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Julissa Rojas-Sandoval

@harrisia.bsky.social
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tropical biologist interested in plant ecology, biological invasions, conservation, biogeography, anthropogenic disturbance, climate change...

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Julissa Rojas-Sandoval @harrisia.bsky.social · 11h
I am hiring a postdoc to join our research group at UConn! The position will focus on biological invasions and AI. The link below has the full job announcement and instructions for applying jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49... Please share widely!
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UConn Careers | UConn Careers | University of Connecticut
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 19h
"Invasive species had been a major factor in 60% of recorded global animal and plant extinctions," @theguardian.com reports, citing @ipbes.net #InvasiveAlienSpecies Assessment. How biological invasions are addressed is key for protecting biodiversity.
Man wearing a hat walking through a fiel of fresh ground at sunrise.
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Stuart McDaniel @stuartmcdaniel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UF Biology is searching for an Assistant Professor in Plant Ecology, pass it along explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/search...
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University of Florida - Search Results
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
UConn EEB is hiring a tropical horticulturalist for our greenhouses! It's an awesome collection of both research+teaching/public display, and you get to work with pretty amazing folks (I may be biased). Job listing: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49... Closes 10/14! 🌴🌿🌵🌺
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UConn Careers | UConn Careers | University of Connecticut
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Jeremy Van Cleve @vancleve.theoretical.bio · 29/09/2026
My group is recruiting a Ph.D student for Fall 2027! We're a friendly group of mathematically-minded and computationally-inspired biologists studying topics including social evolution, host-pathogen interactions, genetics, and demography. See vancleve.theoretical.bio for more info!
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van cleve research group
Van Cleve Research Group – theoretical evolution & ecology at the University of Kentucky
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Julissa Rojas-Sandoval @harrisia.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I’d be excited to support someone applying for PRFB at the intersection of AI & biological invasions. We have datasets building on our recent ML work on predicting plant invasions, with opportunities in predictive AI, model robustness & transferability. Reach out! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)
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Patrick Favrel @patleon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
#StreetArt by #Akalejandro San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Ecological Society of America @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This morning at #ESA2026 in Salt Lake City, we acknowledged the 2026 ESA Excellent in Ecology (EEE) Scholars! Meet the four members of this year's cohort 🧵
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Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund @gdfcf.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This isn't just a paper about insects. It's a demonstration of what decades of biodiversity inventory, conservation, and scientific collaboration can achieve. Congratulations to Dan & Winnie, the parataxonomists, and all the authors on this remarkable PNAS publication. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
So excited to announce our search for 4 postdocs (funded by the Simons Foundation) who will use genomics to "test how ecological interactions, natural selection, natural enemies, hybridization & environmental gradients shape...tropical tree communities" in Panama: stri.si.edu/story/bci-ev... ...1
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Julissa Rojas-Sandoval @harrisia.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Busy week for the SuperInvaders project! 🌱 Jenna & Alana leading the way on LI-6800 measurements: 228 plants+two light gradients to better understand how invasive & natives respond to light environments. It's been great to have Jenna visiting from Clemson and contributing to our fieldwork efforts!
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Orchid Ecology @orchidecology.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
New free, open-access book (in Spanish): Introducción a la Dinámica Poblacional de Orquídeas — orchid population dynamics from field data to matrix models, Bayesian transitions, LTRE & stochastic simulations, all in R. #rstats #ecology 👉 raymondltremblay.github.io/Dinamica_Pob...
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Introducción a la Dinámica Poblacional de Orquídeas
Libro digital en español sobre dinámica poblacional con ejemplos de orquídeas: modelos matriciales, métodos bayesianos, elasticidad, LTRE, simulaciones y PVA en R.
