Kale Sniderman

correct, but no problem if you provide a citation

As botanists and Plant Architects in Montpellier 🌿, his vision of forests 🌳 profoundly shaped the way we think about and observe plants. A giant has passed, but his legacy will remain a major source of inspiration, worthy of our deepest admiration and gratitude.

YouTube video by Panteralandia Lobbyist Claims Monsanto's Roundup Is Safe To Drink, Freaks Out When Offered A Glass

This is worth watching. It reminds me of the claim that DDT was "so safe you could drink it." Yet another example of industry recycling refuted claims. @kaurov.org @michaelscherer.bsky.social @davidho.bsky.social

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Debating Away Our Humanity CBS News wants to know if "feminism failed women." Here's what they're really asking.

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Who Identified the Plants? Reclaiming Plant Identification Expertise in Vegetation Science This article advocates for the formal recognition of botanists who identify plants in scientific publishing, highlighting their essential role in ecological research and data integrity. It proposes p...

🌿My two (botanical)-cents🔍

In this forum paper, I reflect on the value of plant-identification expertise and offer a few ideas on how we can better highlight the role of botanists and their knowledge.

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scholars should actually have read the articles they cite! Who knew?

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It is hard to overstate how critical @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is to climate science in the US and around the world. It's the beating heart of our field. Generations of scientists have trained there, and almost everyone I know relies on deep collaborations with NCAR scientists. It's end is unthinkable.

It’s simply not possible to overstate how important NCAR is to US and world science. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.

Trump moves to shut down Boulder climate research lab NCAR, drawing rebukes from Colorado officials Federal lawmakers called the planned NCAR closure “deeply dangerous” and “blatantly retaliatory.” Gov. Jared Polis said: “If true, public safety is at risk and science…

The dismantling of NCAR should be the trending story on Bluesky, not the fucking Oscars leaving ABC for YouTube.

Superbly informative (and entertaining)

Can you provide a link to those articles?

while this one suggests AMOC shutdowns lead to drying in northern Amazonia, & wetting only in southern Amazonia (but are AMOC shutdowns during Heinrich stadials analogous to AMOC shutdowns today?) 4/3 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation may stabilise eastern Amazonian rainforests - Communications Earth & Environment Despite devastating global impacts, a potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation with global warming could lead to cooler and wetter conditions in parts of Amazonia and less...

...and this one, same story www.nature.com/articles/s43... 3/3

Impacts of AMOC Collapse on Monsoon Rainfall: A Multi‐Model Comparison A collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) would cause a major rearrangement of all tropical monsoon systems Four state-of-the-art climate models show remarkable agreeme...

and this study, with similar findings agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 2/3

It may turn out this way; but there are competing forces at work, in which AMOC breakdown leads to increased rainfall over the Amazon; link.springer.com/article/10.1... 1/3

Very happy. A paper just out of the oven. It is a piece of work made possible only after many years of thinking about, and looking at, an old problem from multiple perspectives. And with the magical brushstrokes of our artists, Gabriela and Ariadna.

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The Mismeasure of Neanderthals. Our latest paper, a critical review of Neanderthal iconography through time, with epistemological, paleobiological, ethical, and aesthetic contributions. Thank you for reading and for your comments.

Image 1: Matrix found at La Brea Tar Pits.

Text "Of the more than 50,000 Ice Age fossils dug up in Project 23, the smallest by far are pollen grains! One gram of sediment can contain hundreds to thousands of these tiny particles, identifiable beneath microscopic lenses." on top of an image of cells on the surface of a fossil leaf from Project 23, Box 1 as seen on an fluorescent microscope.

Image of a grass phytolith from Project 23, Box 9.

🪏😱 We're digging up the best of Project 23!

Hidden in the tar are fossils too small to see with the naked eye: pollen grains.

These microscopic time capsules preserve clues about Ice Age landscapes, revealing what plants grew in ancient L.A. and how ecosystems shifted over thousands of years.

Blanket of bluebells with trees in a woodland

The second paper from my PhD has now been published ✨ This paper explores using a combination of fossil pollen and place-names to provide a broader record of past landscape change and the connections to anthropogenic influences in Leicestershire.
Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1177/0959...

In fact it wasn't entirely correct (it neglected two relevant genera). As you say, there is a space in which LLMs are very useful: where they extend the users's knowledge. But, also as you say, they are merely dangerous where they are asked to satisfy a user's wholesale lack of knowledge

though it should be pointed out the ChatGPT was unaware until prompted that Borneo also has native Photinia/Stranvaesia and Raphiolepis species

an extract from a 'conversation' with ChatGPT 5.1 about plausible botanical source genera for a lowland Borneo fossil pollen type identified in a published fossil pollen publication as "Prunus". The final sentence is the most impressive/disturbing, the unprompted 'observation' that introuced taxa needn't be considered unless the sediment is geologically very young

Yep, LLMs make unbridled demands on power/water & are mega-plagiarism; but it's also useful to monitor where this is going. I have to admit to being surprised by ChatGPT's ability to generate appropriate criteria for evaluating plausible botanical source taxa for fossil 'Prunus' in lowland Borneo

This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.

A Beaufortia species from southwest Western Australia, with oppposite-decussate leaves (thanks to Susan Hulbert for the excellent FB photo)

Codia albifrons, New Caledonia (thanks to https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/flora-of-new-caledonia)

I would like to see a curve of the proportion of each regional flora occupied by woody taxa with opposite-decussate leaves 🧪🌿

Well if you attended a scientific congress in, er, a white nationalist police state, this is the preparation you'd expect.

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A neotropical perspective on the uniqueness of the Holocene among interglacials - Nature Communications A 670,000-year vegetation and climate history from Lake Junín, Peru, showed that the last interglacial was the warmest while the current interglacial had uniquely high fire frequencies that were cause...

An amazing accomplishment, the 670 kyr long high Andes Lake Junin vegetation record www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌿

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