Lukas Large
@lukaslarge.bsky.social
Natural Science Curator. Natural History, particularly fungi, Museums, Heritage & Art https://www.flickr.com/photos/lukaslarge/
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New guidance from the eBird Team - summarising - don't use AI tools to edit your bird photos! ebird.org/news/threat-... link to original paper: rdcu.be/ftx6h #Ornithology #UKBirding 🧪🌎
From Truth to Fake: The Threat of AI to Media Archives - eBird
As AI becomes commonplace, what you see in a photograph may no longer represent reality. Learn about how this impacts eBird and what you can do to help.
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The combined effects of pet ownership are really huge! And that's not even considering the number of animals poached from the wild for the aquarium and exptic pet trades
Matthew Kelly@matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 14h agoEnvironmental impact of pet ownership needs comprehensive investigation. Numbers up over past 20 years. Pet food production (inc. animal welfare). Chemical use. Bird predation by cats. Dog-walkers as landscape use lobby, etc. www.pdsa.org.uk/what-we-do/p... www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
We are delighted to see @richardausher.bsky.social will be returning to #Stourbridge this autumn. boroughhalls.co.uk/the-listener...
"Squats, Street Theatre, Skateboarding and more: a walking tour of Selly Oak's radical spaces" Very pleased to be delivering a new iteration of the Radical Selly Oak walking tour for Walkspace's autumn festival Happening 14:00-16:00 on 23.8.26 Details and booking👇 ti.to/walkspace/sq...
Squats, Street Theatre, Skateboarding and More: a walking tour of Selly Oak's radical spaces
Viewed while crawling along the Bristol Road from the top deck of the 61 or 63, Selly Oak seems the archetypical Birmingham suburb. Ranks of Victorian terraces, inter-war semis, and newish flats slope...
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Cornhenge is a public art installation in Dublin, Ohio honoring Sam Frantz, the inventor of several hybrid corn species. #WyrdWednesday
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
Our latest blog looks at ‘Operation Hard Luck’, the UK's 1982 civil-defence policy designed to test emergency capabilities in the event of a nuclear war including the proposals for Birmingham: theironroom.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/o... Ref: LS 4/Birmingham Printed and Published/18 #LibraryofBham
For #MolluscMonday an illustration titled “Ocean Shells” from my 1861, second edition copy of ‘The Sea and Its Living Wonders’ by Dr. Georg Hartwig. 🌊 🦑 #sciart
Ultramicroscopic details of Cookeina speciosa (Fr.) Dennis (Sarcoscyphaceae, Pezizales) academic.oup.com/mam/article/...
Ultramicroscopic details of Cookeina speciosa (Fr.) Dennis (Sarcoscyphaceae, Pezizales)
Cookeina speciosa (Fr.) Dennis is a fungus belonging to the phylum Ascomycota, subphylum Pezizomycotina, class Pezizomycetes, order Pezizales, family Sarco
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Who knew there was a history of the One Stop chain of shops, now owned by Tesco
‘I have an understanding housemate’: the student who makes videos of fungus on faeces
‘I have an understanding housemate’: the student who makes videos of fungus on faeces
Alfred Drummond-Herdman’s extraordinary timelapses have been viewed by millions – and led him to identify new species
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Every known pterosaur, in one book, illustrated. Five years of work with Pete Buchholz and twenty paleoartists. Now live on Kickstarter! fossi.ls/ks
Aftermath of a fire on a local meadow, fortunately it didn't spread to surrounding woodland. One of probably hundreds of small scale fires around the UK this summer
In light of Hank Green disappointing us all, a thread of science communicators that do not brainlessly parrot LLMs as reference. Miniminuteman. A Tiktok import who now posts long form archeological/pseudoarcheology-debunking vids to YouTube. They're fantastic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFA4...
The Giant Skeletons of Lovelock Cave - DEBUNKED
YouTube video by Miniminuteman
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I love this type of niche observation. It belongs to the same genre as noticing incongruent horse/dog breeds, bird calls, moths and plant species
Natalia (娜塔莉)@nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 5d agoBeing jettisoned out of the immersion in the movie, when in Les Miserables, the lovely yellow Lutetian (Eocene) limestone which defines Paris, has been replaced by sparkly clean Portland Stone (Jurassic, Tithonian) of Greenwich, London.
This week's new walking route is: Birmingham - Birmingham Botanical Gardens 2.4 miles from New Street Station, primarily along the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, to the botanical gardens Edgbaston site Check it out👇 walkmidlands.co.uk/2026/07/30/b...
Birmingham - Birmingham Botanical Gardens walk
Walk from central Birmingham to the historic, much visited, Birmingham Botanical Gardens mostly along the Worcester and Birmingham Canal
walkmidlands.co.uk
On 6 September I will be leading a tour through the exhibits at the 'Ozzy Osbourne: Working Class Hero' exhibition at Birmingham Museum. Really exciting to get the chance to do something I have never done before! www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/events/spotl...
Spotlight tour by author Keith Kahn-Harris of Ozzy Osbourne (1948-2025): Working Class Hero | Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery | Birmingham Museums
Join Dr Kahn-Harris for a special guided tour of selected exhibits, revealing how they connect to a much larger story. Through the lens of Ozzy Osbourne's
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Joe Lycett's fantastic painting of Tullimonstrum with an actual Tullimonstrum fossil - separated by 300 million years www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/exhibitions/...
Join iNaturalist on August 4th at 5pm for a free webinar where you will learn how to approach and photograph insects effectively, capture the key features needed to identify plants, get clear shots of the underside of mushrooms, and quickly upload multiple photos to iNaturalist in one go.
Birmingham Literature Festival is BACK! From the 8th-12th October plus Readers’ Day, featuring a stellar lineup, including: Sathnam Sanghera, Zakia Sewell, Dr Kate Lister, M. John Harrison, Margaret Busby, Adele Zeynep Walton and many more! Tickets: birminghamliteraturefestival.org
The new exhibition at Birmingham Museum and Gallery - EVERY THING MUST GO by Joe Lycett www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/exhibitions/...
They claim it will have a devastating impact on local wildlife (?!!!) We need to either ignore unreasonable people like this or just tell them they're idiots to their faces
Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · last wk.This campaign group looks like just four people to me. Is it really worth a full BBC write up?
Here's the full story of what we believe to be the start of the colonisation of yet another new orthopteran to the British Isles.
Team cricket - how we found a cricket new to the British Isles
This following italicised sections were written by Matt Phelps, who first heard this unusual cricket... I strolled over to Sussex Wildlif...
analternativenaturalhistoryofsussex.blogspot.com
So this is how I find out that Spermatology 2026 is coming to Birmingham, also that spermatology conferences exist
Birmingham Jewellery Biennial Announces Flagship Exhibition https://ourculturemag.com/2026/07/28/birmingham-jewellery-biennial-announces-flagship-exhibition/
Bad search is a massive warning sign that the service you are using is evil for exactly this reason:
Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · last wk.The cross-platform enshittification of search functionality is such an infuriating exercise of authoritarian creep. They would like to kill the inclination to find information & enforce satisfaction with be fed information.
The log of the Dutch ship 'Gelderland' (1601-1603) had absolutely increadible sketches of the soon extinct bird fauna of Mauritius, included its flightless parrot, ibis and dodo Atributted to Joris Joostensz Laerle Check more drawings here commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categor...
