Have the students use AI to search all of those admin's theses for plagiarism.

You likely already know about it, but if you're in Tower Grove Park, you might as well cross the park to Hartford Coffee Company (Hartford and Roger) for well, coffee. My friend James Fox started that place in 2005 when I was in grad school.

This #*&*@ thing, which my grandmother called cypress vine, is perhaps the fastest growing species I have even seen.

This is great to see. I've long admired Harvey's work on Viola, and these UG experiences can sometimes be transformative for students. Certainly were for me.

Thoughtful piece, but this is a "cover your mouth" understatement: "...using an LLM is easier, faster, and cheaper than most previous temptations; but that’s a difference in degree." No previous version of having someone else write for you is in the same galaxy as a free, instant, web-based LLM.

l'm sure your grad/undergrad students and colleagues are surprised (and sorry) to hear this. I'll genuinely miss you as well. I'll stick around to fight this garbage though.

Nice photo Chris! Here's one from SW Wisconsin.

Just added to my Vascular Plants vegetative morphology lecture. Thanks Scott!

Watching Matt play lab dad is honestly one of my favorite parts of Botany. Next year he's gonna need a CDL to drive whatever gigantic bus he takes to Tucson.

Cash bar?

I actually think about the map in the upper right (Black population percentage) all the time. I think many people who have never lived in one of these regions would rather not think about it at all.

You know why.

Thanks BRIT Press for sponsoring our meeting! Hands down some of the nicest people in botany. Make sure to stop by their booth.

Bravo. This would now appear to become Fig. 1 in literally every undergrad ecology lab using museum data to test the advancing phenology hypothesis.

Aaaaaand the acceptable lanes just get narrower and narrower.