Happy Caturday to those who celebrate 😸

Celebrating #USA250 with a #CarIntoBuilding roll call! 🇺🇸 🎆 Alabama

Assistant Professor for Sweetpotato Breeding and Genetics at NCSU: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/231... #PlantScience

Postdoctoral scholarship in Plant Cell Wall Biology, Biophysics, and Spatial Transcriptomics at Umeå Plant Science Centre Application deadline: 2026-08-31 www.umu.se/en/work-with... #PlantScijobs

Not good at waiting—but not regretting it either

Any of my Chicago music lovers been to Chicago Summer Opera? I'd never heard of them until FB pushed an ad into my feed. www.chicagosummeropera.com

Good morning internets. Drink some water, do your PT, eat a plant, take whatever meds you ought to, put sunblock on. Somebody cares about you.

Veg is brined and in jar. Recipes differ on whether to use a vinegar brine or water, but I’m using 1:1 water:apple cider vinegar (did not have white whine vinegar. Also using olive oil not the Chicago traditional large amounts of vegetable oil

Saw some people wistful for this tradition, but there's no reason to feel low. These women are engaged in a process known as waulking, in which weavers soak freshly woven tweed in vats of stale urine. Then they beat the cloth until it softens and shrinks. The work songs help keep rhythm. 🧵

The vastly less popular trees-and-their-alt-text-stories thread: bsky.app/profile/dj-a...

this is one of chicago’s best free outdoor concert series

I've decided to compile a definitive thread of photos of the best sheep I've photographed during my walks in the countryside, together with supporting biographical information. I will put the vital story associated with each sheep in the alt text, since some of it is a little long to fit in a post.

Culinary experiment, homemade Chicago style giardinera. Salting veg now, any words of wisdom?

Cool sunflowers from Virginia!

REJOICE FOR BEST COMPETITION OF THE YEAR NOMINATE YOUR BUGS www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Chicago, IL Lake Wilma #sunrise #photography #$ECK #EastCoastKin #scape

Registration is now open for our next Road to Jeju Webinar featuring Rising Stars of IS-MPMI. lnkd.in/gMeN7F94 Join us on July 29. Speakers will be announced soon. Thanks to our sponsors GetGenome, Shanghai Tanon Life Sciences, and the British Society for Plant Pathology.

New OA Letter: "The progression of leaf senescence is gated by the cytosolic arginine pool" rdcu.be/frzky With Research Briefing: "The cytosolic arginine pool represses the progression of leaf senescence" rdcu.be/frzlA #PlantScience

Nature Communications is looking for a plant biology editor: springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

Chicago folks, this is the group getting HEAVILY INVOLVED in school board elections.

#Vitamin B6 is vital for #plant stress responses, but understanding of its #genetic control is limited. Here, Wang et al. reveal that variation in the OsPDX1.2 promoter enhances VB6 accumulation and cold tolerance in #rice. doi.org/10.1111/jipb... @wileylifesci.bsky.social #PlantSci #OpenAccess

This work on the #endangered aquatic #plant Ottelia songmingensis lays the foundation for understanding #evolutionary forces behind #genome gigantism and guides #conservation genomics in endangered aquatic plants. doi.org/10.1111/jse.... @wileyecology.bsky.social #systematics #PlantScience

Donated and would love if you did too. Love me some #CowALunga fundraising.

On Sat. I biked from home in Chicago to Lake County, IL -and back- about 46 miles. Why??? I'm training for a 3-day, 190 mile ride a month from now to raise funds for Respiratory Health Association & the good work they do, so please help me make my goal! resphealth.donordrive.com/participants...

Screenshot them. Quote them. Link to archival backups. Whatever you can do to stop directing links their way, otherwise they will be further incentivized to keep publishing their bullshit.

Folks, back in the late aughts the Chicago Tribune Editorial board, and John Kass specifically, knew how to rage-bait for clicks and I feel like that’s coming back. If you, like me, hate the Editorial board so much it’s time to stop linking to their articles. Stop feeding the trolls.

