citation: www.nature.com/articles/d41... “some politicians…helped to power the populist view that scientists, other academics and their institutions are part of an intellectual elite, ‘making them the villains’, who do not represent the views of ordinary citizens”

Nature research paper: Food web complexity underlies biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning go.nature.com/4gQIyfm

🌿📚 More than 64 million pages of biodiversity knowledge are freely available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library. As funding challenges put its future at risk, the Internet Archive is proud to help preserve this invaluable resource. 🌎 Learn more 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Dogs at the Rescue Center get to pick their own toy 🧸

The women have won four World Cups, but absolutely congratulations to the men for making it to the knockout round. Yes, this is a reminder that the USA has, in fact, won a World Cup — four of them. In case you heard otherwise.

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Living for a tent site with a hell of a view. I love my job ✨

Senate Natural Resources Committee will vote 6/9 on Sen Mike Lee's amendment to S. 140, which would nullify the Roadless Rule, opening up public lands to even more roads, logging, and development. Call 202-224-3121 and urge your senators to oppose! wildernesswatch.org/why-roadless...

In case you missed this 2024 story: Scientists are building FROG SAUNAS, and it's letting one species of endangered frogs rid themselves of a deadly fungal pathogen. Also, they appear to just, like, enjoy it. Frog sauna. Or 'frauna'. Or, alternatively, 'hopspital'.

This is what dreamsss are made of (hey now) 😍😂

Bog blurb! This water monitor installed in the center of a bog in the Splinter Hill Bog Preserve is working great! We’re seeing the soil around the monitor revegetate and crayfish are starting to build burrows nearby. Great news! The pitcher plants are thriving and producing new pitchers!

“The Auburn University Board of Trustees on Friday gave itself complete control over course offerings, curriculum, degree requirements and academic credentials while eliminating shared governance at the Alabama land-grant university… The policy leaves many questions unanswered”

“By profusion of light, I think of its changeling nature under a microscope-how it is one thing in the light and another in the microscope. In the daylight: a clump of green, with rough stalks. Under the lens, it is on fire. Covered in glitter. Embers spark & scatter across its metamorphosing form.

Just started reading “Twelve words for moss” by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, and wow. Stunning prose. The opening lines, read while sitting on a porch in the stirring pre-storm coolness at the end of a summer day, are perfect:

PhD in Wildflower Phenology // ETH Zürich academicpositions.com/ad/eth-zuric... The Plant Ecology Group is seeking a PhD candidate to study how Alpine flowering communities vary over space and time, and what the consequences of this variation are for plant-pollinator dynamics. #BotanyJobs

First time going to #Botany2026? Don't miss this #Botany360 student-led discussion on how to make the most of the conference! Designed for students, but open for everyone. 🌿 June 10 | 1–2 PM EST Led by BSA Student Reps Benjamin Ajayi & Sara Pedraza Learn more here: www.botany.org/calendar/dis...

Part of the reason we need so many fidget toys is that none of our devices have rad, satisfying switches that click, flip, slide, and snap, anymore.

Much like eradicated diseases returning, blights and horrifying pests return. When an administration fires most of the federal workforce, the people who dispense the expertise and resources for the public good, protections and systems fall apart. Problems we didn't even know existed surface.

Derrick Coleman declined his Mobile Sports Hall of Fame induction, saying he could not accept the honor while Black voters face diminished representation under newly approved congressional maps. “We cannot settle for silence,” Coleman said.

From floral perfumes to pheromones, scents structure ecosystems in ways we are just beginning to understand. As human activities muddle these channels of chemical communication, scientists investigate the consequences for plants, pollinators, and other creatures🧪 My latest for @yalee360.bsky.social

Have you registered for #Botany2026 yet? Rates go up after June 15, so don't wait! There are 13 amazing workshops to choose from this year & several have already sold out, so make sure to fill out your itinerary today! Learn more about this year's workshops at www.botanyconference.org.

I often think of this poem when I am out doing fieldwork alone or when I’m sitting on the porch of the research station the evening before doing bog work. 💚🌳🌲

📣 Scream it from the rooftops: To recover endangered species, invest in plants! 🌱🌿🌵🌻 #plantconservation www.agri-pulse.com/articles/247...

