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Harpo Faust

@softcorebotany.bsky.social
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Botanist. Collections Manager at the University of New Mexico Herbarium. #collectionsareessential

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Harpo Faust @softcorebotany.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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The Great Basketball Escape: Albuquerque, New Mexico
The howl of women's basketball, past & present, is right here.
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Sabreena Merchant @sabreenajm.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Statement from the WNBPA after their meeting with the WNBA today, which lasted a couple hours and featured a record turnout of more than 40 players.
WNBPA STATEMENT REGARDING CBA MEETING IN INDIANAPOLIS
 
INDIANAPOLIS, IN, Thursday, July 17, 2025 –– Earlier today, the Women’s National Basketball Players Association (“WNBPA”) and the Women’s National Basketball Association (“WNBA”) met in person to discuss their ongoing negotiations for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (“CBA”). Alongside  WNBPA staff and our CBA Advisory Team, more than 40 Players, including All-Stars, Executive Committee members, and Player Representatives, attended the meeting. This marked the largest in-person player turnout in Union history during CBA negotiations.
 
The WNBA’s response to our proposals fails to address the priorities we’ve voiced from the day we opted out: a transformational CBA that delivers our rightful share of the business that we’ve built, improves working conditions, and ensures the success we create lifts both today’s players and the generations that follow.
 
We’ve told the League and teams exactly why their proposal falls so short. This business is booming – media rights, ratings, revenue, team valuations, expansion fees, attendance, and ticket sales – are all up in historic fashion. But short-changing the working women  who make this business possible stalls growth. The only thing more unsustainable than the current system is pretending it can go on forever. 
  
It’s not complicated. 
 
We are committed to the fight. We are committed to returning to the negotiating table. And we will not stop until we achieve the transformational CBA this moment demands. 
 
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Harpo Faust @softcorebotany.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Still coming off an alpine high from our trip last week in the Wheeler Peak Wilderness documenting alpine flora apart of Western N. America Alpine Plant Surveys. Highlights included this alpine poppy not documented in New Mexico for over a century! 🌱 @jkleinkopf.bsky.social @hannahmarx.bsky.social
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Harpo Faust @softcorebotany.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Please Share Widely! Funds needed urgently to support temporary infrastructure of Carrizo Mountain Herbarium. 🌱
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Ms. Wong @mauiwong.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Please don't stop talking about Palestine.
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Check out this new #AJB essay by @thebeachcomber.bsky.social, @hsauquet.bsky.social & @willcornwell.bsky.social! #Citizenscience records are fuelling exciting discoveries of new plant species doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #iNaturalist #herbarium
A world map showing the locations of new plant species discovered through iNaturalist. Each species is represented by a photograph and text explaining the family and year of description.
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
The new issue of #AppsPlantSci is online! Highlights include the PteridoPortal, a publicly accessible collection of #pteridophyte records; an R tool to assemble and organize virtual #herbaria; and more bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21680450... #botany #DeepLearning #paleobotany #iNaturalist
The cover of the March-April issue of Applications in Plant Sciences. The image shows a curated set of 28 digitized herbarium specimens of the genus Acer, retrieved from the digital collection of the University of Michigan Herbarium (MICH) using the mvh pipeline.
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
🌿 Join iDigBio on May 6 at 1 PM ET for a webinar on how advocacy helped save the Duke Herbarium—and what we can learn moving forward. BSA was proud to support the petition to save the herbarium—and now, we hope you'll help amplify this important event. Event Info: www.idigbio.org/content/spec...
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Laura Lagomarsino, PhD @tropicalbotany.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The LSU herbarium is featured in the most recent Country Roads. Check out the article here! countryroadsmagazine.com/lsu-herbarium/
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The Flower Files
Inside the Shirley C. Tucker Herbarium, the largest collection of plants and fungi specimens in Louisiana
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Harpo Faust @softcorebotany.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Got to host an amazing seminar by Ben Legler, a forever mentor to me, on moonworts which was everything and more!
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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
This #InternationalWomensDay, watch our fascinating talk from Gem Toes-Crichton on her visual research exploring pioneering women in botany. She features Elizabeth Blackwell, Anna Atkins, and the 1994 winner of our Jill Smythies prize, Rosemary Wise. Watch: www.youtube.com/watc... #IWD2025
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Interstices | The Hidden Histories of Women in Botany
“Individual contributions are all too often forgotten, overshadowed, or never acknowledged; lost in the gaps among objects.” - Professor Stephen A. Harris, Druce Curator of Oxford University Herbaria. (Adapted from the foreword to Gem Toes-Crichton’s book.)” In this talk, Gem Toes-Crichton shares h
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Richard Calis @richardcalis.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
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Postdoctoral Researcher: Colonial History of Botanic Gardens
Interested in colonial history, botanical gardens and decolonisation? Join our international team of scholars!
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UTK Herbarium - TENN @utkherbarium.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Hello botany enthusiasts! With March Madness right around the corner that means it's time for… Herb-Madness! 32 plant genera are set to compete in the 2025 Herb Madness Championship. We have an exciting lineup for this year’s Herb Madness, but we can’t do it without YOUR HELP. #herbmadness2025
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Isaac Lichter Marck @ca-naturalist.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
🚨Urgent: Help Save Decades of Work by Navajo Botanists🚨 For decades, Arnold Clifford has built up the Carrizo Mountain Herbarium. Now, this collection is at risk—snowstorms are causing the roof to cave in, putting >30,000 specimens in danger. #IndigenousScience #Conservation #MutualAid #botany
Arnold Clifford, Navajo Botanist, holds up a pressed herbarium specimen of an undescribed species of thistle found in Carrizo mountain.The roof of Carrizo Mountain Herbarium caving in, leaving herbarium cabinets inside vulnerable to snow and rain.
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Harpo Faust @softcorebotany.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Urgent support needed for a leaking roof of the Carrizo Mountain Herbarium! Digital Donations can be made through Venmo to @ShawnaB3- with the note "Carrizo Mountain Herbarium Urgent Support"
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NPR @npr.org · 26/02/2025
The plant, formally known as Ovicula biradiata, is especially notable for being the simultaneous discovery of a new species and genus. It was found with help from the community science app iNaturalist. By @jamesdoubek.bsky.social
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Meet the 'wooly devil,' a new plant species discovered in Big Bend National Park
The plant, formally known as Ovicula biradiata, is especially notable for being the simultaneous discovery of a new species and genus. It was found with help from the community science app iNaturalist...
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PhytoKeys @phytokeys.pensoft.net · 24/02/2025
For the first time in nearly 50 years, a new plant genus and species has been discovered in a U.S. national park. 🔗 @pensoft.net blog post: blog.pensoft.net/2025/02/19/t... 🔗 Research paper: doi.org/10.3897/phyt... @calacademy.bsky.social @ca-naturalist.bsky.social
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The woolly devil: a landmark U.S. plant discovery
Belonging to the sunflower family, the tiny plant was found in Big Bend National Park, Texas.
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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
🌿 new plant species found in national park. We can’t sell off our natural parks if for no other reason than that they hold undiscovered species like this new one. Plus all the other reasons we can’t sell our shared natural heritage.
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'Devil'-like flower with 'horns' found in Texas is new species: Its location is secret
In a rugged stretch of desert in one of the nation's most remote national parks, a volunteer's eyes were caught by a colorful sight sprouting up from the beige and brown of the Chihuahuan Desert—"devi...
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Hannah E. Marx, PhD @hannahmarx.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
"To plan for the future, it’s sometimes necessary to look to the past." Nice highlight of our work synthesizing temporal, taxonomic, and spatial trends in botanical collections to facilitate new research avenues @emlombardi.bsky.social @softcorebotany.bsky.social
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New research prepares way for future botanical research
To plan for the future, it’s sometimes necessary to look to the past. To improve natural history collection and analysis in the future, a team of researchers is looking at collections of plants from a...
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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 06/02/2025
this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/02/2025
no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
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Isaac Lichter Marck @ca-naturalist.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
A bright spot in a dark week. The International Compositae Alliance (TICA) has just put out the newest volume of the bi-annual publication Capitulum 3(2) and this issue has STYLE. 😎🌼 OA, here: www.compositae.org/capitulum_03... #botany #plantscience #ecology #biodiversity #evolution #asteraceae
Journal cover for Capitulum, head of a Boneset with long, lilac style branches. a screen shot from the new issue with an SEM image of a style apex with sweeping papillate hairs.
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Harpo Faust @softcorebotany.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Awesome work by my favorites! @emlombardi.bsky.social @hannahmarx.bsky.social Check it out!
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Kristen DeAngelis 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @kristenobacter.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
UMass has a new webpage to track federal actions as a community resource www.umass.edu/news/federal...
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Federal Actions | UMass Amherst
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Harpo Faust @softcorebotany.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Found a larvae on my Selaginella specimen, was collected in the Sandias last year. Not finding much on larvae on Selaginella in North America- currently talking any thoughts and input.
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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Very proud of this paper led by @lsu.bsky.social students where we examine what ‘Unexplored’ means in a natural history context - we recommend ‘biodiversity blindspots’ instead for places that lack digitized public data Paper here peerj.com/articles/185... Video abstract youtu.be/QZ8wUrgJEao
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What ‘unexplored’ means: Mapping regions with digitized natural history records
YouTube video by PeerJ
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Christie Wilcox @nerdychristie.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Our records of the world’s biodiversity are patchy—but that's not because lots of places are "unexplored." That story and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
World map showing biodiversity collection hotspots (red) and blindspots (blue).  BALL ET AL./PEERJ  (2025)
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Harpo Faust @softcorebotany.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
🚨New Paper Alert🚨 @emlombardi.bsky.social @hannahmarx.bsky.social esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Harpo Faust @softcorebotany.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I have a @hannahmarx.bsky.social sized hole in my herbarium heart! The UNM Herbarium is losing a great one. Cheers to one of the greatest curators I've ever had the privilege of working with, to all of the great work you will continue to do at Cornell & all the new ways we get to collaborate!
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