Andrew Hipp

March 7 and 8, 2026: Maple Grove

This wknd in Maple Grove.
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Spring beauty sprawling under the leaf litter, @mortonarboretum.bsky.social East Woods this morning.

🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics!

My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026.

We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems.

#Postdoc #EcoEvo

Pls RT!

Coming up in Maple Grove FP this weekend: wild ginger (Asarum canadense), mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum), broad-leaved wild leek (Allium tricoccum).

Chorus frogs

Notes on cranes overhead, chorus frogs and spring peepers in @mortonarboretum.bsky.social Crowley Marsh.

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Chorus frogs singing, @mortonarboretum.bsky.social East Woods this afternoon. And right after I took this video, a spring peeper!

Public lecture tonight 6 March 2026 is now remote only via Zoom. Please join us to learn more about ferns. #botany #ferns

Conventionally, historians look only at human remainders, such as archives and diaries... Whether or not other organisms "tell stories," they contribute to the overlapping tracks & traces that we grasp as history. History, then, is the record of many trajectories of world making...

Tsing, Mushroom

code block reading: adjName <- substitute( expr = paste( '(', bold(thisLetter), ') Reference: ', italic('Quercus '), italic(epithet), sep = ''), env = list( thisLetter = letters[counter], epithet = strsplit(i, '_')[[1]][2]) ) plot(tr, cex = 1, main = adjName)

italicizing a few words in a plot title in base R, and the code to do so is pasted in below. Such a pain.

Does anyone know a more elegant / easier way to do this?

Morning bur oak, Crowley Marsh, @mortonarboretum.bsky.social East Woods

Listening for woodcocks this morning, @mortonarboretum.bsky.social East Woods. Nothing today, but I probably arrived a bit late. Have they arrived in your area?

“Will power is trying hard not to do something you really want to do,” said Frog.

“You mean like trying hard not to eat all these cookies?” asked Toad.

“Right,” said Frog.

Around the year in Maple Grove Forest Preserve

A blog post I had forgotten about: one year in Maple Grove forest preserve in about 3 minutes:

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“The house represents what we ourselves would like to be on earth: permanent, rooted, here for eternity. But a camp represents the true reality of things: we’re just passing through.” — Roger Deakin, Wildwood (pp. 14-15)

Graduate Student Grants — American Society of Plant Taxonomists

Reminder that the deadline to submit an ASPT Graduate Student Research Grant is tonight, March 2, at 11:59PM PST!
Applicants must be current members of ASPT to be considered (members.aspt.net). Apply today!

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false mermaid (Floerkea proserpinacoides) false mermaid from DuPage County, IL, USA on March 2, 2026 at 08:26 AM by Andrew Hipp

Floerkea!
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False mermaid sprouting, @mortonarboretum.bsky.social East Woods.

Sandhill cranes migrating, Downers Grove, right now

Literature’s job is not to constantly replace itself... Writers have enough of a job wrapping the insights of their generation around the frames and traditions they’ve inherited without pushing always to do something radically unique.

@aeon.co

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Vernal witchhazel blooming, UIUC Arboretum this afternoon.

Goat relishing an apple core, UIUC this afternoon.

2025 - The Herbarium in Three Words_SierraClub The Morton Arboretum Herbarium in Three Words Andrew Hipp The Morton Arboretum ahipp@mortonarb.org Biodiversity from three perspectives --- any point will get you into the whole; any one of them is a ...

From earlier this week: The Herbarium in Three Words.

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End of the day, prescribed burn smoldering, @mortonarboretum.bsky.social East Woods.

Herbarium in three words! Students arriving to @mortonarboretum.bsky.social any minute...

Song sparrows this morning @mortonarboretum.bsky.social in field adjoining the DuPage River. Listen closely: you can just hear them over the traffic on route 53, mixed with the slightly louder chuckles of robins.

Happy to share a new preprint, the first from my PhD research with Professor John Huelsenbeck at UC Berkeley! Here, we test whether PCA can recover hominin phylogeny from both geometric morphometric data and traditional measurements. 1/ 🧪 #PaleoSky #phylogenetics

East Woods 40 mins b/f sunrise, @mortonarboretum.bsky.social this morning

I Can't Get Started YouTube video by Charles Mingus - Topic

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The Art Preserve of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin yesterday

Stephan Larson

smush, 2022

Northern Michigan University feb 2023