Reposted by Mathryn KercierMolly Edwards, PhD @science-irl.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Especially rude for this to happen during #Botany2026 2377 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierDr. Hilary Rose Dawson @hilaryrosed.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I can't make it to #Botany2026 this year, but I don't want to miss out on all the cool plant science being presented. I've made a starter pack to follow along from home (and to find more great botanists to follow year-round). Reply here to be added! go.bsky.app/HdDpDrW 113013 0
Mathryn Kercier @kpmercier.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Heading to #Botany2026, find me at the @torreybotanical.bsky.social table! 080 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierShelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 31/07/2026At #Botany2026, I was hoping to start recruiting for my lab group. If you are interested in polyploidy and population genetics, please reach out. 05963 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierThe Torrey Botanical Society @torreybotanical.bsky.social · 27/03/2025The season of Torrey Talks begins again! On Mon, April 7th (6pm EST), John Zeigler, manager of the Thain Family Forest at the #NYBG will speak on the efforts to reintroduce extirpated flora into the garden grounds! Registration & info here: shorturl.at/HMdNP #botany #lecture 🌾🌿🧪shorturl.atUpcoming Lectures 071 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 16/02/2025IMPORTANT ACTION in response to the illegal firings of scientists and public health workers at HHS, NIH, CDC, and other federal agencies by the Trump administration. Rally at HHS this Wed, Feb 19 at 12 pm. Show your support! RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/... @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social 7471228 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierPaul Wallace @paulmwall.bsky.social · 09/02/2025BIRD REPORT sandhill cranes! Like 80 of them! This has been your Sunday afternoon BIRD REPORT 41946 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierMenno Schilthuizen @schilthuizen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024We have a cover! Click here for preordering the book: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204909... 122944 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierDr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Some 🧪 podcasts with stories about being underrepresented in science by UR scientists: @weouthere.bsky.social Black, Indigenous, and other UR ecologists, animal biologists, and more tell stories about their experiences in field work @lostwomenofsci.bsky.social women who have been overlooked in 🧪 35826 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/02/2025Positions of NYC mayoral candidates on a mask ban: AGAINST mask ban - Zohran Mamdani, Michael Blake, Jessica Ramos AGAINST mask ban, but support additional penalties for people who commit crimes while wearing masks - Brad Lander, Zellnor Myrie SUPPORT mask ban - Scott Stringer, Whitney Tilson 1430888 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 06/02/2025Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer. Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵media.tenor.coma man in a black shirt is looking at a screen with a red backgroundAlt: a man in a black shirt is looking at a screen with a red background 601619612 0
Mathryn Kercier @kpmercier.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Just finished reading Convenience Store Woman, a touching and somewhat bittersweet commentary on societal expectations and particularly the roles women are expected to inhabit 030 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 05/02/2025Every news story about egg prices needs to be paired with concurrent reporting about bird flu how have we not learned this very simple lesson 🫠 742766 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/02/2025Federal workers set off a counteroffensive with a raft of new lawsuits that contend that President Trump and Elon Musk are breaking the law to ransack the FBI and other federal agencies.nytimes.comA Legal Counteroffensive to Beat Back Trump’s Government PurgesA raft of new lawsuits contend that President Trump and Elon Musk are breaking the law to ransack the F.B.I. and other federal agencies. The courts will now decide. 1393227564 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierJamie Ong @justecocities.bsky.social · 03/02/2025In honor of #WorldWetlandsDay and #BlackHistoryMonth, check out this @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social panel on Black Ecologists-Shaping the Science of Ecology, featuring Dr. Rashidah Farid, Dr. Amina Pollard, and Dr. Steward Pickett. Recorded in 2021, it still resonates today. esa.org/black-ecolog... 11910 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 03/02/2025If you want to control the price of eggs, you need to control bird flu. And the worst thing you can do if you want to control bird flu is censor scientists and scrub CDC data. 201081266 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierNolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Famously no partisan politics by MLK 1313 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierAlex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Today's action from the @indivisible.org mailing list: contact your House reps to tell them to vote against the Dreamer Deportation Act (also known as the Laken Riley Act). You can find which 48 democrats voted "yea" last time, tell them that that's unacceptable and to vote "nay" on HR 29. 25139 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierRiker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 21/01/2025starship troubleshooting computer is being mean 317825 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierBen Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Just some amazing things created by federal civil servants 💚 227565 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierStar Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 01/01/2025 81279268 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierGabby Palomo, PhD @gabspalomo.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Ok people. I’m drawing silhouettes this afternoon. If you have a paper coming up and you are in need of a #silhouette please let me know and I will have it ready today. As always I upload all my silhouettes to phylopic.org I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.phylopic.orgPhyloPicPhyloPic is an open database of free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses. Download silhouettes for use in educational materi... 17444157 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierRosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 24/12/2024Happy Christmas Eve. Every year I inflict this upon you, one of my least popular comics ever. Enjoy! 733852675 0
Reposted by Mathryn Kerciertalia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Happening now: Amazon Labor Union workers and supporters are rallying outside JFK8 on Staten Island ahead of a midnight strike due to Amazon refusing to come to the bargaining table following a Dec. 15 deadline. #STRIKEMAS 211103502603 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 19/12/2024BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now. The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country. The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide. 973347459366 0
