Alex Abair

Lamiaceae systematist.

[Alex Abair @Alex_Abair]

Settling into a new ecoregion. I think I'm going to enjoy botanizing the southeast for the next 5 years or so.

[Alex Abair @Alex_Abair]

Anyone else finding greenhouse frog eggs in their potted plants these days? It's crazy to think people treat these little things as pests!

[Alex Abair @Alex_Abair]

@Fuchsiarius Diachea leucopodia! I think...

[Alex Abair @Alex_Abair]

@opentreeoflife I should have mentioned this! I'm actually getting trees together to submit to OToL 😁

[Alex Abair @Alex_Abair]

Does anyone know if treeBASE will ever come back? 🥺 So many species trees I want to use... Is there another similar repository somewhere out there?

[Alex Abair @Alex_Abair]

@RodAG_ Thanks! I'm definitely having issues with iTol though. I'm playing with the API, so hopefully I can figure it out. Right now, it seems like the available trees are a bit limited on iTol, but maybe I'm just not using it correctly.

[Alex Abair @Alex_Abair]

If you're in Reitz Union any time before Feb. 25, check out some of my work in the Gallery at Reitz Union Auditorium!

[Alex Abair @Alex_Abair]

@ebsessa @ja_pelosi @WikiEducation That's awesome! Is it exclusively for contributing to Wikipedia, Wikidata, etc.? I'm hoping to make a website separate from Wikipedia but with the style of Wikipedia.

[Alex Abair @Alex_Abair]

Teaching Question: Has anyone ever made a Wikipedia-style website for students to each make their own page entries? I'd love an easy way to set it up so every student can make a page describing a plant species. I want to let them have access to eachothers' work across semesters.

[Alex Abair @Alex_Abair]

@BOUCUR We want them to upload their class projects directly. They're kind of written as essays about the ethnobotany of a chosen species, and the format is not quite in line with Wikipedia. Plus I worry about them uploading to Wikipedia "under duress" 😆

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@mossMatters Oh! Nice! That's a good option.

[Lauren Whitehurst @igotflowerpower]

Hi! Stop by to visit my poster "Using digitized herbarium specimens to identify evolutionarily diverse hotspots in Florida" in the "Biodiversity Informatics & Herbarium Digitization Posters" session! :)
https://t.co/srN2nP3Tt8 #Botany2021 #Phylogenetics #Digitization #Florida

[Alex Abair @Alex_Abair]

@BethanyZumwalde The pine pollen on these corollas is making my nose itch!

[Alex Abair @Alex_Abair]

Come hear about Callicarpa and mint genomes!

[Marta L Wayne @MartaWayneBio]

If you were looking for graduate students, postdocs, or junior faculty working in AI and machine learning, who were using those skills to advance equity and reduce bias, where would you look? Please R/T.

[Botanical Society of America @Botanical_]

We're back with #Morphology_Monday! Can anyone ID this medicinal plant? These pictures were sent by @PraveenRoylawar from Sangamner College in Maharashtra, India. Thanks Praveen! Email us at [email protected] to share your awesome plant photos with fellow #BSAmembers.

[Alex Abair @Alex_Abair]

RIP UF email services...

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Cuban tree frog welcoming committee at my new place today. This one's lookin' a little smug about it.

[Alex Abair @Alex_Abair]

This doesn't seem like an appropriate amount of enthusiasm. You know, because Florida reported 9,000 new COVID-19 cases today alone... I won't pretend to know what the right administrative decisions are, but I feel like this is a mistake.

[Alex Abair @Alex_Abair]

@westo_fernnerd @BethanyZumwalde Just say it, you toolbox.

[Alex Abair @Alex_Abair]

Gainesville botanists, what did I find at Hogtown Creek? I'm stumped. The ripped leaves had kind of a green pepper smell.