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An opportunity of a lifetime for budding lichenologists. The National Trust and the Royal Botanics, Edinburgh are offering a PAID lichen traineeship in #Scotland! The work programme looks fascinating and a great opportunity to develop skills. Deadline: 3/10/2025. www.asva.co.uk/jobs/trainee...
September 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
An opportunity of a lifetime for budding lichenologists. The National Trust and the Royal Botanics, Edinburgh are offering a PAID lichen traineeship in #Scotland! The work programme looks fascinating and a great opportunity to develop skills. Deadline: 3/10/2025. www.asva.co.uk/jobs/trainee...
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2/2 …fortunately a bit distinctive. Note large, black apothecia with pruina (powdery coating) and umbos (plugs of sterile tissue), which are characteristic of this species. Chemical tests still necessary to confirm identification: K+ yellow turning red, and Pd+ yellow-orange, from norstictic acid.
September 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
2/2 …fortunately a bit distinctive. Note large, black apothecia with pruina (powdery coating) and umbos (plugs of sterile tissue), which are characteristic of this species. Chemical tests still necessary to confirm identification: K+ yellow turning red, and Pd+ yellow-orange, from norstictic acid.
BLS will welcome applications from members for travel grants to attend IAL10 next summer. The full details of the application process and closing date for applications are on the website.
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September 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
BLS will welcome applications from members for travel grants to attend IAL10 next summer. The full details of the application process and closing date for applications are on the website.
britishlichensociety.org.uk/the-society/....
britishlichensociety.org.uk/the-society/....
Happy World Rainforest Day! Join April Windle from the British Lichen Society to explore one of Devon’s finest temperate rainforests and the #lichens found there. Full video can be found on YouTube: youtu.be/OjCsyR6CThk?... #worldrainforestday #worldrainforestday2025
June 22, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Happy World Rainforest Day! Join April Windle from the British Lichen Society to explore one of Devon’s finest temperate rainforests and the #lichens found there. Full video can be found on YouTube: youtu.be/OjCsyR6CThk?... #worldrainforestday #worldrainforestday2025
Happy World Rainforest Day! #Lichens are an important feature of these wonderful habitats. From loop lichens, to yellow speckle-belly’s to the red eyed shingle lichen & everything in between - they add so much beauty to our rainforests! #worldrainforestday2025 #worldrainforestday
June 22, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Happy World Rainforest Day! #Lichens are an important feature of these wonderful habitats. From loop lichens, to yellow speckle-belly’s to the red eyed shingle lichen & everything in between - they add so much beauty to our rainforests! #worldrainforestday2025 #worldrainforestday
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Stepped into the wonderful world of tree lichens this weekend with @britishlichensociety.org.uk in Somerset. It’s both challenged and enriched how I think about rock and stone lichens and I’ll be exploring those crevices more closely from now on 🔬👀
June 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Stepped into the wonderful world of tree lichens this weekend with @britishlichensociety.org.uk in Somerset. It’s both challenged and enriched how I think about rock and stone lichens and I’ll be exploring those crevices more closely from now on 🔬👀
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Collecting lichens to explore their role in degrading plant litter whilst on the branch @britishlichensociety.org.uk
June 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Collecting lichens to explore their role in degrading plant litter whilst on the branch @britishlichensociety.org.uk
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Delighted my new article on stone lichens and conservation is out with @uk.theconversation.com. It’s time to think differently about stone…
theconversation.com/how-lichens-...
theconversation.com/how-lichens-...
How lichens are bringing stone to life and reconnecting us with the natural world
Lichens bridge the living and non-living – understanding them allows us to better see how to conserve our heritage, and also ourselves.
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May 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Delighted my new article on stone lichens and conservation is out with @uk.theconversation.com. It’s time to think differently about stone…
theconversation.com/how-lichens-...
theconversation.com/how-lichens-...
