RAiSE ecology

Happy U.K. Fungus Day. This was drawn using the ink from a shaggy ink cap growing in my own garden.

It’s that time of year again when all mushrooms are out in all their glory 🍄🍄‍🟫. There is around 4000 ‘macro’ fungi species in the UK, so I’ve got quite a few left to photograph. #nature #mushrooms #fungi #mycology #autmn

As Tories vow to scrap ‘failed targets’, how do their climate claims stack up? We fact check Kemi Badenoch and her party after she promised to repeal Climate Change Act if they win power

The arguments in a nutshell in case you find yourself in conversation with the poorly informed.

🔹UNRWA continues expanding its services in the Middle and Southern areas of Gaza, including by rehabilitating shelters and medical facilities.

Our latest report on #Gaza and the #WestBank: www.unrwa.org/resources/re...

A Scarce Bordered Straw moth on rough stoney background.

A Scarce Bordered Straw in the garden trap this morning. Genuinely scarce this far north and appears to be new for the VC.
Portsoy (VC94, Banffshire)

#teammoth
@migrantmothuk.bsky.social

Looking down on a fully open fly agaric. Its round disc shaped cap bright orange red with white spots. Top left - a small chunk is missing. Bottom right - a hole has appeared, probably caused by a slug

Amanita muscaria #fungi

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi recruit the beneficial rhizosphere microbiome of alfalfa to defend against attacks by aphids and a fungal plant pathogen Yingde Li, Youlei Shen, Rongchun Zheng, Panpan Shang, Yajie Wang, Zhibiao Nan, Tingyu Duan This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. In natu…

📰Published📰 Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi recruit the beneficial rhizosphere microbiome of alfalfa to defend against attacks by aphids and a fungal plant pathogen🦠

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Leaf habit, maximum height and wood density of tropical woody flora in Africa: Phylogenetic constraints, covariation and responses to seasonal drought

🍃Recent study uncovers how phylogeny and climate shaped drought strategies in tropical African woody plants. It reveals strong phylogenetic signals in leaf habit and advances modeling leaf habit in relation to tree height and wood density🧪🌍
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🗞️ Blog: buff.ly/NikXrqs

Chemistry of stinging nettles

Taking any angst out on a nettle patch is good for the soul. It also means you have plenty of nettles for nettle compost tea which acts as an awesome fertiliser.
NB: wear thick gloves!
@compoundchem.com

A favorite from my archive a day: Chocolate tube slime mold/Stemonitis splendens (the tiny “legs” always get me).
#fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

10 jours en nature en France cette Juillet pour transformative ecologie transdisciplinaire. #biodiversity #17sdg’s #environment #permaculture #agriculture_ecologique #rewild #restorative #tierrayliberdad #entomologie #mycologie #battiments_ancienne #objectives_durable #renewable #biogas #ecologie

Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal networks in the spotlight — Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative By Corentin Bisot, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

📣 GSBI's latest blog has just been published 🎉

In this blog, Dr. Corentin Bisot showcases their most recent paper in which they used a custom microscope to track the growth of fungal hyphae and the transfer of nutrients between plant and fungi 🦠🍄🌱

Read it here 👇

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The Keeling Curve The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

427.64 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 23-Apr-2025
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

Even a town like #Amstelveen hosts some impressive #UrbanGeology: four times pretty different #limestone. #Goniatite, #ooids, #gastropod (#nerinea) and #hardgrounds with #bioturbation. #geology #rocks ⚒️🧪

The Keeling Curve The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

428.54 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 18-Apr-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

Resilience Tools for Scientists: Facing an Uncertain Future — Climate Psychology Alliance North America This group is designed to build solidarity, metabolize uncertainty, face moral injury and increase resilience among scientists, engineers, science communicators, science instructors and professors, po...

📢 Scientists & STEM professionals 📢
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Climate Psychology Alliance of North America is offering a 6-week program designed to help understand moral injury, build solidarity, work w/ uncertainty, & increase psychological resilience.
Tuesdays: 4:30-6:30 PDT, beginning May 8th.

Climate change is not just a problem of physics but a crisis of justice In an exclusive extract from Friederike Otto’s new book, she says climate disasters result from inequality as well as fossil fuel

'Climate change is not just a problem of physics but a crisis of justice.'

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Yesterday I found RED Lycogala epidendrum/wolf’s milk slime mold. Usually, they are pale orange. I noticed some had red ooze coming out. I read that they can excrete a paste if the outer wall is broken before maturity. Fascinating! More photos below.
#fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

How will bats respond to climate change? Our new paper shows that Nathusius's pipistrelles are likely to expand their European range, but most other bats will lose out. Things look particularly bad for the pond bat, which is already declining rapidly. 🌍🦇#bats #climatechange doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

End of a cut log on a pile. Log is absolutely covered in several types of brightly colored fungus… mostly orange, purple, and white

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#FungiFriday

Lichenomphalia umbellifera lichen, day 19: four photos, the first three are all young ones. The last would be a good album cover for them. Lol
#fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

Lichenomphalia umbellifera lichen, day 15: Growth isn’t always in a straight line but that doesn’t mean it isn’t growth.
#fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

Two Chromoseras taken yesterday. The caps with their distinctive indentations below. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

For those wondering… not as dry as it looked :/

Extinction Rebellion Kigali joined the #UniteAgainstClimateFailure campaign. Collage of photographs showing a learning session in progress. A banner says “climate action knows no borders”

In Rwanda, XR #Kigali joined the #UniteAgainstClimateFailure campaign!
They held a climate education session at G.S Gatenga, then hit the streets for a climate march, raising their voices for #ClimateJustice
Climate Action knows no borders ❤️✊🏽
#ExtinctionRebellion