Cool!! I’ll have to check them out next time I’m driving through.

Nachusa has been pretty successful getting it to establish in restorations but it’s not a dominant grass in any of the remnants or restorations that I’ve seen in IL. Where are the old growth ones you manage? The scientist out there was saying he’d seen similar in MN prairies.

all the sporobolus was blowing my mind!!

It looks like the tussock grasses of the Aleutian islands because its main grass is Sporobolus - prairie dropseed.

Plus they’d just burned the beautiful oak savanna in the background. 12/10 no notes.

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Sign w photo of Dr. Greene’s process for restoring prairie at the UW Madison arboretum in the 1950’s mostly by plugs.

A photo of prairie dropseed mecca rolling into recently burned oak savanna.

Had a great trip up to UW Madison to give a talk to the botany department. I enjoyed meeting the students and faculty and reconnecting with colleagues. The highlight was visiting the UW Arboretum, with its rich history of restoration ecology. This was one of the most unique prairies I’ve seen! 🧪

No. Because it would be creepy to be evaluated for a science job based on looks and implicit bias means people won’t be able to help doing it.

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I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are mine. Wait. Not that acid-trip-fueled horror clown bird. I don’t remember signing off on that one.
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Friends! My university is hiring an Asst Professor of Biology and an Asst Professor of History and American Indian Studies. Our students are wonderful, my colleagues are great, we do good work. Please share! Happy to answer questions :)

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What in the fresh patriarchal hell is happening?!

Are men okay?

Shooting star season LFG!!!

yesssss!!

Our new issue is out! ✨

Cover image: Critically endangered Christmas Island Flying Fox (Pteropus natalis), the island’s last remaining native mammal, during the island’s first community bat night 🦇

Photo by: Kelly Sheldrick

See what we've published so far 👇
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⭐Nominate remarkable ecologists for our annual BES prizes⭐

Our awards recognise key influencers in our community whose work has benefited society and significantly advanced our understanding of the natural world🌿

Deadline for nominations is 19 April 🧪
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I’m really excited for this SF! With it we’re trying to combat the positive bias in publishing - how we and reviewers are inclined to only lift up research that goes as expected. But we all know there are so many lessons to be learned when you get unexpected results, or when things don’t work. 🧪

Spoiler - this restored tallgrass prairie is @nature.org Nachusa Grasslands and the research shows correlations between plant and microbe beta-diversity, but not alpha-diversity! @science.nature.org @dochpjones.bsky.social + amazing co-authors not on bluesky

🚨 THIS JUST IN: With over 100 protests still to come, we can already estimate that at least 8 million people participated in No Kings protests today.

That makes No Kings 3 the largest single day of protest in American history. #NoKings

Wars don’t kill. Men who skipped therapy do.

The only monarch I support with photo of butterfly. All of my outrage can’t fit on onesign.

Beautiful day to exercise our constitutional rights. #NoKings @votesaveamerica.crooked.com

Top of the photo in white text reads: "BREAKING OVER 680 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES MEMBERS, INCLUDING 10 NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES, ENDORSE IMPEACHING RFK JR." Below that in black text is a statement reading: "We, the undersigned Members of the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering, writing in our private capacities, endorse the Articles of Impeachment introduced in the House of Representatives on Dec 10, 2025 by Representative Haley Stevens." Below that is the red "STAND UP FOR SCIENCE " logo. Below that is a link in white text reading: "standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr".

BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.
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We're Hiring! We're looking for a postdoc with bioinformatics/modelling skills to join us in an exciting microbiome ecology project in Manchester (deadline 1st March) www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

White face storm petrel running in water un bay of plenty ( Tauranga , New Zealand)

Yesterday took a tour in Tauranga ( New Zealand)bay of Plenty to see dolphins, yet encounter this cute white face storm petrel literally dancing or running on water
#birdofthday #birdoftheworld #birdpins #birdseenin2026 #seenin2026 #birdsofnewzealand #birdofbluesky #birding #photography

An invasive appetite: Combining molecular and stable isotope analyses to reveal the diet of introduced house mice (Mus musculus) on a small, subtropical island House mice (Mus musculus) pose a conservation threat on islands, where they adversely affect native species’ distributions, densities, and persistence. On Sand Island of Kuaihelani, mice recently bega...

And I have done research on Midway Atoll though never got to visit :/

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Fun fact: I interviewed at UHawaii - Manoa but didn’t get the job. It’s such a beautiful place but I don’t know if we could’ve afforded to live there comfortably.

Prescribed or controlled burns, when done right, reduce fuel loads and the chances for uncontrollable wildfires, which are another beast entirely and mostly caused by a combo of climate change, invasive grasses, and people.

Ding ding ding! I didn’t meet him either though.

Thanks for inviting me @rovingnaturalist.bsky.social 😊

Bumper sticker that says good fires prevent bad ones. Sticker that says veterans supporting prescribed fire Pennsylvania Prescribed Fire Council

Did a terrible job of taking photos of any of Penn State‘s beautiful, snow covered campus today but did snap this awesome office door.

Also had a blast meeting all the ecology folks and sharing a little about my lab’s research :)

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I think there are a lot of academics who were knowingly attended dinners and lunches where they knew Epstein would be in the 2010s that are telling themselves that actually it's cool because it's not like they're pedophiles but by the 2010s he was an unrepentant convicted pedophile, folks

Men, it's worth pondering that these academic men are the same ones that teach young women straight out of school. These are the men given academic authority over young women's careers.

It's really challenging for young women to negotiate the minefield of creepiness these men create for them.