Katherine A Preston
@katherineapreston.bsky.social
If I'm not outside looking at plants I want to be teaching about them, writing about them, or playing with them in my kitchen
Got Weds' Letterboxed in 2 happy words: Phenomenal-lifecycle. The official 2-word answer was malefic-cacophony. It hurts just to read that! I think I'll stay in my positive frame of mind, thank you. (And to be honest, bragging about solving in 2 words probably helps)
December 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Got Weds' Letterboxed in 2 happy words: Phenomenal-lifecycle. The official 2-word answer was malefic-cacophony. It hurts just to read that! I think I'll stay in my positive frame of mind, thank you. (And to be honest, bragging about solving in 2 words probably helps)
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The fascists are organising a carol concert in London to "draw attention to unchecked immigration and the fading of our cultural heritage".
What would Woody do?
Write an anti-fascist Xmas carol and sing it at the counter demo.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=liRd...
What would Woody do?
Write an anti-fascist Xmas carol and sing it at the counter demo.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=liRd...
BILLY BRAGG - PUT CHRIST BACK INTO CHRISTMAS
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The fascists are organising a carol concert in London to "draw attention to unchecked immigration and the fading of our cultural heritage".
What would Woody do?
Write an anti-fascist Xmas carol and sing it at the counter demo.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=liRd...
What would Woody do?
Write an anti-fascist Xmas carol and sing it at the counter demo.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=liRd...
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I started getting reports of an unseasonal Joshua tree bloom in the last few weeks, and looking over records on @inaturalist.bsky.social it's pretty widespread! So we're putting out the call for folks to record this "bonus bloom" and help us study it 🌿
lab.jbyoder.org/2025/12/10/w...
lab.jbyoder.org/2025/12/10/w...
Weird wet weather has Joshua trees flowering early — or late? Help the Yoder Lab map this “bonus bloom” to understand why
A flowering tree in Yucca Valley, CA, observed by iNaturalist contributor wanderingmojave on December 9. A tree with lots of flowers in Tehachapi, CA, observed by iNaturalist contributor tina9294 o…
lab.jbyoder.org
December 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I started getting reports of an unseasonal Joshua tree bloom in the last few weeks, and looking over records on @inaturalist.bsky.social it's pretty widespread! So we're putting out the call for folks to record this "bonus bloom" and help us study it 🌿
lab.jbyoder.org/2025/12/10/w...
lab.jbyoder.org/2025/12/10/w...
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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
Watched One Battle After Another last night. The window in Bob and Willa's kitchen is 100% metaphor for Bob's life. A row of plants from cuttings getting established OK. And the one full grown plant is etiolated, losing its leaves, obviously allowed to dry out too often. Brilliant details.
November 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Watched One Battle After Another last night. The window in Bob and Willa's kitchen is 100% metaphor for Bob's life. A row of plants from cuttings getting established OK. And the one full grown plant is etiolated, losing its leaves, obviously allowed to dry out too often. Brilliant details.
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Uncut.
Unrated.
Experience
KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR -
Exclusively in Theaters
December 5.
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Unrated.
Experience
KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR -
Exclusively in Theaters
December 5.
lionsgate.app.box.com/s/3j69mvj5kz...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Uncut.
Unrated.
Experience
KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR -
Exclusively in Theaters
December 5.
lionsgate.app.box.com/s/3j69mvj5kz...
Unrated.
Experience
KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR -
Exclusively in Theaters
December 5.
lionsgate.app.box.com/s/3j69mvj5kz...
Yikes! Don't people realize that these things are still alive and breathing? It's not like those lenticels are just there for decoration.
November 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Yikes! Don't people realize that these things are still alive and breathing? It's not like those lenticels are just there for decoration.
I love my town!
Mountain View is getting recognized as a climate action leader by the Institute for Local Government (ILG).
The City received the ILG 2025 Beacon “Leadership & Innovation” Award for its Zero-Emission Landscaping Program at the Day Worker Center.
www.mountainview.gov/Home/Compone...
