Fay Newbery
@fayrnhawk.bsky.social
Plant pathologist with an interest in microfungi on plants, lichens, lichenicolous fungi and aquatic hyphomycetes.
The #AquaticHyphomycete online group have another great programme lined up this week. @zimingwang.bsky.social will be talking to us about isolating living spores for culture work. We'll also be talking about the importance of recording these fungi and whether there is a best way to do that.
November 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The #AquaticHyphomycete online group have another great programme lined up this week. @zimingwang.bsky.social will be talking to us about isolating living spores for culture work. We'll also be talking about the importance of recording these fungi and whether there is a best way to do that.
Gorgeous. I love it when a painting reaches out a 'speaks' to me.
November 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Gorgeous. I love it when a painting reaches out a 'speaks' to me.
How I wish I had the skills to do this!! Your work is beautiful @alicelaigle.bsky.social and so meaningful too. Does anyone have some tips on how someone who cannot draw can achieve the same purpose in a notebook?
Some mushrooms we identified at the Society of Mycology of Neuchâtel and around (www.smne.ch).
❓how to memorise them all?
🎨 My manner is to paint them. It takes up a lot of time, but once I see them again, I know who they are!
🍄🐡 #Sciart #fungifriends #mushrooms #illustrations #watercolor
❓how to memorise them all?
🎨 My manner is to paint them. It takes up a lot of time, but once I see them again, I know who they are!
🍄🐡 #Sciart #fungifriends #mushrooms #illustrations #watercolor
November 11, 2025 at 10:32 AM
How I wish I had the skills to do this!! Your work is beautiful @alicelaigle.bsky.social and so meaningful too. Does anyone have some tips on how someone who cannot draw can achieve the same purpose in a notebook?
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Waxcap 26 - Grey Waxcap (Cuphophyllus lacmus). A beautiful and uncommon species. The decurrent gills are a smoky grey and the cap a very stunning lilac grey. The cap often has some striations.
November 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Waxcap 26 - Grey Waxcap (Cuphophyllus lacmus). A beautiful and uncommon species. The decurrent gills are a smoky grey and the cap a very stunning lilac grey. The cap often has some striations.
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Are you a field mycologist, fungal biology researcher, or mycology student? Join our webinar on 11 December to hear how publishing with BMS journals can support both your career & the global mycology community. 👉 Book now: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/mycology_pub...
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#mycology #research #publishing
October 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Are you a field mycologist, fungal biology researcher, or mycology student? Join our webinar on 11 December to hear how publishing with BMS journals can support both your career & the global mycology community. 👉 Book now: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/mycology_pub...
#mycology #research #publishing
#mycology #research #publishing
Another great issue of this newly open access journal. Enjoy!
Field Mycology issue 26(3) is up on the internets 😎
▶️ doi.org/10.63482/cjr...
I think it's a good one -- you should read it. It's free!
cc. @britmycolsoc.org.uk
▶️ doi.org/10.63482/cjr...
I think it's a good one -- you should read it. It's free!
cc. @britmycolsoc.org.uk
Vol. 26 No. 3 (2025): Field Mycology - October 2025
| Field Mycology
doi.org
October 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Another great issue of this newly open access journal. Enjoy!
For a gentle introduction to aquatic hyphomycetes, try my article out today in Field Mycology 26(3) fieldmycology.org/index.php/jo...
View of Fun with aquatic hyphomycetes
fieldmycology.org
October 28, 2025 at 7:51 AM
For a gentle introduction to aquatic hyphomycetes, try my article out today in Field Mycology 26(3) fieldmycology.org/index.php/jo...
Reposted by Fay Newbery
New OA publication from TreE_PlaNat project @uktreescapes.bsky.social in Ecological Solutions and Evidence: Creating woodland through natural processes: Current understanding and knowledge gaps in Great Britain besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Creating woodland through natural processes: Current understanding and knowledge gaps in Great Britain
Natural colonisation can successfully create structurally diverse, locally adapted woodlands in Britain, but the outcomes of this process can vary considerably. Combining natural colonisation and tre...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:08 AM
New OA publication from TreE_PlaNat project @uktreescapes.bsky.social in Ecological Solutions and Evidence: Creating woodland through natural processes: Current understanding and knowledge gaps in Great Britain besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Reposted by Fay Newbery
Large citizen science datasets are powerful tools for biodiversity science, but they may have biases. Nice new paper from @louisbackstrom.bsky.social et al. showing that for eBird and Birdtrack lists there is a tendency for rare species to be over-represented
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
October 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Large citizen science datasets are powerful tools for biodiversity science, but they may have biases. Nice new paper from @louisbackstrom.bsky.social et al. showing that for eBird and Birdtrack lists there is a tendency for rare species to be over-represented
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Last week Swiss #MoSTFun team sampled the Basòdino glacier in Ticino, to look for #aquaticfungi. 💧🍄
This is part of a larger sampling campaign to fill the knowledge gap on aquatic fungi diversity associated to glaciers.
