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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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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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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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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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Luke Flory @lflory.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Sketching some research ideas with PhD student Yukti Taneja. Makes sense, right?

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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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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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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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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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Luke Flory @lflory.bsky.social · 12/08/2023

Check out this funded PhD position with Natalie Christian at Univ of Louisville!! It’s the first position related to our new EEID project, also with @meorive.bsky.social, Erica Goss, Keith Clay, Bob Holt, and others. Reach out to Natalie if you’re interested!!

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Luke Flory @lflory.bsky.social · 06/08/2023

Florida sandhill trail run sunrise in San Felasco State Park

Sunrise through pine and hardwood trees in Florida

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Luke Flory @lflory.bsky.social · 05/08/2023

Field research by bike really is the best combo of fun and efficiency. This pic from a couple weeks ago when I was collecting seed from our rural sites for our project on urban evolution of invasive species.

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