The City received the ILG 2025 Beacon “Leadership & Innovation” Award for its Zero-Emission Landscaping Program at the Day Worker Center.
www.mountainview.gov/Home/Compone...
October 29, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I love my town!
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If history teaches us one thing
Never trust a man who would be king
Who seeks all power for himself
To burnish his prestige and wealth
And a nation born in revolution
Should know this offers no solution
For there can be no liberty
Where one man rules with impunity
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfeY...
Never trust a man who would be king
Who seeks all power for himself
To burnish his prestige and wealth
And a nation born in revolution
Should know this offers no solution
For there can be no liberty
Where one man rules with impunity
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfeY...
Billy Bragg - The Buck Doesn't Stop Here No More [Official Audio]
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
www.youtube.com
October 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
If history teaches us one thing
Never trust a man who would be king
Who seeks all power for himself
To burnish his prestige and wealth
And a nation born in revolution
Should know this offers no solution
For there can be no liberty
Where one man rules with impunity
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfeY...
Never trust a man who would be king
Who seeks all power for himself
To burnish his prestige and wealth
And a nation born in revolution
Should know this offers no solution
For there can be no liberty
Where one man rules with impunity
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfeY...
Oh one of my favorites! It is such a joy to encounter it giving a bright pop to the trail.
Coast Twinberry (Lonicera involucrata var. ledebourii) last week in #PtReyes for #Twosday. 💚
Plant info. here...
calscape.org/Lonicera-inv...
#NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #NaturePhotos #iNat 📷🌱
Plant info. here...
calscape.org/Lonicera-inv...
#NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #NaturePhotos #iNat 📷🌱
October 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Oh one of my favorites! It is such a joy to encounter it giving a bright pop to the trail.
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For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper
Joseph Fasano
Now I let it fall back
in the grasses.
I hear you. I know
this life is hard now...
Joseph Fasano
Now I let it fall back
in the grasses.
I hear you. I know
this life is hard now...
For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper
Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of ...
poets.org
September 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper
Joseph Fasano
Now I let it fall back
in the grasses.
I hear you. I know
this life is hard now...
Joseph Fasano
Now I let it fall back
in the grasses.
I hear you. I know
this life is hard now...
Billy has wise words for nearly every occasion. Thanks for this video. He's just a baby here but had already measured the lay of the land.
And it says, here
That we can only stop the rot
With a large dose of law and order
And a touch of the short sharp shock
If this does not reflect your view you should understand
That those who own the papers also own this land
That we can only stop the rot
With a large dose of law and order
And a touch of the short sharp shock
If this does not reflect your view you should understand
That those who own the papers also own this land
It Says Here - Billy Bragg on Breakfast TV
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
youtu.be
September 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Billy has wise words for nearly every occasion. Thanks for this video. He's just a baby here but had already measured the lay of the land.
I've got one of those. Plus two jars of washers that I have found on the ground over the last several years.
Scrambling in the back of the garage, where everyone keep that old box of odds and ends and 13,000 year old oak tree branches and a spike from the transcontinental railroad.
September 7, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I've got one of those. Plus two jars of washers that I have found on the ground over the last several years.
Yes! And such an accurate description of what can happen in the field, whether it's transformative or forgettable.
Connecting fully with nature may require us to leave our phones off and in our pockets. Read about it at Our Trees.
On Seeing
Connecting with Nature with the full use of our senses
open.substack.com
August 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Yes! And such an accurate description of what can happen in the field, whether it's transformative or forgettable.
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Did anybody else try entering Urticadioica into #letterboxed yesterday? Yeah, I know. Two words. Can't do that. But it was so exciting to see it in the letters that I had to try.
August 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Did anybody else try entering Urticadioica into #letterboxed yesterday? Yeah, I know. Two words. Can't do that. But it was so exciting to see it in the letters that I had to try.
Are we going to have to start calling him POTUS-aceae now?
"I know more about grass than any human being anywhere in the world."
