The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

IMO paying close attention to species and simply describing what they do is a worthwhile endeavor unto itself. Guessing I am not alone. #iamabotanist #iamanaturalist #PUI #biodiversity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Fascinating study! But that image below is not a fall webworm (an insect larvae), is it a spider? Crab? Still, maybe we are all evolutionary specialists when it comes to food, and other things :) #entomology #evolution #ecology #competition #nature

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

I do a comic about ornithological vocabulary for every issue of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's wonderful Living Bird magazine. Here's the latest one, featuring the American Bittern.

The ivy-leaved morning glory has fruits that look like something out of… the seashore, medieval fashion fur hats, or rose buds… Right? Seen in New Jersey, USA.

New paper by @drgentian.bsky.social in @newphyt.bsky.social using @gbif.org mediated data: The collector practices that shape spatial, temporal, and taxonomic bias in herbaria 🇺🇸 #CiteTheDOI: ✅ https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70297

ALRIGHT! Version 1 of the fall zine is ready for ya. For your reading enjoyment, Everything Sucks! Full Zine (for digital reading) here: drive.google.com/file/d/1cYXF... Print-and-fold version coming soon, I need to test print it first and can't do that right now lol

The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is Hiring! We are searching for a Director of the Oregon State University Herbarium and applications are welcomed at the ranks of assistant, associate, or full professor.

Looks like this was filmed at #Gotland in the Baltic Sea, Sweden. Not sure what seaweed that they harvest there though, Ulva intestinalis? A green #algae?

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in American history, over the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution.

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

A corrupt system is when you need 60 Senate votes to protect voting rights, universal healthcare, reproductive rights, climate justice, lgbtq rights, immigration justice, and a living wage—but only 51 votes to strip them all away. #BigScamBill 1/3

Iconic anti-war poster, originally by US printmaker Lorraine Schneider, 1966 #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

So true!

Yes, same happened for me. Hallucinated papers by me and collaborators, looking very real but non-existing. Advisors, you will have to check the titles of all citations. I am consider requiring screenshots of first page (=not book cover, actual title page) of all cited works soon.

Tip for PhD applicants reaching out to prospective advisors: Don’t use an LLM to write these emails. It’s not a great first impression to express your admiration for a recent paper the faculty member published if that paper does not exist.

International Nature Journal Week starts today - join in, it is open to all around the world. #naturejournal #art #nature

There are posters too! If you are not into T-shirts...

There is no "science-wide replication crisis" because every word in that phrase carries unfounded assumptions. 🧵 1. There is no evidence that progress has generally stalled in the sciences. Also, no one has actually tried to estimate replicability across fields.

In one campus study on reading, students had two main complaints. By far their biggest gripe is that the assigned reading rarely gets talked about in class. The second reason — perhaps a more complicated one — is that they don’t understand what they are supposed to be reading for. chroni.cl/4mQCvs3

"Thinking time —the time needed to concentrate without interruptions has always been central to scholarly work. It is essential to designing experiments, compiling data, assessing results, reviewing literature and, of course, writing. Yet, [it] is often undervalued." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Working on this #Hilma af Klint exhibit of her recently discovered botanical drawings at #MoMA has been an amazing exploratory process, in the intersection of #botany, #science and #art, plus her spiritual beliefs. Article from #Rutgers, just published. sebsnjaesnews.rutgers.edu/2025/05/rutg...

Hilma af Klint at MoMA — artist who blended botany and mystery https://www.ft.com/content/2b2c863f-9448-4a9c-8f16-c84b43ab276a

New York City in fog, skyscrapers with ’their heads in the clouds’, 53rd Street, May 6, 2025.

Have you seen a dandelion today? Now you have.

Me playing with water drops, watercolor, and yupo (plastic) paper to see what happens - this will take hours to dry. I will post the results later.

I don't want to be on ghastly x anymore but it's where a lot of my sales come from so this post is a brazen request for shares to spread the word about my work on a kinder platform that isn't run by a dangerous megalomaniac! www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Sara... #selfemployedartist #ukgifthour #shopindie

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Hi Bluesky, the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest #OpenAccess digital library of biodiversity literature and archives. We're a global consortium of 660 contributors who've made 63 million pages of biodiversity knowledge freely accessible online. www.biodiversitylibrary.org

I love being a scientist for this program!

When you found an interesting pond with green slimy algae but forgot your #plankton sampling jar and plankton net, and you luckily are right next to the student campus center’s cafe… #microscopysave #RutgersUniv #fieldwork #biodiversity #CookCampus #SEBS

7 April 1839: #MaryAnning writes to Edward Charlesworth, editor of the Magazine of Natural History, about the Lias fish Hybodus. Her letter was published in the Magazine at the end of that year and is her only known publication.

Possibly the largest dandelion in the world? I love it!

After the #handsoff demonstration in Princeton, NJ (with great speakers, great crowd, great signs), an Aperol Spritz at Teresa’s restaurant. Aperol is an Italian invention from over 100 years ago and includes one of my favorite plants, the gentians :).

Here in Princeton, NJ, a town of about 30,000 people, the crowd at the #HandsOff protest. Appeared to be about 1300-1500 people, as high as 5% of the population. It's the largest event I have seen in this public space.

#HandsOff @ Princeton NJ planetprinceton.com/2025/04/05/p...

2000 people (press estimate) in little Princeton NJ.

Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects. Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):

Climate change and early spring warming - when the magnolias flower in March in New Jersey, USA. This tree opened its flowers today (!), when it got up to over 80 degrees F outside. I love #flowers, but this is not normal… #climatechange #phenology #earlyspring

It is a beautiful and amazing thing that a team of scientists can work for years on some intricate detailed exploration, and with just a little pdf thousands of other scientist can know and debate and discuss what they learned.

Go Sweden! 🇸🇪

The specks on strawberries are not seeds, but are actually fruits, called achenes. Each achene houses one seed. The red tasty thing you eat is an accessory to these fruits. Like a delicious handbag.

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

I can’t remember where I read this, but it’s important: Why is it that when people think about traveling to the past, they worry about doing something small that will drastically change the present, but no one in the present thinks that doing something small today can drastically change the future?

We wanted them to have healthcare and a high paying job and a planet to live on and freedom. They want us to suffer. The parties are not the same.

This is a room where we turn very modest salaries and budgets (and lots of coffee) into new knowledge, life-saving innovations, and technology that feeds business growth. It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.