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Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me About Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival by Maria Pinto Naturalist Pinto celebrates the interconnectedness of the natural world in this joyful mix of memoir, science, history, and adve...

"A treat for nature lovers and mushroom aficionados."

First pre-pub review for FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS by @aravensgrace.bsky.social is in from @publisherswkly.bsky.social 🤩🍄

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A black book cover with slightly warped brownish beige mushrooms growing from the edges, a cartoonish illustration of an Ophiocordyceps- infected ant, and a handwriting-like font with the title, blurb, and author name written in it.

my book of essays inspired by the hunt for mushrooms is available for pre-order, y’all! 🥳

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i put everything into FSD, and hope you’ll find some of that everything in its pages when you hold it in your hands in October
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A book called The Birding Dictionary: a tongue in cheek guide for people who find themselves obsessed, against all logic and reason, with birds. By Rosemary Mosco

THE BIRDING DICTIONARY, a small and dare I say very funny book, comes out May 6. Preorder it wherever you love to buy books. I think this will make a good gift for any birder, funny person, or parrot who enjoys shredding things.
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same to you!

Black woman wearing glasses, a scarf to tie back her hair, and a gray cowl neck sweater holding three large morel mushrooms in the woods

a low-angled morel mushroom with a deflated looking cap on the forest floor in the foreground, a Black woman crouched in the background and holding another morel mushroom

are you northeast loves ready with your food thermometers to check ground temps daily in anticipation of the arrival of these weirdos?
#morchella
#whoelsearewefightingfor

peach colored mushroom with fleshy teeth under the cap rather than gills, and a small dark spider hanging upside down from silk underneath the mushroom’s cap. all this surrounded by moss, lichen, and pine needles

this is your trickster exposure therapy channel
tricks are for kids and adults and the dead

this hedgehog mushroom makes a fragrant ceiling for anansi’s drama

can you get down with the shenanigan?

the future is a prank. both jumpscare and rich, psychological thriller. are you a prankster?
#hydnum

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

a bespectacled woman in a blue shirt in the woods holds a long, gilled mushroom seen from below…there is dirt covering about 6 of the mushroom’s 12 inches of stipe/ stem

some Oudemansiella species can look like they’re growing right from the soil, but all it takes is determined digging to see that what you’ve got is an iceberg among mushrooms, and it’s growing from buried deadwood sometimes as deep as a 6 inches beneath the surface!

they really are 🥰

pinkish fungi with red droplets of liquid oozing from them on the forest floor surrounded by pine needles with a Black hand in the background

who else are we fighting for?

‘bleeding tooth’ fungi i encountered in Oaxaca a couple augusts ago. these mushrooms are know for their blood red guttation, that is, the excess liquid they exude as a metabolic byproduct (like when we sweat!)

#hydnellum

a woman sits straddling a log covered in oyster mushrooms in the woods, smirking at the camera in a black leather jacket and yellow beanie

dr mushlove

What nature and science podcasts should I interview with?

a deer skull half clad in fur sits in the grass against a straw market basket with a red barn in the background

what else are we fighting for?

that every creature should decompose nobly rather than being snuffed by the preventable

when i checked to make sure it was still true before posting it was the 4th result but the first with an image--now it's as you say...i don't know how these things work at all but i like to think we had a small hand in giving it a boost

a hand holds 4 moth pupae with fungi erupting from them in the form of orange clubs. in the background on the grass are two sets of feet, one belonging to the author

who else are we fighting for?

insect pathogens, who keep the balance

here Cordyceps militaris appears as orange clubs periscoping from hawk moth pupae in New Hampshire

#cordycepsmilitaris

who else are we fighting for?

lion’s mane. these beautiful saprobes/ weak parasites might be mistaken for a tribble or your cheerleader sibling’s pom pom, but they’re mushies

found last month when i delivered the keynote at Sonoma County Mycological Association’s annual camp!

#hericiumerinaceus

thank YOU!

low-key obsessed that O. sinensis can do both, that is-- live on a plant as an endophyte till it gets munched by its eventual lepidopteran host!🥰

if you're impatient for season two of The Last Of US in April, peep my pinned post to read about how everything is clearer viewed through a fungal lens

the first time my mom saw a cybertruck, she was wracked by instant nausea, hurried home & googled “ugly car” as she gagged. despite the enshittification of google that first page knew exactly what she meant

this snag is having a million good ideas at once

beige-brown puffball mushrooms festoon a moss covered tree in the foreground with the well-framed booty of a woman wearing black yoga pants and a yellow sweatshirt with the woods in the background

all the shock and awe distraction they’re using to keep us confused & give us whiplash, under the assumption we’ll be too stunned, do too much infighting to move as a unit—as several units, as makeshift assemblages? remember how well it works when when planning ~your~ actions

#apioperdonpyrifrome

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

The protests going on right now are not the same as 2016 or 2020. You are seeing a social movement in its Proto phases before we know what the final form looks like.This is something much bigger than anything We’ve seen probably since occupy much larger and angrier then 2016 or 20 time to turn it up

thanks so much for reading, picking up what i hoped to put down, and sharing, Stace!

Don't Fear the Fungus - Orion Magazine What 'The Last of Us' got wrong and how fungi can teach us to see

i wrote about “The Last of Us” and how moving past mycophobia here in the US could heal a lot of shit needs healing

that's precisely what i'm not doing!

several slender, yellow and pinkish tan mushrooms arranged on a mossy rock among pine needles with a torso in the background

black and white bolete mushrooms with a wooly look, one seeming to shelter the other, in the grass among pine duff

a tannish yellow mushroom that looks just like coral with its straight and narrow individual fingers all coming from a central stipe on the forest floor

a hand with 5 mushrooms in an arc across the palm and fingers, some of the mushrooms exuding white latex, a quotation mark tattoo on the wrist and woodland in the background

in honor of “president’s day,”Craterellus, Strobilomyces, Ramaria, and Lactifluus mycelium ask how much we’re really gonna let them get away with this notion, this illusion, of absolute, centralized, discrete power

even old man of the woods is like whut

right? completely undeterred despite the admittedly clever trick. enjoyed the above bad boy roasted over some tomago kake gohan. i think the sugars in the “latex” make them especially good at caramelizing

who else are we fighting for?

the milky charm of latex-producing milk cap mushrooms.
this “milk” is similar in chemical composition to what issues from a rubber tree upon tissue damage and is thought to be an attempt to deter those who would monch

#corrugatedmilkcap
#lactifluushygrophoroides