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Rachel Jabaily @racheljabaily.bsky.social · 17d

I love my PBS Passport app! It's great to watch and to listen to shows like a podcast. Ken Burns' The Roosevelts series is helping me focus on the bigger picture of our country, who we were, are, and can be. @pbs.org

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Aug 27

Today is #ADayforBSA!

🌿 Support the future of botany by donating to the BSA Endowment. Every gift, no matter the size, makes a difference and allows us to support students, our publications, and community-building conferences now and for years to come.

Donate now: crm.botany.org/civicrm/cont...

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doomandgloom 💙📚🚀🌈🌴🌺🌞🏖🏝🎶🌹🐈‍⬛🌹💐🦋 🌻🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @doomandgloom1951.bsky.social · Aug 25

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The LA chefs and shops delivering food to immigrants scared to go out: ‘I know how to feed people’

After Ice’s infiltration of LA, the community is rallying to provide essentials for survival for those forced to stay home

www.theguardian.com

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Rachel Jabaily @racheljabaily.bsky.social · Aug 26

Got mine last weekend seeing this coming. Unbelievable.

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Rachel Jabaily @racheljabaily.bsky.social · Aug 26

STEM professor colleagues, give this a read. We need to raise our own awareness to threats across all facets of higher Ed and support our colleagues and the core educational and scholarly mission of academia.

Abu Aardvark’s Ghost @abuaardvark.bsky.social · Aug 25

What it’s like to be a Middle East Studies Professor in fall 2025 - my new post surveys the field, and my colleagues.

Basically it sucks and it’s getting worse. But we haven’t given up.

abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/what-its-lik...

What it's like to be a Middle East Studies professor in 2025

Basically, it sucks. Last week, Tuft's Dan Drezner and my GW colleague Dave Karpf published really good pieces on what it's like to be, respectively, a dean of international affairs and a professor o...

abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · Aug 24

IT’S HERE!!!!!! My new book, *Sweet Taste of Empire* spotted in the wild!

Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · Aug 24

@profkfh.bsky.social look what finally arrived - I cannot wait to dig in!!! 🤩

Kim F. Hall’s book, THE SWEET TASTE OF EMPIRE, sitting on a wooden table partly on top of a purple, yellow, blue, and white table runner

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Aug 22

Confederate statues are “history” but a rainbow crosswalk dedicated to victims of a mass shooting is “political.”

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · Aug 21

Workers under cover of night removed a rainbow crosswalk outside of the former Pulse nightclub, apparently as part of state and federal transportation officials’ aim to wipe “political banners” from public roadways. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/21/r...

Rainbow crosswalk outside Pulse nightclub removed overnight

“We did everything according to state law, everything was compliant,” said Patty Sheehan, the city’s first openly gay elected official. “FDOT never moves that quickly with anything.&#82…

www.orlandosentinel.com

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Nosferatu Joseph 🧛🏻‍♀️ @tashjoeza.bsky.social · Aug 17

This tattoo, by InkedMongoose on IG, is perfect. No notes.

A tattooed knee, I think, featuring Richard Scarry's Lowly Worm in an apple car. Text reads: You got a fast car. I got a plan to get us out of here.

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Stacey D. Smith @iochromaland.bsky.social · Aug 11

Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social

Postdoctoral Fellow in Tomatillo Evolution

jobs.colorado.edu

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · Aug 13

Holy fricking A.

1. Sciences aren't remotely apolitical, from who gets to do research to which research projects are funded to how findings are interpreted.

2. Who is going to write the reports/papers without humanities?

3. Science is also a target!! Ask the CDC researchers who were shot at!

Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · Aug 13

In which a Yale prof calls for jettisoning humanities to make way for science-only universities.

“scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”

Unyoke the Sciences From the Humanities

Arts and sciences typically cohabitate. Should they?

thedispatch.com

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Rachel Jabaily @racheljabaily.bsky.social · Aug 13

Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell hole it is.

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · Aug 7

Did you see @racheljabaily.bsky.social new open educational resource "Biology of Plants" coloring textbook when you were at #Botany2025 ? No? WELL GO CHECK IT OUT: oercommons.org/courses/the-... Gorgeous illustrations by MGB Hurst 😍

The Biology of Plants Coloring Textbook

The Biology of Plants Coloring Textbook was created by Dr. Rachel S. Jabaily (Colorado College Dept. Organismal Biology & Ecology) and M.G.B. Hurst (Colorado College class of 2025) with a grant from t...

oercommons.org

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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · Aug 7

We are honored to receive the @rooseveltinstitute.org's 2025 Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech and Expression, and to be among a stellar class of laureates including @wck.org, @cvt.org, and more. Details: tnvge.co/ZMIUg7v

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Aug 7

From this month's edition of The Onion.

ICE is hiring!

US immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for highly motivated, morally indifferent individuals to join our team.

Open positions include:
Senior Goon
Racism Enforcement Office
Unmarked Van Driver (Part-Time)

Experience with children a plus

usajobs.gov

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · Aug 4

Hey! New faculty! Your annual reminder to keep track of *everything* you do in some way or another. I just dump stuff into a Google doc, nothing fancy, but saves a ton of time when working on promotion & tenure docs.

(Ask me what I'm working on right now...!) 🧪

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · Aug 2

Sometimes I think of how only two generations of us were even allowed to attend these settler colonial ass universities in tiny, awkward handfuls, and how even that was too much

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Laura Lagomarsino, PhD @tropicalbotany.bsky.social · Aug 1

Even though #Botany2025 is over, the botany hasn’t stopped for the #LagoLab! Aislinn and I are spending a few days working at @mobotgarden.bsky.social with Charlotte Taylor and our beloved rubes. #Rubiaceae #Taxonomy #Classification #Phylogeny #WomenInSTEM

Two women stand in an herbarium smiling, each holding a specimen

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The Onion @theonion.com · Aug 1

Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...

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Cody Coyotee @wile-phylote.bsky.social · Aug 1

What’s the first thing I did after I got back home from #Botany2025?

Showed off that sweet bulbous @ijpsjournal.bsky.social journal cover to my mom, which prompted her to then read the article!

The bulbous propaganda spreads!!
✌️😎🧅 #PlantPeopleFTW

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Rachel Jabaily @racheljabaily.bsky.social · Aug 1

You gave a great Germinating Ideas talk!

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Rachel Jabaily @racheljabaily.bsky.social · Aug 1

Happy mammal reunion day to all botanists returning from #Botany2025

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Rachel Jabaily @racheljabaily.bsky.social · Aug 1

Please do! We'll be in Tucson next early August 🌵

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Sarah K. Morris @skmorrisbotany.bsky.social · Jul 31

Leaving Palm Springs and #Botany2025 feeling inspired, as always, but perhaps more importantly, feeling incredibly grateful for the wonderfully supportive botanical community. Botanists really are the best folks around.

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Josh Felton @botanyballer.bsky.social · Jul 31

Thank you ben ❤️ it has been a blast working with you during my tenure as student rep! #botany2025

Benjamin Ajayi @ajayibenmi.bsky.social · Jul 31

Huge shout-out to @botanyballer.bsky.social for his amazing service as a BSA student rep these past two years!

I’m really going to miss all the moments we shared working toward a better BSA experience for students.

You’ve made a lasting impact!

#Botany2025

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