Get in touch if you want to know more about our work or collaborate with us.
This is part of a larger sampling campaign to fill the knowledge gap on aquatic fungi diversity associated to glaciers.
Get in touch if you want to know more about our work or collaborate with us.
October 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Last week Swiss #MoSTFun team sampled the Basòdino glacier in Ticino, to look for #aquaticfungi. 💧🍄
This is part of a larger sampling campaign to fill the knowledge gap on aquatic fungi diversity associated to glaciers.
Get in touch if you want to know more about our work or collaborate with us.
This is part of a larger sampling campaign to fill the knowledge gap on aquatic fungi diversity associated to glaciers.
Get in touch if you want to know more about our work or collaborate with us.
We had a thoroughly enjoyable, and very informative, first meeting of the online #AquaticHyphomycete group yesterday. @isabelrfernandes.bsky.social gave us methodology and tips for collecting and fixing foam samples.
October 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
We had a thoroughly enjoyable, and very informative, first meeting of the online #AquaticHyphomycete group yesterday. @isabelrfernandes.bsky.social gave us methodology and tips for collecting and fixing foam samples.
Only three days now until our first online session on #AquaticHyphomycetes There’s still time to sign up by emailing aquatichyphomycetes@gmail.com Andi Bruder will be giving us a quick overview of this special ecological group...
A new Zoom-based chat group focussing on #AquaticHyphomycetes will be starting on 8th October. Join us in the evening (BST) to chat and learn about this fascinating group of fungi. Contact me at aquatichyphomycetes@gmail.com if interested. @britmycolsoc.org.uk @funaction.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Only three days now until our first online session on #AquaticHyphomycetes There’s still time to sign up by emailing aquatichyphomycetes@gmail.com Andi Bruder will be giving us a quick overview of this special ecological group...
The app makes this a great survey for teenagers (as well as the rest of us!)
Many lichen species are sensitive to nitrogen pollution, making them natural indicators of air quality.
📱LicheN is a new app enabling people to help monitor air quality using lichens. Data gathered will improve understanding of N pollution and its impacts on ecosystems.
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📱LicheN is a new app enabling people to help monitor air quality using lichens. Data gathered will improve understanding of N pollution and its impacts on ecosystems.
buff.ly/AmWAOQB
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October 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The app makes this a great survey for teenagers (as well as the rest of us!)
I’m working backwards through time at this waterfall. September’s sample contained only two spores from #AquaticHyphomycetes: one each of Tricladium splendens and Triscelophorus accuminata.
September 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I’m working backwards through time at this waterfall. September’s sample contained only two spores from #AquaticHyphomycetes: one each of Tricladium splendens and Triscelophorus accuminata.
I collected another sample from this waterfall today. I've now got monthly collections from April to September and I intend to keep collecting through the winter. Just need to find time to look at how the species composition changes through the year.
September 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I collected another sample from this waterfall today. I've now got monthly collections from April to September and I intend to keep collecting through the winter. Just need to find time to look at how the species composition changes through the year.
The Freshwater Biology Association still has stocks of Ingold’s book ‘Guide to #AquaticHyphomycetes’. This illustrates not only the spores that he found, but how they developed from hyphae on the surface of leaves www.fba.org.uk/shop/p/book-10
Guide to Aquatic Hyphomycetes - SP30. — Freshwater Biological Association
An illustrated guide to Auatic and Water-Bourne Hyphomycetes (Fungi Inperfecti) with notes on their biology
Author: C T Ingold
Publisdhed by FBA, 1975
Format Soft Cover, 96 pages
ISBN: 900386223
www.fba.org.uk
September 24, 2025 at 6:18 AM
The Freshwater Biology Association still has stocks of Ingold’s book ‘Guide to #AquaticHyphomycetes’. This illustrates not only the spores that he found, but how they developed from hyphae on the surface of leaves www.fba.org.uk/shop/p/book-10
Great photos!
