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Colin Hoag
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Into plants and poetry, esp. Compositae and Sylvia Plath; swimming-biking-running; wrote a book about water called The Fluvial Imagination (UC Press, '22).
Very excited to have a new publication out in the most beautiful journal in the world, Capitulum! #Compositae #Hecastocleis #Asteraceae #synantherology
www.compositae.org/capitulum_04...
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Thanks to Mauricio Bonifacino and Matt Taylor (Identic), the Lucid Key to the tribes of Compositae is now back online after having disappeared from the web for a few years:

keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v4/trib...

#compositae #daisies #asteraceae #TICA
Key to the tribes of the Compositae family
keys.lucidcentral.org
March 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Jim Ferguson was so, so amazing and wonderful, and I'm so sad that he has died. He was a guiding light. What a tremendous loss. We are all worse off without him. Rest in peace. stanforddaily.com/2025/02/19/j...
James Ferguson, professor of anthropology and former department chair, dies at 65
James “Jim” Ferguson played a pivotal roles in the department's history and will be remembered for his remarkable character, kindness and contributions to the field.
stanforddaily.com
February 22, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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The new issue of CAPITULUM, the journal of The International Compositae Alliance, is out: www.compositae.org/capitulum_03...

Styles of Asteraceae: A synopsis of their morphological and functional diversity

Taraxacum in Australia

Commemoration of the life and career of Charles Jeffrey
Capitulum_03_2
www.compositae.org
January 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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🌿DEADLINE MONDAY! Special Issue Call for Papers🌿

#AppsPlantSci invites proposals for "Non-model plants: Challenges and solutions" led by editors Jose Cunill Flores, Guanjing Hu & Aaron Velez-Ramirez

Proposal deadline 20 Jan 2025

botany.org/home/publica... #botany #iamabotanist
January 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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The @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social Handbook to Sylvia Plath is available at a discount! For the Plath readers on your list! www.bloomsbury.com/us/bloomsbur...
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath
With chapters written by more than 25 leading and emerging international scholars, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath provides the most comprehensive colle…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 30, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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The New Sylvia Plath Studies - edited by Dr Dorka Tamás. 🥹Thank you to all the contributors who made this possible. 🫶 Upcoming chapter on "Plath and the Diabolic Atomic Age".
November 27, 2024 at 12:02 PM
For those in the area, I hope you'll join us for what is shaping up to be an incredible two-day event at Smith College. Starting tomorrow! #EnvironmentalHumanities sites.smith.edu/the-greenhou...
March 28, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Sylvia Plath's birthday is a good day to advertise that I'm giving the Smith College Botanic Garden's Annual Mum Show Lecture next week (streaming / in person)! It's about #plath, The Bell Jar, mums, my grandma, plant physiology, and more. #compositae garden.smith.edu/news-events/...
Mum Show Opening Lecture
garden.smith.edu
October 27, 2023 at 5:30 PM
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Have you checked out our @chstmorg Working Group yet? Get to know Collection Ecologies by joining our first sessions on 12 October at 18:00 CEST!

Find out what we do, how we think, and who we are! #envhist #envhum #histsci #histknow #Collections

Details: www.chstm.org/content/coll...
October 6, 2023 at 9:44 AM
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The journal Environmental Humanities (which I co-edit) is looking for some new Associate Editors, including new editors for our Living Lexicon series. Applications due by Nov 3. See environmentalhumanities.org for more details.
#envhum
October 2, 2023 at 7:53 AM
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Syllabus from my Carbon Christianities course, Fall 2022.
Carbon Christianity
This seminar investigates the multiple connections between modern forms of Christianity and fossil fuels. The course begins with a consideration of recent scholarship that details how workers' eve...
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September 26, 2023 at 10:20 AM
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Animal studies folks, here’s an announcement for an Assistant Professor of Animal Studies position in NYU’s Department of Environmental Studies. Deadline is October 1st, more details here. Please share widely. apply.interfolio.com/128830
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September 22, 2023 at 12:39 PM
Hey #Plath friends, you gotta come check out this exhibit at Smith College focused on Plath's botanical inspirations for her bell jar metaphor! It's up all year, and I will give you a personal tour. It's beautiful and you get to walk around a plant conservatory.
September 22, 2023 at 12:22 PM