What a dream job!

Help! 🚨 Looking for resources on structural equation models—favorite methods papers, example studies, or guides for building an SEM pipeline. Thinking of using one for a dissertation chapter & not sure where to start. Suggestions? Please share!

Cool day helping @chale9.bsky.social with fieldwork! Surveyed fothergilla in a longleaf pine forest and saw some amazing carnivorous plants!! 🌱

I hadn’t seen it for a couple of years so it was extra special in early June to catch up with my #FavouritePlant! The gorgeous Mertensia maritima, commonly named Oysterplant, as the leaves taste like the fruits of the sea! Caithness #Wildflowerhour

Honored to share that I’ve been awarded the 2026 Plant Conservation Biology Fellowship from the Oak Spring Garden Foundation! Excited to spend two weeks on their estate finishing my dissertation and writing about plant conservation.

Just got back from an incredible experience contributing to a 30-year plant demographic study in the Alaskan Arctic. What an amazing, beautiful, and wild place. Can’t wait to go back! @chandler2228.bsky.social

What a wonderful day driving the Dalton Highway to arctic Alaska! Now it’s time to measure some plants! @toolikfieldstation.bsky.social

Climatic determinants of plant #phenology in vernal pool habitats New #AJB research by Brandon Thomas Hendrickson, Jenna Aubrie Benterou, Robert Martin & Jason Sexton doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #citizenscience #wetlands

Happy to see more Black Eyed Susan flower on our little prairie. Also have a LOT of milkweed, some vervain, fleabane and a smattering of foxglove beardtongue.

I am in my hometown visiting family for a few days and got the opportunity to see one of my favorites, the Tennessee coneflower! It was one of the first plants listed under the Endangered Species Act and was delisted in 2011. A rare conservation success story!

As we’re wrapping up Pride month, check out this podcast on Queer Ecology & how we can teach it in classrooms! Spotify: lnkd.in/eGBJMGbH Apple Podcasts: lnkd.in/es-gwyjB Thanks for having us, @pangolinpodcast.bsky.social! 🏳️‍🌈

#Evol2025 was such an amazing experience! I presented my work on sexual differentiation in Silene acaulis, watched my science heroes present their work, and connected with others working on similar questions. I feel fortunate to be surrounded by an amazing group of supportive and brilliant people!

Had an amazing time at #Evolution2025 — Grateful for the chance to share my work on how phenological shifts are impacting plant fitness. Until next time! #Evol2025

Huge S/o to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh for having a beautiful and informative herbarium exhibit! At a time when herbaria are being defunded and erased, exhibits like this are crucial for the public to understand their value! 🌍🌻🌱 @thebotanics.bsky.social

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You asked for it, you got it. Biology is Bigger than Binaries is now on a shirt! Designed by @franzanth.bsky.social, printed here in Philly on 100% cotton Next Level Tees. We've got... ironically 2 colors to choose from lmao. Pre-order open until May 31! squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/bina...

Check out these awesome science activism posters! They also support Skype a Scientist. I just ordered mine. @skypeascientist.bsky.social squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/scie...

We estimate up to 800 rare tree species may still remain undetected here. These are at growing risk of extinction due to deforestation. Since 1985 the Cerrado has lost 24 billion trees, threatening all its biodiversity.

#42 from my Women in STEM series: Helia Bravo Hollis #WomeninSTEM #diversityinSTEM #botany #systematics #academicsky #womenshistor

Exciting news! I’ve just published my website. Link below—let me know what you think, I would love some feedback! 🌍🌱 sites.google.com/view/clayton...

Trump proposes eliminating funding fo USGS biological sciences. Combined w/ the termination of USFS forest & rangeland research, this will be catastrophic to our public lands, natural resources, wildlife, & other tragic consequences. #EcoCrisis #ScienceForAll #PublicService 🌎🌾🧪🌿🌱🍁🌲🔥🦋🐍🦅🐺

Overblown press releases have consequences. Yes, university academics, this means you too www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

While doom scrolling on the AP’s front page I came across this awesome nugget squeezed in between a story about illegal detentions and the economy crashing. It’s the little things! apnews.com/article/nati...

Saw some fun things while collecting data with @chale9.bsky.social yesterday! Clayton collects demographic data on a rare Trillium species. Southeast forests are pretty cool!

