Jake Dalzell
@bitheolaidhe.bsky.social
botanist and micromycologist from Belfast
luıḃeolaıḋe ⁊ mıcrıṁíceolaıḋe 'e ḃunaḋ Ḃéal Feırste
network ecology, evolutionary ecology, conservation etc
my website: https://irishplants.org/
Field Guide to Plant Pathogens: https://plantpathogens.net/
luıḃeolaıḋe ⁊ mıcrıṁíceolaıḋe 'e ḃunaḋ Ḃéal Feırste
network ecology, evolutionary ecology, conservation etc
my website: https://irishplants.org/
Field Guide to Plant Pathogens: https://plantpathogens.net/
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I am starting a PhD and am looking for grassland restoration/rewilding sites in Northern Ireland! Please forward this flier to anyone who might be interested in having their land surveyed for fungi!
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Plant taxonomy is disappearing - and so is our ability to protect species 🍂
Nearly half of countries have fewer than 10 plant taxonomists. Kew is working to close the gap, but we need more experts fast.
Read the study’s key findings and what we're doing about it 👇
https://ow.ly/XhJo50XyGAa
Nearly half of countries have fewer than 10 plant taxonomists. Kew is working to close the gap, but we need more experts fast.
Read the study’s key findings and what we're doing about it 👇
https://ow.ly/XhJo50XyGAa
December 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Plant taxonomy is disappearing - and so is our ability to protect species 🍂
Nearly half of countries have fewer than 10 plant taxonomists. Kew is working to close the gap, but we need more experts fast.
Read the study’s key findings and what we're doing about it 👇
https://ow.ly/XhJo50XyGAa
Nearly half of countries have fewer than 10 plant taxonomists. Kew is working to close the gap, but we need more experts fast.
Read the study’s key findings and what we're doing about it 👇
https://ow.ly/XhJo50XyGAa
Reposted by Jake Dalzell
Terana caerulea
#Teranacaerulea #Terana #BlauerRindenpilz #Rindenpilz #cobaltcrust #velvetbluespread #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #champignons #champignon #nature #natur #FungiFriends
#Teranacaerulea #Terana #BlauerRindenpilz #Rindenpilz #cobaltcrust #velvetbluespread #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #pilz #pilze #champignons #champignon #nature #natur #FungiFriends
December 1, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Unfortunately I have picked up a virus and will not make it to #BIBConf but here is my poster, which explains what I am doing in my PhD.
#FungiFriends #WildPlantDisease
#FungiFriends #WildPlantDisease
November 29, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Unfortunately I have picked up a virus and will not make it to #BIBConf but here is my poster, which explains what I am doing in my PhD.
#FungiFriends #WildPlantDisease
#FungiFriends #WildPlantDisease
Interactions between plant pathogens (left) and plants across five quadrats in a restored species-rich grassland. The basic premise of my PhD is to see if these interaction networks differ between restored and ancient grasslands.
#FungiFriends #NetworkEcology
#FungiFriends #NetworkEcology
November 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Interactions between plant pathogens (left) and plants across five quadrats in a restored species-rich grassland. The basic premise of my PhD is to see if these interaction networks differ between restored and ancient grasslands.
#FungiFriends #NetworkEcology
#FungiFriends #NetworkEcology
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Meadow, Snowy, Pink Waxcap at an ancient grassland site I am sampling today. The wonders of rural South Down!
#FungiFriends
#FungiFriends
November 8, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Meadow, Snowy, Pink Waxcap at an ancient grassland site I am sampling today. The wonders of rural South Down!
#FungiFriends
#FungiFriends
My soil sampling partner for the day. Very interested in sniffing all my equipment! All I could think of was "an Mhuc Dhubh" which killed one of the Fianna in a story I heard last week...
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
My soil sampling partner for the day. Very interested in sniffing all my equipment! All I could think of was "an Mhuc Dhubh" which killed one of the Fianna in a story I heard last week...
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The success of Wikipedia demonstrates the good that comes from trust between strangers, says founder Jimmy Wales.
With his new book The Seven Rules of Trust released today, Jimmy spoke with RNZ about building the world's largest online encyclopedia on trust.
🎧📖 Listen and read below 👇
With his new book The Seven Rules of Trust released today, Jimmy spoke with RNZ about building the world's largest online encyclopedia on trust.
🎧📖 Listen and read below 👇
'I was very nervous at first' - how the founder of Wikipedia learnt to embrace trust
The success of Wikipedia demonstrates the good that comes from trust between strangers, says founder Jimmy Wales.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The success of Wikipedia demonstrates the good that comes from trust between strangers, says founder Jimmy Wales.
