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Thomas Winfield Marie
@magpine.bsky.social
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Thomas - poet and ecologist- plants, climate change, human geography. He/him and she/her. Buy my chapbook! https://bottlecap.press/products/causes
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · Apr 8
I made this educational comic for an upcoming event - it introduces native plants and introduced plants, and the impacts of climate change on plant communities, at a K-5 level. If you'd like to read it or use it, check out the whole thing here: doi.org/10.7275/2ns2...
Colorful kids comic. Text: "Plants take a long time to: grow, change, adapt - to evolve! It can take millions of years. When a type of plant grows in the same place their long ago ancestors grew, they are a native plant. They have many connections to: birds, insects, microbes, and human beings. Over time, all the living beings that make up an ecosystem grow to fit each other just right! So, native plants have deep root. "Native plant" means old, rooted, and well-connected - not "never-changing". Illustrations of plants in ecosystems.
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I am looking to hire two seasonal field/laboratory technicians to join the lab working at the MSU Kellogg Biological Station and Main Campus. The primary work will be dedicated to our switchgrass program with potential to expand into other roles in the lab with time. careers.msu.edu/jobs/profess...
Professional Aide - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Position Summary(Basic Job Function) This is a temporary or an on-call position. Provides professional support. Responsibilities may include general business, science, medical, agricultural or other p...
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September 10, 2026 at 3:39 PM
magpine.bsky.social
I'm dreaming about a meadow garden for next year. I want it to be fluffy.. boneset, joe pye weed, mountain mint, blazing star, goldenrod, some northern sea oats and groundnut in there - maybe both purple and red monarda? Don't ask me where I'm finding the space
September 9, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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it's #weirdpoemwednesday apparently
my translation of a Wang Fanzhi 王梵志/"Brahmacarin Wang" poem: i have a couple acres of land plantings on the south mountain slope four or five pine trees of my own and two or three hills of beans as well. when it's hot i just go for a dip in the pond or take the cool breeze singing on the bank i come and go as i please and i've got enough so i'd like to see somebody try me now. --attributed to "Brahmacarin Wang," fl. 7th/8th c. 吾有十畝田，種在南山坡。 青松四五樹，綠豆兩三窠。 熱即池中浴，涼便岸上歌。 遨遊自取足，誰能奈我何。
August 26, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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📣 New York Botanical Garden is seeking a career-track Restoration Ecologist!

🥾 develop ext. funded, field-oriented, collections-informed, & collaborative research program
📨 Optimal consideration: Sep. 25 (open till filled)
📆 Start: Jan. 1, 2027 (negotiable)
🤑 $87.5k
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New York Botanical Garden is looking for Assistant Curator, Restoration Ecology.
New York Botanical Garden is looking for Assistant Curator, Restoration Ecology. Learn more or Jobvite a friend.
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September 8, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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Their contexts are different, but I hope Brattleboro is able to save the birth center, as Troy was.
September 1, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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Pleased to share my newest publication, 'Invasive plants are more abundant than native and introduced plants at home and abroad', out now in Biological Invasions.

