Andrew Hipp
@andrewlhipp.bsky.social
Plant systematist, herbarium director, naturalist, in the Chicago suburbs; posts reflect my views, not my employer's.
Recent book: Oak Origins: From Acorns to Species & the Tree of Life
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo236998258.html
Recent book: Oak Origins: From Acorns to Species & the Tree of Life
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo236998258.html
Reposted by Andrew Hipp
Big news: I’m writing a book!!
I’ll be writing & illustrating a beginner’s guide to appreciating wildlife in cities/suburbs, & how all of us can make our neighborhoods better for those animals.
Thank you to my book agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social & the folks at Storey for believing in this book!
I’ll be writing & illustrating a beginner’s guide to appreciating wildlife in cities/suburbs, & how all of us can make our neighborhoods better for those animals.
Thank you to my book agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social & the folks at Storey for believing in this book!
November 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Big news: I’m writing a book!!
I’ll be writing & illustrating a beginner’s guide to appreciating wildlife in cities/suburbs, & how all of us can make our neighborhoods better for those animals.
Thank you to my book agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social & the folks at Storey for believing in this book!
I’ll be writing & illustrating a beginner’s guide to appreciating wildlife in cities/suburbs, & how all of us can make our neighborhoods better for those animals.
Thank you to my book agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social & the folks at Storey for believing in this book!
This just out from @mortonarboretum.bsky.social Rebekah Mohn: reference genome and read mapping method both affect phylogenetic inference & heterozygosity estimates across species.
Punchline? Use a closely related but not conspecific reference.
Open-access!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Punchline? Use a closely related but not conspecific reference.
Open-access!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Variant Calling in the Goldilocks Zone: How Reference Genome Choice and Read Mapping Stringency Impact Heterozygosity Estimates and Phylogenetic Analyses
The increasing numbers of published reference genomes and affordability of whole genome resequencing have enabled multispecies population genomic and phylogenomic studies on non-model organisms, but ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This just out from @mortonarboretum.bsky.social Rebekah Mohn: reference genome and read mapping method both affect phylogenetic inference & heterozygosity estimates across species.
Punchline? Use a closely related but not conspecific reference.
Open-access!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Punchline? Use a closely related but not conspecific reference.
Open-access!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
# 14
This tree in the twilit street---
the pods hang from its bare symmetrical branches
motionless---
but if, like God, a century were to us
the twinkling of an eye,
we should see the frenzy of growth.
Charles Reznikoff, in Jerusalem the Golden
This tree in the twilit street---
the pods hang from its bare symmetrical branches
motionless---
but if, like God, a century were to us
the twinkling of an eye,
we should see the frenzy of growth.
Charles Reznikoff, in Jerusalem the Golden
November 13, 2025 at 3:29 AM
# 14
This tree in the twilit street---
the pods hang from its bare symmetrical branches
motionless---
but if, like God, a century were to us
the twinkling of an eye,
we should see the frenzy of growth.
Charles Reznikoff, in Jerusalem the Golden
This tree in the twilit street---
the pods hang from its bare symmetrical branches
motionless---
but if, like God, a century were to us
the twinkling of an eye,
we should see the frenzy of growth.
Charles Reznikoff, in Jerusalem the Golden
In case you missed it, my last lecture on Oak Origins, from Miami University, is posted online. This iteration focuses on reproduction and migration, the oak tree of life, and the effects of oak diversity on fungal and insect diversity in the forest. Please share!
www.youtube.com/live/mRCrGFn...
www.youtube.com/live/mRCrGFn...
Belk Lecture on Oak Origins
YouTube video by Hefner Museum of Natural History
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
In case you missed it, my last lecture on Oak Origins, from Miami University, is posted online. This iteration focuses on reproduction and migration, the oak tree of life, and the effects of oak diversity on fungal and insect diversity in the forest. Please share!
www.youtube.com/live/mRCrGFn...
www.youtube.com/live/mRCrGFn...
Charlie Harper mosaic "Web of Life" and detail (Io moth, Pacific starfish, woodcock, bullfrog, redbeard sponge), 81 organisms in total. Miami University Department of Biology this past week.
