Jeff Grant

I saw them too! Beautiful

What can we do as scientists? One thing: mentor the habits of seeing and thinking scientifically, and cultivate interest in the world. From @botsocamerica.bsky.social Plant Science Bulletin, a clip of high-school students' responses to @plantingscience.bsky.social mentorship:

Attempting to put a Cooper’s hawk skeleton back together.

Coyote prints and cardinals in the backyard

Great final day of AP Biology with @mortonarboretum.bsky.social-Systematics-Lab-Member-&-teacher-&-collaborator-since-2013 @jeffgrantscience.bsky.social! Students reasoned well, wrestled w/ data, presented their experiments eloquently.

& one poster had pressed plants!

#herbarium connections...

​The @mortonarboretum.bsky.social NSF REU program ​is open for summer 2026! $7500 stipend + housing / travel. Apply by 31 Jan 2026 and share with your networks!

Details at ​​https://mortonarb.org/science/opportunities-in-science/research-experiences-for-undergraduates-program/

Sandhill cranes on the move.

Trout are hatching. Can’t wait to see how much they grow over the Thanksgiving break.

The quantity of starlings perched on the power lines off I-88 was stunning. I’d like to think the slow traffic was because everyone was watching the murmuration like me…but I doubt it.

Just started The Year Science Changed Everything by Mark O’Connell. One of the three author/presenters that will be at our teacher conference in February. Tinyurl.com/ClimateOfHOPE2 We will have over 30 presenters for an exciting action packed day.

A great morning smashing pumpkins and sending them to compost instead of a landfill. @downersgrovenorth.bsky.social

The colors today were beautiful.

What US school kids are learning about climate – DW – 10/31/2025 As the long arm of the fossil fuel lobby enters the classroom, some US science teachers are finding their job requires more than simply imparting knowledge and wisdom.

A podcast that I did an interview for got turned into an article. www.dw.com/en/what-us-s.... @melissaarctic.bsky.social and @ncse.bsky.social were also a big part of this great discussion on the importance of climate change education.

“Oak Origins: From Acorns to Species and the Tree of Life” Belk Lecture

I'm honored to be giving the Ethel Belk Lecture at @miamiuniversity.bsky.social, 7 p.m. on Weds, Nov 6. It is a public lecture, so please join us if you can! It is also live-streamed if you can't make it in person. Either way, I hope to see you... details below:

events.miamioh.edu/event/copy-o...

It was such a pleasure to help @ncse.bsky.social with the evolution symposium. Always a good time sharing my love of evolution with other science teachers. Better yet was meeting the scientists that made the discoveries I talk about in class!!!! @nabtbio.bsky.social

@evoexplorer.bsky.social absolutely crushing his presentation on microsafari. @nabtbio.bsky.social A privilege to call this talented man my friend.

My colleague AP bio teacher @jeffgrantscience.bsky.social in @science.org (10/9/25), on the now-shuttered climate.gov: "I always provide [students] with the latest research."

By contrast, Donald Trump on climate change: "the biggest con job ever perpetrated." Plus side? Jeff is the one teaching.

Woolly bear time!

So cool! “Hard-skin” what forms them? Is it a fungus or bacteria interaction?

Downers Grove N AP bio students collecting data in the bur oak common garden experiment, asking: what traits vary betw OK, MN, and IL plants? What traits are correlated? Do gall wasps of 5 spp have preferences?

A great start to the semester!

@jeffgrantscience.bsky.social @cavenderg9.bsky.social

So much good out of this partnership. I wish all teachers could be as fortunate as I am to work with brilliant scientist like you.

I'm very happy to have this article published in The American Biology Teacher w/ @jeffgrantscience.bsky.social & colleagues, conveying lessons learned in 12 years co-mentoring high school AP bio students in practices of plant biodiversity research.

Please share!

online.ucpress.edu/abt/article/...

Beautiful pictures. I love the Virginia waterleaf. The patch in my backyard is blooming as well.

A cute little veery visited the yard this evening. #birds among the native plants

Trout are just about ready to find their new home in Lake Michigan.

House wrens are getting active in the backyard. #birds

This has been a fantastic evolution unit. An amazing guest speaker @prosanta.bsky.social and some inquiry labs @ncse.bsky.social have made teaching exciting. I also feel that kids are really having a great time learning!

Happy Earth Day from @uchicagopress.bsky.social! 30% off selected books (including Oak Origins: From Acorns to Species and teh Tree of Life) w/ promo code EARTHDAY30.

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That would be great thank you.

Cardinal and an Eastern Towhee through the binoculars. Still learning to develop a good technique.