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A nonprofit club of people interested in mushrooms, from absolute beginners to professional mycologists — visit us at mawdc.org.
Mycological Association of Washington, DC members Izabella Farr and Jeff Clark were featured in a great Washington Post article about iNaturalist! "Their romance began with a shared fondness for plant parasites." (gift article) wapo.st/3Joqnzg @inaturalist.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com
23.10.2025 18:09 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
An image of many colorful mushrooms around a block of text that says Mushroom Fair.
Rain or shine! Join us tomorrow, October 12, for the annual Mushroom Fair at the Brookside Gardens Visitors Center! We'll be there from noon to 5 for fun, fungi and more! Free and open to the public — mawdc.org/event-5809021
11.10.2025 14:34 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A design says Mushroom Fair with a creepy Halloween-like image of mushrooms in the center.
This Sunday, join us for the annual Mushroom Fair! We'll be at Brookside Gardens Visitor Center on Sun Oct 12 from noon to 5 — fun, forays, and more! This is a free event open to the public. More at mawdc.org
04.10.2025 22:03 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
It's time for our monthly meeting, and you're invited! Join us Sunday, Sep 14, 3 pm at the Mount Rainier Nature Center for a virtual ID table (bring your specimens!) and a talk by Sneha Ganguly on fungal pigments. mawdc.org/event-6243914
12.09.2025 17:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sequanota continued with forays in the morning and more collections for DNA sequencing 🧬 We had an abundance of chicken 🍗 (of the woods). Dr. Catherine Aime from Purdue University wrapped up the evening with a presentation on neotropical fungi in Guyana and their ecological impacts🌴
02.09.2025 21:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We kicked off Camp Sequanota with a cloudy foray and many great finds! Jared’s bittersweet lecture on medicinal fungi had guests tasting a variety of mushroom extracts from Reishi to Ganoderma to Lion’s mane. Stay tuned for future Sequanota shenanigans!
02.09.2025 13:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📢🍄Mycology job alert🍄📢
The Department of Plant Biology at @michiganstateu.bsky.social has a job opening for a herbarium/fungarium director at the Assistant, Associate or Full professor level. Review of applications start on 3rd October 2025.
careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...
Chicken of the woods
People in the woods looking for mushrooms
a coral mushroom
Gilled mushrooms from underneath
It's mushroom camp baybeeeee!
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📢🍄Job alert🍄📢
The Department of Plant Pathology of the University of Georgia is accepting applications for an Assistant/Associate Professor in Fungal Biology/Mycology. Anticipated start date of May 2026. Open until filled, so apply now!
www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/445...
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The team!
Rare taxonomic #mycology job in NZ! Conduct fungal biodiversity & taxonomy research, secure funding, publish outputs. Working with the National Collections. PhD + postdoc experience required 🧪. Apply here: careers.sciencenewzealand.org/jobdetails?a...
19.08.2025 23:19 — 👍 37 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 0
Are fungi an underdog in the conservation world?
@scifri.bsky.social host Flora Lichtman spoke to @adricorrales.bsky.social & Michael Van Nuland about the importance of fungal networks, underground biodiversity hotspots, and why they need protection.
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📷 Loreto Oyarte Gálvez
The key presentation at our August meeting was by Conrad Schoch, staff scientist at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), who discussed "Demystifying DNA Sequences" — enjoy! #mycology #mushrooms #fungi
10.08.2025 14:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The third segment of our August meeting, while not specifically about fungi, was on a subject that concerns anyone out in the woods: ticks. Enjoy a fabulous presentation by Emily Struckhoff, a program specialist at Penn State Extension — youtu.be/faLVe8zlfsI?... #ticks #mushrooms #fungi
09.08.2025 20:43 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A group of people in a room look at fungi on tables.
A group of several dozen people pose for a photograph in a field.
A brown-capped mushroom being tested with a chemical.
Mushrooms against a field of moss.
