Catherine Hulshof
@hulshof.bsky.social
Chicana ecologist and poet. Biodiversidad y cambio climático. Associate Professor. Founder Big Red Pen Grant Review. biodiversityresearchlab.com
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All the Biomass of Earth, in One Graphic
Our planet supports nearly 8.7 million species. We break down the total composition of the living world in terms of its biomass.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Full infographic available here: www.visualcapitalist.com/all-the-biom...
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How to not be swamped by your microclimate data?
The rise of microclimate data may have opened Pandora’s box. Gone are the days of simple bioclimatic variables — now heads spin trying to summarize these timeseries.
A much-needed paper by @krystofchytry.bsky.social:
🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/11/11/h...
The rise of microclimate data may have opened Pandora’s box. Gone are the days of simple bioclimatic variables — now heads spin trying to summarize these timeseries.
A much-needed paper by @krystofchytry.bsky.social:
🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/11/11/h...
How to not be swamped by your microclimate data
Microclimate data are finally finding their way more routineously into ecological models – and rightly so. Hooray for that! The growing availability of in-situ measurements is helping us brid…
the3dlab.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
How to not be swamped by your microclimate data?
The rise of microclimate data may have opened Pandora’s box. Gone are the days of simple bioclimatic variables — now heads spin trying to summarize these timeseries.
A much-needed paper by @krystofchytry.bsky.social:
🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/11/11/h...
The rise of microclimate data may have opened Pandora’s box. Gone are the days of simple bioclimatic variables — now heads spin trying to summarize these timeseries.
A much-needed paper by @krystofchytry.bsky.social:
🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/11/11/h...
Anyone know how to revoke a submission with Wiley's shitty AI system? 6 months with no reviewers? Hellnah.
The new Wiley journal review system is an absolute nightmare. Editorial assistants have been replaced by a clunky, AI-enabled website that makes it harder to find and invite reviewers. Associate editor workloads have increased. I'm not convinced the invitations to reviewers are even going through.
November 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Anyone know how to revoke a submission with Wiley's shitty AI system? 6 months with no reviewers? Hellnah.
Anyone else tightening up that family #budget? Just switched from T-Mobile to Mint Mobile for a $1200/year #savings. DM me if you want the referral coupon. We also cancelled Netflix (gasp). Any other easy ways to save? www.mintmobile.com
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Mint Mobile re-imagined the wireless shopping experience and made it easy and online-only. No stores. No salespeople. Just huge direct to you savings on nationwide phone plans.
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November 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Anyone else tightening up that family #budget? Just switched from T-Mobile to Mint Mobile for a $1200/year #savings. DM me if you want the referral coupon. We also cancelled Netflix (gasp). Any other easy ways to save? www.mintmobile.com
Hey creatives: who do you follow for inspiration? Trying to cut out slop and surround myself with incredible, bold, pie-in-the-sky ideas.
October 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Hey creatives: who do you follow for inspiration? Trying to cut out slop and surround myself with incredible, bold, pie-in-the-sky ideas.
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‘El río no tiene culpa’: la canción de una pareja afectada por la DANA
'El río no tiene culpa': la canción de una pareja afectada por la DANA - Climática, el medio especializado en clima y biodiversidad
Un año después de las lluvias e inundaciones donde perdieron la vida 227 personas, Alejandro y María Laura, artistas afectados por la DANA, lanzan junto a Greenpeace una canción inédita que transforma el dolor en un himno por la justicia climática.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
‘El río no tiene culpa’: la canción de una pareja afectada por la DANA
Come work in Richmond, Virginia. Assistant Professor, Earth Systems Science @ VCU.
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Assistant Professor, Earth System Science, School of Life Sciences and Sustainability - VCU Main Campus, Virginia, United States
Unit: College of Humanit and Sciences MBU
Department: School of Life Sci & Sustainability
Duties & Responsibilities:
The School of Life Sciences and Sustainability (SLSS) at Virginia Commonwea...
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October 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Come work in Richmond, Virginia. Assistant Professor, Earth Systems Science @ VCU.
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No new lab papers. But here's my first try at digital collage from souvenirs I picked up in #Oaxaca #Mexico during the #ATBC meeting. #arte-ciencia #collage
October 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
No new lab papers. But here's my first try at digital collage from souvenirs I picked up in #Oaxaca #Mexico during the #ATBC meeting. #arte-ciencia #collage
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Silvana Estrada's powerful, yet elegant voice finds a way to bend wounds to her will and become whole. n.pr/4oat8DP
Silvana Estrada: Tiny Desk Concert
Silvana Estrada's powerful, yet elegant voice finds a way to bend wounds to her will and become whole.
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October 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Silvana Estrada's powerful, yet elegant voice finds a way to bend wounds to her will and become whole. n.pr/4oat8DP
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This is Portland, Oregon. Photo: Fabian Bimmer. #USA#Trump
October 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
This is Portland, Oregon. Photo: Fabian Bimmer. #USA#Trump
Excited to launch Big Red Pen, grant review services, because NSF funding is only getting tougher, but strong proposals still rise to the top. I have decades of NSF success and 10 years of panel experience. Let’s get funded. #NSF from #GRFP to #CAREER.
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Grant Review — Catherine Hulshof, PhD
NSF grant review consulting for biology, life sciences, and STEM fields from GRFP to CAREER and everything in between
biodiversityresearchlab.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Excited to launch Big Red Pen, grant review services, because NSF funding is only getting tougher, but strong proposals still rise to the top. I have decades of NSF success and 10 years of panel experience. Let’s get funded. #NSF from #GRFP to #CAREER.
biodiversityresearchlab.com/grant-review
biodiversityresearchlab.com/grant-review
"After 55 years, the world’s most ambitious caterpillar inventory will come to a close. This monumental project in ACG has reared 870,000 caterpillars, of 8,000 species of butterflies and moths, and 18,000 species of wasp parasites—all documented by a team that grew to 30 local parataxonomists."
