Visitors are flocking to Death Valley National Park in California and Nevada to take in a rare phenomenon known as a superbloom.
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Visitors are flocking to Death Valley National Park in California and Nevada to take in a rare phenomenon known as a superbloom.
Cool paper [in french] about cushion plants, a morphological adaptation to high/dry environments. A pity they don't mention my favourites, the quite extreme Andean Llareta, and the New Zealand sheep plant:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yareta
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoulia...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cushion...
Three very bright ribbons of green light swirl in the night sky over a round yurt surrounded by a wooden deck. The silhouetted spires of spruce trees rise up around the snow-covered yurt and stand against the bright green lights.
Each night of our aurora tours in Churchill is spent in a different location. This yurt just inside the treeline is one of my favourite places. We had a spectacular show there the other night. #aurora #northernlights
Running the seed through flame has now worked for another species of licorice, Glycyrrhiza glabra. At least for one seed.
Roman chamomile (Chamaemelum nobile) germinates pretty fast.
We are now in the worst oil crisis in history of the world.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=geWy...
Love Lomatium cous. Harbinger of Spring! Nice photo.
goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024
Look at the tail. No jagged parts. Also, see the stripe on the neck. Difficult to see because it probably just came out of the mud hibernation.
Road to Jasper's recovery: Interim housing, permit processing, reopened trails and wildfire risk reduction updates
#CommunityNewspaper #Jasper #PADailyHerald #wildfires
paherald.sk.ca/road-to-jasp...
Black-and-white 19th-century engraving of the New England Female Medical College building on Springfield Street in Boston, the institution from which Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler graduated in 1864 as the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the United States. The illustration shows a large, three-story Victorian-style brick structure with a mansard roof featuring multiple dormer windows and chimneys. The facade includes tall arched windows on the upper floors, a prominent central entrance with a grand arched portico supported by columns, flanked by smaller arched doorways or windows, and a wide staircase leading up to the main entrance where a few small figures of people are shown standing or ascending the steps. The building is surrounded by trees, shrubs, and grass in a landscaped setting, with light shading to convey depth and texture typical of period illustrations.
Photograph of the aged, original 1883 title page from A Book of Medical Discourses by Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, M.D., recognized as the first medical book written by a black author in the United States. Printed in black ink on yellowed, worn paper with frayed edges, minor creases, and stains from age. The centered title appears in large, ornate uppercase letters: "A BOOK OF MEDICAL DISCOURSES" followed by "IN TWO PARTS." Below, detailed subtitles describe the contentsβPart First addresses the cause, prevention, and cure of infantile bowel complaints from birth through the teething period up to the fifth year; Part Second provides miscellaneous information on life and growth, the beginning of womanhood, and the cause, prevention, and cure of distressing complaints affecting women and both sexes. The author's credit reads "BY REBECCA CRUMPLER, M.D." (with a handwritten checkmark or underline nearby). At the bottom: "BOSTON: CASHMAN, KEATING & CO., PRINTERS. FAYETTE COURT, 603 WASHINGTON ST. 1883." A prominent circular red library stamp from the "SURGEON GEN'L OFFICE LIBRARY" dated "12/1/31" overlaps the lower center, along with faint additional library markings, giving it an archival, historical appearance typical of 19th-century medical publications held in institutional collections.
Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, the first Black woman doctor in the US, graduated with her M.D. in 1864. She overcame significant barriers due to both racism & sexism & provided care to formerly enslaved people in the post-Civil War period. She died #OTD in 1895.
#WomenInSTEM (1/2)
Photo of a handful of roasted, shelled peanuts in the palm of a hand. Some are split into two halves (the cotyledons).
Not all seeds have endosperm as their storage tissue. Some seeds store the energy needed for germination in the embryoβs cotyledons. You know peanuts: the 2 halves are the 2 cotyledons. The embryonic root & shoot are the little structures at the base. #cotyledon #Fabaceae #Botany πΎπ§ͺπ±
We have our initiative working through the Montana process to be certified for signature collection & expect to be ready by early spring. Visit sign.mttei.org! & let us know you are ready to sign when approved! Be SIGN! ready!
MNHC is offering two exciting camps for Middle School Students this summer! Our Naturalist in Training, July 6-10 and STEEM, August 3-7! Learn more and register at: www.montananaturalist.org/summer-camps/
#missoulacamps #middleschoolcamps #natureeducation
π Happy 1st Birthday to the Botanical Club! πΏπ₯³
12 months of sharing graphite drawings on Patreon β scary at first, so worth it! Huge thanks to my amazing supporters π
This week only: 30% OFF your first month! Use code BOTANICAL1YEAR βοΈπ
#botanicalart #graphitedrawing #botanicaldiaryclub
The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribeβs approach to water management is helping to integrate sovereignty and conservation into water policy in Montana.
www.who.int/teams/who-gl...
The U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office.
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies. Read more: https://scim.ag/4boPkq8
A detailed digital composite image based on the 1947 historical photograph of geneticist Barbara McClintock. McClintock, with her characteristic short hair and round glasses, is seated at a microscope, using tweezers in a Petri dish. While based on the original photo distributed for her AAUW award, this image presents a significantly expanded and fictionalized laboratory environment. The simple wooden workbench is now densely populated with a vast, colorized collection of complex glassware, numerous amber-colored reagent bottles, intricate distillation columns, and botanical specimens relevant to maize cytogenetics, creating a rich, illustrative narrative of her "jumping gene" research context that was not present in the original photo. The expanded background shows complex vintage laboratory cabinetry. This image explicitly states it is a composite: a digital recreation where Seriously Scientific has taken the historical figure and placed them into an augmented, complex fictionalized environment. Based on original source from Smithsonian Institution Archives. Digital composite by Seriously Scientific.
Remembering Barbara McClintock on International Women's Day!
She discovered that genes aren't static, they can actually "jump" around on a chromosome.
Her discovery of transposons ("jumping genes") fundamentally changed how we understand evolution and the complexity of DNA! π§¬π½
#WomenInScience
Patrinia is in the honeysuckle family (Caprifoliaceae)
powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:ls...
Patrinia villosa is a herb used in East Asian medicine.
I've been trying to grow 3 Patrinia species.
But the labels disappeared. Argh. I *think* this is Patrinia scabiosa.
www.meandqi.com/knowledge-ba...
Black cumin has a white flower. (Nigella sativa)
Love in a mist has a blue flower. (Nigella damascena)
Call out any company that uses love-in-a-mist on it's black cumin oil label. Get it right. We botanists and gardeners are watching. We want truth.
Yes. I'm a herb rebel.
Sophie Oluwole placed Yoruba philosophy alongside Western thinkers, proving African philosophy is rigorous, not just folklore. π
theconversation.com/sophie-oluwo...
#ArtscultureandSociety
Oh, I see the cat had made a number of edits to my book while I was away from the keyboard
Hmmm....
oh oh. Now I'm trapped in Fleetwood Mac songs.
It's okay. It's Sunday night. Although, I should make dinner.
... Naw...it can wait.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuXB...
We have a new blog post out:
There is an ancient concept known as Anima Mundiβthe soul of the world. Itβs the idea that the Earth isn't just a spinning rock, but a living, breathing entity, and that we humans are an inseparable part of its spirit. www.greenpathherbschool.com/greenpathblo...
