IMA Survey with many of my favorite mushroom people today. #fungi #hongos #fungifriends #mushrooms #illinoismycologicalassociation

Riding in on the blue line today, the car smelled lovely, like maple syrup and pancakes. Turns out I had a candy cap mushroom in my hoodie pocket. Don't remember picking it #mushroomproblems #fungifriends #hongos #mushrooms #pocketsurprise #mushrooms

NAMA New England 2025, AKA fungi fun in Vermont. #NAMA #mushrooms #fungi #hongos #mushroompeoplearethebestpeople #fungifriends

Survey at Miami Woods Forest Preserve with @illinoismyco.bsky.social . Amanitas and spore-ing gills. #fungi #mushrooms #hongos #fungifriends #illinoismycologicalassociation

Lovely gills on display today at the #smithforay #fungi #mushrooms #fungifriends #hongos #setas

Another lovely day in the woods with friends!

Fun times in the lab last week! WTTW visited.

An #illinoismycologicalassociation friend found this beast of a fungi. Shoved it in a fridge, fingers crossed it stays fresh enough to display at the #Chicagobotanicgarden Fungi Show this Sunday. #mushroompeoplearethebestpeople #mushrooms #fungi #hongos #fungus

Leucoagaricus americanus, a favorite mulch loving fungi. They stain red. #fungi #mushrooms #hongos #gooutside

A lovely reading spot on a lovely day. #readbannedbooks #seminarycoopbookstore #booksky #gooutside

Rickanella fibula, teensy, tiny moss fungi. On the Owasippe Scout Camp blue trail #moss #mushroom #hongo #fungi #Edaphoecotropism

Hiked part of the Red trail at Owasippe Scout Camp yesterday and found 4 kinds of chanterelles #mushrooms #fungi #hongos #outsidewithmykiddoandpals

Another survey with @illinoismyco.bsky.social at Brunner Family Forest Preserve in Kane County. #fungi #mushrooms #hongos #illinoismycologicalassociation

Highlight of my day is finding out a second species on iNat features one of my pictures. #fungi #mushrooms #iNaturalist

Fun day in the field. The lab crew, some IMA folks and Thomas Roehl went looking for, and found, Lentinus tigrinus mushrooms for an ongoing project @Clark University. Pretty golden oysters too! #mushrooms #fungi #research #illinoismycologicalassociation

An IMA member found one of Dr. P. Leacock's "Most Wanted" fungi today! www.mycoguide.com/guide/fungi/...

I grew up to be the kind of person who is ecstatic to have a garden toad.

Awesome former club president, and current scientific advisor Matt Nelsen was on WGN talking about fungi and The Last of Us. Thank you for the IMA shout out Matt! #fungi #mushrooms #cordyceps #iilinoismycologicalassociation #lastofus youtu.be/ziHWYI7J6nk?...

A fungi filled walk in the woods today.

It was a good day to be out in the woods and up to no good. #fungi #mushrooms #springephemerals #noticks

Protesting. #handsoff #standupforscience #prochoice

Suburban local election early voting happening NOW. Election Day is April 1st here. Being involved with your school board elections is more important than ever.

DNA based nomenclature changes provoke strong feelings for many people. And provide tons of entertainment for me, pass the popcorn! #mushrooms #fungi #nomenclature #hongos #morels #falsemorels www.aldendirks.com/1001-mushroo...

Stand Up For Science Rally today. The lab crew showed up in the snow and sleet for solidarity! #standupforscience

Friday plan. Heading over with my lab crew!

Book club discussion included farming ants, potato blight, the nature of algae within lichens and more. Today's lab work was making PCR Ready plates. Slightly hampered by static charge making the liquid jump up to the seal.

Every week myco book club goes off on side quests. Only a few other books were pulled this time. Mycelium communication, Artillery fungi, spore shapes, and a classic fungi identification title.

Working on the WA NAMA specimens today. Happy to see this little crust I collected made it to the museum. #fungi #hongos #NAMA #Fieldmuseum

Fungi Film Fest in Albany Park, Chicago this Thursday January 30th for IMA/NAMA members! Check your email for the newsletter with all the details.

Book club went a bit off the rails, we didn't make it out of the introduction. Side quests to related topics were too much fun. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/168556

Fresh fungi still happening in the Midwest. @morton arboretum today #fungi #mushrooms

44 observations, 27 species, 9 observers. Data entry day for the IMA St. Mihiel Survey 26Oct2024.