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Cascade Mycological Society

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The Cascade Mycological Society is dedicated to education, research, conservation, safety, and fun with fungi in the Pacific Northwestern mushroom belt. Eugene, OR

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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Read about what CMS accomplished last season: 🍄 Speaker presentations 🍄 Member field trips 🍄 Mount Pisgah Arboretum mushroom festival 🍄 CMS community events 🍄 Grants and scholarships awarded 🍄 Macrofungi of Lane County, Oregon with Dr. Bitty Roy of UO cascademyco.org/2026/09/2025...
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2025-2026 Year in Review
CMS MeetingsMPA Mushroom Festival HighlightsCMS Members' Only Field TripsFungi Education in the CommunityGrants and ScholarshipsMacrofungi of Lane County, OR (MLCO)CMS Special Events/ActivitiesCMS Boa...
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Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson @hilaryrosed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oregon #fungi folks, the Yachats Mushroom Festival keynote dinner on Sat 17 Oct features a #truffle talk given by my sister Heather Dawson. Her truffle dogs are likely to share the stage with her. Get tickets while you can! #OregonCoast #mycology @visityachats.bsky.social @cascademyco.bsky.social
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Keynote Dinner 2026 | Heather Dawson - Yachats Mushroom Festival
Dinner: 5:00–6:30 PM $45 Keynote: 7:00 PM ($15 without dinner) Kick off the Yachats Mushroom Festival Friday evening with a special Keynote Dinner, featuring a locally inspired, mushroom-focused menu ...
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Eugene Bright Parade 2026!
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Glad to see a dream coming true this year❤️🍄
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Come cheer us on along the route if you're not in the parade! We are #92.
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A team of 16 CMS members have been working on our mushroom costumes and the tree we will be connected to with “mycelium lights.” Look for sparkling purple Cortinarius, an earth star, chicken of the woods, lobster mushroom, morels, fly amanita, Hericium, a green earth tongue, ghost pipe, and more!
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As soon as we left the theater after last April’s screening of Follow the Rain, we knew we had to arrange a fall showing for people to experience the awe and wonder of this film on a big screen. Save the Date: November 21st 6:30PM or November 22nd at 1:30PM. 📽️Trailer: youtu.be/f9N9WeFU3vA?...
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Come out to see us in the annual Eugene Bright Parade from 7:30 to 8:30. It starts and ends at 8th and Pearl.
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oct 16-18, 2026 - Yachats Mushroom Festival - The 3-day event includes a dinner, a mushroom display, mushroom-themed dishes in local restaurants, mushroom walks, craft vendors, and more! #mushroomfestival www.yachatsmushroomfestival.org?mc_cid=33976...
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Yachats Mushroom Festival 2026 - Yachats Mushroom Festival
Yachats Mushroom Festival 2026 October 16-18, 2026  Showtime!Keynote EveningHeather Dawson: “Seeking Buried Fungal Treasure: Truffles and the Dogs Who Find Them” TalksExpand your knowledge of the worl...
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oct 25, 2026 - Mount Pisgah Arboretum Mushroom Festival: Always the last Sunday in October! Advance tickets are required for entry and will go on sale on the MPA website on September 25th (cost $16). cascademyco.org/mushroom-fes...
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Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson @hilaryrosed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Any recommendations for papers comparing how good different databases are at assigning taxonomic names to DNA sequences? I'd like to see example analyses for how to compare databases, so I don't care which organism group the database is targeting. 🧪 #ecology #taxonomy #dna
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sept 25, 2026, 7pm to 9pm Intro to Wild Mushroom Identification (Hilyard Community Center) Learn how to safely identify and consume wild mushrooms. Cost: $13 - $16.75 Registration required. rec.eugene-or.gov/OR/city-of-e...
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Kick off mushroom season with us Wednesday night! Learn about fungi, bring mushrooms to be ID'd, and check them out under our microscope with expert identifiers on hand. 🍄 cascademyco.org/2026/09/cms-...
