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Dr. Erin Zimmerman 🇨🇦

@doctorzedd.bsky.social
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Evolutionary biologist, science writer, illustrator, big geek. Really into plants.🌿 Author of UNROOTED: Botany, Motherhood, & the Fight to Save an Old Science #botany #womeninstem #iamabotanist > GenAI is theft. <

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Dr. Erin Zimmerman 🇨🇦 @doctorzedd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’ve been casually following news about these guys since I read Douglas Adams’ Last Chance to See as a teenager, and this makes me so happy.
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 18/09/2026
Investigative journalism is hard! It's expensive! It's legally risky and almost never pays off financially! And yet somehow these business bro bottom feeding dipshit motherfuckers have found a way to make the whole situation worse.
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Dr. Erin Zimmerman 🇨🇦 @doctorzedd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Why Not Both? The Iconic Meme
ALT: Why Not Both? The Iconic Meme
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Rebekah Rogers @evolscientist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
USDA approves blight resistant chestnut trees. www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/202...
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USDA approves genetically modified American chestnut tree developed at SUNY ESF
Decision marks first time a genetically modified tree designed for forest restoration clears regulatory hurdle.
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Dr. Erin Zimmerman 🇨🇦 @doctorzedd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m writing about the Devonian right now, and all the changes that followed plants moving to land, and I couldn’t agree more. This planet has been home to a series of shockingly different worlds. It’s scary how much it transforms over time. 🧪🌾
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Alison 🇨🇦 @n8rnerd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I’ve been remiss with promotion! My book Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be has been officially back in print since September 1st with the release of this nifty new softcover edition! kidscanpress.com/product/evol...
Softcover edition of my book Evolution, photographer in my patio garden
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Dr. Erin Zimmerman 🇨🇦 @doctorzedd.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The latest issue of my botany and evolution newsletter is out! Look here for imaginary trips to the Carboniferous, new clues about photosynthesis, and a great new book about field science. 🌿 mailchi.mp/be3e6226be6a...
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A Feast for the Curious, Issue 29 🌿
A newsletter of botany, evolution, science history, and scientific illustration.
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
this is completely insane: since when is it acceptable for a tech company to rewrite news outlets' headlines without their consent? especially at a time when audiences are sensitive to how stories are framed in headlines? (ie Israel/Palestine, the Trump admin, ICE) www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...
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Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines
Let us know if you see more.
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Dr. Erin Zimmerman 🇨🇦 @doctorzedd.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
So excited to be talking about women in botany at this year’s Canadian Botanical Association conference! 🧪 #womeninstem
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Dr. Erin Zimmerman 🇨🇦 @doctorzedd.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
For #taxonomistappreciationday I offer my efforts at wrapping my head around basal plant systematics. #iamabotanist
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Dr. Erin Zimmerman 🇨🇦 @doctorzedd.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
In my favourite place, spending too much money. 🪴
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Lisa S Gardiner @lisasgardiner.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
If you'd like a brief escape from the global chaos, I recommend reading REEFS OF TIME, my latest book. It will take you to tropical islands to hunt for fossils and underwater to living reefs, which are somehow both fragile and resilient (as are we). #scicomm #nonfiction #coral #fossilfriday
Multiples copies of REEFS OF TIME: WHAT FOSSILS REVEAL ABOUT CORAL SURVIVAL in a box that arrived at the author's front stoop and made her smile.
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Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Anyone, anywhere can take part in this weekend's bird-watching extravaganza for science! 🧪 🪶 www.scientificamerican.com/article/join...
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Go bird-watching this weekend and support a global community science project
Avian enthusiasts around the world will identify and count birds from February 13 through February 16 as part of a massive citizen science project
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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
In the era of deregulation, it's nice to have a reminder that environmental regulation really does work. I'll be using this little piece of hope as motiviation to fight back against all this deregulation, and I hope you do the same.
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Lower levels of PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ in North Atlantic whales show regulations work: Study
North Atlantic long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas) now have 60% lower concentrations of some legacy PFAS than they did a decade ago, offering rare good news about the effectiveness of chemic...
