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For over 20 years we've been spending billions a year to find a fix for the fertilizer pollution problem -- and none of it has moved the needle. Except in one spot in Indiana. Here's how their secrets to success: grist.org/food/how-do-we…

Smile -- the weekend is almost here! 😀🐢 Giant #tortoise © Ed Murdy

The fiery spike (Aphelandra aurantiaca) is native to Mexico & South America. #SciArt by Mary Barnas Pomeroy from her "Wildflowers & Landscapes of Ecuador", an unpublished manuscript released as an ebook by MO Botanical Garden via #BHLib ➡️ s.si.edu/3aSM3xm #HerNaturalHistory

We can’t 🐝-lieve it, but we’ve completed capture on our SmithsonianDPO mass digitization project with Smithsonian NMNH NMNH_Entomology! 18,162 Bombus and 11,862 Xylocopa specimens (30,024 in total) in just 7 weeks of production! Thanks to everyone on the team for their great work!

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¡Descubren nuevas especies en Galápagos! Un grupo de científicos ha encontrado cinco ecosistemas diferentes y 37 especies que serían nuevas para la ciencia. Mira el artículo completo aquí 👇 es.mongabay.com/2020/01/ecuado… via @mongabaylatam

Pinta Tortoise hybrids found on Isabela. Possibly Lonesome George descendants. galapagos.org/newsroom/Wolf-…

Incredibly upsetting news from a region that seemed to be on the verge of a conservation victory for the locals. I’ll be visiting these monarch sanctuaries tomorrow, more solemn than my visits before. npr.org/2020/02/03/802…

In March we welcomed nine newborn giant tortoises to the Galapagos Islands. To celebrate, we invite you to help name one of them by tweeting us your unisex suggestion.

The newborn Galapagos tortoises are on the move and they need a name! Help us name one of them by tweeting us your unisex name suggestions. #tortoise #galapagos #AnimalsAtHome

Great story about plant extinction in the The New York Times NYT Science and a huge shoutout to Wes Knapp @wmknapp. google.com/amp/s/www.nyti…

#ICYMI: Decades of #Galapagos tortoise research and conservation by GC science advisors James Gibbs & Linda Cayot, and GTRI director Wacho Tapia, have culminated in an amazing new book, 'Galapagos Giant Tortoises' -- available now! Details: bit.ly/2JuxqHz. 📷D. Downing

.MoBot Research Dept. is looking for a new herbarium manager (who will replace Jim Solomon). It’s a dream job for someone: in charge of one of the biggest herbaria in the world! And it’s a really important job too. #jobs #herbaria #CollectionsAreEssential us59.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePorta…

I’ve seen several recent stories in the press that seem to point to a coordinated attempt to portray Emily Murphy - ARCHIVED as some kind of unassuming, apolitical bureaucrat. My subcommittee oversees GSA. I know Admin Murphy. She is a Trump loyalist, through and through. Thread:

The new normal??

Born next week in '63, Araliaceae and Vitaceae evo botanist Jun Wen graduated from Huazhong Agricultural University and Ohio State. A curator at Smithsonian NMNH @Smithsonian, she has worked Field Museum, Arnold Arboretum Harvard University, and Colorado State University; and served with American Society of Plant Taxonomists and @IAPTGlobal.

Smuggler caught with nearly 1,000 cacti and succulents strapped to her body cnn.com/2021/02/04/asi…

More from the expedition to Alcedo Volcano: 8 individual tree ferns, thought to be extinct in the region, were discovered by the Giant Tortoise Restoration Initiative Team! Director Wacho Tapia captured these photos of this lush plant species (details: bit.ly/3aqxwcZ).

William Louis Stern (1926-2021). A personal and professional loss. Passed away Nov 1st. Smithsonian NMNH Yale University FLORIDA Univ. of Maryland @Illinois woodcollectors.org/william-l-ster…

Won’t change much except in my own heart and mind, but this is my last post on this platform. What’s happening is wrong. Peace all! #checkout