#Poetry #Painting #Summer It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

She is made of but cardboard, so her time on this mortal coil will be brief, but I hope she entertains and educates many during her stay. Wish her luck, everyone. 🫡

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

WTAF — outdoor gear company @patagonia.com is suing drag queen & climate activist Pattie Gonia?! Send Patagonia feedback. Urge them to withdraw the suit and instead partner with her. 1-800-638-6464 (press 9 to leave a message) or [email protected] www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...

New paper out in New Phytologist 🌱 After centuries of research in Europe, we have studied only ~37% of all seed-dispersal interactions. Birds of prey, ants, and rodents are among the most understudied - yet researchers rarely flag them as gaps! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Waking up like this is one of life’s greatest joys 🏕️

States across the country are approving massive new AI data centers with very little public oversight, creating noise pollution, threatening water quality, and depleting natural resources. Call your state level reps to oppose data centers in your community! 🔥📞🔥 5calls.org/issue/ai-dat...

The only political appointee at NSF is the Director. This person will have extraordinary power. The current nominee is not a scientist and has never done research. He would effectively control ~$9 billion in scientific funding. Very definition of undemocratic www.science.org/content/arti...

Nutmeg commonly spices up a holiday season eggnog. It's also one of the most sought-after trick moves in soccer. n.pr/4u5E4EO

🌱 In this #podcast episode of In Defense of Plants host Matt Candeias and I discuss #seed, #pollen, and #plant, #conservation. www.indefenseofplants.com/podcast/2026...

Our new #SDM case study is out! Congratulations to @tuataratuatarae.bsky.social and colleagues. #sarracenia #botany #biogeography #ecologicalmodeling #conservation

The Red White and Brown Rothko feels spooky on a grey, drizzly day in Northport, AL

Good morning. I wrote about the Love Story soundtrack and its use of Sophie B. Hawkins’s “Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover.” Topics include: most vs. good music supervision, adult contemporary, ubiquitous listening, Gap playlists, tuning knobs, and desire. alyxvesey.substack.com/p/forever-an...

32.3ºC at Kew Gardens is the hottest May temperature on record at the station since records began in 1881, beating its previous May maximum by 2ºC (30.3ºC, 25th May 1922). It beat its maximum temperature date record for the 24th of May by OVER 2ºC (30.2ºC, 1922), exceptional.

Reminder: Pandra made this very cool resource to help you find native plant nurseries in the United States. 🌱

Hear ye Hear ye! Mural number 1 of 3 is now funded because people bought silly educational shrimp shirts. Thank you to all you shrimpers! A better world is possible through art, nonsense, & incessant posting! Keep buying shirts so we can fund mural #2 in the Philly Bug series at SquidFacts.net

Southern marsh-orchid (Dactylorhiza praetermissa) in my garden for the 3rd year #WildflowerHour #WildflowerShow

My contribution for #WildflowerShow for tonight’s #WildflowerHour are some AL natives: 1. Tuberous Grasspink (Calopogon tuberosus) 2. Small coastal plain spreading Pogonia (Cleistesiopsis oracamporum) 3. Yellow Colicroot (Aletris lutea) 4. Osceola’s Plume (Stenanthium densum)

We're 60 shirts away from getting our first bug mural of the fall funded. If you haven't already, get a shrimp shirt. Look cool as hell while supporting a project that's just as cool 😎 SquidFacts.net

I'll be speaking at the 23rd National Botanical Symposium this Friday with a great group: @barbarathiers.bsky.social, Wes Knapp, Caroline Strömberg, and Rose Bear Don't Walk. The symposium is free and hybrid; register today to join us online. naturalhistory.si.edu/research/bot...

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

#gardensky #nativeplants #gardening I need your help 🤔 Do you have a Southern Magnolia growing in your yard and if so, is there anything growing underneath it? Doesn't matter what it is- there is some record of species that can resist its alleopathy & dry shade produced but its very limited

We rarely hear about all the good stuff going on so this pleased me: There are at least 8 million 'social groups' (i.e. local people working together) working on sustainable agriculture & land management, mostly in the Global South www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Planners are working with water to bring wildlife back to the heart of our cities, towns & villages - creating a cooler, more pleasant urban environment along the way: share.google/hDpVMc4Hr6rD...

While we're waiting for our politicians to act, we can make efforts to get passive cooling like shade + insulation in place to minimise how often we need to use air conditioning.

Many people will use it because they don't know any better. And eventually, the internet will become so broken that they will stop using it. At that point, the "work arounds" will become the seed of a new internet. Bluesky is one of those "work arounds." I use DuckDuckGo as another work around.