These incredible Buff Tip Moths blend in so well with branches that you might mistake them for sticks. Nature's masters of disguise are truly fascinating!

Woman standing in a boat holding a white board teaching limnology

Students holding a van dorn sampler observing surface water

A perfect day on Cross Reservoir teaching limnology and playing with all of our lake toys!!

Cover of "Limnology and Oceanography," featuring a headline for a special issue on greenhouse gas dynamics in aquatic ecosystems. The text emphasizes mechanisms, impacts, and future directions, along with a call for papers targeting completion in late 2027. The background shows water waves.

📣 #ASLO_LO invites submission of studies with broad implications for all fields of #oceanography and #limnology for Special Collection “Greenhouse Gas Dynamics in Aquatic Ecosystems: Mechanisms, Impacts, and Future Directions”.

🔗 Learn more: www.aslo.org/lo-special-c...

#aquaticsciences

Planter box with large sprouts

Planter box with tiny plant sprouts

I have never had a green thumb. So let me tell you, I am ready to defend these little sprouts with my life! We have sugar pumpkins, carrots, and lettuce in the works 😊

Warming winters lead to more nitrate pollution in the drinking water near farms Pollution levels in Iowa's water have been abnormally high this winter. That's forcing the state's largest city, Des Moines, to run an expensive nitrate removal system that they usually only use in th...

More ethanol. More corn. More fertilizer. More nitrate in your water.

Policymakers keep pushing for more, more, more, but don't have the courage to make ag actually address its vast pollution problem.

So they'll ask for more of your money to fund failed voluntary conservation.

Ending March with a manuscript submission feels pretty good!!

Early-life microbiome assembly and its effects on bird phenotypes We are looking for a motivated Masters/HBO/internship student to partake in upcoming microbiome manipulation experiments, investigating how this fascinating community impacts phenotypes in birds. Star...

Looking for MSc student(s) to be involved in some really cool germ-free experiments with house sparrows at @niooknaw.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social ! 🐣🦠Get in touch if you're interested and please share :)
nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

Over eight million Americans took to the streets today, which makes No Kings 3 the biggest single day of protest in the history of our country. #NoKings

Walz: Our weather may be a little cool, but our people are warm and we're fierce. Don't ever mistake our kindness for weakness. We demand justice for Renee Good and Alex Pretti. We demand justice for every single person who was hurt or traumatized. We will never forget what they did

3 people on a boat celebrating deployment of a water monitoring buoy in Tuttle Creek Reservoir, KS

We love buoys!!

🚨 I am pleased to share that our book Microplastics and Nanoplastics in the Environment has now been published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

books.rsc.org/books/edited...

#Microplastics
#Nanoplastics
#Environment
#PlasticsTreaty

Academia is an environment of people w. unstable social skills in a context that doesn't really value being nice. It revolves around us making an internal (or even external) hierarchy of people whose work is better than others'. Breathe. It's not YOU, it's THEM & the circumstances we live & work in.

I am still actively looking for postdoc positions — please lmk if you (or your friends and colleagues) need a hardworking postdoc with field, lab, and bioinformatic skills!

I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.

Northern communities are losing lake ice as winter get warmer — and weirder More than a thousand people recently gathered on frozen Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisc., for a celebration of winter. But a changing climate is affecting life above the ice.

So fun to hear my #limnology colleagues talking about changing lake ice conditions and impacts on our winter well-being. 🧪

Northern communities are losing lake ice as winter get warmer — and weirder

www.npr.org/2026/03/05/n...

HEY‼️ Come work with my team this summer! We're hiring 2 crew leads and at least 4 crew members to work on ecological research projects across OR, WA, and CA. Postings below 👇

3 people bundled up, holding nets wading in a stream getting ready to sample bugs for winter time data

Kicked off field season in 20-something °F weather 🥶 Worth it.....for the sunshine and inverts!! (sorry no buggy pics, my hands were frozen)

a man in a suit and tie is wearing a crown and saying yeah boyy ! Alt: Flavor Flav says YEAH BOOYYYEEEE,!!!

If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some nice dinners and shows and good times.

I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

We are excited to officially share GHG-Depths, a database of depth-resolved CO2 and CH4 concentrations in 522 lakes, ponds, and reservoirs worldwide.

Congrats to Joe Rabaey and a huge team of collaborators! @gleonetwork.bsky.social

Congratulations all around!!

four people happy in the forest with trillium flowers everywhere

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

Jacket design for Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life: A History of Sex and Science by Ross Brooks. It features a historic, drawn image of a gynandromorph gypsy moth, with distinctive female patterning on its left side and male on its right. Against a black background, the image and text (title and author's name) are brightly rendered in a spectrum of colours resonant of the Progress Pride Flag.

My first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August (UK) and 8 September (US). Please help spread the word! 🙏

UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈📚🐵

US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗃️🦋

I really love this idea and have been thinking about embroidering figures for a while...maybe one day!

We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🌲 🌳 🌍

📍Interested in boreal and temperate forest productivity and respiration?
💻 Like to work with large datasets, remote sensing and models?
🏔️ Love an alpine setting in a small town?

Come and join us at KIT!

Application details: t1p.de/qctj7

Hand embroidery hoop of a skull, snake, and foliage on grey tie-dye fabrice

Hand embroidery oval hoop of a skeleton hand extending a finger to touch a snowflake with florals at the wrist on dark orange fabric

I've been actively trying to mentally slow down, not work ALL the time, & keep a healthy distance from my laptop on the weekends. Not going to lie...it's hard for me. Anyway, it's upped my embroidery game, so here are some of my new pieces.

Three lab members examining a farm pond covered in bright green duck weed. A bridge extends above the pond in the background.

The USDA postdoc fellowship is back! If you're interested in studying eutrophication issues in working lands, let's write a proposal together. Check my lab webpage for how to get in touch (ecostoich.weebly.com/join.html).

Calling all aquatic toxicologists!

Pollutant Responses in Marine Organisms, PRIMO23, will be held June 2-5, 2026 @ McMaster University .

Abstract submissions are open!

Www.primo.org

This position is still open. The Weisberg lab is recruiting a postdoc or Ph.D. student to study horizontal gene transfer in plant-associated microbial communities. Please see the job ad for more information and feel free to contact me if you have any questions!

AHHHHHHHH! 😱

Anywho, small win; I added some new stickers of my paintings on Etsy!

Sometimes thats all ya got, and it’s gotta be enough. 🤷🏼‍♀️

trans scientist collective Trans Scientist Collective Landing Page and Interest From

This seems like a really great initiative! If you know any Trans scientists who might be interested in joining a broader community, please pass along!

transscientistcollective.carrd.co