Joyce Hostyn
@joycehostyn.bsky.social
Plants little forests, pocket forests and pocket meadows as songs, poems, love letters to the land. Adjunct @QueensU
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“We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world, it’s never a question of “critical mass. It’s always about critical connections.”
- Grace Lee Boggs
- Grace Lee Boggs
August 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM
“We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world, it’s never a question of “critical mass. It’s always about critical connections.”
- Grace Lee Boggs
- Grace Lee Boggs
Pollinators of all sorts enjoying Devils Walking Stick (Aralia Spinosa). After flowering migrating birds feast on the berries.
August 31, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Pollinators of all sorts enjoying Devils Walking Stick (Aralia Spinosa). After flowering migrating birds feast on the berries.
Discovered a bumble bee nest under a leaf bag. Possibly brown-belted bumble bees?
July 31, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Discovered a bumble bee nest under a leaf bag. Possibly brown-belted bumble bees?
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Wow - the science behind the updated plant hardiness map for #Canada rdcu.be/evpvj. Largest changes in the west/northwest mostly due to warmer temperatures. No changes in some areas, but #Halifax (south-central NS) sees a 0.5 zone increase, changing rain patterns contributing. planthardiness.gc.ca
Updated plant hardiness zones for Canada and assessment of change over time
Scientific Reports - Updated plant hardiness zones for Canada and assessment of change over time
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July 9, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Wow - the science behind the updated plant hardiness map for #Canada rdcu.be/evpvj. Largest changes in the west/northwest mostly due to warmer temperatures. No changes in some areas, but #Halifax (south-central NS) sees a 0.5 zone increase, changing rain patterns contributing. planthardiness.gc.ca
Found a Song Sparrow nest at Lakeside today just before Paul Preston, who’s doing a Song Sparrow study this summer arrived to facilitate an urban bird workshop. If you find one let Paul know, he’s looking for 100. #ygk kingstonfieldnaturalists.org/nests-in-the....
May 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Found a Song Sparrow nest at Lakeside today just before Paul Preston, who’s doing a Song Sparrow study this summer arrived to facilitate an urban bird workshop. If you find one let Paul know, he’s looking for 100. #ygk kingstonfieldnaturalists.org/nests-in-the....
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Fisher’s story reminds us: winter exists to slow our greed. We must reject the lie of human centrality, remember our stories, and honor the balance of all life. Put down your tobacco, keep your promises. Radical change begins in relationship.
www.thousandworlds.ca/the-end-of-w...
www.thousandworlds.ca/the-end-of-w...
The End of Winter
When we, humans, were created we were encouraged to follow the animals because they had been here longer than we were and they knew what they were doing. I was told that our Anishinaabe clan system de...
www.thousandworlds.ca
May 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Fisher’s story reminds us: winter exists to slow our greed. We must reject the lie of human centrality, remember our stories, and honor the balance of all life. Put down your tobacco, keep your promises. Radical change begins in relationship.
www.thousandworlds.ca/the-end-of-w...
www.thousandworlds.ca/the-end-of-w...
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From that lily in your yard, the bees that buzz around it, to the clownfish on TV, you don't need to look far to find examples of how nature breaks expectations.
@jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social wrote about how "Biology is Bigger than Binaries," because nature laughs at the tiny boxes we put them in.
@jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social wrote about how "Biology is Bigger than Binaries," because nature laughs at the tiny boxes we put them in.
Biology is Bigger than Binaries
Poster by Franz Anthony Article by Dr. Jess McLaughlin Biology is never simple, especially when it comes to sex! Here's some cool examples of how diverse sex can be in nature. How Many Sexes Are...
www.skypeascientist.com
May 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
From that lily in your yard, the bees that buzz around it, to the clownfish on TV, you don't need to look far to find examples of how nature breaks expectations.
@jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social wrote about how "Biology is Bigger than Binaries," because nature laughs at the tiny boxes we put them in.
@jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social wrote about how "Biology is Bigger than Binaries," because nature laughs at the tiny boxes we put them in.
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Big shoutout to newly minted Dr. Gazing Wolf for leading this article published today— thankful to be part of it!
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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A path to reconciliation between Indigenous and settler–colonial epistemologies
There is a movement across settler–colonial institutions of education and research to engage with Indigenous Peoples and Knowledges. Many settler and Indigenous governments are pursuing pathways to m...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Big shoutout to newly minted Dr. Gazing Wolf for leading this article published today— thankful to be part of it!
