Tristan A.F. Long

America’s Legacy of Black History Is Tangled in Its Trees Beronda L. Montgomery, a botanist and a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard, has made a career of interacting with plants, though her first attempt at communicating with them was kind of a flop. As a child, she had a full-fledged love affair with the wilds of Arkansas, but by the time she was a teenager, Montgomery […] The post America’s Legacy of Black History Is Tangled in Its Trees appeared first on Electric Literature.

America’s Legacy of Black History Is Tangled in Its Trees: Beronda L. Montgomery, a botanist and a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard, has made a career of interacting with plants, though her first attempt at communicating with them was kind of a flop. As a child, she had a full-fledged love affair with…

Caption from Figure 9 in paper: Appendages of Ordovician Phacopida. A, B Anacheirurus adserai from the Fezouata Shale (Pérez-Peris et al., 2021). A, Endopodite (YPM 226573). B, Exopodite in dorsal view (YPM 517074). C, Bavaillia zemmourensis with antennae (MCZ:IP:20105; Martin et al., 2016; Richards et al., 2024). D – F, Ceraurus pleurexanthemus from the Rust Formation (Losso and Ortega-Hernández, 2024). D, Biramous appendages (MCZ:IP:110933). E, Biramous appendage (MCZ:IP:112018). F, Exopodite (MCZ:IP:104973). G – I, Flexicalymene senaria from the Rust Formation (Losso and Ortega-Hernández, 2024). D, Protopodites in cross section (MCZ:IP:104956). E, Biramous appendages (USNM 68379). F, Endopodites (USNM 68381). J, Placoparia cambriensis from the Llanfallteg Formation (NMW 91.46G; Whittington, 1993). Abbreviations: ant, antennae; cla, claw; en, endopodite; end, endite; hyp, hypostome; lm, lamellae; pn, podomere number; pt, protopodite.

Do you ever wonder about trilobite appendages?

Literally everything ever known has now been reviewed by Sarah Losso @thomashegna.bsky.social @invertebratepal.bsky.social 🧪⚒️🦑

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#TheUnbeatableSquirrelGirl Volume 1. Issue 003.

Two side by side images of my standing groundhog with shadow thermochromic print on 12” x 12” white washi paper. The groundhog stands on its hind legs. It’s brown with black paws. On the left the shadows is colourless but on the right it is blue, because the print on the left has been heated above 30°C

Happy Groundhog Day! I am a fan of the absurdity of weather prognosticating rodents and celebrate Groundhog Day with my thermochromic linocut. The shadow is visible if the ambient temperature is <30°C and disappears when >30°C (and it’s a safe bet winter is over or you are overheating your home). 🧵

I am looking for a PhD student to join my new Socio-Eco-Evo group, hosted in Katie Peichel's Evolutionary Ecology Division @ University of Bern. We're offering a fully funded 4-year position, studying social plasticity and behavioral adaptation among stickleback in Greenland. Please share around!

No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?

I really need to get off the internet for a while if only because the number of times I have to stare directly at the camera like jim in the office is legit hurting my fucking neck.

Frog and Toad sit together on a tall tree, reading books. From "Tomorrow" In *Days with Frog and Toad*

The Cure win their first Grammys, taking home Best Alternative Music Album and Best Alternative Music Performance

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Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

Please join us this Friday @ 2:30 for a special retrospective #LaurierBiology seminar by our own Dr. Scott Ramsay! All welcome! DM for #Zoominar link!

Scientists must be free to learn, to speak and to challenge "You do not mess with something so fundamental, so precious, as science," says Kirsty Duncan, Canada's first Minister of Science. In a heartfelt, inspiring talk about pushing boundaries, she makes the...

To see how Kirsty Duncan advocated for science, watch her TED talk or read her book, "The Exclusion Effect: How the sciences discourage women & girls and what to do about it"

Scientists must be free to learn, to speak, and to challenge, she said -- an even more vital argument now than then.

Former Liberal cabinet minister Kirsty Duncan dead at 59 | CBC News Former Liberal cabinet minister Kirsty Duncan has died at the age of 59 following a years-long battle with cancer.

The world has lost one of its most courageous and passionate advocates for people + science.

Back in the days of Twitter, I saw her regularly send encouragement to people she’d never met. That was who she was: a model of joy, perseverance, courage, and kindness.

Kirsty, you will be so missed. 💔

Here is the latest on possible job cuts in the federal public service Hundreds of public servants have already received layoff notices in Ottawa and across Canada, as the federal government begins to issue notices of potential job cuts in departments. CTVNewsOttawa.ca l...

Thousands of workers cut from the federal public service, including scientists, researchers, and entire programs across environmental, wildlife, and health fields. This is a devastating blow to science and monitoring across Canada, and will have far-reaching impacts. www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

1️⃣4️⃣ Don't mention gene patenting to Steven Henikoff. If you really insist, here's what will happen.

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1️⃣2️⃣ A paper that features a squadron of imperial Tie Fighters with the appropriate citation 🙂 #starwars

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A Japanese-style teapot (I think, not 100% sure on it?) shaped like a pufferfish.

I know this means I've used up all my thrift store luck for the year already, but I couldn't leave this *teapot shaped like a pufferfish* at the store because look at her, she's perfect

A corgi's head barely surfacing atop deep snow, against a backdrop of an old wooden fence

I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep

This study, and Stephen’s write up on it as a professor actively teaching these skills, is fascinating.

I don’t *officially* teach coding skills, but I often find the difference between someone who’s good at their job and someone who’s marginal is *exactly* those skills that most decreased here.

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

Read the full paper here: [2601.20245] How AI Impacts Skill Formation: arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

I really wish Ontario would fund its universities properly so that we wouldn't have to pay yet another management consultant to tell us that the social sciences/humanities don't matter (when indeed they do and will be more important as AI feasts on the hard sciences).

Views of Lake Superior, Caribou Island at left, Middle Islands at center, and the entrance to Moskey Basin, home of Rock Harbor Lighthouse, at right. // Image captured at: 2026-01-31 20:05:57 UTC (about 14 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: nps.gov/isro/learn/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm // Current Temp in Isle Royale NP: 13.75 F | -10.14 C // Precip: few clouds // Wind: WSW at 8.008 mph | 12.88 kph // Humidity: 84%

Current* conditions near Isle Royale NP, MI:

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Your path to #PhDLife depends on many things

Check out our NEW study on the influences of pathway and outcomes of a PhD education in #Canada

TLDR: disparities lead to significant differences in labour market entry

#GraduateStudent #HigherEd #PhD #MSc #MA

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Final version of the #LaurierBiology departmental seminar poster! #SciArt

So very depressing

Group of people sitting outside the Wildlife Research Station in the summer of 2000

Tristan reading a scale that holds a small mammal in a ziploc bag

Photo of the back of the 1999 WRS t-shirt that shows the different study species / activities of that summer

Logo for WRS (that was originally a small design for the front of the 1999 shirt) with a tree growing on the shore of a Lake (presumably Sasajewan)

This was an extra-special poster to design, not just for my great colleague, but because I spent two amazing summers at AWRS back when I was a #Smammal biologist! Back then I also designed the "field crew" t-shirt one year (& unintentionally a logo that has has since used/remixed since)

Volunteers wanted to to live on Skomer Island and count puffins Successful applicants will spend several months helping conservation efforts on Skomer Island.

OH BOY, AM I EVER www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

From one of the highest Isle Royale peaks at 1,133 feet above sea level (roughly 530 feet above Lake Superior), webcam located at the peak of Mount Ojibway, captures a northern vantage point. // Image captured at: 2026-01-29 23:11:57 UTC (about 7 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: nps.gov/isro/learn/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm // Current Temp in Isle Royale NP: 4.10 F | -15.50 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: N at 17.068 mph | 27.46 kph // Humidity: 86%

Current* conditions near Isle Royale NP, MI:

I met the Hon. Kirsty Duncan when I participated in Science Meets Parliament in 2018. She has been an effective and passionate advocate for science, and Canada is a poorer place with her death. So very, very sad.