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Our new paper on #mushrooms 🍄, #russia and #literature is finally out and in @slavicreview! It's been a long journey with several major life events but having amazing coauthors has made the whole process a real joy. You can read it #openaccess here: tinyurl.com/4dvexenc

I've yet to see anyone else more dedicated than Christopher Kreuzer in producing such a comprehensive analysis. A fascinating mix of quantitative and qualitative history of science that serves as a fascinating case study for what digitisation can do for the humanities 🍄🍄

A NEW PAPER! A really fun piece to write with the wonderfully brilliant and brilliantly wonderful Dion Dobrzynski. Its all about the #FungalTurn, the potential of metaphors in science, and the intersections of fungi and fiction. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

🚨🍄🚨🍄🚨🍄🚨 Big news @AmgueddfaCymru @CardiffCurator. The position of Senior Curator of Mycology, Bryology, and Lichenology is now open to applicants and we want you! Details here and please get in touch with any Qs! nmwtest.ciphr-irecruit.com/Applicants/vac…

Dr @edwinrose3, the author of ‘Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History 1760-1820’ will join us to discuss the collections of leading British zoologist, Thomas Pennant. Get your tickets for what promises to be a fascinating talk here: library.wales/events

Sometimes I do science too! Along with Zhiru Guoli, we explored how historical data can be used to help us quantify interspecific relationships between fungi. You can read all about it for free here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #historicalecology #mathematicalecology #fungalforays

Congratulations to Zhiru Guoli on their first scientific paper! Zhiru joined @NathanProbably last summer @Museum_Cardiff to explore the use of historical fungal records in bettering our understanding of fungus-fungus relationships tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New paper out and its a banger! We explored how historical foray records can be used to better understand fungus-fungus interactions in woodland species. Its free to read here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #fungalecology #fungalscience #mycology #fieldmycology

Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes @Museum_Cardiff? Here's a short video about the work of @AmgueddfaCymru's scientists in mapping, conserving, describing and protecting species across Wales and beyond youtube.com/watch?v=rnb-q2…

Latest paper with the fantastic @Katherinenright Our thoughts and recommendations on #herbarium #digitisation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ta…

Excited to see the #MortonAgreement invoked but... how are disagreements solved? Taxonomic combat?

For #BotanicMonday a paper on a new tool to find potentially misidentified specimens in data sets by @sophiebryo, @ilichenmoss, @8thtree & @NathanProbably. Both Sophie and George spent time @Museum_Cardiff as part of their studies enabling this paper natsca.org/article/2891

In particular a massive congratulations to @sophiebryo for their first paper! Her summer internship with @AmgueddfaCymru @CardiffCurator (and amazing hard work and computer skills) forms the basis of the paper

Latest paper out with the phenomenal @sophiebryo, @ilichenmoss, and @8thtree. A really neat way to find potentially misidentified specimens from large collections datasets. natsca.org/article/2891

It is now possible to pre-order! upittpress.org/books/97808229…

A really interesting #CFP from a consistently amazing conference. Bring your most yeast-y ideas! call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/10/25… #historyofmycology #fungalturn #fermentation #yestoyeast #historyofscience #STS

New PhD opportunities @KewScience for UK & overseas students: Re-storying the Sussex Weald Garden: Exotics, Empire and Ecobiography chase.ac.uk/cdas/re-storyi… Women and biodiversity: gender and the making of the Kew Fungarium, 1900-1950 sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/lca…

Our curator @NathanProbably explores the interactions between science and fiction across the twentieth century by focusing on strange orchids and musical monstrosities. #littleshopofhorrors" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #hgwells

An exciting #PhD opportunity with our resident mycologist @NathanProbably looking at the role of women in British mycology, including Swansea’s own Elsie Maud Wakefield. Find out more details and how to apply here: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/lca… #PhDLife #PhDOpportunity

#WOMEN & #BIODIVERSITY: #GENDER & THE MAKING OF THE #KEW #FUNGARIUM 1900-1950. Fantastic funded PhD opportunity from @AnthropoceneBio @UniofYork & @kewgardens supervised by @archivemole & Dr Nathan Smith. Details: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/lca… @KewScience @KewMycology @RHGeoHumanities