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University of Stirling Biological and Environmental Sciences @uofstirling-bes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Congratulations to @nigelwillby.bsky.social and colleagues, who have published a new article in Ecological Indicators on macrophyte-based assessment of European #rivers 👏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fig. 1. Geographic distribution of river macrophyte assessment methods used for ecological status classification across EU countries under the Water Framework Directive.

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Nigel Willby @nigelwillby.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Himalayan balsam is remarkably variable depending where it grows, from thin and spindly to truly giant like. These plants growing on river gravels were the short and chunky kind - only 1-1.5 m tall but a whopping 5cm wide at the base @zarahpattison.bsky.social @lizziekeen.bsky.social

Himalayan balsam adult plant with chunky stem

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Nigel Willby @nigelwillby.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

The annual orchid feast on our university campus is the best yet with many hundreds of spikes of common spotted and northern marsh orchids, but I still wasn't expecting to bump into this beauty - Greater Butterfly Orchid. #wildflowerhour

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Nigel Willby @nigelwillby.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Geum x intermedium (hybrid of water x wood avens) going strong near Doune, including some interesting flower mutations #wildflowerhour

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Nigel Willby @nigelwillby.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Globeflower and Mountain Sorrel, Ben Ledi, Stirling #wildflowerhour

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Nigel Willby @nigelwillby.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Sometimes it's your duty, plain and simple #rewilding

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Nigel Willby @nigelwillby.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

The turions (winter buds) of Potamogeton obtusifolius in our pond are now showing signs of life #macrophytemonday

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Nigel Willby @nigelwillby.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

This is the time when wild strawberry 🍓 [left] and barren strawberry [right] flowering overlaps in central Scotland ( F vesca vs F sterilis) #wildflowerhour

Wild strawberry Fragaria vesca and barren strawberry. F sterilis, Doune, Stirling.

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Nigel Willby @nigelwillby.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Seeing awesome stuff like this could damn near get a person into physical geography 😉

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Nigel Willby @nigelwillby.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Pleased to report that the Grand Canyon actually is everything it's cracked up to be.

Grand Canyon, AZ, a very very big 1000m deep hole

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Beaver Trust @beavertrust.org · 25/03/2025

Professor Nigel Willby, @nigelwillby.bsky.social, who co-authored the study, said: “If we want to realise these benefits rather than robbing ourselves of them, we must find better ways to accommodate beavers in our landscapes rather than continually removing their dams.”

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Nigel Willby @nigelwillby.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Comfortably into double figures now in central Scotland with the addition of coltsfoot and primrose, plus dogs mercury and some early wood anemones #wildflowerhour

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Nigel Willby @nigelwillby.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

There's now a heady 6 flowers out in the 'hood. Don't mock, that's a 6 fold increase in the last month, including the first L Celandines and Barren Strawberries I've seen here before March in 26 yrs #wildflowerhour

Gorse, OL golden saxifrage, snowdrops, winter aconite, Barren strawberry, lesser celandine, Doune, Stirling

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Julian Olden @oldenfish.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Invasion ecology is replete with a body of well-supported yet contradictory evidence for numerous invasion hypotheses, likely as a result of context dependency. Just published in DDI we explore the indirect effects & context dependencies in fish invasions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Nigel Willby @nigelwillby.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Reading about new year plant hunts in the south with 60 or 70 odd species may I present pretty much the only plant currently flowering in inland central Scotland 🙂 #wildflowerhour

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Nigel Willby @nigelwillby.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Feeling bereft now I've finished this amazing book. Brilliant and awful in equal measure.

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Nigel Willby @nigelwillby.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Well, that'll be the morning sitting and thinking out the window....

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Nigel Willby @nigelwillby.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Red sky on bluesky. Just stop me here.

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Nigel Willby @nigelwillby.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Sunshine on Leith - out today with Stirling colleagues and @wolct.bsky.social on Water of Leith, Edinburgh to recce sites for our Methods and Applications in Env Science module

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Nigel Willby @nigelwillby.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The number 1 freshwater detective agency lab night oot in (possibly) our second favourite habitat (minus Alice Turner and cofounder @zarahpattison.bsky.social for the night)

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