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Julissa Rojas-Sandoval @harrisia.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Our new paper is out in Ecosphere! 🪻🐝 Network rewiring and species turnover stabilize plant–pollinator interactions across habitats and seasons in dry forests on Caribbean Islands 🦋 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Caribbean Pollination Networks Project-2026
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Curro Molina @curromolina.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
En el Día Mundial de las Abejas, protegerlas es proteger nuestro futuro. Reducir el uso de pesticidas, cuidar sus hábitats y defender la biodiversidad no es opcional. Sin abejas, nuestros ecosistemas y nuestra alimentación estarían en riesgo. 🐝🌼 @ebdonana.bsky.social #WorldBeeDay #SaveTheBees
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Using multiple lines of evidence, we show that feral cats and red foxes are strongly implicated in most Australian mammal extinctions and in the ongoing imperilment of numerous extant species. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a... A large collaborative effort to rebut Wallach and Lundgren (2025).
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Ecological Society of America @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
We are pleased to announce the 2026 cohort of ESA Excellence in Ecology Scholars!🌟 Congratulations to: - Diana Macias - Ana Carolina Prado-Valladares - Lis Regula - Julissa Rojas-Sandoval Learn about them in our announcement: ow.ly/xkmG50Y0MV1
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Julissa Rojas-Sandoval @harrisia.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Year 5 for our Caribbean Pollination Networks project is officially completed! 🌺🐝🦋 New species & interactions as we continue exploring the incredible diversity of Caribbean plants & their pollinators. So much more to learn from these dynamic systems! #TropicalDryForests #PlantPollinatorNetworks
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 27/11/2025
21% of urban falcon deaths are caused by window collisions. 🪟 Birds struggle to see clear glass, adding markings or special films can make windows visible and save lives. 👉 Learn more with Environment for the Americas: www.migratorybirdday.org
Illustration of a peregrine falcon flying into a glass window with text explaining window collisions cause up to 21% of urban falcon deaths. Overlay text reads: Birds Don't See Pane Glass. A Pane in the Glass. Collisions with windows and buildings are a leading cause of falcon deaths. A study in New England found that window collisions caused up to 21% of urban falcon fatalities. Make Windows Visible to Birds. Make windows visible to birds by using special window films. They're easy to apply to windows at home and at work. Find them on our website at shop.environmentamericas.org
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Julissa Rojas-Sandoval @harrisia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
We got the cover! 🎉 Super excited to see our paper featured on the cover of the Journal of Ecology! 🌸 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Cover Picture and Issue Information
Cover image: Hairstreak butterfly (Strymon acis: Lycaenidae) visiting flowers of Coccoloba diversifolia (Polygonaceae) in a tropical dry forest in Puerto Rico. The image highlights one of many intera...
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Network specialization increases plant reproductive success Arceo-Gómez and Carneiro @arceo-gomezg.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Weighted plant–floral visitor networks arranged by plant species partner diversity  and contribution to nestedness  from highest  to lowest.
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Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
🌸 Pollination syndromes are more flexible than we thought! Floral trait importance shifts with season and habitat type for different pollinator groups in Caribbean dry forest🐝 #pollinationecology @harrisia.bsky.social Read more:https://buff.ly/0BONQ68
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Julissa Rojas-Sandoval @harrisia.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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Flowers, pollinators, and the shifting rules of attraction
Julissa Roja-Sandoval, University of Connecticut, discusses her article: Plant-pollinator interactions in a tropical dry forest: Spatiotemporal shifts in floral trait importance When we think about…
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Julissa Rojas-Sandoval @harrisia.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Our latest paper using AI to predict and prevent biological invasions has been featured on UConn Today! today.uconn.edu/2025/10/a-ne... #UConn #AI #Ecology #InvasiveSpecies #GlobalChange @uconngscu.bsky.social
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A New AI-Based Method to Help Prevent Biological Invasions - UConn Today
As the world becomes more interconnected, some plants have benefitted from a greater ease in movement from one region to another, while some have become pro ...
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾
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Julissa Rojas-Sandoval @harrisia.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Our latest paper using AI to predict and prevent biological invasions has been featured on UConn Today! today.uconn.edu/2025/10/a-ne... #UConn #AI #Ecology #InvasiveSpecies #GlobalChange @uconngscu.bsky.social
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A New AI-Based Method to Help Prevent Biological Invasions - UConn Today
As the world becomes more interconnected, some plants have benefitted from a greater ease in movement from one region to another, while some have become pro ...
