Check this out if you want to see me play the angriest, most ARRRRGHHHHHHHH set of my ENTIRE life. I was feeling a lot of feelings. I don't use this term lightly but it's appropriate to say I was in goblin mode. I drank the shaman's fungus beer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjh-...

Do you guys think anyone would find this interesting? Bark condition on downed logs varies between tree species just 1 year after tornado blowdown 🤔

Been despairing but I think I've been given my next quest idk ⚔️

Thread of some music I've been enjoying lately. 1 like = 1 extra song

"Check on your trans frie-" No. Give them money. Hire them. Buy them a video game.

I'm usually a skill building-oriented, growth mindset person, but some things I just really genuinely cannot do and these include singing and long division. I feel like it would be cool to be able to sing but yr goblin pal can't carry a tune for nothin (and no my vocals in Dukkha do not count lol)

Everyone pray 4 me I'm about to get in a bidding war for a mountain dulcimer 🙏

Fire and blood night. Also ginger cider and a yule log cake and a ton of cookies.

Update: the cake is either gonna be white birch or shagbark hickory. Speak now or forever hold your peace

(drugs n drinkin content) You ever cut yourself off before developing a problem and been basically a teetotaler for 23 years but still have a weird episode in the liquor aisle

I've never been this personally called out in my life!!! Also brb I'm gonna write a couple

My Winter 2025/26 mission is a Conservatory Shuffle where I hit every glasshouse, fernery, and palm room in reasonable distance. Destination number 1: Belle Isle with the rest of the Funeral Crust Dream Team. Of course I'm under an Aroid....of course I am.....

Rare ultra-limited tour only bootleg tape for the superfans

Input plz: I'm making a botanically-accurate yule log for Saturday. WHAT SPECIES SHOULD IT BEEEEEEEEE

Made a big mistletoe! December is magical because parasitic plants are in the public eye. It's MY TIME to be completely insufferable. Welcome to the Punishers Local 42069 club house, baybayyyyy

$aturday

I did not hit town a rose in bloom....i was already there bein a sewer monster

Probably shouldn't post this here but YOLO what're they gonna do, fire me??

Made a big mistletoe! December is magical because parasitic plants are in the public eye. It's MY TIME to be completely insufferable. Welcome to the Punishers Local 42069 club house, baybayyyyy

I'm not a nice boy

You've seen the crustaceans, now get ready for the biocrusts! I'm a vascular plant guy I don't really do crust activities but I love primary succession so my reading has increasingly entered the biocrust realm #crustmas

WHAT'S UP PITTSBURGH. Rubie and I collabed on this show. I've always wanted to do a SE Coastal Plain fire ecology-themed flyer and now it's here!

Seaweed pressing as an art and a science: our newly reestablished herbarium collection at Scripps and the history behind it #Phycology

Yuletide banger at Polish Hell Oubliette for the most magical weekend of the year. Winter Solstice seasonal imagery with mistletoe, English ivy (stonework from Homewood Cemetery), ice, and suns that double as Orion's belt. Come wear all your sparkles and set something on fire.

Yr fav Philly and Pittsburgh gobboes each drove to Harrisburg in our rusty goblin chariots to meet up and get our friend to her next adventure in Philly, I love us I love my people

Just some goblins on the Susquehanna <3

WE GOT FERNS, folks. I hope you like ferns. If you don’t, just listen and you will like ferns. 🌿🌿🌿 Dr. Li is hilarious and charming and you will love him. And ferns. In conclusion: ferns. www.alieward.com/ologies/pter...

My students crushed it at this year's departmental holiday bake off. So proud 🥹

Forgot I had an account here but I'm logging back in to share thisMagic the Gathering artist's proof auction Donny and I put together to benefit Many Lands Mutual Aid in Gaza. Check it out!

This beetle is STUNNING but I also want to use this to point out that my main contribution to my field has been the fact that multiple colleagues have adopted the fannypack as a result of hanging out with me 😆

Scary how the advertising algorithm knows exactly what my weekend plans are, just terrifying

Talking about records online again this Friday night!! Gonna be a dangerous one, much punishment, watch this to find out what PA field botanists are REALLY afraid of.....

Last day of ecology lecture look book. We talk environmental justice, Mon Valley air pollution, equity issues within ecology incl. adjunctification, & wrap it up with "a lot of faculty don't make a living wage for Pittsburgh so that's why I live by da still mill and breathing hurts when I wake up!"

If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes. #AcademicChatter

I can't do long division, I'm too hot to do math

do you guys think i could pull this look off at the club

Happy Kissinger death/my first Dukkha practice day!

“While Shelby County has recorded the dirtiest air in Tennessee for many years — half the state’s admissions for childhood asthma come from there — local residents say the arrival of Colossus has made things worse.”

WHAT'S UP PITTSBURGH. Rubie and I collabed on this show. I've always wanted to do a SE Coastal Plain fire ecology-themed flyer and now it's here!

Two weeks until yr fav sad slagheap goblins go on a lil weekend!!! Lakeplain besties come hang out!!! We can talk ecology between bands!!!

Name 5 animals you want to see in person (safely for them and you) but haven't Timber rattlesnake (my postdoc research site has them but I never saw one!) Marbled salamander Pine barrens tree frog All Scolopendra centipedes Moose Honorable mention: Bobcat (living)

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: Leopard slug American giant millipede Yellow-spotted millipede Long-tailed salamander Red-bellied woodpecker

@ everybody doing #Plantsgiving: I want to know who had Violaceae on their list!

It's Sadboy November, maybe going to the club this weekend will fix me

Oh, I hate AI trash Anything dirty or dingy or dusty Anything ragged or rotten or rusty Yes, I hate AI trash I have here a graphic tattered and worn It's all full of holes and says “Fexcectorn” I regret the day the techbros were born I hate it because it's AI trash www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxgW...

The old complex trauma is doing complex things today yippee (not about Thanksgiving)

Life is so cruel, I have so much cooking inspiration but it's the worst time of year to go grocery shopping 😩

New publication. For fans of following Rigorous Institution around, Detroit, Cleveland, setting things on fire. Also ft Siphon, Alienator, Jail, Incisor, Death Gasp, Ultimatum, Muzzle, Hex, Knotwork. Get one in Pittsburgh and on the upcoming Dukkha weekend and maybe by mail if you ask nicely 🌞✨