Lena Struwe

So beatiful!

‘Pain brush’? I meant paint brush. And no edit button :)

So much agree with this. It makes life more varied and interesting too. And you can trade tasks, and work together and learn from each other. Make your life and skills stretch from the plants in the dirt to the words on the page, from the pain brush to the kitchen. There is comfort in competence

I should clarify that I don't do this ant method anymore, since wild birds are protected here and no anthills where I am now. But the museum has a permit for roadkill salvage etc., so the staff can take in already dead animals for preservation.

I think you need to be more sneaky :). We used to take bird breastbones and skulls of animals, wrap them in chicken wire, tie a strong string to it, then put that package in a Swedish ant hill (Myrmica rufa), and tie the string to a nearby tree (to find it much later, clean). Half a lifetime ago...

Fascinating and thanks for sharing!

@andrewlhipp.bsky.social gave a stirring talk promoting #NaturalHistory at the #Botany2025 @amsocplanttaxon.bsky.social lecture. He has preprinted an essay based on this lecture which is worth a read if you need some hope in ecology.

doi.org/10.32942/X2MS85

@couchmicroscopy.bsky.social

Like we discussed… and where are the protists?!

A photo of two bird feet on a specimen of red-tailed hawk, with dark brown skin on feet with long black claws laying against white to beige-colored tail feathers.

The talons of the red-tailed hawk are something truly impressive! We visited the Zoological Collection at #Rutgers University today with our students to investigate bones, skins, pickled, and taxidermied animal #biodiversity. #HiddenTreasures #SpecimenStories #museum #raptor #birds

Photo of a cluster of black palm fruits (drupes) hanging on red, dangling stalks.

A close-up photo of a bug climbing on a plant shoot. The bug is all black with red spots.

It blows my mind that red-&-black fruits and seeds are attractive, but red-&-black insects are repellent (aposematic). In dispersal, as in life, context is everything! 📷1: Ripe fruits of Pinanga malaiana (#Arecaceae). 📷2: red-spotted stink bug, Jose Amorin CCBYNCSA2. #dispersal #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

BHL has retrospectively assigned DOIs to 50,000+ historic journal articles These articles, which include the first scientific description of the Platypus (1799), are now part of the great linked network of scholarly research: doi.org/10.5962/p.30... #ILoveBHL #RetroPIDs 🧪
@crossref.bsky.social

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

The inherent values of observation and description: A case study in the spiny solanums of Australia Click on the article title to read more.

IMO paying close attention to species and simply describing what they do is a worthwhile endeavor unto itself.

Guessing I am not alone.

#iamabotanist #iamanaturalist #PUI #biodiversity

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Could it be Trosa? Just guessing.

Not sure what field you are in, but in botany we are often asked for images. I also agree that all images should be approved by the authors if used to promote their paper.

Got it and thanks for the explanation. But don’t you think the journals could figure out how to post an image that is actually related to the topic of the article they link to? Images can create a lot of extra interest and knowledge.

Fascinating study! But that image below is not a fall webworm (an insect larvae), is it a spider? Crab? Still, maybe we are all evolutionary specialists when it comes to food, and other things :) #entomology #evolution #ecology #competition #nature

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The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

A three-panel comic. The first panel is a scrap from a dictionary that says crypsis, noun: patterning or coloration that allows a bird to remain concealed by blending in to its environment. In panel 2, labeled effective crypsis, an american bittern blends in with a marsh full of tall plants. In panel 2, labeled ineffective crypsis, an american bittern fails to blend in among some short plants, next to a wet floor sign, and behind a stop sign.

I do a comic about ornithological vocabulary for every issue of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's wonderful Living Bird magazine. Here's the latest one, featuring the American Bittern.

Photo of climbing plant with two capsules surrounded by long-tipped, very hairy sepals. A green metal pole on the side.

The ivy-leaved morning glory has fruits that look like something out of… the seashore, medieval fashion fur hats, or rose buds… Right? Seen in New Jersey, USA.

The collector practices that shape spatial, temporal, and taxonomic bias in herbaria Natural history collections (NHCs) are essential for studying biodiversity. Although spatial, temporal, and taxonomic biases in NHCs affect analyses, the influence of collector practices on biases r...

New paper by @drgentian.bsky.social in @newphyt.bsky.social using @gbif.org mediated data:

The collector practices that shape spatial, temporal, and taxonomic bias in herbaria 🇺🇸

#CiteTheDOI: ✅

https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70297

I printed one out and left it on the kitchen table for a gathering at my house today - first thing someone said was 'oh, is this by Sarah, the cool one, in Philly? I know of her too!', and then others started to read it. 8 guests and 8 read it, I think. Success! Congratulations!

Love your Black and White photos. I am @Vilseskogen on Flickr, lots of photos there from 10+ years ago (yes, I have a big backlog to upload from far travels and local trips, nature and culture).

This is gold. Thank you.

A raccoon and possum yell on the cover of a zine. the title is "everything sucks" and the racoon and possum yell "let's do something!" and between them it says "a zine by sarahmackattack"

ALRIGHT! Version 1 of the fall zine is ready for ya.

For your reading enjoyment, Everything Sucks!

Full Zine (for digital reading) here: drive.google.com/file/d/1cYXF...

Print-and-fold version coming soon, I need to test print it first and can't do that right now lol

Hi Karolina - I have a short talk about that that I can share with you, from summer 2024 and with many examples from botany. E-mail me at Rutgers University.

Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is hiring a Directory of the Herbarium

The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is Hiring!

We are searching for a Director of the Oregon State University Herbarium and applications are welcomed at the ranks of assistant, associate, or full professor.

Looks like this was filmed at #Gotland in the Baltic Sea, Sweden. Not sure what seaweed that they harvest there though, Ulva intestinalis? A green #algae?

Our Logo: The Story of the Pencil-Fist - Rutgers AAUP-AFT The Rutgers AAUP-AFT logo at the top of this page—known around our office as the “pencil-fist”—has been adopted by other higher education unions and organizations around the country. But where …

The AAUP-AFT union at Rutgers University has a similar logo, more info here:

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