Brooke Byerley Best, PhD
LightNews LightNews
banner
botanybrooke.bsky.social
Brooke Byerley Best, PhD
@botanybrooke.bsky.social
86 followers 74 following 590 posts
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
Posts Replies Media Videos
botanybrooke.bsky.social
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…
Get in, loser. We’re prescribe burning. (Mean Girls meme)
January 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
botanybrooke.bsky.social
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
www.reddit.com
December 15, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Reposted by Brooke Byerley Best, PhD
scottpegan.bsky.social
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
Reposted by Brooke Byerley Best, PhD
zinniajones.com
Supreme Court U.S. v. Skrmetti oral arguments transcript is out: www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...
www.supremecourt.gov
December 4, 2024 at 9:42 PM
botanybrooke.bsky.social
Must remember to listen to this
December 5, 2024 at 2:22 AM
Reposted by Brooke Byerley Best, PhD
lollardfish.bsky.social
"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.
naterogers.bsky.social Nate Rogers @naterogers.bsky.social · Dec 3
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...
www.theringer.com
December 4, 2024 at 3:44 AM
Reposted by Brooke Byerley Best, PhD
tropicalbotany.bsky.social
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
A group of about 30 people in a classroom, five of them sitting at the panelist’s table in the front. Person giving a talk in front of a large slide advertising www.500QueerScientists.com. Features two narwhals face-to-face with pride flags as their tooth-horn.
December 4, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Reposted by Brooke Byerley Best, PhD
connorryan.bsky.social
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
Reposted by Brooke Byerley Best, PhD
anurag-asclepias.bsky.social
Smoke bush, an ornamental Anacardiaceae (cashew, mango, and poison ivy family)
December 3, 2024 at 12:12 AM
Reposted by Brooke Byerley Best, PhD
danielmaier.bsky.social
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
Reposted by Brooke Byerley Best, PhD
flygirlnhm.bsky.social
Folks - some more of us little entomological curators 🪰🦟😎🐜🪲🐛🐌🐝🐞🦗
entcollnet.bsky.social Entomological Collections Network @entcollnet.bsky.social · Nov 16
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
Reposted by Brooke Byerley Best, PhD
rosemarymosco.com
Comics about turkeys.
A three panel comic. In panel 1, a two male turkeys are talking. One of them says "C'mon, admit it: you have a crush on her." The second turkey says "No way." The first says "Admit it!" The second says "Naaah." In panel 2, a female turkey arrives and says "Hey boys." The first turkey says "Oh, hey Sue!" and the second male turkey fluffs up in an impressive display. In panel 3, the female turkey and first male turkey look at the second, who is still completely floofed. He says "...Hey." A four-panel comic. In panel 1, a narrative caption says "Wild Turkeys are one of North America's greatest conservation success stories. Here to tell us more is a wild turkey." A wild turkey tom pokes his head into the panel and says "Oh hello!" In panel 2, the turkey sticks his head up and says "Hey, look what I can do!" In panel 3, the fleshly dangly bit over his nose droops way down over his bill with a "vloop" sound. In panel 3, the narrator says "Okay, that's... Thank you." The turkey bloops his dangly bit back to the top of his head and says enthusiastically "It's called a snood!" and the narrator says "Thanks."
November 25, 2024 at 1:35 PM
botanybrooke.bsky.social
#smalljoys That little hidden bonus baby orange slice.
November 27, 2024 at 12:13 AM
botanybrooke.bsky.social
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
Reposted by Brooke Byerley Best, PhD
siouxsiew.bsky.social
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
botanybrooke.bsky.social
Oof. FOURTEEN uncontested judgeships on my ballot. Four of them at the state level. 🤦🏻‍♀️
November 22, 2024 at 10:47 AM
botanybrooke.bsky.social
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
botanybrooke.bsky.social
@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
botanybrooke.bsky.social
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
botanybrooke.bsky.social
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
botanybrooke.bsky.social
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
botanybrooke.bsky.social
@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
botanybrooke.bsky.social
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
botanybrooke.bsky.social
Update 2! Scrubbie’s now lost the roundness and buoyancy of youth. A dirge plays in the distance.
botanybrooke.bsky.social Brooke Byerley Best, PhD @botanybrooke.bsky.social · Mar 7
Update! Yellow scrubbie now orange scrubbie.
November 22, 2024 at 11:17 AM
botanybrooke.bsky.social
🚨 🚨🚨DFW locals!!🚨🚨🚨
Want to visit @BRIT_org org but hate parking drama? Use @TrinityMetro!
25% off Local Day Pass (bought w GoPass app). Adult: FWBG24A
Reduced*: FWBG24R (see restrictions). Kids age 4 & under free.
Promo codes may be used up to 4 times through 5/31/24.
November 22, 2024 at 11:01 AM