Katelyn Butler
@katelynjbutler.bsky.social
Instructional professor & plant pathologist committed to inclusive, evidence-based teaching. Also mom to the best F1s (n=2), easily distracted by mosses & lichens, overly competitive at board games & always up for a little treat.
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I talked about dilution plating as a way to quantify bacteria to a student designing a research project, and he suggested that it was "primitive" and wanted a more "modern method"
I'm not a dinosaur, right? People still do this?
I'm not a dinosaur, right? People still do this?
November 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I talked about dilution plating as a way to quantify bacteria to a student designing a research project, and he suggested that it was "primitive" and wanted a more "modern method"
I'm not a dinosaur, right? People still do this?
I'm not a dinosaur, right? People still do this?
First day back working on campus and already mistaken for a student even though I dressed up today.
Then I met a new faculty 6 years younger than me and remembered this is my 8th year teaching.
So, I’m confused.
Then I met a new faculty 6 years younger than me and remembered this is my 8th year teaching.
So, I’m confused.
September 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
First day back working on campus and already mistaken for a student even though I dressed up today.
Then I met a new faculty 6 years younger than me and remembered this is my 8th year teaching.
So, I’m confused.
Then I met a new faculty 6 years younger than me and remembered this is my 8th year teaching.
So, I’m confused.
Well, my three year old asked if the specks on the outside of the strawberry were seeds. Time for a botany lesson. 🍓
August 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Well, my three year old asked if the specks on the outside of the strawberry were seeds. Time for a botany lesson. 🍓
Nothing has made me think before I speak more than having a 3 year old.
June 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Nothing has made me think before I speak more than having a 3 year old.
My son’s exact reaction when I told him to put his shoes on this morning.
(We’ve been in a Frog and Toad phase, I love it)
(We’ve been in a Frog and Toad phase, I love it)
May 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
My son’s exact reaction when I told him to put his shoes on this morning.
(We’ve been in a Frog and Toad phase, I love it)
(We’ve been in a Frog and Toad phase, I love it)
I also almost didn’t know about it because I’m on maternity leave and only checked my work email to find a gift card some friends sent.
I won a teaching award on campus. It’s student nominated AND for my teaching in the core curriculum (so, nonmajors) which just feels special. 🥺
college.uchicago.edu/news/uchicag...
college.uchicago.edu/news/uchicag...
UChicago 2025 Undergraduate Teaching Award Winners Announced
Recognizing the Swogger, Booth and Undergraduate Student teaching prizes
college.uchicago.edu
May 23, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I also almost didn’t know about it because I’m on maternity leave and only checked my work email to find a gift card some friends sent.
I won a teaching award on campus. It’s student nominated AND for my teaching in the core curriculum (so, nonmajors) which just feels special. 🥺
college.uchicago.edu/news/uchicag...
college.uchicago.edu/news/uchicag...
UChicago 2025 Undergraduate Teaching Award Winners Announced
Recognizing the Swogger, Booth and Undergraduate Student teaching prizes
college.uchicago.edu
May 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I won a teaching award on campus. It’s student nominated AND for my teaching in the core curriculum (so, nonmajors) which just feels special. 🥺
college.uchicago.edu/news/uchicag...
college.uchicago.edu/news/uchicag...
Reposted by Katelyn Butler
Is there a German word for choosing an inanimate object (mug, spoon, pair of socks) that you haven’t used in a while to make sure its feelings don’t get hurt?
May 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Is there a German word for choosing an inanimate object (mug, spoon, pair of socks) that you haven’t used in a while to make sure its feelings don’t get hurt?
Is there a German word for choosing an inanimate object (mug, spoon, pair of socks) that you haven’t used in a while to make sure its feelings don’t get hurt?
May 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Is there a German word for choosing an inanimate object (mug, spoon, pair of socks) that you haven’t used in a while to make sure its feelings don’t get hurt?
Reposted by Katelyn Butler
Forget touching grass, try touching some forest moss.
April 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Forget touching grass, try touching some forest moss.
My toddler learned giraffes have purple tongues at daycare and so we spent all of lunch looking up animal tongue colors.
Do any of you have some good animal tongues I can share with him?
Do any of you have some good animal tongues I can share with him?
April 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
My toddler learned giraffes have purple tongues at daycare and so we spent all of lunch looking up animal tongue colors.
Do any of you have some good animal tongues I can share with him?
Do any of you have some good animal tongues I can share with him?
I just checked my Field Museum volunteer discord for the first time in weeks and bummed I missed out on so many good “dire wolf” memes back when they were relevant.
