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Dr. Holly P Jones @dochpjones.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For this week’s #WednesdayWildflowers I’m back at Nachusa. I was helping MSc student in the lab Ana collect functional trait data today. Prairies are yellow and purple right now with asters and goldenrods blooming. First up my favorite aster, Silky Aster, Symphyotrichum sericeum. 🧪

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Dr. Holly P Jones @dochpjones.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am THRILLED to announce Dr. Reg Francia's publication from her dissertation work, published in @restorationecology.bsky.social today. Title: Are Restoration Benefits Distributed Equitably across the United States? #OpenAccess 🧪 onlinelibrary-wiley-com.auth.lib.niu.edu/doi/10.1111/...

Are restoration benefits equitably distributed across the United States?
Regina Mae Francia1,2,3 , Erin G. Rowland-Schaefer1,4 , Alicia J. Foxx2,5 , Samantha Rosa6 ,
Amelia G. Renner2,7, Evelyn W. Williams8 , Holly P. Jones1,9

Abstract
Introduction: Global restoration initiatives call for the consideration of marginalized communities in restoration decisions and goals.
However, the extent to which marginalized communities benefit from restoration has not been studied at scale.
Objectives: In this meta- and geospatial analysis, we sought to determine the number of restoration projects implemented in marginalized
communities across the United States and how restoration benefits vary across community-level socioeconomic characteristics.
Methods: We screened and mapped restoration projects published in the academic literature since 1990 and examined the impact of
restoration on communities across different socioeconomic statuses.
Results: We found that studies quantifying ecological restoration benefits were conducted at restoration sites in neighborhoods that
were more White, affluent, and educated than the national average. We found that benefits accrued did not differ by socioeconomic
characteristics.
Conclusions: Our results suggest that marginalized communities in the United States receive the fewest benefits from published restoration
work but would benefit more from increased investment.
Implications for Practice: Restoration science can be a tool to repair inequities through a distributional equity approach if practitioners
and scientists explicitly integrate equitable distribution of benefits as a restoration goal. The long-term success of restoration efforts
starts with the contextualization and consideration of the social and economic history of place and people in areas where restoration
sites are located. Thus, marginalized communities should be considered during the developmental stage of research (i.e., defining goals
and site selection) to serve and inc

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Dr. Holly P Jones @dochpjones.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Really stoked for the morning plenary today at #WSC4 where we’re learning about how Indigenous knowledge and culture is driving seabird conservation today - something way too often ignored by Western science. 🧪

Echoes of the past: How indigenous knowledge and culture is driving seabird conservation today

Panellists
Alanna Smith (Cook Islands)
John Lamaris (Papua New Guinea)
Jennifer Lavers (Canada)
Peter Allen (Australia)

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Dr. Holly P Jones @dochpjones.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This week’s #WednesdayWildflowers is coming to you from the World Seabird Conference in Tasmania. #WSC4 🧪 1. Southern rhododendron, Rhododendron ponticum 2. Australian tree fern, Dicksonia antarctica. Ok I know this is not a wildflower but tree ferns are so cool I couldn’t resist.

Southern rhododendron, Rhododendron ponticum

Australian tree fern, Dicksonia antarctica

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Big new @adriftlab.bsky.social paper - we show for the first time that plastics affects seabirds at the POPULATION level. Plastic ingested as a chick reduces recruitment of birds to the breeding population. And the story is pretty grim. 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Daniel S Helman, PhD @helmandaniel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

NSF is consolidating its geoscience research grants into a new program, GEOcore and reducing annual grants to $110 million total in 200-350 awards. Typical was about $300 million in 1,200 awards. Not including institutional grants ($1.3 billion/yr) and those may be gone. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

nsf.gov

Geosciences Core Research: Atmospheric, Geospace, Earth and Ocean Sciences (GEO Core)

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Dr. Holly P Jones @dochpjones.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Killer talk by Drs Lavers and de jersey of @adriftlab.bsky.social. They did a meta-analysis of plastic impacts to Sable shearwaters on Lord Howe. They used data from 20+ datasets collected over 15 years on 90-day old chicks. They found at low plastic levels there are major impacts. #wsc4 🧪

Surviving as a scientist
• 61% experience distress due to climate change
• 74% of students/postdocs experience academic bullying add
• 40% of university lecturers are bullied at work easy
• **Odds are, these issues are affecting the person sitting next to you right now**
• Yet, dedicated conference program slots on bullying/ecogrief are rare Posed.
- So, let's talk about it (2031 WSC program)

Take-home messages:
Progression: local physical damage to whole-body physiological disruption
Exposure: many changes detectable at small plastic loads
-Long before visual signs appear!

