Zombie-FungusPirate @curataceae Twitter profile

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

Pride Month, but make it mushroony, and progresive

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

3 years

Pride Month, but make it mushroomy

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

8 months

Ok Mycology - Botany - Entomology twitter, here are some updates to this thread:

Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

8 months

Botany and Mycology twitter: your ID help please. We found three if these today. They LOOK fungal, hemispherical with load of jelly like spheres inside. Not host specific and not directly on the leaf in all cases

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

8 months

Botany and Mycology twitter: your ID help please. We found three if these today. They LOOK fungal, hemispherical with load of jelly like spheres inside. Not host specific and not directly on the leaf in all cases

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

7 months

Madagascar rainforest, eating lunch, planning my next fungal attack vector

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

The beginning was an absurd joke that i couldnt pull off...turns out it works as an opener:)

Kew Gardens

@kewgardens

2 years

Ever wondered what fungi really are? 👀 We spoke to Lee Davies, Kew's fungi expert, to find out👇 @curataceae #OurFutureIsBotanic #Fungi

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

Not gonna lie, i've been waiting a year for this day: new Leica dissecting microscope, LED ring light and camera attachment so we can image specimens in the fungarium. It's proper fucking beautiful to be in the 21st century.

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

4 years

I know that the clickbait headlines attract the simplest of responses, but this stuff is important. It isnt erasing history, its expanding it, enhaning it, and adding far greater depth to a very 1-sided version of events

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

We found 8 frames of mushroom stamps in a side room! they are now up on the wall in the fungarium. Turns out that a former Head of Mycology, David Pegler, used to consult stamp companies so that the fungi were correct for the coutries they were being issued in @KewMycology

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

5 years

So, whilst I was in work yesterday, it had been decided to go around the labs gathering every spare box of nitrile gloves, mask, pair of goggles they can find to take along to the local hospital. So very proud of my colleagues @KewScience

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

Quick Madagascar update as the wifi is on; more stunning fungi than we can collect, plus gorge wildlife

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

posted without comment. for now. @KewMycology

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

1 year

#PrideMonth but make it mushroomy If there isanything in the world that is Queer as fuck, its fungi: totally screwing with your binaries, your ciseries and notions of biological sex-eries. Brace yourself from some Fungal Queerness on the tweetiverse this month.

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

8 months

Airport time! Prepare for 2 weeks of Madgascar fungi and bug photos

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

Malagasy fungus update

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

5 years

@JoshLukeDavis Three million or so species of fungi say "HIYA!!"

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

jumping on this meme to lob in a grenade

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

3 years

Anybody in the cicada tsumai areas where Brood X is emerging: if you come across many with Massospora infection and need to send them to a nice fungal repository institution - please let me know :) We would❤️some here for research like the Fungal Tree of Life #cicada #BroodX 🦟🍄

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

5 years

Ok, here is the first! I can do some more general stuff or get specific :) #FungariumFromHome #MuseumFromHome

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

8 months

Day 4 Collections: a weird fingery-toothed polypore, a few Cordyceps type fungi, plenty of ectos

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

8 months

Last for now: the inside. This one was spongy, but a fresh one has translucent spheres inside

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

3 years

Come work at Kew in Mycology as a Senior Research Leader! It's fab here and I am a DREAM to work with

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

We're picketting Kew Gardens all morning we'll be at public gates in half an hour #prospectstrike

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

5 years

I dont know if I bragged about this yet, but we wrote a book! It's bloody brilliant and really beautiful. Until summer it's only available at Kew and , after that global domination! (buy it)

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

8 months

BUT the yellow stuff looms and feels fungal..AND.. In this one had these in the tips (we sampled them to try barcoding)

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

I can confidently and unequivocally state that all fungal specimens are made significantly more beautiful by the inclusion of a little bit of moss

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

You know what a fungus is, now take a looksie at the Fungarium @kewscience @kewgardens

Kew Gardens (@kewgardens) • Instagram reel

www.instagram.com

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

#ProspectStrike

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

4 years

Dors this bump me up to a W or X-list celeb?