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Dr. Erin Zimmerman 🇨🇦 @doctorzedd.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Happy Darwin Day! 🌿🌾
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Today is #WorldCancerDay, so I'm resharing my essay for @statnews.com on the Trump admin’s cruel disbanding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium. My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. This research would have helped children like him www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/p...
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The Trump admin’s cruel disbanding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium
My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. The defunding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium will deny treatments to children like him.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Science is hard, even when you love it. And as much as I love it, it also takes a lot. We make sacrifices. Family. Physical and mental health. Financial security. Most of my colleagues went into STEM as an act of love. Love for people, for places, for the cosmos, for a planet we all share.
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Dr. Erin Zimmerman 🇨🇦 @doctorzedd.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Plant morphology in a nutshell. 🌱 #iamabotanist
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Tove Danovich @tkdano.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
“Between postal delays, weather events, and the fact that these are day-old animals, it’s likely that at least tens of thousands of these baby birds will die before reaching their intended destination.” My latest for @cogwbur.bsky.social www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
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Let's stop shipping baby chickens in the mail
"The practice of shipping chicks through the mail began in 1918 with the promise that chicks would only be shipped if they could reach their destination within 72 hours," writes Tove Danovich. "That i...
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Dr. Erin Zimmerman 🇨🇦 @doctorzedd.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I cannot wait to watch this.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
What happens in the rapidly warming Arctic does not stay in the Arctic ... New study: Arctic warming delays the African and Asian monsoon retreats, amplifying autumn rainfall [and causing extreme floods] #climatecrisis HT @carbonbrief.org iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Arctic warming delays the Afro-Asian monsoon retreat amplifying autumn rainfall
Arctic warming delays the Afro-Asian monsoon retreat amplifying autumn rainfall, Zhang, Jie, Chen, Haishan, Ma, Weiqiang, Riaz, Rafi, Syed, Sidra, Ullah, Irfan, Shen, Jiayu
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Melissa Sevigny @melissasevigny.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Plant lovers, don't miss the bit about @doctorzedd.bsky.social's next book! #books #writing #botany #womeninstem 👇👇👇
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Dr. Erin Zimmerman 🇨🇦 @doctorzedd.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The latest issue of my botany & evolution newsletter, A Feast for the Curious, is out. Herein: ancient giant fungus(?), altering plants' breathing, how humans envision time, and a bit about my next book. 🌿 mailchi.mp/2254356f8112...
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A Feast for the Curious, Issue 28 🌿
A newsletter of botany, evolution, science history, and scientific illustration.
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John Paul Helveston @jhelvy.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Incredible self own for the US. The damage being done to the US scientific enterprise is generational. We will look back on this as a tipping point where the US chose all on its own to stop leading the world in science. www.science.org/content/arti...
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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
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Dr. Erin Zimmerman 🇨🇦 @doctorzedd.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Hey! I’m writing another book! VERDANT is about how plants have (literally) changed the world. Looking forward to working with @mitpress.bsky.social 🌾🧪🌿
Book announcement for a science book called VERDANT, about plant evolution.
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Dr. Erin Zimmerman 🇨🇦 @doctorzedd.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I’ve seen a lot of weird YouTube ads over the years, but I was not prepared for Marky Mark selling me a prayer app.
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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
“The speed, the scope and the severity of the attacks on science are beyond anything we’ve ever seen,” says @gretchentg.bsky.social. My @nature.com story on the human toll of the 2nd Trump presidency. Thx to @dochfroehlich.bsky.social, @briannosek.bsky.social, @katharinehayhoe.com & others.
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‘Shattered’: US scientists speak out about how Trump policies disrupted their careers
Researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House.
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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
OTD 1908 Willhelm Weinberg gave a talk to the Society for the Natural History of the Fatherland in Württemberg giving the population genetics equations GH Hardy would independently publish 5 months later. It was 35 years before his work was recognized in the Anglophone world. 🐋🌱🥢🧪 #EvoBio #HistSTM
Photo of Weinberg. Photographer unknown.
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Dr. Erin Zimmerman 🇨🇦 @doctorzedd.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
🤮 Fuck right off with that.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
The increasingly common habit of screenshotting the AI summary of a Google search and presenting it as evidence must be nipped in the bud immediately. That is nothing. That is not anything, it is not a thing.
