clareblencowe.bsky.social
Field mycologist with a passion for grassland fungi. Interested in the history of mycology. Bang into biological recording. Located in West Sussex, UK.
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The word is so commonly used in this context we even have an acronym in British English: NSS (National Schemes and Societies).
Scheming for good! 🐛🐝🦋🦗🪲🪳
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Good to know it's still a smashing site!
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Like, *so* meta.
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E. C. Large was being 'so meta' about 50 years before the phrase was invented.
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📌
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Thanks Moira! It's been fun.
Looking forward to putting issue 2 together! (Hoping that will be a lot easier now I sort of know what I'm doing 😉).
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Thanks @mossystonemedia.bsky.social! It's the coolest people who realise how cool #OpenAccess publishing with your small niche society really is. 😎
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Thank you! Thank you for being interested in all my little progress updates along the way too! 😄
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I'm looking forward to seeing how it pans out!
Lots of interesting articles coming in for issue 2 already 👍
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Happy to discuss all things Field Mycology! Do let me know your thoughts.
Bear with me if I’m slow to respond sometimes, because I am quite tired now. 😄
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I still have a ton of stuff to learn about how being an editor of a publication like Field Mycology works! And I want to do more on enriching our article metadata.
So, I expect the new submissions guidance will be evolving for many months to come.
➡️ fieldmycology.org/index.php/jo...
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You can read a list of thanks to folks who helped bring you the current issue of Field Mycology in my editorial.
➡️ doi.org/10.63482/hnp...
I also want to give a shout-out to @lukaslarge.bsky.social & @abazzical.bsky.social who helped a lot with getting the back issues online and #OpenAccess. 👏
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I didn’t do this on my own! The British Mycological Society has been involved every step of the way.
This whole thing has renewed my faith in what’s achievable when people work together. I hope the BMS’s members will continue to support us on this journey. 🙏
➡️ www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/join.html
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Long-time followers may remember I got into mycology as a blogger, so it was important to me that readers should be able to link to individual articles.
I found out how to get registered with Crossref, to enable the BMS to publish DOIs via the OJS platform.
➡️ www.crossref.org//membership/
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I decided to avoid having to learn graphic design, by simply copying the design of previous issues.
However, as they were produced in QuarkXPress, they included some proprietary fonts. So I swapped these out for free fonts, available under an Open Font Licence.
➡️ fonts.google.com/specimen/Ope...
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It was clear from consultation with our members that they enjoy the magazine-style format of Field Mycology. So I had to learn how to make a magazine.
We needed to minimise production costs, so we opted for Affinity Designer 2 which is free for non-profits.
➡️ affinity.serif.com/en-gb/affini...
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I had to learn A LOT to get the #OpenJournalSystems site up and running. But it was pretty straightforward with the excellent e-learning available from PKP School.
➡️ pkpschool.sfu.ca/courses/sett...
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[email protected]'s example showed us that #OpenAccess publishing is viable for small non-profit societies, using the #OpenJournalSystems (OJS) platform, developed by the Public Knowledge Project @pkp.sfu.ca.
➡️ openjournalsystems.com
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In academic publishing, the costs of #OpenAccess are usually borne by authors. For a publication such as Field Mycology, where authors are often studying fungi for the sheer love of it (unpaid), charging authors is not viable.
So, the publishing approach needed serious deliberation…
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A publication such as Field Mycology is not just shaped by the editor, it is shaped by the field mycology community: authors & readers. Consultation followed and it was clear: our members want a magazine!
So you can still subscribe to a paper magazine here ➡️ www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/fm-journal
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When the previous editor – the inimitable Geoffrey Kibby – announced his intention to step down after publication of Volume 25 (after 25 years of service!), an opportunity presented itself for change.
But what a tough act to follow!
➡️ www.field-studies-council.org/2024/09/10/m...
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Change doesn’t just happen. It takes a lot of work!
I first started talking about digital publishing with my fellow committee members in the BMS back in February 2021.
I was looking at examples like @bsbibotany.bsky.social's B&IB and thinking, “Want!” …
➡️ britishandirishbotany.org
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Taking on this editorial role on top of a full-time job has been … intense!
Grateful for the understanding of my nearest and dearest – while I learned how to produce an online #OpenAccess publication, from scratch.
Lucky for me I like learning things. Thought I’d share a few highlights here 👇
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We stayed in a friend-of-a-friend's very rustic cottage on Titty Hill a few times, it's a most delightful part of the world.
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So great to have the update from you and Plantlife on what's happening with UK fungus conservation. Thank you!
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Thank you Sean! I will get around to posting some thoughts about the new publication at some point. Just having a little rest first! 😁
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Thanks for your help getting all the recent back issues up there as well, Lukas!
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I was so fascinated by this fungus when I found it at Sheffield Park! misidentifyingfungi.blogspot.com/2019/05/fung...
Unbelievable biology.
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Tough times for the Good Internets on many fronts.
I'm sure the AI crawlers exploding hosting costs don't help either.
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(Sorry the Twitter links in that piece don't work any more. I locked the @MycoBookClub account because, well, ya know.)
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Me talking about how much I love the Biodiversity Heritage Library ▶️ blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2021/02/bhl-...
I work in mycology at @rbgkew.bsky.social these days - a career move that was largely inspired by things I read in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. 📚
All together now: #ILoveBHL
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Any idea/tips about possible funding sources that could help to barcode these specimens from Madagascar? Starting with a time-series sampling of > 3500 fungal specimens collected 1996-2013.
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Have you tried accessing from a different browser or clearing cached site data?
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That is weird! Social media's got so convoluted nowadays, I don't understand it. I'm thinking of going back to postal correspondence 😄