Dr Erica McAlister

@flygirlNHM

4 years

Folks the amazing @curataceae is in the @BeanoOfficial !!! #HERO @KewScience @kewgardens #mushrooms #fungi #science #cartoons

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

5 years

@saintxi @JackDAshby @thatmuseumguy In 2018, new species on fungi found on an oil painting, a childs backpack and under a person's fingernail. Millions to still discover, including your fridge probably :)

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

8 months

Overview using a 6th we found...gets cooler in next tweet

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

8 months

Day 1 collections: good range, some repeats from last year (same location) incl. same individuals even.

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

4 years

Come work at Kew! chop up mushrooms! do DNA stuff, work with me!

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

5 years

Exciting time in fungarium land at the moment. All down to a chance discovery in our "Wall Of Shame", this is the part of the fungairum where unidentified fungi sit awaiting some love. Currently we have a few hundred boxes of fungi from all over the world wanting that love. 1/6

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

4 years

Fungarium back in action! First day back in lightless mausoleum of mushrooms

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

5 years

It's #Muspride , so here is a little homosexual knock-up from our basement fungarium #Shroompride

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

Ladies, gents and those who have transcended such boring norms... this is Cordyceps caloceroides K-M 1434437; an entomopathogen that parsitises bird eating tarantulas. The tarantula here is about 3 inches long. the fungus, about 9 inches.

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

So, "trained people": they cant be trusted. Its definitely going to be a dropdown. The moral of the story is if you give people freedon of judgement to use in databases, they'll be fucking dumb. The End.

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

5 years

@maxmillz23 @cristaldeglace @JackDAshby Here you go;

What’s for dinner? Undescribed species of porcini in a commercial packet

Accurate diagnosis of the components of our food and a standard lexicon for clear communication is essential for regulating global food trade and identifying food frauds. Reliable identification of...

peerj.com

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

Day 1 in the forest, went to Mantadia National Park, lots of lovely scenery and animals...fungi in the next tweet:

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

4 years

BEHOLD! feast your eyes on the fetid countenance of my glorious woodland Phallus. Totally fucking worth it!

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

6 months

@ImperfectFunGuy Getting "an abdominal pudding so horrific and bizarre that it eventually eats their genitalia and makes their butts fall off" tattooed on me somewhere

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

Cyclone passed, road open so we are finally in the Andasibe rainforest. Stopped for lunch and saw a TENREC!!!!

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

7 years

Increasingly lichens are hitting all my aesthetic buttons, the stuff we have seen today has been beautiful #KewColombiaBio #Boyac áFungi @EsterGaya1 @PepijnKooij @Ekhdwns @KewScience

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

6 years

Found some BEAUTIFUL Stropharia caerulea in the gardens @kewgardens just now @KewScience @KewMycology

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

Day two's haul of Mantadia Forest, incl. Thr Filth Angel of the Forest. Entomopathogen porn once ive eaten dinner #KewQMULMSc @kewmycology @kewscience

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

off to change my job title on the work website to " Kew legend"

Kew Science

@KewScience

2 years

🐜 Do fungus-infected insects feel pain? 🩺 Can we harness the medicinal power of fungi? 🧟 Could #TheLastOfUs really happen? All of this and more in a mycological Q&A with Kew legends, @EsterGaya1 and @curataceae 🍄

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

3 years

..as Fungarium Collection Manager. Im sticking about, but now I am Queen of the Fungal Underworld

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

4 years

If you have ever wanted to watch me talk about halluginogens, zombies and washing powder; your chance has arrived!! Im doing an online (free) talk next month for the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland

Your Cousin is a Mushroom & they are more important than you know [online]

Join Lee Davies to discover the history of the relationship between people and fungi as well as the future of fungi.

www.eventbrite.ie

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

6 years

Finally got around to making the fungal dyes look prettier; gone is the crappy old selloptape and a piece of cardboard, in is a nice closable box and plastozote base.

