Lindsay Darling

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.

I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”

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A long horizontal sign based on the ones at CTA stations that tell what stop you’re at. It’s gray with red, purple, and brown bands at either ends. Four pigeons are perched on the sign in various pigeon poses as a sunrise is seen in the background. The sign itself reads, ‘Maybe It will happen today’

Is that going up on your Etsy? It's beautiful!

Photo of a village of tiny beige-capped mushrooms on thread-thin stems and lime-green mosses

More moss and mushrooms, showing the delicate ridges of the gills under the mushroom caps

Fingertip for scale, showing that the mushroom caps are maybe an eighth of an inch wide

I! Friggin! Love!! Oak! Leaf!! Pinwheel! Season!!

(Oak-leaf pinwheel mushrooms are the fruiting body of the Collybiopsis quercophila fungus! They literally grow right out of fallen coast live oak leaves in my neighborhood)

Fireflies dance across a park with the Chicago skyline in the background

summer nights lit by fireflies

bioluminescence is so incredible, I just stand in awe of nature and watch these tiny creatures create light to find each other.

#firefly #nightphotography #chicago #scape

This is based on some research that I did with collaborators from Purdue! It's exciting to see this write up.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker: "What comes next?" #3E [1]

Join me and several distinguished tree-folk this Thursday! @lindsaydarling.bsky.social (Morton Arboretum), Elektra Fike-Data (Tree San Diego), Hamil Pearsall (Temple University), Elizabeth Riedman (US EPA) and yours truly will discuss 🌳 planting and care barriers -- and how to overcome them

The morton arb stitched all of these images together to create a single layer for the seven-county region. The Field Museum used to host it, but it looks like those layers are down. If anyone wants them (and can use gis), I'm happy to share. This is a good poke for me to make a new interactive map.

Andrew's blog is always great, and this is no exception. It's a lovely science story with lots of clear code. Thanks for making the R stats world better!

Canopy complexity drives positive effects of tree diversity on productivity in two tree diversity experiments Forest canopy complexity (i.e., the three-dimensional structure of the canopy) is often associated with increased species diversity as well as high primary productivity across natural forests. Howeve...

New study where we show how diversity-productivity relationships in forests may be mediated by more complex canopies, with structural diversity driving productivity more than species diversity
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

THIS. All of it.

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Three Kinds of Research xkcd.com/2977

Bug Thread xkcd.com/2881

Hey so if you somehow want a painting or print from me that you'd like to have before a specific day it's still possible but that window is closing. And Threadless is still doing $15 tees you can get by a day if you get next day shipping. Just saying.

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I like to treat them like eggplant. I haven't tried this recipe exactly, but have made similar things. You can also cook some in a bit of butter, then layer them into a lasagna. Or treat them like tofu. Ma po puffball is great. www.punchfork.com/recipe/Eggpl...

tweet from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, it reads: "Contrary to how McCarthy’s defenders are behaving, men failing up is not a Constitutionally protected right. The man made risky decisions and faced the natural consequences of them. I am not his mom, and my job is not to put pool noodles around hard corners for Republicans."

Here's the tweet