I remember pollen from invasive scotch broom being the bane of my spring growing up in the Pacific Northwest! 🙂

1000000% agree. Meeting up with those students years after they graduate confirms that.

Sadly, not many of our (non field biology) colleagues and administrators fully understand that

So awesome!! Gonna be a couple of years until I get to teach my class again, sadly

three peas in a pod with faces on them are sitting on a table and saying `` peas & thank you '' . Alt: three smiling peas in a pod with faces on them are sitting on a table and saying `` peas & thank you '' .

Hey #PopGen #EEB #PUI friends! Do you have a cool paper demonstrating the power 💪 of "modern" PopGen that would be exciting to upper-level undergrads? I feel like students leave the PopGen unit thinking it's some kind of dead science b/c we're limited to introducing simple models in Evol classes. 😢

Sounds really cool!!!

🤬😭🤬😭

NSF building on Eisenhower Av. HUD now owns.

Destroying the NSF mural in the foyer. Of the Eisenhower building.

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone.

The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets.

We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

I mean, it’s not the day before your first class…🤔

Umm whaaa this is crazy cool

Yaaas for us vertically challenged folk.

And updates on the barrel legged jeans?

I hate high rise that go way above my ribcage

Aaah nooooo

Make a Bond movie academic:

From Russia With Love: Invasive properties of Russian Olive in North America

Aah! I know exactly where…btw Olin and Sprague, right??

Trying to figure out where on HMC that plot is located…. 🤔☺️

AS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING

HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS?

HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON?

HOW??????????

"Her wit was as sharp as her convictions, and her honesty was refreshing and rare."

A wonderfully written (by @gbaucom.bsky.social) obituary for my grad school friend and Auburn University Prof. Vanessa Koelling, who passed away last week.

www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/m...

I'm hiring a full time fixed-term 1yr lab tech to assist with field and greenhouse projects related to floral evolution and plant reproductive ecology. Please share! Ideal start date early 2026.

jobs.clemson.edu/psc/ps/JOBS/...

Yeah, no. Definitely not that long ago

I often say something similar - we’re one plant disease away from mass starvation, and protected by a ‘thin nerd line’ of plant pathologists

That’d be fantastic!! Thank you

This is fantastic! Do you have a syllabus or course description to share, that we might use as a model?

Does anyone have good "plant herbivory" or "inducible defenses" lab for an introductory-ish level biology class that doesn't involve invasive herbivores? 🌱🐛

Some lovely Lobelia cardinals in Maryland, spotted while searching for far less photogenic invasive species in the forest understory last week

I’d love to learn more about your intro grad stats class! I’m the only person teaching it in our (undergrad only)department, and am interested in how the courses compare ( and what I can do to set up my students to succeed at the next stage)

Thanks!

Inspired by this, here’s Tetraneuris grandiflora in Colorado

Aargh!! But you've got this!

Yay! But oof on those stiltgrass monocultures

Weirdly we’re going in the opposite direction (and to the frustration of the faculty)