Catching up on this lovely idea, since I'm eternally behind on posting my stuff on bluesky. Day 1. Hello! #repostyourart

Painting of cuckoo flowers.

Cuckoo Flower, Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

I 🤎 Number 7.

A Harry Stevens painting for British Rail, a Modernist depiction of a train going over a viaduct in rolling downs - to the right a chalk cliff and sea.

Good morning - I hope you slept like a bird's-foot-trefoil-stuffed dingy skipper - I'm starting with 'Spirit of the Southern', Harry Stevens, acrylic on canvas, 1969. Have a splendid day.

A map of the county of Sussex in the south of England, showing the number of different species of bryophytes recorded in each tetrad (2 by 2 kilometre square). There are a few totally unrecorded on the south-western coastal areas, in parts of mid-Sussex, and in the far east of the county. Those areas are also generally under-recorded and need more work. On the coastal areas and in the low Weald, a well-recorded tetrad may have just 40 to 50 different species, but up in the high Weald, 80 or more is more normal. Some tetrads in that area (and on the north slope of the South Downs) may have 130 or more different species

The current status of bryophyte recording in Sussex. 133 000 records. Few areas are now totally unrecorded, but there is still a fair bit of work to do.

The earliest records date from about 1700, but most are from the late 1980s onwards

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@bbsbryology.bsky.social @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

Flies on mushrooms is a film genre I'd like to see more of.

Here they are (Zygothrica sp) going at it to defend their mushroom kingdom.

El Refugio, Intag, Ecuador

This was so good! Gripping!

Book cover: Pézizomycètes d'Europe with a macro photo of a small fungus with asci and spores visible

Exciting fungi book news: Ascomycete.org will publish the first volume of a series of books titled Pézizomycètes d'Europe this year.

Edited by Nicolas Van Vooren, with contributions from specialists from several countries #MycoBookClub #FungiFriends

Edible and poisonous mushrooms: London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1894. http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2905285

Edible and poisonous mushrooms: London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1894. (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2905285 #nature #illustration #art

Constructing Worlds | Barbican Explore the work of eighteen exceptional photographers from the 1930s to the present day who have changed the way we view architecture and perceive the world around us

Reminds me of a great photographic study of water towers that I saw at the Barbican years ago. www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/201...

An ape with a feathered hat, sitting at a table, with a glas of wine in his hand. The image is from the 1660s.

How I plan to enter the weekend in true 1660s style. #weekendsky

a question for #Botany Bluesky: is there a definitive list of sub-shrubs native to Britain? Thanks

Just to prove that people will write books about... everything!

The shelves have been burning it's been flying off them so fast! 🔥
Another cracker from Geoffrey Kibby, have you got your copy yet?
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Two books on a table, on top of the cardboard packaging they came in. Lichens of Britain & Ireland. And Cup Fungi and other Ascomycetes of Britain & Europe

Delight indeed! Thank you @summerfieldbooks.com 🤩

Fortified by dog wee and wine, this Shepherd's Purse, Capsella bursa-pastoris, is growing strong and tall in a tree pit on the mean streets of Croydon.

Five different aquatic hyphomycete spores dyed with aniline blue. Credit: Fay Newbery.

Fun with aquatic hyphomycetes: Fay Newbery's @fayrnhawk.bsky.social Field Mycology article is an engaging introduction to this understudied group of microscopic fungi, which break down plant material & prevent clogged waterways. See the treasures in river foam here: doi.org/10.63482/044...

Vote for the best of the internet I just voted in The Webby People's Voice Awards and checked my voter registration.

I just voted for UNEARTHED: The need for seeds in the Webby Awards.

... and not just because my boss is in it, I genuinely thought it was great.

100% would recommend 👇

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Sounds similar to my problem which I'm convinced could be solved with just 14% more time every week.

Cambridge offers botany course that inspired Darwin after rare archive uncovered University’s botanic garden will use study materials created by John Stevens Henslow, the naturalist’s mentor, 200 years ago

Great article by @donnalferguson.bsky.social in today's @theguardian.com about Darwin & Henslow's plant specimens & illustrations and the fab new @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social Certificate in Botany: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Links for this course & many others here:
bsbi.org/learn/traini...

Pysanky, the Ukrainian art of egg decorating. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/p...
This book is from 1968 and you can find it in full here

Jealous! Expecting my copy from @summerfieldbooks.com any moment, along with the new Lichens of Britain & Ireland. 🤞

It was a bit much for my British sensibilities, if I'm being completely honest 😂

It's a great course, I'm really enjoying it.

I was at Naturalis in Leiden last week and gotta say they really decided to go for it with the penis bones. #Bacula-tastic

Rich Wright and Matt Wainhouse (quoted in the BBC article) reported a UK sighting in Field Mycology last year.

Role for field mycologists, and anyone else out in the woods, to report Golden Oyster sightings through @britmycolsoc.org.uk FRDBI database or iRecord / iNat.

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An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests. Fungi enthusiasts are doing damage control A rogue mushroom is ripping through North American forests, after escaping from cultivation. As it runs riot, mushroom enthusiasts are rescuing the native fungi in its path.

An engaging and in-depth article on the BBC website about Golden Oyster mushrooms, on the rampage in the UK also.

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This gets a mention in one of the articles in the latest issue of Field Mycology. A fascinating trait.

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Barometer Earthstar Astraeus hygrometricus. This fungus is associated with trees, English Oak at this site. A hygroscopic layer inside the rays causes them to open in damp conditions which are beneficial for spore dispersal. Stover Country Park, Devon thanks @2turrell.bsky.social