Tomorrow & Wednesday is the virtual Northeast Regional Invasive Species and Climate Change (NERISCC) annual symposium! Free!! Join us for two half-days of invasive species & climate change talks, panels, & workshops! #invasivespecies #climatechange #NERISCC umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

If you're a recent PhD with expertise in Indigenous knowledge systems, check out this cool postdoc opportunity here at UMaine through the Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science:

Yaaay mango ginger chews I love you mango ginger chews

My university now by default prompts Gemini use in GSuite. When you open a Google Doc, instead of a blank page you see two buttons: "Generate document" and "Help me write". I toggled this off in my individual account settings but it didn't seem to do anything and I still see the buttons. Also,

Hey, friends! @ziibiing.com and the awesome folks at StandWithMinnesota have launched #keepMNhoused! Check out keepMNhoused.com and kick in to help folks affected by ICE stay in their homes! ALSO, artists, please join the call for art to help spread the word! (art here by the great @trungles.com)

People in my neighborhood need help, like so many others in Minnesota right now. I can vouch for this GFM - I was in the room when it was planned! I just gave $200. Can someone match me? www.gofundme.com/f/support-ne...

These relatively smaller funds are not getting the attention they need even though they are supporting tons of families. I know we can pay every rent.

It's a little weird working professionally in the native plant gardening space but renting with no gardening ability. So much of my job's outreach work is focused towards landowners re: planting and invasive spp. management. I wish I had more ideas of how tenants fit into the convo, as one myself.

Are you an relatively new to field ecology and data collection? Or are are you supervising students? Our guide for effective field data collection is now published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! We also include a printable poster with a visual overview of the guide doi.org/10.1111/2041...

🌊📊 #Postdoc opening: Coastal Adaptation Governance Research + practitioner partnerships. Interdisciplinary. Decisions, policies, ethics. First review Feb 1 careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job... #adaptation #resilience #academicjobs

"Low-lift national targets are mostly public-facing companies with relatively small ICE contracts that are set to expire soon, making them particularly vulnerable to consumer and employee pressure." www.laborpolitics.com/p/want-to-st...

I have to say I don't really understand the bakery quitting fantasy trope in academia/PhDs. When I feel like quitting my PhD I talk myself out of it by remembering how much I don't want to work in food service/retail with 4 AM shift starts, no climate control, and heavy lifting again.

Trey is a long-time teacher and friend of mine with a wealth of knowledge, and I'm really looking forwards to this inclusive Heathenry workshop series. Want to join me?

This article talks about one of my projects (a database of current and emerging invasive plants across the Northeast)!

Cleaning and preparing for Mother's Night is a lot of work but waking up in clean sheets to a clean house with cheese and bread and fruit and roast chestnuts already laid out for breakfast is definitely worth it.

I know many things are awful but here is one genuinely useful and helpful thing you can do. No matter their party, your representative needs to hear that trans people and our families are not alone and this bill is an unjustifiable and extreme threat to criminalize the health care we need to live.

I've been quite sick since Thursday evening (maybe the flu?) though I think I'm turning a corner. In the meantime, it turns out you can do peer review from the bath. Thank goodness.

I took down all the figures & tables from my bulletin board at work. Put up 20 favorite poems, a picture of ash trees, and the card one of my little daycare children wrote me when I left, wishing me luck. I need some periodic reorientation. My dyplr cheatsheet did stay up though. I need that to live

#AcadLife #SOGIData #LGBTDemography #GenderStudies #translivesmatter

Wet birds looking up seems to be my default go-to when I need to kill 30 minutes. #birdart #sciart #birds

A love poem. We need them more than ever as the disciples of hate seize power. From The August Rain. #Poetry

My chapbook is still for sale at Bottlecap Press (and people seem to like it!). Shipping is a bit slow, so if you want it in time for the holidays and you are local to Western Mass, you can pick up a copy or three at Broadside Books in Northampton. bottlecap.press/products/cau...

A liquid moon moves gently among the long branches. Thus having prepared their buds against a sure winter the wise trees stand sleeping in the cold. William Carlos Williams, Winter Trees

Read 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝗺𝗼's @danielnemo.bsky.social new translation of 𝑨𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒎𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑨𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒑𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒈𝒐 by Tomas Tranströmer, the second poem of his first book, 17 𝑷𝙤𝒆𝙢𝒔 (1954). hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/autumnal-archipelago #poetry #poetrycommunity #translation #Swedish #Transtromer

I keep re-injuring my neck and it is clearly not really healing- when it's flared up doctors have just given me more acetaminophen or occasionally steroids, and I'm not sure if I should push for some kind of imaging. It's making it painful and difficult to commute, work, sleep...

Paul Celan, tr. Will Bennett

This little poem came to me in my dreams last night.

The FWHA native revegetation tool (ERA) seems to be down. www.nativerevegetation.org/era/ Anyone know if this is shutdown related/permanent? #nativeplants #ecologicalrestoration #FWHA #DOT

🧵Landlord not fixing the heat in your home? You have the right to be warm! #MA state law requires landlords heat your home to at least 64ºF at night and 68ºF during the day from September 15 to May 31. If a landlord does not provide heat REPORT IT TO your local inspectional services department.

Botanical art by Hillary Waters Fayle Featured in Orion's Autumn 2024 issue 🍂 orionmagazine.org/article/hill...

I'm off Spotify because I don't like hearing ICE ads - Right now I've been listening to this album on Bandcamp. Classic folk/country in the Cherokee language. Really chill and lovely, one of my favorites - hortonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nasgin...

Wiley's crummy new AI-driven submission platform is barely usable. It's pretty impressive to not have been able to improve on ScholarOne.

If you are a federal scientist in the US and have a been served a RIF notice during the shutdown, experts say this is illegal. you can contact Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) confidentially via the Science Committee Democrats’ Whistleblower form democrats-science.house.gov/contact/whis... 🧪.

Here's a fascinating story which I want to dig into one day. Elias Lowe (né Loew) was born in 1879. A Lithuanian Jew, emigrated into NYC at 13. Became a well known palaeographer, worked at Oxford, Princeton. From 1934 - 1971, he published a collection of catalogued Latin manuscripts sourced (🧵)

I haven't responded yet because I'm busy breathlessly cherishing the moment but I received an email from a reader of my poetry chapbook last night that made me cry because it was so nice.😿💗

"Peace"

Let’s have a poem

Hey there Blue Sky! We are WOCinEEB, an organization for women of color & non-binary people of color in ecology, evolutionary biology, & allied fields. We offer formal & informal mentorship programs for all career stages & a space for community positivity. Join us & find your people! wocineeb.org

Respite

I can't wait to share the outcome soon, but I've just participated in a collaboration with illustrator Marina Ibrahim. Marina is a skilled artist and phenomenal to work with. I can't recommend her highly enough. If you need some illustration done, find her here: www.marinaibrahimillustration.com

This Indigenous Peoples Day please speak up: another typhoon sweeping away homes of Alaska's Natives, who, during settlement (statehood: 1948) were forced to end ways of life (like my Grandma's) involving mobility across regions & stuck them in flood-prone/unstable villages with housing deficits.

Passages, a new asemic series from Annalisa Retico. View all six in the new issue of petrichor. petrichormag.com/28-annalisa-...

New post on the That's Life [Science] Blog about eating invasive species. Have you done it? What did you think? sci-stories.org/2025/09/29/c...

I just brushed up my professional website and added some visual art - check it out: thomaswmnuhfer.carrd.co

Any illustrated chapbook presses out there? #poetry #poetrycommunity

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!!