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...

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"

🍄 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.