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Finding community and purpose in plant science For Kit Mount, a sophomore from Carmel, Indiana, choosing a college major wasn’t easy at first. But one visit to Purdue’s Department of Botany and Plant Pathology changed everything.

ag.purdue.edu/news/2025/10...

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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.

Could a fungus be behind the Salem witch trials? Mass hallucinations and paranoia. Seizures and bodily convulsions. From 1692 to 1693, the town of Salem in the Massachusetts Bay Colony tried approximately 200 people for their crimes of witchcraft. W...

Witches and fungi and rye, oh my!
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#herbarium #herbaria #FungalFriday #FungiFriday #Halloween
ag.purdue.edu/news/2024/10...

Describing video store etiquette for a post about a comedy special in which @pftompkins.bsky.social describes his tendency to shirk video store etiquette and sleep underneath the counter:
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PRESERVING THE PAST FOR FUTURE DISCOVERY - Purdue University College of Agriculture On the ground floor of Lilly Hall of Life Sciences, you will find the Purdue Herbaria, a collection of plant and fungi specimens, renowned for their vast biodiversity and recognized as the most import...

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

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

Joyce E. Longcore Biographies — D. Rabern Simmons, Ph.D. "You never know when something that is found will become important."

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Happy International #Batrachochytrium Isolation Day!
🎂Happy birthday, Joyce Longcore!🎂
www.drrabern.com/longcore/#ba...

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The return of spooky season means revisiting the spine-tingling fungi in the #Purdue #Herbaria.

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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....

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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!

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"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.
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Checklist of Rust Fungi (Basidiomycota, Pucciniales) and their hosts in Indiana, United States of America Rust fungi (Pucciniales) comprise a large group of ecologically and economically important plant pathogens distributed globally where their hosts grow. The first published study of rusts in Indiana wa...

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

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Happy birthday, George B. Cummins (1904-2007)!
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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!

Checklist of Rust Fungi (Basidiomycota, Pucciniales) and their hosts in Indiana, United States of America Rust fungi (Pucciniales) comprise a large group of ecologically and economically important plant pathogens distributed globally where their hosts grow. The first published study of rusts in Indiana wa...

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 James Dobson was a nasty dude. He liked to beat children and dogs with a belt and to rain misery and punishment on the vulnerable; we know all of this about him because he said as much in public,…

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

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System - East Lansing, Michigan, United States Working/Functional Title Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System Position Summary The Department of Plant Biology (PLB) at Michigan State University (MSU) seeks applications for a director of...

📢🍄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...

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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."

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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...

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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...

John S. Karling Biography — D. Rabern Simmons, Ph.D. A FORTUITOUS LIFE: JOHN SIDNEY KARLING (1897–1995)

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.
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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 🥛🌱🐛*