November 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Charlie Harper mosaic "Web of Life" and detail (Io moth, Pacific starfish, woodcock, bullfrog, redbeard sponge), 81 organisms in total. Miami University Department of Biology this past week.
Sugar maple sea, Maple Grove Forest Preserve this evening.
November 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Sugar maple sea, Maple Grove Forest Preserve this evening.
Moon this morning, trail along Four Mile Creek, Miami University (with barred owls wooing in the background)
November 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Moon this morning, trail along Four Mile Creek, Miami University (with barred owls wooing in the background)
Maple Grove Forest Preserve this morning: sugar maples, yellow; waterleaf (probably Hydrophyllum appendiculatum), still green; sugar maple seed lodged in a hole in a fallen ash; puffballs.
November 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Maple Grove Forest Preserve this morning: sugar maples, yellow; waterleaf (probably Hydrophyllum appendiculatum), still green; sugar maple seed lodged in a hole in a fallen ash; puffballs.
Reposted by Andrew Hipp
Human-mediated land-use and climate change occur simultaneously, but how do they interact to shape adaptive dynamics? Super excited to share the first paper from the Kreiner lab, led by postdoc extraordinaire @rpineau.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Human-mediated land-use and climate change occur simultaneously, but how do they interact to shape adaptive dynamics? Super excited to share the first paper from the Kreiner lab, led by postdoc extraordinaire @rpineau.bsky.social
Reposted by Andrew Hipp
Great new postdoc fellowship for foundational plant research.
If you’re into genetics and genomics of plant reproductive evolution or adaptive convergence (incl in the cool and charismatic nightshades!) I’d be happy to talk about possible projects!
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
If you’re into genetics and genomics of plant reproductive evolution or adaptive convergence (incl in the cool and charismatic nightshades!) I’d be happy to talk about possible projects!
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation
www.simonsfoundation.org
October 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Great new postdoc fellowship for foundational plant research.
If you’re into genetics and genomics of plant reproductive evolution or adaptive convergence (incl in the cool and charismatic nightshades!) I’d be happy to talk about possible projects!
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
If you’re into genetics and genomics of plant reproductive evolution or adaptive convergence (incl in the cool and charismatic nightshades!) I’d be happy to talk about possible projects!
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
Reposted by Andrew Hipp
A podcast that I did an interview for got turned into an article. www.dw.com/en/what-us-s.... @melissaarctic.bsky.social and @ncse.bsky.social were also a big part of this great discussion on the importance of climate change education.
What US school kids are learning about climate – DW – 10/31/2025
As the long arm of the fossil fuel lobby enters the classroom, some US science teachers are finding their job requires more than simply imparting knowledge and wisdom.
www.dw.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A podcast that I did an interview for got turned into an article. www.dw.com/en/what-us-s.... @melissaarctic.bsky.social and @ncse.bsky.social were also a big part of this great discussion on the importance of climate change education.
I'm honored to be giving the Ethel Belk Lecture at @miamiuniversity.bsky.social, 7 p.m. on Weds, Nov 6. It is a public lecture, so please join us if you can! It is also live-streamed if you can't make it in person. Either way, I hope to see you... details below:
events.miamioh.edu/event/copy-o...
events.miamioh.edu/event/copy-o...
“Oak Origins: From Acorns to Species and the Tree of Life” Belk Lecture
events.miamioh.edu
October 31, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I'm honored to be giving the Ethel Belk Lecture at @miamiuniversity.bsky.social, 7 p.m. on Weds, Nov 6. It is a public lecture, so please join us if you can! It is also live-streamed if you can't make it in person. Either way, I hope to see you... details below:
events.miamioh.edu/event/copy-o...
events.miamioh.edu/event/copy-o...
Not to sound like a Luddite, but the auto-complete feature of VSCode in whatever prose I happen to be working on bugs and worries me. I mute it, but until I do, it chugs along in the background (with millions of other computers), gobbling up resources and draining creativity.
Muting it again now.
Muting it again now.
October 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Not to sound like a Luddite, but the auto-complete feature of VSCode in whatever prose I happen to be working on bugs and worries me. I mute it, but until I do, it chugs along in the background (with millions of other computers), gobbling up resources and draining creativity.
Muting it again now.
Muting it again now.
