Our new review is finally out! 🌿 I’m especially excited because this is the first chapter of my PhD! Have a read to see what shapes the range limits of alpine plants besides freezing temperatures ❄️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ... there's info on who to complain to to try to stop this at the end of the article, lets share this message and try our best to stop it.

'Poppy' c.1852 by Anna Atkins, UK pioneer in botany and photography whose photographs created by the cyanotype process were the first ever to be published #womensart #WomensHistoryMonth

💬 In the second installment of The Evolution Exchange, retired NSF Program Officer Dr. Sam Scheiner returns to discuss how to craft a successful research proposal. Watch or read the transcript here: www.evolutionsociety.org/the-evolutio...

**BREAKING NEWS** - Marsh Clubmoss refound in Dunbartonshire, at a site where it was last recorded in 1854! Being more-or-less evergreen, clubmosses make great botanical targets all year round. With that in mind, I set out to hunt for Marsh Clubmoss near Inveraran on the shore of Loch Lomond 🧵

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Haunted Pond, 2015 by Turkish textile artist Irem Yazici who creates embroideries that often show magical, surreal worlds #womensart

'Eagle of the dawn' woven blanket by Anna Brown Ehlers of the Tlingit Chilkat tribe, Pacific Northwest Coast #womensart

Oakland’s 130-year-old Fenton's Creamery (est. 1894) is celebrating Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu the sweetest way: 🍦 FREE ICE CREAM FOR LIFE🍦 I fondly remember riding my bike over to Fenton's as a college student at Berkeley. A classic!

Pritzker’s invoice to White House: (via @nbcnews.com) @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Heartbreaking: Right now, thousands of Puffins are washing up along our coasts and further afield. It is devastating to see. These birds are Red-listed in the UK and already under serious pressure. Mass deaths like this, known as a “seabird wreck”, can take years for colonies to recover from...

'Storm light' by UK contemporary printmaker Mikki Bowers #WomensArt

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading. Now we’ve got mumps rolling up. Expect more. This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

A Postdoctoral Associate position is available in the Roeder Laboratory at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY with a focus on researching Polyploidy. Apply by March 1. Please spread the word. apps.hr.cornell.edu/recruiting/f...

How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications. My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/ academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

Updated climate indicators graphics, now including 2025 ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

📢 We’re hiring! We’re looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to join our team at @funcagroeco.bsky.social The position focuses on how collaborative agri-environment measures affect multiple taxa and ecosystem services. See: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/vacancy+f...

Deborah Lowe, contemporary stained glass artist, UK #WomensArt

Still no answers!

Highly doubt a human read this proposal. Topic is photosynthesis in bromeliads. Not crops. Not health. Not policy adjacent. If it is a legit reason, just say it? This is extremely weird.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Charley Harper, "Darwin's Finches", from "The Giant Golden Book of Biology", 1961

'Running Iris' linocut by Australian printmaker Rachel Newling #WomensArt

‘We shouldn’t be surprised’: bushfires in Victoria push threatened species to the brink www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Overshoot: The World Is Hitting Point of No Return on Climate e360.yale.edu/features/1.5...

In front of every VA this weekend.

Swedish artist Ulla Stina Wikander uses cross stitch embroidery to create a new skin for everyday objects #WomensArt

Margaret Oomen, contemporary Canadian textile artist who creates 'Little Urchin Crochet Covered Sea Stones' #WomensArt

US contemporary quilt artist Sally Manke #womensart

Wikipedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem go.nature.com/4pXIv2d

On Saturday, @theverge.com's creative director @kristenradtke.bsky.social carefully watched a video of a shooting in Minneapolis, twice. Hours later, she found out that the man who was killed was her childhood best friend. www.theverge.com/policy/86856...

Are you anywhere in the world (other than Canada) and want to do a PhD in my lab in Canada at Queen's University? We have a prestigious scholarship for 3-years of PhD funding. Get in touch, applications due early February. Must love plants and evolution! friedmanlab.ca

“At NSF, the net reduction of 205 STEM Ph.D.s between 1 January and 30 November constituted 40% of its total pre-Trump Ph.D. workforce of 517, by far the largest percentage at any agency. STEM Ph.D.s also make up a larger percentage of the total workforce at NSF than at any other agency…”.

'Bush Flowers' by Raelene Stevens, contemporary Indigenous Australian artist #WomensArt

'January Thaw' by contemporary US printmaker Jeanne Amato #WomensArt

'Sandpipers' by Julia Berman.

Dammit! UCLA fired eminent ecologist Dr. Priyanga Amarasekare anyway, after putting her through 3 years of hell for speaking her mind about diversity (and violating faculty code of conduct, of course). Her punishment began soon after she was honored with ESA’s Robert MacArthur award. Terrible news

Large-scale yarn bomb at Helsinki Cathedral,2011. Crocheted/knitted squares created 3800 blankets which were later donated to charity #WomensArt

Mural on the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, Detroit, 2018 by international muralist Bunnie Reiss who is influenced by her Polish heritage, especially Poland's brightly coloured folk art #womensart

Statement from the entire Minneapolis City Council in support of a General Strike and Day of Truth & Freedom on January 23rd.

🧪IMPORTANT! This graphic explains how science all over the US is funded. Congress approved a 2% increase in the #NIH budget for FY 26. Buried in the bill- Shift of ~40% of grants to MYF. This will still result in a 35% DECREASE in the NUMBER of grants funded per yr. Russel Vought is behind this.

Check out AJB's special issue "Paradigm shifts in flower color" a bunch of cool papers on flower coloration with a focus on non-pollinator drivers of color variation 🌸🌼🌺https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15372197/2026/113/1

Hooray! Check out this special issue for some fantastic new work on flower color!

How did a toilet photo become a breakthrough for science? 📸🦦 Scott Loarie of @inaturalist.bsky.social shares how a camper in a remote Colombian cabin snapped the first confirmed photos of a living Colombian weasel, a species once known only from 1800s museum skins.

Cow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social

Not a single day in 2025 was cooler than the 1991-2020 average, on a global scale. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social

We're covering this on tomorrow's @dailybeanspod.com

You probably heard the US admin is threatening to break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research: but did you know they already froze funding for the 9 regional Climate Science Adaptation Centers? From tracking invasives to helping tribes with drought, here's why the CASCs matter ⬇️

Collaborative artwork, 2019 by the senior Indigenous women artists of Amata in the APY Lands of Australia #WomensArt