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Luke Flory

@lflory.bsky.social
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Professor and Associate Chair, University of Florida. Community, ecosystem, and global change ecology. Invasive species, climate change, emerging pathogens, urbanization, fire, forest ecology, agroecology. (he/him/his)

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David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Excellent new paper out this week led by former postdoc (now NC State Assistant Professor) @aceraceae.bsky.social. "Local adaptation of both plant and pathogen: an arms-race compromise in switchgrass rust." nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Local adaptation of both plant and pathogen: an arms‐race compromise in switchgrass rust
In coevolving species, parasites locally adapt to host populations as hosts locally adapt to resist parasites. Parasites often outpace host local adaptation since they have rapid life cycles, but ho...
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Luke Flory @lflory.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Interesting response to the Ahmed et al paper: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
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Parallels between biological invasions and human migration are flawed and undermine both disciplines. Response to Ahmed et al.
A recent article by Ahmed and colleagues (2025) attempt to draw parallels and assess distinctions between biological invasions and human migration. This co
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Luke Flory @lflory.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
First lectures and tasting of traditional foods for our study abroad program UF in Croatia: Food and Global Change
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Luke Flory @lflory.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Probably the most extreme growing situation for Erigeron annuus that I’ve seen. There can’t be anything resembling soil up there. Good motivation to continue our work on #urbanevolution of #invaders
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Luke Flory @lflory.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Back in Croatia for another round of our study abroad program about food and global change plus research on #urbanevolution. Found some beautiful new roads thanks to a chance meeting with a new friend Vanja.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 23/05/2025
Hundreds of National Science Foundation staffers turned out for a group photograph to celebrate the besieged agency’s 75th anniversary—despite efforts by NSF officials to prevent the picture from being taken. scim.ag/4jcGpIt
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Is a photo subversive? NSF staff overcome obstacles to 75th anniversary portrait
Management tried to quash outpouring of support for beleaguered agency
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Luke Flory @lflory.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Congrats to PhD student Yukti Taneja for winning the 2025 Nadeau Graduate Research Award!! The funding will be used to advance her work on multiple biotic interactions and plant invasions.
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Luke Flory @lflory.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Our local brewery First Magnitude knows what’s up! Huge supporters of conservation.
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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
My god this is horrifying. 💔
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Jenn Coughlan @jenncoughlan.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
We're hiring an assistant prof in global change ecology! Apply!!! We're vibrant, supportive, and interdisciplinary EEB community! Plz note the weird dates: We're reviewing applications beginning on ✨August 15th✨. I'm part of the SC and happy to answer questions! apply.interfolio.com/164677
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Volker Rudolf @volkerrudolf.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Job opportunity! Excited to share that we have an opening for a research technician position to help with our research on phenological shifts & species interactions in amphibian communities. (please help spread the word!) More details here: emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Research Technician II
Dr. Volker Rudolf’s research groups in the Department of BioSciences are looking to hire a Research Technician II in the field of biology/ecology. The ideal candidate will be comfortable working outdo...
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Dr. Mariana García Criado @nanitundra.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
🌸Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic 🌸 Our new study @nature.com analysed plant diversity change in >2000 tundra plots over 4 decades. We found that plants changed unevenly, mostly driven by warming and biotic interactions. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵 (1/7) 🌐🧪🌱🌍
Illustration of a Greenlandic landscape, showing in the foreground Rhododendron lapponicum on a cliff, with sea ice and icebergs in the background. Illustration by Alberto S. Ballesteros (@asbillustration.bsky.social)
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Robert Fletcher @fletcherecology.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Really excited to share this new article from the lab. We synthesize the profound importance of movement and connectivity for conservation and provide a vision for future policy and management. Let's work toward a well-connected planet for biodiversity and people: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A well-connected Earth: The science and conservation of organismal movement
Global biodiversity targets focus on landscape and seascape connectivity as a foundational component of biodiversity conservation, including networks of connected protected areas. Recent advances allo...
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Luke Flory @lflory.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Wow. Check this out! “…science no longer an obstacle to the justiciability of climate liability claims.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability - Nature
A transparent and reproducible scientific framework is introduced to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel companies, whi...
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Timothy Martin @treephys.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Spring primary growth in N. Florida. These 'candles' are expanding embryonic needles formed last fall in overwintered in buds. In this species (longleaf pine), there is generally only one growth cycle. Other southern pines may undergo multiple cycles in a year.
Pine crowns with expanding shoots against a blue sky.Close up image of an expanding longleaf pine shoot.
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Luke Flory @lflory.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Finished setting up a big new field experiment in Kentucky testing the effects of plant invasion, resources, and microbiome on disease transmission to hemp. #EEID
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Kenichi Tsuda @kenichitsuda.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
A parasitic plant-killing fungus without harming crops. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Sowing solutions: my quest to save Kenya’s maize from a devastating invader
Henry Sila Nzioki has developed a weed-killing fungus to improve food security.
