Do you live by or do field work in these areas highlighted in red? Have you seen any red-flowering Silene? I'm looking for collection help as my field collection plans this summer are not going to happen.🌺

When the pubs re-open, it doesn't mean the virus has gone away. It just means they have room for you in intensive care.

No one argues about the Krebs cycle on FB

What does a mask do? Blocks respiratory droplets coming from your mouth and throat. Two simple demos: First, I sneezed, sang, talked & coughed toward an agar culture plate with or without a mask. Bacteria colonies show where droplets landed. A mask blocks virtually all of them.

Found a frog living in my house this morning so it’s a safe space for almost everything [exemptions: mosquitoes and cockroaches]

Any organization that justifies bringing workers back into offices by touting their hand sanitizer and desk spacing is completely unserious. Show me your HEPA filters and ventilation system diagrams. Is your AC recirculated? Where is the air flow? What CO2 levels do you reach?

I’ve been thinking the same thing, and worrying about what this means for climate change.

Yasssss 🙌. Best pun. Best gif 😍

Same

Spot on

To be clear, if Black people did this, they'd have been shot dead.

Amidst the horrifying events of the day, we got some great news too. Take a moment to think about what House + WH + Senate control means for critical issues like climate change, racial justice, health care, SCIENCE in general, and the list goes on and on.

I have a publication on this topic! Can't take the heat: Temperature-enhanced toxicity in the #mayfly Isonychia bicolor exposed to the #neonicotinoid insecticide imidacloprid --> pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27471044/

JOB ALERT! 🐟🐠🐡 The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences will soon be hiring an Ichthyology Research Curator. The job hasn’t yet been posted, but when it does things are going to move quickly. So keep your 👀 open. I’ll post again w/ the details as soon as it goes live.

I'm recruiting for a PhD student to work on questions at the interface of community and ecosystem ecology using insect communities! I will work with the student to come up with an exciting PhD dissertation topic suited to their interests!

The application deadline is in 1 week for this FREE program! Other participating This account is no longer active institutes/centers include NINDSfunding @NCIsbir Niel NINR @NICHD_NIH @NHLBI_SBIR NCATS @NIA_SBIR NIAAA News

I barely recognize this website (I also used to use tweetdeck so I'm pretty disoriented), but wanted to share where my nature and art-related ponderings are now (Substack!):