A #paper #fungi commission for an anniversary. The couple love foraging for fungi together so I was given a list of edible fungi they often find on their adventures. The collection includes a Wood Cauliflower, Chanterelle, Bay Bolette, Slippery Jack, Cep & Chicken of the Wood.

❌This is striking ❌ Should every museum do this?

I enjoyed writing this article for ASM on the importance of microbial collections, briefly featuring Julie E Russell! asm.org/Articles/2019/…

All of our 2019 MSA poster & oral presentation awards went to female students. Congratulations! #WomenInSTEM #WomeninMycology #MSAfungi19

Ethan Peck constantly has the most amazing shirts, we don’t deserve him 🖖

Several new video's are posted on the Youtube channel of the "An Oral History for Mycology" project. This awesome project is lead by Meredith Blackwell. See for all interviews here: youtube.com/channel/UCCsqw…

#StudentSpotlight Meet Spenser Babb-Biernacki. (Spenser Babb-Biernacki). Spenser is a 2nd yr PhD student at the #LSUMNS from Phoenix, AZ working under @JakeEsselstyn. Her research focuses on the evolutionary history of mammalian lung parasites: fungi in the genus Pneumocystis. (1/2)

#tbt Did you know the dioramas at the #LSUMNS were hand painted in the 1950s by then Curator of Exhibits, Ambrose Daigre? Photos of the real scenes were projected onto the back wall of the exhibits and they were painted using the projection as a guide.

An #organism with 20,000 sexes😱?? Some fungi may have several thousand sexes. Perhaps most extreme is the split #gill #mushroom 🍄 (Schizophyllum commune) which, is estimated to have 20,000 or more sexes #FreakyFungalFriday 🔗: bit.ly/2AAHIyY 📷: bit.ly/2lz3cHn

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Objectively the best pumpkin and team name on the site. Vote and retweet!

Had a blast carving this super spooky shrew skull to try to win the Esselstyn Mammal Lab a free HiSeq lane! 🎃🐭🦇 Vote for Krewe du Shrew here: woobox.com/jhaoev

On Wednesday 22 July 2020, Mycological Society of America moved to bluesky will organize a one-day MSA #virtualmeeting, open to all MSA members! With Karling lecture, Presidential address, symposia, poster session, awards ceremony, business meeting, and auction. More details to follow! #MSAfungi20

Some mushroom cap shapes. Part of a thing I've been working on. Watercolor pencil and ink.

I'm a mycologist who studies fungal parasites of humans. I had a lot of feelings about The Last of Us. Welcome to Science Teatime! 🫖👩‍🔬🤩 youtube.com/watch?v=vRImdK… #LastOfUsHBO #mycology #fungus #scicomm

I'm a mycologist who studies fungal parasites of mammals. I had EVEN MORE feelings about The Last of Us. Welcome back to Science Teatime! 🫖📷 youtu.be/rcrp1E97X10 #lastofus #mycology #fungus #scicomm

Check out this new video by our PhD student Spenser Babb-Biernacki, breaking down the science of fungal parasites in the "The Last of Us"! We interviewed her earlier this year, and she discussed her initial thoughts about the show in this blog post. lsuscienceblog.squarespace.com/blog/2023/5/8/…