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Uehling lab @uehlinglab.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
We’re excited to share a new paper from the lab led by Dr. Hayden Johnson focused on rapid and accurate fungal identification at scale!!
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Whole genome similarity provides a rapid, robust framework for classification of fungal taxa from the genus rank to intraspecies variants
Rapid and accurate microbial identification is critical for interpreting biological data in basic research and when making applied decisions on how to effectively treat patients and control human, ani...
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The parade crew is meeting today to put lights on our costumes for the Bright Parade. Our entry was officially accepted yesterday!
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Virtual option available. Registration is required.
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Plant Ecology Tour: Edibles & Medicinals Saturday, September 5th 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM at Mount Pisgah Arboretum Join forager and herbalist Logan Keister to learn about seasonally available edibles and medicinals. Pre-registration is required. mountpisgaharboretum.org/learn/worksh...
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
USDA's first update to U.S. mushroom grading standards since 1966 🍄‍🟫 Open veils no longer considered a defect Allows mixed mushroom packaging Adds Portabella grade Updates terminology Applies only to Agaricus bisporus (white/crimini/portabella) producebusiness.com/news/usda-fi...
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USDA Finalizes First Update to U.S. Mushroom Grade Standards in Nearly 60 Years
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has published a final notice in the Federal Register revising the U.S. Standards for Grades of Mushrooms.
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Local photographer and CMS board member Bob Blanchard displays the cream-of-the-crop photos from 25+ years of photography. Opening night: September 4, 2026 – the same night as the First Friday Art Walk, from 7 to 9 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. eugeneweekly.com/calendar/#/d...
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"A $3.3 million, five-year federal grant awarded earlier this year will enable OHSU researchers to specifically examine psilocybin’s effect on people seeking state psilocybin services to reduce use of illicit substances."
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Study finds sustained benefit for people using Oregon psilocybin services
OHSU-led research is the largest study of psychedelics outside clinical trials.
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“Rather than logs sitting on the forest floor for 15 years the mushrooms reduce the fuel level,” Bell said. “It is incredible.” gazette.com/2026/08/07/m...
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Mushrooms take role in fire mitigation
With thousands of acres burning across the United States and Canada, the town of Green Mountain Falls is mitigating with mushrooms.
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🍄📽️🎬🎦🍄Film submissions for this year’s Fungi Film Fest are due TOMORROW, August 31 by 11:59 PM PST. #FungiFilmFestival #Mushrooms #FungiFriends #Fungi #MushroomFilmFestival mailchi.mp/mycoculturer...
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Films Due TOMORROW!
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Beautiful story map highlights the importance of roadless national forest land. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f1fd...
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Conserving Forests Without Roads
How roadless conservation protects wildlife, drinking water, and clean air on the Colorado Plateau.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Helen Gwynne-Vaughan: prominent botanist & mycologist and a pivotal military administrator who structured women's branches of the British armed forces across both World Wars. + Co-founder, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, 1917 + Commandant, Women's Royal Air Force Died #OTD in 1967. #WomenInSTEM
A black-and-white historical photograph of Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan (1879–1967), the pioneering British mycologist and decorated military administrator who structured women's auxiliary branches during both World Wars. Seated at a desk, she is shown from the torso up, angled slightly to the left while looking down with a warm, genuine smile. She holds a vintage black rotary telephone receiver to her right ear, with the main telephone base resting on the desk in the lower left foreground amidst scattered paperwork and documents. She wears a crisp British military service uniform jacket featuring shoulder straps with rank insignia, a collared shirt, a tie, and a row of military ribbon bars pinned above her left breast pocket. The background is a darkly lit, minimalist office interior, emphasizing her active leadership role. The composition balances the industrial details of early-to-mid 20th-century communications with a bright, dignified mood, capturing a historic moment of a female trailblazer commanding wartime operations.
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Commercial use permits are $200 and are required for any individual gathering more than six matsutake mushrooms per day or for anyone gathering to sell. www.fs.usda.gov/r06/siuslaw/...
