Red pepper jelly!

The smell of dehydrating hot peppers is one of my favorite smells. 🌶️

Inspiring celebration of David Attenborough from Kate Winslet and many others - and a much-needed reminder to stand with science www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Paper accepted klaxon! A small one, but a fun one, led by @mannamacdonald.bsky.social: "First detection of the mosquito Uranotaenia sapphirina (Diptera: Culicidae) in New Brunswick, Canada."

Last day 💔

All Cormorants Are Beautiful

Exciting news! I'm looking for a computational biologist to join my lab at Wageningen University & Research! It's a 3-year postdoc position on Holomycota genome architecture and evolution. Spread the word! www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

Any QGIS fluent people here?

Proud of Zelensky

I can teach Scientific Writing at your institution! I can offer a one-week intensive course for grad students and other early-career scientists. I'm (more than) fully booked for 2025, but have open slots in 2026. Contact me to discuss; more info here: scientistseessquirre...

It's been over a year, but today SHE came back ❤️ 🦊

Pepper starting

Ten minutes into my QGIS For Beginners and I want to cry.

Finally deleted the old twitter.

Now seems a good time to mention that I haven't yet filled a postdoc position in phylogenetic methods. If you just lost your job, need something temporary, and know something about bioinformatics/statistics/evolution, talk to me.

Friday SCOOP: @vox.com has learned that USFWS has frozen its vast portfolio of international conservation grants. This is far beyond the scope of USAID-funded work and will inevitably harm wildlife internationally and in the US. @benjij.bsky.social has the story: www.vox.com/down-to-eart...

There’s quiet, then there is the power is out quiet.

C.D.C. Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

💔 www.masslive.com/capecod/2025...

First tent cuke!

Free and easy simple map making tool?

Tf Animal Crossing?

Why does Harv get birds on his island I don’t :(

Sweet, round partridge visitors

⚠️ BREAKING: WHO Declares Marburg Outbreak in Tanzania 🇹🇿 with Suspected 9 Cases and 8 Deaths, Healthcare Workers Among Victims. The risk of this outbreak is considered "high" due to "several concerning factors," including evidence of geographic spread.

Sometimes there are snow buntings on the confederation bridge and they make me swoon 🐦

Writing about mosquitoes kinda bites…

I can’t help but feel guilty cutting trees down in Animal Crossing and abusing resources of deserted islands.

I don’t want to share the kids switch with them 😭

⚠️ BREAKING: Seven cats in Los Angeles County have tested positive for the H5 bird flu, according to L.A. County Public Health. Up to five of these house cats were infected after consuming raw pet food contaminated with the virus.

Winter grow

Biscuits

Air show is coming to PEI this year!

Tent planting. Tomatoes 🍅

Sauce and soup time

Submit your proposal for a symposium or workshop for the 2025 Can Soc Ecol Evol meeting next July in Sherbrooke! Deadline Jan 31. event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/pag...

We're recruiting for an exciting new #PhD project in #mountain #woodland restoration! "The genetic diversity & adaptive potential of mountain birch in Scotland for high-altitude nature recovery" hosted by CEH, University of Stirling & Forest Research. Apply here: iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...

Pennsylvania will now require precautionary bulk testing of milk for bird flu from dairy farms as an added measure to prevent the spread of H5N1 bird flu, according to Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding.

Last wastewater readings found H5 bird flu in Los Angeles, Merced, Napa, San Francisco, Ontario, Palo Alto, Paso Robles, Redwood City, Riverside, Sacramento, San Diego, San Jose and Turlock.

I want to play Bubble Bobble.

I want to live in a world of cushioned floor