Nina House

🌲 California botanist 🌼
🥾 Peak climber 🏔️
🏕️ Happy camper 🌌
Passionate about plant conservation, science communication, & my cat 🐈‍⬛
she/her/hers

[Naomi Fraga @naomibot.bsky.social @naomibot]

Southern California is on fire amid record breaking heat. Human lives, homes, and ecosystems are at risk from three rapidly growing fires that are driven by human-caused climate change. As of today they not even close to being contained. I am devastated. 💔

[Amargosa Conservancy @AmargosaConserv]

🚨 PETITION IS LIVE! Visit the link in our bio to sign. By signing this petition, you are telling the BLM to change the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement on Western Solar so that it is balanced and protects the Amargosa River Watershed.

[Prof Lennart Nacke, PhD @acagamic]

A mindmap for PhD students struggling with their thesis structure

[Megan ☼ ♡ ꕤ @MegWritesBooks]

Obsessed with this guy on the US men's gymnastics team who's only job is pommel horse, so he just sits there until he's activated like a sleeper agent, whips off his glasses like Clark Kent and does a pommel horse routine that helps deliver the team its first medal in 16 years.

[KQED Forum @KQEDForum]

🎙️ ON AIR:

We're speaking w/ @theneenbeen, Kathy Crane, @Stanford's Michael Wilcox & @CNPS's Andrea Williams about efforts to grow more native plants in CA.

❓ What are your favorite native plants and most disliked invasive species?

📻 Listen:
https://t.co/JTSNmHuT6N

[Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation @OKWildlifeDept]

Whoever filled out a cougar sighting report and wrote "your mother" under the description drop your @ we just want to talk

[Naomi Fraga @naomibot.bsky.social @naomibot]

I am so incredibly grateful for this California rain, but I am also anticipating the inevitable... The dreaded conversations about the "superbloom". You might be saying, what the heck Naomi, you are a botanist, don't you love superblooms? 🧵https://t.co/TGpGRTWSz2

[Nina House @theneenbeen]

@Texosporium kicking off the serpentine session on day 2 of the @CNPS conference!! One of the best (and funniest) presenters I’ve seen so far 😆🌱

[So Cal Botanists @socalbot]

‼️The Southern California Botanists’ symposium is in less than three weeks ‼️

We are so excited to see you in person this year, on Nov 5 at Seaver Auditorium in Claremont, CA! Our topic this year is Islands: Isolated but not Desolate!

[So Cal Botanists @socalbot]

Hey all SoCalBot symposium attendees! We’re putting out a call for poster abstracts! Abstracts are due October 7, 2022, and must be submitted electronically to posters (at) https://t.co/8xZXs5ZZ8n. Submitters will be notified by October 14, 2021 if their poster has been accepted.

[So Cal Botanists @socalbot]

Registration for the 48th Annual Southern California Botanists Symposium is live!!
The symposium is going to be live for the first time in two years, and we are SO excited!! Our topic this year is Islands: Isolated but not Desolate.

📸: John Game

[So Cal Botanists @socalbot]

👀 Look out, SoCalBot members!! 👀
Two new Crossosoma journals are going to be mailed out this week! We’re so excited to get this awesome research to you!!

[So Cal Botanists @socalbot]

We’re so excited to announce this year’s Southern California Botanist’s symposium:
Islands: Isolated but not Desolate! We’ll have speakers talking about everything from the California Channel Islands to sky islands, and everything in between!

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

Death Valley, the hottest and driest place in the US just saw the 4th 1-in-1,000 year rain event in less than 2 weeks in the US.

3/4 of Death Valley’s annual rainfall fell in 3 hours.

[Manuel Luján @manuelujan]

Mind-blowing plant exhibit at NAT, the Museum of Natural Sciences of Barcelona, wonderful work displaying #herbarium specimens 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 @museuciencies

[Naomi Fraga @naomibot.bsky.social @naomibot]

A couple of weeks ago I gave a presentation on the rare plants of the Amargosa Basin with @AmargosaConserv. In case you missed it, you can now check it out on youtube! https://t.co/hNBalKdqLg

[LM Cunningham @PaleoLaura]

Mojave #Desert dry wash suddenly flowing with big monsoon rain east of Death Valley CA/NV. Ephemeral streams may be dry for months then have intense pulses of flow laden with sediment

[Nina House @theneenbeen]

Great job @RPComito!! 👏🏼 🌱 #Botany2022

[Nina House @theneenbeen]

Check out @Sierras_here awesome work on Kali tragus!! We love species distribution modeling 👏🏼