Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄

The #Purdue #Herbaria story is out now in all its glory! 🌱🌷🌿🍄🌲🌼🌳🏵️ purdueforlife.shorthandstories.com/herbaria-sp24

It's that time of year. 🍄🧙‍♀️🌾🍞🤢🎃👻 ag.purdue.edu/news/2024/10...

🥳🎉🔬💧🍄🐸🦎🎉🥳 Celebrate 29 years of #Batrachochytrium research, and more of Joyce Longcore's contributions to mycology. Happy International Batrachochytrium Isolation Day on Oct 13th! www.drrabern.com/longcore

AI-generated songs about chytrid fungi? 🤦‍♂️🔬💧🍄 Every other word is mispronounced, and the last phrase is perhaps the most prophetic of all, with the use of all this "ak-wa": "Chytridiomycota fading into the light". youtu.be/2NEifs8m07A?...

Giant viruses are known across eukaryotes. This study by @hyphaltip.bsky.social &co identifies Mycodnaviridae, a global giant #virus family that persistently infect zoosporic #fungi, providing a promising model for studying #giantVirus infection in eukaryotes. 🧪 #AcademicSky plos.io/3Sq4ioL

For all the fungi hunters out there, the Heitman Lab at Duke University is looking for Cryptococcus luteus found associated with crust fungi on fallen logs. Every sample helps! #mycology

Sometimes chytrids just can't shake a flu. 🤧🔬💧🍄🤧 "Mycodnaviridae are a clade of giant viruses that persistently infect zoosporic fungi" Congrats to Jillian Myers and the whole team! doi.org/10.1371/jour...

DC Studios' Lanterns just confirmed my longest-held theory: "Brand New Key" is the most annoying song in Sector 2814 of the Green Lantern Corps.

Am I the only human that gestures like this when I get a 3 or less on Wordle?

💧🔬🍄🦠🦟🌽🌿 Parasitic zoosporic eufungi: taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity, ecology, and impacts doi.org/10.32942/X2M...

Please take the time to review and sign this petition in support of the U.S. National Fungus Collections, which are being threatened in the face of the USDA reorganization efforts. c.org/KQWY7fNhGw 🍄

THIS SATURDAY at Imagination Station! 🍄🌿💡🚉🌿🍄

💧🍄 Didn't get to join us live for our Celebration of @BiodiversityDay 2026? It's not too late to learn from our four speakers on topics of freshwater and marine fungi! Check it out online and be inspired! 💧🍄 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsyG...

🔬💧🍄🌏🌍🌎 Chytrids are everywhere: diatom-parasitic #chytrids dominate pelagic fungal communities across 50 reservoirs. doi.org/10.1007/s113...

One less chytridiomycologist in the world. 🔬💧🍄😢 #chytrids #fungi #fungus #mycology #chytrid obits.postandcourier.com/us/obituarie...

🍄🔬🌿😂🙏 "Arthur & Kriebel Herbarium, Department of Botany & Plant Pathology, Purdue University kindly permitted us to use isotype specimens of Puccinia abei and P. trabutii. We wish to express our sincere gratitude to the herbarium and all the members of the herbarium for their kind cooperation."

So THAT'S why he wants it so bad! 💧🔬🍄🧫❄️🧊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today I closed a loan of 236 specimens that was opened in 2008. 🎉🌿🗄📝🎉 #HerbariumLife #CuratorLife

International Day of Women and Girls in Science could not have a better mascot than Joyce E. Longcore. 👩‍👧👩‍⚕️🧏‍♀️👩‍🎓👵👩‍🏫👩‍🦽👩‍🚀👩‍👩‍👧👩‍🔬🦸‍♀️👩‍💻👩‍🌾 drrabern.com/longcore

You have to read the fine print, but technically, #zoosporic #eufungi are on today's @wikipedia.org Featured Page. 🔬💧🍄🧫🦟 #blastoclads #Blastocladiales #Blastocladiomycota #chytrids #chytrid #fungi #mycology #fungal #fungus #zoospore #aquaticfungi @iucnfungi.bsky.social @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social

🎂🎉🌿🍄🔬🎉🎂 Happy birthday to the late Joseph Hennen, 3rd Director of the Arthur #Fungarium, pivotal figure in the merging of the Arthur and Kriebel #Herbaria at Purdue University. ag.purdue.edu/department/b...

"there's a new serif in town"

The John S. Karling Grad Student Research Award honors #Purdue University's former Chair of Biology and eclectic researcher of #plants and #fungi. Good luck to the applicants, and here's a link to learn more about this excellent investigator: www.drrabern.com/karling #Botany2026

Learn more about Terry's mission to find the elusive alternate host of coffee leaf rust. ☕️🍃🔬🍄☠️ #mycomonday #herbarium #fungarium #fungi #coffee #rustfungi ag.purdue.edu/news/departm...

