Freshwater aquatic lichens and freshwater aquatic lichenologists! Lots of learning and lots of fun on this week's The British Lichen Society advanced course in the Lake District

Just a molecular biologist getting blown away by how much can be revealed by microscopy. Look at this amazing muriform (wall-like) spores in Staurothele fissa, so much more striking that the rather inconspicuous brown thallus on a lakeside boulder. Super cool

Back now from The British Lichen Society aquatic lichen course. Learned loads; met new things like the "pinging green" Endocarpon adscendens; spent good time with @rob_yaxley, Dr Nathan Chrismas, @maxiePut, Mark Stephens and others. Thanks to all, and Lancashire Outdoor Education Tower Wood for looking after us...

Dog lichen is cool af

Like climbing and hillwalking? Like plants? Like watching a guy pointing excitedly at rocks? All of this and more!

Our new paper is out on Lake Untersee! Genome‐resolved metagenomics reveals diverse taxa and metabolic complexity in Antarctic lake microbial structures #cyanobacteria #Antarctica @BioGaryBarker Carla Greco Dale Andersen Science at the Natural History Museum NHM Botany …icro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Ok bug fans, anyone got a suggestion for this guy? I guess a scale insect of some description. At around 900m in the Cairngorms, could be a blow in though...

Very much enjoying these 'Landscape Project' videos from British Mountaineering Council and the AC's own Dr Nathan Chrismas. A real celebration of the ways in which climbing, running & walking interact with natural history. youtu.be/R3dXLBeDZ20?si…

Our Summer Newsletter will be arriving with members this week. Amongst trip reports and upcoming events, we also have Jeremy Windsor on frostbite drug iloprost & Dr Nathan Chrismas on mountain lichens. The previous issue is now available to all online ➡️ alpine-club.org.uk/newsletter-bac…

We are so excited to present the "Handbook of Lichenology", an illustrated guide designed to aid in the identification of lichen traits, with user-friendly descriptions, labelled illustrations, and high-resolution photographs. ial-lichenology.org/handbook-of-li… #training #onlineResources

For the next 2 years Università di Genova, Università di Firenze and Università di Parma will test how Alpine lichens cope with #ClimateChange in the project #ACCLIMATE (PRIN, fondi PNRR). Keep us updated, Paolo Giordani! #Alps #adaptation #lichen

#IBC2024 The #MossCyano team in Madrid…and is very happy to see an entire wall with art dedicated to the most enigmatic groups…#mosses and #lichens! ⁦@DanOAlvarenga⁩ ⁦Annika Engroff⁩ ⁦Dr Nathan Chrismas⁩ ⁦VOLT - Center for Volatile Interactions⁩ ⁦Yunyao Ma⁩

If you are IBC2024 and interested in #Bryophytes #Symbiosis #NitrogenFixation #Cyanobacteria…join us Saturday 11am in room A10.1! Stuart McDaniel @DanOAlvarenga Annika Engroff

I am currently seeking a contract to undertake my PhD thesis, which is related to lichens. I have previously worked with epiphytic lichens, the g. Cladonia and currently engaged in research with Dr Sergio Pérez-Ortega on the taxonomy and phylogenetics of the fam. Verrucariaceae

As you scale the sea cliffs of Pembroke, do you ever stop to admire the fossils imprinted on the rocks and the organisms thriving off the cliff's edge? In this episode of #TheLandscapeProject, Dr Nathan Chrismas explores the intricate tapestry found on these routes.

Exploring the northern wilds of Iceland and collecting lichens this weekend was just the beginning. Onward with our project this week! 🍄🍃🇮🇸 Háskólinn á Akureyri / University of Akureyri Uni of Birmingham Thank you UK in Iceland 🇬🇧🇮🇸

This week I'm on fieldwork in Iceland collaborating with colleagues from University of Akureyri and University of Birmingham on a UK-Iceland partnership grant sponsored by the NERC Arctic Office. Great country, great lichens, and a great team.

Look around you in the mountains and you'll soon start to notice that #lichens are everywhere. But what are these unique organisms and how do they survive in such harsh environments? Dr Nathan Chrismas explains the biology behind nature's hardiest mountaineers ➡️ tinyurl.com/mwt7j98f