🎩🍄🌿🍄🎩 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"

🍄 As is tradition for MSA, we're hoping to highlight a student-designed logo for #MSAfungi26 in Portland, Oregon. Our theme is Bridging Mycology Across Communities and Disciplines. Tap into your creative side and submit a logo design for consideration. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

An early birthday to John S. Karling, @msafungi.bsky.social keynote namesake, Purdue Biological Sciences chair, nigh-baseball-player, mistaken-obstetrician, and zoosporic eufungi specialist. 🎂🔬💧🍄🧫⚾️ www.drrabern.com/karling

No one: What makes you think that's milkweed on the side of the house? Me: *shrugs, in milkweed tussock moth 🥛🌱🐛*

Preservation: for future discovery! 🍄🌿🔬🧬 youtu.be/nYnsq2RiBfM?...

WATCH: “Trump’s experience was being on the apprentice. Dr. Oz is in his administration. After Trump’s Pinky and the Brain administration no one ever gets to talk qualifications again.” @joyannreid.bsky.social drags Arthur Aidala’s lame anti-Zohran attacks.

Thanks to Purdue Agriculture for the opportunity to share the Purdue Botany and Plant Pathology Herbaria! The full story: purdueag.exposure.co/herbaria

Several smart opinions, and a couple of idiots, but the majority is clear. www.purdueexponent.org/opinion/lett...

Over here in the Purdue Herbaria, just learning how to use our new APEXVIEW microscope.

The Purdue BPP and CoA Herbaria library welcomes a contribution from one of their own, former postdoc Patty Kaishian!

So, he's closing entire museums now? I guess he was advised he didn't have the authority to reopen the Auschwitz Museum.

Thank you to the Indiana Native Plant Society West Central Chapter for last evening's invitation to speak on the Purdue Botany and Plant Pathology #Herbaria, and the history of this collection as it moved in Purdue Agriculture. A graciously receptive audience and delicious meal from Parthenon Grill.

Thanks to the Purdue Exponent, for sharing the Purdue Herbaria! 🍄💙🧀🍗🍕 To clarify, I like blue cheese on a chicken buffalo pizza, preferably. www.purdueexponent.org/opinion/colu...

Since today is Robigalia, here's a rust fungus (cedar-apple gall). If you're unfamiliar, it is an ancient Roman holiday during which a sacrifice was made to protect their wheat fields from the wheat rust fungus. #fungusfriday #fungi #robigalia

To whomever left the unsolicited note on the Herbaria door this morning stating that we shouldn't be proud of our flag, I say this: Don't worry, I got a bigger one! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ And it's endorsed by the administers of your collegiate, yet somewhat lacking, education. 🚂⬆️🔨⬇️

Thanks to Purdue FNR's Spring Into Nature event for the invitation to present hands-on examples of wood ears, jelly fungi, and foliose lichens from the Purdue Botany and Plant Pathology #Herbaria. Plenty of info about birds, insects, fish, fungi, and other natural aspects of Indiana.

Come out to the Hort Park for Spring Into Nature with Purdue Forestry and Natural Resources! Learn about the Purdue Botany and Plant Pathology Herbaria!

Join the @PurdueBPP #Herbaria TOMORROW at the @PurdueFNR Spring Into Nature! Info on fungi and collection histories. 🌿🍄☘️🌻🌲🌼🌳🌸 Nature walks, a scavenger hunt, food, and more! See you there! @PurdueAg

I am very thrilled and very intimidated to be speaking at the Linnean Society!

Public tours at The Morton Arboretum herbarium on Saturday, 4/26. Join us if you're in town! mortonarb.org/explore/acti...

"It's important to show the public the Herbaria because people don't know [they] exist. [They're] a very interesting resource for academic research here at Purdue and for collaborations worldwide." 1/2

Join me April 28th at the West Lafayette Lilly Nature Center at 7PM for a talk with the Indiana Native Plant Society West Central Chapter on the history of the #Purdue #Herbaria, Purdue Botany and Plant Pathology, and Purdue Agriculture. indiananativeplants.org/2025/west-ce...

The #chickenjockey phenomenon has infiltrated the @PurdueBPP #Herbaria at the @PurdueAg #PurdueSpringFest. 🍿🍿🍿🧟‍♂️🐔🍿🍿🍿 Luckily, they left their popcorn at the door.

Kriethur the Shroom declares, "#PurdueSpringFest is open!" 🧌🪄🍄 Come visit the @PurdueBPP #Herbaria at Site 11! Visit purdue.ag/springfest for more! @PurdueAg

#PurdueSpringFest is TODAY!!! Come visit the #Herbaria at Site 11, do a plant pressing at Site 10, and support the @PurdueBPP at Site 9! Visit purdue.ag/springfest for more! @PurdueAg

#PurdueSpringFest is tomorrow, April 12!!! 🔬🌿🍄🌼🌳🌽🍂 Visit the Purdue Botany and Plant Pathology #Herbaria and learn how founder J. C. Arthur once stole (and returned) his collection of 40K specimens at #Purdue! Plus petting zoos, plant sales, Bug Bowl, and more! purdue.ag/springfest for details!

Come take a peek at our microscopes! 👀🔬🌿🍄🔬👀 April 12th is #PurdueSpringFest, featuring an open house of the Purdue Botany and Plant Pathology #Herbaria and DIY plant pressings! Plus petting zoos, plant sales, Bug Bowl, and more! purdue.ag/springfest for details from Purdue Agriculture!

The most #mushroom memorabilia west of the Wabash! Visit the #Purdue Botany and Plant Pathology #Herbaria on April 12. Plus petting zoos, plant sales, Bug Bowl, and more! purdue.ag/springfest for details!

DNA sequences as type meeting at Westerdijk - is today the day that we change life as you knew it? Cobus Visagie kicks it up a gear

Getting ready for our two-day annual Spring Symposium! 🤩 This year’s theme: DNA sequences as type We're excited to welcome nearly 100 mycologists from across the globe for 2 days of engaging talks and discussions. Stay tuned for more! @knaw-nl.bsky.social @hubrechtinstitute.bsky.social

Happiness is: a full herbarium drier. Tiredness is: evident in our faces after a 13 hour drive from west Texas to Baton Rouge.

Save the date! #PurdueSpringFest is April 12. Participate in the #Purdue #Herbaria tours, giveaway, and plant pressing activity! Plus petting zoos, plant sales, Bug Bowl, and more! purdue.ag/springfest for details!