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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cycling is one of family’s fav sports. We made a pilgrimage to Montreal to see the men’s and women’s road race. Epic. Even though Wout didn’t win on Sunday, we had a GREAT time.

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Week-long family vacay. Off to Victoria today!

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Vancouver, you sure are pretty!

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky in your camera roll.

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This is an alvar community - lichen and moss crusts right on top of bedrock. There are also Jack pines and heaths growing in just a few cm of “soil”. (It is mostly organic, not mineral.) fascinating place.

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Wrapping up a wonderful week of work establishing a #CrustNet node in northern NY.

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I wrote an OpEd for my local paper about the importance of restoration- including tree removal - for biodiversity of a very unique habitat. #PineBarren 🌎 🧪 🦋 🌲 www.dailygazette.com/opinion/gues...

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Status update: Chilling in Santa Cruz. Ah, sabbatical…

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Ahhh, Week 2 of sabbatical. Chilling in Toronto visiting our daughter for a few days. Starting west today to spend the rest of the spring in Santa Cruz.

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Costa Rica, what an amazing trip. #PuraVida indeed!

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I’m in my happy place. (Santa Cruz, CA)

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Super fun day sampling leaves of red maple trees in Schenectady, NY for my student’s @unioncollege.bsky.social thesis about genetic diversity of urban trees.

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

My dog is a pretty effective seed disperser today!

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

No surprise, lots of non-native spp. in CA, forests of GreatLakes, the SE coast, and NE forests. But there were some gaps, too - Great Plains have highest "observation deficit" of abundant non-native spp.

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

It flips the "dimensions of rarity" on its head, to consider "dimensions of commonness": range size, habitat specificity, and local pop. size. Lots of spp. met at least one category; many all 3!

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

New paper from Bethany Bradley (and many others incl. me): "A quantitative classification of the geography of non-native flora in the US." Besides maps of abundance, it also ID's high-risk species and ecoregions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Bioinvasions 🧪🌎

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Four @unioncollege.bsky.social students presented their research at the conference for the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social. What a great time!

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Day 1 with our new pup! Started the drive from CA to NY. So far, so good!

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I'll close with this amazing music/dance performance at the closing fiesta. I'm sorry, I didn't get the name of the artists, but they were amazing!

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Day 7 in Havana, my last one. The XIII Congreso Latinoamericano de Botanica wrapped up with a final day of great talks and a party at the Havana Botanical Garden. What a wonderful week! Really inspiring to see the work going on to document and appreciate the amazing biodiversity in this region.

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Day 6 in Havana, and besides taking in the Congreso Latinoamerico de Botánica, we also visited the amazing Fábrica de Arte Cubana. It is a former sugar factory, transformed into a multimedia art space. Paintings, photo, design, music...Wonderful!

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Day 5 in Havana, took in talks in the morning, then went to a fantastic public local artistic wonder, Fusterlandia. It is like a cross between Gaudí and Dr. Seuss with a little bit of Picasso thrown in. We met the artist too!

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I personally spoke of combining local lists of priority species in the Caribbean to make a regional list. We have identified potential future threats for various locales. As an aside, this was my first talk ever in Spanish!

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Day 4 in Havana, and this was our #bioinvasions symposium day! A great turnout with a very diverse audience from many countries and systems. Invasions in high mts., new checklists for regions or countries, the ecophys. of some impactful invaders, etc!

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Very excited as today is our Symposium about #Bioinvasions in Latin America!

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Day 3 in Havana, the Latin American Botanical Congress started today! Lots of great science. Opening dinner too at the National Botanical Garden. That was quite a party! 🌱🧪

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

One more thing about Ramona - she has a genus named after her! Ramonadoxa cubensis.

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Day 2 in Havana. I had the pleasure to meet (in person) Cuban botanist Ramona Oviedo Prieto. We published a paper together a few years ago, but only now met in person!

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Day 1 in Havana, Cuba! I am here for the Latin American Botanical Congress. More on that later. Today I visited Old Havana.

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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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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I think Duolingo is spying on me…

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

To sum up, exotic species can exert legacies that influence the pathways of restoration even long after their removal. Efforts to restore ecosystems are served by considering their effects early on to manage their influences.

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Tree removal areas are missing woody shrubs like blueberry and oaks that are characteristic of these barrens. But there was also a lot of progress - ecosystem structure has largely recovered, and the population of rare and threatened species like the #KarnerBlue butterfly are healthier.

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

This study took place at the lovely Albany Pine Bush Preserve, a globally rare pitch pine scrub oak barren. Fire suppression led to the invasion of the N-fixing black locust trees. Since 1999, staff have been removing the trees to return conditions to the open canopies that support diverse wildlife

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

How will biodiversity respond to efforts to mitigate C emissions? Smith et al. in @science.org document that vert. biodiv. benefits from (natural) reforestation. BUT, planting biocrops, while it reduces climate change, hurts most species bc they lose habitat. 🧪🌎 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

NEW PAPER! #EnvironmentalJustice demands equal access to #EcosystemServices. We found a legacy of #Redlining in #Schenectady, NY. Redlined areas have fewer, smaller trees and they are less diverse. BUT, recent plantings are improvingl! 🌎🧪 #UrbanEcology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

View of an urban tree-lined street versus one with fewer trees

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Here is our puzzling so far...

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Harvesting fog water in dry California? Hey, that sounds familiar! I did that to study how coastal prairie plants use fog as a water source. www.sfchronicle.com/weather/arti...

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Still time to submit an abstract! Symposium: Status and challenges of #bioinvasions in Latin America and the Caribbean. Congreso Latinoamericano de Botanica, Havana, Cuba March 10-14, 2025. Abstract deadline Dec 1!

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Lovely late fall day for some field sampling. That's my student Andrew, who is studying how brush hogs might compact soil. This is "after".

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

My colleague with the scariest possible Halloween costume! 🧪

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

My colleague with the scariest possible costume!!

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Excited to announce the 2024 #UnionCollege Winter EnvScience Seminar Series "Biodiversity: The other environmental crisis" with TNC's Jessica Ottney Mahar, NY DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos, and Dr. Shahid Naeem (Columbia U). All talks free and open to the public. 🌎🧪

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

Her point - mine too - is that yes, things could get really bad. But technology and the economy are really helping.

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