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Jessica Williams

@lothlin.bsky.social
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She/Her/They Fungi, nature, crafts, books, etc Sequence validator for OMDL and FUNDIS iNat here - www.inaturalist.org/people/5224990 If you're curious about DNA barcoding fungi, I've got some vids www.youtube.com/@lothlin/videos

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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
A great paper (that I was grateful to have a very, very tiny part in) just got published! Check it out mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/1748... #science #Mycology #Fungifriends #Gliophorus #researchpaper
mycokeys.pensoft.net
Revisions to the Gliophorus irrigatus complex (Agaricales, Hygrophoraceae, Gliophorus, section Unguinosae) including four new species, one new combination and comparisons of basidiome vs. eDNA distrib...
Here, we report the discovery of four new agaricoid fungi in the Gliophorus irrigatus complex of the family Hygrophoraceae. Gliophorus alboviscidus sp. nov. from the UK is morphologically identical to...
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I'm so tired of watching innocents die on camera.
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Hygrocybe sp. #Fungifriends #Mycology #Mushroom #Photography #Macrophotography
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Crepidotus crocophyllus #fungifriends #Photography #Mycology #mushroom #macrophotography
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Microglossum #Fungifriends #Mushroom #Photography #Mycology
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Clavulina sp. #Fungifriends #Photography #Mushroom #Mycology
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Hodophilus. This are in Clavariaceae (but have gills!) Also they smell like mothballs #Fungifriends #Mycology #Mushroom #Photography
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Gliophorus sp. Look at that GLUTINOUS PILEUS #Mycology #Fungifriends #Mushroom #Photography
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Ope. It seems I may have uprooted someone's home.... An Alboleptonia #Fungifriends #Photography #Mushroom #Mycology
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I adore Hygrocybe #Fungifriends #Photography #Mushroom #Mycology
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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)
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
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
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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Idk what this is. Enjoy.
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Calycina sp. Who is sheee??? #fungifriends #mycology
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Camarops petersii is a seriously weird mushroom #mycology #fungifriends
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
It's the day of pretty corts #mycology #fungifriends
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Pulling some samples for sequencing. Check out this pretty little Cortinarius #fungifriends #mycology
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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... Anyway, here's an invite Tap this link or use my friend code YSYST1GHGP6 for a special reward! finch.go.link/7IMmu?adj_la...
finch.go.link
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Y'all, I'm too much for myself sometimes
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I simply adore these corts #fungifriends #mycology #cortinarius
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
'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
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Clavaria cf. fumosa #fungifriends #mycology
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Oh, to be a longhorn bee snuggled up with my bee buddies for a nap in a rush. #nature
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
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
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
www.gofundme.com/f/a-husband-... Boosting this here. One of the founders of the Ohio Mushrooms Enthusiasts group is in critical care and his wife is reaching out to community for support. Anything that you could give would be so appreciated!
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Y'allllllllllll I had a meeting with a local herbarium today to discuss accessioning some fungi there and to look at the small fungal collection that was donated by a former professor's widow and like... I thought it'd just be a personal collection. I didn't expect dozens of holotype splits.
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Apios americana // American Groundnut #Nature #photography
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Enallagma vesperum // Vesper Bluet #Nature #photography #odonata
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
One of two American Chestnuts of appreciable size that I'm aware of in our parks system (there might be more.) And by appreciable size I mean like... 10 inches diameter. It isn't big. But it looks healthy.... for now. I'm going to cry when it starts showing obvious blight.
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Is it a small Inocybe with a brownish cap that looks a right mess? Probably Pseudosperma friable. But in all seriousness, I should have figured this one out without sequencing WHOOPS. #mycology #fungifriends
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
hell is trying to take pictures of Odonata that won't land
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
New favorite dragonfly. Celithemis eponina // Halloween Pennant #photography #nature #odonata
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
I'm literally on iNat + the Ohio Odonata Society website researcing what dragonfly species are rare in the area to plan my outing tomorrow. Send help.
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
A Cindi Lauper show demands gaudy makeup
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Hello there #Nature #photography #odonata
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
This sulphur was EXTREMELY obliging #nature #photography #butterfly
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Cleaning up photos for iNat obs sometimes is just 90% getting rid of blurry dragonfly photos.
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The amount of humidity has been crazy here in NEO; at 8am absolutely everything in this field was covered in a sheet of dew, my shoes were completely soaked through and I never stepped in water. #nature #photography
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Exsudoporus frostii showing some wicked reticulation and absolutely abundant guttation #fungifriends #mycology #nature
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Progess!Process! One of these years this will be done. #crossstitch #fiberarts
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
There is truly something magical about Ospreys #nature #photography
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Just a pretty little paper wasp gal, snacking on some extrafloral nectaries on a partridge pea // Chamaecrista fasciculata Polistes genus, I'm between P. parametricus and P. fuscatus. Chime in Hyemnoptera experts if you can tell them apart, I can't. #Photography #Nature #Entomology
Paper wasp on partridge peaPaper wasp on partridge pea
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
We love a bee mimic. Flies deserve love too! Eristalis transversa // Transverse-Banded Flower Fly on Heliopsis helianthoides // False Sunflower #nature #photography #entomology #pollinator
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Flies can be beautiful too Toxomerus geminatus // Eastern Calligrapher #Nature #photography #Entomology
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
This guy was absolutely lost in the sauce, he practically let me pet him. Viceroy (Limenitis archippus) on purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) #Nature #photography #butterfly
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Monotropa uniflora, an achlorophyllus, mycoheteroptrophic plant that parisitizes species in the Russulaceae family. Some people harvest these for tinctures; personally, I'm not a fan. The justification is dubious, and few studies can be found on what chemicals they contain. #nature #photography
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
This is actually a first find for me; neat little fellas, aren't they? Hygrocybe caespitosa, the clustered waxcap #mycology #fungifriends #nature #photography
Clustered small yellow waxcap mushrooms
Clustered small yellow waxcap mushrooms, uprooted to show the gills
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