Thomas Winfield Marie

Are you an relatively new to field ecology and data collection? Or are are you supervising students? Our guide for effective field data collection is now published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! We also include a printable poster with a visual overview of the guide
doi.org/10.1111/2041...

I love this book but it is pretty brutal towards the end. I was surprised to learn recently that the Arecibo Telescope/Observatory where the story begins has been shut down in recent years.

I remember being sooo mad in early college being told to use/learn R for a stats course, because I wasn't going to be a statistician and so I would never use it again and it was a waste of time. 🙃.... I use R every single day. Didn't email the professor at least though thank god

These are incredible!

I don't know, but I think a lot of people are really hoping that police (or domestic military) will protect us physically from ICE and be armed/equipped enough to do so (even though it's not happening). More pleasant than thinking about many militarized groups on the same side and it's not yours 😬

A relative of mine works in an ER in MN and had a patient who hesitated to bring in her toddler because of ICE violence in the area, and the child died due to the delayed care. It is so horrible and heartbreaking. That poor mother.

Elevated houses on a stormy coast, with the large text "postdoc, coastal adaptation governance, first review Feb 1".

🌊📊 #Postdoc opening: Coastal Adaptation Governance

Research + practitioner partnerships. Interdisciplinary. Decisions, policies, ethics. First review Feb 1

careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

#adaptation #resilience #academicjobs

I haven't noticed this at my grocery store, which is largely imported produce, but my local CSA had some smaller produce due to climate/disease factors this year. Some of the biggest beets I've ever seen in my life, though.

Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.

"Low-lift national targets are mostly public-facing companies with relatively small ICE contracts that are set to expire soon, making them particularly vulnerable to consumer and employee pressure."
www.laborpolitics.com/p/want-to-st...

And with that, Good Night! 🌌🙈😴

I have to say I don't really understand the bakery quitting fantasy trope in academia/PhDs. When I feel like quitting my PhD I talk myself out of it by remembering how much I don't want to work in food service/retail with 4 AM shift starts, no climate control, and heavy lifting again.

Trey is a long-time teacher and friend of mine with a wealth of knowledge, and I'm really looking forwards to this inclusive Heathenry workshop series. Want to join me?

This article talks about one of my projects (a database of current and emerging invasive plants across the Northeast)!

It really is. Now the house is all ready for seen & living visitors as well!

Cleaning and preparing for Mother's Night is a lot of work but waking up in clean sheets to a clean house with cheese and bread and fruit and roast chestnuts already laid out for breakfast is definitely worth it.

Maybe it should be the only way to do peer review!

I know many things are awful but here is one genuinely useful and helpful thing you can do. No matter their party, your representative needs to hear that trans people and our families are not alone and this bill is an unjustifiable and extreme threat to criminalize the health care we need to live.

I've been quite sick since Thursday evening (maybe the flu?) though I think I'm turning a corner. In the meantime, it turns out you can do peer review from the bath. Thank goodness.

I took down all the figures & tables from my bulletin board at work. Put up 20 favorite poems, a picture of ash trees, and the card one of my little daycare children wrote me when I left, wishing me luck. I need some periodic reorientation. My dyplr cheatsheet did stay up though. I need that to live

Early-career trans researchers reconsider their futures amid lost funding and fear The chaos created by the freezing and termination of billions of dollars of research grants has left trans academics especially vulnerable.

#AcadLife #SOGIData #LGBTDemography #GenderStudies #translivesmatter

A quick painting of a red throated loon in breeding plumage looking up and to the left,of course.

Wet birds looking up seems to be my default go-to when I need to kill 30 minutes.
#birdart #sciart #birds

A love poem. We need them more than ever as the disciples of hate seize power. From The August Rain. #Poetry

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...

My chapbook is still for sale at Bottlecap Press (and people seem to like it!). Shipping is a bit slow, so if you want it in time for the holidays and you are local to Western Mass, you can pick up a copy or three at Broadside Books in Northampton.

bottlecap.press/products/cau...

If we fill in the oceans with loam there will be much more room for soybeans 👍👍👍

A liquid moon
moves gently among
the long branches.
Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in the cold.

William Carlos Williams, Winter Trees

Storm The wanderer suddenly comes upon the huge ancient oak, like a petrified elk whose crown spans miles before the murky green stronghold of the September sea. Northern storm. The time when the rowanberry clusters ripen. Awake in the dark, you hear the constellations stamping in their stalls high above the trees.

Read 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝗺𝗼's @danielnemo.bsky.social new translation of 𝑨𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒎𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑨𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒑𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒈𝒐 by Tomas Tranströmer, the second poem of his first book, 17 𝑷𝙤𝒆𝙢𝒔 (1954).

hataaliinotes.substack.com/p/autumnal-archipelago

#poetry #poetrycommunity #translation #Swedish #Transtromer

Also I really like “Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia”, which I wouldn't say is dense theory but it is a bit more of an academic style historical approach, certainly information-dense.

I haven't read her books, but I think Virginia Sole Smith does this well in her podcasts, personally!

Thanks! Did you initiate imaging or did your doctor?

I keep re-injuring my neck and it is clearly not really healing- when it's flared up doctors have just given me more acetaminophen or occasionally steroids, and I'm not sure if I should push for some kind of imaging. It's making it painful and difficult to commute, work, sleep...