It's time for Sequanota, our multi-day mycological extravaganza filled with forays, talks by Cathie Aime and Bill Yule, a night walk, cooking, and more! Lodging and meal options are available. Join us August 28 through September 1 — mawdc.org/event-5924453 #mycology #mushrooms #fungi
08.08.2025 14:45 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The second segment of our August meeting was a lively virtual ID table hosted by Annie Weissman —
07.08.2025 13:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We had a fabulous August meeting last night, and it's already online! Here's the first section, with club announcements and fungi in the news — youtu.be/jORvzjgMiso?... #fungi #fungus #mushroom #mushrooms #mycology
06.08.2025 16:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The word August is superimposed on colorful photographs of mushrooms.
Join us for our August meeting (open to all, online!) Tues 8/5, 7 pm — our featured speaker, Conrad Schoch of the National Center for Biotechnology Information will talk on Demystifying DNA Sequences: A guide to the National Center of Biotechnology Information (NCBI) system! mawdc.org/event-6273495
04.08.2025 20:47 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The final segment from our July meeting features noted mycologist Bill Yule, who presented a lively talk entitled Saprobe Superpowers — #mycology #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi
04.07.2025 18:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The second segment of our July meeting featured a Virtual ID Table, a culinary presentation entitled From the ID Table to the Kitchen Table, and information about our upcoming September event, Sequanota — enjoy! #mushroom #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #mycology
03.07.2025 17:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Did you miss last night's fabulous monthly meeting, or want to rewatch? You're in luck — here's part one, with the meeting intro, fungi in the news, and more (with more parts to come!) —
02.07.2025 18:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join us this Tuesday for our monthly meeting, with a talk by noted mycologist Bill Yule on "Saprobe Superpowers"! We'll also have a virtual ID table and more — July 1, 7 pm, online via Zoom — everyone is welcome! www.mawdc.org/event-6238165 #mycology #mushrooms #fungi
28.06.2025 16:06 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Hello everyone! With apologies for the late notice, we're on for the annual MAWDC picnic this coming Sunday, June 29, at Carderock! Matt Cohen will lead a pre-picnic foray at 10 a.m. followed by the picnic at 12:30 p.m. Hope to see you there! — www.mawdc.org/event-6238698
24.06.2025 15:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Slime mold alert! Join us Tuesday, June 3, 7 pm, online, for our monthly meeting (open to all), featuring two talks on slime molds by Valerie Chen and Serenella Linares, plus a virtual ID table, culinary news and more! mawdc.org/event-6198714 #mawdc
30.05.2025 13:20 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A fabulous article in The New York Times about our friends at the New York Mycological Society — @newyorkmyc.org #mushrooms #fungi #fungus
16.04.2025 12:31 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The final segment of our April meeting focused on iNaturalist, in a presentation by Deborah Barber, Director of Land Conservation for The Nature Conservancy, Ana Leilani Ka’ahanui, Co-founder of Capital Nature, and MAWDC Programs Chair Serenella Linares — youtu.be/xG8SlEQf7zk?...
07.04.2025 13:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In what's sure to be a frequently watched presentation from our April meeting, our foray chair Mitch Fournet presented Morel Basics — youtu.be/-yppVvygTe0?... #morel #morels #mushroom #mushrooms
04.04.2025 13:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In the third segment from our April meeting, MAWDC's science advisor, Megan Romberg, discusses the upcoming Game of Shrooms 2025 event — youtu.be/iylmwe9FXaA?...
04.04.2025 13:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
The second segment of our April meeting was From the ID Table to the Kitchen Table, in which Cindy Connelly Ryan talked about the preparation of morel risotto — youtu.be/w_hjeQLml0k?... #mycology #morels #mushroom #fungus
03.04.2025 15:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If you missed our April meeting, here's the first segment, which includes announcements about events, fungi in the news, and a presentation on our 2025 cultivation grant — youtu.be/iza7p-JvNS0?... #fungi #mushrooms #mushroom #fungus #mycology
03.04.2025 13:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NBC News reports on how changes in immigration policy could adversely affect the mushroom industry in southeastern Pennsylvania — www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/... #mushrooms #mushroom #fungi
29.03.2025 14:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
