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Dean Allison
@deanallison.bsky.social
Nature enthusiast, particularly fungi and birds.
Musician - Guitar & Violin.
Straight edge, anti-racist, anti-fascist, anti-capitalist, anti-growth.
From Northumberland, but now live in Norfolk, UK. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
There is a lovely Phallus impudicus somewhere under that lot...
#fungi #mycology
October 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Brown Roll Rims - Paxillus involutus (I think) in the garden. Please correct if I'm wrong! A nice display under the birch tree.
#fungi #mycology
October 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Reposted by Dean Allison
From James Sowerby's Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms, published in three volumes between 1797 and 1809.
October 7, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Reposted by Dean Allison
In case you missed it: lots of amazing and heartening pond restoration going on. Research is likely to confirm that seeds "lost" in the bottom of filled-in ponds can remain viable for 100s of years so ponds and their aquatic plants leap back to life. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It’s resurrection’: 1,000-year-old seeds could grow ancient plants in England’s ice-age ghost ponds
An expert team are resurrecting ice age ponds and finding rare species returning from a ‘perfect time capsule’
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Reposted by Dean Allison
A new study led by @globaloceanbgc.bsky.social researchers at MBARI has found that marine heatwaves can reshape ocean food webs, slowing the transport of carbon to the deep sea and hampering the ocean’s ability to buffer against climate change.

Learn more: www.mbari.org/news/marine-...
Marine heatwaves have hidden impacts on ocean food webs and carbon cycling • MBARI
New study analyzing data from robotic floats and plankton records reveals how marine heatwaves reshape ocean food webs and slow transport of carbon to the deep sea.
www.mbari.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM