I got my COVID and flu shots on Saturday. Very grateful to be living in MA where these vaccines are available and covered by insurance. But dang, this year's vaccines walloped me good! It was my first time having any kind of reaction. Feeling better now though.

On the subject of love / I have only a single observation— / if you love a grapefruit, you cut it open // and eat its flesh. Ben Mirov

Hesitant to ask, but any scientists who have used LLMs for analyzing & encoding text data? Particularly if you have qualms about how this tech is used/created/proliferating? Facing down this possibility for a project I would be first-authoring, and not sure how I feel about it. Feel free to PM!!

A few more water colours for my open studio sale

The Everlasting Self Comes in from a downpour Shaking water in every direction— A collaborative condition: Gathered, shed, spread, then Forgotten, reabsorbed. Like love From a lifetime ago, and mud A dog has tracked across the floor. Tracy K. Smith

You'll hear a lot about the "lag phase" and the "log phase" of biological invasions. But almost no one will tell you about the much scarier and weirder "hag phase" and following "hog phase".

digital paint study

Beyond excited to share my first chapbook, Natural Causes, published by Bottlecap Press. These poems are about climate grief, shapeshifting, ecological resilience, & the ceaseless moving & returning of living things. I'm so proud of this - I hope you ❤️ it. Purchase: bottlecap.press/products/cau...

Ever since Enkidu died I haven't been able to think about anything else

"These projects aren’t just temporary disaster responses. They are models of long-term resilience and food independence. They are living blueprints of what food sovereignty could look like in Puerto Rico — and elsewhere." grist.org/food-and-agr...

gazettenet.com/2025/08/27/w... 😔

This is my first double bird commission - A white Dove and an Eurasian Magpie

How university administrations handled pro-Palestine protest is what has enabled the large scale attack on the academy that is now impacting scientists and scientists refuse to speak honestly about being wrong and actually yes that is a problem because that’s not how you build trust

Journal I'm about to submit to has a "zero-tolerance policy with respect to the use of politicized maps and failure to adhere will result in the rejection of the paper." Good thing my paper doesn't have any maps- I've never seen a non-politicized map yet and wouldn't know how to make one!

Know a friend looking to publish a poetry collection or novella? Tag them so they submit it to Driftwood Press! Link in bio with details and to submit. #callforsubmissions

Assistant Professor position in Traditional Ecological Knowledge at Stanford University. Applications due Sept 30, 2025 facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

sci-stories.org/2025/08/04/p... Just wrote up this blog post - a fun interview with a friend who works in urine recycling for agriculture!

Y'all won't stop hearing about my new eco-poetry chapbook at Bottlecap Press! bottlecap.press/products/cau.... It's got seeds! Abundance! Disturbance! Grief! Bewilderment! Fish! That's basically everything! #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #writingsky #bottlecappress #chapbooks

Jill Osier ♥️

Travelling soon? Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt

Rent Control Hearing + Rally NEXT TUESDAY! Rally: 11:30 AM | MA State House📍 Hearing: 1 PM It’s time to cap these sky-high rents & real estate greed in MA! COME OUT & testify in support of bill S.1447 / H.2328! 📣 RSVP Here: bit.ly/ma-rentcontrol #MaPoli #BosPoli #RentControlMA

NEW DOCTORAL RESEARCH ALERT: Please consider participating and spreading the word about this research on climate justice and migration being conducted by my doctoral student, Chetna Khandelwal @chetkay.bsky.social.

preparing to be instructor of record for a university class this fall and feeling very intimidated 😭 in part because not only have I never taught adults, but also because I've never really taken a class like this (I'm not developing the course material/structure at least, just tweaking it)

Death I take you as I take the moon rising. Darkness, black moth the light burns up in. Charles Wright Image courtesy @tomsnarsky.bsky.social‬

here's a little unpublished poem of mine that's been moored in my drafts file for a few years

I wish Wiley would stop constantly emailing me like it wants a second date

I have a writing technique called "A Whole Lot of Sorrow" which is like pomodoro for sad people. Basically you put the live six+ hour performance of Sorrow by the National on and then you write with no breaks at a furious pace, trying to outpace crushing despair. It's the only way I can publish

I know the ship has long sailed, but I really dislike that everyone just started calling AI inaccuracies "hallucinations". Very little understanding or empathy or curiosity about what hallucinations are/are like for people who experience them, I don't think it's a fair parallel or use of the term

Sundress Publications is open for submissions for grant applications from trans writers with a chapbook or full-length book in progress. All eligible authors are welcome to submit during our application period which closes on July 15th, 2025. www.sundresspublications.com/submit#trans...

I stumbled across a band randomly that I loved - looked them up and they are from my town! and having a 20 year anniversary album release in my town this fall! good luck strikes again 😁 (band is Winterpills, check them out if you like indie rock)

Is making a million conceptual figures in Illustrator an acceptable substitute for actually writing a manuscript? Asking for a me.

9+ of my laptop keys have broken - for now I've remapped them all onto convoluted shortcuts, which is definitely going to make coding interesting until I also remap my muscle memory. But the alternative is coding without 5, 6, -,+, or =, among other keys... too much of a challenge even for me.

One of the poems from my new chapbook, Natural Causes, available at Bottlecap Press: bottlecap.press/products/cau... . Remembering the masting beech trees - now sadly interrupted by beech leaf disease. #writingsky #poetrysky #poetry

happy #smallpoemsunday, this weekend, this holiday, this bit of #JaneHirshfield

One of the poems from my new chapbook, Natural Causes, available at Bottlecap Press: bottlecap.press/products/cau... . Remembering the masting beech trees - now sadly interrupted by beech leaf disease. #writingsky #poetrysky #poetry

I wrote a (sadly timely) blog post about the links between evo-bio and the eugenics movement. Eugenics was carried forward by renowned evolutionary biologists into the 60s, 70s, and today. Please stand up and speak out against eugenics in *all* its forms!! sci-stories.org/2025/07/02/e...

In an unconscionable decision, the Smithsonian Institute has decided to no longer support the Biodiversity Heritage Library from 1 Jan 2026. Please someone step up and take it over.

Map of Ecosystems of North America Completed! @natureserve.bsky.social has released a first-of-its-kind map of ecosystems across the conterminous U.S. & nearby regions w/ a level of detail & consistency not previously available. 🧪 🌎 #GISchat geohub-natureserve.opendata.arcgis.com/maps/Natures...

Y'all won't stop hearing about my new eco-poetry chapbook at Bottlecap Press! bottlecap.press/products/cau.... It's got seeds! Abundance! Disturbance! Grief! Bewilderment! Fish! That's basically everything! #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #writingsky #bottlecappress #chapbooks

Beyond excited to share my first chapbook, Natural Causes, published by Bottlecap Press. These poems are about climate grief, shapeshifting, ecological resilience, & the ceaseless moving & returning of living things. I'm so proud of this - I hope you ❤️ it. Purchase: bottlecap.press/products/cau...

A sweet story from yesterday thanks to @nationalwildlife.bsky.social As a kid I would go to the public library & read Ranger Rick magazines there - I LOVED Ranger Rick. I'm an ecologist now and those magazines definitely contributed Last night I went to a city governance meeting to advocate 1/3

Julian Saporiti's music video Boat People is running in my head all the time these days. We don't need to consign anyone to die in the sea. I dream of a future where all have the freedom to move safely. youtu.be/mf-K9Zff6BA?...

Good tips! I've been intentional about connecting with neighbors this year which helped me check in on some vulnerable folks during this heat. Also stashed & refilling a cooler with ice, water, and gatorade next to a tent encampment in my neighborhood.

Hesitant to ask, but any scientists who have used LLMs for analyzing & encoding text data? Particularly if you have qualms about how this tech is used/created/proliferating? Facing down this possibility for a project I would be first-authoring, and not sure how I feel about it. Feel free to PM!!

Had a stress dream about getting stuck in the ocean, followed by a stress dream about literature reviews, followed by 2 hours of 3 am awakeness, followed by one of the most prolonged & intense episodes of sleep paralysis + sleep hallucinations I've ever had 😿

Escape the Heat, Find Some Shade We know that shade can help reduce urban heat, but by how much. How valuable is the urban tree canopy? This story at Our Trees shows some temperature measurements in urban conditions on a 90F day. The results are pretty amazing! Read the story, and please subscribe.

Did you know, native plant meadows can cool surface temps by ~10 degrees F (or more!) compared to mown grass lawn? Doesn't that seem worth it? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...