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Plz check out Gabriella Hirst's work on the intersection between war & ornamental cultivars
An English Garden publication is on nuclear weapon development & roses:
gabriellahirst.com/An-English-G...
Battlefield is a garden & publication on 200 war-related cultivars:
www.battlefield.garden/about/
An English Garden publication is on nuclear weapon development & roses:
gabriellahirst.com/An-English-G...
Battlefield is a garden & publication on 200 war-related cultivars:
www.battlefield.garden/about/
April 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Plz check out Gabriella Hirst's work on the intersection between war & ornamental cultivars
An English Garden publication is on nuclear weapon development & roses:
gabriellahirst.com/An-English-G...
Battlefield is a garden & publication on 200 war-related cultivars:
www.battlefield.garden/about/
An English Garden publication is on nuclear weapon development & roses:
gabriellahirst.com/An-English-G...
Battlefield is a garden & publication on 200 war-related cultivars:
www.battlefield.garden/about/
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"for every dollar of aid the Global South receives, it loses fourteen through profit repatriation, tax avoidance, debt servicing, and trade mispricing. In total, over $2.2 trillion flows annually from the South to the North" www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
The West, Rewritten
Imagine a Europe that stops measuring its virtue by comparison and starts measuring it by consequence. That actually asks "Who do we harm? And how do we stop?" That does not seek to escape its past, b...
www.resilience.org
April 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"for every dollar of aid the Global South receives, it loses fourteen through profit repatriation, tax avoidance, debt servicing, and trade mispricing. In total, over $2.2 trillion flows annually from the South to the North" www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
Ducks in the pond! Fingers crossed they’ll nest again this year.
April 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Ducks in the pond! Fingers crossed they’ll nest again this year.
"The wildest places out there are urban landscapes. They are the steep embankments where no humans ever go or the spaces between highways. These places are very much the new frontier." Claudia West wonderground.press/people/claud...
Designing Abundance with Claudia West - Wonderground
A conversation with trailblazing landscape architect and ecological design advocate, Claudia West
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April 2, 2025 at 10:07 AM
"The wildest places out there are urban landscapes. They are the steep embankments where no humans ever go or the spaces between highways. These places are very much the new frontier." Claudia West wonderground.press/people/claud...
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Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility.
There’s much to do everywhere so that trans and non-binary people can live without fear.
Our single point of reflection is this:
what’s your organisation doing to support trans+ people?
There’s much to do everywhere so that trans and non-binary people can live without fear.
Our single point of reflection is this:
what’s your organisation doing to support trans+ people?
March 31, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility.
There’s much to do everywhere so that trans and non-binary people can live without fear.
Our single point of reflection is this:
what’s your organisation doing to support trans+ people?
There’s much to do everywhere so that trans and non-binary people can live without fear.
Our single point of reflection is this:
what’s your organisation doing to support trans+ people?
Enjoying the beauty of Red Willow Mskobiimwish (Red Osier Dogwood) coated in ice, feeling grateful for last weekend's teachings by Elder Deb St. Amant of Mskobiimwish (Red Willow)'s gifts, including use as Asemaa
March 31, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Enjoying the beauty of Red Willow Mskobiimwish (Red Osier Dogwood) coated in ice, feeling grateful for last weekend's teachings by Elder Deb St. Amant of Mskobiimwish (Red Willow)'s gifts, including use as Asemaa
Air is Kin: "Air has a dynamic ecology... The microbiome of the air (the aerobiome) is primarily 'fed' by the soil & vegetation... We inhale the exhalations of plants & diverse microorganisms as they inhale ours––the most magnificent occurrence of unconscious reciprocity." www.thecentriclab.com/aik
March 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Air is Kin: "Air has a dynamic ecology... The microbiome of the air (the aerobiome) is primarily 'fed' by the soil & vegetation... We inhale the exhalations of plants & diverse microorganisms as they inhale ours––the most magnificent occurrence of unconscious reciprocity." www.thecentriclab.com/aik
"Those that tend the garden via 'conservation' and strange fragmented phrases like 'applied ecologies' of our natural world do so not for the garden, not for the rose, but for the gardeners alone. And what lonely gardens we create." justinthomas.substack.com/p/no-gardene...
