Chelsey Geralda Armstrong

YouTube video by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew The Wardian Case: Unboxing the history of plant transportation | Dig Deeper S1 Ep9 | Kew

The Wardian Case was an invention that changed the world, but how? 🤔

Join our Economic Botany Collections Manager and Assistant Archivist in exploring the history of plant transportation and the box that made it possible 📽️👇

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Historic manioc genomes illuminate maintenance of diversity under long-lived clonal cultivation Manioc—also called cassava and yuca—is among the world’s most important crops, originating in South America in the early Holocene. Domestication for its starchy roots involved a near-total shift from ...

Incredible new research in #Science about the genomic landscape of #manioc (casava, yuca) and Indigenous cultivation & selection: kinship maintained over long distances, high genetic diversity, a continental gene pool shaped and maintained by people over millennia.
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America is burning. Meanwhile #Swinomish Tribe's wetland stewardship tool is outshining mainstream assessment models.

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Attention archaeologists! New book out from UBC press on meaningful practices from a guy that knows what that means!

YouTube video by CNN Canadian MP fires back after Trump says he wants Canada to be 51st state

Charlie Angus on Trump: "This isn’t gunboat diplomacy. This is Al Capone during his syphilitic period trying to do a shakedown.”

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National Science Foundation freezes grant review in response to Trump executive orders The National Science Foundation has canceled all grant review panels this week. It's unclear how long the pause could last.

NSF review panels cancelled at the last minute today. Devastating for colleagues in US and makes me question what a Polievre govt would do to Tri-Council

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Colonial management drives ecological change following the exclusion of Indigenous stewardship in a Stoney Iyethka montane grassland, Canadian Rocky Mountains Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

New research out of the Canadian Rockies!

Colonial management of Egnuck Wida montane grasslands decreased 4-fold (b/w 1924 and 2021) w/ greater losses in crown-managed lands than lands under Stoney Iyethka stewardship

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A still from the Tom Thomson Centennial Swim in which I swam the length of Canoe Lake on the centenary of Tom Thomson’s death. I was accompanied by a brass ensemble in canoes and a synchronized swimming squad who met up with me at several points along the swim. #contemporaryart #art #videoart

Wildflowers of Palestine. 1882 edition by Harvey B. Tristam and illustrated by Hulda Klager 🇵🇸🌿

#Palestine #Botanical #Herbarium

Marshmallow (Althaea officinalis)

Black elderberry (Sambucus nigra)

Currently off-vibing, nursing a throat virus with two epic plant people: marshmallow (wow!) and black elderberry (damn!).

Health products aren't regulated in Canada, so if you can find these from a local harvester you'll know you're in for some serious healing powers.

#ethnobotany #ethnoecology

The 12,000-Year-Old Wolves That Ate Like Dogs Animal remains unearthed in Alaska give clues to how wolves were domesticated.

'To the Dene people, who've lived in Alaska & NW Canada for centuries, debate over canine origins is in danger of missing a bigger point.
“The idea of dogs is a very specific, modern, Western concept,”...For Indigenous ppl, dogs functioned as partners in survival, allies on a harsh landscape.' 🏺🧪🐺🐕

“…any numerical probability…is not an objective property of the world, but a construction based on personal or collective judgements &(often doubtful) assumptions… , it is not even estimating some underlying ‘true’ quantity. Probability, indeed, can only rarely be said to ‘exist’ at all” 🧪

It might be a trick question. Once humans are considered components of a system (e.g., forest gardens, fire-adapted grasslands, etc.) than most folks are behooved to call it natural. But yah, Indigenous peoples are keystones for many systems, today and in the pat.

St. Louis was once Mound City. Its Native American residents still feel erased During a span of 71 years, most of the mounds in St. Louis left by Indigenous people from centuries earlier — some of which contained the remains of ancestors — were destroyed to make way for urban de...

in a "span of 71 years, most of the mounds left by Indigenous people from centuries earlier — which led to St. Louis being dubbed Mound City — were destroyed to make way for urban development. Some of these mounds contained ancestors of the Osage Nation and other tribes

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More. Of. This.

Why has B.C. used glyphosate to kill aspen, a fire guard, for decades? | The Narwhal The NDP promised to phase out glyphosate from forestry but decades of spraying has taken a toll

"But for industry, the money is in conifers."

@thenarwhal.ca covers how BC forestry goes to great lengths, including compromising collective human-biotic health, to speed up the establishment of conifer plantations.

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#BritishColumbia #Forestry #Glyphosate

#Genetic evidence supports long-distance transplanting and cultivation of #hazelnut by Ts'msyen, Nisga'a, and Gitxsan, starting roughly 7000 years ago. Linguistic indices enhanced the explanatory power of the genetic data. #BritishColumbia #HistoricalEcology

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