New paper just arrived! Did you know there are trees in the High Arctic? They indeed are, just a little bit small. Just couple of centimetres. But they are a very important part of the ecosystem! 🧵👇

Happy National Day of Transplanting Spring Beauty from the Front Yard to the Native Plant Bed. #Geophytes #Claytonia @chale9.bsky.social

The San Francisco gartersnake - one of the USA's most beautiful and endangered snakes. Many people don't believe a bright blue and red snake can be discreet - but when seen in its habitat you can see how these snakes can evade notice.

Just spotted the first cotyledon in my Claytonia virginica germination trial! I was honestly pretty pessimistic it would work, but here we are! Can’t wait to see how these plants perform under different climate conditions. 🌎🌱🌸

My #EcoEvo, #Ecology, #Biogeo & #FieldBioligy inclined folks: Do you have your #pics of your favorite #fieldsite? Below is the "Beaver Pond" in Gothic, CO - nestled on #RockyMountain #BiologicalLaboratories ( #RMBL ) land. Living in that valley was so special to me... I'd love to go back one day.

Hey #WildlifeDisease & #conservation folk, please check out our survey on attitudes to parasite conservation. Are parasites important for biodiversity, would you remove them to protect host welfare, or something more nuanced? We want to hear all views to improve guidance for practitioners 🪱🧪🌍🧵1/n

AOP @ijpsjournal.bsky.social 🚨Undergraduate research🚨 Population genetics and conservation of the rare and endangered Florida-endemic Conradina glabra (Lamiaceae) @laeserman.bsky.social et al. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience

A foggy morning hike on Beech Mountain, NC. The mist definitely added to the winter vibes. 🌲🌱🍂🍁🌎

Wrapped up my trip to the UK after the British Ecological Society meeting with a visit to the Manchester Museum. Their “Wild” exhibit on rewilding is fantastic—plants really take center stage in the story. A perfect end to an ecology conference! 🌎🌱🌸

What a wonderful experience presenting my spring wildflower phenology research at the British Ecological Society Meeting! So many great connections and future collaborations #BES2024 🌱🌸🌎

Tatsuya Amano shows that only using English-language sources omits huge amounts of relevant evidence and creates systematic biases in location and scope #BES2024

Day 1 of #BES2024! Love the messaging.

Freycinetia cumingiana has pseudanthia comprised of showy bracts surrounding the spikes of tiny, unisexual flowers. These pseudanthia are visited by birds, who are the likely pollinators. #Pandanaceae #pseudanthia #botany 🌾🧪🌱

My friend Susan will be doing a super interesting talk at #BES2024. If you are going to the conference go check it out. 🧪

Help! Can anyone share examples of woodland wildflowers native to the British Isles that North Americans might call 'spring ephemerals'? Looking for herbaceous, perennial plants that emerge early in spring and go dormant by summer. Please share and tag anyone who knows British plants! 🌍🌼🌱

Thrilled to attend my first international conference at #BES2024 in Liverpool next week! 🌍 I'll be presenting "Can spring wildflowers keep pace with shifting overstory phenology?" at 4:30 pm in Room 3B. If you'll be there, let’s connect! 🌿🌼

Congratulations to Dr. Sandra Velazco, who successfully defended her dissertation @boisestate.bsky.social on how invasive bracken ferns can impede recovery of tropical forests. Her work shows that climate change will likely increase rates of arrested succession www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Look at these cuties! Claytonia virginica is already starting to emerge in our spring ephemeral soil warming experiment. Curious to see how this early emergence will affect vital rates! #Ecology #SpringEphemerals #SoilWarming 🌎🌱

Tribes in California are calling on Biden to designate three new national monuments that collectively would protect 1,000,000 acres and sacred sites. grist.org/indigenous/a...

Alright, if everyone is putting together starter packs, here are some accounts to follow if you're interested in #phenology and how #climateChange affects the timing of biotic interactions! Please let me know if you want to be added or removed from the list 🌱🧪🌎 go.bsky.app/7TjLKe5

Time to reintroduce myself with all these new followers! I'm a #NewPI in southeast Appalachia that researches how forests and forest species respond to climate change. I'm esp interested in #phenology shifts and altered biotic interactions, tree recruitment, and understory #biodiversity (1/thread)

Awesome new paper looking at the impact of sport climbing on plant diversity! 🌍https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.14785

A test based purely on memorization is an artificial construct. In real life we get to look shit up. Note that that still takes skill— you need a baseline knowledge of your subject to be effective at it, and also know how and where to look.

Fellow biologists: We must be active and vocal advocates for the support of the humanities & social sciences. Biology is enhanced by its inherent transdisciplinary connections, including understanding historical context, identifying modern-day applications/implications, & enabling future innovation.