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David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I am looking to hire two seasonal field/laboratory technicians to join the lab working at the MSU Kellogg Biological Station and Main Campus. The primary work will be dedicated to our switchgrass program with potential to expand into other roles in the lab with time. careers.msu.edu/jobs/profess...

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Professional Aide - East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Position Summary(Basic Job Function) This is a temporary or an on-call position. Provides professional support. Responsibilities may include general business, science, medical, agricultural or other p...

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm dreaming about a meadow garden for next year. I want it to be fluffy.. boneset, joe pye weed, mountain mint, blazing star, goldenrod, some northern sea oats and groundnut in there - maybe both purple and red monarda? Don't ask me where I'm finding the space

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 26/08/2026

it's #weirdpoemwednesday apparently

my translation of a Wang Fanzhi 王梵志/"Brahmacarin Wang" poem:

i have a couple acres of land
plantings on the south mountain slope
four or five pine trees of my own
and two or three hills of beans as well.
when it's hot i just go for a dip in the pond
or take the cool breeze singing on the bank
i come and go as i please and i've got enough
so i'd like to see somebody try me now.

--attributed to "Brahmacarin Wang," fl. 7th/8th c.

吾有十畝田，種在南山坡。
青松四五樹，綠豆兩三窠。
熱即池中浴，涼便岸上歌。
遨遊自取足，誰能奈我何。

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jessamine finch @seedystudies.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

📣 New York Botanical Garden is seeking a career-track Restoration Ecologist! 🥾 develop ext. funded, field-oriented, collections-informed, & collaborative research program 📨 Optimal consideration: Sep. 25 (open till filled) 📆 Start: Jan. 1, 2027 (negotiable) 🤑 $87.5k jobs.jobvite.com/nybg/job/o8s...

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New York Botanical Garden is looking for Assistant Curator, Restoration Ecology.

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Their contexts are different, but I hope Brattleboro is able to save the birth center, as Troy was.

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm holding out hope that this will happen for you 🙏

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Ospreys do eat young blue catfish (that's nearly all that's there, now), but PCBs and other contaminants may pose a threat - and it doesn't seem like they are adequately replacing menhaden in osprey diets.

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This article is missing a major threat amplifying fishing pressure in the Chesapeake Bay - invasive blue catfish, which predate heavily upon menhaden (and lots of other native species). They dominate estuarine environments in the Chesapeake bay in truly astonishing abundance and density.

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My cat will sit and observe, dangling his tail in the water. His tail has dense fur so he doesn't realize it's getting wet until after he leaves the bath and it starts dripping behind him

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Biologists, are we using the term "parent species" to describe the taxa encompassing a subspecies? Or is there another phrase which is more clear?

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My landlords yard guy weedwhacked my Carolina lupine 😭

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I'm on the brink of staging a stakeout to find out WTF is eating the Carolina lupine. They've also gone for the redbud and the Baptisia so they seem to have a taste for legumes (and who can blame them). The plants are all there for the bugs but I want the lupine to have a chance to establish

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I have lots of gorgeous sedges which I want to host butterflies, but I don't think there's enough food in my area to summon them to lay eggs. Next year I'll focus on bigger/phenologically varied floral rewards... I just love grasses and sedges so much I keep planting those.

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I might need some higher-reward flowers nearby - I've got a tall meadow rue which is also attracting flies, and some northern sea oats which are gorgeous but not appealing to bugs at the moment. The monarda, sage, and baptisia have all gone by and my Carolina lupine is being suspiciously defoliated

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My mountain mint seems to be attracting mostly flies and a few black and white wasps (visitors I'm happy to see!). It seems like other people see a lot of bees and butterflies, but none on mine - it's not blooming super profusely though there are quite a few infloresences.

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In Alien Clay (which I loved!) the intrigue was perhaps heartfelt and spleen-felt and felt in any number of rearrange-able organs and irradiated cells? About as cozy as cryosleep!

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Somebody tell me not to acronymize my newest research product as NIPPL

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

difficult-to-cancel subscriptions across 15 or 20 news sites just to read these articles. I subscribe to one or two whose articles I'm consistently interested in, but I'd love to be able to read more broadly and support journalism - outside of a subscription model. 2/2

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is a real question for journalism folks on here - why don't online news sites allow me to buy access to a single article? I close out of articles I'm interested in so often due to paywalls. Some of them I'd pay a couple bucks to read. But I just will not sign up for ongoing, 1/2

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

A couple minutes late to work because I stopped to admire some really lush purslane

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Interesting! Thanks for sharing this. I have a new small HEPA filter in my home (both for mitigating respiratory illness esp. with a baby, and for wildfire smoke /VOC offgassing). But I don't really know how often to run it to balance energy use/effectiveness.

