Recently, I got to talk about urban ecology, meeting the landscape where it is, and the Calumet slag barrens with Nance Klehm on the #FeralCitizen radio show! www.mixcloud.com/.../mdw-fera... We started out at Chicago Park District’s Indian Ridge Marsh and ended up in the Lumpen Radio studio.

The Fur! The Fun! The Plover Pal Pledge campaign kicked off in high style on May 2! Our thanks to Chicago Park District, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago Bird Alliance, and MonDog Beach volunteers for hosting an array of family-friendly activities... 1/2

Celebrating Earth learning about @inaturalist.bsky.social & plant ID!

This is from last March, but I'm bringing it back because it makes me smile so much. This is on the trail across the road from where I live. Crank your volume to hear the lynx calling its mom with the cutest meow ever. #mammals

Our views of flowers is wild. We value most plants for their beautiful flowers, but when lawn grasses flower? Oh hell no! You gotta that shit asap.

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

Convention centers are wild. Where else would people in the oil change, banking and parks professions be gathered together under the same roof?

I first saw the heretical combination of the subheading of "ECOLOGY" and title, "The beauty of slag," and I swooned. Check out this terrific and fun story in UChicago Magazine about the novel ecosystem/slag research we're working on locally! #WildCalumet mag.uchicago.edu/science-medi...

some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops: Blue Diamond Bob's Red Mill Land O'Lakes Tillamook Welch's

It’s easy to complain about everything right now because, well, reasons. But these are some shots from work just this week, so that at least is awesome.

Science friends, life is difficult now, but please still try to peer review papers if you can. I'm the editor handling a paper that just had it's 43rd person decline to review. We may have to reject it because no one is willing to review it, which sucks for the authors.

Damn conscious. Had to take a few hours off my vacation to discover the local bird rescue folks in an attempt to get this little guy healthy and back out in the world or meeting a peaceful end instead of on the sidewalk in front of a parking garage.

Alright I have a question for *all of you*, esp for those of you who are not into environment stuff. When you think about planting native plants in the area you control, what *prevents* you from taking that action? These could be emotional, financial, practical, anything. RTs appreciated here.

Overheard at Big Marsh today “I realized I don’t need to go to all the way to Montrose [Point Bird Sanctuary] to see cool birds!” ❤️ doing our best to make awesome birding and nature spots near everyone in Chicago ❤️

Just a spring beauty appreciation post. Imagine this mixed within your lawn….

Today’s class started with a Canada goose walking out of a restaurant, then hissing at and chasing me away, then proceeded on the Wild Mile where a student told some fish-related dad jokes and another had custom fish nail art. A+ day

I made art! With soil! Very cool “painting with soils” workshop at Society for Ecological Restoration meeting.

Shout out to one of my favorite spring flowers-Pennsylvania Sedge. Spreading like a beauty in my urban clay & construction debris “soil”.

Nice shots here of the experimental grounds on The Morton Arboretum's west side, including our bur oak reciprocal transplant experiment (ACE, conceived by @cavenderg9.bsky.social and executed in collaboration with her group at UMN and Heather McCarthy at U of OK). mortonarb.org/blog/a-place...

These geese rudely demonstrating how good the sod looks in our experiment comparing lawns to different native plant installations (post burn and some installation bumps in the road)

Morning coworker

I gotta give it to the USGS. This is a really good timelapse of the beginning of the eruption at Kilauea today.

Good morning from the steamy north branch of the Chicago River and its freshly burned banks.

It's graduate school application season, so here's your reminder that nobody should pay for a graduate degree in #ecoevo ! Here's a list of fully funded ecology, evolution, & organismal biology Masters' programs (please share!)! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

“Oh look, scientists!” While we were sampling soils and measuring water infiltration at Jackson Park. They were sociology majors at UIC and part of the convo was “You can be a scientist at the Park District?!” My heart is so full with this very bright side to working in a Saturday.