Barbara Thiers
@barbarathiers.bsky.social
I’m a retired botanical collections administrator, but still an active botanist specializing in bryophytes (particularly liverworts). Also still active in the natural history collections community. Other interests are gardening and baking
The Biodiversity Collections Task Force is a nascent effort to help collections through anticipated difficult times in the near future.
We are planning a webinar series, beginning in September 2025.
Let us know which topics would be most useful to you:
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We are planning a webinar series, beginning in September 2025.
Let us know which topics would be most useful to you:
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July 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The Biodiversity Collections Task Force is a nascent effort to help collections through anticipated difficult times in the near future.
We are planning a webinar series, beginning in September 2025.
Let us know which topics would be most useful to you:
lnkd.in/gQmyMKmN
We are planning a webinar series, beginning in September 2025.
Let us know which topics would be most useful to you:
lnkd.in/gQmyMKmN
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To Canadians travelling to the U.S. for longer trips: Anyone visiting U.S. for periods > 30 days must now register with the U.S. government. “Failure to comply with the registration requirement could result in penalties, fines, and misdemeanor prosecution.”
travel.gc.ca/destinations...
travel.gc.ca/destinations...
Travel advice and advisories for United States (USA)
Travel Advice and Advisories from the Government of Canada
travel.gc.ca
March 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
To Canadians travelling to the U.S. for longer trips: Anyone visiting U.S. for periods > 30 days must now register with the U.S. government. “Failure to comply with the registration requirement could result in penalties, fines, and misdemeanor prosecution.”
travel.gc.ca/destinations...
travel.gc.ca/destinations...
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What an incredible, ingenious American scientist! I'm so glad I read this story for #BlackHistoryMonth
Dr. Charles Henry Turner was from Ohio; he earned a BSc and MSc from the University of Cincinnati. He was the first African American to earn a PhD in #entomology, which was at the University of Chicago in 1907.
#28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory
#BlackHistoryMonth
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
#28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory
#BlackHistoryMonth
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
This Pioneering Black Zoologist's Insights Were a Century Ahead of Their Time
Charles Henry Turner conducted trailblazing research on the cognitive traits of bees, spiders and more
www.smithsonianmag.com
February 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
What an incredible, ingenious American scientist! I'm so glad I read this story for #BlackHistoryMonth
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Come work with us! The New York Botanical Garden is hiring a Curator at the Assist. or Associate level. Profile: a productive and FUN Mycologist or Cryptogamic Botanist. Happy to talk to candidates about how wonderful one of the best botanical research centers is, easy.
www.nybg.org/about/work-w...
www.nybg.org/about/work-w...
Employment | New York Botanical Garden
Find out what employment opportunities are available at The New York Botanical Garden.
www.nybg.org
February 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Come work with us! The New York Botanical Garden is hiring a Curator at the Assist. or Associate level. Profile: a productive and FUN Mycologist or Cryptogamic Botanist. Happy to talk to candidates about how wonderful one of the best botanical research centers is, easy.
www.nybg.org/about/work-w...
www.nybg.org/about/work-w...
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Good to see an #herbarium study from @newphyt.bsky.social featured on NPR, with an assessment of what we stand to lose when herbaria are closed.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
www.kcur.org/news/2025-02...
Includes quotes from @barbarathiers.bsky.social, Jordan Teischer, Lynn Clark.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
www.kcur.org/news/2025-02...
Includes quotes from @barbarathiers.bsky.social, Jordan Teischer, Lynn Clark.
Plant libraries hold essential clues about climate change, but they're vulnerable to funding cuts
Scientists say amid climate change and biodiversity loss, the world’s herbaria could hold the keys to overcoming the crises in their folders of dried plant specimens. But their future is in question a...
www.kcur.org
February 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Good to see an #herbarium study from @newphyt.bsky.social featured on NPR, with an assessment of what we stand to lose when herbaria are closed.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
www.kcur.org/news/2025-02...
Includes quotes from @barbarathiers.bsky.social, Jordan Teischer, Lynn Clark.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
www.kcur.org/news/2025-02...
Includes quotes from @barbarathiers.bsky.social, Jordan Teischer, Lynn Clark.
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The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired. Please amplify. (This helps the lawyers establish standing for bringing legal cases against the administration!)
democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings
democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings
February 19, 2025 at 6:24 AM
The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired. Please amplify. (This helps the lawyers establish standing for bringing legal cases against the administration!)
democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings
democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings
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Dr. Marie Clark Taylor was the first Black woman to earn a PhD in #botany, studying the impact of photoperiod on plant development.
www.plantcellatlas.org/bipoc-scient...
#28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory
#BlackHistoryMonth
www.plantcellatlas.org/bipoc-scient...
#28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory
#BlackHistoryMonth
BIPOC Scientists
Marie Clark Taylor was born in Pennsylvania on February 16 th , 1911, when the world was still highly segregated. Yet, she would go on to become one of the United States’ most successful educators...
www.plantcellatlas.org
February 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Dr. Marie Clark Taylor was the first Black woman to earn a PhD in #botany, studying the impact of photoperiod on plant development.
www.plantcellatlas.org/bipoc-scient...
#28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory
#BlackHistoryMonth
www.plantcellatlas.org/bipoc-scient...