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If I don't see at least one pack of kids dressed in pajamas running "Weapons"-style tonight, I will have lost faith in this generation.

Witches and fungi and rye, oh my! 🧙‍♀️🍄🍞🔥💀 #herbarium #herbaria #FungalFriday #FungiFriday #Halloween ag.purdue.edu/news/2024/10...

🎉🌎🍄🌍🍄🌏🎉 On this #WorldMushroomDay, educate yourself on the importance of #fungaria for the preservation and appreciation of our Opisthokont cousins. purdueag.exposure.co/herbaria

Me, when someone citing my work from 10 years ago starts the sentence with "Historically, . . . "

🐸🔬🍄🥼🧫 Happy International #Batrachochytrium Isolation Day! 🎂Happy birthday, Joyce Longcore!🎂 www.drrabern.com/longcore/#ba...

🍄🧙‍♀️🧟🎃👻💀🍄 The return of spooky season means revisiting the spine-tingling fungi in the #Purdue #Herbaria.

🧊❄️💧🔬🍄❄️🧊 The diversity and abundance of chytrids on the Greenland Ice Sheet – new quantitative data Some really cool (🤦) #chytrid stuff from @alexanesio.bsky.social, featuring Clydaea vesicula, which I named in 2009 after my mother Clyda Rae Simms Simmons. doi.org/10.21203/rs....

🎩🍄🌿🍄🎩 UPDATE: Founder of the Purdue Botany and Plant Pathology's #rustfungi #Fungarium, J. C. Arthur, bought this top hat from Levering & Co. (1870 - 1902; thanks Tippecanoe Co. Historical Assoc.), making the top hat well over 120 years old! Come visit us and see for yourself!

🐦🪺🍄 vs. 🐦‍⬛🪹🍄 "Bird nest fungi": Choose your player

The 🎩 of J. C. Arthur, 1st dept chair of Botany and Plant Pathology and director of the #Purdue #Herbaria, has come home. Almost 100 years later, we welcome this gift, thanks to Terri and her cousin Leslie Steele King. Learn more about J. C. Arthur: ag.purdue.edu/.../biog.../...

Once again, Walmart is belittling the Fungi and trying to make mushrooms a "Halloween thing". But I must admit, eyeball mushrooms are cool. 🦇🍄👁🎃

Researchers present a checklist of rust fungi and their hosts in Indiana, USA: doi.org/10.3897/myco... @drrabern.bsky.social

Happy birthday, George B. Cummins (1904-2007)! 🎂🍄🌿🍄🎂 Cummins was the 2nd Director of the #Purdue BPP Arthur #Fungarium, inaugural @msafungi.bsky.social Distinguished Mycologist in 1981, and last published at the age of 99. To celebrate, have a prolific day!

Great way to celebrate 🥳 the 121st birthday 🎂 of George B Cummins', second Director of the Arthur #Fungarium at #Purdue: Publish a checklist 📜 of the #rust #fungi of Indiana! doi.org/10.3897/myco...

Allison: Where's that from? Why are you filling that? Me: *exasperated* This is my WORK pepper grinder! (I may have a problem.)

😬 checking in on Nancy Mace’s bid for governor…

The figurehead of a major American food conglomerate openly commiserating with law enforcement, a high powered politician, and known criminals… I don’t know how our society got desensitized to corruption, but it likely started here.

James Dobson is dead, was a monster: defector.com/james-dobson...

📢🍄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...

📢🍄Job alert🍄📢 The @manaakiwhenua.bsky.social group of the @bioeconomyscience.bsky.social in Auckland, New Zealand is hiring a full-time permanent mycologist, to focus on fungal diversity and taxonomy. Deadline to apply: 12 September 2025. careers.sciencenewzealand.org/landcare-res...

BSA and more than 90 scientific/professional organizations signed this letter to Director Kratsios at the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) yesterday in response to the recent Executive Order "Restoring the Gold Standard in Science." unitedsciencealliance.org/good-science...

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📢🍄🔍🍄🔎🍄📢 The 2025 Alexander H. #SmithForay will take place in Valpraiso, Indiana, September 4-7. This annual foray in the Great Lakes region honors the late Dr. Smith, a renowned mycologist at @umich.edu. For more details and to register, visit: midwestmycology.org/2025-smith-f...

🚨🍄🐶🐱💀🍄🚨 Pet safety research conducted by @pucvm.bsky.social using fungal collections from the #Purdue #Herbaria.

📣Submit your symposium & workshop proposals for #MSAfungi26 in Portland, Oregon now! Email your proposal (with title, organizers, rationale, speakers, and budget) to the Program Chair, Julia Kerrigan, at jkerrig[at]clemson.edu. Theme: "Bridging Mycology Across Communities and Disciplines"