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The sassafras iced tea is what's really getting me here 😆this made me hungry

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Is it #weirdpoemWednesday? Here's one from a few years ago when I was writing daily fish poems. @tomsnarsky.bsky.social Click for full poem - a bit long for this format

ELECTROFISHING / ATLANTIC SALMON

ZAP! Ha Ha Ha!
We heard you and we came.
We wanted to taste the anode, since we had no choice.
Your stun gun hijacked our muscles.
Now we are here to laugh at you and dance in your bucket.
Ha Ha Ha! We all saw you when you slipped in the river
and you lost the grip of your hip waders
and cold electrified water got in the rubber.
YES! That is the sort of thing we really love. That is why we came.

By now you may have noticed:
We are not the Atlantic Salmon you were hoping for.
We are the Elopomorph Superorder.
We are like olms with eyes or like worms with bones.
We are the treasured jesters of your nets. We are
THE AMERICAN EELS!

Do not be impressed by frogs who go between
wet mud and wet leaves. We have seen the only two sides
of the world.
Salt and not salt.
These are the absolute antipodes.
Because of this it is very natural and easy for us to die or be born
or move between other such states of matter.
NO BIG DEAL!

But your hands are horrible to touch and unlike us.
Your current could hold us only because we LOVE currents.
We do not love your hands and so we are going now.
We know where the salmon went.
We have seen them on the way to our own secret place.
They are chasing a different anode
far more convulsing than yours. No offense.
ZAP! Ha Ha Ha.
We aren't telling!

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

So cool! My baby will be born in September and receive RSV antibodies. I wonder if this is what they'll get? I hope so. I love a BOGO deal!!

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It seems like the lichenologists are probably having the most fun with it

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I did a plant nomenclature project a while ago and in the process compiled some really goofy ones (click to expand)

List of silly plant names with photo slices of each plant. List reads:
Aunt Lucy
Parry's pussypaws
Dolly Parton's lichen
ant plant
fool's parsley
little weaselsnout
nipple beehive cactus
treelover
annual bastardcabbage
stunted she-oak
hairy banana
salty popcornflower
fragrant popcornflower
turkeypeas
beautiful bladderpod
stinking willie
icecream bean
liberal
flaccidgrass
bats in the belfry
devilqueen
crusty jelly lichen
cerebral fishscale lichen
tube tongue
urban spurge
navel cornsalad
intestine silverskin lichen
wartycabbage
summer snowflake
Urban's false cocaine
biscuitroot
musky stork's bill
pale five eyes
single delight
fire on the mountain
least snoutbean
slugwood

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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

REVIEW Native and Non‐Native Populations Respond Unevenly to River Barrier Removals 🔗 buff.ly/RLaCIm5

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This morning, I thought "I don't need two breakfasts. I can just have one breakfast." And you know what? I was so wrong

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

On my morning walk I was startled by a cyclist stopping suddenly and shouting to his partner "Holy shit Rebecca! Look at that huge fucking sycamore tree!!" (our local ancient celebrity). He apologized for yelling but it was really delightful.

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Maybe we can just advertise them as containing protein? I'm pretty sure that's actually true....

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

If we called the HPV vaccine a peptide I feel like we could get rid of cervical cancer

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Basking in the warm glow of my free regional bus, bridge repairs, and expanded childcare access☀️🚌💛

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This is some pretty good loot... you're enticing people to defeat you!!

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I guess we all get pretty extensive leave from work when we die... though the rest of us normal people don't get paid for that time

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Never a bad time for this song, but this is an especially good one: sarinapartridge.bandcamp.com/track/i-drea...

sarinapartridge.bandcamp.com

I Dream of Water, by Sarina Partridge

track by Sarina Partridge

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I mentioned taking some steps to avoid it in a pregnancy group I'm in, and got "don't worry, it doesn't harm your baby, it only gives you explosive diarrhea". OK but you can see why that might be something I'd like to avoid? For my own sake???

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

At the pond yesterday, saw two big great blue herons flying and hanging out by the water with two littler great blue herons 😍

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Next ailment will be a saltwater taffy deficiency

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

acrobatic bee included with purchase??

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Various feelings about the new NYT piece on native plant gardening (positive and some negative) - but one complaint is that the author refers consistently to Doug Tallamy as "Tallamy" and to Cindy Tallamy as "Cindy". I double checked - she does indeed have a last name (like most women!)

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It doesn't account directly for drought tolerance, but if you are in MA my research group made a resource for choosing present/future climate-resilient native and near-native species to plant in your garden. (It's the plant selection tool here) www.climatesmartnativeplants.org

climatesmartnativeplants.org

Climate-Smart Native Plants for the Northeast

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Worked on a review today and immediately got back a review for a long-lingering paper so I think this is true

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Amazing! Thanks for the ID. I'll keep my eyes out at the pond and hope to see them again. Great video

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

What kind of bird is this? I think I saw one recently and I couldn't figure it out

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Spent my walk this morning moving stranded freshwater mussels back into the water. Poor amazing little animals - I hope it rains soon

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I noticed that too. I think when you are using hue in a spectrum as they do here you imply similarity/distance based on the colormap- putting ie majority black and Latino communities in very high contrast with majority white communities as "more different" vs. other group comparisons

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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

What a fucking joke to have to do my university's required Title IX training about complying with athletic regulations, this week of all weeks

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