Steph likes native plants

The last of our 3000+ Jeffrey pine seedlings for a long-term experiment testing plantation style versus cluster style plantings got in the ground over the weekend!

Raise your hand if you are an Arab scientist. 👋🏽 I say this with all the disrespect intended. Fuck you.

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

Happy first fire of the season to all who celebrate

More in the piece, which I hope you read. But a key thing to remember is that while Trump is expanding automation in ways that align with the interests of the rich, he is making automation harder for safety net programs like Medicaid. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/automating...

Get your mail-in ballots in the mail my friends!!!

Incredible if predictable betrayal of public trust: you have industry lobbyists become appointees, exploit unitary executive theory to undermine environmental laws and ride roughshod over staff.

Telling a woman to shut up when she’s asking about the attack ad you’ve backed calling a pedophilia victim a loser is like a turducken pf misogyny

I've gotten into arguments with ecologists here and elsewhere about the contribution of human land management to biodiversity and ecosystem function. Many people believe that people=bad news, I think the story is much more complicated, and this new paper provides strong support for my view

Rather the finding is that biodiverse landscapes of the past were shaped by humans in ways that were beneficial. Or in other words, human activities aren't in and of themselves harmful to nature, rather they depend on the specifics of the scale of the activity and its relation to natural processes.

Picked the wrong 10 minute window to bike in without rain pants 🤣

"The Department of Earth Sciences at Montana State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Geography specializing in global change, risk, and resilience and the human dimensions of environmental hazards."

Please share! Our department has two tenure-track job ads up today. Here is the #botany job, with an open mind towards multiple subdisciplines. Fantastic facilities, perfect-sized institution, easy living. Come work here! bsu.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job... @botsocamerica.bsky.social

Today, while protecting Palestinians, Brad Lander & a group of American rabbis & others were taken by the IDF. Releasing Brad isn't enough, the Israeli govt must release them all.   If this is how they treat Americans, imagine how they treat Palestinians. Trump & Rubio's silence fuels this impunity.

One thing I can't get over is that the cycle tracks hardly affect drivers at all: travel times and parking are only marginally different and they still get their pointless removal wish granted. They saved lives and doubled cycling and it just doesn't matter. www.toronto.ca/wp-content/u...

I have eaten the candy I bought At CVS And which I was planning To give out On Halloween Forgive me There’s an election So bleak And so close

Some of my thoughts about the surge in AI-generated papers, why this feels like a completely new kind of problem, and what this means for how we evaluate science in biology. Out now in PLOS Biology: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

First and second truck have left. LFG🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Here is what Ford wants to rip out. In a city stuck in debilitating gridlock, nothing better than removing bike lanes and getting more people driving. 🙌🙌

This is slightly out of my normal lane, and I could charge six (hell maybe seven) figure to deliver this message as a consultant, but I’m gonna do it for free. Because I’m ✨enraged✨ People in the think tank/policy/inside the beltway DC world have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE how mad people are abt Cornell. 🧵

Garden is done for the year, so sad! It’s about time to hibernate, my friends.

Our past MS student got MINOR REVISIONS on her first ever, first-authored MS, and a bunch of us had to explain to her exactly how awesome that is! I'm always a major revisions gal 😂😭 Congratulations Rosa!!! bsky.app/profile/dend...

Post-lunch hackysack. Gonna miss the seasonal crew.

Digging out an academic talk from 14 years ago is a mind-jarring experience.

Supreme Court to decide whether DOGE records can remain secret politi.co/3UqI86C

listen i won’t shed a single tear for kim or any of the women who work for trump, but it remains interesting that only the women in his orbit suffer consequences for being pieces of shit

If you support livestreamed executions, you may just be a fascist. This is fascism. This is evil. It CANNOT be allowed.

I’ll never forget going to see Devils Tower on an 80s station wagon family roadtrip because my father was obsessed with Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Check out our new paper led by former PhD student Kelly Loria in which we observed >90% reduction in mountain stream ecosystem metabolism from a drought year to one of the wettest water years on record in the northern Sierra Nevada mountains! Part of our UNR Tahoe Environmental Observatory Network

Please find 5 minutes today to draft your response to this drastic change in NIH Peer review. The deadline is October 13. I pasted my own response below as an example--please share widely 🧪

I don't think privatization is the answer. Weather data such as this needs to be publicly available and free. The answer is this administration shouldn't have gutted NOAA's budget with the horrible DOGE cuts.

No words just tomatoes (and a few peppers)

It’s like that thing where men make laws about women’s bodies.

Less than 1% of major party nominees for Congress are working class. It is one of the most fundamental ways that Congress is not representative. And their views, e.g. on unregulated gambling websites, are apt to be different. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

I was made to understand these people would be on Mars by now.