Check out this herbarium specimen gallery of plant genera named after notable women in this Hand Lens piece "Women in Genera": brnw.ch/wig 📜🌿 #NYBGscience

Want to go help look for cream-filled cicadas? Yes, you do.

Ah, the sweet irony of planning all week to set aside a few hours this afternoon to hang out alone and play video games (my perfect Friday afternoon), then realizing just now that I can’t, because I have to go to a Mother’s Day tea party at my kids’ daycare.

I’m on the Brave New Girl podcast today talking about career changes and how you can see past the “green blur” to get to know and care about the plants around you. 🌿 bravenewgirlmedia.com/resources/insp…

Dried plants are more cutting edge than you may have imagined.

If you happen to be in Guelph this Saturday and want to hear me talk plants, fieldwork, and women in STEM, I’ll be at The Bookshelf! The Bookshelf Guelph Arts Council University of Guelph Alumni UofG Arboretum

Had a great time at The Bookshelf in Guelph this past weekend talking biodiversity, citizen science, and women in STEM. Thanks to everyone who came out! The Bookshelf

97% of the best scientists in the world are men, apparently research.com/scientists-ran…

My PhD advisor, Dr. Anne Bruneau, is a legume systematist who’d have fit in nicely on this list. I love that it’s broken down by career stage, so we can see that people can do good work at any point in their career.

Maths isn't the problem. The problem is thinking that the value of a scientist can be measured in any way by their citations.

Leiden (L) herbarium (formerly known as the Rijksherbarium), was established in 1829, and is now united into Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, the Botany Department of Naturalis Biodiversity Center, is one of the largest herbaria in the world with c. 5.5 million specimens.

I’m in Terrain today talking natural history & mothers in science! 🌿

Me scrolling my very American Twitter feed today.

My husband has a number of elderly patients who periodically bring him homemade food as thank you gifts. This tends to benefit me more than anyone. Today I’m appreciating a new patient who happens to be excellent at making samosas.

PSA: Per my unintentional experiment, Asplenium ‘Crispy Wave’ ferns prefer a north-facing window, not a west-facing one.

The latest issue of my botany & evolution newsletter is now out! In this issue: a new family tree for flowering plants, the importance of root specimens, historical taxonomy rivalries, and an excerpt from my book.🌿 mailchi.mp/5951719a5337/a…

The crossover I didn’t know I needed. 🍄

On this day when you surely have nothing else to pay attention to on the internet, I offer this latest issue of my botany & evolution newsletter. Now with extra anti-racist taxonomy. 🌿 mailchi.mp/60c68fefb29e/a…