Caitlin MacKenzie
@cmacmtns.bsky.social
Plant ecologist, lover of tiny alpine communities on small mountains, faculty at Bennington College, Plant Love Stories co-founder, she/her
HOLD THE PHONE —
The lover that Elizabeth Bishop lost in 'One Art' CAME BACK TO HER after the poem was published.
I always assumed that the 'you' in the last stanza died, but she was just going to marry a man. WOW.
www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
The lover that Elizabeth Bishop lost in 'One Art' CAME BACK TO HER after the poem was published.
I always assumed that the 'you' in the last stanza died, but she was just going to marry a man. WOW.
www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
July 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
HOLD THE PHONE —
The lover that Elizabeth Bishop lost in 'One Art' CAME BACK TO HER after the poem was published.
I always assumed that the 'you' in the last stanza died, but she was just going to marry a man. WOW.
www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
The lover that Elizabeth Bishop lost in 'One Art' CAME BACK TO HER after the poem was published.
I always assumed that the 'you' in the last stanza died, but she was just going to marry a man. WOW.
www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
Reposted by Caitlin MacKenzie
Our celebratory issue of Rhodora is available! NEBS members have access through their membership AND we've made most of this issue open-access. We've been publishing since 1899, so there's a lot to celebrate and we want everyone to join in! bioone.org/journals/rho...
June 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Our celebratory issue of Rhodora is available! NEBS members have access through their membership AND we've made most of this issue open-access. We've been publishing since 1899, so there's a lot to celebrate and we want everyone to join in! bioone.org/journals/rho...
Reading the new alpine snowbank refugia paper at coffee shop while my kid attends a morning sewing camp reminds me of the years when her sister attended day camp at a sculpture park and I wrote manuscripts in a courtyard adjacent to a giant xylophone that kids whaled on with sticks.
July 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Reading the new alpine snowbank refugia paper at coffee shop while my kid attends a morning sewing camp reminds me of the years when her sister attended day camp at a sculpture park and I wrote manuscripts in a courtyard adjacent to a giant xylophone that kids whaled on with sticks.
My students' take on the xkcd 'types of scientific papers'. A very cool, interesting moment of reflection on the semester together.
This exercise was inspired by Cindy Kohtala's blog about the meme www.cindykohtala.fi/2021/10/14/f...
This exercise was inspired by Cindy Kohtala's blog about the meme www.cindykohtala.fi/2021/10/14/f...
May 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
My students' take on the xkcd 'types of scientific papers'. A very cool, interesting moment of reflection on the semester together.
This exercise was inspired by Cindy Kohtala's blog about the meme www.cindykohtala.fi/2021/10/14/f...
This exercise was inspired by Cindy Kohtala's blog about the meme www.cindykohtala.fi/2021/10/14/f...
We recently found Emerald Ash Borer on campus.
I'm putting together a Fall 2025 pop-up course/seminar series to celebrate ash trees, mourn the arrival of EAB, and explore the ash's human and non-human relationships in the northern forest.
Please share recommendations for speakers!
I'm putting together a Fall 2025 pop-up course/seminar series to celebrate ash trees, mourn the arrival of EAB, and explore the ash's human and non-human relationships in the northern forest.
Please share recommendations for speakers!
May 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
We recently found Emerald Ash Borer on campus.
I'm putting together a Fall 2025 pop-up course/seminar series to celebrate ash trees, mourn the arrival of EAB, and explore the ash's human and non-human relationships in the northern forest.
Please share recommendations for speakers!
I'm putting together a Fall 2025 pop-up course/seminar series to celebrate ash trees, mourn the arrival of EAB, and explore the ash's human and non-human relationships in the northern forest.
Please share recommendations for speakers!
Spent the day in a DIY workshop with co-PIs from an NSF grant that was archived the day we were set to resubmit. Here’s the thing about scientists in a tiny state who work with small natural history collections: we get the science/teaching/conservation/outreach done. Our ROI is off the charts.
May 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Spent the day in a DIY workshop with co-PIs from an NSF grant that was archived the day we were set to resubmit. Here’s the thing about scientists in a tiny state who work with small natural history collections: we get the science/teaching/conservation/outreach done. Our ROI is off the charts.
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🌿 Stretching your research dollars? You’re not alone!
Join us for the #Botany360 free virtual event, Botany on a Budget — a casual discussion with BSA members who have experience making research happen with limited resources.
Thursday, May 8, 2025, 2–3 p.m. EST
Register here: tinyurl.com/bot360
Join us for the #Botany360 free virtual event, Botany on a Budget — a casual discussion with BSA members who have experience making research happen with limited resources.
Thursday, May 8, 2025, 2–3 p.m. EST
Register here: tinyurl.com/bot360
April 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🌿 Stretching your research dollars? You’re not alone!
Join us for the #Botany360 free virtual event, Botany on a Budget — a casual discussion with BSA members who have experience making research happen with limited resources.
