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Luke Flory @lflory.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

This is both awesome and a bummer. Hope you all got it fixed!

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Luke Flory @lflory.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I agree, it’s coming around!

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Luke Flory @lflory.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Great job! Thanks for making time for the ms revisions meeting

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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 · 22/05/2025

We def need to know more about invasions x other global changes

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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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ALT: a netflix ad shows a woman talking to another woman at a vending machine

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Luke Flory @lflory.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

Thanks Jay! Sorry to miss you.

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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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Luke Flory @lflory.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e... florylab.com Thanks!

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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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Luke Flory @lflory.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

Whaaat? Is the argument that they should spend all their time on their job and education?

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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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