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Lukas Large
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Natural Science Curator. Natural History, particularly fungi, Museums, Heritage & Art

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Although rare in the south of the uk I was delighted to find chrysomphalina grossula, green navel, for the second time this year in Bernwood forest. Both times on old ,mossy stumps, probably spruce. #fungifriends #mycology #naturephotography
December 26, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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biodiversitypix.bsky.social
🍄 Icones mycologicæ, ou Iconographie des champignons de France principalement Discomycetes, Paris: P. Klincksieck, L. Lhomme, successeur, 1905-10.

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Illustration of Geoglossum ophioglossoides mushrooms, showing three dark, elongated, tongue-shaped fruiting bodies emerging from small root-like bases with fine green vegetation around one. Surrounding detailed scientific drawings depict microscopic structures of the fungus with segmented, elongated spore formations in green and gray tones. The labeled parts include spores and hyphae, highlighting cellular texture and form. The image, from a 1905-10 French mycological publication, combines naturalistic and microscopic views for identification and study of this mushroom species.
December 25, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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westmidsfungi.bsky.social
Merry Christmas!
A christmas card illustrated with a toad sitting on a toadstool. The text is: A Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year
December 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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mycologycorner.bsky.social
The metachromatic hymenocystidia of Strobilurus esculentus in brilliant cresyl blue are the only festive lights I need.
Merry non-denominational, culturally ambiguous winter-themed end-of-year celebration period! Ho, ho, ho!
#fungifriends #microscopy #mycology #mushroomsky #shroomscrolling
December 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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fossilforager.bsky.social
Celebrate Fungal Biodiversity! 🍄
An illustration of various colorful mushrooms and fungi arranged in a circle. Beige-colored text wrapped around it reads “Celebrate Fungal Biodiversity”. They are illustrated on an earthy matcha green background.
December 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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magiclantern.bsky.social
Loving the new flyer for next year's (50th anniversary) Magic Lantern Society convention
Colourful advert for the 2026 Magic Lantern Society convention showing grotesque hybrid animals, imps and pixies operating a lantern show
December 23, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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alaintruong.bsky.social
Square mirror with wave design, Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE), 2nd-1st century BCE. Bronze with gold inlay, 13.65 x 13.65 cm. The John R. Van Derlip Fund, 52.11.9 © Minneapolis Institute of Art
December 23, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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metoffice.gov.uk
As we approach the end of the year, 2025 is on track to be one of the UK’s warmest years on record, joining 2022 and 2023 in the top three warmest years.

Find out more in our news release 👇
www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
A map of the United Kingdom and Ireland showing mean temperature anomalies for 2025 up to 21 December compared to the 1991–2020 average. The map is predominantly shaded in red, indicating warmer-than-average conditions across most of the UK. The colour scale on the right ranges from dark blue (–1.5°C anomaly) through white (0°C) to dark red (+1.5°C anomaly). Almost all regions of the UK are in shades of red, suggesting positive anomalies between about +0.5°C and +1.5°C. The Met Office logo appears at the top left, and text on the map reads: “Mean temperature 2025 until 21 December, 1991–2020 anomaly.”
December 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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weirdxmas.bsky.social
I think it's time to go back to Leary's ideas of turning on and dropping out.
I think it's time to go back to Leary's ideas of turning on and dropping out.
December 23, 2025 at 7:40 AM
lukaslarge.bsky.social
Found this Amanita junquillea that had been excavated by squirrels. A late season species, found with conifers #MushroomMonday #FungiFriends
December 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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himmapaan.bsky.social
Binding design for the 150th anniversary edition of Edward Fitzgerald's translation of Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, published by The Folio Society, 2009.

Gold, copper, and silver gouache on blue Winsor & Newton pastel paper.

#ArtAdventCalendar
Design in gold, silver, and copper featuring a male and female peafowl pair perched on a tree entwined with a grapevine, with a border of stylised vegetation.
December 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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britishlichensociety.org.uk
“Lichens of Britain & Ireland” by Rebecca Yahr and Frances Stoakley is finally available for purchase. This has been a much needed ID guide for beginners to intermediates and the publication is finally here!! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/lichens-o... #bloomsbury #lichens
December 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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alaintruong.bsky.social
Willow Tree and Mandarin Ducks in the Snow, Ito Jakuchu, 18th century
December 22, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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bookswain.bsky.social
For #MolluscMonday, a predatory sea snail depicted in a hand-colored plate from ‘Spécies Général et Iconographie des Coquilles Vivantes’ by French malacologist Louis Charles Kiener, published in parts from 1834-1880.
Coin for scale. 🦑 🐌
#sciart
An illustration of Chicoreus ramosus, carnivorous sea snails in the family Muricidae. Its body is extended below its highly sculptured, spiral shell. The illustration is colored in mostly brown shades. 🐡 #invertefest
December 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
lukaslarge.bsky.social
Isn't it a weird coincidence that everyone with a history of pro Putin and Assad opinions is also mixed up with the Epstein files? See also Chomsky and his pal Steve Bannon. It really is an almost unfailing predictor of terrible people
osullyville.bsky.social Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 4d
These types are gonna try to knock back Epstein as a story. I'm baffled by it but that's sure what it looks like is maybe starting to happen, as the NY Times is dropping heater after heater, it must be said, of Epstein exposes.
December 22, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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nhcooper123.bsky.social
I did pick up the model to carry it to the recording, I just couldn’t angle it towards the camera! Here’s some better images. Incredible models! Listen to the podcast for all the details 🍄
View from above of a model of 4 mushrooms with white stalks, red heads with white warts on a brown board covered in pine needles The box containing the model with signs saying “minimise access/handling” and “extremely fragile” The top of the box with a sign saying extremely fragile and a photograph of the model of 4 mushrooms with red heads and white warts.
December 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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weirdxmas.bsky.social
The moths were just doing their job, carrying messages of love. Don't blame them for the inevitable wardrobe casualties.
The moths were just doing their job, carrying messages of love. Don't blame them for the inevitable
December 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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plantlifeuk.bsky.social
You did it! 🎉

