Fungal ecologist, University Professor, Fungal biology researcher, Fungal evangelist, Bringing fungi to the people
Joined October 2013
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FungusProf retweeted
6 May 2025
How fungi shape our world. This episode features Sumi Robson @wellcometrust; William Tingle and Lee Davies at #Kew #Gardens; @FungusProf @cardiffuni; and @NormanRhijn @OfficialUoM.
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FungusProf retweeted
4 May 2025
Time for close look at some lichens again 🔎
🌍 Xanthoria parietina
🇬🇧 Common orange lichen
🇩🇪 Gewöhnliche Gelbflechte
🇨🇿 Terčovník zední
🇸🇰 Diskovník múrový
#lichen #macro #photographer
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FungusProf retweeted
Killer fungus will spread as climate heats up, experts warn
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FungusProf retweeted
27 Apr 2025
Strange parasitic plant #Cynomorium coccineum, also called Maltese fungus or desert thumb (Monastir, TN).
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FungusProf retweeted
27 Apr 2025
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FungusProf retweeted
25 Apr 2025
Ectomycorrhizal trees are different and it matters for soil organic matter! We show these mutualisms are not functionally homogenous, with implications for the generalizability of coarse mycorrhizal associations in understanding forest ecosystem function.
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FungusProf retweeted
10 Apr 2025
Just read this really nice overview of research on fungal fairy rings by Zotti et al.
Fungal fairy rings: history, ecology, dynamics and engineering functions
imafungus.pensoft.net/articl…
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FungusProf retweeted
29 Mar 2025
Mnohem větší radost než první letošní smrže mně včera udělalo teprve druhé setkání v životě s jednou z našich nejkrásnějších hub vůbec – krasočíškou žlutou (Caloscypha fulgens s. l.) 😍
#Houboosvěta #houby #mushroom
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FungusProf retweeted
29 Mar 2025
Gansu farmers are just amazing… producing hundreds of tons of morels at the gate of the Tengger desert 👍
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Fungi form the very foundation of healthy ecosystems but threats such as #deforestation and agricultural expansion are driving a global decline.
Over 1,000 of the world’s 155,000 known fungal #species have now been assessed the @IUCNRedList.
Learn more rb.gy/9yhfs8
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FungusProf retweeted
27 Mar 2025
BREAKING NEWS: The number of #fungi species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ has surpassed 1,000.
The latest update confirms that #deforestation, agricultural expansion and urban development are driving these species to decline worldwide.
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FungusProf retweeted
29 Mar 2025
Growing the wrinkled peach mushroom, Rhodotus palmatus, by thousands 😳
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FungusProf retweeted
21 Mar 2025
On this #InternationalDayofForests I share my #sciart that showcases the amazing habitats made by one thing: trees working together. Here's my illustration of the earliest known fossil forest, the 380 million year old Gilboa forest, preserved as a fossil forest floor:
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FungusProf retweeted
21 Mar 2025
#InternationalForestsDay and what would forests be without fungi?? My closeup view of the Hartig net (yellow) , the miraculous sandwich created when fungal threads in soil snake intimately between plant cells in roots, sharing food, water, and minerals at the new interface
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FungusProf retweeted
5 Mar 2025
👏"Celebrating the achievements of women in science is a powerful tool - visible role models can inspire future generations & reinforce the idea that success in science is not limited by gender" - @KatieField4
Read the blog👉functionalecologists.com/202…
#IWD2025 #AccelerateAction
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FungusProf retweeted
5 Mar 2025
Before Beatrix Potter's classic literary figures, she had a strong interest in the wondrous world of mushrooms 🍄
Read more 👉 artuk.org/discover/stories/b…
'Flammulina velutipes' by Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) 📷 @ArmittMuseum
ALT This artwork by Beatrix Potter is of the fungus Flammulina velutipes, or Collybia velutipes.
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FungusProf retweeted
19 Feb 2025
19 Feb 2025
Fungi that feeds on radiation are growing on the walls of Chernobyl's ruined nuclear reactor
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FungusProf retweeted
18 Feb 2025
What’s “so special” about this fungus? 😅 Mycena chusqueophila is a clear example of the close and specific relationships that fungi maintain with the organisms around them. Which species bring you joy when you find them in the forest?
🎤 @giulifungi
🎥 Mateo Barrenengoa
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FungusProf retweeted
18 Feb 2025
Nice to find ,Orbilia vinosa, growing on a dead willow branch in Midger wood on Sunday day , in my Monograph of Orbiliomycetes it says only five previous records for this species in the UK, nice to see an Orbiliomycete other than Orbilia Xanthostigma for a change.
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