Commemorating Hurricane Maria by working on a manuscript combining remote sensing, soils, and plant traits. Serpentine plant communities are more resilient, and soils are an important (but overlooked) part of the forest recovery story.

Absolutely hilarious.

It depends on the group. For trees and other woody plants I learnt a lot from Keller's book. link.springer.com/book/9783764...

Tropical botanists: what's a good resource for learning neotropical plant families. Gentry is good but not great for newbies. Any recommendations? Online or otherwise? Gracias!

‘There are people who have everything and have achieved nothing. But then there are people who have nothing and have achieved a lot.’ Wilkin, 12, is growing up in a sugar mill town in the Dominican Republic. Hear his thoughts on joy, poverty and baseball in this video by PDA Films

Puerto Ricans are devising the food system of tomorrow. Following a history of disinvestment and destructive climate disasters, communities across the archipelago are developing living blueprints of food sovereignty. grist.org/food-and-agr... #PR #Disaster #PuertoRico #Food #Farms #Farming

Couldn't agree more! Descolonicemos los curricula (materias/disciplinas) de nuestrxs alumnxs y presentemos una visión más amplia de nuestra disciplina

I ditched Ecology textbooks for this reason. Now I use a free OER and build my own 'Scientist Spotlights' featuring the incredible diversity of our discipline. Because if students don't see themselves in a career, how can they be themselves in that career?

A perfect day: writing, moving, (well time managed) meetings #AcademicChatter

Bonus points for poles that are good for tall tropical trees. 🙏🏼

Botanists! I'm in the market for a new pole pruner (from vendors Grainger, Amazon or Forestry Suppliers)...easy to use for someone who is 5' (not too heavy, single pole not too tall). Any recommendations??? Gracias!

In this work, the animator Nelson Armstrong adapts images painted onto pottery by Western Arrarnta artists from the centre of Australia into lush moving visuals capturing life in this remote, beauteous landscape

Art makes us human. The ICA @ VCU never disappoints. Another incredible exhibit featuring Caribbean diaspora.

Available now ahead of print: Lizard Thermal Physiology Drives Abundance Peaks along Climate Gradients but Only Weakly Predicts Distributional Limits by Lange et al. Read here! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Sapindales: bit.ly/PD_Sapindales Myrtaceae: bit.ly/PD_Myrtaceae

Some really great resources here like communicating working group results and using AI for literature review.

Perla with our new assistant measuring adult and sapling plant traits in tropical dry and wet forests. He's more into bugs but plants will do. #CostaRica #fieldwork

Celebrating the incredible life and legacy de mi abuelita. ¡Que le vaya bonito Abuela! 1929-2025.

4 U.S. citizen children, with their mother, held in a detention facility for 2 WEEKS. Denied access to lawyers and even communication with family. Disappeared. Held Incommunicado. No charges have been filed.

I wrote my first blog about why I felt that writing about my family's experiences with the mass deportation of people of Mexican descent during the Great Depression was more important than the National Science Foundation grant I was writing last summer. communities.springernature.com/posts/i-m-a-...

Sometimes fieldwork is teaching your grad student how to get unstuck. #success Fotos from Perla (who got out of the rut easy peasy!). Way to go Perla! #CostaRica

We are studying adult trees, saplings, and seedling composition in tropical dry forests, rainforests and the dry-wet ecotone in ACG Costa Rica to understand the future of these hyper diverse forests. #CostaRica @gdfcf.bsky.social

For those into photography I post some of my work on insta. Always working those angles. www.instagram.com/catherinehul...

If you think we're not comparing numbers and seats of courses among colleagues, you'd be wrong. Female faculty teach bigger and more lower level courses. Oh, we know. We've counted.

Beginning about 2011 there was a new trait metric every month (and its R package). Most went unused and packages now defunct. There is no one metric to rule them all for e.g. biodiversity credits. Instead, focus on accumulation curves. Universal power laws have easy to compare slopes and intercepts.

We have placards of "disappeared" people just like in South America during the dictatorships in the 60's and 70's. Think about that...

Bauhinia or pata de vaca #Oaxaca #Mexico

"NSF is being asked to make science racist again – which contradicts evidence that shows that diversity of ideas is good for science and good for innovation. We are missing things when only white males do science". www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Ahora con poesía ecfrástica. La palabra ecfrástica proviene del griego y significa declaración. #ATBC2025

Practicando la poesía de borrado. Practicing blackout poetry #ATBC2025

Red de ecología funcional de bosques secos #latam Gracias a Roy González por organizar esta lluvia de ideas. #ATBC2025

I propose carrying capacity (and deviations from) as gold standard biodiversity metric. It can be expressed as a power law which is beautifully ubiquitous and an emergent property of systems. #ATBC2025 #tropicalbiology #biodiversityCredits

Language diversity mirrors biodiversity. Most of the world's languages are spoken in the tropics. Let's use this at the next ATBC conference. #ATBC2025

Mole chicatana. Atta mexicana. #ATBC2025

Perla proudly presents her work showing tropical dry forest and rainforest species have similar drought and thermal tolerances when coexisting in the ecotone. #ATBC2025 Great job Perla 🎉.

Does cultural systems (music) overlap with socioecological systems? If we were to map the geography of mariachi, banda, norteño, ranchera, corridos, cumbia, grupera, merengue, bachata, salsa...would these map onto paths of crop domestication (b/c when we play music we eat!) #ATBC2025

Maíces mexicanos #ATBC2025

Hurricane forecasters rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. That data will no longer be available as of Monday, June 30. By @rhersher.bsky.social

¡Buen viaje a todes! #ATBC25

“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor. One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.

Bueno, bonito y barato!

Even in the Age of AI, I still find it easier/better to edit manuscripts by hand. Call me old school.

Territoriality comes from a scarcity mindset. Which makes an abundance mindset even more important. Even now. Especially now. Plus, you can't take your data with you when you die.

Really enjoyed think piece by @martin-nunez.bsky.social on how knowledge of global ecology comes from just a few sites and how articles from Global South countries that have never published in ecology journals often rejected due to lack of novelty (even though these are where the known unknowns are)

The fantastic first image released by @esa.int Biomass satellite. In glorious false colour to represent its P-band radar imaging, capable of penetrating even the highest biomass forests in the Amazon and Congo.

Grit vs. Quit. #AcademicChatter #freakonomicsRadio podcastaddict.com/freakonomics... via @PodcastAddict

Just heard an art-biology faculty refer to native plants as 'long-adapted' plants because they didn't want to use "a political term to describe a biological phenomenon" and it just felt right. What's in a name? Everything.

"The way universities are structured doesn't meet the needs of the challenges that are emerging" The Centre for Unusual Collaborations youtu.be/fr5KhV5ipuo?...