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...

Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...

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

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!!

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 ♥️

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...