Mathryn Kercier
@kpmercier.bsky.social
ecology especially plants, books and video games, 🍉, she/they
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The season of Torrey Talks begins again! On Mon, April 7th (6pm EST), John Zeigler, manager of the Thain Family Forest at the #NYBG will speak on the efforts to reintroduce extirpated flora into the garden grounds! Registration & info here: shorturl.at/HMdNP
#botany #lecture 🌾🌿🧪
#botany #lecture 🌾🌿🧪
Upcoming Lectures
shorturl.at
March 27, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The season of Torrey Talks begins again! On Mon, April 7th (6pm EST), John Zeigler, manager of the Thain Family Forest at the #NYBG will speak on the efforts to reintroduce extirpated flora into the garden grounds! Registration & info here: shorturl.at/HMdNP
#botany #lecture 🌾🌿🧪
#botany #lecture 🌾🌿🧪
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IMPORTANT ACTION in response to the illegal firings of scientists and public health workers at HHS, NIH, CDC, and other federal agencies by the Trump administration.
Rally at HHS this Wed, Feb 19 at 12 pm. Show your support!
RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/...
@nihfellowsunited.bsky.social
Rally at HHS this Wed, Feb 19 at 12 pm. Show your support!
RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/...
@nihfellowsunited.bsky.social
February 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
IMPORTANT ACTION in response to the illegal firings of scientists and public health workers at HHS, NIH, CDC, and other federal agencies by the Trump administration.
Rally at HHS this Wed, Feb 19 at 12 pm. Show your support!
RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/...
@nihfellowsunited.bsky.social
Rally at HHS this Wed, Feb 19 at 12 pm. Show your support!
RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/...
@nihfellowsunited.bsky.social
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BIRD REPORT sandhill cranes! Like 80 of them!
This has been your Sunday afternoon BIRD REPORT
This has been your Sunday afternoon BIRD REPORT
February 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
BIRD REPORT sandhill cranes! Like 80 of them!
This has been your Sunday afternoon BIRD REPORT
This has been your Sunday afternoon BIRD REPORT
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We have a cover!
Click here for preordering the book: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204909...
Click here for preordering the book: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204909...
November 20, 2024 at 5:05 AM
We have a cover!
Click here for preordering the book: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204909...
Click here for preordering the book: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204909...
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Some 🧪 podcasts with stories about being underrepresented in science by UR scientists:
@weouthere.bsky.social Black, Indigenous, and other UR ecologists, animal biologists, and more tell stories about their experiences in field work
@lostwomenofsci.bsky.social women who have been overlooked in 🧪
@weouthere.bsky.social Black, Indigenous, and other UR ecologists, animal biologists, and more tell stories about their experiences in field work
@lostwomenofsci.bsky.social women who have been overlooked in 🧪
I love this sentiment, but I honestly wouldn't participate. I spoke about my experiences in science in a meeting once and a white colleague came to my office and literally cried about how she was oppressed. I'd rather not go through that again. Instead of asking colleagues to retell trauma, ....
Based on these and other experiences, I would urge folks to talk to their colleagues and coworkers and really listen to one another. White men may learn how to channel their righteous indignation into directions that might help themselves and others deal with the storm we are facing.
18/n
18/n
February 7, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Some 🧪 podcasts with stories about being underrepresented in science by UR scientists:
@weouthere.bsky.social Black, Indigenous, and other UR ecologists, animal biologists, and more tell stories about their experiences in field work
@lostwomenofsci.bsky.social women who have been overlooked in 🧪
@weouthere.bsky.social Black, Indigenous, and other UR ecologists, animal biologists, and more tell stories about their experiences in field work
@lostwomenofsci.bsky.social women who have been overlooked in 🧪
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Positions of NYC mayoral candidates on a mask ban:
AGAINST mask ban - Zohran Mamdani, Michael Blake, Jessica Ramos
AGAINST mask ban, but support additional penalties for people who commit crimes while wearing masks - Brad Lander, Zellnor Myrie
SUPPORT mask ban - Scott Stringer, Whitney Tilson
AGAINST mask ban - Zohran Mamdani, Michael Blake, Jessica Ramos
AGAINST mask ban, but support additional penalties for people who commit crimes while wearing masks - Brad Lander, Zellnor Myrie
SUPPORT mask ban - Scott Stringer, Whitney Tilson
February 7, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Positions of NYC mayoral candidates on a mask ban:
AGAINST mask ban - Zohran Mamdani, Michael Blake, Jessica Ramos
AGAINST mask ban, but support additional penalties for people who commit crimes while wearing masks - Brad Lander, Zellnor Myrie
SUPPORT mask ban - Scott Stringer, Whitney Tilson
AGAINST mask ban - Zohran Mamdani, Michael Blake, Jessica Ramos
AGAINST mask ban, but support additional penalties for people who commit crimes while wearing masks - Brad Lander, Zellnor Myrie
SUPPORT mask ban - Scott Stringer, Whitney Tilson
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Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer.
Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵
Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵
a man in a black shirt is looking at a screen with a red background
Alt: a man in a black shirt is looking at a screen with a red background
media.tenor.com
February 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer.
Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵
Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵
Just finished reading Convenience Store Woman, a touching and somewhat bittersweet commentary on societal expectations and particularly the roles women are expected to inhabit
February 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Just finished reading Convenience Store Woman, a touching and somewhat bittersweet commentary on societal expectations and particularly the roles women are expected to inhabit
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Every news story about egg prices needs to be paired with concurrent reporting about bird flu how have we not learned this very simple lesson 🫠
February 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Every news story about egg prices needs to be paired with concurrent reporting about bird flu how have we not learned this very simple lesson 🫠
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Federal workers set off a counteroffensive with a raft of new lawsuits that contend that President Trump and Elon Musk are breaking the law to ransack the FBI and other federal agencies.