A great weekend at the end of February for the BLS Winter Workshop at Preston Montford, led by Neil Sanderson, Brian Coppins & John Douglass, working through lots of problem specimens and a trip to Alcott Woodlands. Photos (c) Douglass #lichens
March 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
A great weekend at the end of February for the BLS Winter Workshop at Preston Montford, led by Neil Sanderson, Brian Coppins & John Douglass, working through lots of problem specimens and a trip to Alcott Woodlands. Photos (c) Douglass #lichens
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We've returned one of England’s rarest lichens to its historic home🏠
Scrambled Egg Lichen has been reintroduced to Norfolk from Cornwall via a trial translocation🍳
Thanks to Cornwall Wildlife Trust & Norfolk Wildlife Trust, with funding from Natural England
Learn more
👉 bit.ly/4hWieOP
Scrambled Egg Lichen has been reintroduced to Norfolk from Cornwall via a trial translocation🍳
Thanks to Cornwall Wildlife Trust & Norfolk Wildlife Trust, with funding from Natural England
Learn more
👉 bit.ly/4hWieOP
he Rare Lichen that Travelled from Cornwall to Norfolk
An incredible story of returning one of England’s rarest lichens to its historic home – more than 350 miles away.
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February 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
We've returned one of England’s rarest lichens to its historic home🏠
Scrambled Egg Lichen has been reintroduced to Norfolk from Cornwall via a trial translocation🍳
Thanks to Cornwall Wildlife Trust & Norfolk Wildlife Trust, with funding from Natural England
Learn more
👉 bit.ly/4hWieOP
Scrambled Egg Lichen has been reintroduced to Norfolk from Cornwall via a trial translocation🍳
Thanks to Cornwall Wildlife Trust & Norfolk Wildlife Trust, with funding from Natural England
Learn more
👉 bit.ly/4hWieOP
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What better excuse than #ShroveTuesday to draw attention to the (admittedly vaguely) pancake-like fruiting bodies of the cudbear lichen, Ochrolechia tartarea. As well as being an ancient woodland indicator commonly found in Scotland's rainforest it was once used to dye clothes. 👉 buff.ly/4dv8E2E 1/2
March 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
What better excuse than #ShroveTuesday to draw attention to the (admittedly vaguely) pancake-like fruiting bodies of the cudbear lichen, Ochrolechia tartarea. As well as being an ancient woodland indicator commonly found in Scotland's rainforest it was once used to dye clothes. 👉 buff.ly/4dv8E2E 1/2
Want to find out more about lichens, there are events listed in March in Cumbria, Hampshire, Shropshire, and Tayside britishlichensociety.org.uk/the-society/...
March 4, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Want to find out more about lichens, there are events listed in March in Cumbria, Hampshire, Shropshire, and Tayside britishlichensociety.org.uk/the-society/...
Finally its February - a new month with events and walks available if you're interested in lichens. Walks listed in Cumbria, Hampshire, Shropshire, Fife and Strathclyde
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February 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Finally its February - a new month with events and walks available if you're interested in lichens. Walks listed in Cumbria, Hampshire, Shropshire, Fife and Strathclyde
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BMS Talk: Diversity and conservation of lichens, a free online talk on the 19th February by Dr Rebecca Yahr, from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. #lichenGBI #lichen
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The British Mycological Society
Enter the world of fungal biology research, conservation and education…
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January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
BMS Talk: Diversity and conservation of lichens, a free online talk on the 19th February by Dr Rebecca Yahr, from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. #lichenGBI #lichen
www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/resources/ev...
www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/resources/ev...
Take your lichenology to the next level! Places are available on a BLS Intermediate Stage 1 course in N. Wales in October 2025. Perfect for anyone aiming to move from beginner to early intermediate level. Application deadline: 18 February. Full details: britishlichensociety.org.uk/the-society/...
Intermediate Level 1 lichen course ( LEAF 1): Rhyd y Creuau, Wales
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January 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Take your lichenology to the next level! Places are available on a BLS Intermediate Stage 1 course in N. Wales in October 2025. Perfect for anyone aiming to move from beginner to early intermediate level. Application deadline: 18 February. Full details: britishlichensociety.org.uk/the-society/...
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As promised below, R farinacea field notes now live! Can be confused with other Ramalina or Evernia prunastri, especially if immature or stunted. But it's Britain's most pollution-tolerant Ramalina, which helps explain wide distribution. You'll likely find it nearby! aspenecology.com/ramalina-far...
