@weedsciencenerd.bsky.social
Connor Purvis, PhD student with Erin Burns studies resistance in johnsongrass…you may find him in the greenhouse or in any patch of jgrass btw here & SC collecting seed :) I appreciate his willingness to help in CSS126 with grading & stepping into a turf section of lab, you’re a life saver! #gogreen
10.04.2025 00:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s grad student appreciation week and I’ve had some awesome TAs for my weed science lab. So…thanks to Jacob Felsman, a PhD student working on cover crops in dry beans…so we have that in common + we’re both Big10 marching band alums! I am grateful for all of his help this past fall!
09.04.2025 00:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
More waterhemp dose response spraying, but today I’m sporting the Crop Top I won in the Women in Weed Science raffle at WSSA from @corteva because we’re all doing our jobs to keep the crops on top of weeds 🙃
28.03.2025 00:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dose response testing for these unlucky waterhemp (Amaranthus tubercularus)….stay tuned for what’s new to MI :/
25.03.2025 19:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We had a great turn out for our North Central Plant Diagnostic Network meeting!! @msu_psm
11.03.2025 00:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy International Women’s Day to all of the amazing women in my life (a few pictured here) and those who serve as inspirations! #internationalwomensday
08.03.2025 21:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Emerging common cocklebur (Xanthium strumarium) is reminding me of sandworms from Beetlejuice this afternoon 🤔
07.03.2025 20:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today’s the day…we’re having the North Central Plant Diagnostic Network annual meeting here @michiganstateu ! I’m on deck to lead an herbicide symptomology workshop after lunch. It’s just so beautiful!!! Stay tuned for more pics :)
06.03.2025 16:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Seed ID from dog fur this week in MSU Plant & Pest Diagnostics. This one was quite a challenge…I believe this is poverty grass (Bromus sterilis). Everyday is something new :)
04.03.2025 16:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Back in MI & not a day could wait for me to get back in the pesticide application lab. Working on a herbicide injury demo (8 SOA) for next week’s North Central Plant Diagnostic Network meeting that we are hosting!
01.03.2025 19:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Another Spartan at WSSA 💚
28.02.2025 05:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The ‘Erins of weed science‘ (or at least some of them) enjoyed our time together in Vancouver! Haramoto/Burns/Hill @wssaweeds
28.02.2025 03:29 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
And we’ll round out our MSU Weedsters at WSSA with Dr. Sara Alvarez-Rodriguez showcasing her awesome mode of action work 😃
27.02.2025 01:55 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Limited to 4 pics, so here are Kyle & Christy
26.02.2025 23:55 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A packed day of learning here at @wssaweeds! Here are some more of our MSU Weedsters sharing their great work through poster presentations. Pictured here are @connor_purvis_ , @jacob.felz, Ian Waldecker, Hannah Johnson, Kyle Elizalde, and of course Dr. Christy Sprague 💚🌱 (I think I got everyone 🤞)
26.02.2025 23:54 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Another great MSU showing, Michael Ozolins presented at the NonTarget Site Resistance (NTSR) symposium 👏 #wssa2025
25.02.2025 23:37 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Rising MSU weed science 🌟s Kaddi Gewirtz and Hannah Johnson did a great job on their poster presentation & single slide talk, respectively! Go Green! #WSSA2025
25.02.2025 19:53 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
1st day at WSSA in Vancouver…Women in Weeds Social…former TA & up & coming weed scientist Sarah Chu shared awesome weed themed bracelets (crafting + weeds ❤️) … Eric Patterson got the WSSA Outstanding Young Scientist award & we got the outstanding paper weed sci award in the Canadian Journal of PS! 🤩
25.02.2025 03:24 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
More #weedsofFL … largeflower Mexican clover (Richardia grandiflora), arrow leaf sida (Sida rhombifolia), tasselflower (Emilia sonchifolia). I have fun guessing the families…Rubiaceae (didn’t get it), Malvaceae (✅), and Asteraceae (✅)..2/3 today 😇
21.02.2025 22:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sensitive plant (Mimosa strigillosa) flowering! #weedsofFL 😎
20.02.2025 16:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Headed to WSSA in Vancouver…by way of Sarasota, FL!
19.02.2025 02:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So much fun @ MSU Weedy Lunch today as some chose to exchange Valentines 🌱 ❤️ These are my people…esp Dan Brainard’s heart-shaped theme w/ mini buckwheat bouquet & velvetleaf seeds. I decided 2 use a Beal seed exp theme…hopefully Dr. Beal had a sense of humor!
15.02.2025 04:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Common milkweed (Asclepius syriaca) grown from seed ❤️ Apaarently not dormant right off the plant 🤔
12.02.2025 20:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Some little dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) seedlings to brighten your Friday. I collected these seeds with my 7yo daughter this summer for use in my weed science class & extension demos…now every time I open this envelope to plant more I’ll think of fun times with her ❤️
24.01.2025 23:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Weed seeds are so cool. These seeds are from field pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) …I wonder if these grooves are as unique as human fingerprints?!? That is what they remind me of 🤔
15.01.2025 16:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pretty early in the new year for a plant ID already, but this one comes from hay…longspine sandbar (Cenchrus longispinus) a native, annual grass species that can cause damage to livestock mouths and is therefore undesirable.
08.01.2025 16:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My Sunday…got all the Amaranthaceae herbicide resistance screens sprayed…1 weed scientist, 3 known susceptibles, 7 submitted samples, 10 herbicides (*2 rates), ~600 pots, >2,400 pot moves (each pot moved at least 4x)….great way to end 2024 with results available early in 2025. Happy New Year to all!
30.12.2024 20:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’m new here, so just trying to figure this out, looking to talk & learn about agricultural weeds, teaching, and/or plant diagnostics…especially with those that have a sense of humor & can tolerate the smell of velvetleaf :)
19.12.2024 17:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Yesterday was “Treat yo’self day” when I saw this…what WeedScienceNerd could resist?
19.12.2024 17:55 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