Reposted by Mathryn Kerciergavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Maybe I’m an old crusty guy but I don’t really want an “AI revolution” in science or conservation. Like don’t we all realize we should slow down a bit? Science is not just about producing new knowledge as quickly and efficiently as possible. We are not just little knowledge producing drones. 1132949 0
Mathryn Kercier @kpmercier.bsky.social · 15/06/2024On the way to #Botany2024! I'll be giving a lightning talk on Wednesday and generally hanging out at the @TorreyBotanical booth 🌿🧪🌾 0123 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierSusie To Go @susietogo.bsky.social · 26/03/2024It is a crime Waffle House isn't in every US city. It is an institution. 153 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierMelissa Cristina Márquez (she/her/ella) @melissacmarquez.bsky.social · 21/03/2024🚨 Exciting update: #scicomm study reveals that tweeting about published papers does NOT correlate with increased citation rates. Led by @trevorabranch.bsky.social , featuring @whysharksmatter.bsky.social @solomonrdavid.bsky.social @danirabaiotti.bsky.social & more. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...journals.plos.orgControlled experiment finds no detectable citation bump from Twitter promotionMultiple studies across a variety of scientific disciplines have shown that the number of times that a paper is shared on Twitter (now called X) is correlated with the number of citations that paper r... 53012 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierThe Torrey Botanical Society @torreybotanical.bsky.social · 17/03/2024Have you renewed your Torrey membership for 2024? Becoming a member is the best way to get updates on our upcoming events and journal issues! Renew or begin your membership today - www.torreybotanical.org/membership/ 🧪🌎🌿🍄🌾 041 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierChristopher Krieg 🌿 @ckrieg.bsky.social · 18/03/2024Please #Repost! I may develop a seminar course for incoming graduate students. You know, those "grad school 101", "principles of research", community building courses. What was your favorite / the most valuable part that course you took in grad school? 488 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierThe Torrey Botanical Society @torreybotanical.bsky.social · 14/03/2024Our next weekend is packed with events! 🧪🌎🌿🌾 3/22: Laura Briscoe leads a herbarium tour co-hosted with the @newyorkflora (limited tickets remaining). Then that evening, we host our annual banquet with a lecture by Dr. Emily Sessa - “Stories and insights from the William & Lynda Steere Herbarium”. 172 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierStacy Farina @stacyfarina.bsky.social · 07/03/2024This is a general warning, especially for grad students, that software can be flawed, even well-trusted and widely used packages, used correctly and with caution. It's important to investigate what the software is doing. So yeah, you have to be a software engineer in addition to a biologist. Fun. 14117 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 06/03/2024Still laughing hours after I read this. So true so true 4458361196 0
Reposted by Mathryn Kercierthey/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 27/02/2024Anyone saying deaths in Gaza have plateaued is lying. “Israel” intentionally destroyed all the infrastructure needed to track deaths, from the Health Ministry to every single hospital. People are starving, sick—they’ll be finding bodies for months after a ceasefire. It’s *bad*. 515560 0
Mathryn Kercier @kpmercier.bsky.social · 28/02/2024My #Oscars watch progress! Best Pic 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 Best Actress 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 Best Actor 🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩 Sup. Actress 🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩 Sup. Actor 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 Best Animated ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ Best Int'l ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 Directing 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 #oscaround oscaround.com 010 0
Mathryn Kercier @kpmercier.bsky.social · 21/02/2024If you see this, post a book(s) you've read more than once! 💙📚👀 020 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierRiker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 19/02/2024klingon slang for butt 912817 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierGina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 19/02/2024Guest blog from me on Dynamic Ecology, a guide for beginning grads on developing a reading habit and project ideas! Super grateful for reposts :)dynamicecology.wordpress.comNon-definitive guides on developing a reading habit & generating project ideasNote from Meghan: This is a guest post by my colleague Gina Baucom on a topic that's sure to be of interest to lots of readers! *** I lead a graduate-level professional development seminar* where we r... 27270 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierRua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 17/02/2024The racism behind chatGPT we aren't talking about... This year, I learned that students use chatGPT because they believe it helps them sound more respectable. And I learned that it absolutely does not work. A thread. 🧵 111051496 0
Mathryn Kercier @kpmercier.bsky.social · 19/02/2024Trying to watch all the oscar best picture nominees this year, here's my progress so far? My #Oscars watch progress! Best Pic 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩⬛ Best Actress 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 Best Actor 🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩 Sup. Actress 🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩 Sup. Actor 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 Best Animated ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ Best Int'l ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ Directing 🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛ #oscaround oscaround.com 010 0
Mathryn Kercier @kpmercier.bsky.social · 18/02/2024the best tiktok notification is when a friend liked a video I reposted 🥰 000 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierWannabe Wood Nymph @maran.bsky.social · 16/02/2024It’s wild what a decent paycheck can do for your mental health 021 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierRosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · 16/02/2024Sign the petition asking Duke university to reconsidering the closure of the herbarium chng.it/GZHdMnNYV5chng.itCan you spare a minute to help this campaign?The decision by Duke University to close their herbarium is deeply concerning. Herbaria are not just repositories of plant specimens, they are living libraries of life on Earth. They hold the keys to ... 09489 0
Mathryn Kercier @kpmercier.bsky.social · 12/02/2024What line dance are we doing to beyonce's new single? 000 0
Reposted by Mathryn KercierClaire Spiller @claireaspiller.bsky.social · 11/02/2024Happy Superb Owl Sunday 🦉🏈✨ Do you think we'll get to touch the beak? 525270 0
