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Dr. Erin Zimmerman 🇨🇦

@doctorzedd.bsky.social

Evolutionary biologist, science writer, illustrator, big geek. Really into plants.🌿 Author of UNROOTED: Botany, Motherhood, & the Fight to Save an Old Science #botany #womeninstem #iamabotanist > GenAI is theft. <

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Dr. Erin Zimmerman 🇨🇦@doctorzedd.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’ve been casually following news about these guys since I read Douglas Adams’ Last Chance to See as a teenager, and this makes me so happy.

Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Kākāpō numbers pass 300 for the first time in 75 years. New Zealand’s flightless, nocturnal parrot now totals 325 birds, after a record 90 chicks fledged this season, built on the Department of Conservation’s recovery programme, which started with just 51 birds in 1995. DOC buff.ly/7YIOBd9

Jimmy Thomson@jameswsthomson.com · 2w ago

Investigative journalism is hard! It's expensive! It's legally risky and almost never pays off financially! And yet somehow these business bro bottom feeding dipshit motherfuckers have found a way to make the whole situation worse.

jon christian@jonchristian.net · 2w ago

But that pales in comparison to the fake journalists that BBM created, which it used to commit bold acts of plagiarism and fabulism, including an "investigation" of the recycling system that was completely ripped off from real work by local journalists at a local CBS station

BBM has also created fake journalists, using them to commit bold acts of plagiarism and fabulism. Consider an “investigation” about the recycling system in Los Angeles, attributed to another fake author named “Jordan Cooper” — depicted as a tattooed “pop-culture writer and vegan-snack reviewer with roots in music blogging” — and published this past February by VegOut, a vegan news and recipes site owned by BBM that pulls in an estimated 13.3 million page views per month. In the piece, the Cooper persona claimed to have “bought a four-pack of Apple AirTags, super-glued them inside plastic containers, and sent them on their journey through America’s recycling system,” writing that “what I discovered over the next month made me question everything I thought I knew about those little triangular arrows.”
Dr. Erin Zimmerman 🇨🇦@doctorzedd.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m writing about the Devonian right now, and all the changes that followed plants moving to land, and I couldn’t agree more. This planet has been home to a series of shockingly different worlds. It’s scary how much it transforms over time. 🧪🌾

Paige Madison@fossilhistory.bsky.social · 2w ago

I keep thinking about something Hank said in this vid: “The world feels like this stable thing - it's not. There have been so many Earths. You zoom out - the history of the Earth becomes a sequence of impossible worlds. Each of them separated by events whose consequences lasted billions of years.” 🧪

Dr. Erin Zimmerman 🇨🇦@doctorzedd.bsky.social · 6mo ago

So excited to be talking about women in botany at this year’s Canadian Botanical Association conference! 🧪 #womeninstem

Canadian Botanical Association/L'Association Botanique du Canada@cba-abc.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Registration is now open for the 2026 Canadian Botanical Association annual conference! June 2-5 at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario. Full details at the conference website: site.pheedloop.com/e... #cba2026 #botany

A colourful poster: The Canadian Botanical Association Conference Ottawa 2026 Supporting Diversity in All its Forms Soutenir la diversité sous toutes ses formes June 2-5, Carleton University Featured Speakers: Herbaria: The foundation of botanical science -- Kathleen Pryer The changing roles of women in plant science -- Erin Zimmerman Flora of the Ottawa Valley -- Dan Brunton National Collections Tour The Canadian Museum of Nature's Natural Heritage Campus in Aylmer Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Saunders Herbarium Field Trips Burnt Lands Alvar -- Holly Bickerton Rare Plants of the Pontiac -- Étienne Léveillé-Bourret Mer Bleue Bog -- Sarah Mainguy Gatineau Park, Pink Lake -- Park Staff Registration Early-bird prices until April 15 (member/non-member) Students $250 / $300 Regular $500 / $600 Remote $50 / $70 Abstract Deadline March 31 Registration, abstract submission, and additional information: site.pheedloop.com/event/CBAABC2026
Alaina Wood@thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 8mo ago

In the era of deregulation, it's nice to have a reminder that environmental regulation really does work. I'll be using this little piece of hope as motiviation to fight back against all this deregulation, and I hope you do the same.

Lower levels of PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ in North Atlantic whales show regulations work: Study

North Atlantic long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas) now have 60% lower concentrations of some legacy PFAS than they did a decade ago, offering rare good news about the effectiveness of chemic...

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Josie Glausiusz@josiegz.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Today is #WorldCancerDay, so I'm resharing my essay for @statnews.com on the Trump admin’s cruel disbanding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium. My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. This research would have helped children like him www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/p...

The Trump admin’s cruel disbanding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium

My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. The defunding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium will deny treatments to children like him.

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Jacquelyn Gill@jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Science is hard, even when you love it. And as much as I love it, it also takes a lot. We make sacrifices. Family. Physical and mental health. Financial security. Most of my colleagues went into STEM as an act of love. Love for people, for places, for the cosmos, for a planet we all share.

Tove Danovich@tkdano.bsky.social · 8mo ago

“Between postal delays, weather events, and the fact that these are day-old animals, it’s likely that at least tens of thousands of these baby birds will die before reaching their intended destination.” My latest for @cogwbur.bsky.social www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

Let's stop shipping baby chickens in the mail

"The practice of shipping chicks through the mail began in 1918 with the promise that chicks would only be shipped if they could reach their destination within 72 hours," writes Tove Danovich. "That i...

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Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 8mo ago

What happens in the rapidly warming Arctic does not stay in the Arctic ... New study: Arctic warming delays the African and Asian monsoon retreats, amplifying autumn rainfall [and causing extreme floods] #climatecrisis HT @carbonbrief.org iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Arctic warming delays the Afro-Asian monsoon retreat amplifying autumn rainfall

Arctic warming delays the Afro-Asian monsoon retreat amplifying autumn rainfall, Zhang, Jie, Chen, Haishan, Ma, Weiqiang, Riaz, Rafi, Syed, Sidra, Ullah, Irfan, Shen, Jiayu

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Virginia Gewin@virginiagewin.bsky.social · 8mo ago

“The speed, the scope and the severity of the attacks on science are beyond anything we’ve ever seen,” says @gretchentg.bsky.social. My @nature.com story on the human toll of the 2nd Trump presidency. Thx to @dochfroehlich.bsky.social, @briannosek.bsky.social, @katharinehayhoe.com & others.

‘Shattered’: US scientists speak out about how Trump policies disrupted their careers

Researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House.

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Greg Priest@gregpriest.bsky.social · 9mo ago

OTD 1908 Willhelm Weinberg gave a talk to the Society for the Natural History of the Fatherland in Württemberg giving the population genetics equations GH Hardy would independently publish 5 months later. It was 35 years before his work was recognized in the Anglophone world. 🐋🌱🥢🧪 #EvoBio #HistSTM

Photo of Weinberg. Photographer unknown.