Thomas Winfield Marie

Asemic lines of text in three colors on pulpy paper. One of the Passages by Annalisa Retico.

Passages, a new asemic series from Annalisa Retico. View all six in the new issue of petrichor.
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Deah, we talked about your rebuttal paper in the invasion ecology class I'm teaching this fall. Thanks for sharing this interesting article.

and/or are feds 🙃

This happened to me recently (at the same time as my laptop) and it was a nightmare. My university IT dept. was like, "well, you can log back in when you get a new phone!" 😦

These are really lovely!!

Can we eat our way out of biological invasions? Eating invasive species might be one way to reduce their populations. Does it work?

New post on the That's Life [Science] Blog about eating invasive species. Have you done it? What did you think? sci-stories.org/2025/09/29/c...

I've been finding and moving a few of these off a bike path near me. They are mighty hard to spot on wet pavement. But so cute!

TWM Nuhfer Personal website of Thomas Winfield Marie Nuhfer - PhD candidate at University of Massachusetts, Amherst

I just brushed up my professional website and added some visual art - check it out: thomaswmnuhfer.carrd.co

Any illustrated chapbook presses out there? #poetry #poetrycommunity

BTW, at my Walgreens, this combo without insurance is more than $370. Losing insurance coverage would be functionally the same as banning the vaccines for most people.

I got my COVID and flu shots on Saturday. Very grateful to be living in MA where these vaccines are available and covered by insurance. But dang, this year's vaccines walloped me good! It was my first time having any kind of reaction. Feeling better now though.

#smallpoemsunday

For the Faint of Heart When you return from the asylum be sure to gaze at the trees covered in snow. When the train enters the tunnel ask the waiter for tea with milk. When in darkness take seriously the lesson of fluttering hands. If it is offered take the class they call Ornithography for it will teach you something about love. On the subject of love I have only a single observation— if you love a grapefruit, you cut it open and eat its flesh. Take my advice. Take it home to your husband or wife. Slip into bed. Turn off the lights.

On the subject of love / I have only a single observation— / if you love a grapefruit, you cut it open // and eat its flesh.

Ben Mirov

I'm not sure that I even understand my work or why it is important to me.... 🥲

This is actually almost entirely quantitative, but laid out in chunks of text rather than a consistently structured format. I have some ideas about testing/ensuring accuracy, but feeling torn about using the tech with it's flaws vs. manual data entry (not likely possible/supported for this project)

Hesitant to ask, but any scientists who have used LLMs for analyzing & encoding text data? Particularly if you have qualms about how this tech is used/created/proliferating? Facing down this possibility for a project I would be first-authoring, and not sure how I feel about it. Feel free to PM!!

Javid's Iranian Almond: a cold hardy tree for the Northeast & Midwest Javid's Iranian almond is cold hardy down to zone 5 (or zone 4 with winter protection). It's late blooming, self fertile, and tastes like amaretto.

I don't know if this is your jam, but just learned there are cold hardy almonds you can grow in the US NE and Midwest (I think you're in the Midwest?). A friend grows in NH and her trees produce nuts, her only problem is bears. It's called Javid's Iranian Almond: askthefoodgeek.com/javids-irani...

Where knotweed is invasive, its impacts can be really ecologically devestating. For instance, it contributes to extreme flooding events by destabilizing riverbank soil... this harms those most vulnerable to climate change including threatened species. Why take it out on them? I don't get it.

Sea weeds

Moorhen babies

Lords and ladies

A few more water colours for my open studio sale

Love love love these especially the seaweeds!!

The Everlasting Self

Comes in from a downpour
Shaking water in every direction—
A collaborative condition:
Gathered, shed, spread, then
Forgotten, reabsorbed. Like love
From a lifetime ago, and mud
A dog has tracked across the floor.

Tracy K. Smith

Aren't you glad you had someone to handle your work while you were away, though?

It's never happened to me personally - but particularly for ground level berries there is some risk from animal waste if not washed. Feel better and stay hydrated!!

You'll hear a lot about the "lag phase" and the "log phase" of biological invasions. But almost no one will tell you about the much scarier and weirder "hag phase" and following "hog phase".

digital paint study

Natural Causes, by Thomas Winfield Marie Nuhfer Poetry, chapbook, 44 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Natural Causes is a debut collection of 24 poems exploring ecological rhythms of masting, disturbance, molting, and migration. These poems move bet...

Beyond excited to share my first chapbook, Natural Causes, published by Bottlecap Press. These poems are about climate grief, shapeshifting, ecological resilience, & the ceaseless moving & returning of living things. I'm so proud of this - I hope you ❤️ it. Purchase: bottlecap.press/products/cau...

Ever since Enkidu died I haven't been able to think about anything else

Puerto Ricans are devising the food system of tomorrow Following a history of disinvestment and destructive climate disasters, communities across the archipelago are developing living blueprints of food sovereignty.

"These projects aren’t just temporary disaster responses. They are models of long-term resilience and food independence. They are living blueprints of what food sovereignty could look like in Puerto Rico — and elsewhere."

grist.org/food-and-agr...

On a lighter note I know what you mean. For a while I habitually avoided baby talk with my cats because it isn't helpful for developing language skills (for children). Then I remembered they would never ever learn to speak regardless of how I talk to them. 😆 Different lives & needs than ours!

A lot of people don't realize that the danger of skipping the rabies vax is twofold - the risk of your pet contracting rabies (fatal) and the risk of your unvaccinated pet being suspected to potentially have rabies (can also be fatal)