January 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
As promised below, R farinacea field notes now live! Can be confused with other Ramalina or Evernia prunastri, especially if immature or stunted. But it's Britain's most pollution-tolerant Ramalina, which helps explain wide distribution. You'll likely find it nearby! aspenecology.com/ramalina-far...
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Highlighting the amazing work of @puginiercamille.bsky.social on algal evolution and the lichen symbiosis. @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Highlighting the amazing work of @puginiercamille.bsky.social on algal evolution and the lichen symbiosis. @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social
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Hunting for frosty Cladonia in the Cairngorms this morning. Glad to get fieldwork out of the way before the impending cataclysm of Storm Eowyn
January 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Hunting for frosty Cladonia in the Cairngorms this morning. Glad to get fieldwork out of the way before the impending cataclysm of Storm Eowyn
If you're interested in finding out more about lichens, do look at the British Lichen Society's (BLS) events page for walks, talks and more across the country over the next few months
britishlichensociety.org.uk/the-society/...
britishlichensociety.org.uk/the-society/...
January 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If you're interested in finding out more about lichens, do look at the British Lichen Society's (BLS) events page for walks, talks and more across the country over the next few months
britishlichensociety.org.uk/the-society/...
britishlichensociety.org.uk/the-society/...
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I really liked the approach the @bls-lichens.bsky.social AGM took to recording & the lichen interactive maps yesterday. Having a presenter who only knew one lichen, along with a top field lichenologist, Neil Sanderson,who both contributed data and changed the maps of lichens was inspirational.
January 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I really liked the approach the @bls-lichens.bsky.social AGM took to recording & the lichen interactive maps yesterday. Having a presenter who only knew one lichen, along with a top field lichenologist, Neil Sanderson,who both contributed data and changed the maps of lichens was inspirational.
The field meeting as part of the #BLSAGM2025 has started in Hyde Park, South Kensington. A great turn out from the Society today and thank you so much to the Royal Parks for having us. #lichens
January 12, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The field meeting as part of the #BLSAGM2025 has started in Hyde Park, South Kensington. A great turn out from the Society today and thank you so much to the Royal Parks for having us. #lichens
Final presentation of the AGM is by our former president Neil Sanderson. Neil shares his use of the BLS interactive maps as a professional lichenologist to target lichen recording in his home patch. Finding a new & undescribed Graphis species to science #BLSAGM2025 #lichens
January 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Final presentation of the AGM is by our former president Neil Sanderson. Neil shares his use of the BLS interactive maps as a professional lichenologist to target lichen recording in his home patch. Finding a new & undescribed Graphis species to science #BLSAGM2025 #lichens
The next short talk is by Cassie Laughlin and follows on perfectly from the previous presentation. This talk, titled “inspired by interactive maps” - generating new and important records for Xanthoria parietina. Encouraging everyone to share lichen records with the BLS #BLSAGM2025 #lichens
January 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The next short talk is by Cassie Laughlin and follows on perfectly from the previous presentation. This talk, titled “inspired by interactive maps” - generating new and important records for Xanthoria parietina. Encouraging everyone to share lichen records with the BLS #BLSAGM2025 #lichens
Now for the series of short talks, where we have a great variety of speakers! First up, a recorded presentation by Ann Claypole - “Pedagogical aspects of the interactive map”, where she quotes “distribution maps are at the heart of the BLS” #BLSAGM2025 #lichens
January 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Now for the series of short talks, where we have a great variety of speakers! First up, a recorded presentation by Ann Claypole - “Pedagogical aspects of the interactive map”, where she quotes “distribution maps are at the heart of the BLS” #BLSAGM2025 #lichens
Our fourth presentation of the day, is by Rolf Gademann & T.G. Allan Green titled, “watching lichens at work - chlorophyll fluorescence in ecophysiology”. #BLSAGM2025 #lichens
January 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Our fourth presentation of the day, is by Rolf Gademann & T.G. Allan Green titled, “watching lichens at work - chlorophyll fluorescence in ecophysiology”. #BLSAGM2025 #lichens