Joshua Cole

Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) season the UK 🍄

07.10.2025 10:07 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Whole genome sequencing of historical specimens from the world's largest fungal collection yields high‐quality assemblies High-throughput molecular studies of museum specimens (museomics) have great potential in biodiversity research, but fungal historical collections have scarcely been examined, leading to no comprehe...

Very excited to share that my first 1st author publication is available at the journal of #NewPhytologist !

Congratulations to the entire team that worked on this project including the #KewFungarium Team. 👏 🍄‍🟫

If you are interested in the topic, feel free to read it here: doi.org/10.1111/nph....

16.09.2025 08:09 — 👍 16    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1

My phone’s best attempt at capturing some arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi down the lens… might need to get the camera out but it still looks amazing to me 😅

09.07.2025 13:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Saprotrophy-to-symbiosis continuum in fungi Fungi are one of the most diverse and ecologically important groups of organisms on Earth. They exhibit remarkable diversity in their ecological roles…

Saprotrophy-to-symbiosis continuum in fungi
I enjoyed writing this piece with Tan Hao for the Current Biology special issue on Fungi
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

10.06.2025 09:08 — 👍 21    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0

And of course another bonus photo - Mouse opossum this week

14.02.2025 17:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Another #FungiFriday for my #fungifriends from the Peruvian Amazon 🍄

14.02.2025 17:56 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

And a bonus picture of my alarm clock

17.01.2025 18:59 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#FungiFriday for my #fungifriends from the Peruvian Amazon

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