Bottlebrush (Elymus hystrix). Bristly spikelets. My phone camera is not up to this. Just imagine it as it would look with a good macro lens.

A teenager got on the bus with a big stack of books from the local public library branch, and was glancing through each one before putting it back in her pack, like she couldn't wait to read all of them.

Geological Society of America field trip guide, 1956. For me, the most interesting part is the background discussion for Trip 3 on the growing number of radiocarbon ages from the Two Creeks forest, glacial sediment across the Midwest, and sediment of Lake Agassiz. Already enough to stir things up!

For folks asking why bother commenting because the OMB won't care: comments help build cases for the courts by explicitly laying out harms. That's why it's really important to have your comments be as specific as possible. Also, contact your senators and reps! They actually do care about this.

I don't think these times have been a solvent for decency at all. This has been a precipitation process. It has made decent people coalesce & show themselves. We're also seeing how many people had just been superficially feigning decency, because that used to be a social/professional expectation.

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He asked Chekhov, "Why don't people read Anna Karenina" anymore?"

Reminds of the time I went to an estate sale in Plover, Wisconsin. In front of a fairly modest house they had set out some furniture, nothing special, and a beautiful old Bentley. (no, I didn't ask what they wanted for the car)

Yesterdsy I learned that Tolstoy lived long enough to use a telephone, and called Chekhov.

Well I came in all hot to trot to dunk on another AI flood model, but this paper is actually a great example of both the promise and the peril of AI flood mapping www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

Major bottleneck for improving flash flood forecasts in the National Water Model? You guessed it, streamflow assimilation. Can't get the payoff in progressively fancier modeling and forecasts without on-the-ground investments in solid observational data. journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

The most important thing you can do is complain about how other people are using this website.

Seems like a good day to mention that (as many of you know!) the sails used on Viking ships were made of wool… 🐑 🇳🇴 ⛵️ sjofartsmuseum.museumvest.no/en/the-sail-...

A story on the paper maps discourse: In early summer, 2010, heavy rain closed many highways across Nebraska. I was sitting with a colleague in a restaurant in O'Neill, NE, looking at possible routes across the Sandhills with a DeLorme atlas. An older couple came over. "Where are you headed?"

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: “That’s a lie,” wrote one man arrested alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo about DHS account that officers were rammed. The men who witnessed the shooting dispute key elements of ICE version of events — from ICE detention. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti

Nebraska Educational Television crew filming us coring with a geoprobe in the northwestern Nebraska Sandhills in 2006, to reconstruct Late Holocene dune activity and climate change. Some footage and an interview from this cold and windy day is in a NET documentary called The Price of Water.

Leadplant farther along. This one struggled for a couple years, I transplanted to a new spot, and it's really enjoying life.

Leaves stuck in my dad's copy of Vegetation and Flora of the Sonoran Desert, by Shreve and Wiggins. The kind of thing English majors might end up doing, later in life. Or a geomorphologist.

The average teosinte genome is both 1) bigger than the maize reference and 2) missing 10 Arabidopsis genomes worth of sequence present in the reference maize genome. Structural variation is a ^$%&*^$@

ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Saw a story about a prominent US scientist moving to China for better research opportunities, and thought, "You know, I have yet to see a well-known US loess researcher moving there..."

"Notre maison brûle et nous regardons ailleurs. La nature, mutilée, surexploitée, ne parvient plus à se reconstituer et nous refusons de l'admettre. L'humanité souffre(...) La terre et l'humanité sont en péril et nous en sommes tous responsables." J. Chirac (2002) #PointCanicule

Claims of a society in intellectual decline ("no one reads anymore") are all basically the same story. Dissenters from those claims each dissent in their own way. (which makes them much more interesting)

Perfectly encapsulates the Trump regime approach to pretty much everything: A preposterous Bizarro World political tool designed from the start to lie and damage trust in experts and institutions and headed up by a third-tier failed Twitter troll

Instead of a National Climate Assessment produced by hundreds of experts and a rigorous, years-long process, we appear to be getting one led by a climate denier “…who has been soliciting ideas on X for what he should include in the next version of the assessment.”

You know you’ve made it when your research becomes clickbait! 😂 in all seriousness, Eos writer Rebecca Dzombak did a great job writing about our complicated work for the public!

Good thing these defining moments come along and remind me which Matts and Ryans are the worst.

What can you do when you combine the great spatial ecosystem in R (sf, terra + many others) with rayshader? The only limit is your imagination.😎 Modeled. Animated. And Rendered. Entirely in R. Rayshader 1.0 coming soon 😃 #RStats #rayshader #rayrender #rayverse

The person who is actually representative of the working class is "woman who works at Walmart" and the Appalachia-specific equivalent is split between "woman who works at Dollar General" and "home healthcare worker" unless you are in a town with a working economy, then it's "works for college"

Took me 20 minutes just to drive back to Menards, so no, I didn't talk to Mitch McConnell.

Had to repair a door lock this evening. Ran to Menard's, grabbed the lockset I wanted, got home and someone had put the wrong lockset in that box! Ran back and got the right one. But when I checked the news after all that, Platner had finally quit, so there's that to be happy about.

Crocus dolatyarii Rukšāns Iridaceae West Azerbaijan, Iran 25th June 2026 Elevation 2800m #Crocus #Iridaceae #wildflower

Daily sea-surface temperature time series for the Niño 3.4 region during 2026 (red line) compared to all other years from 1981 onward. The last major El Niño event in 2015 is the thick gray line. 😟 Source: climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_dai...

There is not enough information in this story about the format of the two exams, or the instructions for the take-home exam. Did he just give them "a little harder" version of an in-class exam and say "don't look up answers?" That would have been a bad www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Goose Lake wildlife area, east of Madison. No, not this week.

Like we *really* need to establish norms around photographing and videoing people in public or semi-public spaces when we now have technology that can search through millions of photos to pick out a face instantly

Dogwood (Cornus alternifolia) leaves lit by the sun just as it rose above rhe hill behind our house yesterday.

This is how academic freedom dies: "Researchers at Clark Atlanta previously stated that Waffle House workers face hostile environments, low wages and a lack of benefits. Now, both the historically Black university and Waffle House are issuing a joint statement."

The Hull-Rust-Mahoning Mine, the expansion of which caused Hibbing to relocate two miles to the south in 1919-1921 (costing $18 mill.), is marketed today as the “Grand Canyon of the North.” Miners have moved twice the amount of earth in excavating this single mine than in building the Panama Canal.

The Blood Red Hole Where American Iron is Born. Mesabi Range. Hibbing, Minnesota

Festuca valesiaca (Volga fescue). https://images.wur.nl/digital/collection/coll13/id/362/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festuca_valesiaca #plants #roots #illustration

But while I was on the BRT, I overheard someone describing their career in a skilled and important profession that they were clearly proud of, and then ending with "but now I'm homeless"

Unforeseen benefit of the new Bus Rapid Transit lines in Madison: The ability to get quickly from campus to where I was needed to drive from urgent care to ER, then home, then to appointment, then back to ER, then home, all resolved now, thankfully.

The largest concentration of Belgians in the US would rather talk about the Ice Bowl

Well, this is getting a little more tenuous, but the population of Belgium is a little less than that of, let me see...Pennsylvania.

And when I put the recycling out in the wrong week, I leave it out there all day to say, "so I made a mistake, what of it?"

"Long before I would visit them in person, I had become familiar with an entire gazetteer of family places: Roland, Story City, Skunk River, Forest City, Decorah, and Silver Lake in Iowa; Garretson, Volga and Lemmon, South Dakota; Hardanger, Rosendal, and Sandvik in Norway;