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Dr. Holly P Jones @dochpjones.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Graeme Taylor f New Zealand gave a nice plenary yesterday at #WSC4 yesterday, telling us about his long term research on gadfly petrels and efforts to protect and list them internationally. 🧪

What are Gadfly Petrels?
There are 35 Pterodroma sop, and Pseudoowth Spp
Pterodroma has the most species of all seabird genera
• 13 or the soecies are contined to a single island and 10 curs spoties are enemic to one country
The Pacific Ocean has the most diverse tuna
• 27 spo. in Pact, Atlantic has 10 spp, and indun Ocean has 8spp
Red list status for the group:
6 Critically endangered, 7 endangered, 12 vulnerable (total of 64% threatened,
7 near threatened and the rest least concern

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Dr. Holly P Jones @dochpjones.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm excited to be in Hobart for the World Seabird Conference this week but hoo boy 28 hours of traveling has me upside down. Pretty excited to see colleagues, meet new ones, and check out Australia's oldest pub and learn some stuff about birbs! 🧪 #WSC4

Hape & Anchor Tavern
Oldest Licensed Pub In Australia Circa 1807

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Dr. Holly P Jones @dochpjones.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

For today’s #WednesdayWildflowers I’m back at Nachusa where I spent some of this hot morning picking seed for a savanna restoration. I have two species and then a photo back out in the prairie that illustrates the amazing diversity of native legumes at Nachusa. 🧪

Photo of a lot of Baptisia alba and Rudbeckia subtamentosa

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Dr. Holly P Jones @dochpjones.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I enjoyed the afternoon plenary of #SERE2026 today. The speaker (who I’ll name once the conference website works for me again) talked about the long history of restoration and conservation actions in France. 🧪

Middle age: rescurce conservation
Between 1289 and 1326, 4 cedinances on the regulation of liver fishing promulgated by Philp Leßel and successors because of the "depletion of river stocs" the objective is to ensure that "rivers and streams an restored to their former state"

Middle age: resource conservation
Other ordinances focused on forest explotation
In 1346 the Brunoy ordinance, by Phippe de Vaicis arms at conserving forest resource and creating a whole Institution to manage forest, waters and fishing in the royal lands

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Dr. Holly P Jones @dochpjones.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My kind of #FindThatLizard!! An easy one!! Love that these kiddos were out catching bugs and looking at lizards 😍

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Marília Horta Jung 🇵🇹🇪🇺🇨🇿🇺🇦 @phytophthorarc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Lovely place! Could you spot the parasitic Cuscuta?

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Dr. Holly P Jones @dochpjones.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This week’s #WednesdayWildflowers are not f Nachusa bc I’m at #sere2026 in France. It’s field trip day! In the Crozon Peninsula, we got to see a restoration project which essentially used short fences to reduce trampling on these sensitive coastal habitats. First: Erica ciliaris, Ciliated Heather

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Travandboo @travandboo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Her website is crashing from donations. If that isn’t the most beautiful thing, I don’t know.

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Dr. Holly P Jones @dochpjones.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Bad ass alert! Christel Vidaller giving a talk entitled “Assessing both sides of pastoralism from degradation to restoration: toward an experimental observatory” while wearing her baby! #sere2026 🧪

Title slide and Christel wearing the baby

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Mark Robins @byhedge.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Expect some v week plans - like the Irish one. Politicians and willing civil servants can be experts at dragging these commitments out, doing the very least, undermining actions with weak budgets etc.

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Dr. Holly P Jones @dochpjones.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

First plenary speaker for #sere2026 is Angelika Rubin who’s outlining the EU Nature Restoration Regulation (NRR). They have codified restoration into law!

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Dr. Holly P Jones @dochpjones.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The #sere2026 opening ceremony is so full it’s standing room only. Someone in there needs to stream it for us slackers that arrived fashionably late.

