That feeling you get when you assemble a new piece of furniture from Ikea without reading the instructions and still have a dozen pieces leftover.

Online booksellers: I would love to see a function where I could select writing gimmicks I hate from a list of options in my profile. My first check mark would be "unreliable narrator."

This was really cool to see, @arborkoeser.bsky.social covered my recent research in his blog 'Rooted in Tree Research'. It's well-written and funny #scicom. If you've ever wondered what happens to a root when you cut through it with a spade, check it out blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/gcrec/2025/1...

When the paper you are reading is so old, that the lake that served as the study site is renamed (Lake Tarpon) and the county has been further divided (this is now Pinellas Co.) Amazing to think this occurred so long ago (1889) yet so close by.

@washingtonpost.com had an indepth and highly visual article on the risks associated with low urban tree diversity. Nicely done. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

Student: What method do you use to file your references? Me: Uh....well...

The commencement speaker at my girlfriend's school this year. As a nerdy elder millennial, this pick is just amazing. Listening to the theme song today, it still slaps.

Was this paper sponsored by Poland Springs? Also...how do you carefully arrange something to have a random configuration?

Words I never thought I would read in a statistics textbook. It has my attention. @jaspstats.bsky.social @profandyfield.com

I got on the Ghibli train.

Very interesting survey. Please pass around! As a forester I get a kick out of the slow science. Everything is slow when you work on tree time. I have a cohort of trees that I work with where data collection began before I was born (I do not plan to replicate the study before publication).

I was talking to a reporter about our efforts to increase urban tree species diversity. We talked about all the economic, environmental, policy, and social factors that constrain supply to a handful of go-to tree species.

🌳🥼 Tree Research Journal Club 1. In this blog post we share our thoughts on a nice study of a very niche topic - pruner design and its impact on tree wound response. blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/gcrec/2025/0...

Why not just melt down the Statue of Liberty or tip over the Washington Monument?

That's a bold way to start off a methods section.

Turning off the autohide on my scroll bars has improved the user experience on my Chromebooks significantly.

the fallout from the Francesca Gino research misconduct scandal isn't over. @engber.bsky.social writes about how an effort by some of her colleagues to self-audit their work with her ended up raising even more questions — for them personally and their whole field www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...