Thomas Winfield Marie

IDK if I've tried but I've definitely done it, lol!

Assistant Professor position in Traditional Ecological Knowledge at Stanford University. Applications due Sept 30, 2025

facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

Biking to work in the smoke today felt like biking just after a workout or illness :( it's really been exacerbating my headaches too.

Thanks for letting me know! I will look into that and make sure it's still on it's way to you...

Pee-cycling: Careers in Science Part 1 Turning urine into fertilizer - yes, it's a real job! And it might just help save the world.

sci-stories.org/2025/08/04/p... Just wrote up this blog post - a fun interview with a friend who works in urine recycling for agriculture!

Cover image of Natural Causes by Thomas Winfield Marie Nuhfer. A woodcut illustration of an ash branch obscuring a swallow in flight on a sage green background.

Y'all won't stop hearing about my new eco-poetry chapbook at Bottlecap Press! bottlecap.press/products/cau.... It's got seeds! Abundance! Disturbance! Grief! Bewilderment! Fish! That's basically everything! #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #writingsky #bottlecappress #chapbooks

but on the bright side my wife is home!!!!

My wife's flight was delayed 2 hours so got home at 3AM after picking her up. At work on time this morning. Spent five minutes standing outside my office thinking I had left my keys before realizing I actually just put them in my bag. I have a feeling my writing today will be excellent and coherent.

I need your tips for this. I bike almost all the year in MA, save for ice and rain. I will concede to the ice but would like to bike in the rain. Can't figure out how to not show up to work soaking wet. Gear recs? I'm out for about an hour so if it's a little wet I'll get a lot wet.

It seems like the spring/early summer rain has also resulted in a boom in mosquitoes and blackflies. Hopefully it all means a good year for birds, at least?

THEY'RE SAYING NOW THAT FEATHERS ARE MOSTLY LIGHT, THAT WINGS ARE MOSTLY NOT THERE But sometimes it's warm enough for the neighbor to stand in the field and brush out her horse's tail. She knows the sun slips through it. The horse, two-toned, is losing a winter coat, the day a world slipping through its own hands. Dusk will lead them out to a road that leads out of town, and she'll teach it how to walk this way, through shadow.

Jill Osier ♥️

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Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt

Rent Control Hearing + Rally NEXT TUESDAY!
Rally: 11:30 AM | MA State House📍
Hearing: 1 PM
It’s time to cap these sky-high rents & real estate greed in MA! COME OUT & testify in support of bill S.1447 / H.2328! 📣 RSVP Here: bit.ly/ma-rentcontrol
#MaPoli #BosPoli #RentControlMA

Do you know of any options for virtual participation? Out here in Western MA, can't get to Boston for the rally & hearing - but we need rent control badly!

NEW DOCTORAL RESEARCH ALERT: Please consider participating and spreading the word about this research on climate justice and migration being conducted by my doctoral student, Chetna Khandelwal @chetkay.bsky.social.

This sounds so fun.. wish I was closer! you had me at soft pretzels

Thanks Allison! You were always a great teacher. I'm sure I will have fun with it - that's good to remember!

Thanks, this is amazing!

If you have any pedagogical resources/tips for new instructors (relating to time in class, grading, or just staying organized) please share!

I will have 30 students - my very largest undergrad classes were about 10 and under a very different pedagogical model. I feel like I'm jumping in the deep end a bit with group work, presentations, exams, lectures, research components, etc. I have only TAd a lab (once!) and feeling my inexperience

preparing to be instructor of record for a university class this fall and feeling very intimidated 😭 in part because not only have I never taught adults, but also because I've never really taken a class like this (I'm not developing the course material/structure at least, just tweaking it)

The eel hearing "eel stuffed with meat" 😃😃😃 vs. the eel reading the whole recipe 😨😨😨

Death

I take you as I take the moon rising.
Darkness, black moth the light burns up in.

Charles Wright

Image courtesy @tomsnarsky.bsky.social‬

Terrible the Train that takes me to the bluebonnet fields of my childhood. Every day I go and gather a grip of flowers. But by the time I come back to you they’ve wilted into three deep sighs.

here's a little unpublished poem of mine that's been moored in my drafts file for a few years

Bizarre and racist 😣

Can you imagine pouring in the time, carrying people's desperate stories, under these circumstances, often with your own family at risk, to be called fake because... what, Palestinians don't use Tumblr or buy food or whatever dehumanizing nonsense is used to paint all Gazans as scammers?

Also there are many Gazans & Palestinians living outside Palestine (& some allies as well) who are pouring huge amounts of uncompensated time into validating/vetting fundraisers, translating for others, sharing fundraisers and sharing tips on how/where to fundraise

Sounds like there's at least free fungus, which is better than the benefits at my last daycare job so 🤷‍♂️

So cool. This is giving me FOMO. I want to work at the fungus beetle nursery.