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

5 years

Just had a loan returned - about 12 specimens - that were borrowed for morph. analysis and DNA sequencing. All have nice little slips enclosed with them with ALL the info we want on them, even the ones that didnt work. Lots of brownie points!! #CuratorialJoys #GoodResearchers

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

9 months

We have a (Fungal taxonomy) Research Leader post going, come work with us at kew! I have 1.3 million specimens I want you come play with

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

7 years

I thought the Phallaceae were pretty weird anyway but this just takes the biscuit (Staheliomyces cinctus). Ideas about a 3D printed version.

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

IT'S TIME! Come work with me, we have 3, yes 3 Fungarium Curator positions available at Kew. (2x FT perm, 1x PT till Mar 2026)

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

8 years

Old school fungi preservation; thinly sliced and dried. Looks great after more than 150 years. #PrettyNiceForAnOldUn

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

3 years

@sacha_coward @nmjcoveney @minimaxir Mudkip: Chernobyl forme

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

5 years

Woooohoooooo!!! Early christmas present! In bed, decided to chrck my work email and find I've been awarded the grant to get @joaofungo to Kew next year and study our zombie fungi!

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

8 years

We got one! (and lots of eggs ready to hatch) Clathrus archeri (squid fungus) in @kewgardens @KewScience #LifeGoals

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

Curator/Collections twitter; I have a gft for you, hard won during discussions about he implementation of our brand new collections database. We shall call it the 'Substrate Example' a shortish🧵

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

6 years

In Leeds with this colossal beauty to spread the Good News about our Lord and Mycelium #GrowWild #FungiQuest

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

8 months

The strands, attached to various plants, and hemisphere shape got us thinking spider egg sac maybe?

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

Its not all hard work on the MSc fieldwork in Madagascar, we got a few minutes of RPG character creation fun ( @KewScience pls retweet)

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

Some of our collections pre-dryer

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

New desktop motivation

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

5 years

My soon to be 6 year old nephew is in a woodlouse phase and wants a birrhday party with his 'woodlouse friends' and I am going all in on this one. #Woodlice

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

5 years

Bracket fungi have to be some of the most lovely

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

Todays haul:

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@curataceae

5 years

Second bit of general mycology, more later today, and next week I'll focus in some specific groups that get my blood pumping (stinkhorns, zombies and poisonous stuff) #FungariumFromHome #MuseumFromHome #ScienceFromHome @KewScience

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

24 hours of travel ahead of me, living my Madagascar mushroom fantasy

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

5 years

@RussellDornan "there's a lot more i dont get to show the public"

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

5 years

As of tomorrow I am furloughed. I am going to need to structure in my life for the next 2 months. Weekly fungi videos on Fridays for starters. Lots of books, learn to do the embroidery that's been sat there for 9 months, lots of DIY jobs about the boat. See you on the flipside

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

There's a 13 minute Snyder cut of this domewhere, i'll get it for you ASAP

Kew Gardens

@kewgardens

2 years

You asked, we answered! 🍄 With the first season of #TheLastofUs now wrapped up, we have put your ‘zombie fungus’ questions to our experts… 👇 @KewScience @EsterGaya1 @curataceae @KewMycology #Fungi

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

7 years

My love for you is like this fungus; mostly internalized with few outward signs, and ultimately pathogenic. valentine's blah blah blah

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

All hail the new Kew Queen!

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

4 years

Someone may have dipped into furlough savinge in order to permanently scar himself with amanitas :)

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

8 months

Day 2 collection: lots of ectomycorrhizal species: Russulas, Boletes, Cortinarius, and an Amanita!