Thursday, May 8, 2025, 2–3 p.m. EST
Register here: tinyurl.com/bot360
Join us for the #Botany360 free virtual event, Botany on a Budget — a casual discussion with BSA members who have experience making research happen with limited resources.
Thursday, May 8, 2025, 2–3 p.m. EST
Register here: tinyurl.com/bot360
Reposted by Caitlin MacKenzie
🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS 🌱
The #AJB announces a call for papers for a special issue, “Plant Resilience and Conservation for a Changing Climate,” led by guest editors J. Rentsch, E. Stacy, C. Mackenzie, J. Boyd & V. Negron-Ortiz.
Deadline for proposals: May 30, 2025.
bit.ly/3GcyMUG
The #AJB announces a call for papers for a special issue, “Plant Resilience and Conservation for a Changing Climate,” led by guest editors J. Rentsch, E. Stacy, C. Mackenzie, J. Boyd & V. Negron-Ortiz.
Deadline for proposals: May 30, 2025.
bit.ly/3GcyMUG
April 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
🌱 SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS 🌱
The #AJB announces a call for papers for a special issue, “Plant Resilience and Conservation for a Changing Climate,” led by guest editors J. Rentsch, E. Stacy, C. Mackenzie, J. Boyd & V. Negron-Ortiz.
Deadline for proposals: May 30, 2025.
bit.ly/3GcyMUG
The #AJB announces a call for papers for a special issue, “Plant Resilience and Conservation for a Changing Climate,” led by guest editors J. Rentsch, E. Stacy, C. Mackenzie, J. Boyd & V. Negron-Ortiz.
Deadline for proposals: May 30, 2025.
bit.ly/3GcyMUG
#WithoutNSF my PhD research on the impacts of climate change on plant communities in Acadia National Park would not have been possible. Managers use our work to protect resources. Park educators & interpretive staff use our work to create signage and talk to the public.
We need to fund NPS and NSF.
We need to fund NPS and NSF.
May 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
#WithoutNSF my PhD research on the impacts of climate change on plant communities in Acadia National Park would not have been possible. Managers use our work to protect resources. Park educators & interpretive staff use our work to create signage and talk to the public.
We need to fund NPS and NSF.
We need to fund NPS and NSF.
Reposted by Caitlin MacKenzie
Thread with an email being sent to @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social members today calling for a Tri-society week of action for NSF:
Dear members:
The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial.
Dear members:
The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial.
May 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Thread with an email being sent to @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social members today calling for a Tri-society week of action for NSF:
Dear members:
The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial.
Dear members:
The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial.
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Reminder that I'm looking for grad students. Canada just decided for sanity in government, Fredericton elected a musician MP, and UNB is a great place to be. Come join me! Position is fully funded.
I'm seeking graduate students interested in studying nectar evolutionary ecology. Masters or PhD. Sep 2025 or Jan 2026 start. Interested students encouraged to apply by May 5 to be eligible for additional scholarships. #gradschool #flower #evolution #nectar #pollination
April 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Reminder that I'm looking for grad students. Canada just decided for sanity in government, Fredericton elected a musician MP, and UNB is a great place to be. Come join me! Position is fully funded.
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Amy Angert & I are recruiting 2 field technicians for demographic surveys of scarlet monkeyflower in late summer-fall. Please spread word to any potentially interested candidates! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/217...
Temporary Plant Ecology Field Technician
The Sheth evolutionary ecology lab in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina; USA) and the Angert Lab in the Departments of Botany an...
jobs.ncsu.edu
April 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Amy Angert & I are recruiting 2 field technicians for demographic surveys of scarlet monkeyflower in late summer-fall. Please spread word to any potentially interested candidates! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/217...
Reposted by Caitlin MacKenzie
So I’m in the New York Times today 👀 😃 in a nice piece on artists and invasive species featuring our new exhibition at Carnegie Museum on invasive plants nyti.ms/42fFzpa
Standing Up for Invasive Species (Gift Article)
Artists and scientists are finding ways to highlight troublesome plants and animals, tell their stories and, in some cases, use them as raw materials.
nyti.ms
April 16, 2025 at 10:40 AM
So I’m in the New York Times today 👀 😃 in a nice piece on artists and invasive species featuring our new exhibition at Carnegie Museum on invasive plants nyti.ms/42fFzpa
Reposted by Caitlin MacKenzie
A lot of blood sweat and tears put into this one: we revisit Robert MacArthur's classic warbler study—with @eliotmiller.bsky.social and colleagues—using, among other techniques, fecal metabarcoding.
🧪🦉
📸 Ronnie d'Entremont
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
@psubiodept.bsky.social
🧪🦉
📸 Ronnie d'Entremont
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
@psubiodept.bsky.social
Reassessing niche partitioning in MacArthur’s warblers: foraging behaviour, morphology and diet differentiation in a phylogenetic context | Biology Letters
Owing in large part to Robert MacArthur’s classic research, wood warblers in the family
Parulidae are textbook exemplars of species competition and niche partitioning. Conventional
wisdom suggests tha...
royalsocietypublishing.org
April 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
A lot of blood sweat and tears put into this one: we revisit Robert MacArthur's classic warbler study—with @eliotmiller.bsky.social and colleagues—using, among other techniques, fecal metabarcoding.
