Liz Haswell
@ehaswell.bsky.social
Writing & Editing @ www.thesustainableprofessor.com 🌱Co-host, The Taproot Podcast 🌱Former midwestern biology professor finding her way as a writer and bon vivant in the PNW 🌱Check out what I'm up to or contact me: https://elizabethhaswell.carrd.co
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I'm fortunate to talk with @chanda.blacksky.app about When Trees Testify. Feb 6 @ 7 PM, Harvard Bookstore.
Talked about Lessons From Plants & I'll keep writing books to talk w/BRILLIANT Chanda!❤️
Pre-order When Trees Testify (link in bio) AND Chanda's next book, The Edge of Space-Time, out in 2026.
Talked about Lessons From Plants & I'll keep writing books to talk w/BRILLIANT Chanda!❤️
Pre-order When Trees Testify (link in bio) AND Chanda's next book, The Edge of Space-Time, out in 2026.
December 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I'm fortunate to talk with @chanda.blacksky.app about When Trees Testify. Feb 6 @ 7 PM, Harvard Bookstore.
Talked about Lessons From Plants & I'll keep writing books to talk w/BRILLIANT Chanda!❤️
Pre-order When Trees Testify (link in bio) AND Chanda's next book, The Edge of Space-Time, out in 2026.
Talked about Lessons From Plants & I'll keep writing books to talk w/BRILLIANT Chanda!❤️
Pre-order When Trees Testify (link in bio) AND Chanda's next book, The Edge of Space-Time, out in 2026.
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I saw a tiktok that said:
"You deserve a break. Stop healing. Crash Out. Choose Violence. Do. It. For. The. Plot"
And i feel like this is the energy we should enter 2026 with
"You deserve a break. Stop healing. Crash Out. Choose Violence. Do. It. For. The. Plot"
And i feel like this is the energy we should enter 2026 with
December 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I saw a tiktok that said:
"You deserve a break. Stop healing. Crash Out. Choose Violence. Do. It. For. The. Plot"
And i feel like this is the energy we should enter 2026 with
"You deserve a break. Stop healing. Crash Out. Choose Violence. Do. It. For. The. Plot"
And i feel like this is the energy we should enter 2026 with
OMG @lizcookkc.bsky.social what a review (of the new Mahomes/Kelce restaurant in KC!!!)
"The drink tasted like a Cosmo someone had strained through a French Vanilla Yankee Candle."
"Wealth has always been about signifiers, but no one said they had to be this lazy."
defector.com/two-nights-p...
"Wealth has always been about signifiers, but no one said they had to be this lazy."
defector.com/two-nights-p...
Two Nights Playing With Fire At Patrick Mahomes And Travis Kelce's Steakhouse | Defector
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As celebrity restaurant mascots, athletes offer a tidy sense of vertical integration: Why not supply the very calories they need to expend on the field? I’m surprised there are so f...
defector.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
OMG @lizcookkc.bsky.social what a review (of the new Mahomes/Kelce restaurant in KC!!!)
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I was told "if you don't use GenAI, you will be left behind".
But the reality is people include GenAI slop in their work, and if you don't use GenAI, your work is already more careful, higher quality, and more authentic.
I am not just talking about academic papers.
But the reality is people include GenAI slop in their work, and if you don't use GenAI, your work is already more careful, higher quality, and more authentic.
I am not just talking about academic papers.
December 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I was told "if you don't use GenAI, you will be left behind".
But the reality is people include GenAI slop in their work, and if you don't use GenAI, your work is already more careful, higher quality, and more authentic.
I am not just talking about academic papers.
But the reality is people include GenAI slop in their work, and if you don't use GenAI, your work is already more careful, higher quality, and more authentic.
I am not just talking about academic papers.
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Attention Nicotiana benthamiana users! Certain strains of Agrobacterium (e.g. GV3101-pMP90) induce glandular trichomes because of cytokinin production by Agrobacterium. As this can influence assay outcome, we recommend testing several strains. See our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Cytokinin-mediated trichome initiation in Nicotiana benthamiana upon Agrobacterium tumefaciens infiltration
Infiltration of Agrobacterium tumefaciens in leaves of Nicotiana benthamiana has become a standard method for transient expression in plants. Like many Solanaceae species, N. benthamiana develops on i...
www.biorxiv.org
December 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Attention Nicotiana benthamiana users! Certain strains of Agrobacterium (e.g. GV3101-pMP90) induce glandular trichomes because of cytokinin production by Agrobacterium. As this can influence assay outcome, we recommend testing several strains. See our preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Jesus, what a grim day to be a human being
December 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Jesus, what a grim day to be a human being
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Pleased to share this thoughtful essay by Jess on my flower design project🌹🧬
As a small thank-you for spreading the work, I'm randomly giving away 5 of these new morphogenesis hoodies to whoever reposts this!
