Correction, it is at Cantor until July!

Jeremy Frey: Woven The Cantor is honored to be the final—and only west coast—venue for this acclaimed exhibition organized by the Portland Museum of Art in Maine. Seventh-generation basket weaver Jeremy Frey (b. 1978) o...

It was incredible to see this Jeremy Frey "Woven" exhibit at Stanford on Saturday. What a wonderful highlight of Passamoquody culture and portal back to beautiful Maine. I have heard from many JR docents they have seen and love this, too.

Free and runs thru May
museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions/...

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto SAN FRANCISCO—Following reports that a 20-year-old man had been arrested for throwing a Moltov cocktail at Sam Altman’s home, the suspect stated Monday that he only initiated the attack because he was...

Bright spot in life is that The Onion is still around with headlines that make you double-take 😂😂

theonion.com/man-who-thre...

Looking west towards the Santa Cruz Mountains yesterday evening after our field class - here comes the front.

We are excited to host and looking forward to this!

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By the time we got to the southeast part of the ridge, there were entire fields of the white (or very pale lilac) leptosiphon.

A cool landscape story from a tiny plant. 🙂

Leptosiphon occurs in different colors at Jasper Ridge ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma). Here are white ones starting to mix with the pink.

...but typically we see these delicate pink flowers mixed with goldfields and Calif poppies.

A Leptosiphon journey at the preserve on Friday. I know these plants from Sequoia NP when they were known as Linanthus.

Here is a lone one growing out of serpentine.

And now submission is on the horizon! So close I can almost taste it.

Sooo satisfying. 🙂 And amazing people in this community.

kermit the frog is sitting on a wooden railing ALT: kermit the frog is sitting on a wooden railing

Me hosting virtual office hours the Friday before cumulative assignments are due

New program for a class visit today - botanic gallery crawl with herbaria books and our set of teaching vouchers, landscape history, plant pressing. Amazing to see our volunteers take such ownership of the program and turn our lab into a creative, collaborative learning space for students.

Moar roast

This winter has highlighted the wide gulf between how much pride and identity this area wraps up in tech innovation - and yet cannot figure out a safe, functional electrical grid

San Francisco skyline in the distance

View of southern SF Bay with Hoover Tower of Stanford campus

Wooded ridge with snow on far ridge of the mountains

Cluster of shooting star flowers

Recent shots from the southern part of the preserve. Incredible visibility... and blooms.

I asked ChatGPT to roast me

Bipartisan ‘Good Fire Act’ aims to expand prescribed, cultural burns across California - Local News Matters A bipartisan bill aimed at expanding the use of prescribed and cultural burning was introduced Tuesday in the state Legislature. Assemblymember Chris

“… We’re empowering tribes, land managers and communities to use fire the way it has been used for millennia — as a tool for stewarding our lands and protecting our communities.”
localnewsmatters.org/2026/02/06/b...

After a long, dry, and very warm January, a cooler & wetter pattern will return to the U.S. West, with partial relief amid record-low mountain snowpack - Weather West Record warm winter-to-date continues across most of the American West; already abysmal mountain snowpack dips to record low levels in many areas (except...higher elevations in southern Sierra!) Well, it sure has been a winter to remember thus far across the Western U.S. Astonishing, record-breaking warmth has pervaded nearly entire region (with few exceptions, though one

New Weather West update is out now! Some relief, at last, from recent record warmth and astonishing lack of Mountain West snow in the coming days as cooler/wetter pattern returns. But just how much relief should we expect? Read more:

Those who are Supposed to Die White America's ideas of normalcy and resistance reinforce twofold citizenship.

going insane watching people call Alex Pretti’s murder the second or third murder by ICE. going insane watching people claim ICE isn’t law enforcement and it’s bad messaging to name them as such. wake! tf! up!

fuller/more eloquent thoughts on this here:

open.substack.com/pub/cohen489...

Microsoft Outlook outage meant no email was sent at Stanford for most of the workday.

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Another day on the land. Thank you Pepperwood and the Good Fire Alliance!

Against the Flow: Spring Alewife Run | The Outside Story One of the most exciting rites of spring is the alewife run, an annual event where throngs of fish race upstream from the ocean to inland water… This content is available in the magazine only. Pleas...

A little catch-up on listservs and reading. I think often about the extent of pre-colonial biodiversity in New England, ever since reading Cronon. Loved this analogy of massive alewife and fish populations as part of a nutrient circulatory system.

northernwoodlands.org/outside_stor...

This Bay Area holiday tornado warning 😳

Mapped: Chances of a White Christmas Across the U.S. Which states have the best chance of a white Christmas? This map shows historic probabilities of 1 inch of snow on Dec. 25 across the U.S.

Looking for a snowy holiday? Check out the chances of getting at least one inch of snow within the next week! buff.ly/hJB8H8K

❄️ Latitude matters most for the possibility of snow! If you want the simplest rule of thumb, head north. 🧭🏔️

Amazing Learn & Burn at Pepperwood Preserve last weekend. Grateful for all the Good Fire Alliance does to connect us for these days on the land.

Playing loud ✨️Tom Waits✨️ in the office sort of day

Guest speaking for my colleague's class "Environmental Communication" was the highlight of my week. Students shared so much depth on their place of origin and commitment to justice-centeted work in their intros. The kids are alright.