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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

man i have no idea if this is working, but also i dont know how to do it better? Who has ideas?

a section of a guide for asters with guides to bracteoles, distal leaves, proximal leaves, and basal leaves

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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

gamer voice let's fucking goooooooo I'm the 17th best identifier for the region in general which is also pretty sweet

top goldenrod identifiers in Chicago Wilderness region and i'm THE TOP DAWG

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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

so about them asters

a chart in progress showing leaf shapes for different symphyotrichums, including basal, proximal, distal, and bracteole leaf shapes

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Besides Anna’s and mine, lots of other examples compiled on my site here spinweaveandcut.com/comics-alter...

spinweaveandcut.com

Comics as Scholarship & Alternatives

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Academic friends: I have a delightful honors student who is hoping to produce a zine as an accompaniment to their thesis on transmasculine concepts in early modern drama. Do you have any good examples of academic arguments adapted to zines or other public-facing, DIY formats?

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Kell Compost 😷 @compostwitch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

reject forbes embrace forbs bsky.app/profile/chas...

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Kell Compost 😷 @compostwitch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

get ready to be on the cover of Forbs 40 under 40

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Jennifer Mach (she/they) @jennifermach.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yesterday at Deadstick Pond, I was chatting with someone about goldenrod ID and today the FB algorithm served me up this wonderful guide to the goldenrods of Chicagoland by @chaseprairie.bsky.social #PlantAwareness #TUBF2026 www.inaturalist.org/journal/chas...

inaturalist.org

Goldenrods of Chicagoland

Even as your local goldenrod megafan, I have to admit that lot of goldenrods look alike. When I'm trying to ID them, it's hard to keep track of every trait. To keep track of them all, I put together t...

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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

this one time in everquest 2, i had to kill 5000 fairies so that below my username, everyone would see the title "Slayer of Fairies" so anyway how many Solidago nemoralises do you think I can ID?

the screenshot of the solidago nemoralis inaturalist page, which shows the top identifier almost has 400 identifications

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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

i am now going to grumpily id goldenrods for a few days and take a break from asters y'know, the other asteraceae. very different, you see. these ones are yellow

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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

BY POPULAR DEMAND: Eastern American Aster Involucres: The Reference Photos All files, including a jpg, pdf for web, pdf for zine print, and the InDesign file are located in this GDrive folder: drive.google.com/drive/folder... All contents are CC BY-NC-SA

basically a poster of asters! Species by species display of different "cups" that hold the flowers, with two photos of the flower in bloom, and one of the flower in bud

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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

ok, speak now or forever hold your peace. Species included with midwestern fall Symphyotrichum ID will be: Eurybia divaricata Eurybia furcata Eurybia macrophylla Eurybia schreberi Doellingeria umbellata Boltonia asteroides Boltonia decurrens Ionactis linariifolia Solidago ptarmicoides Anyone else?

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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

excited to read this 👀 i'm sitting on an fqa critical paper but shelved it because I wasn't ready for the heat The nature of ecological conservatism: deconstructing the ecological and social foundations of Floristic Quality Assessment - Matthews Zinnen www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

sciencedirect.com

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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

i can't be stressed out if i spend all my free time fighting with asters, right? I'm fine, I'm fine, look at a pretty flower

a screenshot of an ipad cropped to show flower head photos and drawings of the flowers in the photos, focused on the involucre of each flower

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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

i can't be stressed out if i spend all my free time fighting with asters, right? I'm fine, I'm fine, look at a pretty flower

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Encyclopedia of Chicago website is still absent! Is something amiss with the Chicago History Museum's website? Has it disappeared for good? I sure hope not. Here is a saved version of it on the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/web/20241221...

web.archive.org

Encyclopedia of Chicago

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I hope this is just a temporary glitch, but the wonderful Encyclopedia of Chicago website (www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org) isn't working! (Hey, @chicollections.bsky.social — any idea what's going on?)

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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

a bunch of people asked if that image is ai. it's not, and it makes me so sad that I can do days of work and people just assume some computer shat it out anyway im going to dream of involucres now

a crop of an image with two collumns, essentially the same thing repeated twice. There's an aster species name, then two images of the flower involucre, then one for the pre-bloom bud

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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🤡😳 To hell with systematics, happy Aster Season, y'all.

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Sam @sjberger.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I do really like this illustration for goldenrods

An elaborate family tree of the goldenrods, Solidago et al

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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

i had this cool idea that i'd learn asters (symphyotrichum) this year and, chat, i'm dying over here ok but, IF, say, someone was doing a visual guide, would you use the AVERAGE value for a trait, or the MAXIMUM value for a trait? ie - Sym laeve on average has 23 petals or maximum 30 petals

a screenshot of a google sheet showing aster species and TONs of excess datapoints on id for each aster

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Jackie Seidel @jackieseidel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

PS. A student in my summer doctoral course here in Calgary 🇨🇦 saw the cover of your book and picked it up and said right away before she read anything that she KNEW where you did your research. Then she looked. She grew up exactly there. You captured the place perfectly with your artwork.

