#mycological — Public Fediverse posts

‘Life or Death:’ #AI-Generated #Mushroom #Foraging Books Are All Over #Amazon
Experts worry #books produced by #ChatGPT for sale on Amazon, targeting beginner foragers, could kill someone. New York #Mycological Society (NYMS) warned on social media that proliferation of AI-generated foraging books: “There are hundreds of poisonous #fungi in North America and several that are deadly,” Sigrid Jakob, president of NYMS said “They can look similar to popular edible species."
https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-mushroom-foraging-books-amazon/

"The #Boston #Mycological Club, founded in 1895 “to bring together all of those interested in #fungi,” claims the title of oldest continuously existing amateur such club in the world."

https://www.cambridgeday.com/2023/08/20/walking-with-mushrooms/

#massachusetts #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mushroom #MushroomMonday #hiking #foraging #CambridgeDay #EdiblePlants #Nature #mycologist

#NewStudy in #MycoKeys contrasts accumulation of #FungalSpecies recovered using traditional #mycological approaches w/those recovered w/ #environmental #DNA sequencing. Even when allowing for various kinds of biases, authors found that #SpeciesDiscovery through #environmental sequencing vastly outpaces traditional #species #recovery in a strongly increasing trend over the last 5 years. The authors conclude that dark #fungi form a defining feature of the #fungal kingdom.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/985525

"The Mushroom Color Atlas is a resource and reference for everyone curious about mushrooms and the beautiful and subtle colors derived from dyeing with mushrooms. But it is also the start of a journey and a point of departure, introducing you to the kaleidoscopic fungi kingdom and our connection to it." https://www.mushroomcoloratlas.com/ #mushrooms #fungi #mycological #atlas #environment #network #art

"#Mushrooms #communicate with each other using up to 50 ‘words’, #scientist claims

#Professor #theorises #electrical #impulses sent by #mycological organisms could be similar to #human #language[…]"

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/06/fungi-electrical-impulses-human-language-study