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Diversity and Distributions @consbiog.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
🌿 Native vs introduced plants: who attracts more #pollinators? In 65 smallholder orchards across #Thailand, native plants supported more specialized #pollinator interactions, while #anthropogenic land use reduced network complexity. 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1111/ddi....
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Katie Langin @klangin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
A week later and prospective applicants are still awaiting the instructions for this year's #NSFGRFP. I checked in with NSF today and was told "I don’t have anything for you at the moment." #GradSchool
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Julissa Rojas-Sandoval @harrisia.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🚨New paper alert! @jappliedecology.bsky.social We developed a ML framework that predicts the invasion risk of non-native species 🌱 >90% accuracy in forecasting invasion success ⚠️ Flags high-risk species 📊 Quantifies uncertainty for better decisions besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Managed honey bees in Tibetan alpine meadows reduce pollination & reproductive success of wild plants, especially those suffering pollen limitation 🐝 Suggests there should be more cautious management of bees & targeted protection 🧪🌎 @erlianggao.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 28/08/2025
This new #RSOS paper explores how Sargassum accumulations can cause severe coastal hypoxia in Puerto Rico: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #oceanography
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Andrea Case @andreacase.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Please share — Michigan State Plant Biology is searching for an Herbarium Director! Tenure stream, open rank faculty position balancing research, teaching, service, and admin responsibilities. Join us! Reach out to me or @emjo.bsky.social with questions! plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
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N.S. Vitek @nsvitek.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 Assistant Professor in Global Change and Disease Ecology at Stony Brook University, Department of Ecology & Evolution. Deadline: October 1. #AcademicJobs #tenuretrack #facultyjobs apply.interfolio.com/171403 (I love being here. Come join!) @stonybrooku.bsky.social
Logo of the Department of Ecology & Evolution at Stony Brook University, consisting of a tree whose roots are a cladogram.
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Julissa Rojas-Sandoval @harrisia.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
🌿That’s a wrap on Year 2 of summer fieldwork for the #SuperInvaders project! Over the past weeks, we surveyed hundreds of native & invasive plants to understand what makes some species super-invaders. Stay tuned for results! 🌱👩‍🔬 @uconngscu.bsky.social @uconn.bsky.social rojas-sandoval.weebly.com
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Julissa Rojas-Sandoval @harrisia.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
New paper! 🌿🌎 @consbiog.bsky.social @uconngscu.bsky.social 🌴 Invasive species, together with land-use change & habitat factors, can significantly reshape native forest diversity, with lasting consequences for biodiversity management & conservation 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Variation in the Composition and Biodiversity of Native Trees in Tropical Forests: Effects of Invasive Species, Topography, and Habitat
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Pedro Peres-Neto @comecology.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
🌿 PhD Opportunity in Biodiversity Sciences 🌿 Join our lab to explore the processes shaping biodiversity across space and time. Competitive stipend, flexible project design, and membership in the vibrant @qcbs.ca network. Montreal | Concordia | MSc/PhD Details: bit.ly/3UCmDMB
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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Network, we are looking for PhD students and Postdocs on evolutionary and ecological genomics in 2025/2026 Join our diverse and welcoming lab at UC Berkeley & HHMINEWS! Check job ads-> www.moilab.science/team/join-us
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M O I L A B - Join us!
Join us! Our lab is based at the University of California, Berkeley, embedded in the vibrant and multicultural San Francisco Bay Area, surrounded by astonishing nature!
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Margarita Lopez-Uribe @mmlopezu.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
🧬 Shift between specialized & generalized diets in #bees is associated with evolutionary changes in their sensory genes. Generalists lose odorant receptors (ORs) and gain gustatory receptors (GRs), while specialists diversify existing genes 🌸🐝 #genomics #pollinators academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...
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Shifts in bee diet breadths are associated with gene gains and losses and positive selection across olfactory receptors
Abstract. Bees are palynivorous insects that vary widely in the number of plant families from which they collect pollen. Their evolutionary history has bee
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Jonathan Tonkin @jdtonkin.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
As the north of the South Island of NZ gets hammered by floods for the third time in as many weeks, now is as good a time as ever to reconsider how we manage flood risk. Rivers need space to flood into. Giving them room to function also brings widespread ecological benefits.