April 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I just checked my Field Museum volunteer discord for the first time in weeks and bummed I missed out on so many good “dire wolf” memes back when they were relevant.
In grad school I participated in a potato taste test for potato breeders and there was one potato that distinctly tasted like stinky shoes.
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For every new apple variety that shows up at the grocery store, there are thousands of godawful, mushy, bitter, acid "spitters" that never made it off the research farm.
And plant scientists eat them all. To make sure you never have to 🫡
And plant scientists eat them all. To make sure you never have to 🫡
April 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
In grad school I participated in a potato taste test for potato breeders and there was one potato that distinctly tasted like stinky shoes.
🥔
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😞 thought we had it there for a minute. Feeling adrift in a sea of defeat (get it?) #TeamAutotrophForLife #2025MMM
POLAR BEAR OUTLASTS GINKGO & RHIZZO!!!! #2025MMM
April 1, 2025 at 1:17 AM
😞 thought we had it there for a minute. Feeling adrift in a sea of defeat (get it?) #TeamAutotrophForLife #2025MMM
Plant induced carnage! Love to see it. 🌱 #TeamAutotrophAndFriends #2025MMM
GINKGO & RHIZZO CRUSH ALLIGATOR GAR!!! #2025MMM
March 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Plant induced carnage! Love to see it. 🌱 #TeamAutotrophAndFriends #2025MMM
Can we please get books with picture inserts to use Figure References so we know to go look at the picture at the right time and see them in context?
March 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Can we please get books with picture inserts to use Figure References so we know to go look at the picture at the right time and see them in context?
I sold 10 books to the local bookstore today and only came home with 4. This feels like a victory. 📕
March 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I sold 10 books to the local bookstore today and only came home with 4. This feels like a victory. 📕
Are those arteries and veins coming out of the tronk? Revolutionary, if true.
March 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Are those arteries and veins coming out of the tronk? Revolutionary, if true.
Reposted by Katelyn Butler
Exciting news, ECPS members!
The ASPB ECPS Travel Award applications are OPEN for #PlantBio2025, July 26–30, 2025 in Milwaukee! Get up to $500 to present, network & grow!
Deadline: April 4, 2025, 11:59 PM PT
Apply now! 👉
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#PlantScience #TravelAward #ASPB
The ASPB ECPS Travel Award applications are OPEN for #PlantBio2025, July 26–30, 2025 in Milwaukee! Get up to $500 to present, network & grow!
Deadline: April 4, 2025, 11:59 PM PT
Apply now! 👉
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#PlantScience #TravelAward #ASPB
ECPS Travel Award for PB25
The Early Career Plant Scientists section of ASPB is currently accepting applications for travel awards for the annual meeting in Milwaukee, July 26-30. Fifteen Awards of up to $500 will be distribute...
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March 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Exciting news, ECPS members!
The ASPB ECPS Travel Award applications are OPEN for #PlantBio2025, July 26–30, 2025 in Milwaukee! Get up to $500 to present, network & grow!
Deadline: April 4, 2025, 11:59 PM PT
Apply now! 👉
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#PlantScience #TravelAward #ASPB
The ASPB ECPS Travel Award applications are OPEN for #PlantBio2025, July 26–30, 2025 in Milwaukee! Get up to $500 to present, network & grow!
Deadline: April 4, 2025, 11:59 PM PT
Apply now! 👉
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#PlantScience #TravelAward #ASPB
Gingko (& Rhizo) OUTLAST Asian Forest Tortoise!!! #2025MMM
March 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I’ve got my 2.5 year old calling his fingers and toes phalanges and this just feels like win. 🦴
March 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I’ve got my 2.5 year old calling his fingers and toes phalanges and this just feels like win. 🦴
Gingko & Rhizzo TOGETHER ADVANCE TO ROUND 2! #WhoompThereItIs
#TagTeam, back again
Check it to wreck it, let's begin
Party on, party people, let me hear some noise
This tree's in the house, jump, jump, rejoice!
#2025MMM
#TagTeam, back again
Check it to wreck it, let's begin
Party on, party people, let me hear some noise
This tree's in the house, jump, jump, rejoice!
#2025MMM
March 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Still….no….regrets. ☹️ 🌿 #TeamAutotroph #2025MMM
Frilled Sharks violent thrashing creates turbulence, chaotic changes in pressure and flow against the plant until... Frilled Shark RIPS Fern into disintegrating pieces! #FernInterrupted #2025MMM
March 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Still….no….regrets. ☹️ 🌿 #TeamAutotroph #2025MMM
