Jennifer Mach (she/they)
@jennifermach.bsky.social
Science writer and editor for Plant Editors (planteditors.com). Based in Chicago.
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ryckman strawberries, painted by amanda almira newton, 1907
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
ryckman strawberries, painted by amanda almira newton, 1907
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CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using Batteries for E-Bikes from Rad Power Bikes Due to Fire Hazard; Risk of Serious Injury or Death www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using Batteries for E-Bikes from Rad Power Bikes Due to Fire Hazard; Risk of Serious Injury or Death www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
Giardiniera, the power condiment!
The appeal is lessened when you realize you can put giardiniera on anything.
November 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Giardiniera, the power condiment!
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Take a closer look at the original artwork that inspired today's animation by Alex Mitchell.
John Ruskin created this vibrant study of a Kingfisher in 1871.
Ruskin believed that the colours of the natural world could inspire and guide artists who should replicate them as truthfully as possible.
John Ruskin created this vibrant study of a Kingfisher in 1871.
Ruskin believed that the colours of the natural world could inspire and guide artists who should replicate them as truthfully as possible.
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Take a closer look at the original artwork that inspired today's animation by Alex Mitchell.
John Ruskin created this vibrant study of a Kingfisher in 1871.
Ruskin believed that the colours of the natural world could inspire and guide artists who should replicate them as truthfully as possible.
John Ruskin created this vibrant study of a Kingfisher in 1871.
Ruskin believed that the colours of the natural world could inspire and guide artists who should replicate them as truthfully as possible.
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To echo much of what's been said:
Please don't pirate books.
If you can't pay for a book, there is already a solution for you: use a library.
Whatever you think authors, illustrators, and other book career people make, it's less than that. By a lot. Stealing from us isn't heroic, it's crushing.
Please don't pirate books.
If you can't pay for a book, there is already a solution for you: use a library.
Whatever you think authors, illustrators, and other book career people make, it's less than that. By a lot. Stealing from us isn't heroic, it's crushing.
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
To echo much of what's been said:
Please don't pirate books.
If you can't pay for a book, there is already a solution for you: use a library.
Whatever you think authors, illustrators, and other book career people make, it's less than that. By a lot. Stealing from us isn't heroic, it's crushing.
Please don't pirate books.
If you can't pay for a book, there is already a solution for you: use a library.
Whatever you think authors, illustrators, and other book career people make, it's less than that. By a lot. Stealing from us isn't heroic, it's crushing.
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Walter Payton uses a paper transfer to ride public transit on the 1979 RTA commercial.
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Walter Payton uses a paper transfer to ride public transit on the 1979 RTA commercial.
Happy Monday, Chicago!
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Happy Monday, Chicago!
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You know what, I'm just gonna re-up this post
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
You know what, I'm just gonna re-up this post
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I interview @robertloerzel.bsky.social about his new book, The Uptown: Chicago's Endangered Movie Palace. The Uptown just turned 100, but it's been shuttered since 1981. From silent films to the Grateful Dead, the theater has seen it all.
thirdcoastreview.com/lit/2025/11/...
thirdcoastreview.com/lit/2025/11/...
Interview: Robert Loerzel on <em>The Uptown: Chicago's Endangered Movie Palace</em> | Third Coast Review
Sometimes the biggest things go unnoticed. The Uptown Theater, for example.
thirdcoastreview.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I interview @robertloerzel.bsky.social about his new book, The Uptown: Chicago's Endangered Movie Palace. The Uptown just turned 100, but it's been shuttered since 1981. From silent films to the Grateful Dead, the theater has seen it all.
thirdcoastreview.com/lit/2025/11/...
thirdcoastreview.com/lit/2025/11/...
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Great Thanksgiving Survival Guide!
(Or any large family feast)
(Or any large family feast)
Okay, so you cannot avoid a Thanksgiving event, and it’s not entirely under your control. You’re home from college, you live with your parents, your spouse isn’t ready to process how awful their natal family is. It happens. THERE ARE STRATEGIES YOU CAN EMPLOY TO YOUR BENEFIT.
November 24, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Great Thanksgiving Survival Guide!
(Or any large family feast)
(Or any large family feast)
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There’s nothing like a circle of women who want the best for each other. Women who strategize. Women who mediate between one another and manipulate the world with a unified, equitable objective. You were probably taught that this isn’t our nature. Society stole that from you. We are the best at it.
November 23, 2025 at 1:17 AM
There’s nothing like a circle of women who want the best for each other. Women who strategize. Women who mediate between one another and manipulate the world with a unified, equitable objective. You were probably taught that this isn’t our nature. Society stole that from you. We are the best at it.
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NERD TWEET ABOUT BIRDS.