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Siuslaw National Forest : Press Release - Matsutake mushroom permits available in September
(Reedsport, OR, Aug.
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"We need to understand how much change these relationships can absorb before that resilience begins to break down.” www.colorado.edu/today/2026/0...
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Plants and their fungal partners remain in sync despite changing climate
A CU Boulder study finds that the symbiotic relationship between alpine plants and underground fungi stays robust to earlier snowmelt driven by warming
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British Mycological Society @britmycolsoc.org.uk · 17/08/2026
To be able to protect endangered fungi, we first need to know where they are. A new study in #FungalEcology clarifies the current and future distribution of the critically endangered polypore Wrightoporia araucariae in Brazil. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Fungi #Conservation
Photos showing macroscopic and microscopic features of Wrightoporia araucariae fungus. From a paper by Westphalen et al. in Fungal Ecology, August 2026.
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"FLS said the fungus was among the "first colonisers" of burned ground and played a role in breaking down carbon and preventing soil erosion." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Bright orange 'fire fungus' emerges in wake of Cairngorms wildfire
Forestry and Land Scotland says the fungus is among the first signs of life in areas of burned woodland, following a major wildfire last month.
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"Fungal chitin particles reinforce a flexible, dog-bone-shaped hydrogel much like rebar strengthens concrete." phys.org/news/2026-08...
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Fungal chitin offers new route to tougher hydrogels for medical devices and soft robots
Researchers at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the University of Tennessee (UT), Knoxville, have made an advance by using a natural substance from fungi calle...
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Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson @hilaryrosed.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Suggestions on where I could publish a short note on finding a fungal species where it definitely wasn't expected? Links to invasion biology + horticulture. PNW based, if that matters. Not sure I'll write this up, but it feels like the find should be recorded in the literature. #mycology #fungi
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"Purdue researchers invent mycoponics to cultivate fungi for Earth, the moon and beyond"
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Mushrooms in space: Purdue researchers invent mycoponics to cultivate fungi for Earth, the moon and beyond
Porterfield founded MycoGravity — the Purdue Innovates Office of Technology Commercialization is in discussion with him about a licensing agreement — and published a paper that became Biotechnology…
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Inspired by the gorgeous work at A River of Light (ariveroflight.org) and considering a mushroom lantern parade entry. Does anyone have a pattern, template, or build plan for mushroom lanterns (willow/wicker and tissue paper, or similar)? #BRiGHTParade #Eugene ariveroflight.org
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Homepage - A River of Light: the magic of lantern parade
Welcome to A River of Light A celebration of art, light, community, and place. Through our brief history and across every continent, we have made lanterns and lit luminaries to banish the shadows, cel...
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FungiJoJofromCanada @fungijojo.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The most poisonous mushroom around! 😍 Lovely
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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Putting the fun in fungi
Four illustrations depicting anthropomorphic mushrooms in a forest, with glasses, purses, umbrellas and walking sticks. Art by Heinz Geilfus (1890-1956)
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New York Mycological Society @newyorkmyc.org · 06/08/2026
This achievement is a wonderful reminder that citizen scientists continue to make meaningful contributions to mycology. Congratulations, Sigrid, and thank you for your dedication to fungal science! 👏🍄 #Mycology #Mushrooms #CitizenScience #Inocybe #Mycologia
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Covered are microbial bioremediation, bioleaching, bioaugmentation, biostimulation, mycoremediation, and phytoremediation.
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Help choose the dish that will represent Oregon in the official state dish registry. There are ten to choose from. Right now chanterelles are lagging at #9. I think they should be number one, don't you? www.statedish.org/national-foo...
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Wild Pacific Chanterelles, the official dish of Oregon
Cast your Oregon ballot before November 1, 2026.
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"The team found that wildfire smoke from the prescribed burns contained spore concentrations of up to 400,000 spores per cubic meter, 4 times higher than the threshold that has been shown to decrease lung function." Be careful out there!
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Fungal Spores in Wildfire Smoke Could Cause Lung Disease - Eos
Mice exposed to fungi spready by wildfires developed symptoms, exposing a potential health hazard to humans that has been understudied.
