Dr. Erin Zimmerman🌿📝

Evolutionary biologist, science writer, big geek. Really into plants.🌿 Author of UNROOTED: Botany, Motherhood, & the Fight to Save an Old Science (April 2024)

[Dr. Erin Zimmerman🌿📝 @DoctorZedd]

It’s finally arrived! My botany memoir, UNROOTED, is out! If natural history, species preservation, and the lives of women in science are your thing, be sure to check it out!
https://t.co/1TwM9ejDvP

[Dr. Erin Zimmerman🌿📝 @DoctorZedd]

On this day when you surely have nothing else to pay attention to on the internet, I offer this latest issue of my botany & evolution newsletter. Now with extra anti-racist taxonomy. 🌿
https://t.co/1tcFbEQPiN

[Dr. Erin Zimmerman🌿📝 @DoctorZedd]

@SnowHydro It’s just a technique that casts a projection of what you’re drawing onto your paper. I think it’s obscure if you’re not into botanical illustration. LOL

[Dr. Erin Zimmerman🌿📝 @DoctorZedd]

@SnowHydro Pretty! Reminds me of camera lucida drawing.

[Dr. Erin Zimmerman🌿📝 @DoctorZedd]

@josiegz Oops… sorry, I didn’t see this until now! Thanks for the heads up!

[Dr. Erin Zimmerman🌿📝 @DoctorZedd]

@SnowHydro Sounds cool. I’ll have a look!

[Dr. Erin Zimmerman🌿📝 @DoctorZedd]

@SnowHydro They’re so pretty photographed this way!

[Dr. Erin Zimmerman🌿📝 @DoctorZedd]

@IRBV_Montreal @BioMcGill

[Dr. Erin Zimmerman🌿📝 @DoctorZedd]

If you find yourself in downtown Montreal this Sunday, pop by Librairie Paragraphe for my talk on plant conservation and women in botany! #unrooted

[Dr. Erin Zimmerman🌿📝 @DoctorZedd]

@WEVanDrunen I love it.

[Dr. Erin Zimmerman🌿📝 @DoctorZedd]

The crossover I didn’t know I needed. 🍄

[New York Botanical Garden @NYBG]

Check out this herbarium specimen gallery of plant genera named after notable women in this Hand Lens piece "Women in Genera": https://t.co/5zMbGTzQCr 📜🌿 #NYBGscience

[Dr. Erin Zimmerman🌿📝 @DoctorZedd]

The latest issue of my botany & evolution newsletter is now out! In this issue: a new family tree for flowering plants, the importance of root specimens, historical taxonomy rivalries, and an excerpt from my book.🌿
https://t.co/KYIfaAoQy2

[Dr. Erin Zimmerman🌿📝 @DoctorZedd]

@MelissaSevigny @UMBS That’s so cool! I love old plant presses. All the more so if they have some good history.

[Dr. Erin Zimmerman🌿📝 @DoctorZedd]

@YecartNiatnouf There are always some inadvertent experiments running if you look hard enough!

[Dr. Erin Zimmerman🌿📝 @DoctorZedd]

PSA: Per my unintentional experiment, Asplenium ‘Crispy Wave’ ferns prefer a north-facing window, not a west-facing one.

[Dr. Erin Zimmerman🌿📝 @DoctorZedd]

@jsquaredink That would be so cool, Janet Joy! I hope you do!

[Dr. Erin Zimmerman🌿📝 @DoctorZedd]

My husband has a number of elderly patients who periodically bring him homemade food as thank you gifts. This tends to benefit me more than anyone. Today I’m appreciating a new patient who happens to be excellent at making samosas.

[Dr. Erin Zimmerman🌿📝 @DoctorZedd]

@UrnovFyodor There seem to have been some legal victories down south yesterday.

[Dr. Erin Zimmerman🌿📝 @DoctorZedd]

Me scrolling my very American Twitter feed today.

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[Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen]

Maths isn't the problem. The problem is thinking that the value of a scientist can be measured in any way by their citations.