I am grateful to Steve Manchester and Walter Judd for their naming a new plant species in my honor. 🌿🙏<i>Loxopteroides weeksae</i> gen. et sp. nov. (Anacardiaceae) samaras and associated foliage from the Eocene of western North America acpa.botany.pl/-Loxopteroides…

Case-example of why historical field notes are essential to biodiversity research: reconnecting Lena Artz specimens & label data after more than 70 years and 100 miles apart. These lost lambs will soon join their flock on #iDigBio & #GBIF as research infrastructure.

As field season ends, research moves back into the #herbarium full-time. Today, I am verifying dets for Matthew thesis work at Shenandoah River State Park, Virginia. Today, it is Comps 🌼 all the way down.

Comps have corms: Liatris spicata spends 1 to 2 years building up its underground resources to fund its spectacular floral display. Here are teenagers, ready for their next home.

Excited to announce my thesis defense Nov. 16 @ 2pm! Find out what my 2 years of field work & +790 collections at Shenandoah River State Park has contributed to our knowledge of plant distributions in Warren County, northern VA. This includes 66 county records & a state record!

Foraging wild persimmons (Diospyros virginiana) with Frankie means pitting my pretty good trichromatic primate vision against his far superior sense of smell. But ultimately, he gets them all because he is a very good boy.

Announcing a new Plants of Virginia #herbarium transcription expedition just in time for the dark days of Northern Hemisphere winter: Treasures of the VMIL Herbarium, an important historic collection from the Ridge & Valley. Join here: zooniverse.org/projects/md681… VA Master Naturalist

The Flora of Virginia Project, a 501c3 organization, is looking for its next Executive Director. Come help us keep the science current on the flora of the Commonwealth! linkedin.com/jobs/view/3370…

Curious about the science behind #copal, #frankincense & #myrrh this festive season? 🪵🌱 Join Andrea Weeks & I tomorrow 1 December at 12:00 PM EST in conversation w/ Susan Pell usbotanicgarden Free, but please register here bit.ly/3AWOGgz #PlantScienceConservations

Dr Gilda Barabino shares a quote, so evocative (which I am paraphrasing): 'who does science, influences what is science' . Science is not independent of society, nor of social stereotypes and the expectations that are rolled into those stereotypes Canadian Black Scientists Network #BESTEMM2023

Fantastic paper about bringing visibility to historically excluded people in #NaturalHistoryCollections and the power of Bionomia #Bionomia Let the records show: attribution of scientific credit in Natural History Collections | journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

Going to #Botany2023? Check out our NSF-sponsored #SISRIS workshop & symposium that will do a #Bionomia deep-dive and more! More details and application for July 23 AM workshop participation, in-person and online seats; stipends avail.: tinyurl.com/3jmaztfa Shawn Krosnick Deborah Paul

The SISRIS ASB workshop is live ASB! Deb Paul Deborah Paul walks us through how #Bionomia helps contemporary researchers advance science. github.com/aweeks3/SISRIS Shawn Krosnick @dpsSpiders Siobhan

Beyond excited about this new video about our campus Arboretum. This was something Erich and I worked hard on over the pandemic, and it is great to see it be celebrated & take root: youtube.com/watch?v=gcBYRc… College of Science Mason Biology

Knocking out research admin tasks today like: tenor.com/view/split-hul…

#DidYouKnow there’s a Plants and Fungi category in our competition? Explore the winning images this #InternationalPlantAppreciationDay – including Zhigang Li’s #WPY58 image that took years of searching to capture the flowering stems of noble rhubarb. bit.ly/WPY-PlantsAndF…

We are excited that our new paper, Let the Records Show: Attribution of Scientific Credit in Natural History Collections, is now online journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…. This work is in a special issue of International Journal of Plant Sciences dedicated to Vicki Funk.

Check out the article I wrote about the digitization efforts at the West Virginia Natural Heritage Program Herbarium on page 12!!!