It's sounding like we're seeing a snowy owl irruption year, for those who, like me, are seeing a flood of stories of them showing up locally.
Got to see one in person last year, fulfilling a bucket list item. Here's to more.
www.projectsnowstorm.org/what-is-an-i...
It's sounding like we're seeing a snowy owl irruption year, for those who, like me, are seeing a flood of stories of them showing up locally.
Got to see one in person last year, fulfilling a bucket list item. Here's to more.
www.projectsnowstorm.org/what-is-an-i...
What is an irruption? - Project SNOWstorm
Download PDF | Download image Snowy owls come south in unpredictable invasions known as ‘irruptions.’ It’s mostly about food and babies, but we have a lot to learn about this phenomenon. Snowy owl mig...
www.projectsnowstorm.org
November 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
NERD TWEET ABOUT BIRDS.
It's sounding like we're seeing a snowy owl irruption year, for those who, like me, are seeing a flood of stories of them showing up locally.
Got to see one in person last year, fulfilling a bucket list item. Here's to more.
www.projectsnowstorm.org/what-is-an-i...
It's sounding like we're seeing a snowy owl irruption year, for those who, like me, are seeing a flood of stories of them showing up locally.
Got to see one in person last year, fulfilling a bucket list item. Here's to more.
www.projectsnowstorm.org/what-is-an-i...
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A snowy owl preening. November 22, 2025, Chicago.
November 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
A snowy owl preening. November 22, 2025, Chicago.
Lucky and happy to have seen these two! Taken from a distance (photos by my spouse, M. Rogus) and heavily cropped (by me, haha!).
November 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Lucky and happy to have seen these two! Taken from a distance (photos by my spouse, M. Rogus) and heavily cropped (by me, haha!).
I think my #PlantsGiving tally is going to be almost entirely pie-driven. 🥧 🍎 🍋🟩 🍇 (plus wheat and sugarcane, natch).
Do you look at this and see at least 10 plant species? Then you are ready for #Plantsgiving 2025!
How many species will be served during your meal??? It ain't a competition, it's just about recognition.
#iamabotanist @botsocamerica.bsky.social @nybg.bsky.social
How many species will be served during your meal??? It ain't a competition, it's just about recognition.
#iamabotanist @botsocamerica.bsky.social @nybg.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I think my #PlantsGiving tally is going to be almost entirely pie-driven. 🥧 🍎 🍋🟩 🍇 (plus wheat and sugarcane, natch).
Happy Sunday to my fellow Chicago birders!
November 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Happy Sunday to my fellow Chicago birders!
This looks really cool!
The cover art is finished for my new book and I LOVE IT!
This safari tour of the life in soil and what is means to us, is now available for pre-order as ebook, soft and hardcover in the UK and Commonwealth. Published in August next year (US date soon), I hope it'll entice everyone to love soil! 🧪🪱
This safari tour of the life in soil and what is means to us, is now available for pre-order as ebook, soft and hardcover in the UK and Commonwealth. Published in August next year (US date soon), I hope it'll entice everyone to love soil! 🧪🪱
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This looks really cool!
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Do you look at this and see at least 10 plant species? Then you are ready for #Plantsgiving 2025!
How many species will be served during your meal??? It ain't a competition, it's just about recognition.
#iamabotanist @botsocamerica.bsky.social @nybg.bsky.social
How many species will be served during your meal??? It ain't a competition, it's just about recognition.
#iamabotanist @botsocamerica.bsky.social @nybg.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Do you look at this and see at least 10 plant species? Then you are ready for #Plantsgiving 2025!
How many species will be served during your meal??? It ain't a competition, it's just about recognition.
#iamabotanist @botsocamerica.bsky.social @nybg.bsky.social
How many species will be served during your meal??? It ain't a competition, it's just about recognition.
#iamabotanist @botsocamerica.bsky.social @nybg.bsky.social
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A NAC transcription factor represses nicotine biosynthesis. Strangely, its DNA methylation level and expression went up in a DNA methyltransferase mutant.
From: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#PlantSciences #SecMet
From: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#PlantSciences #SecMet
Transcriptional Activation of NaNAC72 Suppresses Nicotine Biosynthesis in DNA Methyltransferase NaDRM2‐like2 Mutants of Nicotiana attenuata
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
A NAC transcription factor represses nicotine biosynthesis. Strangely, its DNA methylation level and expression went up in a DNA methyltransferase mutant.
From: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#PlantSciences #SecMet
From: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#PlantSciences #SecMet
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
Naked ladies (crocus) blooming in Chicago!
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Naked ladies (crocus) blooming in Chicago!
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Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome:
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
November 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome:
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
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movie posters featuring the muppets: thread
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
movie posters featuring the muppets: thread
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