I hear there have been auroras lately.

Happy ‘I Read Canadian’ Day! 🍁
May I humbly suggest a Canadian science memoir about the history of women in botany and the struggle of being a mother in modern science research?

#ireadcanadian #womeninstem

Peak autumn in southern Ontario. 👌🏻🍁

My last flowers, two of my favourites, holding on for dear life as the temperature drops.

Cycads are so graceful when they unfurl new leaves.

I had the best time this week getting to speak at the Perimeter Institute’s Inspiring Future Women in Science conference, where I was part of a panel discussing careers in science for an audience of several hundred young women. Here’s to our future female scientists!
👩🏼‍🔬🌾🧪 @perimeterinstitute.ca

Presented without commentary, this gem I happened upon while sorting through my kids’ books yesterday.

Late-autumn Fake-spring #1 is one of my favourite Canadian micro-seasons.

If any American readers are interested in checking out Unrooted, Barnes & Noble has a big pre-order sale on for members right now! 🌿

I took one look at the first sentence of my daughter’s 3rd grade science homework today and died a little inside. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Do I… do I go say something? I should probably just let this go, right?
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I went as Persea americana. 🥑

#iamabotanist 🌾

My dawn redwood getting ready for winter. Metasequoia glyptostroboides, native to China, is the only species in its genus and one of relatively few deciduous conifers. All those needles are about to go everywhere.
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After twenty long years of wanting to eat a puffball and never finding one, my delicious mycological dream came true this week.