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It's been a long wait but an advance copy of 'Grasshoppers' has finally arrived. It's been worth the wait with excellent printing

The fruiting bodies of Hydnangium carneum or the flesh-pink truffle are found just protruding from the soil’s surface. The lattice like internal structure is full of beautiful spiny spores.

The fruiting bodies of Hydnangium carneum or the flesh-pink truffle are found just protruding from the soil’s surface. The lattice like internal structure is full of beautiful spiny spores.

Our mycologists were taken by surprise this week when a visiting researcher found a curious pink truffle-like fungus under eucalyptus trees in the gardens.

Utilities give up hope on using hydrogen in their gas grids – report

As you can guess: this is not a failure for hydrogen in any sense of the word. The goal was not to use hydrogen in gas grids, it was to offer a cynically fabricated promise of a solution to allow for more time to kill regulations and fight electrification.

And it absolutely worked:

woman, sat painting the model of a huge fish

'Ethel King adds the finishing painterly touches to a large specimen of groper in preparation for display at an international exhibition in Dunedin, New Zealand'
G.C. Clutton, ca. 1926

Seedling growing in the forest

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The artist Niki Simpson pioneered the use of #digital techniques that were developing in the early 2000s for the purpose of botanical illustration, as shown here in her piece on the Poinsettia. #christmas #EYADigital

Curator of Natural Sciences - Warwick,Warwickshire job with Warwickshire County Council | 250490 About Heritage and Culture Warwickshire Heritage and Culture Warwickshire (HCW) provide a wide range of services that help local communities and ...

Curatorial job with significant geological and palaeontological collections at Warwick Museums.

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A stuffed African grey parrot displayed on a stand

A life-sized wax figure of Frances Stuart, dressed in robes and a coronet, on display in a museum gallery. Beside her is a stuffed gray parrot on a stand.

This parrot is one of the more unusual items in the Abbey's collection. It belonged for 40 years to Frances Stuart, Duchess of Richmond, and is on display with her funeral effigy in our museum, The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries. It's thought to be the oldest stuffed bird in the UK.

#EYAPets

Historical illustration from a 1918 German mushroom guide showing three types of mushrooms growing in grass. At the top left are "Wiesen-Ellerling," with broad, fan-shaped caps in shades of orange and a small bright red mushroom nearby. To the right are "Nelken-Schwindling," featuring several mushrooms with brownish-orange convex caps and slender stems. At the bottom left are "Tränender Hautkopf," depicted with smooth, rounded beige caps and a smaller mushroom beside them. Text in German identifies each mushroom and notes edibility: the first two are edible ("Essbar"), while the third is inedible ("Ungenießbar"). The style is detailed and naturalistic.

🍄 Taschenbuch für Pilzsammler: Leipzig: Hesse & Becker, 1918.

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Birmingham Museums Trust have launched their fundraising campaign, Your Museums Your Move, aiming to raise £2 million to protect and deliver bold ambitions for the city. Watch the video, help spread the word about the campaign, and lend your support here:
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Group of grey-brown mushrooms on a green background. Credit: Trish Bloodworth, Runner up in 2026 UK Fungus Day photography competition.

Our 2026 field mycology events include a workshop for beginners to build knowledge & develop skills, and practical field meetings for those more experienced in fungus recording.
Find all BMS events here: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/events.html

Hand-drawn botanical illustration of red-capped mushrooms labeled Amanitopsis pulchella, with additional dried mushroom specimens and handwritten notes on a beige paper background.

Ever seen fungal illustrations? 🍄 Our Fungarium Sequencing Project Team is thrilled to show some of the original illustrations that were created when the species were first described as new to science. In some cases, this is the only visual reference material of the original fungus that we have! 🧵👇

I'm not saying we need to alter services, just that the tickets on those empty trains should be extremely cheap. Why not offer £1 tickets? - that could really shift demand away from peak demand services

If it is really to manage demand why are the nearly empty trains going the opposite direction to the busy trains - say out of cities in the morning also ruinously expensive?