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Fletcher Halliday @fletcher-h.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
As a special Earth Day gift, our new paper integrating decades of related, but siloed research on how changing biodiversity drives plant disease and herbivory is out today in TREE www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Thanks to @idiv-research.bsky.social for supporting our sConsume working group!
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Towards an integrative mechanistic framework for biodiversity–consumer relationships
Terrestrial plant diversity plays a pivotal role in influencing the abundance, diversity, and impacts of herbivores and pathogens (collectively, plant…
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DrZP @zarahpattison.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Orkney’s curlew population back on the rise as charity removes invasive species Source: London Evening Standard search.app/ZdkpD
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Orkney’s curlew population back on the rise as charity removes invasive species
The curlew population had declined by more than 50%, according to statistics obtained by a wildlife charity.
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Dr Ecology 🌲 @ecologyphd.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
🚨 POST DOC 🚨 The Suding Lab at the University of CO - Boulder is recruiting a Postdoc researcher to build on an ongoing project examining grassland fuels, wildfire risk, & management questions. Applications close May 8, 2025. Start date will be before September 2025. 🌎🌾🧪🌱🌿🍁💻🔥📈
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Research Scientist I
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Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com · 16/04/2025
April issue: Review led by Ingo Kowarik that summarises the benefits of urban biodiversity for people and nature, and explores how sustainable, biodiverse urban areas can be developed. 🧪🌎 Web link: go.nature.com/4l4wcQs Readcube: rdcu.be/eh0wE
Illustration of blue-green infrastructure to enhance urban biodiversity.
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Luke Flory @lflory.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Check out this new blog post where lead author Maggie Simon explains our new paper that is out now in @journalofecology.bsky.social jecologyblog.com/2025/04/15/p...
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Plants with higher biomass accrual rates drive infectious disease outcomes in multi-host annual plant communities
Margaret W. Simon, University of Kansas, USA, discusses her article: Fast-growing annual plants drive disease spillover in multi-host communities Infectious plant diseases affect hosts in natural, …
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 15/04/2025
Now there's a memorable stat! "Colleges and universities are among America’s most competitive international exporters. In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined." wapo.st/3EvzMCI
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Opinion | Trump is killing one of our strongest exports
The president wants to balance U.S. trade deficits? He can’t do it without this industry he hates.
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Dr. Elise Gornish @restorecal.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Online panel discussion: Trees in the Grasslands: Three Perspectives. Thursday, April 24, 2025 5:30pm to 6:45pm events.k-state.edu/event/trees-...
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Trees in the Grasslands: Three Perspectives
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Luke Flory @lflory.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Sketching some research ideas with PhD student Yukti Taneja. Makes sense, right?
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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Do you want to work on some cool pandemic expansion questions with me/us? Check this out!
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Corey Bradshaw @conservbytes.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
"... human pressures distinctly shift community composition and decrease local diversity across terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems" The global human impact on biodiversity www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The global human impact on biodiversity - Nature
Key measures of biodiversity were quantified and found to be affected by human pressures that shifted community composition and decreased local diversity across terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecos...
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Joseph Williamson @josephwilliamson.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Great to see our new review on the causes and consequences of tropical insect declines out in Nature Reviews Biodiversity. 🪰🪲🐜🐛🐝🦋 It was a pleasure working with an international team of amazing tropical entomologists! 🧑‍🔬 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Ecological effects of declining insect diversity and abundance.
In tropical forests, declining insect populations will have substantial effects
on plant community dynamics, resulting in reduced biodiversity, alterations to
functional community composition of plants and ultimately reduced nutrient
cycling and carbon sequestration. Reductions in the abundance of insects will
also have knock-on effects on insectivorous animals such as bats, birds and
lizards. In forest-adjacent tropical communities, unequal patterns of decline
across the trophic pyramid will result in a predator release effect on pest species,
leading to reduced food security and increased outbreaks of insect-vectored
disease in both humans and livestock. Increasing temperatures and changing
rainfall patterns may affect pollinators, further exacerbating reductions in yields
of locally and globally important crops. ‘Acquisitive’ leaf traits are those that
maximize growth, such as high specific leaf area and leaf nitrogen content.
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Luke Flory @lflory.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Postdoc Seokmin Kim is tackling data analysis on our longer-term experiment where we’ve manipulated invasion x drought x fire over nearly a decade. 27 sampling points over time for 40 plots and 12 subplots, and evaluating all native and non-native species turns out to be a lot of data!
Postdoc Seokmin Kim explaining longer-term patterns in a figure
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Pedro Peres-Neto @comecology.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Why aren't more researchers publishing in society journals? Two potential reasons: 1) They're often unfamiliar to early-career researchers, and/or 2) they need better promotion, a task for all of us.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
This is so evil.
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Elizabeth Bach @s0il0rgmatters.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Job alert: Research ecologist at University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/researc...
