At Barnes & Noble looking for books by the author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature: Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Arranged by author's last name, I found it. Mission accomplished, along with the unfortunate title to its right.
#Krasznahorkai #literature #Hungary #NobelPrize #literaryprize
It's about 115º F out on the new sculpture garden at the Reno Art Museum. I lasted 10 minutes in the Sun.
#RenoArtMuseum #Reno #thisisreno #Nevada #SculptureGarden #ArtMuseum
Hiking in hills near Northwest Reno, and found what looks like Acarospora, a lichen genus.
#lichens #crustose #Reno #Acarospora
No one's going to be happy (especially Starbucks) until we're all paying at least $5 for a small cup of coffee.
The Lichen Gang, starring Felix Grewe, Thorsten Lumbsch, Todd Widhelm, Me!, Alejandrina Barcenas, and Matt Nelsen. It's Todd's last week as the Field Museum's Collections Manager of Mycology and Lichenology.
#fieldmuseum #lichens #mycology #naturalhistorycollections #friends
Wondered the same thing. They couldn’t get something from the Sheriff’s office??
And don’t forget the old standby: “I’m washing my hair.” 🤣
New York: OMG, six inches of snowmageddon. Chicago: Nothing closes until it’s up to our knees.
I'm cool with the ownership...for now. No ads, no trolls...for now. Let's see where BlueSky is because their business model will eventually have to change. Servers and programmers do actually cost real money. 😁
When I migrated my posts from X to BlueSky a month ago, I had an amazingly euphoric feeling. X is an unethical company owned by a socially inept administration and an almost comically maniacal ruler with few morals or scruples. I am so happy BlueSky is a worthy alternative.
I understand Chicago is a try-out city, but for the past 20+ years, Steppenwolf, Goodman & now Shakespeare have sold try-outs as a regular part of subscription packages. Not fair. Why do I have to pay for a show's rehearsal time if they're just going to leave for Broadway?
I've heard AMPAS doesn't replace Oscar statuettes, mainly b/c of theft & they don't want duplicate awards. I hope they make an exception in this case.
God forbid CTA priorities should be finishing the Red/Purple Lines modernization and renovating other existing Red Line stations instead of the unneeded extension folly that’s just a political and union handout.
A paper I co-authored was released in Natural History Collections and Museomics, "From spectators to stewards: Transforming public involvement in natural history collections." doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.1.138247
#communityscience #naturalhistorycollections #FieldMuseum #WeDigBio #volunteering
Nope. That’s not their official BSky channel.
I am now a celebrity spokesman for...Plant Daddy. 😁 Having fun at Urban Botany, Harlem Irving Plaza. #plants #urbanbotany #hipmall #chicagomall
Despite the fact that neither of the lead actors look anything like the people they're playing.
Bullshit. She flipped because she barely won her Democratic Primary and barely won against her Republican opponent in an increasingly Republican-voting district due to recent redistricting. No one flips because of one issue.
And they say thalassophobia is all in the mind. 😱 THANKS SUE. 🤣
There's no such thing as end-of-year projects being too organized at the #FieldMuseum. I'll work on these incoming lichen specimens after the holiday break. #lichens #TexasLichens #CostaRicalichens #naturalhistory #EMu #specimens
Don’t let him touch the bats.
How is that union representation working for them?
Sure, Mayor. And fewer carjackings, strong-arm robberies, people smoking on trains, et al.
By all means, Virginia. Move the Bears to Nashville so Chicago can start a new franchise with a domed stadium built with an owner's money. Make good on your threats and take that sorry-a.. team somewhere else.
That was an approved religiously-controlled procedure when Sue decided to become one of the chosen.
If only Illinois counties and cities had as easy a recall process as California, Kim Foxx would've been thrown out years ago. Incompetent and awkward, she made amazingly poor decisions and pushed a personal agenda of legal equity which resulted in soaring crime and increased recidivism.
Working at SpaceX must be kind of shitty if you’re young and liberal. Your boss was a Romulan who moved the company to the dark side of Romulus, but in a twist ending, you find out he is genetically a Cardassian working for Gul Dukat.
I usually volunteer in lichens, where I catalogue and package specimens. This week I helped the Flowering Plants group with adding annotation labels and updating the #FieldMuseum database. This silly photo is proof I crossed over to help plants! #EMu #museumdatabase #vascularplants #taxonomy
[Originally posted on X Apr 25, 2024]
I received a Five Year Volunteer Award from #FieldMuseum President, Dr. Julian Siggers, to celebrate my longevity in botany.
[Originally posted on X Apr 8, 2024]
Visited the solar eclipse gathering at the @msichicago.bsky.social. A couple I saw looked so that amazing I asked to take their photo. #eclipse #msichicago
#museumofscienceandindustry #solar #fashiondripping