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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · 1d

And read about why here. TLDR: One part rainy day fund, one part do what you're good at and enjoy, and one part quiet subversion. As one does. biodiversityresearchlab.com/field-notes/...

Why I’m Offering Grant Reviews — Catherine Hulshof, PhD

This year, I was offered an NSF rotator position. I’d spent a decade serving on panels, built an incredible track record of funding, and was ready to contribute in a new way. Then the offer was pulle...

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to launch Big Red Pen, grant review services, because NSF funding is only getting tougher, but strong proposals still rise to the top. I have decades of NSF success and 10 years of panel experience. Let’s get funded. #NSF from #GRFP to #CAREER.
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Grant Review — Catherine Hulshof, PhD

NSF grant review consulting for biology, life sciences, and STEM fields from GRFP to CAREER and everything in between

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · 5d

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · 5d

Data manager Rice Rivers Center..a beautiful VCU owned field station.

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Data Manager, Rice Rivers Center - VCU Main Campus, Virginia, United States

The VCU Rice Rivers Center seeks a full-time Data Manager. The Data Manager will join a vibrant and growing team of student and faculty researchers and instructors at the Rice Rivers Center, VCU’s 366...

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · 12d

This inventory is where I got my start in tropical biology, as a lab and field assistant with Dan Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs at UPenn and Costa Rica and the many taxonomists and ecologists I was lucky to meet along the way.

So many incredible ripple effects for so many people.

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · 12d

"After 55 years, the world’s most ambitious caterpillar inventory will come to a close. This monumental project in ACG has reared 870,000 caterpillars, of 8,000 species of butterflies and moths, and 18,000 species of wasp parasites—all documented by a team that grew to 30 local parataxonomists."

Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund @gdfcf.bsky.social · 12d

Happy to share our latest newsletter! The latest GDFCF and Area de Conservación Guanacaste news is here: mailchi.mp/54601d57a15d...

Greetings from the Late Rainy Season

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · 13d

Dial-A-Poem

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · 18d

Commemorating Hurricane Maria by working on a manuscript combining remote sensing, soils, and plant traits. Serpentine plant communities are more resilient, and soils are an important (but overlooked) part of the forest recovery story.

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · 18d

Absolutely hilarious.

The Birdist @thebirdist.bsky.social · 22d

I wrote about the Reiser brothers and their hilarious, disgusting Listers documentary for Slate:

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One of the Funniest Documentaries of the Year Is Streaming for Free on YouTube

Listers is a journey into the dark and cringy heart of one of the world’s most peculiar hobbies.

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 26d

It depends on the group. For trees and other woody plants I learnt a lot from Keller's book. link.springer.com/book/9783764...

Identification of tropical woody plants in the absence of flowers

This revised and extended second edition of "Identification of tropical woody plants" is a concise representation of vegetative characters of woody taxa. It presents a unique identification system, pe...

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · 26d

Tropical botanists: what's a good resource for learning neotropical plant families. Gentry is good but not great for newbies. Any recommendations? Online or otherwise? Gracias!

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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 28d

‘There are people who have everything and have achieved nothing. But then there are people who have nothing and have achieved a lot.’ Wilkin, 12, is growing up in a sugar mill town in the Dominican Republic. Hear his thoughts on joy, poverty and baseball in this video by PDA Films

A neglected Dominican sugar town, as seen through the eyes of a 12-year-old local | Aeon Videos

Wilkin, 12, is growing up in a sugar mill town in the Dominican Republic. Hear his thoughts on joy, poverty and baseball

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Grist @grist.org · Sep 3

Puerto Ricans are devising the food system of tomorrow.

Following a history of disinvestment and destructive climate disasters, communities across the archipelago are developing living blueprints of food sovereignty.

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#PR #Disaster #PuertoRico #Food #Farms #Farming

Puerto Ricans are devising the food system of tomorrow

Following a history of disinvestment and destructive climate disasters, communities across the archipelago are developing living blueprints of food sovereignty.

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Fabricio Villalobos @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social · Sep 1

Couldn't agree more! Descolonicemos los curricula (materias/disciplinas) de nuestrxs alumnxs y presentemos una visión más amplia de nuestra disciplina

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · Sep 1

I ditched Ecology textbooks for this reason. Now I use a free OER and build my own 'Scientist Spotlights' featuring the incredible diversity of our discipline. Because if students don't see themselves in a career, how can they be themselves in that career?

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · Sep 1

Are ecology textbooks representative of ecologists? The question is very much on my mind while updating my own textbook. We have a responsibility to shape the field through inclusion as well as academic content. 🌏🧪

Rethinking the undergraduate textbook as a tool to build a diverse community of ecologists

Recruitment and retention of a diverse scientific workforce depends on a more inclusive culture of science. Textbooks introduce prospective scientists to their chosen field and convey its cultural no...

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · Aug 27

A perfect day: writing, moving, (well time managed) meetings #AcademicChatter

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · Aug 27

👀 Any plans to post the activity prompt? Hoping for an assignment bank where we post ideas that can't be done with AI. Love it.

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · Aug 26

Window washing? Brilliant!

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · Aug 25

👀👀 thanks! These are 🔥.

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · Aug 25

So pro!

Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · Aug 25

Bonus points for poles that are good for tall tropical trees. 🙏🏼

Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · Aug 24

Botanists! I'm in the market for a new pole pruner (from vendors Grainger, Amazon or Forestry Suppliers)...easy to use for someone who is 5' (not too heavy, single pole not too tall). Any recommendations??? Gracias!

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · Aug 24

Thanks I'll check out what they got!

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · Aug 24

Botanists! I'm in the market for a new pole pruner (from vendors Grainger, Amazon or Forestry Suppliers)...easy to use for someone who is 5' (not too heavy, single pole not too tall). Any recommendations??? Gracias!

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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · Aug 23

In this work, the animator Nelson Armstrong adapts images painted onto pottery by Western Arrarnta artists from the centre of Australia into lush moving visuals capturing life in this remote, beauteous landscape

Scenes from Aboriginal Australian pottery chart the turn of the seasons | Aeon Videos

Scenes from Aboriginal Australian pottery, brought to animated life, capture the turn of the seasons in central Australia

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Catherine Hulshof @hulshof.bsky.social · Aug 22

Art makes us human. The ICA @ VCU never disappoints. Another incredible exhibit featuring Caribbean diaspora.

RVAMAG @rvamag.bsky.social · Aug 19

Now on view at the ICA at VCU, Julien Creuzet: Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks will end up in the great sea blue abyss we drowned in the tidal tears of the moon (through February 22, 2026) plunges audiences into a submerged cosmos of history, myth, and invention.

#rva

Caribbean Myths and Colonial Debris Drift in Julien Creuzet's Exhibit at ICA

Julien Creuzet’s exhibition at the ICA at VCU transforms the gallery into an underwater dreamscape of video, sculpture, and sound. Curated by Amber Esseiva, the show reimagines his 2024 Venice Biennal...

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