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Jessica Williams
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Fungi, nature, crafts, books, etc

Sequence validator for OMDL and FUNDIS

iNat here - https://www.inaturalist.org/people/5224990

If you're curious about DNA barcoding fungi, I've got some vids https://www.youtube.com/@lothlin/videos
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January 22, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Usually you find entomopathogenic fungi like these on the undersides of leaves, but sometimes they crawl onto the bottom of a mushroom cap to die

#Fungifriends #Mushroom #Mycology #Photography #Macrophotography
January 22, 2026 at 7:43 PM
January 22, 2026 at 7:39 PM
January 22, 2026 at 6:52 PM
January 22, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Hodophilus.

This are in Clavariaceae (but have gills!)

Also they smell like mothballs

#Fungifriends #Mycology #Mushroom #Photography
January 22, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Gliophorus sp.

Look at that GLUTINOUS PILEUS

#Mycology #Fungifriends #Mushroom #Photography
January 22, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Ope. It seems I may have uprooted someone's home....

An Alboleptonia

#Fungifriends #Photography #Mushroom #Mycology
January 22, 2026 at 5:47 PM
The gill shots on this Deconica are just too nice - also, they fluoresce pink/red under 365nm UV light! I wish the lightning was a bit more condusive to getting a good UV shot of the gills here.

#Fungifriends #Mycology #Mushroom #Photography
January 22, 2026 at 5:36 PM
January 22, 2026 at 5:32 PM
I remember reading the poem 'First They Came' by pastor Martin Niemöller. Viscerally.

It was in my ninth grade social studies class; I was thirteen. It was 2000 - 9/11 hadn't happened yet. The US wasn't at war - not really. Sure there was some middle eastern action, remnants of the gulf war (cont)
January 9, 2026 at 5:57 PM
My oldest cat passed away last month - he was 17.

I've been working on a memorial piece for him - it hurts so much that he is gone but doing this is, in a way, helping me grieve

#loss #fiberarts #crossstitch #embroidery
December 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Idk what this is. Enjoy.
December 4, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Calycina sp.

Who is sheee???

#fungifriends #mycology
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Camarops petersii is a seriously weird mushroom

#mycology #fungifriends
October 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It's the day of pretty corts

#mycology #fungifriends
October 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Pulling some samples for sequencing.

Check out this pretty little Cortinarius

#fungifriends #mycology
October 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I downloaded Finch and so far I'm actually liking this app?

Let's see if it can help me be more consistant with chores...

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October 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Y'all, I'm too much for myself sometimes
October 23, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I simply adore these corts

#fungifriends #mycology #cortinarius
September 29, 2025 at 12:40 AM
'tis the season for Macrolepiota (or at least it would be if we weren't in drought.) These guys are a choice edible, and pretty easy to ID. Look for a moveable, double-sided ring, 'snakeskin' patterning on the stipe, and white to pale pinkish spores.

Macrolepiota Macilenta

#Fungifriends #Foraging
September 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Clavaria cf. fumosa

#fungifriends #mycology
September 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Oh, to be a longhorn bee snuggled up with my bee buddies for a nap in a rush.

#nature
August 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
HM.

What do we HAVE HERE. M. griseoviride is supposed to have a Melzer's reaction at the tip of the asci and the specimans from OH that we did micro on are NOT reacting to Melzer's regent

Gonna need to dig down this rabbit hole a little more

#mycology #dnasequencing
August 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM