First visit to Kissimmee Prairie was a great cleanse after the election results. Good grounding reminder of what is at stake for our fellow kin on this planet. #plants #botany #bugs #florida

Controlled burn in pine flatwoods.

Sarracenia flava, the yellow pitcherplant. Mature pitcher and flower.

Ceratiola ericoides seedling.

Two women hiking through pine savanna.

Trip to the Apalachicola National Forest and Saint George Island was truly unforgettable. Nothing quite like crossing a palaeobiogeographical boundary. #hiking #nature #plants #florida #botany

Just some of the beautiful finds from my most recent few hikes.
1. Habaneria floribunda (Orchidaceae)
2. Polygala lutea (Polygalaceae)
3. Viola sororia (Violaceae)
4. Lyonia lucida (Ericaceae)

#flowers #plants #florida #botany #ecology #hiking #nature #wildlife

Cover of the book 'Wild Orchids of Florida' by Paul Martin Brown. Cover is blue with an illustration of a white orchid growing on the trunk of a tree.

So excited for this latest edition to my field guide library! Can't wait to get out there and find some of these hidden beauties. #wildlife #flower #nature #botany #plants #florida

Drosera capillaris

Lilium catesbaei

Sarracenia minor

Carphephorus corymbosus

Some of my favourite finds from this morning's hike! I saw 21 Lilium catesbaei (Pine Lily), which is a new record for me on one hike!
This post is in memory of the gnat that became breakfast for this Drosera capillaris (Pink Sundew) 🥲.
#wildlife #flower #florida #nature #plants

A barred owl sits perched on the branch of a tree over a boardwalk.

Just saw this beauty on my evening walk (sorry about the low-quality photo)! Made my whole weekend ☺️. I learned recently that Barred Owls (Strix varia) have one of the highest dietary proportions of invertebrates for owls of their size! #birds #ornithology #nature

Ok, just a HUGE thanks to those who suggested Obsidian! I am now in the process of translating my analogue Zettelkasten to my new digital one, and I am loving it already!!! Also still exploring Notion, seems like it will be a good complement to Obsidian! #academia

Have geospatial genomic data and want to hammer out landscape analyses? Check out this new swiss army knife that does it all from @chamberea.bsky.social et al, built to handle California Conservation Genomic Project scale data
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Incredible!!

Ah great! Thank you so much!!!

I would love that! Thank you so much :)

A Florida Scrub-Jay perched on a dead branch above a sumac plant in a palm scrub.

Beautiful! I think scrub jays are some of the most remarkable birds, and I'm so lucky to live less than an hour from a preserve with a breeding population of Florida Scrub-Jays (Aphelocoma coerulescens). The resemblance is incredible! Throwback to my first time seeing one in the wild:
#birds

Why I use Notion to organize my PhD research Maya Gosztyla describes the database tool as a ‘second brain’, helping her to coordinate her work. Maya Gosztyla describes the database tool as a ‘second brain’, helping her to coordinate her ...

Wondering if anyone in #academia, #teaching, or #education else uses Notion (or other programs) and has any opinions? I'm looking for an organisational software that I can use to consolidate my to-do lists, random ideas, and progress updates to...there has to be a better way than Post-It notes. 😅

Interesting!

Incredible!!!

What do they taste like?

Open Access Week message from The Stacks

Paywalls hold all of us back!

It's time for them to come down.

Free our science, free our society.

#OAWeek #OAWeek2023

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Close-up photo of several stalk-like inflorescences of Sky-blue Lupine. The flowers are a pale lavender blue in colour, and are bilaterally symmetrical.

Saw these beautiful flowering Lupinus diffusus (Sky-Blue Lupine) on a hike today. Very strange to see them flowering, let alone fruiting, in autumn, then again, the planet is on fire 🥲. Hands down, one of my favourite #Florida native plants. #hiking #botany #plants #climate #flowers

Toxic workplaces are the main reason women leave academic jobs Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life balance. Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life...

Not surprised by this Nature article one bit. I am lucky enough to have colleagues in my lab that are incredibly supportive and decent people, but some of the horror stories I have heard from friends in academia are deeply disquieting. This is a *must* read. #academia

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A large green katydid with green eyes and leaf-shaped wings is well camouflaged on a heart-shaped leaf.

Found this beautiful Stilpnochlora couloniana (Giant katydid) on the Clerodendrum sp. that's planted right outside my apartment. Wonderful way to start the week. Hope everyone has a great day! 💚 #entomology #bugs #floridanature #florida

Could not agree more.

Florida (and the entire U.S., frankly) must do more to implement intelligent conservation efforts for species, so that we don't continue to lose our biodiversity, which is our greatest hope for ecosystem resiliency in our climate future.

A Bachman's warbler sits on the branch of a pine tree. Photo credits to Payne, 1958.

So sad about the extinction of Bachman's Warbler. This species was a transient native to Florida, which it used as a migration corridor to its winter range in Cuba. The species had a spatially complex life history, making it reliant on multiple ecosystems, and therefore, vulnerable to habitat loss.

Several small, green plants grow on bare, white sand around a large, dead plant. The small plants are each marked with a yellow flag.

Can't wait to get back to my field sites next month! I miss my darling, little Ceratiola babies and am excited to see how they've grown this year. Field work is not a huge component of my job, but that makes it all the more rewarding when I am able to do it! #botany #ecology #science

Post from USFWS on Twitter about proposal to recover 21 species from endangered species list and place them on extinct list. Sad.

EIGHT (8!) birds from Hawai‘i on this list 😭

🥳🥳🥳

I feel your pain! 🥲

This week, I learned that one of my beloved study species, Ceratiola ericoides, is a host plant for a beautifully cryptic little species of geometrid moth, Nemoria outina. Will keep my eyes out for larvae during my next field survey!!! Citation: Ferguson, 1985 #botany #ecology #entomology

Hello my people! I'm Alexandria (she/her), and I am a student researcher at the University of Central Florida. My research is in statistical modelling of plant communities. My current project involves multi-species demographic modelling of endemic plants in Florida in a global heating future.