I DARE YOU TO TRY TO TOP THIS, GAVIN @govpressoffice-m.bsky.social
I DARE YOU TO TRY TO TOP THIS, GAVIN @govpressoffice-m.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Are we going to have to start calling him POTUS-aceae now?
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My small contribution to the popularization of evolutionary biology during the #ESEB2025 week, thanks to this article on the evolution of rose breeding in The Conversation France.
If you read French, here it is: theconversation.com/comment-le-c...
If not, our Genetics paper: doi.org/10.1093/gene...
If you read French, here it is: theconversation.com/comment-le-c...
If not, our Genetics paper: doi.org/10.1093/gene...
August 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
My small contribution to the popularization of evolutionary biology during the #ESEB2025 week, thanks to this article on the evolution of rose breeding in The Conversation France.
If you read French, here it is: theconversation.com/comment-le-c...
If not, our Genetics paper: doi.org/10.1093/gene...
If you read French, here it is: theconversation.com/comment-le-c...
If not, our Genetics paper: doi.org/10.1093/gene...
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Our paper showing that variation in transcription factor binding sites underlies the majority of additive genetic variance for phenotypic variation in maize is finally out!
Sadly they didn't use our suggested cover image below (made by the inimitable Andi Kur).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sadly they didn't use our suggested cover image below (made by the inimitable Andi Kur).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Our paper showing that variation in transcription factor binding sites underlies the majority of additive genetic variance for phenotypic variation in maize is finally out!
Sadly they didn't use our suggested cover image below (made by the inimitable Andi Kur).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sadly they didn't use our suggested cover image below (made by the inimitable Andi Kur).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
For #thicktrunktuesday here's a Sequoiadendron from a 3-day stop in Kings Canyon National Park on my way home from #Botany2025. Trunk is thick all the way up. Hiking and life companion at the base for scale.
August 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
For #thicktrunktuesday here's a Sequoiadendron from a 3-day stop in Kings Canyon National Park on my way home from #Botany2025. Trunk is thick all the way up. Hiking and life companion at the base for scale.
I really think that "squirtable" is a word. For that matter, "nonsquirtable" is a word. That would be all 12 letters! But #letterboxed thinks otherwise.
July 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I really think that "squirtable" is a word. For that matter, "nonsquirtable" is a word. That would be all 12 letters! But #letterboxed thinks otherwise.
We should get style points in Letter Boxed, even if answers take more than two words. Mine from yesterday: ozone engulfing gyres. Efficiency doesn't always have to be the goal when there are so many great words out there, waiting to be seen.
June 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
We should get style points in Letter Boxed, even if answers take more than two words. Mine from yesterday: ozone engulfing gyres. Efficiency doesn't always have to be the goal when there are so many great words out there, waiting to be seen.
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RUIZ: Did you read the report & fact-check its sources prior to publication?
RFK JR: I did not fact check
RUIZ: It included citations to sources that don't exist. How does that happen?
RFK JR: All of the foundational assertions are accurate
RUIZ: They did not exist. How can they be accurate?
RFK JR: I did not fact check
RUIZ: It included citations to sources that don't exist. How does that happen?
RFK JR: All of the foundational assertions are accurate
RUIZ: They did not exist. How can they be accurate?
June 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
RUIZ: Did you read the report & fact-check its sources prior to publication?
RFK JR: I did not fact check
RUIZ: It included citations to sources that don't exist. How does that happen?
RFK JR: All of the foundational assertions are accurate
RUIZ: They did not exist. How can they be accurate?
RFK JR: I did not fact check
RUIZ: It included citations to sources that don't exist. How does that happen?
RFK JR: All of the foundational assertions are accurate
RUIZ: They did not exist. How can they be accurate?
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🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬
Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025
Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025
June 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬
Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025
Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025
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If you're not familiar with Lysenko and Lysenkoism, now's a good time to do a bit of googling around.
June 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
If you're not familiar with Lysenko and Lysenkoism, now's a good time to do a bit of googling around.