Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿

@kristennolting

#NewishPI (Does it ever get easier?!) at Colby College (PUI🔋) | Postdoc @uga_plantbio | PhD @uconneeb | Evolutionary Ecologist & Botanist. I ❤️ plants #plantpeopleFTW, my cats #BayesCats, & women's bball #EveryoneWatchesWomensSports. she/her

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Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· 19d

Fantastic first day at #Botany2026 ! Loved catching up with longtime friends, & meeting new plant friends! #plantpeopleFTW Thanks for being the best botany bud @lestanley.bsky.social 🌵😂🫶

Two people posing like saguaro cacti in front of a backdrop of saguaro cacti

Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· 19d

Same.

Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· 19d

Got into Tucson late last night - so excited about #Botany2026 ! Looking forward to taking pics of ALL the plants & with ALL the plant people over the next few days, but first conference pic had to be of this awesome breakfast spot. Check out Barista del Barrio if you can #PlantPeeps !

Two grilled breakfast burritos set on aluminum foil with red and green salsa, and side of guac. Iced Mexican Hot chocolate latte in the back

Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· Jun 9

#iamabotanist 🌱🫐🥦

Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· Mar 23

In Storrs for the UConn Bball game 🏀🏀🏀 & need something to do pregame, or sticking around another day? Check out the UConn EEB Botanical Conservatory - you will not be disappointed! biodiversity.uconn.edu/uconn_botani... @uconnwbbhighlights.bsky.social @uconnresearch.bsky.social @uconn.bsky.social

Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· Mar 23

My happiest place on earth #WhoNeedsDisney #IAmABotanist #plantsarecooltoo

Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· Nov 10

Today my students learned: how to make a botanist cry #WTF #thinkofthechildren #iamabotanist #botanymatters #plantsarecooltoo

Screenshot of an orchid "arrangement" to be purchased from Walmart for $47.69. The flower petals have been artificially dyed blue ("just add ice!" Is in the description). Added are fern leaves and pine cones to make it look...more planty? More festive? No clue, tbh

Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· Nov 7

I know him!!!!

Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· Oct 31

Happy Spooky Plants Day!!! #HappyHalloween #SpookyPlants #iamabotanist

Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· Aug 1

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Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· Jul 29

Please stop by and check out the super interesting and important research Rebecca completed last summer as an REU working at the Morton Arboretum - her talk is Wednesday, 2pm in the Conservation Bio III session! #Botany2025 Also, help me welcome her to her first Botany meeting!!!

Powerpoint slide with a live oak in a dry streambed with the talk title: "Exploring how water availability influences the size and distribution of the endangered Arroyo Oak". Authors: "Rebecca Wanger, Colby College; Tree Conservation Biology Lab, Dr. Sean Hoban and Ash Hamilton"

Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· Dec 24

While I was out cleaning off the car and shoveling the drive, this monster decided to "help out" by opening his Chewy box and laying out the Christmas Feast for him and his brother. Thanks Bud. Where's my dinner though? 😑😼😹

Long driveway with a car parked at the end, covered in snow.

Brown tabby cat with green eyes staring unapologetically into the camera

Blue bag of Purina One cat food ripped open with kibble pouring out into a cardboard box

Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· Dec 10

Markov the #BotanyCat leaving me little surprises at the bottom of the laundry basket, letting me know he loves, me even on laundry day 😍😂😁

Two white and grey woven laundry baskets in the background. In the foreground an open hand holding a small, yellow cat spring toy

Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· Nov 28

I'm actually pretty proud of this #Plantsgiving lunch 😍 I've had no time or energy to cook as a New Prof this semester, so this was fun to embrace some New England fall flavors and eat some yummy + healthy food! So far I'm at 29 species!

Kale salad with candied walnuts, sliced apples, and blue cheese in a blue pasta bowl, next to a green forward bowl with butternut squash soup topped with cracked pepper.

Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· Nov 28

Happy #Plantsgiving friends! I am behind on my meal prep (per usual) but I did at least do a little prep last night making a butternut squash soup, and YUM. Also, how did I not know how freaking weird and cool nutmeg is! #PlantJoy

Pot of butternut squash soup with a blue spoon. In the forefront of picture, a partially shaved nutmeg seed showing the brain-like coloration typical in this species!

Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· Nov 22

I finally found a good use for my plant plushie prizes!!! I showed them to my students today as an incentive to get a little more competitive about their #plantsgiving assignment, and I think they are motivated :-)

Selfie of a woman sitting in front of a window with yellow curtains. Sitting on the windowsill are various plant stuffed animals. They are potted plants with dangly feet and cute expressions stitched on as faces on the pots themselves

Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· Nov 9

Taking advantage of the sunlight when we can 🐾🥰 These early sunsets in Maine are going to be rough to adjust to though #SolarPowered

Two tabby cats curled up together in the top level of a cat tree, in front of a sunny window. Both are looking at the camera, with smiling eyes

Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· Nov 5

New Office. New Voter Registration. Always supporting Women in STEMM🫶💪🗳️

Selfie of a white women in front of a window with yellow curtains. Woman is wearing a white sweater and a blue shirt which says "Support Women in STEMM". An "I Voted" sticker is stuck up by the collar of the shirt.

Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· Nov 4

Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· Nov 4

Hi #BotanyFriends how we doing?! Here's a pic of my goofball #botanycats freaking out over DST, to help w/ the feels. ALSO: In keeping my brain busy/distracted, I'm working on a #plantsgiving activity for Plant Tax. I know there's a doc somewhere that has more details, if anyone can share?! THX!

Two tabby cats sitting on someone's lap, staring up at the camera with intense "feed me" looks. Tabby in the front has a white bib and white on the nose and face. Tabby in the back is mostly brown/tan. Both look murderous.

Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· Oct 31

I feel like I'm having the exact same conversation about bedtime with this goofy tabby tonight ❤️😂🐾

Close up of the face of a brown tabby cat with white around the mouth.

Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· Sep 23

Doing some scouting for our Plant Walks in #PlantTax this week. Dang, this is such a pretty campus. I'm happy to have the excuse to explore more than I might have otherwise. #PlantJoy

Landscape picture of prairie/meadow. Lots of asters starting to set seed, with some purple and yellow flowers in the background.

Landscape picture over a pond with the Colby Library in the backdrop. In the foreground are a bunch of milkweeds with pods starting to open to release the fluffy seeds

Landscape picture over the pond, with buildings to the left.

Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· Sep 20

Update! Colby College Librarians to the rescue!!! Thanks @mossmatters.bsky.social for the suggestion - it sounds like this benefits the library as well, as they are looking for ways to reduce waste materials! So we're going to try and keep up this exchange 😀🌿🌼🪷💪📰🗞️🤓

1 foot stack of Boston Globe newspapers, with Colby Libraries printed on the front; Headline reads "It's Harris's party as Democrats prepare for battle."

Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· Sep 19

Hello Botanists! What materials do you go to when pressing plants, when newspaper is scarce? My Plant Tax students are kicking butt getting their plant collections together (look at that packed plant drier 😱)! But we're almost out of newspaper!!! @martinebotany.bsky.social @tmariewms.bsky.social

Waist high cabinet with plant presses, with a light below to help dry the pressed plants

Woman with a blue shirt taking a selfie, with an omg face, in front of the waist high cabinet with plant presses, with a light below to help dry the pressed plants

Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· Sep 5

But for real...Look at what we could work with right outside of our building! And this is just a subset of the plant diversity we saw!!! I love that we have these spaces at Colby, and it's not just all the typical pretentious manicured university landscaping 😍 #iamabotanist #plantjoy

Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· Sep 5

Day one as a #NewPI is officially on the books! I'm so so thrilled I get to teach Plant Tax this fall, & really enjoyed taking my students out to one of the prairie patches Colby has on campus for plant observations (legit, this campus is a botanist's dream... At least until when hits 😂🥶).

Woman in a light blue T-shirt with "Colby College" written in dark blue text, taking a selfie in front of a door sign with the text "104 - Kristen Nolting, Assistant Professor of Biology"

Woman in a light blue T-shirt with "Colby College" written in dark blue text, taking a selfie outside in front of a patch of tall prairie plants on campus

A small, empty classroom with lots of windows and about 40 chair desks in yellow and royal blue

Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· Sep 1

New Updates to my BSky Profile & my life I suppose 😱😃! Happy to be back in New England & starting my dream job this week at Colby College! Thanks to everyone who has already sent heartfelt congrats to me - I owe you replies now the dust has settled from my move from GA to ME!!! Is this real life?!

Close-up of a blue folder with the Colby College crest imprinted in silver reading "Colby College 1813 - Lux, Mentis, Scienctia".

Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· Aug 8

Why didn't they have plant plushies when I was growing up?! 😭😂 Picked these guys up as future student prizes in plant tax, but tempted to keep them for me 😁 Pretty good representation of taxonomic diversity too! #iamabotanist #plantjoy #plantsarecooltoo

Six potted plant stuffed animals/plushies. The pots have faces and legs. It looks like a cactus, sunflower, euphorb, crassula, and lily are represented. Along with one unknown pink flower.

Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· Aug 8

Reminded of an invaluable skill I picked up in grad school that doesn't make it to my CV. I'm a car Tetris PRO after lugging around a lot of equipment for international field work. Thx to @noraflora10.bsky.social @tmariewms.bsky.social & @keholsinger.bsky.social for helping with this life skill! 😄

Inside of a car, from the front. Back of the car is packed to the ceiling with moving boxes.

Kristen Nolting, PhD 🌻🌿@kristennolting· Jun 15

Hey #Botany2024 - Forgot your poster, or still need to print? The FedEx Kinko's just down the street from the Amway has you covered. Super easy & helpful, & bonus river view! @tmariewms.bsky.social