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Society for Freshwater Science @freshwaterscience.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Join the Central U.S. Chapter at the Great Plains Limnology Conference at Missouri State University, October 16-18, 2026. Register and submit abstracts by Friday, September 25. sites.google.com/view/gplc-20...

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La Toya Kissoon-Charles @aquatoya.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In #limnology this week, we learned about lake #stratification thanks to food coloring, heat lamps, hair dryers, and lots of ice! #lakemodels are fun!

Student adding food coloring to an aquarium of thermally stratified water while other students observe

Student applying wind with a hair dryer to an aquarium of thermally stratified water while other students observe

Students observing the mixing of food coloring in an aquarium of stratified water to demonstrate a meromictic lake model

Student adding blue dye to an aquarium of thermally stratified water

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Dr. Earyn McGee @afroherper.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Can you #FindThatLizard You're searching for a hatchling side-blotched lizard, Uta stansburiana. My undergraduate professor always called the baby lizards ecological popcorn because everything eats them, including snakes, birds, mammals, and even other lizards.

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A moment in the pond with fish, painted turtles and a curious snapping turtle. 💚

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La Toya Kissoon-Charles @aquatoya.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

All of these #Botany2026 posts have convinced me that I need to find a way to attend a meeting. #plantpeopleftw

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La Toya Kissoon-Charles @aquatoya.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Excited to host the 2026 Great Plains Limnology Conference with @streambug.bsky.social Oct 16-18. Great opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and professionals to present their latest findings on regional aquatic ecology. Registration is open! sites.google.com/view/gplc-20...

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La Toya Kissoon-Charles @aquatoya.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Happy Thursday! Here’s a pretty skipper on a pretty flower🌼 Their name comes from how they fly…rapidly darting from flower to flower #Hesperiidae #Rudbeckia

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La Toya Kissoon-Charles @aquatoya.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Went to Laurinburg NC for my dear uncle’s celebration of life. My uncle was an educator who made a mark. RIP uncle T. Of course I found a body of water in town filled with macrophytes! Turns out my aunt loves to take their dog on walks there. #MacrophyteMonday #cypress #waterlilies

Pond full of water lilies, cypress trees, and other wetland plants

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La Toya Kissoon-Charles @aquatoya.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Spiderworts bloom in the morning and by afternoon the flowers shrivel up. I noticed that flowers in the shade stay open a little bit longer than those in full sun. #Tradescantia #WildflowerHour

Purple blooms of spiderwort (Tradescantia) plants

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La Toya Kissoon-Charles @aquatoya.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Happy Friday! Look what I found while walking around the yard after some morning rain. These are fluted bird’s nest fungi ( #Cyathus striatus). They look like miniature bird’s nest with eggs. The “eggs” are spore sacs that eject millions of spores when raindrops hit them! Source: Wikipedia #fungi

Fluted bird’s nest fungi growing on mulch

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La Toya Kissoon-Charles @aquatoya.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

What’s happening to our Rudbeckia (black-eyed Susan) plants? Only thing I could find in a Google search was that this could be Aster yellows? #rudbeckia #coneflower #blackeyedsusan #asteraceae

Black-eyed Susan inflorescence with deformity in the center

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La Toya Kissoon-Charles @aquatoya.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Learning about Tamarix spp. (salt cedar) at #APMS2026 in Phoenix Az. This plant has replaced native species as the water table has been lowered due to water use exceeding replenishment. Tamarix accumulates and deposits salt in the soil. So interesting! www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/terrestrial/...

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Saltcedar | National Invasive Species Information Center

Species Profile: Saltcedar. Lowers the water table and creates large deposits of salt in the soil (Di Tomaso 1998)

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La Toya Kissoon-Charles @aquatoya.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Found these in one of our ecojars. Is this #cyanobacteria? Sorry no scale. Ecojars = lake water + aquatic plants +algae + various inverts

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La Toya Kissoon-Charles @aquatoya.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Often #algae gets a bad rap. Let’s highlight some positive things about algae! Besides being a great oxygen source, what else is great about algae? Last month, we observed algae acting as a raft for this frog (according to Seek, this is Blanchard’s cricket frog - Acris blanchardi).

Gray-green colored frog sitting on floating filamentous algae.

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La Toya Kissoon-Charles @aquatoya.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

It’s plant buying…rescue season!! I got an awesome bonus plant! There was liverwort growing in the pots with my rescued plants!!! Seek says Marchantia polymorpha (common liverwort). #liverwort #bryophyte

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La Toya Kissoon-Charles @aquatoya.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Course eval comment for my Aquatic Botany course: “I loved all the field trips and raiding the herbarium!” Love love that students enjoyed using the herbarium!

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Patrick R. Secor @prsecor.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Looking for a paid summer research experience? Apply to MSU’s Extreme Biofilms REU and work on cutting-edge biofilm science in extreme environments. No prior research experience needed. #MicroSky #PhageSky

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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Join us at 7pm tomorrow 16 Dec for a webinar on #NewYearPlantHunt: Citizen Science in a Changing Climate. We'll cover what the Plant Hunt is, where & when it happens, who takes part, how it works - and why it's important. Join us to get ready for your Hunt: www.tickettailor.com/events/botan...