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

Ladies, Gentlemen, and those who have transcended gender titles...after 3 year hiatus the @KewScience Away Day is back! Not in a church thus time, we have colonised @RHSWisley

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

1 year

I honestly thought they were weighing chunks of lichen

Ben Porter

@bardseyben

1 year

The cupcake methodology for weighing Storm-petrel chicks is becoming somewhat challenging as some birds reach critical mass... #FaroesFieldwork

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

11 months

What am I doing here? Have i quit and got a new non-fungal job? Have i been sacked and am using my time for cultural stuff? Of course not..its the SCIENCE DEPT AWAY DAY!! Will it be great? Will it be shite? Lets find out together, here, over the next 7 hours

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

We have 2 permanent Fungarium Curator jobs going, it's a fab place to work

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

Day 3 in Mantadia: another very different haul, incl. 3 Russulas, 2 Boletes and a Lactarius. #KewQMULMSc @KewMycology @KewScience

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

3 years

Big Week; it's been 12 years since I started here at Kew, and it my last week as Fungarium Curator. It has been a blast but it's time to move on, by the end of the month I start a new job.. 1/2

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

5 months

Here it comes! the colossal fungarium seqeuncing project. if you know any upcoming grads who fancy stint of work, we have 16 posts to go berserk in the fungarium and Sample. The. Shit. out of the collection.

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

8 years

Wearing a lab coat makes you 48.7% more scientific. I NEVER wear this in the fungarium normally, I am always holding a fungus however.

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

1 year

The fucking cheek of them, its ginger-brown with *some* greying.

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

Top tier myco-homosexual crossover for me. Wish i'd thought of this myself

Amanda

@Pandamoanimum

2 years

Pedro Pascal as mushrooms. A thread.

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2 years

Fieldwork accommodation in Madagascar SUCKS 😀

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

Special mention to the purple Ramaria and jet black, velvetty Geoglossum. Bonus potential screaming Cordyceps host

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@curataceae

2 years

Entomopathogen time! Here's what we have: large moth with Akanthomyces, plus a close up 1/3

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@curataceae

5 years

I am totally putting together a mushroomy rainbow t-shirt for Pride next year, using fabulous fungus art from a new book #Fungi #Pride #Gayshroom

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@curataceae

5 years

Quite possibly the first time this has been found in Britain. And *I* found in it Glamorgan #WelshGloat

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@curataceae

4 years

Off to London Zoo today with a box of toxic and zombie fungi for a @BBCRadio4 recording :)

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

2 years

Nice surprise in the woodland garden @kewgardens .

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Zombie-FungusPirate

@curataceae

6 years

We had the Kent University Ethnobotany students in yesterday for a tour (obviously we did the orgasm fungus, hallucinogens and zombies) and I discovered that caliornia is the only US state with an official state lichen..and it's a beauty; Ramalina menziessii #SexDrugsZombieApoc

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@curataceae

6 years

Good gods she's gorgeous @GrowWildUK @KewScience @KewMycology #FungiQuest

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@curataceae

4 years

In early to do an online talk for med students, they asked for Cordyceps and Psilicybe stuff...so time to break into the class A drug cupboard! All the fav fungi today

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@curataceae

3 years

New fungi programme on radio 4 from this friday (I pop up on episode 2) @timhayward @KewScience @BBCRadio4 @LoftusMedia

BBC Radio 4 - Fungi: The New Frontier, The biggest show on Earth

Tim Hayward in a race against time to save fungi we’re only just beginning to understand.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@curataceae

2 years

24 hours on planes: 18 hrs on one, a diversion and a missed connection, smooth customs and security all round. Home from Madagascar and we are all shattered

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@curataceae

6 years

Brightening my day, a present from one of the Hort staff; Corn Smut (Ustilago maydis) on maize grown in @kewgardens Bad for the maize but the infected kernals are a central and south American delicacy. On its way into the @KewMycology collections @KewScience

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@curataceae

2 years

Im a total fucking sucker. Bought this glorious beast, in large part because it has a cluster of mushrooms. Minor regret, but we just got a payrise after 3 years of Tories blocking them..so fuck the Tories, and Hail Lego fungi!

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