First I heard Jimmy: Bob and Tom.
First I heard what a podcast was, from Jimmy: Bob and Tom.
First Jimmy Pardo signature I ever received, on a Best of Jimmy Pardo: Bob and Tom.
I don't want to say I wouldn't ever have known Jimmy without Bob, but Bob certainly sped up the process. ❤️

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

Life cycle of Puccinia species producing spermogonial and aecial stages on Persicaria odorata subsp. conspicua Spermogonia and aecia were found on Persicaria odorata subsp. conspicua (Polygonaceae) in a reed field of Lake Kasumigaura, Ibaraki, Japan. Near these …

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"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!
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

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

International Day of Women and Girls in Science could not have a better mascot than Joyce E. Longcore.
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drrabern.com/longcore

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

Joe Fleetwood Hennen

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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

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 ...

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

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.