First visit to Kissimmee Prairie was a great cleanse after the election results. Good grounding reminder of what is at stake for our fellow kin on this planet. #plants #botany #bugs #florida

Trip to the Apalachicola National Forest and Saint George Island was truly unforgettable. Nothing quite like crossing a palaeobiogeographical boundary. #hiking #nature #plants #florida #botany

Just some of the beautiful finds from my most recent few hikes.
1. Habaneria floribunda (Orchidaceae)
2. Polygala lutea (Polygalaceae)
3. Viola sororia (Violaceae)
4. Lyonia lucida (Ericaceae)

#flowers #plants #florida #botany #ecology #hiking #nature #wildlife

To all my fellow R users in #academia and #teaching: What editor theme do you use for your R Studio?

So excited for this latest edition to my field guide library! Can't wait to get out there and find some of these hidden beauties. #wildlife #flower #nature #botany #plants #florida

Some of my favourite finds from this morning's hike! I saw 21 Lilium catesbaei (Pine Lily), which is a new record for me on one hike!
This post is in memory of the gnat that became breakfast for this Drosera capillaris (Pink Sundew) 🥲.
#wildlife #flower #florida #nature #plants

Just saw this beauty on my evening walk (sorry about the low-quality photo)! Made my whole weekend ☺️. I learned recently that Barred Owls (Strix varia) have one of the highest dietary proportions of invertebrates for owls of their size! #birds #ornithology #nature

Ok, just a HUGE thanks to those who suggested Obsidian! I am now in the process of translating my analogue Zettelkasten to my new digital one, and I am loving it already!!! Also still exploring Notion, seems like it will be a good complement to Obsidian! #academia

Have geospatial genomic data and want to hammer out landscape analyses? Check out this new swiss army knife that does it all from @chamberea.bsky.social et al, built to handle California Conservation Genomic Project scale data
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Wondering if anyone in #academia, #teaching, or #education else uses Notion (or other programs) and has any opinions? I'm looking for an organisational software that I can use to consolidate my to-do lists, random ideas, and progress updates to...there has to be a better way than Post-It notes. 😅

Paywalls hold all of us back!

It's time for them to come down.

Free our science, free our society.

#OAWeek #OAWeek2023

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Saw these beautiful flowering Lupinus diffusus (Sky-Blue Lupine) on a hike today. Very strange to see them flowering, let alone fruiting, in autumn, then again, the planet is on fire 🥲. Hands down, one of my favourite #Florida native plants. #hiking #botany #plants #climate #flowers

Not surprised by this Nature article one bit. I am lucky enough to have colleagues in my lab that are incredibly supportive and decent people, but some of the horror stories I have heard from friends in academia are deeply disquieting. This is a *must* read. #academia

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Found this beautiful Stilpnochlora couloniana (Giant katydid) on the Clerodendrum sp. that's planted right outside my apartment. Wonderful way to start the week. Hope everyone has a great day! 💚 #entomology #bugs #floridanature #florida

So sad about the extinction of Bachman's Warbler. This species was a transient native to Florida, which it used as a migration corridor to its winter range in Cuba. The species had a spatially complex life history, making it reliant on multiple ecosystems, and therefore, vulnerable to habitat loss.

Can't wait to get back to my field sites next month! I miss my darling, little Ceratiola babies and am excited to see how they've grown this year. Field work is not a huge component of my job, but that makes it all the more rewarding when I am able to do it! #botany #ecology #science

EIGHT (8!) birds from Hawai‘i on this list 😭

This week, I learned that one of my beloved study species, Ceratiola ericoides, is a host plant for a beautifully cryptic little species of geometrid moth, Nemoria outina. Will keep my eyes out for larvae during my next field survey!!! Citation: Ferguson, 1985 #botany #ecology #entomology

Hello my people! I'm Alexandria (she/her), and I am a student researcher at the University of Central Florida. My research is in statistical modelling of plant communities. My current project involves multi-species demographic modelling of endemic plants in Florida in a global heating future.