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Paul Sokoloff
@paulsokoloff.bsky.social
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Queer botanist and lover of cool things in the sky (he/him)
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Love when a colleague attributes all your hard work to someone else because “they’re the expert in that taxonomic group”. Massive sigh.
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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I’m so happy with how this new tattoo turned out.
A men’s lower left calf with an ornamental tattoo. The top part of the tattoo is an opening flower, while the bottom part is three lines. The tattoo is done in all black.
October 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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New tattoo days are the best days.
October 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Newfoundlanding with @djbotany.bsky.social
A selfie of two men standing in front of a harbour. The man on the left is wearing a blue hoodie and has a mustache. The man on the right is wearing a black jacket and has a grey beard and glasses.
September 17, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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See you soon St. John’s! (w/ @djbotany.bsky.social)
A selfie of two men sitting in an airplane. The man on the left is wearing a blue hoodie and glasses, with a short grey beard. The man on the right is wearing a grey sweater and a mustache.
September 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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39. Still doing “Guys with iPhones” elder millennial mirror selfies I guess.
Paul is taking a selfie of himself in a mirror. He’s holding a black phone, and is wearing a black t shirt, black pants, a watch, glasses, and sporting short dark hair and a mustache. He has tattoos on his right forearm.
August 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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I'm raffling off some beadwork to support Indigenous charity organizations in honour of #OrangeShirtDay. Tickets are 10$ each, 100% of ticket sales will benefit the Orange Shirt Society, the Indian Residential School Survivors Society and the East Van Friendship Centre.
August 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Back in cell service after fieldwork on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, and the plants were stunning!
The Lapland poppy, Oreomecon lapponica, sends up satellite dish shaped yellow flowers with four broad petals arranged in a shallow cup. The hairy lousewort, Pedicularis hirsuta, with sprays of pink flowers arranged in a whorl along the central stem in amongst tufts of white hairs. The spider saxifrage, Saxifraga flagellaris, has three yellow flowers on the top of a red stem with a red spray of leaves at the bottom. Thin red runners spread out in all directions from the base of the plant. The sudetan lousewort, Pedicularis albolabiata, has a showy crown of white flowers with little pink helmets. The white flowers have pink dots, and are located on the top of a green stem.
August 19, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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It’s nice to be back in Nunavut. Currently in Resolute and tomorrow on to Axel Heiberg Island for two weeks of fieldwork.
Paul takes a selfie while wearing a grey vest and a blue neck gaiter (and his ridiculous mustache). He’s standing on a stony tundra with patches of green moss scattered and blue skies overhead. The purple mountain saxifrage (Saxifraga oppositifolia), in all its bright glory. Each flower has five purple petals arranged in a star like fashion, and the plant is covered in these flowers peeking through great rocks. Parry’s wallflower (Parrya arctica), the green basal leaves are emerging from brown moss, and holds two round clusters of densely packed mauve flowers). The white worm lichen (Thamnolia subuliformis) consists of many small white worm like projections emerging from green moss, rising towards the sky.
August 6, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Weekend wanders with @djbotany.bsky.social
A selfie of two men on a downtown street. The man on the left is wearing a gray T-shirt and greenish black sunglasses. The man on the right is wearing a tan T-shirt and a tan ball cap.
July 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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It was only a matter of time (tattoo and photo from the amazing Pierre at HungryxHound).
A tattoo half sleeve on Paul’s right forearm, depicting nature and space scenes around existing tattoos)
July 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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The collection continues to grow.
Two tattoos on a man’s left forearm. The top tattoo depicts, a paper airplane, the bottom tattoo depicts a paper boat. Both are drawn in blank.
June 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Don’t let the eye bags fool you - the Canadian Botanical Association meetings were fun! Also lovely to be back in St. John’s for a bit.
A selfie of Paul in front of a pond with university buildings behind. Paul is wearing a blue checked shirt and looks perpetually tired.
June 14, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Les ours
Paula, standing to the left of a image of a polar bear, it’s clear that they are besties. Paul has a moustache and a funny grin, the polar bear has majestic white fur.
May 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Solar powered organisms.
The core of a magnolia bloom, pink and spiky. A bearded man stares down at the camera from an oblique angle.
May 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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I know bearface at the airport is unoriginal but I am desperately under caffeinated.
A man wearing a grey flannel shirt and a tan ball cap sits in an airport departure lounge under fluorescent lights.
April 30, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Finally feels a bit like spring out here.
A man with short hair and a grey sweater takes a a streetscape selfie.
April 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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10 km hike with a 9 kg pack - getting set for fieldwork is nice on such a lovely spring morning.
A selfie of a man wearing a gray hoodie, green sunglasses, and a tan ball cap. He’s in an Arboretum, and the sun is shining.
April 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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The urge for a new tattoo is strong. Thoughts for open feedback: trembling aspen leaves, constellations, craggy mountains, all of the above?
April 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Thank you @andreamurphy12.bsky.social for reminding me to look for spring flowers!
A spray of pale purple crocuses grows on damp ground in the waning sunlight.
April 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Thanks for having me, this was such a fun conversation!
March 31, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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I’m taking the train from the Ottawa airport for the first time and I am just so excited.
March 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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It’s amazing how much a haircut can lift your spirits.
March 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Happy #PhycologyFriday! Canada's Arctic waters are more colourful than you might expect. This seaweed-filled scene is from near Cambridge Bay, Nunavut.
March 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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“Hi yes is the the nerds-with-sedge-tattoos club?”
A tattoo of a sedge (Carex) on a man’s right forearm. The tattoo is done in black ink, and the man is standing in a brickwork tattoo shop.
March 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM