Dr. Erin Zimmerman 🇨🇦
@doctorzedd.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist, science writer, illustrator, big geek. Really into plants.🌿 Author of UNROOTED: Botany, Motherhood, & the Fight to Save an Old Science #botany #womeninstem #iamabotanist > GenAI is theft. <
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Hey! I’m writing another book!
VERDANT is about how plants have (literally) changed the world. Looking forward to working with @mitpress.bsky.social 🌾🧪🌿
VERDANT is about how plants have (literally) changed the world. Looking forward to working with @mitpress.bsky.social 🌾🧪🌿
I’ve been casually following news about these guys since I read Douglas Adams’ Last Chance to See as a teenager, and this makes me so happy.
Kākāpō numbers pass 300 for the first time in 75 years. New Zealand’s flightless, nocturnal parrot now totals 325 birds, after a record 90 chicks fledged this season, built on the Department of Conservation’s recovery programme, which started with just 51 birds in 1995. DOC buff.ly/7YIOBd9
Kākāpō population reaches new milestone
The official population of the critically endangered kākāpō has reached a recovery-era high of 325 birds.
www.doc.govt.nz
September 18, 2026 at 4:47 PM
I’ve been casually following news about these guys since I read Douglas Adams’ Last Chance to See as a teenager, and this makes me so happy.
Reposted by Dr. Erin Zimmerman 🇨🇦
Investigative journalism is hard! It's expensive! It's legally risky and almost never pays off financially!
And yet somehow these business bro bottom feeding dipshit motherfuckers have found a way to make the whole situation worse.
And yet somehow these business bro bottom feeding dipshit motherfuckers have found a way to make the whole situation worse.
But that pales in comparison to the fake journalists that BBM created, which it used to commit bold acts of plagiarism and fabulism, including an "investigation" of the recycling system that was completely ripped off from real work by local journalists at a local CBS station
September 18, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Investigative journalism is hard! It's expensive! It's legally risky and almost never pays off financially!
And yet somehow these business bro bottom feeding dipshit motherfuckers have found a way to make the whole situation worse.
And yet somehow these business bro bottom feeding dipshit motherfuckers have found a way to make the whole situation worse.
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I’m writing about the Devonian right now, and all the changes that followed plants moving to land, and I couldn’t agree more. This planet has been home to a series of shockingly different worlds. It’s scary how much it transforms over time. 🧪🌾
I keep thinking about something Hank said in this vid: “The world feels like this stable thing - it's not. There have been so many Earths. You zoom out - the history of the Earth becomes a sequence of impossible worlds. Each of them separated by events whose consequences lasted billions of years.” 🧪
The Most Important Thing that Ever Happened
YouTube video by Hank Green
www.youtube.com
September 16, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I’m writing about the Devonian right now, and all the changes that followed plants moving to land, and I couldn’t agree more. This planet has been home to a series of shockingly different worlds. It’s scary how much it transforms over time. 🧪🌾
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#BREAKING: Ontario Science Centre laying off entire science department
Ontario Science Centre laying off entire science department
The Ontario Science Centre has laid off 30 workers including the entire science department, The Canadian Press has learned.
www.cp24.com
September 10, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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I’ve been remiss with promotion! My book Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be has been officially back in print since September 1st with the release of this nifty new softcover edition! kidscanpress.com/product/evol...
September 11, 2026 at 12:15 AM
I’ve been remiss with promotion! My book Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be has been officially back in print since September 1st with the release of this nifty new softcover edition! kidscanpress.com/product/evol...
The latest issue of my botany and evolution newsletter is out!
Look here for imaginary trips to the Carboniferous, new clues about photosynthesis, and a great new book about field science. 🌿
mailchi.mp/be3e6226be6a...
Look here for imaginary trips to the Carboniferous, new clues about photosynthesis, and a great new book about field science. 🌿
mailchi.mp/be3e6226be6a...
A Feast for the Curious, Issue 29 🌿
A newsletter of botany, evolution, science history, and scientific illustration.
mailchi.mp
August 4, 2026 at 3:28 PM
The latest issue of my botany and evolution newsletter is out!
Look here for imaginary trips to the Carboniferous, new clues about photosynthesis, and a great new book about field science. 🌿
mailchi.mp/be3e6226be6a...
Look here for imaginary trips to the Carboniferous, new clues about photosynthesis, and a great new book about field science. 🌿
mailchi.mp/be3e6226be6a...
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this is completely insane: since when is it acceptable for a tech company to rewrite news outlets' headlines without their consent? especially at a time when audiences are sensitive to how stories are framed in headlines? (ie Israel/Palestine, the Trump admin, ICE)
www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...
www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...
Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines
Let us know if you see more.
www.theverge.com
March 20, 2026 at 2:39 PM
this is completely insane: since when is it acceptable for a tech company to rewrite news outlets' headlines without their consent? especially at a time when audiences are sensitive to how stories are framed in headlines? (ie Israel/Palestine, the Trump admin, ICE)
www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...
www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...
So excited to be talking about women in botany at this year’s Canadian Botanical Association conference!
🧪 #womeninstem
🧪 #womeninstem
Registration is now open for the 2026 Canadian Botanical Association annual conference!
June 2-5 at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario.
Full details at the conference website: site.pheedloop.com/e...
#cba2026 #botany
June 2-5 at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario.
Full details at the conference website: site.pheedloop.com/e...
#cba2026 #botany
March 19, 2026 at 6:22 PM
So excited to be talking about women in botany at this year’s Canadian Botanical Association conference!
🧪 #womeninstem
🧪 #womeninstem
For #taxonomistappreciationday I offer my efforts at wrapping my head around basal plant systematics.
#iamabotanist
#iamabotanist
March 19, 2026 at 3:26 PM
For #taxonomistappreciationday I offer my efforts at wrapping my head around basal plant systematics.
#iamabotanist
#iamabotanist
In my favourite place, spending too much money. 🪴
March 11, 2026 at 6:32 PM
In my favourite place, spending too much money. 🪴
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If you'd like a brief escape from the global chaos, I recommend reading REEFS OF TIME, my latest book. It will take you to tropical islands to hunt for fossils and underwater to living reefs, which are somehow both fragile and resilient (as are we). #scicomm #nonfiction #coral #fossilfriday
February 12, 2026 at 9:39 PM
If you'd like a brief escape from the global chaos, I recommend reading REEFS OF TIME, my latest book. It will take you to tropical islands to hunt for fossils and underwater to living reefs, which are somehow both fragile and resilient (as are we). #scicomm #nonfiction #coral #fossilfriday
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Anyone, anywhere can take part in this weekend's bird-watching extravaganza for science! 🧪 🪶 www.scientificamerican.com/article/join...
Go bird-watching this weekend and support a global community science project
Avian enthusiasts around the world will identify and count birds from February 13 through February 16 as part of a massive citizen science project
www.scientificamerican.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Anyone, anywhere can take part in this weekend's bird-watching extravaganza for science! 🧪 🪶 www.scientificamerican.com/article/join...
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In the era of deregulation, it's nice to have a reminder that environmental regulation really does work. I'll be using this little piece of hope as motiviation to fight back against all this deregulation, and I hope you do the same.
Lower levels of PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ in North Atlantic whales show regulations work: Study
North Atlantic long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas) now have 60% lower concentrations of some legacy PFAS than they did a decade ago, offering rare good news about the effectiveness of chemic...
news.mongabay.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:34 PM
In the era of deregulation, it's nice to have a reminder that environmental regulation really does work. I'll be using this little piece of hope as motiviation to fight back against all this deregulation, and I hope you do the same.
Happy Darwin Day! 🌿🌾
February 13, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Happy Darwin Day! 🌿🌾
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Today is #WorldCancerDay, so I'm resharing my essay for @statnews.com on the Trump admin’s cruel disbanding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium.
My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. This research would have helped children like him
www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/p...
My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. This research would have helped children like him
www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/p...
The Trump admin’s cruel disbanding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium
My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. The defunding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium will deny treatments to children like him.
www.statnews.com
February 4, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Today is #WorldCancerDay, so I'm resharing my essay for @statnews.com on the Trump admin’s cruel disbanding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium.
My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. This research would have helped children like him
www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/p...
My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. This research would have helped children like him
www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/p...
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Science is hard, even when you love it. And as much as I love it, it also takes a lot. We make sacrifices. Family. Physical and mental health. Financial security. Most of my colleagues went into STEM as an act of love. Love for people, for places, for the cosmos, for a planet we all share.
February 2, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Science is hard, even when you love it. And as much as I love it, it also takes a lot. We make sacrifices. Family. Physical and mental health. Financial security. Most of my colleagues went into STEM as an act of love. Love for people, for places, for the cosmos, for a planet we all share.
reading about organisms that aren’t your specialty is like
margins of the quorbus eplungulate, ploobular processes bent posteriorly towards the foobulum
define term “eplungulate”
- lacking plungae. synonym: thubulous
margins of the quorbus eplungulate, ploobular processes bent posteriorly towards the foobulum
define term “eplungulate”
- lacking plungae. synonym: thubulous
February 3, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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“Between postal delays, weather events, and the fact that these are day-old animals, it’s likely that at least tens of thousands of these baby birds will die before reaching their intended destination.”
My latest for @cogwbur.bsky.social
www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
My latest for @cogwbur.bsky.social
www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
Let's stop shipping baby chickens in the mail
"The practice of shipping chicks through the mail began in 1918 with the promise that chicks would only be shipped if they could reach their destination within 72 hours," writes Tove Danovich. "That i...
www.wbur.org
February 3, 2026 at 4:26 PM
“Between postal delays, weather events, and the fact that these are day-old animals, it’s likely that at least tens of thousands of these baby birds will die before reaching their intended destination.”
My latest for @cogwbur.bsky.social
www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
My latest for @cogwbur.bsky.social
www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
I cannot wait to watch this.
Rearranging the Universe | The Enduring Spell of Curiosity Cabinets is now on our YouTube channel. Join @giovannialoi.bsky.social as he explores how the desire to categorize, possess, and marvel continues to shape art practices today.
Rearranging the Universe | The Enduring Spell of Curiosity Cabinets
Giovanni Aloi explores how the desire to categorize, possess, and marvel continues to shape art practices today.
This talk traces the enduring fascination with Cabinets of Curiosities: early modern…
buff.ly
February 3, 2026 at 4:18 PM
I cannot wait to watch this.
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What happens in the rapidly warming Arctic does not stay in the Arctic ...
New study: Arctic warming delays the African and Asian monsoon retreats, amplifying autumn rainfall [and causing extreme floods]
#climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
New study: Arctic warming delays the African and Asian monsoon retreats, amplifying autumn rainfall [and causing extreme floods]
#climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Arctic warming delays the Afro-Asian monsoon retreat amplifying autumn rainfall
Arctic warming delays the Afro-Asian monsoon retreat amplifying autumn rainfall, Zhang, Jie, Chen, Haishan, Ma, Weiqiang, Riaz, Rafi, Syed, Sidra, Ullah, Irfan, Shen, Jiayu
iopscience.iop.org
February 3, 2026 at 3:01 PM
What happens in the rapidly warming Arctic does not stay in the Arctic ...
New study: Arctic warming delays the African and Asian monsoon retreats, amplifying autumn rainfall [and causing extreme floods]
#climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
New study: Arctic warming delays the African and Asian monsoon retreats, amplifying autumn rainfall [and causing extreme floods]
#climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Plant lovers, don't miss the bit about @doctorzedd.bsky.social's next book! #books #writing #botany #womeninstem 👇👇👇
The latest issue of my botany & evolution newsletter, A Feast for the Curious, is out. Herein: ancient giant fungus(?), altering plants' breathing, how humans envision time, and a bit about my next book. 🌿
mailchi.mp/2254356f8112...
mailchi.mp/2254356f8112...
A Feast for the Curious, Issue 28 🌿
A newsletter of botany, evolution, science history, and scientific illustration.
mailchi.mp
February 3, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Plant lovers, don't miss the bit about @doctorzedd.bsky.social's next book! #books #writing #botany #womeninstem 👇👇👇
The latest issue of my botany & evolution newsletter, A Feast for the Curious, is out. Herein: ancient giant fungus(?), altering plants' breathing, how humans envision time, and a bit about my next book. 🌿
mailchi.mp/2254356f8112...
mailchi.mp/2254356f8112...
A Feast for the Curious, Issue 28 🌿
A newsletter of botany, evolution, science history, and scientific illustration.
mailchi.mp
January 30, 2026 at 6:49 PM
The latest issue of my botany & evolution newsletter, A Feast for the Curious, is out. Herein: ancient giant fungus(?), altering plants' breathing, how humans envision time, and a bit about my next book. 🌿
mailchi.mp/2254356f8112...
mailchi.mp/2254356f8112...
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Incredible self own for the US. The damage being done to the US scientific enterprise is generational. We will look back on this as a tipping point where the US chose all on its own to stop leading the world in science.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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
www.science.org
January 28, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Incredible self own for the US. The damage being done to the US scientific enterprise is generational. We will look back on this as a tipping point where the US chose all on its own to stop leading the world in science.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...