Congratulations to the 2025 SHC Student Awardees! Undergrad Andrew Ruegsegger with Dr. Maribeth Latvis at U of Arkansas studying “Plant community assembly in an insular grassland biodiversity hotspot: microbial and environmental effects on phylogenetic and functional diversity of Ozark glades".

Anti-acknowledgements in Dr. Rachel Los' dissertation.

I’m going to be angry for a very long time about how this time in history made it feel like being a good person was somehow political

Posting this for no reason at all

Winter wins, for now... we're rescheduling this trip for Saturday, March 1 and hoping for favorable conditions!

The 50501 Movement has planned protests at all 50 state capitols and the U.S. Capitol on Presidents’ Day at noon. While mainstream media isn’t covering it, many YouTubers have stepped up to provide coverage.

An acquaintance of mine just share this :(.

Meanwhile, Trump jets off to his 3rd consecutive Mar a Lago golf weekend, this one for 5 days, in his govt 747 with 2 C-17s of Secret Service gear in tow, while 200k+ people & families, many of them veterans, wonder how they're going to pay their bills.

Our unofficial mascot Sam the Dog relaxed today as her person, U of A senior Rowan Offutt, worked in the collection, long-time volunteer @llennodo.bsky.social digitized specimens, & UARK field technician @andrewruegsegger.bsky.social identified plants collected during field work last year.

Winter Schminter, we're going botanizing! Join @jenoglesplants.bsky.social & @andrewruegsegger.bsky.social for a hike at @nature.org 's Smith Creek Preserve. Cold weather won't stop us, but rain, snow, or ice will so find news and cancellation info at biology.uark.edu/herbarium/events.php.

I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