This would be a great team to work with! and a project that potentially integrates ecosystem ecology, grassland restoration, and community ecology (unless I'm misunderstanding). Reach out to @hennhouse.bsky.social @schwilk.org et al. learn more.
We're recruiting!! Myself along with Nathan Gill, Dylan Schwilk @schwilk.org, and Katharine Suding are recruiting people for Master's, PhD, and postdoc positions in GrassFire, an NSF funded project examining fuels and fire risk in grassland ecosystems across the Southern Great Plains! 🔥🌿🐮
October 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This would be a great team to work with! and a project that potentially integrates ecosystem ecology, grassland restoration, and community ecology (unless I'm misunderstanding). Reach out to @hennhouse.bsky.social @schwilk.org et al. learn more.
October light on swamp white oaks, @mortonarboretum.bsky.social East Woods this evening.
October 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
October light on swamp white oaks, @mortonarboretum.bsky.social East Woods this evening.
Reposted by Andrew Hipp
A judge on Tuesday ordered senior U.S. Border Patrol official Greg Bovino to meet with her at 6 PM each evening to discuss the government’s immigration crackdown in the Chicago area, an extraordinary step following weeks of street confrontations, tear gas volleys and complaints of excessive force.
Judge orders Border Patrol official Bovino to meet with her daily on Chicago immigration crackdown
Greg Bovino, who has become the face of the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps in America’s big cities, got an earful from U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis as soon as he settled into the witness ...
www.pbs.org
October 29, 2025 at 3:19 AM
A judge on Tuesday ordered senior U.S. Border Patrol official Greg Bovino to meet with her at 6 PM each evening to discuss the government’s immigration crackdown in the Chicago area, an extraordinary step following weeks of street confrontations, tear gas volleys and complaints of excessive force.
Ginkgo, east border of Garfield Park this morning
October 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Ginkgo, east border of Garfield Park this morning
Night and day, the seasons, are as if someone
had arranged them. They were never arranged.
Oh, how marvelous the world is
and I without the strength sometimes to know.
William Bronk, The Insufficiency
had arranged them. They were never arranged.
Oh, how marvelous the world is
and I without the strength sometimes to know.
William Bronk, The Insufficiency
October 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Night and day, the seasons, are as if someone
had arranged them. They were never arranged.
Oh, how marvelous the world is
and I without the strength sometimes to know.
William Bronk, The Insufficiency
had arranged them. They were never arranged.
Oh, how marvelous the world is
and I without the strength sometimes to know.
William Bronk, The Insufficiency
October 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
A magnificent swamp white oak, floodplain of Salt Creek, Fullersburg Woods Forest Preserve this morning.
October 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
A magnificent swamp white oak, floodplain of Salt Creek, Fullersburg Woods Forest Preserve this morning.
Sunrise and mist over Salt Creek this morning.
October 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Sunrise and mist over Salt Creek this morning.
Frosty cordgrass morning, tallgrass prairie on the east side of @mortonarboretum.bsky.social
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
October 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Frosty cordgrass morning, tallgrass prairie on the east side of @mortonarboretum.bsky.social
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Venus (I believe) over the BNSF tracks this morning. Downers Grove.
October 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Venus (I believe) over the BNSF tracks this morning. Downers Grove.
My colleague AP bio teacher @jeffgrantscience.bsky.social in @science.org (10/9/25), on the now-shuttered climate.gov: "I always provide [students] with the latest research."
By contrast, Donald Trump on climate change: "the biggest con job ever perpetrated." Plus side? Jeff is the one teaching.
By contrast, Donald Trump on climate change: "the biggest con job ever perpetrated." Plus side? Jeff is the one teaching.
October 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
My colleague AP bio teacher @jeffgrantscience.bsky.social in @science.org (10/9/25), on the now-shuttered climate.gov: "I always provide [students] with the latest research."
By contrast, Donald Trump on climate change: "the biggest con job ever perpetrated." Plus side? Jeff is the one teaching.
By contrast, Donald Trump on climate change: "the biggest con job ever perpetrated." Plus side? Jeff is the one teaching.
Clouds over Lake Michigan this morning, from the Roosevelt CTA Station.
October 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Clouds over Lake Michigan this morning, from the Roosevelt CTA Station.