CJ Sands

All signed up for the UC-Riverside Entomology PhD program open house. Future home maybe? 🤷🏾‍♂️

If my research idea comes to fruition, books on seeds will be joining the books on bees on my shelf. 🤓 Not quite a seed book, but I hear amazing things about Botany of Empire.

S-Tier bird. Love them so much. 👏🏾

Agreed! They are amazing. ❤️

An image of Jane Goodall and a chimpanzee, from 1965. Photo courtesy CBS Photo Archive / Getty.

The naturalist Jane Goodall died today at 91. Hope, she argued, is not merely “passive wishful thinking” but a “crucial survival trait.” Revisit a conversation with Goodall, from 2021: nyer.cm/F55JtsS

My harvest of dragon tongue beans to replant next year. I started off with just 7 seeds that I brought up with me from Florida to Vermont, and after growing them out and saving the seeds I now have a couple hundred to give away. 💜

Is this print available to purchase by chance? All of my research is based on the fact that the flourishing of human and pollinator populations is deeply intertwined in the tapestry that is the food system and that the health of food system and insect pollinators are mutually dependent. 🤓

Thanks Gwen! I’m passing on this information to my advisors well, but all signs are pointing to no NSF funding opportunity for me going forward. 😔

Just to confirm, me being in the second year of my masters degree makes me ineligible?

Maybe I’ve misunderstood the NSF-GRFP this whole time, but as a second year Masters student I’m not actually eligible to apply?

#science

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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/

I want to say something, but UT is one of the places I’m hoping to apply to for my PhD so I’ll hold my tongue, or in this case, typing. 😓

I can’t believe the leaves are changing already at such a dramatic pace. I really want to pick them up, tape them back up on the trees, paint them green and pretend the cold isn’t coming. ☹️

a woman in a blue jacket is sitting in a classroom looking up at the sky . ALT: a woman in a blue jacket is sitting in a classroom looking up at the sky .

The struggle to work on one’s thesis over the weekend. If I could just open the document that would be a win.

Trans rights are human rights.

I love these so much 🥹

My okra harvest as of late. I think I’ve officially grown more okra than anything else.

Florida is gorgeous, the people that run it though are legit swamp monsters.

Burlington is beautiful 😌

@ecologysupplies.bsky.social I overheard that you all will be releasing new insect nets soon. Is that true?

Aspirator 😅

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Special shout out to Southwestern Research Station in Portal, Arizona. Such a gorgeous place!

Squash Bee Sunday 💛🖤🤎

The reaction of a Mimosa pusdica when I touch it 😍

I really do love how simple phone photography can be with its point, shoot, and crop aspects. As much as I would love an amazing DSLR, I’m really starting to just want an upgraded phone camera lens more.

#bugsky

“Life is basically recovering from our birth, the discovering we need to prepare for our deaths.” This is both depressing and beautiful.

Started reading “Bite by Bite” by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, a book about that explores the way food and drink evoke our associations and remembrances. It is such a beautiful read and highly recommended.

#booksky

This has been my first season of field work and it’s been quite the adventure! Full of ups and downs, but definitely fulfilling!

Lassioglossums always have a way of showing up and showing out whenever I want to take photos of bees. 🙂

#bugsky