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Dr. Holly P Jones @dochpjones.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

By this @afroherper.bsky.social means it will be easier than normal. Maybe it will be the 4th time or so that I’ll #FindThatLizard! 🧪

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Dr. Earyn McGee @afroherper.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Just finished working on this week’s #FindThatLizard 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿 @dochpjones.bsky.social I think you’ll be pleased with this one!

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Stephen Murphy (smurph) @smurph.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Regarde Brest France @dochpjones.bsky.social et moi sommes dans ton visage at Society for Ecological Restoration Europe's (#SERE2026) conference. Come and say Bonjour.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 24/08/2026

🚨WARNING🚨 Today is the LAST DAY to leave your public comment on the NSF Proposal. The Proposal implements some of Vought's Science-Destroying OMB Proposal plans in advance: zurl.co/9nywR Leave your public comment TODAY using our guide & tool: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/Pro...

fight2win.standupforscience.net

Stand up for Science

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Dr. Holly P Jones @dochpjones.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Excited to be in France for the Society for Ecological Restoration Europe conference in Brest! Come check out our workshop Tue at 11:15 in room S4: W13 - Counting what counts: Building consensus toward a shared, universal set of restoration outcome measures in the Anthropocene #sere2026 🧪

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Dr. Holly P Jones @dochpjones.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I mean…no. Our kids are pretty good students and are at the age where I feel like if they have trouble, it’s up to them to engage w the teachers. And last year was pointless.

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Dr. Holly P Jones @dochpjones.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

After a couple years hiatus due to getting off Twitter and taking a while to find myself here, I can confirm that I am still absolutely garbage at #FindThatLizard. Even with the circled spot I struggle to see it 😂

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Dr. Holly P Jones @dochpjones.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I’m on #sabbatical this fall, which gives me a bit more free time to decompress from the last 7 years since I had my first one. Most Wednesdays I’ll head out to the local field site we work in, Nachusa Grasslands, to reconnect with the people and land there. I’ll call it #WednesdayWildflowers 🧪

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Flor Yannelli *typo queen* 👽🌱🪁(she/her/ella) @floryannelli.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I am about to submit a proposal related to this gap of knowledge in species interactions. We really don't know much about it and it is essential to restoration success 💙

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Dr. Holly P Jones @dochpjones.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I bet you're all just sitting there wondering how bison and #rxfire shape small mammal and invertebrate seed removal, right? Well do I have great news for you! Our paper about how this plays out at Nachusa Grasslands in Illinois came out today! 🧪besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Society for Ecological Restoration @serestoration.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The SER2027 Call for Proposals is now open. Help shape the 12th World Conference on Ecological Restoration in Lisbon by organizing a symposium or leading a training course. Submissions close 4 October 2026, reviewed on a rolling basis. Submit: ser2027.org/call-for-proposals

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Nick Graham @nickajgraham.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Jason Arday was subjected to a racially driven witch hunt. Far worse accusations or even confirmed cases of academic misconduct have received scant media attention. There should be an inquiry into media behaviour, bias and ethics. This can’t go unaccounted or happen again www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead

His family said it was "in shock to have lost this amazing father, partner, brother, uncle and son" after the academic was found dead in London on Friday.

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Dr. Holly P Jones @dochpjones.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

May Jason Arday find the peace the racist white media never gave him. RIP.

The White-owned, mainstream media published 249 articles in 22 days on Jason Arday, according to data from NewsCord, a UK media watchdog.

By comparison, in 2024, in the weeks after the then newly released Epstein files showed long-standing ties between Epstein and Peter Mandelson, former UK Ambassador to the U.S., the UK media mentioned Mandelson 119 times, NewsCord found.

In 2023, only the Financial Times covered extensively that William O’Reilly, a White Cambridge professor, was found guilty of plagiarism. All told, a Black Cambridge professor endured 249 times more media coverage for an accusation of plagiarism by a known racist propagandist than a White Cambridge professor found guilty of plagiarism.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The NIH just released a proposal that will apparently hide peer reviewers’ impact scores and percentiles from the research team, their institution, and NIH program officers. All the better to obscure how funding decisions will be made primarily via political review, I’m guessing.

grants.nih.gov

NOT-OD-26-088: Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer Review

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer Review NOT-OD-26-088. NIH

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Dr. Holly P Jones @dochpjones.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

#Vegapalooza 2026 is in the books! 2.5 days 180 0.25m2 plots 8 scientists 100+ species 1 tick Much tick trefoil 0 bison delays! This is the biennial lab extravaganza where we identify all the plant species in our long term research plots at Nachusa Grasslands. 🧪

Crew in the field using quadrats for face frames.