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Invasive plants are more abundant than native and introduced plants at home and abroad - Biological Invasions
Invasive plants are often observed and assumed to be locally abundant, which likely increases their ecological impacts. However, there are few macroscale comparisons of invasive versus non-invasive sp...
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August 31, 2026 at 4:09 PM
magpine.bsky.social
Biologists, are we using the term "parent species" to describe the taxa encompassing a subspecies? Or is there another phrase which is more clear?
August 24, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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My landlords yard guy weedwhacked my Carolina lupine 😭
August 20, 2026 at 1:30 PM
magpine.bsky.social
My mountain mint seems to be attracting mostly flies and a few black and white wasps (visitors I'm happy to see!). It seems like other people see a lot of bees and butterflies, but none on mine - it's not blooming super profusely though there are quite a few infloresences.
August 6, 2026 at 8:46 PM
magpine.bsky.social
Somebody tell me not to acronymize my newest research product as NIPPL
August 5, 2026 at 6:28 PM
magpine.bsky.social
This is a real question for journalism folks on here - why don't online news sites allow me to buy access to a single article? I close out of articles I'm interested in so often due to paywalls. Some of them I'd pay a couple bucks to read. But I just will not sign up for ongoing, 1/2
August 5, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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A couple minutes late to work because I stopped to admire some really lush purslane
August 4, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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Is it #weirdpoemWednesday? Here's one from a few years ago when I was writing daily fish poems. @tomsnarsky.bsky.social Click for full poem - a bit long for this format
ELECTROFISHING / ATLANTIC SALMON ZAP! Ha Ha Ha! We heard you and we came. We wanted to taste the anode, since we had no choice. Your stun gun hijacked our muscles. Now we are here to laugh at you and dance in your bucket. Ha Ha Ha! We all saw you when you slipped in the river and you lost the grip of your hip waders and cold electrified water got in the rubber. YES! That is the sort of thing we really love. That is why we came. By now you may have noticed: We are not the Atlantic Salmon you were hoping for. We are the Elopomorph Superorder. We are like olms with eyes or like worms with bones. We are the treasured jesters of your nets. We are THE AMERICAN EELS! Do not be impressed by frogs who go between wet mud and wet leaves. We have seen the only two sides of the world. Salt and not salt. These are the absolute antipodes. Because of this it is very natural and easy for us to die or be born or move between other such states of matter. NO BIG DEAL! But your hands are horrible to touch and unlike us. Your current could hold us only because we LOVE currents. We do not love your hands and so we are going now. We know where the salmon went. We have seen them on the way to our own secret place. They are chasing a different anode far more convulsing than yours. No offense. ZAP! Ha Ha Ha. We aren't telling!
July 29, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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REVIEW
Native and Non‐Native Populations Respond Unevenly to River Barrier Removals

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July 24, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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This morning, I thought "I don't need two breakfasts. I can just have one breakfast." And you know what? I was so wrong
July 24, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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On my morning walk I was startled by a cyclist stopping suddenly and shouting to his partner "Holy shit Rebecca! Look at that huge fucking sycamore tree!!" (our local ancient celebrity). He apologized for yelling but it was really delightful.
July 23, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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Never a bad time for this song, but this is an especially good one:
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I Dream of Water, by Sarina Partridge
track by Sarina Partridge
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July 15, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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At the pond yesterday, saw two big great blue herons flying and hanging out by the water with two littler great blue herons 😍
July 13, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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Various feelings about the new NYT piece on native plant gardening (positive and some negative) - but one complaint is that the author refers consistently to Doug Tallamy as "Tallamy" and to Cindy Tallamy as "Cindy". I double checked - she does indeed have a last name (like most women!)
July 9, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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Spent my walk this morning moving stranded freshwater mussels back into the water. Poor amazing little animals - I hope it rains soon
July 6, 2026 at 5:55 PM
magpine.bsky.social
What a fucking joke to have to do my university's required Title IX training about complying with athletic regulations, this week of all weeks
July 2, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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New sci-comm blog post out, drawing on my background briefly working for "Big Dairy" as my friends like to say. Learn something about dairy cattle genetics!

sci-stories.org/2026/07/01/i...
Is Milk Better Outside the US?
If cow's milk hurts your tummy— it might be time to try milk abroad— or try a new breed!
sci-stories.org
July 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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Birthday of Czeslaw Milosz today.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49457/...
Encounter Czeslaw Milosz trans. Czeslaw Milosz We were riding through frozen fields in a wagon at dawn. A red wing rose in the darkness. And suddenly a hare ran across the road. One of us pointed to it with his hand. That was long ago. Today neither of them is alive, Not the hare, nor the man who made the gesture. O my love, where are they, where are they going The flash of a hand, streak of movement, rustle of pebbles. I ask not out of sorrow, but in wonder. Wilno, 1936
June 30, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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out-of-season poetry WIP #poetry
WOMA Against the black stack of the mountain the pitch of the wind drops Bring me starvation food pine bark bread dark dust, pine in the lungs lark in the gone-pine stark on the tongue Bruised by the axe back back-breaking, bread-baking resinating voice of the hungry mountain We will want for another winter
June 30, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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Typically I do a pretty good job managing my emotional state in regards to the biodiversity crisis but I found an emerald ash borer outside my house yesterday and I'm feeling a bit crushed about it to be honest
June 15, 2026 at 4:19 PM