As a small thank-you for spreading the work, I'm randomly giving away 5 of these new morphogenesis hoodies to whoever reposts this!
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Pleased to share this thoughtful essay by Jess on my flower design project🌹🧬
As a small thank-you for spreading the work, I'm randomly giving away 5 of these new morphogenesis hoodies to whoever reposts this!
As a small thank-you for spreading the work, I'm randomly giving away 5 of these new morphogenesis hoodies to whoever reposts this!
Everyone should read this insightful post by @kevinbakerwv.bsky.social! "LLMs did not create what economists . . . would call science’s incentive “structure.” Rather this technology arrived into this context, offering a faster way to produce the artifacts the system rewards."
Nature would do well to publish more content like this thoughtful piece from @kevinbaker.bsky.social and fewer Buzzfeed listicles gussied up as career advice "Five productivity hacks for using AI in your scientific workflow"
Context Widows
or, of GPUs, LPUs, and Goal Displacement
artificialbureaucracy.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Everyone should read this insightful post by @kevinbakerwv.bsky.social! "LLMs did not create what economists . . . would call science’s incentive “structure.” Rather this technology arrived into this context, offering a faster way to produce the artifacts the system rewards."
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Someone vandalized our anti-ICE #nativity, but we came back stronger than ever. It’s a piece of living art, and we’re not going to stop sharing our message of compassion and love. We get knocked down, but we get back up again - better and stronger. Love wins - never doubt it.
December 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Someone vandalized our anti-ICE #nativity, but we came back stronger than ever. It’s a piece of living art, and we’re not going to stop sharing our message of compassion and love. We get knocked down, but we get back up again - better and stronger. Love wins - never doubt it.
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I added my name to this and so should all of you who are US citizens: Standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
December 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I added my name to this and so should all of you who are US citizens: Standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
For me rn I’m so grateful for Lynda Barry, who takes all the preciousness out of being creative and puts all the punk back in!
December 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
For me rn I’m so grateful for Lynda Barry, who takes all the preciousness out of being creative and puts all the punk back in!
The Overstory, just try me
omg. Kat Abughazaleh just posted that if she's elected, she'll swear in on a copy of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower.
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
December 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The Overstory, just try me
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@rephale.bsky.social announced that she introduced articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. on Wednesday.
@standupforscience.bsky.social, a nonprofit that launched a petition to impeach Kennedy, stated its support for Stevens' effort. @cdelawalla.bsky.social
www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
@standupforscience.bsky.social, a nonprofit that launched a petition to impeach Kennedy, stated its support for Stevens' effort. @cdelawalla.bsky.social
www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
House Democrat Files Articles of Impeachment Against RFK Jr.
Kennedy 'has imperiled the health and safety of the American people,' congresswoman says
www.medpagetoday.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
@rephale.bsky.social announced that she introduced articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. on Wednesday.
@standupforscience.bsky.social, a nonprofit that launched a petition to impeach Kennedy, stated its support for Stevens' effort. @cdelawalla.bsky.social
www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
@standupforscience.bsky.social, a nonprofit that launched a petition to impeach Kennedy, stated its support for Stevens' effort. @cdelawalla.bsky.social
www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...
Damn
Speaking as a private citizen on a matter of public concern, yes leadership is apparently planning to cut 50% of the faculty at the New School for Social Research in order to eliminate social research and replace scholarship with a trendy MA degree mill For the 21st Century 1/
December 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Damn
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All #CellBio2025 attendees! Here’s our phenomenal lineup for our session on #SciArt & #SciComm: @ahnaskop.bsky.social, @jiwasa.bsky.social, @mag2art.bsky.social, @nat-prunet.bsky.social, and Julia Licholai. Please come by and spread the word! Huge thanks to @ascbiology.bsky.social and co-organizers!
December 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
All #CellBio2025 attendees! Here’s our phenomenal lineup for our session on #SciArt & #SciComm: @ahnaskop.bsky.social, @jiwasa.bsky.social, @mag2art.bsky.social, @nat-prunet.bsky.social, and Julia Licholai. Please come by and spread the word! Huge thanks to @ascbiology.bsky.social and co-organizers!
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Gratitutde to all NIH study section participants who are participating in rescheduled meetings now and in January. Thank you for your service and thanks also to the hard working NIH staff who are making these happen. 🥰🧪
December 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Gratitutde to all NIH study section participants who are participating in rescheduled meetings now and in January. Thank you for your service and thanks also to the hard working NIH staff who are making these happen. 🥰🧪
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One thing I always want to ask these masculinity entrepreneurs is why men can’t look to women as role models, and can’t see in women models of human virtue and thriving that are worth emulating. After all, women look to men for these all the time.