September 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Great photos!
I think this looks lovely! Definitely 'arty'.
Fringed Water-lily on a heathland pond. I went for arty - not quite sure I pulled it off!
#WildflowerHour #DailyNature
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
#WildflowerHour #DailyNature
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
September 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I think this looks lovely! Definitely 'arty'.
Snap! A broken off stem in this case, with the seed head lying on the ground.
September 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Snap! A broken off stem in this case, with the seed head lying on the ground.
#AquaticHyphomycetes are sometimes known as Ingoldian fungi. CT Ingold of University College, Leicester was the first researcher to study this group of fungi when he looked at species growing on alder leaves in a stream doi.org/10.1016/S000...
September 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
#AquaticHyphomycetes are sometimes known as Ingoldian fungi. CT Ingold of University College, Leicester was the first researcher to study this group of fungi when he looked at species growing on alder leaves in a stream doi.org/10.1016/S000...
People are starting to sign up for this online learning and sharing group. I'm looking forward to learning to ID more species with the help of Andreas Bruder @isabelrfernandes.bsky.social @jandbio.bsky.social and @zimingwang.bsky.social
A new Zoom-based chat group focussing on #AquaticHyphomycetes will be starting on 8th October. Join us in the evening (BST) to chat and learn about this fascinating group of fungi. Contact me at aquatichyphomycetes@gmail.com if interested. @britmycolsoc.org.uk @funaction.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
People are starting to sign up for this online learning and sharing group. I'm looking forward to learning to ID more species with the help of Andreas Bruder @isabelrfernandes.bsky.social @jandbio.bsky.social and @zimingwang.bsky.social
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Thrilled to launch yet another #CitizenScience campaign for @fundive-fungi.bsky.social 🙃
The campaign' accompanying flyer is published in the open-access platform Zenodo, free to download, share, and cite: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#UrbanBiodiversity #FunDive #Mycology #Conservation #iNaturalist
The campaign' accompanying flyer is published in the open-access platform Zenodo, free to download, share, and cite: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#UrbanBiodiversity #FunDive #Mycology #Conservation #iNaturalist
September 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Thrilled to launch yet another #CitizenScience campaign for @fundive-fungi.bsky.social 🙃
The campaign' accompanying flyer is published in the open-access platform Zenodo, free to download, share, and cite: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#UrbanBiodiversity #FunDive #Mycology #Conservation #iNaturalist
The campaign' accompanying flyer is published in the open-access platform Zenodo, free to download, share, and cite: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#UrbanBiodiversity #FunDive #Mycology #Conservation #iNaturalist
What would you like to learn about #AquaticHyphomycetes if you came along to these online sessions? How aquatic hyphomycetes fit into the ecology of streams and rivers? How to collect them? How to identify them? Where to find ID resources? What questions would you want to pose?
A new Zoom-based chat group focussing on #AquaticHyphomycetes will be starting on 8th October. Join us in the evening (BST) to chat and learn about this fascinating group of fungi. Contact me at aquatichyphomycetes@gmail.com if interested. @britmycolsoc.org.uk @funaction.bsky.social
September 13, 2025 at 11:10 AM
What would you like to learn about #AquaticHyphomycetes if you came along to these online sessions? How aquatic hyphomycetes fit into the ecology of streams and rivers? How to collect them? How to identify them? Where to find ID resources? What questions would you want to pose?
A new Zoom-based chat group focussing on #AquaticHyphomycetes will be starting on 8th October. Join us in the evening (BST) to chat and learn about this fascinating group of fungi. Contact me at aquatichyphomycetes@gmail.com if interested. @britmycolsoc.org.uk @funaction.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 7:52 AM
A new Zoom-based chat group focussing on #AquaticHyphomycetes will be starting on 8th October. Join us in the evening (BST) to chat and learn about this fascinating group of fungi. Contact me at aquatichyphomycetes@gmail.com if interested. @britmycolsoc.org.uk @funaction.bsky.social
Collecting #AquaticHyphomycete spores is easy. They get caught up in large numbers in river foam. Foam can be scooped up into a jar. @funaction.bsky.social @britmycolsoc.org.uk @panspecieslisting.bsky.social @msafungi.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Collecting #AquaticHyphomycete spores is easy. They get caught up in large numbers in river foam. Foam can be scooped up into a jar. @funaction.bsky.social @britmycolsoc.org.uk @panspecieslisting.bsky.social @msafungi.bsky.social