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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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🍄 Icones mycologicæ, ou Iconographie des champignons de France principalement Discomycetes, Paris: P. Klincksieck, L. Lhomme, successeur, 1905-10.

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December 25, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Merry Christmas!
December 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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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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Celebrate Fungal Biodiversity! 🍄
December 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Loving the new flyer for next year's (50th anniversary) Magic Lantern Society convention
December 23, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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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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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...
December 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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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
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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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
December 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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“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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Willow Tree and Mandarin Ducks in the Snow, Ito Jakuchu, 18th century
December 22, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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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
December 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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
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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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 🍄
December 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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The moths were just doing their job, carrying messages of love. Don't blame them for the inevitable wardrobe casualties.
December 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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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 💚
December 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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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.
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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Wishing you a fabulously festive #FungiFriday! 🎄🍄

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

#PlanetFungi #Fungi #Mycology
December 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Can you tell I like fungi?
December 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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
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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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
December 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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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.
➡️ fieldmycology.org/index.php/jo...
December 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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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