Achieved my goal of the weekend of seeing bears in the smokies #smokymountains #bears #gaitlinburg

#FungiFriday
“Mycena interrupta, aka Pixies Parasol, is a stunning blue mushroom found in Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, and Chile. It’s found in rainforests or beech & eucalyptus forests, growing in small colonies on rotting, moist wood.”🔍

Source: ultimate-mushroom.com/inedible/114...

Crossing another National Park off my List #SmokyNationalPark

A quartet of rain-wet golden pholiota mushrooms grow from the side of a mossy snag under PNW sunshine. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

Happy #WorldFrogDay!🐸

We apologize to all frogs and toads, for not having nearly enough of these amazing animals on our covers. We will do better.

Putting it out there, but the Lewis Lab at @universityofga.bsky.social is looking for post doc’s for projects in Neurospora crassa and Chromatin. Feel free to reach out, share, or find Zack or myself during #FGC26 if you’re interested.

Cold winter hike out to the Scenic Caves Suspension Bridge here in Collingwood Ontario Canada. The white in the beard is definitely only snow…

Mycena chloroxantha

Mycena chloroxantha photographed recently in Oxapampa, Peru. The round cells are cherocytes which make up the universal veil - whitish, spiny acanthocytes are also visible. Described in 1983 from Brazil by Rolf Singer.

Mushroom Observer # 628987 / iNat 341877230

#fungifriends #mycology #mycena

A large mushroom with inverted gills that flare upward instead of downward grows out of the ground, which is covered in bright orange pine needle duff. The gills are a magnificent blue-green color after aging. The mushroom's color starts as vibrant orange and over time turns into the blue-green color we see in this shot. Hints of its original orange color are seen in spots throughout the gills.

Thanks for showing off your gorgeous green gills! Lactarius aurantiosordidus turns a beautiful blue-green as it ages 💙💚

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/3, ISO 400
Stack of 11 images
11/9/24
Northern Oregon Coast

#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms

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First time building a terrarium and enjoyed the process so much. Went for the ancient lab site with some new hazmat researchers. Might become a new hobby.

#terrariums #plants

SCIENCE IRL: SciComm mini-grant 2026 Skype a Scientist is offering $300-$1,000 mini-grants to support boots-on-the-ground science communication. The Science IRL mini-grants will support projects that put either 1) important science mess...

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The 2026 Science IRL mini-grant application is NOW OPEN!

Submit your creative ideas for connecting people with actionable science information *offline*.

The deadline for this round of grants is March 23, 2026.

Apply here!
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Congressional reform idea of the week: Congress is not allowed to leave on vacation until a full and functional budget is passed for the entire government.

If it’s been more than 6 months on CRs, they don’t get weekends either.

Image of a bearded, bald, and morose Charles Darwin, with his famous quote “I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything”

Happy birthday, Chuck.

Proud to carry on your legacy of studying evolutionary biology while going through it

Photo taken February 1, 2026, at my field in #NorthernCalifornia of some mushrooms growing on an oak tree that has passed. #photography #nature #FungiFriends #fungi #mushrooms

Please enjoy our research paper on how Bluesky is the preferred home of academics of all stripes, including professors of rare moths. (Yes, we actually have lots of entomologists here).

academic.oup.com/icb/article-... 🧪

Every politician says "more housing." It's not enough to say "more housing." We should demand a serious housing agenda.

Build millions of public units. Pass a nationwide tenant bill of rights. Ban hedge funds owning homes.

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Trump’s name appears in the Epstein files more than God’s name appears in the Bible.

NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics?
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up

Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

What do you MEAN the president audibly SHIT himself live on camera and they immediately cancelled the press conference and rushed everyone out of the room like it's a fire drill, and it happened two days ago, and I'm just hearing about it NOW?

Maximum intensity projection showing dorsal vasculature of the first gill arch of a CUBIC-cleared adult kdrl:mCherry zebrafish. Fluorescent signal was pseudocoloured using the PBIYC lookup table in ImageJ. Analysis of this endothelial reporter enabled detailed mapping of gill vascular development and revealed distinct medial and lateral filament types. Credit text to the journal Development. See Research Article by Preußner et al. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.204984

Adult zebrafish gill vasculature. Credit to @mathpreu.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Rice students create nationwide ICE tracker to monitor immigration enforcement The students had been teaching weekly children's classes as volunteers. One day, the kids stopped showing up.

ICYMI, Rice University students have developed a free online map to track ICE activity throughout the country.

Find it here: www.icemap.dev.

Gift link to @houstonchronicle.com story about it:
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Oh… my… f***. While not the only author I’ve read, but a significant one in the field, I’ve enjoyed his books. They’re great scientific narrations and got me into infectious disease but knowing this makes my want to purge any and all knowledge out of my head. I’m gonna be sick

A fungus growing on an old tree.

Unusual pinky purple stylings of Silverleaf fungus.

🍄 #FungiFriends #FungiFriday

Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores.

TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.

Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.

Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

Signal boosting this request!

Kurt Maloney saying "You know what does matter? When your friend says you're not hot". Sam Reich replies "Now 'hot' I think is uncontestable. And I say that because we look similar. Jacob Wysocki says "Yeah if Kurt's not hot, you're not hot for sure."

Bearded host in a striped suit holding a "Make Some Noise" card at a colorful desk above a cheerful contestant pointing and joking on a game-show set.

the transitive property of mr. kurt

Victorian-style AI slop. A small girl in a blue dress whose name is not Alice for copyright reasons stands in a forest and stares up at an absurdly giant mushroom, surrounded by many other biologically inaccurate fungi. The scene attempts to hint at fungal diversity, scale, and deep evolutionary relationships. Roughly what happens when you reanalyze ~2,000 fungal genomes and realize how much biology is still hiding in the woods.

What can we learn from comparing ~2,000 fungal genomes?

Find out about:

🍄evolutionary transitions
🍄lifestyles
🍄genome dynamics
🍄sampling gaps
🍄efforts to uncover the remaining fungal dark matter

New review by @jgi.doe.gov's Stephen Mondo and Igor Grigoriev

www.nature.com/articles/s41...