Tina Gray Teague, PhD

Arkansas roads today—Blue snow and purple/red ice

Arkansas drivers aren’t accustomed to such challenges. It’s best to stay home and feed the birds

Coccinellidae - Alex Wild A gallery of ladybird beetles.

A gallery of ladybird beetles:

Don’t apply to grad school as a robot, people. Your goal is to stand out, and gen-AI makes you look generic.

As Arizona groundwater disappears, an agricultural giant agrees to use less Agriculture has been free to use Arizona's groundwater, but as water levels drop, the state may have hit a turning point.

Update: One of Arizona’s largest farming businesses has agreed to leave some croplands dry and pay $11 million to help residents whose wells have gone dry. @azagmayes.bsky.social says the legal settlement came after a year of ‘hard-fought’ negotiations. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Screwworm is getting closer.

Cotton flower with clouded plant bugs

Lots of January flower posts today…. Here’s mine taken back in July

Happy New Year combo
-Football, collards, peas, and cornbread

here’s hoping 2026 is just one year

*Pablo ☑️

His mum was picked up by an artist who cared for her and the 7 puppies!

We adopted Panlo Picasso.

Puppy lying down with his paw in his food bowl

Got a rescue pup last month. He's always hungry, and he loves to lounge at his food bowl.

Not too bad 😌

People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind

Actual academics:

https://www.reddit.com/r/calvinandhobbes/comments/166rvc/january_17_1985_its_worth_a_shot/

Pickle tray is what we call it on our Arkansas holiday table. Includes olives, picked okra, sweet and dill pickles. Deviled eggs have their own special dish.

#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's landmark book 'On the Origin of Species' was first published. The work is one of the foundations of evolutionary biology, and one of the most important scientific works of the 19th century. #HistoryOfScience

Tapestry

This is very important news in the world of #microbiology. From @dadjokesforthewin. #ENTsecrets #surgery

macro photo of a dull red, leggy ant with sharp spines along its back struggling with a much larger multi-flowered plant bud in its mandibles, held over its back, against a pure black background.

A Texas leafcutter ant, Atta texana, hauls spring Prunus buds along a tree branch on her way back to the nest.

Massive crowd in DC

Massive crowd in Times Square

It’s going to take ages to pay all these people

Perceived Importance of College Hits New Low The percentage of Americans who consider a college education "very important" has slipped below the majority level.

it's weird how several decades of organized assault on higher education has led to a cratering of American public opinion on higher education

news.gallup.com/poll/695003/...

Data visualization

Drawing of pig with caption above: "I am a pig and don't care"

And one of my absolute favorites: "I AM A PIG AND I DON'T CARE" eb-j.org/browse-artwo...

New projections for farm productivity also suggest that growing food will become difficult across large parts of the country, including the heart of the High Plains’ $35 billion agriculture industry. “

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NCC Launches “Plant Not Plastic” Campaign to Empower Action Amid Growing Health Concerns New survey uncovers important knowledge gap: most consumers unaware of clothing's role in microplastic pollution.

Are you wearing paper or plastic?

www.cottongrower.com/cotton-news/...

Looking for bugs in cotton fields

On the front page of today’s @latimes.com

Fresh water is disappearing and much of the world is getting drier

Research by @hrishikeshac.bsky.social & @jayfamiglietti.bsky.social shows large swaths of the world are losing vast amounts of water www.latimes.com/environment/... @sean-greene.bsky.social