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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾

@chaseprairie.bsky.social
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Research Scientist 🌾 Adj Professor Scicomm 🌾 Env/Sci History 🌾 Comics history, plants, & goldenrod 🌾🏳️‍🌈🌾 liz.kozik.net she/her @negauneeinstitute.bsky.social 🌿 Chicago Botanic Garden 🌿 rethinkinglawns.com

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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
idk man sometimes you just gotta cuddle your bro in a sunflower
two male melissodes trinodis snugglin in a sunflower
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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
i'm coping with reality in a great way come join me in my new @inaturalist.bsky.social Project www.inaturalist.org/projects/bee...
a screenshot of an inat project called "Bee Bros Broing Out", icon is "Bro Squad", background is a male aggregation of resting eucerini bees
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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
honks clown nose
the black and white aster chart from above is now cutesy and purple and green, now showing flowers and multiple levels of leaf shapes for five different aster species
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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yup! asters just have to be that difficult!
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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 · 29/09/2026
Go do that vote thing or whatever
Smiling fat blonde woman with an I voted sticker
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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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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it comes from a place of deep self-loathing
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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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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
i shant ever be accused of half-assing
a screenshot of a spreadsheet of asters showing multiple columns of leaf shapes and then an illustrator file of leaf shapes lined up in detail of each leaf gradation
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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...
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Comics as Scholarship & Alternatives
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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh! KC Councillor did part of his dissertation on transmasc experiences as a comic too! I think the best place to see his work is insta www.instagram.com/kcthesunshin...
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Instagram
Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My comic dissertation is in my profile and @nsousanis.bsky.social ‘s comic diss-turned-book is probably in the library! I’m sure I have shorter form things somewhere but I’m at the dentist waiting room right now 😅
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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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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yeah I can totally see the transposing Liz/Anna to get Linn, which might actually be a cooler name
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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Omg hilarious
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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Natalie wanted to pass on this , this is a real thing people are doing and yes!! www.internationaloaksociety.org/content/new-...
internationaloaksociety.org
A New Conservation Program for the Endangered Quercus acerifolia | International Oak Society
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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
AMAZING I just texted Natalie this. Perhaps there can be peace between the people of the Tree and the people of the Forb
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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hell yeah! Dr Love just planted some Oglethorpes on Northwesstern’s campus as part of a bigger project on city climates and rare trees apps.dailynorthwestern.com/botanicgarden/
apps.dailynorthwestern.com
This sapling is from California. The Chicago Botanic Garden planted it on campus — and it's surviving
Quercus wislizeni, the interior live oak, is not a species normally found in Illinois. The evergreen tree — though resilient to fluctuating temperatures, elevations and...
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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wait but actually, do you work professionally around Oglethorpe oaks? One of my collaborators Dr Natalie Love is working on a paper on rare oak grafting, botanic gardens, and urban trees. I have some vague memory of talking Oglethorpes with her
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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
(For legal reasons, this is a joke)
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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sounds like it’s time to start padding the numbers!
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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
im collecting new names
Key for IDing symphyotrichum and close allies of the midwest by Dr. Linn Anna KozikGuide by a research scientist at the [Chicago Botanic Garden]. Credit to Dr. Liz Ann Kozik
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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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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
PLATONIC IDEAL GOLDENROD
Wow those are some goddamn beautiful goldenrodsWow the grace the beauty that sure is a perfect goldenrod
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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
She is the platonic ideal of a goldenrod and got her own spread in my dissertation intro
Comic nemoralis 1Comic nemoralis 2
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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Thems fighting words. Nemoralis isn’t common near me and in a world of canadensis, altissima, gigantea and sempervirens, I’m not gonna hear that slander about my girl nemoralis ffffd
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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR
top identifiers of solidago nemoralis

I have twice as many obs as anyone else
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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When I close my eyes, i see spatulate leaves on a finely haired reddish-gray stem surprising amount are accurate, so the CV is doing well, but many IDs were incorrect. Only one stood out as some sort of weird hybrid.
a screenshot in which ddennis is blown out of the water by the power of my solidago nemoralis ids
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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...
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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
GET REKT DDENIS
a screenshot of the solidago nemoralis id leader board. its me, im at the top now
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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
your color sense and linework are ever perfect, as always. swoon.
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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 · 12/09/2026
people keep asking for my reference images for involucres, sooooooooooooo here I am, 9:42pm on a Friday, looking up the name and iNat obs numbers so that it's all ethical and stuff. I've had to replace five so far because people did not use CC copyright, boooooo blerrrrrgghhghhhhhh
a screenshot of an indesign file in progress, showing the boxes around different text boxes and images. Photos of asters are labeled with their names, the person who photographed them, and the iNat observation ID #
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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 flowera collage of different symphyotrichum flowers in profile showing the different structures of the "cup" of each flower (Involucres)
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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
omg that's amazing
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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 flowera collage of different symphyotrichum flowers in profile showing the different structures of the "cup" of each flower (Involucres)
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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
symphyotrichum and eurybia!! I realized this morning that I should probably add in boltonia too but ughghghgghghghgh
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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
NO LONGER SHALL THE SYMPHYOTRICHUM HOLD US BACK
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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
How are your involucres this morning?
A screenshot of an iPad in progress doing work. On the left is a reference series of flower cups (involucres) and on the right is flowers and drawings of the involucres
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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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🌾 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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