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Research Ecologist - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Job Summary: The mission of the UW Arboretum, which is a center within the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR), is to conserve and restore Arboretum lands, advance restoration ecology,...
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Robert Fletcher @fletcherecology.bsky.social · 04/04/2024
Such an honor to receive the 2024 Distinguished Landscape Ecologist Award from the International Association of Landscape Ecology! This was only possible from the support of so many wonderful students and collaborators over the years.
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Jay T Lennon @jaytlennon.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
Please share: collaborative postdoc opportunity in microbial ecology and evolution at Indiana University Bloomington NSF Biology Integration Institute (BII) on "Genomics and Eco-evolution of Multi-Scale Symbioses (GEMS)”   @GEMS_BII: tinyurl.com/4vyf6erd indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/23270
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Luke Flory @lflory.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
Normalize live music at science conferences! Great opening to the Croatian and International Symposium on Agriculture.
Music group with instruments sung onstage at a science symposium.
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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
Great overview of mycorrhiza in a Tansley Review in New Phytologist by @fmartin54.bsky.social and Marcel van der Heijden The mycorrhizal symbiosis: research frontiers in genomics, ecology, and agricultural application 🧪🌱🦠🍄🌍 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19541
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The mycorrhizal symbiosis: research frontiers in genomics, ecology, and agricultural application
<em>New Phytologist</em> is an international phytology journal owned by the New Phytologist Foundation publishing original research in plant science and its applications.
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Morgan Ernest @skmorgane.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
Looking for a postdoc? This one would be awesome.
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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
REU openings with the SRS Corridor Project to study fragmentation effects on plants and insects! www.brudviglab.com/post/reu-ope...
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Luke Flory @lflory.bsky.social · 20/01/2024
We’re still looking for postdocs for these positions. Note that the position in my lab is for a community ecologist! Experience with invasive plants and disease NOT required!
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Luke Flory @lflory.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
Two new postdoc positions open in disease ecology at the Univ of Florida! Apply to join our exciting interdisciplinary project evaluating how invasive plants may act as conduits for the spread of pathogens from natural to agroecosystems. explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/52...
Microstegium vimineum leaves infected by a Bipolaris foliar fungal pathogen.
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Scott Burgess @scottburgess.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Job Alert: Florida State University is searching broadly for an Evolutionary Biologist (asst prof / tenure track). The Ecology and Evolution group here is an unusually collegial and supportive group (people matter!). Great facilities and resources.   Details: www.bio.fsu.edu/current_facu...
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FSU - Biological Science
Department of Biological Sciences website
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Mike Moore @gypsumbotany.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
The Oberlin College Biology Department is hiring! We seek a Visiting Assistant Professor in Organismal Biology for three semesters, starting February 1, 2024. Details are below--come join us! jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/14655
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, organismal biology
The Department of Biology at Oberlin College invites applications for a full-time non-continuing faculty position in the College of Arts and Sciences. Appointment to this position will be for a term o...
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Anna Allen @akallen10.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
What does an NSF Program Director mean when they say "Send me a 1-pager"? Find out all about it in today's IOS blog post. iosblog.nsfbio.com/2023/10/17/n...
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Need help determining if your project idea is a good fit to an NSF program? Send us a “one-pager.�...
In this blog post, we provide tips and an example template for drafting a one-page project summary you can send to NSF Program Directors to initiate a conversation about your proposed work.   What i...
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Chris Klausmeier @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
MSU's EEB program is looking for one or more asst profs in quantitative ecology or evolutionary biology. Review begins Nov 8, so hurry up and get those applications in! Please repost. careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/51...
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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
I'm looking to recruit a PhD student beginning in Fall 2024 to develop theory and methods for studying genotype-by-environment interactions. We're specifically interested in how GxE is affected by phenomena such as habitat choice. Please share and get in touch ASAP if interested!
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Emily Farrer @emilycfarrer.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
I’m Emily Farrer (EEB, Tulane). I’m recruiting a PhD student for fall 2024 interested in wetland ecology and how plant and microbial communities affect erosion/accretion in the Mississippi River Delta emilyfarrer.wordpress.com
Marsh with standing water and wetland plants including Phragmites australis
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Luke Flory @lflory.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
One of many wildlife overpasses on the highway from Zagreb to the coast in Croatia. Very cool to see, especially for a country with a relatively small economy.
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Christopher Dutton @cldutton.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
Hi! I'm new here. Recruiting PhD and Ms students for Fall 2014 for my new lab at UF. My lab is interested in exploring the microbial linkages between Ecosystems and Animals/Humans. Current funded projects in Kenya and Florida. Open source, DIY, automations. Plz share and reach out if interested.
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Luke Flory @lflory.bsky.social · 27/08/2023
Agreed! One of the best thing about that old site was it was a daily digest, explanation, and discussion of new papers that had been published. Please post about new papers!!
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