#WaxcapWatch has had its best year ever — triple last year’s records! 🍄🤯

Every sighting helps protect species‑rich grasslands and their rare fungi.

Thank you for being part of this amazing community 💚
Bright red and orangey scarlet waxcap with a velvety texture grow among green grass and moss, creating a vivid contrast against the surrounding foliage. A small parrot waxcap mushroom stands among bright green moss and grass, its smooth, translucent cap glowing warmly in the sunlight. Dewdrops and soft-focus vegetation create a gentle, shimmering background. Close-up view of a ballerina waxcap mushroom, showing its delicate pale‑pink cap and pronounced, frilled gills. The mushroom stands among green grass with soft natural light highlighting its smooth stem and pastel colouring. A small golden waxcap mushroom with a bright orange-yellow cap and a slender yellow stem stands among fresh green grass, its surface slightly glossy in the natural light.
December 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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jim.londoncentric.media
ProTEct truSTed LocAL nEWS

This isn't even designed to wind people up and hope they share it. It's just an exploitation of Birmingham Live's privileged position on Google Discover/Apple News. The whole point is to deceive people into clicking. An industry built on total contempt for its audience.
mattandrews.info Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 7d
Another datapoint for @jim.londoncentric.media's list of misleading Reach headlines:

"Alert for UK households buying Cathedral City cheese at M&S or Tesco"

The "alert" is that... other cheeses came out ahead in an independent taste test.

www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/sho...
Alert for UK households buying Cathedral City cheese at M&S or Tesco
A taste test has revealed Cathedral City is actually outscored by other varieties
www.birminghammail.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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csiropublishing.bsky.social
Wishing you a fabulously festive #FungiFriday! 🎄🍄

📷 by Stephen Axford:
1) Gliophorus graminicolor
2) Cruentomycena viscidocruenta
3) Roridomyces phyllostachydis
4) Marasmius sp.

#PlanetFungi #Fungi #Mycology
A bright green mushroom with a glistening stem stands upright amidst a patch of moss. Photo by Stephen Axford. A cluster of four deep red mushrooms with glistening stems stand together on a rotting log. Their caps are angled away from the viewer, exposing the deep red gills on the underside. Photo by Stephen Axford. A cluster of four mushrooms with stems glowing an eerie green, protruding from a decaying log. Their caps are turned away to show deeply defined white gills on the undersides. Photo by Stephen Axford. Vivid pinkish-red mushrooms with delicate bell-shaped caps and long, slender stems tower above the leaf litter like fairy skyscrapers. At their base are scattered three more of their kind, reproduced in miniature. Photo by Stephen Axford.
December 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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starrytiger.bsky.social
Can you tell I like fungi?
December 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
lukaslarge.bsky.social
They also don't want to invest in universities, even though they are one of our few really successful industries but they will throw billions at scams like AI and carbon capture
ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 8d
The government says it wants growth but it doesn't want: high-speed railways, electrification of the railway network, trams, immigration...Just growth, which somehow will just magically happen.
December 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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metoffice.gov.uk
The Met Office global average temperature forecast for 2026 suggests another year above 1.4 °C compared to pre-industrial levels (1850-1900), being the fourth year in succession exceeding 1.4 °C. Prior to this surge, the global temperature has never exceeded 1.3 °C.

🔗 Read more: bit.ly/491qWrE
Met Office graph showing global temperature difference above period 1850-1900 (degrees celsius). The graph shows a rise from 2000 to 2024, the warmest year on record and above 1.5C the 19th Century period. 2025 January to October was around 1.4C above the period.
December 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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britmycolsoc.org.uk
Available now: Field Mycology Vol 26(4) December 2025. On the front cover: Ascospores of Spirodecospora melnikii - a new genus for Western Europe, characterised by spores with spiralling ornamentation (article on page 132). Micrograph image by Jacques Fournier.
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Front cover of Field Mycology Vol 26(4) showing a micrograph of the ascospores of Spirodecospora melnikii. Photo by Jacques Fournier.
December 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social
We've made an #NHMAdventCalendar of Library and Archives art. Enjoy! 18. Shaggy Ink Cap, Edwin Wheeler (1833-1909). Did you know... #AdventCalendar2025 #Christmas #SpecialCollections #Art #NaturalHistoryMuseum
Alt text: an advent calendar revealing a watercolour of 4 white mushrooms.
December 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM