Peter Braubach
@peterbraubach.bsky.social
Pathologist by day and sometimes by night. Dad of 2 👱👱 (03/18, 08/21). Bakes bread 🍞. Cares for a garden 🌻. Bikes to work 🚲. Biodiversity enthusiast. Mainly thinking about lichens here. He/him
'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)
Kevin the Kingfisher. Uncropped and just as I saw it down the lens. I'd never photographed a Kingfisher, or even seen one perched, before this. I can still remember my legs shaking as I took it. #BirdOfTheDay #Firsts #Birds #Wildlife #BirdPhotography #ECK
⚠️ DISCOVER THE DUROTRIGES at Wareham Museum #Dorset (free entry) 3D-printed replicas of Iron Age burials created from digital scans taken in the field are now on display 🏺 An accessible hands-on collaboration between Archaeology + National Centre for Computer Animation @bournemouthuni.bsky.social
Another one from the same sample - different location. C. brachypoda #lichen (I think) in crevices of willow bark.
Peter Braubach@peterbraubach.bsky.social · 2w agoDive with me into the valleys of willow bark with C. brachypodia #lichen.
Dive with me into the valleys of willow bark with C. brachypodia #lichen.
Peter Braubach@peterbraubach.bsky.social · 2w agoDeveloping apothecia of Coniocybe (was Chaenotheca) brachypoda #lichen in higher resolution. You can also make out the thin thallus hyphae coating the fibres of Salix bark. Shot with a Mitutoyo MPlanApo 5x/DCR150/A7Rm4
Developing apothecia of Coniocybe (was Chaenotheca) brachypoda #lichen in higher resolution. You can also make out the thin thallus hyphae coating the fibres of Salix bark. Shot with a Mitutoyo MPlanApo 5x/DCR150/A7Rm4
Another Chaenotheca #lichen from today is troubleing me. The apothecia are shorter and wider than the Chaenotheca trichialis from the same site (but different pine tree). And its completely overgrown by algae. I cannot make out any pruina and however I have pigmented spores.
I was also looking for Coniocybe brachypoda (which I (think I) have found on oak) in the "more typical habitat": on alder and willow along streams and found one small patch on an old willow. #lichen
Hard to reach and hard to see - Chaenothecopsis cf. debilis (I think) on decorticated wood of Alder next to a small stream. I had to climb a bit over the water to reach the site but it was definitely the highlight of my afternoon walk*. * walk = crawling, climbing and jumping along a stream.
Glaucomaria rupicola - I think - #lichen. The photo is from last year, I came back to visit and collected an apothecium for confirming c+ yellow.
These look so beautiful - even when not viewed under a polarizing microscope. As pathologist, with hundreds of (tissue) slides passing my table I can barely imagine the effort it takes to get rocks into this thin and even format!
Stuart Jones@owenthesignal.bsky.social · 3w agoAbsolutely! Nearly forgot, the training included the ability to roll your own thin sections by the end of year 3. The lab techs were *very patient in passing in their knowledge and skills
Chaenotheca ferruginea #lichen with typical rusty red patches on the thallus and pin shaped apothecia.
Can Lugol's solution go bad? I have a lichen (S. pruinosa) where I expect an euamyloid blue hym reaction but get consistently red (via light blue, hemiamyloid). #Lichen. Previously I got the expected reaction (on different sample) @aspenecology.com @sueinscotland.bsky.social @spribille.bsky.social
Lecanora pulicaris on beech. Collection from yesterday. Common - but nothing I see usually and so new to me. Typical P-red apothecia margins.
I collected a bunch of rocks in an old limestone quarry today to look for a #lichen I found on a limestone pebble last year. Keep your fingers crossed, maybe I am lucky and find it again.
Mika McKinnon@mikamckinnon.bsky.social · 3w agoIt’s Rock Day: Rock Check! Do you have your rock? Do you need a rock? Can you find a rock? I found this lovely porphyritic basalt in my washing machine. I love how the different crystal sizes tell a story of an eruption rudely interrupting cozy subterranean cooling. Photos & stories welcome.
Cladonia (fimbriata, I think) #lichen in front of a curtain of moss on oak bark - because everybody likes pixie cup lichens.
I haven't been #Lichen posting for a while (sorry) and want to come back to just to show off a find from today, coupled with a question. I found this nice pinhead lichen completely covered in yellow pruina. I think this is Coniocybe (Chaenotheca) brachypoda.
The book 'Pezizomycetes of Europe' is now available to preorder for €80 #MycoBookClub #FungiFriends ascomycete.org/Book
Sie haben niemandem was getan. Das ist aber völlig irrelevant, wenn jemand einen hassen will. www.spiegel.de/ausland/russ...
Russisches Gericht verurteilt erstmals Queere wegen Extremismus
Der Oberste Gerichtshof in Russland machte den Weg für eine Verfolgung von Mitgliedern der LGBTQ-Community frei. Jetzt sind erstmals drei Menschen wegen angeblichen Extremismus bestraft worden.
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Ähm, folgendes, jemand, die sich immer wieder an neuen Themen festknabbert, möchte ein Sandarium für Wildbienen anlegen. Die Empfehlungen im Netz weichen extrem ab (Spielsand mit/ohne Lehm/Erde oder ungewaschenen Sand oder Feinkies oder extra feinen Sand oder...) Hat jemand positive Erfahrungen?
I made a cross polarizing filter adapter for the stereo microscope! This was on my list for so long and I never came around to do it. Yesterday I was observing some very moist samples and the specular reflections were a mess - so I had a reason. #3Dprinting 🤝 #Microscopy 🍄
When I bring starlet sea anemones to events, I ask kids what these animals look like under the microscope. Often I get told: sea monster! Looking at the mouth of this reporter animal, I can see why. 🟢= stinging cells in adult Nematostella #StunningStella @stowersinstitute.bsky.social
I am thinking maybe an Iyengarina sp., although these should maybe have a pigmented middle cell. @fayrnhawk.bsky.social #AquaticHyphomycetes
Peter Braubach@peterbraubach.bsky.social · 3mo agoI just got the next with spiky bits in.
The Leine, or more specifically the Schnelle Graben had lots of foam yesterday. I uploaded 40+ observations to #iNaturalist - #AquaticHyphomycetes (still ignoring sigmoids)
Yesterday I came across a small waterfall I had not noticed before. There was some nice foam and an #AquaticHyphomycetes community dominated by Heliscus tentaculus. Landwehrgraben in Hannover on 30.05.26.