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Giving rivers room to move: how rethinking flood management can benefit people and nature
Restraining rivers through stop banks and channels transfers and heightens flood risks downstream. Allowing them to roam free limits flooding and delivers other ecological benefits.
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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The time has come to value tropical fieldworkers as equal partners. With billions spent on watching forests from space, the skills of foresters and botanists have never been more vital. In our #Nature correspondence we show why - and what needs to change. #GEO-TREES rdcu.be/enT5S
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JPE - Journal of Pollination Ecology @jpollecol.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Methods paper by Ollerton et al. on how to improve data quality of plant-pollinator relationships in large data bases that would be worthwhile to become a standard for pollination research! doi.org/10.26786/192...
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Julissa Rojas-Sandoval @harrisia.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Year 4 of our Caribbean Pollination Networks project is a wrap!🌺🐝🦋 Grateful for all we’ve learned and excited to keep exploring the incredible world of Caribbean plants and pollinators! #pollination #CaribbeanEcology #TDFs
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OneSTOP @onestop-project.eu · 22/05/2025
✨ Invaluable to our community, the @ipbes.net #IAS Report has published the Global Impacts Dataset of Invasive Alien Species #GIDIAS Don't miss out on reading it‼️ #Bioinvasions @eualiens.bsky.social | @guardias.bsky.social
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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Our new paper led by Rachel Carmenta explodes the myth that poverty drives biodiversity loss - we show that it is wealth that has a disproportionate role 🌍 authors.elsevier.com/c/1l3Im6gsyP...
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Functional Ecology @funecology.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
📰Published📰 The role of insularity: plants have few ornithophilous traits but are visited by morphologically more distinct hummingbirds in the Caribbean islands🌺 buff.ly/aLG0JDa 🧪🌍
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The role of insularity: plants have few ornithophilous traits but are visited by morphologically more distinct hummingbirds in the Caribbean islands
Maximillian G. R. Vollstädt, Rasmus D. Jensen, Pietro K. Maruyama, Matthias Schleuning, Francielle P. Araújo-Hoffmann, Marlies Sazima, Jesper Sonne, Taia S. O. Schrøder, Fredrik Møller-Stranges, St…
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
This photograph captures Sir David Attenborough seated outdoors on the rugged terrain of Skomer Island. Behind him, the ocean and coastal cliffs form a scenic backdrop under a clear sky. Sir David, dressed in a khaki jacket and light trousers, looks towards the camera with a gentle expression, exuding a sense of warmth, calm, and wisdom. Around him, puffins can be seen flying and perched on the rocky ground, illuminated in rays of golden sunlight as the sun sets behind the cliffs.
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The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
On this #BugBanterPodcast, @flygirlnhm.bsky.social is our guide to the incredible world of flies! With their many shapes, colors, & weird superpowers, flies do it all, from pest control to pollination! Video w/ captions🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbjT... Audio & transcript⤵️ xerces.org/bug-banter/f...
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For the Love of Flies: The Unsung Heroes of the Insect World | Bug Banter Podcast
Flies are amazing insects that play critical roles in our environment, including pollination, waste disposal, pest control, and as a link in the food web. Flies are greatly diverse in colors, shape, s...
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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The botanist Al Gentry changed tropical ecology and helped create the global science of today. This new article celebrates Gentry's unique innovations, achievements and lasting influence, more than 30 years after his untimely death. rainfor.org/wp-content/u... annals.mobot.org/index.php/an...
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Julissa Rojas-Sandoval @harrisia.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
👇 today.uconn.edu/2025/03/supe...
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Super Invaders - UConn Today
UConn Greenhouses and the UConn Forest serve as living laboratories, where researchers are helping to determine what gives super invaders the competitive ad ...
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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Where will I be in two weeks? ¡La Habana, Cuba! Really excited to be co-organizing this symposium about invasive species at the Congreso Latinoamerica de Botanica with @harrisia.bsky.social (and others).
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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
The singly most important individual action we can all take to halt the climate and nature crises is simply to do *less*. To consume, waste, travel less. I’ve already started, but can do more, and am up for this #NewYearsResolution / #AntiBucketlist for 2025
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