@washu.edu 's Public Exchange is essentially a matchmaking system, pair the community groups with the experts who have the tools to help them, whether it be air pollution, lead exposure, PFAS, any other environmental health and community concerns. #MedSky #PublicHealth public-exchange.org/washu/

Essentially, we are a country lacking any centralized environmental regulation. Until that changes, community groups are stepping up to monitor air pollution, with help from environmental engineers from area universities. #ScienceSky #HigherEdSky #ClimateSky 🧪🌤️ www.nrdc.org/stories/comm...

Difficult to conceive of a greater crime

At what point will we as a field finally abandon Impact Factors and focus the credibility on the actual science? 🧪 #SciPub #PeerReview #AcademicSky

Small funding opportunity ($3k) for field botany research in Georgia, USA! Spread the word 📣 Marie Mellinger Field Botany Research Fund 🌿 📆 Application due: March 30, 2026 www.gabotsoc.org/projects/mar...

Of course, the main problem that is holding back effective conservation is not the lack of evidence It’s vested interests preventing the transformative change needed in the scale & ambition of conservation actions www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exciting new undergraduate research opportunities here at Carnegie Museum in Botany! Applications due March 1. drive.google.com/file/d/1jNNy...

The #Botany2026 Call for Abstracts is OPEN! Join 1,000+ botanical scientists to share research, spark collaborations, & explore this year’s theme: Biodiversity at the Boundaries. Submission Deadline: April 13, 2026 Submit abstract here: www.xcdsystem.com/botany/abstr... www.botanyconference.org

Friends & colleagues Drs JesseAbrama & @laurielaybourn.bsky.social of @exeter.ac.uk Global Systems Institute & Strategic Climate Risks Initiative telling the economy like it is to @dpcarrington.bsky.social in @theguardian.com in this #crossroadsofcivilization 🎯 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Register for the Smithsonian's National Botanical Symposium, “American Botany: 250 years of Discovery” 29 May '26. I'll be speaking on American oaks, w/ several greats: @barbarathiers.bsky.social, Caroline Strömberg, Wes Knapp, & Rose Bear Don't Walk. Join us! naturalhistory.si.edu/research/bot...

For years, Republicans have urged environmentalists to put their money where their mouths are. Stop suing. Stop lobbying for new regulations. Respect property rights and buy the land you want to protect. Well, one conservation group took that advice & the administration just punished them for it.

Olivia Dean would eat on a Y2K romcom soundtrack

This is who runs this account

Happy recruitment/interview season for PhD students! Recruiting students in ecology & evolutionary biology? Make sure your department's stipend is accurate in our database: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...

For most of us, the right arm/hand is the dominant arm. Do birds have a dominant wing? How about other animals that have 4 limbs?

It’s timeee. Taking video footage and thermal imaging of a section of Hurricane Creek, Tuscaloosa County AL

Nationwide activists are calling for an economic blackout on January 30 to protest ICE activity. Landesweit rufen Aktivisten zu einem wirtschaftlichen Blackout in den USA am 30. Januar auf, um gegen die Aktivitäten der Einwanderungsbehörde ICE zu protestieren. www.businessinsider.com/general-stri...

Do I know anyone with influence at giftshops for botanic gardens, parks, conservation groups etc by the way? I feel like these ones would work so well in that kind of a venue!

"So much is happening (loss of crossover, preferential transmission, elimination of homozygous embryos) to ensure nothing happened (clonality)"

$75 billion is a lot of money. You can fund about 75,000 NSF proposals. You can literally raise an army of scientists using that kind of resources. #AbolishICE

Did you know that 2/3 of Americans are at least “somewhat worried” about global warming -- but 85% of Americans either underestimate how many others are worried, or don’t know enough to say? This key misunderstanding tanks our sense of collective efficacy. How do we overcome it? Talk about it!