A Legal Counteroffensive to Beat Back Trump’s Government Purges
A raft of new lawsuits contend that President Trump and Elon Musk are breaking the law to ransack the F.B.I. and other federal agencies. The courts will now decide.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Federal workers set off a counteroffensive with a raft of new lawsuits that contend that President Trump and Elon Musk are breaking the law to ransack the FBI and other federal agencies.
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In honor of #WorldWetlandsDay and #BlackHistoryMonth, check out this @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social panel on Black Ecologists-Shaping the Science of Ecology, featuring Dr. Rashidah Farid, Dr. Amina Pollard, and Dr. Steward Pickett. Recorded in 2021, it still resonates today. esa.org/black-ecolog...
February 3, 2025 at 11:08 PM
In honor of #WorldWetlandsDay and #BlackHistoryMonth, check out this @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social panel on Black Ecologists-Shaping the Science of Ecology, featuring Dr. Rashidah Farid, Dr. Amina Pollard, and Dr. Steward Pickett. Recorded in 2021, it still resonates today. esa.org/black-ecolog...
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If you want to control the price of eggs, you need to control bird flu.
And the worst thing you can do if you want to control bird flu is censor scientists and scrub CDC data.
And the worst thing you can do if you want to control bird flu is censor scientists and scrub CDC data.
February 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
If you want to control the price of eggs, you need to control bird flu.
And the worst thing you can do if you want to control bird flu is censor scientists and scrub CDC data.
And the worst thing you can do if you want to control bird flu is censor scientists and scrub CDC data.
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Famously no partisan politics by MLK
The day after the mayor attended Trump's inauguration, the mayor implicitly compares himself to MLK Jr., who, he says, put partisan politics aside for the greater good.
January 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Famously no partisan politics by MLK
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Today's action from the @indivisible.org mailing list: contact your House reps to tell them to vote against the Dreamer Deportation Act (also known as the Laken Riley Act).
You can find which 48 democrats voted "yea" last time, tell them that that's unacceptable and to vote "nay" on HR 29.
You can find which 48 democrats voted "yea" last time, tell them that that's unacceptable and to vote "nay" on HR 29.
January 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Today's action from the @indivisible.org mailing list: contact your House reps to tell them to vote against the Dreamer Deportation Act (also known as the Laken Riley Act).
You can find which 48 democrats voted "yea" last time, tell them that that's unacceptable and to vote "nay" on HR 29.
You can find which 48 democrats voted "yea" last time, tell them that that's unacceptable and to vote "nay" on HR 29.
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starship troubleshooting computer is being mean
January 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
starship troubleshooting computer is being mean
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Just some amazing things created by federal civil servants 💚
January 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Just some amazing things created by federal civil servants 💚
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Ok people. I’m drawing silhouettes this afternoon. If you have a paper coming up and you are in need of a #silhouette please let me know and I will have it ready today. As always I upload all my silhouettes to phylopic.org
I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.
I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.
PhyloPic
PhyloPic is an open database of free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses. Download silhouettes for use in educational materi...
phylopic.org
December 26, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Ok people. I’m drawing silhouettes this afternoon. If you have a paper coming up and you are in need of a #silhouette please let me know and I will have it ready today. As always I upload all my silhouettes to phylopic.org
I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.
I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.
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Happy Christmas Eve. Every year I inflict this upon you, one of my least popular comics ever. Enjoy!
December 24, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Happy Christmas Eve. Every year I inflict this upon you, one of my least popular comics ever. Enjoy!
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Happening now: Amazon Labor Union workers and supporters are rallying outside JFK8 on Staten Island ahead of a midnight strike due to Amazon refusing to come to the bargaining table following a Dec. 15 deadline.
#STRIKEMAS
#STRIKEMAS
December 21, 2024 at 3:44 AM
Happening now: Amazon Labor Union workers and supporters are rallying outside JFK8 on Staten Island ahead of a midnight strike due to Amazon refusing to come to the bargaining table following a Dec. 15 deadline.
#STRIKEMAS
#STRIKEMAS
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BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now.
The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country.
The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.
The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country.
The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.
December 19, 2024 at 2:05 PM
BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now.
The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country.
The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.
The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country.
The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.
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Maybe I’m an old crusty guy but I don’t really want an “AI revolution” in science or conservation. Like don’t we all realize we should slow down a bit? Science is not just about producing new knowledge as quickly and efficiently as possible. We are not just little knowledge producing drones.
December 21, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Maybe I’m an old crusty guy but I don’t really want an “AI revolution” in science or conservation. Like don’t we all realize we should slow down a bit? Science is not just about producing new knowledge as quickly and efficiently as possible. We are not just little knowledge producing drones.
On the way to #Botany2024! I'll be giving a lightning talk on Wednesday and generally hanging out at the @TorreyBotanical booth 🌿🧪🌾
June 15, 2024 at 12:41 PM
On the way to #Botany2024! I'll be giving a lightning talk on Wednesday and generally hanging out at the @TorreyBotanical booth 🌿🧪🌾
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It is a crime Waffle House isn't in every US city. It is an institution.
March 26, 2024 at 10:30 PM
It is a crime Waffle House isn't in every US city. It is an institution.