose cyanolichen growing among mosses and other lichens

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John Villella @jvillella.bsky.social · Mar 6

Cetrelia cetrarioides is an uncommon rag lichen living on red alder in low elevation riparian forests in the Pacific Northwest. Distinguished by pseudocyphellae on the upper & lower surfaces & elongate soralia along smooth thallus margins. Seen here along Mill Creek in downtown Turner, Oregon.

White foliose parmelioid lichen with elongate soralia on thallus margins, pseudocyphellae in the form of subtle white dots are found on both the upper and lower surfaces

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John Villella @jvillella.bsky.social · Mar 4

Nephroma tropicum is a commonly encountered kidney lichen in the rainforests of the Pacific Northwest, distinguished among local Nephroma species by the abundant marginal lobules. Seen here along the Nisqually River in the Longmire Springs area of Mount Rainier National Park, Washington.

Foliose cyanolichen with prolific marginal lobules growing on small twig

Brownish kidney lichen with marginal lobules growing on small conifer branch

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Plantlife @plantlifeuk.bsky.social · Feb 28

We've returned one of England’s rarest lichens to its historic home🏠

Scrambled Egg Lichen has been reintroduced to Norfolk from Cornwall via a trial translocation🍳

Thanks to Cornwall Wildlife Trust & Norfolk Wildlife Trust, with funding from Natural England

Learn more
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he Rare Lichen that Travelled from Cornwall to Norfolk

An incredible story of returning one of England’s rarest lichens to its historic home – more than 350 miles away.

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Peter R. Nelson @petnel.bsky.social · Feb 28

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Rob Yaxley @robyaxley.bsky.social · Feb 28

Excited to see how this goes. I helped the Plantlife team dig in the thalli…

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Peter R. Nelson @petnel.bsky.social · Feb 27

Spend your money as if it were your vote tomorrow Feb. 28 (and everyday in my mind). Our democracy and our economy (our ability to make enough to survive) depends on it.

Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · Feb 27

Friday, Feb 28 2025.
BOYCOTT BUYING EVERYTHING MAJOR.
Buy local. Eat local. Have a day of savings. Make Oligarchs cry.

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Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · Feb 28

I often imagine crustose lichens as alien landscapes. A close up pic of a Porpidia species #lichen. #Newfoundland, Canada. #fungi

Close up photo of an orange crustose lichen growing over rock. The orange surface looks cracked, like drying mud. It’s dotted with small black discs which are the spore producing structures called apothecia.

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