Happy to share our latest newsletter! The latest GDFCF and Area de Conservación Guanacaste news is here: mailchi.mp/54601d57a15d...
Greetings from the Late Rainy Season
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September 26, 2025 at 10:44 AM
"After 55 years, the world’s most ambitious caterpillar inventory will come to a close. This monumental project in ACG has reared 870,000 caterpillars, of 8,000 species of butterflies and moths, and 18,000 species of wasp parasites—all documented by a team that grew to 30 local parataxonomists."
Commemorating Hurricane Maria by working on a manuscript combining remote sensing, soils, and plant traits. Serpentine plant communities are more resilient, and soils are an important (but overlooked) part of the forest recovery story.
September 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Commemorating Hurricane Maria by working on a manuscript combining remote sensing, soils, and plant traits. Serpentine plant communities are more resilient, and soils are an important (but overlooked) part of the forest recovery story.
Absolutely hilarious.
I wrote about the Reiser brothers and their hilarious, disgusting Listers documentary for Slate:
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One of the Funniest Documentaries of the Year Is Streaming for Free on YouTube
Listers is a journey into the dark and cringy heart of one of the world’s most peculiar hobbies.
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September 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Absolutely hilarious.
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It depends on the group. For trees and other woody plants I learnt a lot from Keller's book. link.springer.com/book/9783764...
Identification of tropical woody plants in the absence of flowers
This revised and extended second edition of "Identification of tropical woody plants" is a concise representation of vegetative characters of woody taxa. It presents a unique identification system, pe...
link.springer.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
It depends on the group. For trees and other woody plants I learnt a lot from Keller's book. link.springer.com/book/9783764...
Tropical botanists: what's a good resource for learning neotropical plant families. Gentry is good but not great for newbies. Any recommendations? Online or otherwise? Gracias!
September 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Tropical botanists: what's a good resource for learning neotropical plant families. Gentry is good but not great for newbies. Any recommendations? Online or otherwise? Gracias!
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‘There are people who have everything and have achieved nothing. But then there are people who have nothing and have achieved a lot.’ Wilkin, 12, is growing up in a sugar mill town in the Dominican Republic. Hear his thoughts on joy, poverty and baseball in this video by PDA Films
A neglected Dominican sugar town, as seen through the eyes of a 12-year-old local | Aeon Videos
Wilkin, 12, is growing up in a sugar mill town in the Dominican Republic. Hear his thoughts on joy, poverty and baseball
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September 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
‘There are people who have everything and have achieved nothing. But then there are people who have nothing and have achieved a lot.’ Wilkin, 12, is growing up in a sugar mill town in the Dominican Republic. Hear his thoughts on joy, poverty and baseball in this video by PDA Films
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Puerto Ricans are devising the food system of tomorrow.
Following a history of disinvestment and destructive climate disasters, communities across the archipelago are developing living blueprints of food sovereignty.
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#PR #Disaster #PuertoRico #Food #Farms #Farming
Following a history of disinvestment and destructive climate disasters, communities across the archipelago are developing living blueprints of food sovereignty.
grist.org/food-and-agr...
#PR #Disaster #PuertoRico #Food #Farms #Farming
Puerto Ricans are devising the food system of tomorrow
Following a history of disinvestment and destructive climate disasters, communities across the archipelago are developing living blueprints of food sovereignty.
grist.org
September 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Puerto Ricans are devising the food system of tomorrow.
Following a history of disinvestment and destructive climate disasters, communities across the archipelago are developing living blueprints of food sovereignty.
grist.org/food-and-agr...
#PR #Disaster #PuertoRico #Food #Farms #Farming
Following a history of disinvestment and destructive climate disasters, communities across the archipelago are developing living blueprints of food sovereignty.
grist.org/food-and-agr...
#PR #Disaster #PuertoRico #Food #Farms #Farming
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Couldn't agree more! Descolonicemos los curricula (materias/disciplinas) de nuestrxs alumnxs y presentemos una visión más amplia de nuestra disciplina
September 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Couldn't agree more! Descolonicemos los curricula (materias/disciplinas) de nuestrxs alumnxs y presentemos una visión más amplia de nuestra disciplina
I ditched Ecology textbooks for this reason. Now I use a free OER and build my own 'Scientist Spotlights' featuring the incredible diversity of our discipline. Because if students don't see themselves in a career, how can they be themselves in that career?
Are ecology textbooks representative of ecologists? The question is very much on my mind while updating my own textbook. We have a responsibility to shape the field through inclusion as well as academic content. 🌏🧪
Rethinking the undergraduate textbook as a tool to build a diverse community of ecologists
Recruitment and retention of a diverse scientific workforce depends on a more inclusive culture of science. Textbooks introduce prospective scientists to their chosen field and convey its cultural no...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I ditched Ecology textbooks for this reason. Now I use a free OER and build my own 'Scientist Spotlights' featuring the incredible diversity of our discipline. Because if students don't see themselves in a career, how can they be themselves in that career?
A perfect day: writing, moving, (well time managed) meetings #AcademicChatter
August 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A perfect day: writing, moving, (well time managed) meetings #AcademicChatter
Bonus points for poles that are good for tall tropical trees. 🙏🏼
Botanists! I'm in the market for a new pole pruner (from vendors Grainger, Amazon or Forestry Suppliers)...easy to use for someone who is 5' (not too heavy, single pole not too tall). Any recommendations??? Gracias!
August 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Bonus points for poles that are good for tall tropical trees. 🙏🏼