Sure, Galloway is better than Peterson
But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Scott Galloway on the masculinity crisis: ‘I worry we are evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial males’
When his book Notes on Being a Man was released last month, it raced to the top of the bestseller lists. The US author, tech entrepreneur and podcaster explains his theories on dating, crying – and th...
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
One thing I always want to ask these masculinity entrepreneurs is why men can’t look to women as role models, and can’t see in women models of human virtue and thriving that are worth emulating. After all, women look to men for these all the time.
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She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???
Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.
Ilhan Omar denounces Donald Trump for calling Somali immigrants ‘garbage’
Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 12:34 AM
She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???
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heads up Portland!
applications open for free office space at Meyer Memorial Trust for small progressive orgs ( budgets under $1M, "serving the Albina neighborhood, working in coalition or offering culturally specific programming")
I just know one of y'all knows someone who could use this
applications open for free office space at Meyer Memorial Trust for small progressive orgs ( budgets under $1M, "serving the Albina neighborhood, working in coalition or offering culturally specific programming")
I just know one of y'all knows someone who could use this
Applications Open for Meyer’s Shared Office Space | Meyer Memorial Trust
Meyer is now accepting applications for the Workspace for Just Futures — our free office space designed to support powerful, community-centered work.
mmt.org
December 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM
heads up Portland!
applications open for free office space at Meyer Memorial Trust for small progressive orgs ( budgets under $1M, "serving the Albina neighborhood, working in coalition or offering culturally specific programming")
I just know one of y'all knows someone who could use this
applications open for free office space at Meyer Memorial Trust for small progressive orgs ( budgets under $1M, "serving the Albina neighborhood, working in coalition or offering culturally specific programming")
I just know one of y'all knows someone who could use this
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Book recommendation: UNROOTED by Erin Zimmerman
CW: graphic description of childbirth, gendered harassment, medical content.
I figured I’d relate to a science memoir with a motherhood theme, but wow. the second half of the book was so relatable.
#womeninstem #science #nonfiction #botany 🧪🧬🌱
CW: graphic description of childbirth, gendered harassment, medical content.
I figured I’d relate to a science memoir with a motherhood theme, but wow. the second half of the book was so relatable.
#womeninstem #science #nonfiction #botany 🧪🧬🌱
November 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Book recommendation: UNROOTED by Erin Zimmerman
CW: graphic description of childbirth, gendered harassment, medical content.
I figured I’d relate to a science memoir with a motherhood theme, but wow. the second half of the book was so relatable.
#womeninstem #science #nonfiction #botany 🧪🧬🌱
CW: graphic description of childbirth, gendered harassment, medical content.
I figured I’d relate to a science memoir with a motherhood theme, but wow. the second half of the book was so relatable.
#womeninstem #science #nonfiction #botany 🧪🧬🌱
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It's gift-giving season!
Why not give the gift of plant knowledge?
Here are some excellent, accessible books to engage & excite.
Fantastic offerings from @berondam.bsky.social (& a new one out in Jan)
@jondrori.co.uk (& a new kids book)
@razda5.bsky.social 💚
@ferrisjabr.bsky.social 👍
Novels too!
Why not give the gift of plant knowledge?
Here are some excellent, accessible books to engage & excite.
Fantastic offerings from @berondam.bsky.social (& a new one out in Jan)
@jondrori.co.uk (& a new kids book)
@razda5.bsky.social 💚
@ferrisjabr.bsky.social 👍
Novels too!
November 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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I'm beyond grateful that I discovered the Blanchet House café when we first moved to PDX. I've learned so much from the guests and the staff about creating community and mutual care.
Please consider donating to help provide 3 free, low-barrier meals a day along with clothes and other support.
Please consider donating to help provide 3 free, low-barrier meals a day along with clothes and other support.
Every day, our café staff, like Walker, open the doors to people enduring some of the hardest moments of their lives. Please consider honoring their emotionally difficult work by donating to our Give!Guide fundraiser at https://giveguide.org/nonprofits/blanchet-house-of-hospitality
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I'm beyond grateful that I discovered the Blanchet House café when we first moved to PDX. I've learned so much from the guests and the staff about creating community and mutual care.
Please consider donating to help provide 3 free, low-barrier meals a day along with clothes and other support.
Please consider donating to help provide 3 free, low-barrier meals a day along with clothes and other support.
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This hits really close to home! I am all about being silly and bringing my two sides (serious scientist and ridiculous person) to work. Life is too short and too hard to save the fun for later. ❤️
November 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This hits really close to home! I am all about being silly and bringing my two sides (serious scientist and ridiculous person) to work. Life is too short and too hard to save the fun for later. ❤️