Heather Hallen-Adams
@hallen-adams.bsky.social
Knitting mycologist who likes lizards
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Gray wolf
Coyote
Gray fox
Red fox
Kit fox
Gray wolf
Coyote
Gray fox
Red fox
Kit fox
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Goliath heron
Himalayan vulture
Cerulean warbler
Laysan albatross
Australian king parrot
Goliath heron
Himalayan vulture
Cerulean warbler
Laysan albatross
Australian king parrot
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Blue whale (and calf)
Mexican free-tailed bat
King rail
Portuguese man-o-war
17 year periodical cicada
Blue whale (and calf)
Mexican free-tailed bat
King rail
Portuguese man-o-war
17 year periodical cicada
November 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Gray wolf
Coyote
Gray fox
Red fox
Kit fox
Gray wolf
Coyote
Gray fox
Red fox
Kit fox
@greenleejw.bsky.social found this in “The Notebook” (R Allen, 2023) and naturally thought of you; image credit adds “in a copy of Bell’s common place book, British Library BLL01018056123”. Eels are everywhere!
September 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
@greenleejw.bsky.social found this in “The Notebook” (R Allen, 2023) and naturally thought of you; image credit adds “in a copy of Bell’s common place book, British Library BLL01018056123”. Eels are everywhere!
Sidewalk axolotl, after @ethankocak.com
August 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Sidewalk axolotl, after @ethankocak.com
Reposted by Heather Hallen-Adams
Never ask a man his salary, a woman her age, or an AI whether this mushroom is safe to eat.
August 18, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Never ask a man his salary, a woman her age, or an AI whether this mushroom is safe to eat.
Reposted by Heather Hallen-Adams
I think it's important to continuously reiterate that federal science funding grants in the US (and elsewhere) are made because the government, with the input of panels of independent experts, have concluded that the work being done is IN THE INTEREST OF THE NATION.
When the Trump administration froze this Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist's research funding, he received an email from China offering to relocate his lab to any city and university of his choice, with guaranteed funding for 20 years.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
U.S. Scientists Warn That Trump’s Cuts Will Set Off a Brain Drain
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I think it's important to continuously reiterate that federal science funding grants in the US (and elsewhere) are made because the government, with the input of panels of independent experts, have concluded that the work being done is IN THE INTEREST OF THE NATION.
If you need to hear this: Money for Federal employees or grants does not actually disappear into a black hole. It is spent. Wages go for housing, food, consumer goods, taxes; grants go for supplies, maintanance. All of this money returns to the economy. It’s how economies work.
January 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
If you need to hear this: Money for Federal employees or grants does not actually disappear into a black hole. It is spent. Wages go for housing, food, consumer goods, taxes; grants go for supplies, maintanance. All of this money returns to the economy. It’s how economies work.
Different truffles! Different dog! www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Good boy!’ Truffle-sniffing dogs are helping uncover hidden underground ecosystems
Their keen noses are helping researchers document the diversity of fungi living underneath Pacific Northwest forests
www.science.org
January 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Different truffles! Different dog! www.science.org/content/arti...
Truffles! And dogs. www.futurity.org/new-truffle-...
Dogs help discover 2 new kinds of truffle
"This study shows that there are still undiscovered truffles right under our nose, so to speak..."
www.futurity.org
January 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Truffles! And dogs. www.futurity.org/new-truffle-...