Mason Heberling

Skunk cabbage, one of the earliest blooming species in eastern North America

Powdermill!

Skunk cabbage flowers emerging through wet leaf litter

Here we gooooo!

There’s a bat in the herbarium!?Holding on to this guy as part of loan to Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation for an upcoming exhibition exploring pollination next month.

"The refining and humanizing influence of the gentler pursuits, which are being cultivated by the [Botanical Society of Western PA], cannot fail to leave a marked impression upon the life of our busy city." - Carnegie Museum Annual Report for 1899

Wearing the same shirt today I wore when I defended my dissertation. 11 years ago. Not a stain!

“As I tell my students, one of the most important powers of the discipline of history is that it teaches us that the present was not inevitable—and therefore, that the future is not predetermined.” -Laura J. Martin

Ghosts Behind Glass How museums display extinct species—and what these exhibits say about us.   While it’s no longer possible to encounter a dodo in the wild, we can still come face-to-face with them in museums. The rema...

This looks like a great book! I want to buy it but I seem to be buying books at a faster rate than I read them… press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Both! An inquisitive group. The class was uniquely titled “how to build a ruin: seed politics.” So they were especially interested in seeds (esp crops) but also history of collection and how it is housed.

I'm excited to work w/the @ijpsjournal.bsky.social editorial team!

Reasons to submit:
-great science & people
-not for profit & affordable
-celebrates undergrad pubs w/mock covers (3 examples)
-awesome bandanas (pic of my lab)
-Primers in the Plant Sciences www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ijp...

And we have two new additions to announce: @jmheberling.bsky.social and @smwadgymar.bsky.social have signed up for 4-year terms on the @ijpsjournal.bsky.social board. We're excited to have them join our merry band of editors. (5/n)

#PlantScience

Yesssss.They crave it!

@cmu.edu architecture class visited herbarium today. A first for me! Love it.

Sick burn 🔥 Linnaeus wrote in 1764 in reference to Michel Adanson (English translation): “I saw the natural method of Adanson…He gives copious notes, but nevertheless distinguishes nothing…I wonder whether he be sane or sober…”.

Highly recommended to any and all undergrads looking for research experiences with plants!
The Carnegie Museum includes a great herbariu, a beautiful forest reserve, and Mason, who's an cool person, incredibly supportive, and has with a vast knowledge about plants and their interactions.

😊 oh my. Thank you Luiza! ☺️

four people happy in the forest with trillium flowers everywhere

Exciting new undergraduate research opportunities here at Carnegie Museum in Botany! Applications due March 1. drive.google.com/file/d/1jNNy...

Thoughtful position statement on AI from Natural Areas Association on calling out “cultural, social, and ethical issues” as well as environmental. www.naturalareas.org/ai_statement...

Rhododendron leaves curled up in the icy cold

Things are getting nasty out there. THERMOnasty!

The new iNaturalist app kinda sucks. There I said it.

January 28, 1963: St. Vincent College Herbarium (LAT) This specimen of shining clubmoss ( Huperzia lucidula ) was collected by Maximilian G. Duman near the campus of St. Vincent College.  It isn't dated, but his collector number and context clues...

Quick little #collectedonthisday post (excuse typos!) on Saint Vincent College herbarium fire of 1963, a collection lost 63 years ago but rebuilt. www.masonheberling.com/collected-on...

Botany of Nations

I’ve STILL never been to Academy of Natural Sciences (or not even Philly even, believe it or not). But oh my, I need to find a way to check out the new upcoming exhibition on plants of Lewis & Clark from indigenous perspective ansp.org/exhibits/bot...

Probably too early in the year to suggest in meetings that we should “circle back on that next year”? 😆

excited to hear about the new @usa-npn.bsky.social Nature's Notebook app! phenophase definitions and reference images, new funcationality for advanced traits, adding photos, geolocation tags...and more! #NPNLPLconference #makinguphashtags

Great National Phenology Network conference on local phenology leaders going on this week online. Really enjoying and learning new ideas from the talks so far! usanpn.org/community/Lo... @usa-npn.bsky.social

Digitization connects scattered specimens and enables new historical research: Plants from the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881–1884) Widespread museum digitization initiatives have made the world's herbaria more accessible than ever, launching a renaissance of specimen use. We highlight the value of digitization to bolster both sc....

Great article on the history of & specimens collected by the Lady Franklin Bay expedition. I loved the use & the crediting of @bionomia.net (which uses #Wikidata for deceased collectors) for assisting in the uncovering of more specimens from that expedition. doi.org/10.1002/ppp3... #Bionomia

Digitization connects scattered specimens and enables new historical research: Plants from the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881–1884) Widespread museum digitization initiatives have made the world's herbaria more accessible than ever, launching a renaissance of specimen use. We highlight the value of digitization to bolster both sc...

New paper in @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social using @gbif.org mediated data:

Digitization connects scattered specimens and enables new historical research: Plants from the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881–1884) 🇨🇦

#CiteTheDOI: ✅

#OpenAccess: ⭐️

https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.70063

New day, new authentication app to download or online training to do!

Looking for any STS/Env Hum folks working on biological invasion, conservations, and multispecies violence!
With this combined panel, Luiza and I planned one sesh for 1. presentations and 2. ecology-humanities tandem workshop. We hope for (lots of✨) space for interdisciplinary discussion!

PEACHH Lab (@benrlee.com) at ETSU is recruiting a PhD with exciting projects relating to phenological mismatch, ecophysiology, forest ecology. Highly recommend working with Ben!! www.peacchlab.com/opportunities