New #OER for biology teachers! We use *real data* from the RMBL phenology project to teach about changing plant phenology in warming mountain environments, R programming, and science writing. Please use and improve! qubeshub.org/publications... @rmblscience.bsky.social @jkleinkopf.bsky.social

Legal representatives for murdered Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi filed complaints and demands for investigation with the International Criminal Court. After his death, Meta deleted his Instagram account, thereby destroying a critical historical record of the genocide.

There is time to urge a change to the current #GRFP solicitation ( #NSF 25-547 ): reverse the eligibility restrictions and ensure applicants (including 2nd year PhD students) have a fair chance in the competition. Feel free to sign and share this open petition: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

Yet another study (Danish) has found no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines & 50 different health conditions, including autism, asthma & autoimmune diseases. In this study, they tracked 1 million kids over 21 years. 🧪🔗 en.ssi.dk/news/news/20...

State of Washington, Shaded Relief - United States Department of the Interior - Geological Survey - Edition of 1964, Corrected 1968 3D Render #ArcGISPro #b3d #WashingtonState #PNW #Seattle #PacificNorthwest

Still coming off an alpine high from our trip last week in the Wheeler Peak Wilderness documenting alpine flora apart of Western N. America Alpine Plant Surveys. Highlights included this alpine poppy not documented in New Mexico for over a century! 🌱 @jkleinkopf.bsky.social @hannahmarx.bsky.social

If a 25 yo with a big social media footprint and the message “We deserve better leaders” is the equivalent of “a nuclear bomb”? If that’s all it takes to derail your national party? One guy with a list? Are you not concerned you’re making his point for him? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/u...

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Ms.Rachel is showing more humanity than our politicians

A coalition of 36 herbaria across the United States have teamed up to create a web portal for the world's most charismatic plants ✨ ferns ✨ called the PteridoPortal. Full story: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/biol... Paper: bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

“I don’t think we want trusting audiences. We want critical audiences, and we want to acknowledge that their desire to question, interrogate, and challenge are positive things, not negative.” —CNN's CEO Mark Thompson this week. I think that's interesting and different, but not many agree with me.

Amazing study from Jill Anderson, Megan Demarche and colleagues, integrating species distribution models, reciprocal transplants, snow manipulation and more to test whether a montane plant can adapt to climate change. The sad answer: not without human intervention. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

As a biologist, I'm appalled at pride the White House takes in willful ignorance. In yesterday's executive order about NPR and PBS, their first example of "the trash that passes for `news' at NPR and PBS" is the statement that "banana slugs are hermaphrodites." But this is unequivocal fact.

I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.

This paper came out earlier this year, but I'm reposting it here because it's been a massive labour of love, with over a decade of work (including 7 years of sampling and months of analyses during successive COVID lockdowns) having gone into this. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Better late than never! Geology and climate drive alpine plant compositional variation in the Cascades of WA. A nice paper by Erik 😎 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

OMG did y’all see this over at other place? Bunch of climate deniers wrote a “scientific paper” rebutting climate science basics (published in a BS fossil fuel industry front “journal”) and claimed *Grok* as the First Author.. BUT then, they were completely ripped to shreds by…Grok! Like a symphony👌🏻

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Sobering. When I talk to people about long-term bird population declines in N America, I mention that the main cause is habitat loss, not climate change - yet. But new research shows that climate change is causing bird declines even in otherwise pristine places. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I got to visit CU Boulder today for collections visits. I definitely needed to clear off this Monument and get a picture of it. 🧪

Not lost on me that it's nonprofit tech, app.watchduty.org, showing up & actually working in the midst of the LA fires (donate to them!) Meanwhile platforms fail to surface key news, vital info is paywalled... As I've been saying, we need a new tech paradigm, yesterday!

New HiSSE model just dropped! We show that gains and losses of single chromosomes sometimes (but not always!) increases speciation in sedges. Plant evolution is complex and messy, but advances in macroevolutionary models are slowly allowing us to catch up.

Accusations of antisemitism for wearing a keffiyeh conflates cultural identity with hatred & trivializes real antisemitism. It also fuels anti-Arab/Palestinian prejudice. Posts like this undermine efforts to combat antisemitism by diluting its seriousness & fueling confusion of its definition.

No one has grifted more from a once-respected family name. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is a conspiracy-theory crank who is a danger to public health, and every mention of him should be quite clear about that. slate.com/technology/2...

Annual morbidity in the 20th century, before and after vaccines: Measles: Before: 530,000, After: 47 Mumps: Before: 160,000, After: 429 Rubella: Before: 50,000, After: 3 Diphtheria: Before: 20,000, After: 2 Smallpox: Before: 30,000, After: 0 Polio: Before: 16,000, After: 0

The video provided in Supplementary Information from the very interesting paper by Lai and co-authors in Ecology, showing potential pollination by Ethiopian wolves of Kniphofia foliosa! 🐺 Read it here: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @pollinet.bsky.social

Dionysia janthina Primulaceae Yazd, Iran April 2200m #Primulaceae #botany #Ecology #wildflowers #conservation

The California Academy of Sciences is hiring a curator of botany! us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor... #sciencejobs #botany #museum

Hi fellow Bluesky scientists. We have a job opening for a new assistant professor of biology and herbarium curator here at the University of New Mexico! Come join our fantastic community at the Museum of Southwestern Biology! See the link below for more details. unm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Erigeron leiomerus!

Xanthisma coloradoense!

Here's Castilleja rhexiifolia blooming in an alpine meadow in Butler Gulch July 9, 2015. This is one of the best spots to see these that’s fairly easily accessible. 🌿 iPhone pics

U.S. HOLIDAY COVID UPDATE: - COVID wastewater levels are very high in the majority of states - 1 in 35 people currently have COVID - COVID levels higher today than during 90% of the pandemic - WHO designated JN.1 variant of interest - CDC warning hospitals may ration care

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