#28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory
#BlackHistoryMonth
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The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
February 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
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Western North American Naturalist Grant Supporting Natural History Research "grants of up to $2,500 each to fund their natural history research. Our intent is to help authors who may not have adequate funding to complete their work." scholarsarchive.byu.edu/wnan/grant_i...
Grants for Individual Researchers | Western North American Naturalist | Western North American Naturalist Publications | Brigham Young University
scholarsarchive.byu.edu
February 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Western North American Naturalist Grant Supporting Natural History Research "grants of up to $2,500 each to fund their natural history research. Our intent is to help authors who may not have adequate funding to complete their work." scholarsarchive.byu.edu/wnan/grant_i...
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.
February 3, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.
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It's all gone. They've taken down all the CDC datasets from data.cdc.gov
Data that's critical for public health & research. Data paid for by citizens. That the government now censors.
"Do not fear those who tell the truth. Fear those who try to hide it. They are willing to sacrifice other things."
Data that's critical for public health & research. Data paid for by citizens. That the government now censors.
"Do not fear those who tell the truth. Fear those who try to hide it. They are willing to sacrifice other things."
February 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
It's all gone. They've taken down all the CDC datasets from data.cdc.gov
Data that's critical for public health & research. Data paid for by citizens. That the government now censors.
"Do not fear those who tell the truth. Fear those who try to hide it. They are willing to sacrifice other things."
Data that's critical for public health & research. Data paid for by citizens. That the government now censors.
"Do not fear those who tell the truth. Fear those who try to hide it. They are willing to sacrifice other things."
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If you need some positive science in your feed, check out @nerdychristie.bsky.social’s piece about how we can use #conservation dogs to find fungal diversity, inspired by the first #truffle paper my sister and I co-authored.
www.science.org/content/arti...
🧪🌎 #mycology @ecol-evol.bsky.social
www.science.org/content/arti...
🧪🌎 #mycology @ecol-evol.bsky.social
February 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
If you need some positive science in your feed, check out @nerdychristie.bsky.social’s piece about how we can use #conservation dogs to find fungal diversity, inspired by the first #truffle paper my sister and I co-authored.
www.science.org/content/arti...
🧪🌎 #mycology @ecol-evol.bsky.social
www.science.org/content/arti...
🧪🌎 #mycology @ecol-evol.bsky.social
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I have proudly been a scientist my whole life. We are now watching the deliberate destruction of American science at the hands of the corrupt regime. Data is disappearing, young scientists are not getting paid, free speech is crushed. We can fix this, but we don't have much time to undo the harm. 🧪🌏
February 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I have proudly been a scientist my whole life. We are now watching the deliberate destruction of American science at the hands of the corrupt regime. Data is disappearing, young scientists are not getting paid, free speech is crushed. We can fix this, but we don't have much time to undo the harm. 🧪🌏
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:
www.404media.co/declassified...
www.404media.co/declassified...
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
www.404media.co
January 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:
www.404media.co/declassified...
www.404media.co/declassified...
Hugs to friends and colleagues who care for federal collections, preserved and living. Not just their own livelihoods, they have the worry that our cultural and scientific heritage could be lost or imperiled, upending of previous generations
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January 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Hugs to friends and colleagues who care for federal collections, preserved and living. Not just their own livelihoods, they have the worry that our cultural and scientific heritage could be lost or imperiled, upending of previous generations
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One of the stories I will tell:
I have maintained these experimental lines of live animals continuously for 10 years.
They help us to understand the impacts of climate change in the ocean.
They cannot survive for 90 days without care.
A pause doesn't mean losing 90 days.
It means 10 years.
I have maintained these experimental lines of live animals continuously for 10 years.
They help us to understand the impacts of climate change in the ocean.
They cannot survive for 90 days without care.
A pause doesn't mean losing 90 days.
It means 10 years.
January 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
One of the stories I will tell:
I have maintained these experimental lines of live animals continuously for 10 years.
They help us to understand the impacts of climate change in the ocean.
They cannot survive for 90 days without care.
A pause doesn't mean losing 90 days.
It means 10 years.
I have maintained these experimental lines of live animals continuously for 10 years.
They help us to understand the impacts of climate change in the ocean.
They cannot survive for 90 days without care.
A pause doesn't mean losing 90 days.
It means 10 years.
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As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽💻
January 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽💻
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Increasing Disconnection of Primary Biodiversity Data from Specimens: How Does It Happen and How to Handle It? academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic...
The Increasing Disconnection of Primary Biodiversity Data from Specimens: How Does It Happen and How to Handle It?
Abstract. Primary biodiversity data represent the fundamental elements of any study in systematics and evolution. They are, however, no longer gathered as
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January 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Increasing Disconnection of Primary Biodiversity Data from Specimens: How Does It Happen and How to Handle It? academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic...
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I love this so much!
At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.
This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.
At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.
This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.
January 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I love this so much!
At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.
This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.
At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.
This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.
The weather outside in the Denver metro area is truly frightful, so it’s a good day to embark on a Ikea assembly project— desk and drawers for my home biology lab
January 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The weather outside in the Denver metro area is truly frightful, so it’s a good day to embark on a Ikea assembly project— desk and drawers for my home biology lab