A field of Baptisia alba (wild white indigo) with Rudbeckia subtomentosa (sweet brown eyed Susan) in the foreground.

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 13/07/2026

Holy COW. Text analysis of comments on the OMB rule: overwhelming opposition, overwhelmingly not form letters. (But 9 in 10 comments supporting the rule ARE form responses, LOL) Whatever happens next, folks have stepped up.

Screenshot text: Between May 29 and July 9, roughly 51,000 comments were posted to regulations.gov (and over 200,000 more had been received but not yet published). The verdict on public sentiment is clear and lopsided: about 94 percent oppose the proposed rule and only 6 percent support it, with fewer than one percent marked as unclear. The opposition is overwhelmingly grassroots rather than orchestrated. Form letters make up only about 16 percent of all comments (roughly 8,400 comments across 210 distinct campaigns), and only about one in eight opposing comments came from a form-letter campaign. Support for the rule, by contrast, was almost entirely organized: nearly nine in ten supportive comments (about 2,500) came from a single form-letter campaign. Opponents mostly wrote their own comments; supporters mostly signed the same form-letter.

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Dr. Holly P Jones @dochpjones.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Completely dating myself here but all I think of when I hear this is the movie Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead...

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

PHASE ONE of our fight against the OMB rule is complete and YOU ALL SHOWED UP!!! HALF A MILLION COMMENTS is WILD. We absolutely exceeded our goal of 100,000! So, what happens next??? Welcome to PHASE TWO: Pressure and Preparation! 1/x

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Ecol. Solutions & Evidence | Applied Ecol. Resources @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Hey it's @dochpjones.bsky.social again giving you a roundup of the great talks I saw today at #NACCR2026, the joint conference between @scbnorthamerica.bsky.social and Society for Ecological Restoration. 🧪

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Flor Yannelli *typo queen* 👽🌱🪁(she/her/ella) @floryannelli.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

POV me faking to be asleep on a Sunday morning so my kids let me alone for a bit longer

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Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

A regular Snakespearian actor right here

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Flashing back to being a kid and wondering why my parents somehow knew I was awake when I was trying *so hard* to pretend to be asleep

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Armed Snail @pourdecision.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

humans: snakes are scary snakes: a human looked at me I'm ded

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RAAAAAAHHH-dish Doodles 🔪 @radishdoodles.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Me during the heatwave

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Dr. Holly P Jones @dochpjones.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

And the award for best dramatic actor in a field setting goes to….this absolute drama queen 🤣 🧪

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Ecol. Solutions & Evidence | Applied Ecol. Resources @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

First talk is by PhD Candidate Monica Lasky about how giraffes shape trees. They found a few tree species were stuck at giraffe feeding height (i.e. kept short so they could eat them) and a mix of shapes of tree species in response to giraffes. So, as always in ecology, IT DEPENDS :) #NACCR2026 🧪

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Ecol. Solutions & Evidence | Applied Ecol. Resources @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Next up is Spencer Schubert from the Applied Ecological Institute on a global survey of orgs enabling companies saying they'll plant trees with any given purchase to plant those trees. Orgs say they are measuring tree survival and jobs dataa, but they don't actually report that often. #NACCR2026 🧪

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Ecol. Solutions & Evidence | Applied Ecol. Resources @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

They made a super cool tool to identify which orgs are doing things transparently and with accountability! Check it out. orgs.reforestation.app #NACCR2026 🧪

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Ecol. Solutions & Evidence | Applied Ecol. Resources @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Next up is Meghan Midgley from @mortonarboretum.bsky.social telling us about the impacts of brush pile burning on plants and soils in Chicagoland savannah sites. Burn scars yield a nitrate pulse, then drop off and an increase in phosphate, pH, and decrease in microbial biomass. #NACCR2026 🧪

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