Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

The susquehanna is gorgeous today. Look at those formations

Not sciencey or nature adjacent like I typically post here, but a piece I finished yesterday. Sometimes, I feel cold and invisible, and I just want to be warm Watercolor and gouache

If you still have TikTok and haven't agreed to the new terms yet, they are now collecting data on immigration status, gender preference, orientation and such. That's what got me to uninstall it, although I should have done it much sooner! Shout-out to @jessmaddox.bsky.social for breaking it down

Deporting children with cancer. Using a 5-year-old as bait. Shooting moms. ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.

People are mad about the variability of the weather storm predictions as if the government didn't just absolutely gut the National Weather Service

Its the first day of spring semester at Bucknell! What's blooming in the Museum collection greenhouse?! We've got orchids(That Oncidium 👀), camellia, begonia,...

The world is big, frustrating, and angry right now. I've decided I'm fighting this year with creativity. I'm going to relish in my work and try to put some good things forward into the world while finding ways to protest and fight back. I got Poscas for the first time, though, so for now: memes

Rudbeckia sp. in Prismacolor pencils. Colored pencil hard haha. First fully colored traditional piece of the year, minus my fun conference doodles I did over the week at SICB in Portland. To many more!

Sitting here with friends, scheming to bring more beautiful things into the world. I open bluesky, am met with more horror. Every day more horror. On Sunday, I gave a talk to the scientists where I implored everyone to do *anything*. It's easier to break than make things. Please make something.

Today at @sicb.bsky.social, @wile-phylote.bsky.social told us bulbs were the worms from tremors so I had to do a quick lunch doodle (seriously neat talk thought)

Come stop by P40 and chat with me about an east coast Penstemon species - Penstemon canescens! I'll be presenting the early stages of my masters thesis and would love to bounce morphology research methods off people!

I'm stoked to talk about this (and some other cool things these plants do) Tuesday at 10:45 in the Sex Across Origins complementary session in B113 at #SICB2026. #PlantsAreCoolToo #SICBplants #PUI #SICBPUI

Today at SICB I listened to a fabulous talk about how Juncos behavioral plasticity in post-wildfire coniferous forests by Yiran "Ryann" Su and I've had this image stuck I'm my head all day inspired by their finding that birds in burned habitats exhibited higher levels of aggression

Had so much fun making this with Ryan! Almost all of the species are Oregon natives! :) Penstemon ovatus, Bombus huntii, Melanerpes formicivorus - Acorn woodpecker, Umeces skiltonianus - Western skink, and Megalodacne heros - native oregon The rest are special to us :)

Some highlights from lab cookie decorating night, including the @botanicalbecks.bsky.social cryptid corner.

1 year since my goofy Muppet girl, Hettie, followed us home during a cold and rainy evening walk. Thank you cat distribution system :) she's a happy, fluffy, round indoor kitty now

One whole year with Hettie! She followed us home a year ago and never looked back (okay, she looked back once, but came running home after she realized it was cold and she liked free food). Happy Gotcha Day, Hecate :) Day 1 vs. Day 365

Good visit to the Penn State #Herbarium with @botanicalbecks.bsky.social. Checking out Penstemon and dropping some gift specimens. Thanks to Sarah Chamberlain for hosting. #iamabotanist

My really happy, exciting find of the day :) Spicebush Swallowtail caterpillar on Spicebush!

I just think they're beautiful Penstemon seeds under my dissecting scope

Field day with my favorite assistant @writerbynight.bsky.social at Raystown Lake :)

Today's new greenhouse flowers (and cones!) !

Native pollinator appreciation at the garden :)

The unique morphological basis & repeated evolutionary origins of personate flowers in #Penstemon New #AJB research by @trinitydepatie.bsky.social & @carriewessi.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #phylogenomics #evolution #snapdragon

Just want to shoutout a new study from the Wessinger Lab by my colleague @trinitydepatie.bsky.social. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... She investigated the repeated evolution of personate flowers within Penstemon by examining patterns of introgression, topological discordance, and

Fave museum collection greenhouse flowers of the day :)

Stopped by the research greenhouse while tending the museum collection and ugh, I just love these flowers so much

Never have I been more grateful for 80° and slight humidity than after coming back from 110° and the wind is an oven. Got to work in the garden and greenhouse, the harvests are looking nice!

Home and recuperating from Botany 2025! Really amazing conference, I met so many incredible people and had such an awesome time (in spite of the UV index). My second Botany was a really amazing experience and I'm so excited to see everyone next year in Tuscon! (And some of you at SICB in Portland 🙂)

SICBer - Professor @martinebotany.bsky.social is developing a web-based program : "#Plants Are Cool, Too!" — & Chris is on the look-out for plants (and their #researchers) to highlight. Watch episodes: www.youtube.com/user/PlantsA... & www.bucknell.edu/fac-staff/ch... #botany #phylogenetics

Wanna hear about eastern Penstemon funkyness? Stop by poster #102 at 6:15!

Wheels up! On our way to #Botany2025! Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social is a person you should all meet. #plantpeopleFTW

Good day at @nybg.bsky.social #herbarium where @botanicalbecks.bsky.social got to see the holotype of her study species, Penstemon canescens… plus a whole lot of other things that *say* they are P. canescens. 😬 It’s a challenging one! #iamabotanist

Really happy with how mine and @writerbynight.bsky.social's back door is looking :) and our little garden plot at the community garden is getting going too! Some stuff still has to get planted and land in a final destination, but over all, doing good :)

Penstemons are hard. But @botanicalbecks.bsky.social is on the job! @trinitydepatie.bsky.social can we keep you on speed dial? 😀 #iamabotanist #plantpeopleftw #conservation

Good day for rain, iykyk 🚫 👑

Our little gardens looking good :)

Some of my favorite new flowers in the museum greenhouse at Bucknell. I love that I'm able to help as a caretaker of this collection

Had an awesome second field day yesterday looking at Penstemon morphological funkyness on some PA shale barrens around Raystown Lake as part of my Master's thesis! What a cool study system and an awesome environment :)

I've been teaching myself to crochet lil guys to make my brain be quiet, and then I've been placing them in our little free art museum to be adopted. It's been a great way to practice without feeling guilty about just having practice pieces build up. Here's the roster from this week!

When the plants you've been waiting to flower for almost a full year finally do T-T And a clone to boot!!! 🎉🎉🎉

datascience.scholar.bucknell.edu/2025/05/06/2... That's my Rebecca!! @botanicalbecks.bsky.social !!

Putting together my field work kits since my grant money cleared! This is what character development looks like... after losing my green ones twice now...

Basically done with the semester so that means we had time for garden prep day!!! Complete with the garden center cat protecting the catnip and honey lavender ice cream :)

Big congrats to Rebecca Beneroff @botanicalbecks.bsky.social on scoring her first research grant! She will use funding from the Botanical Society of Western PA's Allison Cusick Student Research Award to begin her MS research this summer. #iamabotanist #letsgoplants

Really nice job presenting at Bucknell's 25th Kalman Symposium by Kaitlin Henry, Dia Zizis, and @botanicalbecks.bsky.social. Three of more than 130 student posters/talks all given on the same day! #PUI #undergradresearch #raybucknell

@writerbynight.bsky.social and I have started working on our plot in our local community garden! Over the past 2 days we've got it about 2/3rds weeded which is nice, I really wanted to get ahead of the weeds and the dang zoysia grass. We have a very unhappy Robin that we covered it up

Ok bird friends, @writerbynight.bsky.social and I found this bird yesterday that we think is a leucistic robin. Location: Central PA. Thoughts?

Some pretty winter aconite(Eranthis hyemalis) for your day :)