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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

DC Studios' Lanterns just confirmed my longest-held theory: "Brand New Key" is the most annoying song in Sector 2814 of the Green Lantern Corps.

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Am I the only human that gestures like this when I get a 3 or less on Wordle?

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

THIS SATURDAY at Imagination Station! 🍄🌿💡🚉🌿🍄

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

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

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

🍄🧙‍♀️🧟🎃👻💀🍄 The return of spooky season means revisiting the spine-tingling fungi in the #Purdue #Herbaria.

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

🎩🍄🌿🍄🎩 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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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

🐦🪺🍄 vs. 🐦‍⬛🪹🍄 "Bird nest fungi": Choose your player

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

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.../...

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

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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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

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!

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Allison: Where's that from? Why are you filling that? Me: *exasperated* This is my WORK pepper grinder! (I may have a problem.)

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

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

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

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

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

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

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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.

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

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. 🚂⬆️🔨⬇️

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

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.

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

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!

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

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

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

"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

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

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

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

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

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

#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

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

#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!

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

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!

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

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!

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

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!

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Behind the scenes of the next #Purdue Agriculture Communications piece on the #Herbaria. 🔬🌿🍄🌳☕️ 🚂⬆️🔨⬇️

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The Aime Lab's very own Daniel Raudabaugh is presenting at next week's Purdue Botany and Plant Pathology seminar! 🔬🧫🌿🪨

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Herbaria curation isn't all fun-gi and games. It's also reprint management, and determining, "What's going to the annex?" 😥 📃📜📖🖇

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This weekend Kit and Morgan represented the #Purdue #Herbaria at the 140th Meeting of the @inacademyofscience.bsky.social with a poster on the #rustfungi 🌿🍄 of Uganda and other African countries. Great work!

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Today is #WorldFrogDay AND #WorldSparrowDay!?! What a #chytrid crossover!!! #Batrachochytrium = amphibian pathogen🐸 Frederick K. Sparrow = #mycologist💧🍄🔬 Coincidence?!?!

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I am thankful for having been invited to speak to the Tippecanoe County Historical Association on the history of the Herbaria and the role of mycology and mycologists in the history of Purdue and the Greater Lafayette area. Video coming soon!

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Like Chad Evans's "Tree of the Week"? You'll LOVE this! Next Wednesday, March 12, 3:30pm in PFEN 241 Dean's Auditorium. Hosted by Purdue Botany and Plant Pathology.

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

In memory of Buster Poindexter, always remember to be wary of strange cats. www.cnn.com/2025/03/01/e...

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

"I told everyone the Chiefs would win" *goldfish memory initiating* "F*@&-ING PENNIES!"

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

If I've learned anything in the last month, it's that SNL hosts can no longer be trusted with the US government.

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Wow! What a coincidence! Just imagine if he actually DID read it! 🙄🤦‍♂️

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The #Purdue University #Herbaria: Spinning a "Haymow" into Gold and Black 🔬🍄🌿🍂 March 6th @ 7PM, TCHA History Center tippecanoehistory.org/event/the-pu...

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

When a #chytrid loses its tail, it just regrows a few dozen. Very cool work from the @stearnslab.bsky.social et al.! #chytrids #fungi #MycoMonday #mycology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Today we celebrate the 97th birthday🎂 of Purdue Herbaria Director Joe F. Hennen, the first since his passing in 2024. Purdue Botany and Plant Pathology grad🎓, collector of 7K rust fungi🍄, Herbaria Director 1971-1995🌿. Learn more: ag.purdue.edu/department/b...

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Rabern Simmons, PhD🔬💧🍄 @drrabern.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Join us January 10th for a celebration of Joseph C. Arthur's 175th birthday! 🎂🔬🍄🌿 #Purdue #rustfungi #mycology #fungi #FungalFriday #FungiFriday

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