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Brooke Byerley Best, PhD
@botanybrooke.bsky.social
Dir of TX Plant Conservation at Botanical Research Institute of Texas; sci & natural hist collections nerd; herbarium warrior! She/her. Opinions own. #blacklivesmatter still now always
I made a bunch of prescribed fire memes. In honor of upcoming burn season (will it EVER hard freeze here again?), reposting them here from my Twitter…
January 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Lots of “study music” playlists on Spotify have songs where the piano pedals are SO LOUD AND DISTRACTING. The one just now annoyed me so much I thought “holy heck I can’t be the only one who HATES this.”

Sure enough, there’s a Reddit thread for everything lol.
www.reddit.com/r/spotify/co...
Excessive pedal/mechanical noise in piano recordings
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December 15, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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Asp caterpillars are out right now in #Houston, #Texas. While dangerous, they are also beautifully polymorphic for color. And the cool thing is that no one knows why! #nature #bugs #insects
December 5, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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Supreme Court U.S. v. Skrmetti oral arguments transcript is out: www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...
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December 4, 2024 at 9:42 PM
Must remember to listen to this
December 5, 2024 at 2:22 AM
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"You assholes, you’re the reason that every fucking new car is blinding the shit out of everyone.”

I really like the rhetorical choices made by Nate here.
In one of the strangest chapters of my life, I spent several months in the trenches of Big Headlight, looking to understand just how and why headlights became brighter than the sun. Answers, graphs, penis sketches—it's all here, on the brand new Ringer site:
www.theringer.com/2024/12/03/t...
Asleep at the Wheel in the Headlight Brightness Wars
The crusade against bright headlights has picked up speed in recent years, in large part due to a couple of Reddit nerds. Could they know what’s best for the auto industry better than the auto industr...
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December 4, 2024 at 3:44 AM
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The #LAGNiAppE postbacc program hosted @arachnologynerd.bsky.social this week! It was wonderful, featuring lots of good career advice and spiders 🕷️, culminating in a well-attended #QueerInSTEM panel with LSU scientists inc @invertevoeco.bsky.social, @volatileorganic.bsky.social. #NSFfunded
December 4, 2024 at 1:17 PM
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For those interested in working at a US botanical garden, this is a great resource that I checked compulsively while job hunting: www.publicgardens.org/jobs/

All kinds of jobs, and a slew of internships are showing up now.

#publicgarden #botanicalgarden #horticulture #plantbiology #botany #jobs
Jobs
PUBLIC GARDENS CAREER CENTER Our Career Development Center is the most comprehensive resource of its kind for the public horticulture industry—providing position openings in botanic gardens, arboreta,...
www.publicgardens.org
December 3, 2024 at 2:16 AM
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Smoke bush, an ornamental Anacardiaceae (cashew, mango, and poison ivy family)
December 3, 2024 at 12:12 AM
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Importing the archive:

The New Scientist is the only source of band names you’ll ever need.

#newscientistbandnames
December 2, 2024 at 12:28 PM
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Folks - some more of us little entomological curators 🪰🦟😎🐜🪲🐛🐌🐝🐞🦗
We’ve made a starter pack, to help you find people actively working with insect collections. Get in touch if you’d like to be added. 🦋

Entomological Collections Crew
go.bsky.app/C5VpWiw
December 2, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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Comics about turkeys.
November 25, 2024 at 1:35 PM
#smalljoys That little hidden bonus baby orange slice.
November 27, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Anyone else feel secret glee when they return a popular library book early, feeling as if you just gave a nice surprise to the next person in line?
November 26, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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If you are in Australia, oh boy, do I have a citizen science project for you. Ready? Researchers are looking for people to chart their farts! That’s right. Chart your farts for science. There’s even an app! research.csiro.au/cshw/project... 💨🧪
CHART YOUR FART - Citizen Science in Health and Wellbeing
​We all fart! Some more than others! Some louder than others? Some smellier than others! And some funnier than others!​
research.csiro.au
November 15, 2024 at 5:13 AM
Oof. FOURTEEN uncontested judgeships on my ballot. Four of them at the state level. 🤦🏻‍♀️
November 22, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Many thanks to the rockstar park host at Lake Whitney State Park for assisting with some [permitted] research collections today. @TPWDparks this one’s a keeper!
November 22, 2024 at 10:47 AM
@fwbotanicgarden has openings for paid internships this summer & fall, ideally for JR/SR undergrads or recent bach grads living in DFW. Please share w your networks! App deadlines vary from THIS FRI May 3rd to May 18th. All position & details at http://fwbg.org/internships.
November 22, 2024 at 10:47 AM
A teaching moment or just some half-hearted drama? Fun to watch either way! The goats are leaving tomorrow, but we hope to have them back next year! #GoatsInTheGarden [two goats on a log pretend to head butt]
November 22, 2024 at 10:48 AM
What’s the sound of goats hard at work (eating back our understory)? Volume up! 👂👂🐐🐐#GoatsInTheGarden @fwbotanicgarden Thank you @NorthTexasCF for making this possible❤️
November 22, 2024 at 10:48 AM
New browser just dropped! If you’re at @BRIT_org between now & April 15th, stop by the Native Texas Boardwalk area & peep our goat guests! With generous funding from @NorthTexasCF, they’re helping us tidy up the understory. #GoatsInTheGarden
November 22, 2024 at 10:55 AM
@TarletonState alum Jared Hall is talking to @TCU Envir Sci students today at @brit_org! Sharing his schooling & other experiences that led him to his current job w @FortWorthParks. Thank you, Jared!
November 22, 2024 at 10:55 AM
Birds bathing in rain puddles at the Geology Wall! Human cortisol levels dropping! What a time to be alive!
November 22, 2024 at 10:55 AM
Update 2! Scrubbie’s now lost the roundness and buoyancy of youth. A dirge plays in the distance.
Update! Yellow scrubbie now orange scrubbie.
November 22, 2024 at 11:17 AM
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November 22, 2024 at 11:01 AM