Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄
@drrabern.bsky.social
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Curator of Fungi | Purdue Univ. Herbaria, Botany & Plant Pathology
UVA Wise/UMaine alumnus
Chytridiomycota | #chytrids | #Bd
Collection of Zoosporic Eufungi at the U of Michigan | CZEUM
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Curator of Fungi | Purdue Univ. Herbaria, Botany & Plant Pathology
UVA Wise/UMaine alumnus
Chytridiomycota | #chytrids | #Bd
Collection of Zoosporic Eufungi at the U of Michigan | CZEUM
He/Him | Posts mine
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The Purdue Herbaria
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The #Purdue #Herbaria story is out now in all its glory!
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purdueforlife.shorthandstories.com/herbaria-sp24
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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
www.drrabern.com/karling
#Botany2026
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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
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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#mycomonday #herbarium #fungarium #fungi #coffee #rustfungi
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Terry Torres Cruz - Postdoctoral Scholar Feature
Terry Torres Cruz’s path to mycology – the study of fungi – has been guided by lots of curiosity – and a little bit of fate. Growing up in a rural part of Costa Rica, Torres Cruz wasn’t sure what she ...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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...
☕️🍃🔬🍄☠️
#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.
a shadow of a person running down a dark street
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October 31, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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!
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#herbarium #herbaria #FungalFriday #FungiFriday #Halloween
ag.purdue.edu/news/2024/10...
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#herbarium #herbaria #FungalFriday #FungiFriday #Halloween
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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...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Witches and fungi and rye, oh my!
🧙♀️🍄🍞🔥💀
#herbarium #herbaria #FungalFriday #FungiFriday #Halloween
ag.purdue.edu/news/2024/10...
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#herbarium #herbaria #FungalFriday #FungiFriday #Halloween
ag.purdue.edu/news/2024/10...
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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
On this #WorldMushroomDay, educate yourself on the importance of #fungaria for the preservation and appreciation of our Opisthokont cousins.
purdueag.exposure.co/herbaria
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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October 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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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
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, . . . "
a close up of a man in a military uniform looking at the camera with a serious look on his face .
ALT: a close up of a man in a military uniform looking at the camera with a serious look on his face .
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October 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Me, when someone citing my work from 10 years ago starts the sentence with "Historically, . . . "
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Happy International #Batrachochytrium Isolation Day!
🎂Happy birthday, Joyce Longcore!🎂
www.drrabern.com/longcore/#ba...
Happy International #Batrachochytrium Isolation Day!
🎂Happy birthday, Joyce Longcore!🎂
www.drrabern.com/longcore/#ba...
Joyce E. Longcore Biographies — D. Rabern Simmons, Ph.D.
"You never know when something that is found will become important."
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October 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Happy International #Batrachochytrium Isolation Day!
🎂Happy birthday, Joyce Longcore!🎂
www.drrabern.com/longcore/#ba...
Happy International #Batrachochytrium Isolation Day!
🎂Happy birthday, Joyce Longcore!🎂
www.drrabern.com/longcore/#ba...
🧊❄️💧🔬🍄❄️🧊
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....
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....
The diversity and abundance of chytrids on the Greenland Ice Sheet – new quantitative data
Zoosporic fungi of the Chytridiomycota phylum are lethal parasites of algae in Arctic freshwater and marine environments, and their presence has been confirmed as dominant fungi in various habitats on...
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September 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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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....
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!
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!
September 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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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!
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
"Bird nest fungi":
Choose your player
September 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
🐦🪺🍄 vs. 🐦⬛🪹🍄
"Bird nest fungi":
Choose your player
"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.../...
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.../...
September 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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.../...
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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But I must admit, eyeball mushrooms are cool.
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September 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Once again, Walmart is belittling the Fungi and trying to make mushrooms a "Halloween thing".
But I must admit, eyeball mushrooms are cool.
🦇🍄👁🎃
But I must admit, eyeball mushrooms are cool.
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Researchers present a checklist of rust fungi and their hosts in Indiana, USA: doi.org/10.3897/myco...
@drrabern.bsky.social
@drrabern.bsky.social
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...
doi.org
September 1, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Researchers present a checklist of rust fungi and their hosts in Indiana, USA: doi.org/10.3897/myco...
@drrabern.bsky.social
@drrabern.bsky.social
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!
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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!
August 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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!
🎂🍄🌿🍄🎂
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...
Publish a checklist 📜 of the #rust #fungi of Indiana!
doi.org/10.3897/myco...
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...
doi.org
August 29, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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...
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.)
Me: *exasperated* This is my WORK pepper grinder!
(I may have a problem.)
August 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Allison: Where's that from? Why are you filling that?
Me: *exasperated* This is my WORK pepper grinder!
(I may have a problem.)
Me: *exasperated* This is my WORK pepper grinder!
(I may have a problem.)
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😬 checking in on Nancy Mace’s bid for governor…
August 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
😬 checking in on Nancy Mace’s bid for governor…
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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.
August 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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.
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James Dobson is dead, was a monster: defector.com/james-dobson...
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,…
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August 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
James Dobson is dead, was a monster: defector.com/james-dobson...
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📢🍄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...
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...
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...
careers.msu.edu
August 21, 2025 at 10:02 AM
📢🍄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...
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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📢🍄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...
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...
Researcher - Mycologist - Manaaki Whenua -
Careers at Science New Zealand
careers.sciencenewzealand.org
August 21, 2025 at 10:03 AM
📢🍄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...
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...
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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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unitedsciencealliance.org/good-science...
Good Science Isn't a Luxury; It's a Necessity
We urge policymakers to recognize that any efforts to strengthen scientific integrity must build upon, rather than undermine, existing foundational pillars.
unitedsciencealliance.org
August 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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...
unitedsciencealliance.org/good-science...
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