Our weekly tropical plant ID night in the LSU herbarium was extra successful tonight! The newest #LagoLab undergrad Nolan dove right into the deep end; he went from learning opposite vs. alternate leaves to IDing his first plant (a Chloranthaceae!) within an hour.

It’s purple and gold season in my yard. #LosCusucos#GeauxTigers

Fell for today’s Connections trick- hook, line, and sinker. Connections Puzzle #468 🟨🟩🟦🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩

It’s a good year for the hurricane lilies in our backyard! #LosCusucos

Infrequent attender of Evolution? Never attended, but might want to? We're still curious about your thoughts on future meetings. If you've got 5 minutes to answer some questions, we'd be grateful.

Middling elder, still in my Bluesky lurking era 👀

Excited to share work on a new phylogenetic biome shift model! Model lets species gain and lose enabled (fundamental) and established (realized) biome affinities through historical events A joy to work w/ the intrepid Sean McHugh and Michael Donoghue www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...#evolution

Rocoto and I are both pretty jazzed by today’s Andes-inspired @barkbox! Not enough plants for my taste, but he seemed to appreciate the taste of tapir 😅.

Ahhh I’m actually letting myself plan a sabbatical!!! Fall 2025 can’t come soon enough 😄. 🇨🇴🌿☕️

Love this, and not to be a pedant: but this change really has everything to do with nomenclature and nothing at all with taxonomy (at least directly!).