The season of Torrey Talks begins again! On Mon, April 7th (6pm EST), John Zeigler, manager of the Thain Family Forest at the #NYBG will speak on the efforts to reintroduce extirpated flora into the garden grounds! Registration & info here: shorturl.at/HMdNP #botany #lecture 🌾🌿🧪

IMPORTANT ACTION in response to the illegal firings of scientists and public health workers at HHS, NIH, CDC, and other federal agencies by the Trump administration. Rally at HHS this Wed, Feb 19 at 12 pm. Show your support! RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/... @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social

BIRD REPORT sandhill cranes! Like 80 of them! This has been your Sunday afternoon BIRD REPORT

We have a cover! Click here for preordering the book: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204909...

Some 🧪 podcasts with stories about being underrepresented in science by UR scientists: @weouthere.bsky.social Black, Indigenous, and other UR ecologists, animal biologists, and more tell stories about their experiences in field work @lostwomenofsci.bsky.social women who have been overlooked in 🧪

Positions of NYC mayoral candidates on a mask ban: AGAINST mask ban - Zohran Mamdani, Michael Blake, Jessica Ramos AGAINST mask ban, but support additional penalties for people who commit crimes while wearing masks - Brad Lander, Zellnor Myrie SUPPORT mask ban - Scott Stringer, Whitney Tilson

Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer. Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵

Just finished reading Convenience Store Woman, a touching and somewhat bittersweet commentary on societal expectations and particularly the roles women are expected to inhabit

Every news story about egg prices needs to be paired with concurrent reporting about bird flu how have we not learned this very simple lesson 🫠

Federal workers set off a counteroffensive with a raft of new lawsuits that contend that President Trump and Elon Musk are breaking the law to ransack the FBI and other federal agencies.

In honor of #WorldWetlandsDay and #BlackHistoryMonth, check out this @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social panel on Black Ecologists-Shaping the Science of Ecology, featuring Dr. Rashidah Farid, Dr. Amina Pollard, and Dr. Steward Pickett. Recorded in 2021, it still resonates today. esa.org/black-ecolog...

If you want to control the price of eggs, you need to control bird flu. And the worst thing you can do if you want to control bird flu is censor scientists and scrub CDC data.

Famously no partisan politics by MLK

Today's action from the @indivisible.org mailing list: contact your House reps to tell them to vote against the Dreamer Deportation Act (also known as the Laken Riley Act). You can find which 48 democrats voted "yea" last time, tell them that that's unacceptable and to vote "nay" on HR 29.

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Just some amazing things created by federal civil servants 💚

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Ok people. I’m drawing silhouettes this afternoon. If you have a paper coming up and you are in need of a #silhouette please let me know and I will have it ready today. As always I upload all my silhouettes to phylopic.org I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.

Happy Christmas Eve. Every year I inflict this upon you, one of my least popular comics ever. Enjoy!

Happening now: Amazon Labor Union workers and supporters are rallying outside JFK8 on Staten Island ahead of a midnight strike due to Amazon refusing to come to the bargaining table following a Dec. 15 deadline. #STRIKEMAS

BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now. The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country. The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.

Maybe I’m an old crusty guy but I don’t really want an “AI revolution” in science or conservation. Like don’t we all realize we should slow down a bit? Science is not just about producing new knowledge as quickly and efficiently as possible. We are not just little knowledge producing drones.

On the way to #Botany2024! I'll be giving a lightning talk on Wednesday and generally hanging out at the @TorreyBotanical booth 🌿🧪🌾

It is a crime Waffle House isn't in every US city. It is an institution.

🚨 Exciting update: #scicomm study reveals that tweeting about published papers does NOT correlate with increased citation rates. Led by @trevorabranch.bsky.social , featuring @whysharksmatter.bsky.social @solomonrdavid.bsky.social @danirabaiotti.bsky.social & more. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Have you renewed your Torrey membership for 2024? Becoming a member is the best way to get updates on our upcoming events and journal issues! Renew or begin your membership today - www.torreybotanical.org/membership/ 🧪🌎🌿🍄🌾

Please #Repost! I may develop a seminar course for incoming graduate students. You know, those "grad school 101", "principles of research", community building courses. What was your favorite / the most valuable part that course you took in grad school?

Our next weekend is packed with events! 🧪🌎🌿🌾 3/22: Laura Briscoe leads a herbarium tour co-hosted with the @newyorkflora (limited tickets remaining). Then that evening, we host our annual banquet with a lecture by Dr. Emily Sessa - “Stories and insights from the William & Lynda Steere Herbarium”.

This is a general warning, especially for grad students, that software can be flawed, even well-trusted and widely used packages, used correctly and with caution. It's important to investigate what the software is doing. So yeah, you have to be a software engineer in addition to a biologist. Fun.

Still laughing hours after I read this. So true so true

Anyone saying deaths in Gaza have plateaued is lying. “Israel” intentionally destroyed all the infrastructure needed to track deaths, from the Health Ministry to every single hospital. People are starving, sick—they’ll be finding bodies for months after a ceasefire. It’s *bad*.

My #Oscars watch progress! Best Pic 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 Best Actress 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 Best Actor 🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩 Sup. Actress 🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩 Sup. Actor 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 Best Animated ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ Best Int'l ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 Directing 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 #oscaround oscaround.com

If you see this, post a book(s) you've read more than once! 💙📚👀

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Guest blog from me on Dynamic Ecology, a guide for beginning grads on developing a reading habit and project ideas! Super grateful for reposts :)

The racism behind chatGPT we aren't talking about... This year, I learned that students use chatGPT because they believe it helps them sound more respectable. And I learned that it absolutely does not work. A thread. 🧵

Trying to watch all the oscar best picture nominees this year, here's my progress so far? My #Oscars watch progress! Best Pic 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩⬛ Best Actress 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 Best Actor 🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩 Sup. Actress 🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩 Sup. Actor 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 Best Animated ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ Best Int'l ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ Directing 🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛ #oscaround oscaround.com

the best tiktok notification is when a friend liked a video I reposted 🥰

It’s wild what a decent paycheck can do for your mental health

Sign the petition asking Duke university to reconsidering the closure of the herbarium chng.it/GZHdMnNYV5

I know tensions are high and fighting about online activism is exhausting but I want to share this article “Palestinians in Gaza are making one request of civilians in the West: share their stories.” ctmirror.org/2023/10/25/g...

What line dance are we doing to beyonce's new single?

So excited for this new Beyonce album

Happy Superb Owl Sunday 🦉🏈✨ Do you think we'll get to touch the beak?

I'm Eryn and I will be adding Ecologists and Evolutionary Biologists to the science feed. Please respond below with evidence that you are an Eco/Evol scientist to be added to the feed. This moderation will be done in the same way as the general science feed 🧪. bsky.app/profile/did:...

CA Dep of Fish and Wildlife is hiring a Connectivity Specialist Based in Sacramento $7,336.00 - $9,126.00 per Month Due: 3/8/2024 calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...

Reminder to new users here: The honeybees that fetch the nectar from the flower to the comb, Never tire of ever buzzing to and fro. Because they take a little nip from ev'ry flower that they sip— And hence They find Their task is not a grind

Hello newskies! (And oldskies too) Bluesky doesn’t have just one algorithm, it has many, and you can pick what you like (or write your own). Here’s a few I made and a few i like: Quiet Posters, posts from people you follow who don’t post that often whose posts you might normally miss