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Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Chocolate tube slime mold on a sprig..of moss. Stemonitis sp. NWT, Canada. Slime mold is about 2cm wide. #slime #myxo #fungifriends

Photo of a chocolate tube slime mold on a sprig of moss. Slime mold looks like its name suggests…chocolate tubes - they’re bunched together and standing upright. The background of the photo is green.

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Donald Danforth Plant Science Center @danforthcenter.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

We’re nurturing bright young minds across St. Louis and helping students discover their love of science. 🧪 By donating to our Impact Fund, you can support the next generation of innovators. Make your gift today: bit.ly/3WWUKjD #STEM #STL

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Phytomaven @tmigratorius.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

So, instead I grow plants, study them, take photos of them, teach, and read good stories. Here’s a meaningful sentence I just read for these wicked times: “So many people go through life without love.” From Zoe’s Tale. Thanks, John Scalzi.

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La Toya Kissoon-Charles @aquatoya.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

The sun has been putting on quite the show this week 🌅

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La Toya Kissoon-Charles @aquatoya.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

This is beautiful but what is it? Filamentous algae from Lake Springfield MO (reservoir on the James River). Notice the spiraling chloroplasts in the second image. #algae Photo credits: @tessapk0408.bsky.social

Filamentous algae with chloroplasts in an oval arrangement

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La Toya Kissoon-Charles @aquatoya.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Ceratophyllum demersum (coontail) enjoying the sunshine 🌞 They are quite happy in our ecojars. I am looking for larger containers to culture them in our greenhouse for a project. Any suggestions? I have tried 5-gallon Lowe’s buckets but the plants do not survive probably due to light limitations.

aquatic plants in glass jars of pond water

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La Toya Kissoon-Charles @aquatoya.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Last week in #limnology I realized I could mirror what I was seeing on the fancy scope onto the tv screens in our new teaching lab. This brought me so much joy🤩 This is #micrasterias The bilateral symmetry and the clear separation (isthmus) between the semi-cells is a characteristic of #desmids

Image of single-celled green algae on an inverted microscope camera being projected on a tv screen

Micrasterias, unicellular green algae that looks like a star burst

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La Toya Kissoon-Charles @aquatoya.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

What in the algae is happening in my newest ecojars? Looks cool though! #aquaticplants #algae

Large glass jars of algae and aquatic plants

Large glass jar of algae and aquatic plants

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Dr Astrid Biddle @astridbiddle.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Fenland preparing for winter. Whorled Water-milfoil (Myriophyllum verticillatum) forming dense, dark-green turions which will keep the plant safe in the cold.

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La Toya Kissoon-Charles @aquatoya.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Pulled these out of one our sample sites today. Both plants are sold by local nurseries, so it was only a matter of time before they ended up out here😭 Pontederia crassipes #waterhyacinth and Pistia stratiotes #waterlettuce #invasiveplants #aquaticplants #aquaticinvasives

Pontederia crassipes (water hyacinth) plant with bulbous petioles and light purple flowers

Pistia stratiotes (water lettuce) plant growing in a rosette with hairy hydrophobic leaves

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La Toya Kissoon-Charles @aquatoya.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Made two new ecojars for our intro bio lab coordinators. The jars have snails, zooplankton, phytoplankton, and aquatic plants. These are easy to make and maintain if you have access to a pond to replenish the jars with water. I have a jar still going strong from summer 2020. #aquaticplants

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La Toya Kissoon-Charles @aquatoya.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

“If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you.” - quote seen at the dentist’s office today.

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Conservation Physiology @conphysjournal.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Freshwater habitats are increasingly threatened by anthropogenic activities. This #Perspective article outlines physiological approaches for assessing and mitigating threats to freshwater fishes. 🐟 Read it here ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/conp...

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La Toya Kissoon-Charles @aquatoya.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Hello August! Welcomed August with an aquatic plant survey and water sampling at Lake Springfield, MO #aquaticplants #reservoirs #lotus

Lotus and other aquatic plants growing in water along lake shoreline

Accessible fishing dock on a lake with a break in the cloudy sky above

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La Toya Kissoon-Charles @aquatoya.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Name that macrophyte! Was growing in a neighbor’s tiny pond a few weeks ago. #macrophytemonday #aquaticplants

Large pink flower on a long sturdy stalk

Green seed head surrounded by many yellowish white stamens

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La Toya Kissoon-Charles @aquatoya.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Goodbye July! Coneflowers were thriving this month🌞 Don’t they remind you of ballerina tutus?🌻🩰 #nativeplants #echinacea #pollinators

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La Toya Kissoon-Charles @aquatoya.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Love the buzz buzz of the bumble bees!

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La Toya Kissoon-Charles @aquatoya.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Dragonflies having dinner on these warm Missouri summer evenings. So fun to watch!

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La Toya Kissoon-Charles @aquatoya.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Aquatic plant sighting in Providence RI while at aquatic conferences #2025APMS and #SWS2025 Anyone have recipes or ideas of how to prepare lotus root?

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La Toya Kissoon-Charles @aquatoya.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Let’s play the “I spy” game! How many aquatic plants do you see? Can you identify them? Conference prep time! #2025APMS #SWS2025 #aquaticplants

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