Rising Sun, Rising Temps. This morning's hot start in Chicago.

Lemmy died Dec 28 2015. In case you're wondering the exact moment things started to go to shit. I'll forever treasure the time I got to drink JD with him backstage after a gig in Sydney. He gave us (about 5 of us iirc) a bottle of Jack to share and had another one all to himself. Fucking legend.

“Monarch butterflies are the predominant theme throughout the mural; like many people who pass through this station daily, monarchs are migrants.” Ice-Cream Dream by Hector Duarte

Day 2 Frozen water bottle for letter carrier, Chicago! Don't let up now!

My contribution to the ongoing "1%" science discourse is this picture you can send to your favourite preprint author(s) after reading their papers to tell them you liked their work! #SciArt #PawReview

TUESDAY THO: RITE AROUND 90 DEGREES W/ DEW PTS IN THE LO2MID 60S

When people ask me if I have any good stories from when I used to interview rock stars for a living my mind often goes a bit blank, and to be honest a lot of it was quite ordinary and unremarkable, but on the other hand there is this.

I got tickets to listen to this guy rant about plants for an hour in the strongest Chicago accent you can stand , if any of my Chicago #PlantScience peeps wants to join me! 3:00 on July 5th at the Empty Bottle. Yes, I know you're all out of town for the 4th. www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/events

🍅 A Functional-Structural Plant Model for Dwarf #Tomato Ideotype Identification in Vertical Farming #horticulture by Katarína Smoleňová, Jacopo Restina, Jacob Stolz, Jorad de Vries @LeoMarcelis Michele Butturini @wurplant.bsky.social buff.ly/lURRmqm #PlantScience #FSPM

Now is the time, Chicago! (Muffins because my letter carrier has a sweet tooth and needs the energy)

🌿 Annals of Botany (@annbot.bsky.social ), the oldest nonprofit journal in plant sciences, publishes research on any botanical organism—from cells to ecosystems. www.academic.oup.com/aob Thank you to Annals of Botany for sponsoring #Botany2026!

Lovely Sunday for reading—continuing to enjoy this one. Star Trek references galore, yes please! 📚

Bollys Hobbies on Belmont near Central is a great yarn shop. Bonus shop cat and a Polish deli in the same block!

Sphagnum palustre www.botany.one/sphagnum-pal... Our first moss for Plant of the Week: the blunt-leaved bog moss. #Botany #PlantScience

@chialderwoman.bsky.social shared this on insta www.instagram.com/p/DaIkFQ7jZ7D/

Choose better, Chicago! (Great thread on how the Obama Center street changes made Jackson Park even more hostile to bicyclists.) bsky.app/profile/eric...

For those of us who missed this live, my aunt told me NEPM streamed it live and has a recording available for a few days! #SolidSound www.nepm.org/podcasts-pro...

I keep a mental list of overhyped and under-appreciated pairs. Oysters, overhyped. Mussels, under-appreciated. Frank Lloyd Wright, overhyped. Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, under-appreciated. Cottonwoods are deeply under-appreciated, but I cannot bring myself to designate any trees as "overhyped".

Choose better, Chicago!

Look at this gorgeous #cottonwood leaf––did you know that cottonwoods develop special abscision zones in their twigs and the shed twigs can root to form an entirely new cottonwood tree? Totally underrated #tree.

Montrose (Chicago) was bananas today with some running event (should have checked the calendar), but once you got away from that, the sanctuary was quiet. Good peeps on the beach. 🪶

I feel like we should have a Chicago shrimp discourse. Best shrimp: Smoked from Calumet Best fried shrimp: The Fish Keg Best shrimp cocktail: Gene & Geogetti Best fast food shrimp: JJ Fish & Chicken Best shrimp bahn mi: Hai Yen Best shrimp po boy: Hagen’s

It’s “leave a frozen water bottle for your letter carrier” weather next week, Chicago—get those bottles in the freezer!

Hey Bluesky, could you help me signal boost my Big Cartel shop? A sale or two would be a massive help. Jeremy Creatures are designed and hand-sewed by me, and they take many hours to create. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com