If you really want to help the Twin Cities right now, one way is to donate to a school mutual aid fund. Lots of parents not going to work and families struggling for that or other reasons. Schools are helping as much as they can. As with everything rn, tons of these operatong independently

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

As a someone with a 33 year NIH-funded lab whose grant is supposed to be reviewed this week, shut NIH down if that is what's needed to end ICE terrorism. Innocent lives are more important 🧪

Did you miss out on your last opportunity to bankroll the fully stocked pop-up leftist supply depot?? Do you want to send free hand warmers, winter gear, first aid supplies, YOU NAME IT, to the Twin Cities? This is your moment. Let's ride. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... (non 'zon in follow up!)

Wrote myself a pep talk to get back to work tomorrow. It helped me. Hope it helps you.

Unlike chasing intangible temperature targets, cleaning up the energy sector is a more-focused battle that the world can win go.nature.com/4bTcZiz

One little thing you can do if you’re feeling helpless tonight: throw a few bucks to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. They’re reportedly stretched thin for obvious reasons and could use some help if you can offer it. www.ilcm.org?ref=badfaith...

It was an extrajudicial execution. Anyone who defends this is defending a police state.

8 meters and not a tree?!?!? 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

Touring the GSA-OGB new Hexacopter drone. The sensor highlighted is the thermal camera.

Ecological insights from three decades of forest biodiversity experiments @natrevbiodiv.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Amped to tease the upcoming project that has been occupying most of my brain space lately: BOGS

Saving plants through scent: a perfumed collaboration The Red List Project focuses on conservation of endangered plants, with direct action supported by profits generated from the sale of products based upon the scent of threatened species by Spyros Drosopoulos, Baruti perfumes. #SmellingTheBouquet

Can't wait for #MarchMammalMadness

The Clifton Institute is hiring a Grassland Steward to manage remnant grasslands in the Virginia Piedmont 🌾 knowledge of flora 🗣️ charismatic people-person 🎓 related bach. pref'd ⌛ 12 mo. position, ext. possible 📅 target start: feb. 17 📍 Warrenton, VA 💸 $55k/yr cliftoninstitute.org/about-us/emp...

Assessing the viability of genebanked seeds from rare, wild plants native to the United States using the D.E.A.D. paradigm New in #AppsPlantSci by Christina Walters @seedystudies.bsky.social @dustinwolkis.bsky.social et al bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #seedbank #genebank #botany

I'm telling you guys, the data centers are not going to make it. The power of nimby will be unleashed. There is no incentive for any community to want these things. Doesn't add long term jobs, might add pollution and vastly increase utility bills. www.stltoday.com/news/local/s...

Woody Guthrie's New Year's resolutions at 30 yrs old, 1943: woodyguthrie.org/newyearsruli...

These little guys are very cute, and also the researcher ran around pantsless in the desert to catch them (to avoid making rustling sounds that would scare them.) That's dedication to the project!

And definitely check out @andrewlhipp.bsky.social's outstanding essay (and address from #Botany2025), Fostering a natural history community. Soon to appear in Systematic Botany. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

I’ve been explaining cryo all wrong

A great time was had doing floral surveys before capping of orphanage (abandoned) oil wells in Covington County, AL

A gorgeous, if not very humid, run this morning. ☀️

Scientists! @skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun! We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15 If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

*Job alert* Within our recently funded collaborative project focusing on assisted migration of #mountain #plant species, we are looking for a #PhD candidate based at ETH Zürich. For further details and instructions, see the job ad: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP... Please repost! 🧪🏔️🌿

*Job alert* Come work with us! We have a fully funded 4yr #PhD position in #alpine & #Arctic plant #ecology available in our group @unibas.ch. The project includes fieldwork & connects to other ongoing projects on species range shifts & microclimate. jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell... Please repost! 🌐🧪

I had a fantastic time botanizing with @seedystudies.bsky.social in Talladega County this week! Prunus alabamensis, an S1 species was found and vouchered, and seeds were collected from Manfreda virginica and Goodyera pubescens.

Delighted to share the lab’s first independent publication, a Tansley Insight in @newphyt.bsky.social where we analyse new crop genomics studies to show how we can engineer plants that can grow at different latitudes (key for climate-smart Ag) nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A great week in the office!