🧪🦉
📸 Ronnie d'Entremont
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
@psubiodept.bsky.social
🧪🦉
📸 Ronnie d'Entremont
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
@psubiodept.bsky.social
Listen I know college kids aren't watching Seinfeld but I'm writing a lecture for my advanced Forest Ecology class based on Bizarro Jerry because that's where I'm finding joy at the moment...
April 16, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Listen I know college kids aren't watching Seinfeld but I'm writing a lecture for my advanced Forest Ecology class based on Bizarro Jerry because that's where I'm finding joy at the moment...
“the process of knitting itself mirror ecological patterns — it requires attention to structure, repetition, and adaptability"
— my student's written response to the prompt "Why would a forest ecology course include an assignment to knit a wool hat?"
— my student's written response to the prompt "Why would a forest ecology course include an assignment to knit a wool hat?"
April 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
“the process of knitting itself mirror ecological patterns — it requires attention to structure, repetition, and adaptability"
— my student's written response to the prompt "Why would a forest ecology course include an assignment to knit a wool hat?"
— my student's written response to the prompt "Why would a forest ecology course include an assignment to knit a wool hat?"
Organizing the interactive activity for my talk in the 'Celebrating New England Herbaria: Research, Teaching, Community, and Outreach' session at this weekend's Northeast Natural History Conference.
My kids created the first two specimens, mine is the Polystichum acrostichoides.
My kids created the first two specimens, mine is the Polystichum acrostichoides.
April 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Organizing the interactive activity for my talk in the 'Celebrating New England Herbaria: Research, Teaching, Community, and Outreach' session at this weekend's Northeast Natural History Conference.
My kids created the first two specimens, mine is the Polystichum acrostichoides.
My kids created the first two specimens, mine is the Polystichum acrostichoides.
My maple sugaring students get a shout out for assisting at one of Emily's research sites!
www.vnews.com/Dartmouth-st...
www.vnews.com/Dartmouth-st...
Dartmouth doctoral student studies contaminants in maple syrup
HANOVER — While attaining a master’s at Yale during the COVID-19 pandemic, Emily Sigman began tapping the Norway maples in the backyard of her New Haven, Conn., home.
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March 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
My maple sugaring students get a shout out for assisting at one of Emily's research sites!
www.vnews.com/Dartmouth-st...
www.vnews.com/Dartmouth-st...
class project tracking the impacts of invasive vines on campus red pine trees
March 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
class project tracking the impacts of invasive vines on campus red pine trees
@stephenbheard.bsky.social I’m about to advise a 7-week tutorial for a senior thesis we named “Scientific Writing for Field Experiments”!
March 20, 2025 at 10:35 AM
@stephenbheard.bsky.social I’m about to advise a 7-week tutorial for a senior thesis we named “Scientific Writing for Field Experiments”!
"It is not proposed to cite any of the extensive recent literature on these general subjects, since it is well known to all working ecologists."
— Gleason in the first 'The Individualistic Concept of the Plant Association'
— Gleason in the first 'The Individualistic Concept of the Plant Association'
i feel like i should be more gleasonian: tell major ecologists their pet theories are imaginary, publish two papers with the exact same title, cite no one, wear this hat:
February 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
"It is not proposed to cite any of the extensive recent literature on these general subjects, since it is well known to all working ecologists."
— Gleason in the first 'The Individualistic Concept of the Plant Association'
— Gleason in the first 'The Individualistic Concept of the Plant Association'
i feel like i should be more gleasonian: tell major ecologists their pet theories are imaginary, publish two papers with the exact same title, cite no one, wear this hat:
February 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
i feel like i should be more gleasonian: tell major ecologists their pet theories are imaginary, publish two papers with the exact same title, cite no one, wear this hat:
Reposted by Caitlin MacKenzie
NSF is still freezing grant payments because of Trump's executive orders targeting DEI, despite NSF's congressional mandate to weigh how grants will expand participation in science.
What that means for scientists/science (with more detail than yesterday's radio story)
www.npr.org/2025/01/31/n...
What that means for scientists/science (with more detail than yesterday's radio story)
www.npr.org/2025/01/31/n...
National Science Foundation freezes payments in response to Trump's executive actions
The National Science Foundation's funding freeze, and wider confusion about the status and future of science funding, is already hampering research.
www.npr.org
January 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
NSF is still freezing grant payments because of Trump's executive orders targeting DEI, despite NSF's congressional mandate to weigh how grants will expand participation in science.
What that means for scientists/science (with more detail than yesterday's radio story)
www.npr.org/2025/01/31/n...
What that means for scientists/science (with more detail than yesterday's radio story)
www.npr.org/2025/01/31/n...