With his new book The Seven Rules of Trust released today, Jimmy spoke with RNZ about building the world's largest online encyclopedia on trust.
🎧📖 Listen and read below 👇
With his new book The Seven Rules of Trust released today, Jimmy spoke with RNZ about building the world's largest online encyclopedia on trust.
🎧📖 Listen and read below 👇
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Parrot waxcaps in local Hazelwood.#fungi
October 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Parrot waxcaps in local Hazelwood.#fungi
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Fungi specimens collected for DNA sequencing. Raffle tickets are useful for tracking specimens as they are dried
October 25, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Fungi specimens collected for DNA sequencing. Raffle tickets are useful for tracking specimens as they are dried
I had a great time this morning learning to use the Scanning Electron Microscope. Here are urediniospores of Puccinia rusts from the grassland restoration projects of @donnarainey4.bsky.social and @ceanncait.bsky.social . I'm hoping it will help with ID!
#FungiFriends #PlantPathogens
#FungiFriends #PlantPathogens
October 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I had a great time this morning learning to use the Scanning Electron Microscope. Here are urediniospores of Puccinia rusts from the grassland restoration projects of @donnarainey4.bsky.social and @ceanncait.bsky.social . I'm hoping it will help with ID!
#FungiFriends #PlantPathogens
#FungiFriends #PlantPathogens
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The craziest coloured Parrot Waxcaps I’ve ever seen!! Aren’t they amazing!!!! 💚🩵💛🩷🧡
#FungiFriends #MushroomMonday
#FungiFriends #MushroomMonday
October 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The craziest coloured Parrot Waxcaps I’ve ever seen!! Aren’t they amazing!!!! 💚🩵💛🩷🧡
#FungiFriends #MushroomMonday
#FungiFriends #MushroomMonday
October 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Thanks for this - and thanks to @norwichbirder.bsky.social for reposting it - found my first locally in Penicuik yesterday - something I definitely would have overlooked otherwise 👍
October 15, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Thanks for this - and thanks to @norwichbirder.bsky.social for reposting it - found my first locally in Penicuik yesterday - something I definitely would have overlooked otherwise 👍
Reposted by Jake Dalzell
I'm delighted that we have a whole range of talks from our Northern Ireland Botanical Skills Project taking place this winter on Tuesday evenings.
Want to learn more about conifers? Rushes? Clubmosses? Hawthorns? Plant Pathogenic Fungi? ROBOTS??
See them all here:
bsbi.org/botanical-sk...
Want to learn more about conifers? Rushes? Clubmosses? Hawthorns? Plant Pathogenic Fungi? ROBOTS??
See them all here:
bsbi.org/botanical-sk...
Botanical Skills Webinars – Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland
bsbi.org
October 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I'm delighted that we have a whole range of talks from our Northern Ireland Botanical Skills Project taking place this winter on Tuesday evenings.
Want to learn more about conifers? Rushes? Clubmosses? Hawthorns? Plant Pathogenic Fungi? ROBOTS??
See them all here:
bsbi.org/botanical-sk...
Want to learn more about conifers? Rushes? Clubmosses? Hawthorns? Plant Pathogenic Fungi? ROBOTS??
See them all here:
bsbi.org/botanical-sk...
It's that time of the year again – look out for blackened veins on yellowed leaves of Ribwort Plantain, caused by the fungus Spilopodia nervisequia!
#FungiFriends
#FungiFriends
October 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
It's that time of the year again – look out for blackened veins on yellowed leaves of Ribwort Plantain, caused by the fungus Spilopodia nervisequia!
#FungiFriends
#FungiFriends
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Accidentally scythed off in #LyeValley #fen, this small delicate inkcap toadstool made my day with its fragile beauty. Maybe a small Hare's foot inkcap, Coprinopsis lagopus?
#fungifriends @friendlyevalley.bsky.social
#fungifriends @friendlyevalley.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Accidentally scythed off in #LyeValley #fen, this small delicate inkcap toadstool made my day with its fragile beauty. Maybe a small Hare's foot inkcap, Coprinopsis lagopus?
#fungifriends @friendlyevalley.bsky.social
#fungifriends @friendlyevalley.bsky.social
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It's impossible not to love the Merveille du Jour. Just incredible moths! #MothsMatter @savebutterflies.bsky.social
September 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
It's impossible not to love the Merveille du Jour. Just incredible moths! #MothsMatter @savebutterflies.bsky.social
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The Government is planning to roll out mandatory digital ID. It’s invasive and could mean millions of people unable to go about their daily lives. Right now it's just an idea - we need to stop it becoming a reality. Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...