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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Last week, I posted about flower terms; this week, we’ll look at surface descriptors, which are usually applied to leaves. We’ll start with 𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗼𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲, as seen in this Macadamia integrifolia, meaning “having areoles,” which are the spaces bounded by veins. #Proteaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Close-up photo of a lamina and midvein, in transmitted light. The lamina is divided into islands surrounded by fine veins. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
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Melissa Sevigny @melissasevigny.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
For your Sunday reading, proud to have this piece in @orionmagazine.bsky.social about the legendary Sand Trout. (Photo is a real life horned lizard, not a mythical creature). More stories about cryptids in their winter issue. orionmagazine.org/article/the-...
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The Sand Trout’s Rise - Orion Magazine
"Legend says they slumber inches beneath the surface of arroyos and emerge to mate only when water flows."
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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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Melissa Sevigny @melissasevigny.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
What a pleasure it was to write the epic story of plate tectonics - and the woman who brought the theory from the ocean to the land - with the fabulous editors at @highcountrynews.org. Give a read! #womeninstem #science #geology #scicomm
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Dr. Erin Zimmerman 🇨🇦 @doctorzedd.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I need some experimental super-fertilizer(?), because this sounds sweet.
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Dr. Erin Zimmerman 🇨🇦 @doctorzedd.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
So pleased that Unrooted got a shout-out as one of listeners’ favourite history reads of 2025! If you’re interested in the history of women in botany, check it out! 🌿🌾
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Markus Wagner @wagnermarkus.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Winter blooming of hundreds of plants in UK ‘visible signal’ of climate breakdown www.theguardian.com/environment/... Great article by Ajit Niranjan in @theguardian.com about the @bsbibotany.bsky.social #NewYearPlantHunt #NYPH
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Winter blooming of hundreds of plants in UK ‘visible signal’ of climate breakdown
New year plant hunt shows rising temperatures are shifting natural cycles of wildflowers such as daisies
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Jill U. Adams @juadams.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
I love this paragraph on the ever-present uncertainty in science. From the book Unrooted by @doctorzedd.bsky.social
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Marjorie Lundgren @marjorielundgren.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
I am so excited to read this! 🧪🌱#merrychristmas @doctorzedd.bsky.social
Hand holding up the very cool botany novel, “Unrooted”
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Fuck off, plate.
A decorative plate on a shop shelf that says “little duties still put off - will end in never done! By and by is soon enough - has ruined many a one.”
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Chris Martine | Plant People FTW @martinebotany.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
This year’s holiday book picks for my lab students: Unrooted by @doctorzedd.bsky.social and The Call of the Honeyguide by Rob Dunn. Can’t wait to dig in and discuss ‘em. #scicomm #iamabotanist #sciencebooks
Two books, side-by-side.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 13/11/2025
Moss: Private Investigator Due to their unique traits, mosses have been used as forensic evidence to determine how a crime occurred, sometimes even linking a person to a very specific location. 🧵⬇️
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Dr. Erin Zimmerman 🇨🇦 @doctorzedd.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Plants are under-appreciated as projectile launchers.
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University of Alberta Press @ualbertapress.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
MELTDOWN is an exploration of identity, gender power dynamics, work-life balance, competing goals and dreams, support for mental health, imposter syndrome, and the delights of writing. bit.ly/41lawaq #Science #Glaciers #Hydrology #Fieldwork #Memoir #WomenInSTEM @snowhydro.bsky.social
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Dr. Erin Zimmerman 🇨🇦 @doctorzedd.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I hear there have been auroras lately.
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Dr. Erin Zimmerman 🇨🇦 @doctorzedd.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Today in conferences that probably aren’t virtual, but I wish they were. 🌾🧪
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Dr. Erin Zimmerman 🇨🇦 @doctorzedd.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Happy ‘I Read Canadian’ Day! 🍁 May I humbly suggest a Canadian science memoir about the history of women in botany and the struggle of being a mother in modern science research? #ireadcanadian #womeninstem
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Sarah Land 🌱 @sarahland.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
For all I love the exuberance of the garden in summer, there's a lot to be said for this time of year with it's tiny treasures 🌱
White lichen on a black piece of wood next to a dark green lichen with white hairs on the underside of the leaves
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