I am looking to hire two seasonal field/laboratory technicians to join the lab working at the MSU Kellogg Biological Station and Main Campus. The primary work will be dedicated to our switchgrass program with potential to expand into other roles in the lab with time. careers.msu.edu/jobs/profess...

Professional Aide - East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Position Summary(Basic Job Function) This is a temporary or an on-call position. Provides professional support. Responsibilities may include general business, science, medical, agricultural or other p...

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I'm dreaming about a meadow garden for next year. I want it to be fluffy.. boneset, joe pye weed, mountain mint, blazing star, goldenrod, some northern sea oats and groundnut in there - maybe both purple and red monarda? Don't ask me where I'm finding the space

it's #weirdpoemwednesday apparently

📣 New York Botanical Garden is seeking a career-track Restoration Ecologist! 🥾 develop ext. funded, field-oriented, collections-informed, & collaborative research program 📨 Optimal consideration: Sep. 25 (open till filled) 📆 Start: Jan. 1, 2027 (negotiable) 🤑 $87.5k jobs.jobvite.com/nybg/job/o8s...

New York Botanical Garden is looking for Assistant Curator, Restoration Ecology.

New York Botanical Garden is looking for Assistant Curator, Restoration Ecology. Learn more or Jobvite a friend.

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Their contexts are different, but I hope Brattleboro is able to save the birth center, as Troy was.

Physicians for a Healthy Democracy@physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · last mo.

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Pleased to share my newest publication, 'Invasive plants are more abundant than native and introduced plants at home and abroad', out now in Biological Invasions. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Invasive plants are more abundant than native and introduced plants at home and abroad - Biological Invasions

Invasive plants are often observed and assumed to be locally abundant, which likely increases their ecological impacts. However, there are few macroscale comparisons of invasive versus non-invasive sp...

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Biologists, are we using the term "parent species" to describe the taxa encompassing a subspecies? Or is there another phrase which is more clear?

My landlords yard guy weedwhacked my Carolina lupine 😭

My mountain mint seems to be attracting mostly flies and a few black and white wasps (visitors I'm happy to see!). It seems like other people see a lot of bees and butterflies, but none on mine - it's not blooming super profusely though there are quite a few infloresences.

Somebody tell me not to acronymize my newest research product as NIPPL

This is a real question for journalism folks on here - why don't online news sites allow me to buy access to a single article? I close out of articles I'm interested in so often due to paywalls. Some of them I'd pay a couple bucks to read. But I just will not sign up for ongoing, 1/2

A couple minutes late to work because I stopped to admire some really lush purslane

Is it #weirdpoemWednesday? Here's one from a few years ago when I was writing daily fish poems. @tomsnarsky.bsky.social Click for full poem - a bit long for this format

REVIEW Native and Non‐Native Populations Respond Unevenly to River Barrier Removals 🔗 buff.ly/RLaCIm5

This morning, I thought "I don't need two breakfasts. I can just have one breakfast." And you know what? I was so wrong

On my morning walk I was startled by a cyclist stopping suddenly and shouting to his partner "Holy shit Rebecca! Look at that huge fucking sycamore tree!!" (our local ancient celebrity). He apologized for yelling but it was really delightful.

Never a bad time for this song, but this is an especially good one: sarinapartridge.bandcamp.com/track/i-drea...

I Dream of Water, by Sarina Partridge

track by Sarina Partridge

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At the pond yesterday, saw two big great blue herons flying and hanging out by the water with two littler great blue herons 😍

Various feelings about the new NYT piece on native plant gardening (positive and some negative) - but one complaint is that the author refers consistently to Doug Tallamy as "Tallamy" and to Cindy Tallamy as "Cindy". I double checked - she does indeed have a last name (like most women!)

Spent my walk this morning moving stranded freshwater mussels back into the water. Poor amazing little animals - I hope it rains soon

What a fucking joke to have to do my university's required Title IX training about complying with athletic regulations, this week of all weeks

New sci-comm blog post out, drawing on my background briefly working for "Big Dairy" as my friends like to say. Learn something about dairy cattle genetics! sci-stories.org/2026/07/01/i...

Is Milk Better Outside the US?

If cow's milk hurts your tummy— it might be time to try milk abroad— or try a new breed!

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Birthday of Czeslaw Milosz today. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49457/...

out-of-season poetry WIP #poetry

Typically I do a pretty good job managing my emotional state in regards to the biodiversity crisis but I found an emerald ash borer outside my house yesterday and I'm feeling a bit crushed about it to be honest

Today on my half-mile walk to the bus stop I stepped over five "ant wars" between pavement ant colonies. I saw four yesterday as well. They are most likely Tetramorium immigrans. This species is also parasitized by another ant species. It's a brutal time of year to be a pavement ant!

Come join us! Te Herenga Waka is looking for a senior academic to join our climate change teaching and research programme - apply by Monday 22 June.

Thrilled to share that @minecr.bsky.social and my paper on Ten simple rules for teaching data science is now available from @plos.org Computational Biology! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Ten simple rules for teaching data science

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My favorite scientific societies @ascbiology.bsky.social, @genetics-gsa.bsky.social & @socdevbio.bsky.social are already hard at work responding to the OMB proposals to undercut science funding. Ask your society to join them-good instructions are here elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

What We Need to do NEXT: OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB-2026-0034)

What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice

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'Stormborn', a linocut that I carved a few years ago 🤍🐾💙 - in celebration of #WorldOtterDay