Reject plans for a mandatory BritCard (digital ID)
Sir Keir Starmer is considering a mandatory digital ID scheme called “BritCard” that would make us all reliant on a digital pass to go about our daily lives.
Mandatory digital IDs give the state enor...
you.38degrees.org.uk
September 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The Government is planning to roll out mandatory digital ID. It’s invasive and could mean millions of people unable to go about their daily lives. Right now it's just an idea - we need to stop it becoming a reality. Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...
I've arrived in Aberystwyth where I'll spend the winter learning fungal (meta-)barcoding and working on some theoretical background for my research on plant-pathogen networks in grasslands. It was nice to find a species new to me as I explored the town: the rust fungus Puccinia umbilici on Navelwort
September 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I've arrived in Aberystwyth where I'll spend the winter learning fungal (meta-)barcoding and working on some theoretical background for my research on plant-pathogen networks in grasslands. It was nice to find a species new to me as I explored the town: the rust fungus Puccinia umbilici on Navelwort
Thanks to everyone who gave me camera advice – as it turns out my grampa had a small camera he never used lying around that is absolutely perfect. I took it for a test run: here is Coleosporium euphrasiae on Eyebright and Podosphaera plantaginis on Ribwort Plantain.
#FungiFriends
#FungiFriends
September 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Thanks to everyone who gave me camera advice – as it turns out my grampa had a small camera he never used lying around that is absolutely perfect. I took it for a test run: here is Coleosporium euphrasiae on Eyebright and Podosphaera plantaginis on Ribwort Plantain.
#FungiFriends
#FungiFriends
On Saturday I led a workshop on plant pathogens. We saw a wide variety of species and found just how ubiquitous this group is, in spite of rain and hail! It's been great to see more people recording pathogens, and I hope events like this will make it more accessible.
#FungiFriends
#FungiFriends
September 15, 2025 at 8:14 AM
On Saturday I led a workshop on plant pathogens. We saw a wide variety of species and found just how ubiquitous this group is, in spite of rain and hail! It's been great to see more people recording pathogens, and I hope events like this will make it more accessible.
#FungiFriends
#FungiFriends
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My favourite wildflowers of the year,meadows of Devil's bit scabious and Purple loosestrife. A joy to see these meadows.#wildflowerhour
September 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
My favourite wildflowers of the year,meadows of Devil's bit scabious and Purple loosestrife. A joy to see these meadows.#wildflowerhour
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Gymnosporangium cornutum ex Sorbus aucuparia
#Sorbusaucuparia #Sorbus #Eberesche #Vogelbeere #rowan #Sorbierdesoiseleurs #sorbodegliuccellatori #serbaldeloscazadores #Gymnosporangiumcornutum #Gymnosporangium #Phytopathology #Rustfungus #Rostpilz #Pilz #Fungus #Nature #FungiFriends
#Sorbusaucuparia #Sorbus #Eberesche #Vogelbeere #rowan #Sorbierdesoiseleurs #sorbodegliuccellatori #serbaldeloscazadores #Gymnosporangiumcornutum #Gymnosporangium #Phytopathology #Rustfungus #Rostpilz #Pilz #Fungus #Nature #FungiFriends
September 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Gymnosporangium cornutum ex Sorbus aucuparia
#Sorbusaucuparia #Sorbus #Eberesche #Vogelbeere #rowan #Sorbierdesoiseleurs #sorbodegliuccellatori #serbaldeloscazadores #Gymnosporangiumcornutum #Gymnosporangium #Phytopathology #Rustfungus #Rostpilz #Pilz #Fungus #Nature #FungiFriends
#Sorbusaucuparia #Sorbus #Eberesche #Vogelbeere #rowan #Sorbierdesoiseleurs #sorbodegliuccellatori #serbaldeloscazadores #Gymnosporangiumcornutum #Gymnosporangium #Phytopathology #Rustfungus #Rostpilz #Pilz #Fungus #Nature #FungiFriends
I had the pleasure of visiting a meadow managed by @donnarainey4.bsky.social today. Only when I got home did I notice the swelling on the midrib of this Dandelion leaf, which turned out to be the leaf smut Protomyces pachydermus.
#FungiFriends
#FungiFriends
September 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I had the pleasure of visiting a meadow managed by @donnarainey4.bsky.social today. Only when I got home did I notice the swelling on the midrib of this Dandelion leaf, which turned out to be the leaf smut Protomyces pachydermus.
#FungiFriends
#FungiFriends