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The furry reddish-gold inflorescence of Sorghastrum nutans, another tallgrass species that is beautiful at all scales.

Part of the inflorescence of Sorghastrum nutans, reddish gold with hairs giving a furry look, as well as some long awns.

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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

There's a new garden here to commemorate her! www.yufa.ca/york_faculty...

yufa.ca

York Faculty Honoured: Pollinator Garden Celebrates Dr. Sheila Colla's Conservation Legacy

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Rob O'Malley (he/him) @robomalley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The Bee-cons have been lit and Rohan will answer

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Greetings all from Up On Goblin Hill! There's free worldwide shipping until Sunday at @inprnt.com ! 🍂No minimum purchase today (Friday) only! ✨🍂 www.inprnt.com/gallery/upon...

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 23/08/2026

Getting new copies of this in stock soon and they'll be back up in the shop. This was such a lovely comic to make, it was mostly just me sitting up at night with insomnia painting watercolors of tomatoes as they grew and changed and writing little essays and poems about them.

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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Posting goldenrods to @inaturalist.bsky.social ? Consider these tips to make sure your observation can actually be identified to species! The world's most common goldenrods are Solidago altissima and Solidago canadensis and telling them apart is a massive pain.

Chase-prairie's goldenrod ID TIP:
If it looks like this: (a goldenrod simplified cartoon)
Photograph this:
The plant
The stem and leaf attachment
Leaf top and shape
Leaf bottom

A side-by-side comparison between Solidago canadensis and Solidago altissima. The difference largely falls to what part of the stem is hairy, and the hairs on the bottom of the leaf

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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

@science-irl.bsky.social there was a room full of AWWWWWWWs and clapping and everyone is delighted and misses you!

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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Update on my morning: Was surveying one of my research benches of plants, saw a Melissodes agilis, and was SHOCKED at how tiny he was!!!!! What do you mean they are that small???

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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

my favoritest bees ever, the flying teddybears (Melissodes spp) are out and I love them so I had this wild idea to add them to my growing pile of visual bee ID keys This uhhhh may be a way bigger undertaking than I realized. What do mean mean ID hinges on the color of tiny hair on one abdomen band?

one of my photos of a Melissodes (subgenus Eumelissodes) on a ratibida pinnata flowerhead.
The bee is a boy (long antennae) made of golden fluff, with a giant ruff like a lion's mane and giant eyes every shojo protagonist wish they had

a messy sketch page with scribbles of male and female traits and a screenshot text being annotated for two particular species (agilis and trinodis)

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thene @thene.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Want to stress this - Cleves's complaints are NOT totally baseless, she had reason to be offended, but her open letters misled many people into believing things abt Walden's book that are simply not true. Eg. this skeet. Walden did not copy her book, and did give her credit! bsky.app/profile/then...

You are in fact misunderstanding. Work must be appropriately credited, and this was not. She copied Cleves' book in a different format without appropriate compensation. Had this been a fair exchange, nobody would be here right now.

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What struck me most is that TIllie sent Cleves a draft A YEAR before publication, as a courtesy (I'm told). Cleves claims in her post she was "too busy" to read it. For a year? Then the book comes out, gets press & accolades, and suddenly it's "theft." Not buying this.

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

And Tillie's footnotes need to be printed in the back of the book, not online. They list her source material scene by scene and completely undercut any accusation of stealing. Tillie also credits Cleves many times. Cleves insisted she didn't, which is false. This smacks of a bruised ego, frankly.

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

In all my books, especially KENT STATE and my new one THE DISSIDENTS, I spent as much time collecting visual research as I did researching people and facts & events. Cleves is not a visual storyteller, so this is no surprise. But to say that Walden did little research of her own is simply wrong.

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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

every day is a good day to find a new endangered bee population block by block, I will claim south chicagoland for Bombus affinis

a rusty patch bumblebee on a monarda fistulosa

an inaturalist screenshot showing rustypatch spotting

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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

i have reached the "I shan't!" part of the season. I will not be fooled into learning to identify species-level: Eupatorium Eutrochium Hypericum Helianthus Pycnanthemum Vernonia Agastache

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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Question prompted by a coworker that is sticking with me like a desmodium seed: What’s your favorite phylogenetic tree figure you’ve seen?

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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

gamer voice LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO No one has seen a rusty patch at this site before, and it's the southern sketchy edge of RPBB in Illinois AND it's a 2005 post-ag restoration. Pretty damn cool I believe in ONE man (this bee)

a photo of a rusty patched bumblebee's back and butt on a monarda. He has a very cute rustypatch whale tail

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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

now THIS is a paper to get excited about!!!!! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
Volume 159, October 2026, 105522

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
Roadside native species seeding practices of Midwestern US departments of transportation

Wesley J. Bollinger, Rabin Bhattarai, Jeffrey W. Matthews

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