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Grace Boxshall @graceaceae

Mycologist, occasional botanist, general “can I eat this?” responder, PhD student at @unimelb.

Joined May 2017
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Gnome Anne May Perceive Me@annethegnome
1 Feb 2024
FUNGUS IN SPACE!!! 🍄🚀 Equal parts cosmic horror and nature being metal, let's talk about the lichen that grew on the OUTSIDE of the International Space Station! Get your tea and curl up, because I PROMISE you wanna hear about these fungal cosmonauts 🧑‍🚀 🧵
Image of Xanthoria elegans, also known as Rusavskia elegans, commonly known as Sunburst Lichen, growing on a rock. It's bright orange!

ALT Image of Xanthoria elegans, also known as Rusavskia elegans, commonly known as Sunburst Lichen, growing on a rock. It's bright orange!

Image from the ISS: Looking out of the 'Cupola,' an observation window of the ISS built by the European Space Agency. The dome weighs over 1800kg and is equipped with shutters in case of contact with micrometeorites and debris. PHOTOGRAPH BY PAOLO NESPOLI AND ROLAND MILLER

ALT Image from the ISS: Looking out of the 'Cupola,' an observation window of the ISS built by the European Space Agency. The dome weighs over 1800kg and is equipped with shutters in case of contact with micrometeorites and debris. PHOTOGRAPH BY PAOLO NESPOLI AND ROLAND MILLER

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BioSciences UniMelb@BioSci_UniMelb
29 Oct 2021
Meet this week's #HumansofBioSciences @graceaceae, a PhD student who wants to solve some Australian mushroom mysteries 🍄. A self-professed collector of ‘Weird Hobbies’, don’t be surprised to see Grace performing circus tricks or wielding a longsword. biosciences.unimelb.edu.au/n…
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JoBirch@jbirch_botany
8 Sep 2021
"A field-based investigation of simple phenol variation in Australian Agaricus xanthodermus" is now out - the first for @graceaceae from her Masters! Well done Grace! A valuable contribution to understanding toxicity in this commonly foraged mushroom (doi.org/10.1080/00275514.202…)
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BioSciences UniMelb@BioSci_UniMelb
2 Aug 2021
This trip will launch for our 300 students in October and we are looking forward to it! ✨Here is our star presenter @trishfishkoh checking out the rock pools and showing students all the molluscs and life that they will get to see on their trip.🌊🐌 2/3
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JoBirch@jbirch_botany
3 Aug 2021
Enjoyed talking about the value of #herbariumspecimens in documenting biodiversity with JOURN90024 students who are creating podcasts to tell the stories of @UniMelb Museums and Collections. Check out these MELU specimens collected in Port Philip Bay in 1882.
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BioSciences UniMelb@BioSci_UniMelb
4 Aug 2021
Meet this week's #HumansofBioSciences, Nicole Middleton. Nicole is passionate about nature, volunteering and travel and is currently our EHS Coordinator for fieldwork. By her own admission, Nicole struggles to sit still and has many projects on the go! biosciences.unimelb.edu.au/n…
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BioSciences UniMelb@BioSci_UniMelb
22 Jul 2021
Meet this week's #HumansofBioSciences @MycologyPicking. Beau is a mycologist & educator who completed their MSc in mushroom taxonomy in 2017 🍄 Beau's advice to other students: think about the balance between study, life outside university, & work. biosciences.unimelb.edu.au/n…
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🇦🇺🇳🇿🍄(💩)? #BioPsBERCEmoji
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Modern day Sherlock Holmes: schooling police in using plant fragments to solve a crime
Dr Nathalie Nagalingum@NNagalingum
26 Nov 2019
👮‍♀️ 🌿 Forensic botany using plants to solve crimes. Amazing work by Kelly Shepherd—training police to collect botanical evidence and ID-ing the plants. @asbs_nzpcn_2019
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Hervé Sauquet 🌈@hsauquet_bgsyd
25 Nov 2019
Amelia-Grace Boxshall @graceaceae: how to engage social media to get critical data for improving fungus systematics, received undescribed ITS sequences directly on Facebook!! m.facebook.com/fungisight/ #scicomm #citizenscience @asbs_nzpcn_2019
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Kevin Thiele, the Newt Scamander of botany, has some truly exciting plans for Taxonomy Australia: website, podcast, social media and membership to share the impact, beauty and general coolness of taxonomy. Keep your eyes peeled for it in early 2019! #ASBS_2018
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Katie Mack
@AstroKatie
17 Oct 2018
Last night the Prime Minister of Australia said "the magic of science starts with belief" and today the President of the US said "I have a natural instinct for science" and look guys I don't think that word means what you think it means.
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Taubmans paint colour swatches. Great value aka free, fab low tech alternative to categorise staining colour in mushrooms. Not ideal in wet conditions 4.5/5 #reviewforscience
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Just experienced camera fright and those weird clip on microphones for the first time... Yay for science marketing videos!
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Experimental cooking day- chocolate brownies and lamb stew, but with cayenne, prunes and lentil flour! Guess which ingredient went where 😉
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Bake your PhD time! Meringue mushrooms with yellow-stainer cream 💛
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Hanging at the launch of Little Things That Run The City and Melbourne Museum with Kate Cranney!
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You know you've lost grip on sanity when you find yourself peppering an abstract with absurd fungi puns. It's pungi!
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Tal Cohen@TalJCohen
22 May 2017
Replying to @graceacea
@graceacea A fun-gal predicting toxicity in #Australian mushrooms. You can get involved! report sitings goo.gl/LhHlzE #UoMscicomm

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