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"The artist describes her practice as “experiential fiber art,” combining her love of nature and creativity in the public sphere." www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/08/lydi...
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Lydia Hansen Introduces Hikers to Native Midwest Mushrooms on Crocheted 'Fungi Hunts'
An ongoing series of seasonal scavenger hunts organized by Lydia Hansen in Minnesota woodlands invite inquiry.
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Børge @forteller.tutoteket.no.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026
I made a fungi flag, for all my mycological vexillologist peeps. Hope you like it. #mycology #fungi #polypore #vexillology #flag
Flag with a broad top and bottom band, they are light blue and golden yellowish brown. In the middle two smaller strips, the top is dark blue, the bottom redish orange.A polypore fungi growing out from a tree. We see it straight on from the front, and it has the same bands of colors as the flag.
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We are planning a Cascade Mycological Society float in this year's Eugene BRiGHT night Parade. Contact us if you're interested in helping us create fungi themed lit up art for the event or walking with us in costumes. eugenebrightparade.com/parade/
Eugene City Mayor on float smiling in sun mask at Eugene Bright Parade in 2024lit up float in night parade, tall mushrooms on the front of vehicle
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
bsky.app/profile/funk...
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The schedule for the 2026 Radical Mycology Convergence is out 🍄‍🟫 mycoculturerad.com/pages/radica... #fungifriends #mycology #mushrooms
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"Drummond-Herdman is a self-taught amateur taxonomist who became fascinated with fungi that grows on dung, known as coprophilous fungi, when walking in the Ochil Hills on the edge of Stirling during the pandemic." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘I have an understanding housemate’: the student who makes videos of fungus on faeces
Alfred Drummond-Herdman’s extraordinary timelapses have been viewed by millions – and led him to identify new species
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Rebecca Shay @plantfrond.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
#MycoSky help please! Does anyone have a contract lab that can do chitin analysis? #mycology #lab
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Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson @hilaryrosed.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
#Australia paid summer #internship alert at CSIRO in Canberra: Data analysis of #termite carbon flux data set with aim of publication. This is a fantastic opportunity with a great supervisor. Apply by 10 Aug. Please share widely! #ecology #undergrad #JobAlert jobs.csiro.au/job/Various-...
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"About the project from the lead, Zach Brown:

I have several datasets related to termite mound field gas fluxes and I’m keen to recruit a second or third year student who is motivated to analyse these data with the aim to generate a first-author publication. The data exist already, so field work is not required but some field trips are possible if the student wants the experience. This project is part of a larger program improving carbon cycling models for Australian landscapes. The role is best suited to someone who is highly motivated to get a first author publication and is considering a career in research.

The project descriptions are available via the “Project List” link available on the advertisement page. Any questions related to project can be directed to me at zach.brown [at] csiro.au and hiring questions can be directed to CSIRO HR."
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"The structured fungal surface provides water-repellent and self-cleaning properties." phys.org/news/2026-07...
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Why the future of fashion might involve wearing live fungi
The idea of having living fungi cover your body might not be the most appealing thing in the world. But what if it was part of a clothing fabric that could change color, protect you from UV rays and e...
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Interesting article. www.mycostories.com/post/glp-1-f...
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How GLP-1s, Fibermaxxing, and Clean Label Are Driving Demand for Fungi-based Ingredients: Takeaways from IFT First 2026
Takeaways from MycoStories' visit to IFT First 2026, where fungi showed up delivering protein, fiber and clean-label functionality
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New York Mycological Society @newyorkmyc.org · 19/07/2026
Over the past month we've introduced the remarkable world of #Myxomycetes—from giant single cells to intricate fruiting bodies. If you'd like to learn how to find, identify, and study slime molds yourself, our new online course is now open. #slimemoldSunday www.newyorkmyc.org/courses/myxo...
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Kira Richard @klrart.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Mushroom stamps #mycology #linocut #printmaking #stampmaking #cottagecore
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