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Rusty blackbird habitat, thanks to recently arrived beavers. Legacy Park, Decatur GA. Rusty blackbirds have declined 75% since the 1960s. They absolutely love the wet woods and mud at the edge of beaver ponds.

another year of us not running a super bowl ad

Dino juice. Climbing back into the family tree of flowering plants at the supermarket

Cyclamen: they carry the memory of home (N Africa, E Mediterranean). Bloom in wet season, retreat into tuber in summer. Also: bury your kiddies

Perfume, plant sex, human gender. Can we stop boxing both flowers and ourselves into narrow imaginary spaces?

"Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command"

Flower sex, human gender, and opening symbolic possibilities. With awesome aromas 🌿👃🌹

Had a lot of fun this morning recording the preface and afterword of How Flowers Made our World. I hope that the gesticulations will come through in audio 😂 The marvelous Cassandra Campbell will record the main parts of the book. Pre-orders are open, and the book is published on March 24th 🌻

TACO sticking in your craw? Wash it down with French wine. Something mapley for dessert.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Flower aromas use beauty to interweave plants, insects, and humans. There's more than enough hard stuff in life, especially now, so let's accept the flowers' invitations when we can 💚💔 Wishing everyone a few moments of interconnected beauty this weekend, wherever you are. #breadandjusticeandroses

The red dot is a baby North Atlantic right whale trying to migrate up the east coast of the United states. The blue streaks are fast moving shipping vessels entering and leaving New York City harbor. One collision and the whale is dead. We need *mandatory* speed limits for these vessels! 🧪🦑🌍

Heading home from #SICB2026 and super stoked to disappear into my new preview copy of @dghaskell.bsky.social’s How Flowers Made Our World. Hells yeah they did. #iamabotanist

So honored to have my wildflower essay in @emergencemagazine.bsky.social published alongside @science-irl.bsky.social's amazing photography

Faux News tells us to buy plastic trees to make room for data centers. Here's another take: "Midwinter tree aromas connect us not only to memory but also to the language of trees." "expand the bounds of ritual and celebration to include the trees and the living Earth" www.nytimes.com/2018/12/01/o...

Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

One last sunbathing session before the big chill hits Green anole in Atlanta this afternoon Headed to 18 deg F tomorrow night. Time to dig

"lobbyist and public relations officer" for Facebook and "VP for Global Affairs and Communications" continues his work on behalf poor, ailing AI, an industry currently being victimized by...checks notes...artists

If you need a little digital reconnection to the pulse of the living Earth, here are about 200 sandhill cranes winging south over Atlanta this afternoon. Their voices have echoed across this continent for at least 5 million years. Hopefully 5 million more

Dismissing AI video lies as "just" another part of the internet goes against the evidence (deepfakes can be persuasive and damaging), and weakens attempts to keep faked video out of important campaigns. Here in GA, AI video lies (not cute "memes") are being deployed in critical senate race.

Continuing their appeasement and enabling of the regime, Apple launches wax-tablet-and-stylus iPhone. Musk goes on podcast to discuss manliness of papyrus

6000 years ago, ancestors in Central Asia had the great idea of collaborating with these wild mustards. In the millennia that followed, people all over Asia, North Africa, and Europe worked with the plants to create a marvelous diversity of delicious forms. Thank you ancestors, thank you Brassica!

Poinsettias are amazing plants. Their name, though? Problematic. Joel Poinsett was an enslaver and, as Secretary of War, directed the Trail of Tears In Nahuatl language of C America and S Mexico, the plant's home, the name is Cuetlaxōchitl, pronounced kwe-tla-SHO-cheetl

According to @nytimes.com fishes and moths are "obscure species" Moths: 160,000 species Fishes: 33,000 species Mammals: not quite 6,500 species 🤯 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/b...

It's day 7 of the invertebrate macro photo #ArtAdventCalendar. Here, have a jumping spider 😘

Amazing convergence of biodiversity from SE Brazil, colonial horticulture,and hummingbird desire gave us "Christmas cactus"

The desperate hands of the global south seek to take back an overheated world. Seriously, what's next? The McHamburglar trophy in gourmet cooking? The Pol Pot Human Rights medal? The Jeffrey Epstein childcare grant? The Vladimir Putin democracy fellowship? The Weinstein-Cosby feminism prize?

Is it a bad post? Very well then it is a bad post. (I am large, I contain multitudes of them.)

Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks. They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.

Well, that frees up some time this summer. I was looking forward to watching some World Cup here in Atlanta and online. Please join me in rejecting #FIFA and its events

Advance Reader proofs are in. How Flowers Made our World 🌼. I'm so grateful to all my readers for your support over the years. I could not be more thrilled to share these stories about flowers with you next year. Pre-orders are open, publication date is March 24th 💚 1/2...

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I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic. It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Painted snake-coiled forest snail Ascaris tapeworm Carpenter bee Flat oyster Long-tailed skipper

So, this study shows that Europe pretty much sucked for tens of thousands of years, and then domestic cats showed up 2000 years ago from North Africa

Perspective

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

Giving one of my books as a gift? I'd be absolutely thrilled to send you a (free) signed and customized bookplate. Here's how to get one: dghaskell.com/custom-bookp... 💚

Giving one of my books as a gift? I'd be absolutely thrilled to send you a (free) signed and customized bookplate. Here's how to get one: dghaskell.com/custom-bookp... 💚

Bird list from dreams, continued: Northern shoveler that I first mistook for a smew. Disappointed that smew wasn't for real, but enjoyed seeing that spoony beak. Pied-billed grebe with glowing red eyes, swam right past me in weirdly clear-watered canal.

Reminders (while raking) of the amazing creatures in the leaf litter. Restoring functional and locally-appropriate leaf leaf layer so important! DeKay's brown snake and giant leopard moth caterpillar

Celebrations of genocide and lynching are, according to the regime, merely politically divisive.

We are deep into word-by-word censorship. Not only are universities purging/rewriting their websites based on centralized edicts, they are sending lists of forbidden words to guest speakers...

Meanwhile, in the US, we're steeped in neonics and barreling towards deeper deregulation

The absolute misogynistic delusion of claiming women don't succeed in academia because they aren't that smart is bad enough, but Larry Summers was also asking Epstein for advice on harassing a woman under the guise of mentorship. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

🦜eBird life list for dreams? Can we report the creatures that wing through our consciousness when we're in slumberland? Last night's tally: five brown noddies, one wagtail, four bald eagles, and 16 immature turkey vultures. No pear tree, sadly, but some interesting branched cacti of unknown species

Sickening, as is the fact that Epstein was invited to editorial meetings for Scientific American.

To be published in January 2026. @berondam.bsky.social's new book is absolutely wonderful and you should do yourself a favor and pre-order now!

Northern lights in Atlanta!!! Happening right now (Tuesday evening). Never thought I'd see them, let alone in ATL If your skies are clear in N hemisphere, head outside!