No Gardener Ever Made a Rose
Everything is an ecology
justinthomas.substack.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
"Those that tend the garden via 'conservation' and strange fragmented phrases like 'applied ecologies' of our natural world do so not for the garden, not for the rose, but for the gardeners alone. And what lonely gardens we create." justinthomas.substack.com/p/no-gardene...
"Considering the role of humans in modern landscapes... [it means] sitting, listening, and observing... asking living systems what they need... ...being different people than we are now because we know it doesn’t get fixed until we fix ourselves." Justin Thomas mdc.mo.gov/sites/defaul...
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March 19, 2025 at 10:13 AM
"Considering the role of humans in modern landscapes... [it means] sitting, listening, and observing... asking living systems what they need... ...being different people than we are now because we know it doesn’t get fixed until we fix ourselves." Justin Thomas mdc.mo.gov/sites/defaul...
"Does the Land have a Spirit?
Do we show Land Respect?
Do we have Knowledge?
Do we have Wisdom?
Do we Heal? Harm?
Do we foster Community? Ego?
Is breaking virgin Land Progress?"
prairiebotanist.com/2024/08/29/c...
Do we show Land Respect?
Do we have Knowledge?
Do we have Wisdom?
Do we Heal? Harm?
Do we foster Community? Ego?
Is breaking virgin Land Progress?"
prairiebotanist.com/2024/08/29/c...
Conservation’s Most Pressing Questions
Does the Land have a Spirit? Do we show Land Respect? Do we have Knowledge? Do we have Wisdom? Do we Heal? Harm? Do we foster Community? Ego? Is breaking virgin Land Progress? White oak with unerly…
prairiebotanist.com
March 19, 2025 at 9:43 AM
"Does the Land have a Spirit?
Do we show Land Respect?
Do we have Knowledge?
Do we have Wisdom?
Do we Heal? Harm?
Do we foster Community? Ego?
Is breaking virgin Land Progress?"
prairiebotanist.com/2024/08/29/c...
Do we show Land Respect?
Do we have Knowledge?
Do we have Wisdom?
Do we Heal? Harm?
Do we foster Community? Ego?
Is breaking virgin Land Progress?"
prairiebotanist.com/2024/08/29/c...
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Do you need a nice activity for your lunch break? Check out this overview of nighttime pollination by @emtomology.bsky.social youtu.be/JSrAthMPjyc?...
Working the Night Shift: Pollinators After Dark
YouTube video by Pollinator Friendly Alliance
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March 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Do you need a nice activity for your lunch break? Check out this overview of nighttime pollination by @emtomology.bsky.social youtu.be/JSrAthMPjyc?...
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So, you found a #BumbleBee nest – now what? Read the #conservation importance of studying wild nests & data collection guidance in our newest #RESInsectConsDiv paper on a US federally endangered species🐝
#OpenAccess🔽
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@johnmola.bsky.social @manusaunders.bsky.social @wiley.com
#OpenAccess🔽
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@johnmola.bsky.social @manusaunders.bsky.social @wiley.com
March 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
So, you found a #BumbleBee nest – now what? Read the #conservation importance of studying wild nests & data collection guidance in our newest #RESInsectConsDiv paper on a US federally endangered species🐝
#OpenAccess🔽
buff.ly/geI0AfD
@johnmola.bsky.social @manusaunders.bsky.social @wiley.com
#OpenAccess🔽
buff.ly/geI0AfD
@johnmola.bsky.social @manusaunders.bsky.social @wiley.com
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"this middle space where language, fact, art, and meaning mingle is where we find the most agency and purpose... we need more members of this chorus making beautiful art of fact and instilling more fact into our art."
"Today, facing climate crises and genocides and techno feudalism and totalitarian rule, truthful stories, and beautiful stories, are a key to illuminating the systems of power that shape our lives—and to transform them before its too late."
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Truth, Power, Art: A Critical Manifesto on Creative Nonfiction
Back in 2017, White House Press Secretary Kellyann Conway coined the phrase “alternative facts” to describe realities that were inconvenient to the first Trump Administration. Eight years later, as…
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March 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
"this middle space where language, fact, art, and meaning mingle is where we find the most agency and purpose... we need more members of this chorus making beautiful art of fact and instilling more fact into our art."