Really interesting article.

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Slop graphics in academic journals Use this form to share graphics (e.g., figures, covers, graphical abstracts) made using generative A.I. that have appeared in academic journals. The plan is to compile these slop graphics in an ope...

If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form:

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Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes.

#AcademicChatter

She also shared pro-Assad conspiracy theories during the Syrian civil war, which almost never fails as a mark of a genuine wrong un

Very rare fungus recorded in Alderney for first time A date waxcap, a fungus listed as vulnerable, is discovered by an ecologist in Alderney.

Very rare fungus recorded on island for first time. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Terana caerulea

#Teranacaerulea #Terana #BlauerRindenpilz #Rindenpilz #cobaltcrust #velvetbluespread #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #champignons #champignon #nature #natur #FungiFriends

Two taxidermy birds in a storage cage. On the left is a bird is bright hot orange, whereas the one on the right has faded to a muted baby pink

Here's a lesson in light-damage in #museums. #Taxidermy exposed to the light fades over time, ultimately creating specimens that no longer resemble the species they are supposed to represent. These two South American cock-of-the-rocks at Birmingham Museums are a clear "before & after".

A blank grey paper folder on a brown wooden surface.

Numerous coloured illustrations of mushrooms layered on top of each other so that corners and sections of pages are obscured. On each sheet there are light pencil annotations next to the illustrations.

What #EYABeauty lies on the inside of this unassuming folder? We're showing off Elsie Wakefield's fungi illustrations today 🍄 Wakefield became Head of Mycology at Kew Gardens in 1915 and our Archives hold her personal papers collection, which includes letters, illustrations and photographs. #KewLA

Psilocybin Mushrooms in Their Natural Habitats By PAUL STAMETS A Guide to the History, Identification, and Use of Psychoactive Fungi

Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews.
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Sarea resinae (syn. Zythia resinae)
on Pinus sylvestris resin
#fungifriends #fungi #mycology #mushrooms #mushroomsky #shroomscrolling #ascomycetes #pezizomycotina

Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like Hallucinations Between traditional folklore and modern biology, the wild forest floor and the sterile scientific laboratory, lies the story of the lilliputian mushroom.

Interesting boletus type Asian #fungi looks like the bicolor bolete in New England, with a very unlike effect:

“Lilliputian hallucinations — a rare, clinically defined psychiatric syndrome [of the] perception of numerous little people autonomously moving about and interacting in the real-world”

Marasmius hudsonii - Holly Parachute found in Stourbridge this morning #FungiFriends

The Spatial Frequency Content of Urban and Indoor Environments as a Potential Risk Factor for Myopia Development - PubMed Compared to natural outdoor images, man-made outdoor and indoor environments have spatial frequency characteristics similar to those known to induce form-deprivation myopia in animal models. The spatial properties of the man-made environment may be one of the missing drivers of the human myopia epid …

It's not necessarily just looking into the distance that's important but what you've looking at - natural environments are more visually complex whereas artificial ones have bigger areas with the same colours and textures pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32986814/

New #Thismia description just dropped in @phytokeys.pensoft.net
Please welcome Thismia selangorensis, a beautiful new mitriform species described by Siti Munirah from vicinity of Kuala Lumpur #Malaysia

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FLORA AGARICINA NEERLANDICA EDITED BY MACHIEL E. NOORDELOOS - THOMAS W. KUYPER - INGE SOMHORST ELSE C. VELLINGA Volume 7 Boletales: Machiel E. Noordeloos - Henk C. den Bakker - Sietse van der Linde Russulales: Mieke Verbeken - Jorinde Nuytinck Machiel E. Noordeloos Candusso Editrice

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Everything about this event is indescribably cursed

Sadly just 1 of the volumes, but that did make it much cheaper than the full set