A milk cow.

New paper out! Arctic tundra shrubs keep records of beaver colonisation ❄️🦫🌿✏️ Our new study in Ecosphere used shrub growth rings & satellite imagery to reconstruct past beaver colonisation at the northern edge of their range in Arctic Canada. 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ecs2... @esajournals.bsky.social

This is fascinating. I got it down to 0.0025. www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/

Haro Strait and the Strait of Juan de Fuca divide the US from Canada out here. And Rosario Strait separates the islands from the "mainland" (actually multiply-bridge-connected Fidalgo Island).

🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics! My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026. We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems. #Postdoc #EcoEvo Pls RT!

THIS. If you’re in central Glasgow tonight please close your windows; if you have to be out please wear the best mask you have available. If you can smell it, you’re at risk.

Where I am (Washington State, particularly ferry served islands) gas has been over $4 (USD) per gallon for around a decade. And that's still probably not capturing the real cost.

Share with all mosquito researchers. 🧪🦟 I'm co-organizing a special issue in the Journal of Medical Entomology on systematics, taxonomy, and natural history of mosquitoes. See details in the link. Happy to answer questions. Proposal Deadline 15 April 2026. academic.oup.com/insect-scien...

he is not fooled by the illusory nature of time

Not funded yet, but we have so many heritage orchards in the islands! Looking forward to participating as this is (hopefully) funded and implemented.

Everyone benefits from accessibility

I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)

I have so many amazing heritage varieties to share this year!

I’ve been asked if I would support Sen. Mullin as Noem’s replacement. The answer is a resounding NO. The rot in DHS is deep, much deeper than any individual. It’s a question of policy not personnel. The Senate should not consider any DHS Secretary nominee until DHS and ICE are reined in.

ACAB includes means testers

The fearsome reputation of the brown recluse spider and its relatives far outpaces their actual impact, researchers in Florida say. Their new study concludes that recluses are in fact scarce, reluctant to bite, and in most cases unlikely to cause the severe harm so often attributed to them.

Guy Madden's adaptation of Foucault's Pendulum

I was born in a county park.

Everything is awful now, so please share below something you’re excited about this week. It can be an accomplishment, something you’re looking forward to, or cute animal pics.

Join us for the Tides of March and learn about 18 years of community science and stewardship at Indian Island www.sanjuanjournal.com/2026/03/04/t...

once again I reiterate that I have never found a more effective barometer for "is this space safe for my fat cis body" than "show me your specific policies for creating a safe space for trans bodies" it has a 100% success rate everywhere from doctors to waxing to clothing-optional soaking pools

Global News has the full text of the agreement and comments from Chief Wayne Sparrow #bcpoli

Anyone know where to find the text of the Musqueam–Canada agreement supposedly released this morning? I am interested as a resident and common-law property owner on their unceded traditional territories. #bcpoli

It’s #WorldWildlifeDay and we're celebrating the many benefits of veteran fruit trees for wildlife. Our students (pictured) recently learnt some valuable skills in veteran tree care at Bethlem Royal Hospital's amazing old orchard in London. #CommunityOrchards

Whoa. QUITE the snail souffle'! MOON SNAIL at large! Neverita lewisii #molluscmonday www.inaturalist.org/observations...

arborization

The same way you don't want people bombing you and your loved ones is the same exact thing that other people feel where they live.

montmorency cherries, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1912

Good riddance.

No more doomposting for the weekend, only Moonposting.

#OnThisDay in 1859, a group of scientists dined with Major Granville Haller at Port Townsend to discuss the San Juan Islands. historylink.org/File/11196

dumpling, the food hero with a 1000 faces

A newt for those that need one. #herps #Taricha #ComfortCreature

Are you feeling confused today about whether or not it is OK to bomb a school or hospital that actually has kids and patients in them? Regardless of what race or religion of people those kids and vulnerable people belong to? I can’t help you. Please unfollow and delete your account.

At least we have nettles to eat. I will rejoice in the small things and the seasons.

Went to the San Juan Islands Agricultural Summit and now I am more excited about buckwheat than usual.

sure the pedophile felon president just illegally bombed a country that may have nukes while federal forces under his command murder and harass people in america and immigrants are tortured and he moves forward with plans to build concentration camps and sorry idk where i was going fuck all of this

My online earring store is now open. Feel free to to look and purchase.

"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?" Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.

Since I keep getting asked, I tried pressure cooking camas. Did it work? Sort of.... Some years ago I cooked some test bulbs in a water bath (sous vide) and while they cooked they didn't taste very good That's my impression of the pressure cooked camas, done but not very good

In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.

And also under absolutely no circumstances WHATSOEVER should you condone or agree with anyone in the MAHA/MAGA movement who don’t actually give a shit about people’s health and only use these conversations as a pretense to push bigotry and eugenics.

Preparing winter camas for cooking

...but as of JUST LAST YEAR, we now have weird Annonaceae flowers that *grow their own* delicious fungal toppings to attract hungry fungus beetles: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Today in fungus beetle pollinators: We got plants who mimic fungi to attract fungus beetle pollinators (Annonaceae: Duguetia cadaverica; Araceae: Arisaema sikokianum)...

RELEASE NOTES "for sale: baby shoes, never worn" is officially deprecated the new six word tragedy is "i only use it for summaries"

in case you needed it: it’s normal and cool to wear a mask at work (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.

As a botanist I find both bananas and dates absolutely fascinating. But they are also some of the only fruits I won't eat for gustatory reasons.