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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹

@yingyingxie.bsky.social
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Plant ecologist at Northern Kentucky University, phenology, biological invasion, species interactions, global change, ecosystems, environmental sciences, data science

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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One of the most beautiful sunsets here. It's still warm like summer and trees are still green.
Golden sunset with beautiful clouds reflected by a pond
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Okay, moon eclipse! the best from my cellphone... 😅🌒 cannot wait for the maximum, have to go to bed as I need to get up at 5:30am🥱
Moon eclipse just starting from the left bottom and the moon is still very bright.
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Waiting 😋
Two pawpaw fruits on the tree with many green leaves. They are still green, not ripe yet.
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My kids got great books from Dolly's Imagination Library and enjoyed them so much! The letter is full of love!❤️🙏
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
www.climate.us/news-feature...
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Climate.us launches independent website for trusted climate information
Built by members of the team behind NOAA’s Climate.gov, the new nonprofit resource is supported in part by more than 2,500 small donations from people who want reliable climate science information to ...
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Nature @nature.com · 18/06/2026
Evidence suggests that AI-driven ‘deskilling’ is starting to happen in medicine, computer science and other fields go.nature.com/4vtwEN1
go.nature.com
Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good
Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 13/06/2026
For those who want to see all the data and not just the 1982-2025 mean compared to 2026, the answer is yes, global sea-surface temperatures are currently at a record daily high. The rise in SSTs represents billions of Hiroshima bombs worth of heat.
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I’m thrilled to be speaking about our project: Ground yourself in green space: Avondale at the 2026 Midwest Sustainability Summit, the keystone event of #CincinnatiClimateWeek! Check out this year’s program! Learn more and register at midwestsustainabilitysummit.org
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Magnolias evolved before bees existed. 95 million years ago, their ancestors shared the planet with the dinosaurs of the Cretaceous, but no bees. So they made a messy partnership with beetles that continues today & it explains why they're such unusual flowering plants. Let's talk about it.
mymodernmet.com
Magnolias Are So Old That They’re Pollinated by Beetles
Why beetles? You'll need to read to beelieve it.
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Indeed another unique spring! As temperature fluctuated between winter and summer, plants have been flowering earlier and faster, and got damaged by hard frost. Red maples and silver maples failed reproduction this spring here. No single well developed winged seed was seen. Never happened before.☹️
Brownish red young fruits of red maple fallen on ground. They were damaged by hard frost so couldn't develop well and just died. This happened to all red maples I've seen this year unfortunately.
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Excited to celebrate tenure and promotion, and the research mentoring award! 😁✌️"How do you have time working with so many students?" "Thanks to my husband!"😉 Of course also the great support from my colleagues, department and NKU!
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Happy Easter from NKU REFS with the hope of #pawpaw fruits🤤. But watch out! It's the time that poison ivy is out almost everywhere😅.
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Perfect day to learn plant #phenology in Ecology lab at NKU REFS today to see how spring ephemerals, shrubs and canopy trees show different life stages in the forest and the difference between native and invasive plants!
NKU students are collecting phenology data for plants. One student is checking a mayapple with a flower bud.NKU students are collecting phenology data for plants. They are checking young leaves of a Ohio buckeye.Amur honeysuckle is having young flower buds now as the tiny green buds at the base of leaf stems.Young leaves are coming out a bud on a Ohio buckeye. They are still dark purple not green.
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Snowed on Monday, then summer comes on weekend... crazy spring weather❄️🌞
A few mayapple come out from ground with young green leaves. Cut-leaved toothwort flowers open.Toad shade dark red flower is open.A few tadpoles are swimming in a wetland verbal pool.
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
So excited to work on this project with our awesome group members!🌳🌲🌿
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Colors of #spring! 🌱🪻🌸🏵 NKU REFS
Male spicebush flowers started to open in northern Kentucky. Springbeauty is ready to open flowers in northern Kentucky. Toadshade came out in the field in northern Kentucky.Many Harbinger of spring started to bloom in northern Kentucky.
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Theresa Crimmins @theresacrimmins.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The @usa-npn.bsky.social team will be celebrating #Pheology Week Mar 16-20 to coincide with the Spring Equinox. Join us for some fun and educational opportunities to celebrate the start of the spring season! www.usanpn.org/news/article...
Graphic describing the USA National Phenology Network's "Phenology Week" celebration, running Mar 16-20, 2026
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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Here comes the year of horse!!!!! Let’s go, fight, thrive!!!! 🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎 #chinesenewyear #lunarnewyear #yearofhorse
Chinese calligraphy in gold saying best luck with year of horse in a red background
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 24/01/2026
I am a climate scientist and this is correct. As the planet warms, storms like the one today are getting stronger… and as the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the mid latitudes, it increases the risk of the “freezer door” swinging open. Technical explanation here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The intensification of the strongest nor’easters | PNAS
Nor’easters are coastal extratropical cyclones that feed upon both thermal contrasts (meridional and land-ocean) and oceanic latent heat release, c...
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Happy New Year! I'm surprised to see springbeauty with flower buds in early January at northern Kentucky. Many are out with young leaves. They are responding to the recent false spring and wasting their energy. Unfortunately they don't know it will be very cold soon. 🙁 #phenology #falsespring
A Virginia springbeauty with green young leaves and flower buds in the field
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
When fall🍁 meets winter💦. After the first snow at NKU REFS on Nov. 11, 2025.
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Some foliage colors at NKU REFS on Oct. 28 2025. More colors are coming.
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Brilliant fall foliage color of red maple, silver maple, sweetgum, and red oak from Cincinnati and northern Kentucky, although it's about two weeks later than expected 😁
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
A spotted cucumber beetle on a New England aster. We are having a really warm #fall.
A spotted cucumber beetle on a New England aster purple flower.
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
After steady rain, hundreds of white Amanita mushrooms come out at NKU REFS, same as last year! Larger than my hand. Have an unpleasant smell when it starts to decay. Are they North America destroying angel, Amanita bisporigera, one of most poisonous fungi? We got so many!😎
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Simon Hedges @simonhedges.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
RIP Jane Goodall Full obituary in NYT, gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
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Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
My favorite season is here. This year would be spectacular!
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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Myth #3: Nature is a (trivial) subset of the human economy Reality: The economy is fully embedded in Earth systems Implication: Undervaluing nature erodes our long-term foundation
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Check our new publication about shifted spring ephemeral pollination window impacted by flowering time, pollinator occurrence, and canopy closure under climate change! #phenology #springbeauty #phenologicalmismatch #climatechange @parklab.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Fig. 1 The window for spring ephemerals’ pollination is constrained by the timing of pollinator activity and canopy closure. Curves represent the hypothetical progression of flowering (pink), pollinator activity (yellow), and canopy development (green) in a forest community through time. Dotted lines delineate the window of time during which pollination can occur. Artwork by Gabriela Sincich.
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Good morning! Palm Springs! Look forward to the field trip! #Botany2025
View of a parking lot at a hotel at Palm Springs CA with some palm trees and flowers in the morning.
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
We should talk about global climate change within the context of human history. We aim to protect humans while protecting the environment. Mother nature will be ok eventually, but NOT us. After replying a post from a climate change denier, I realized I should post here so more people can see (1/5).
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I've never seen this before! Antlered flutter fly. So cool! Is this a mating dance? Yesterday evening at NKU REFS.
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Baby robin! Right in front of my parking space, but I didn't notice until yesterday seeing the mommy robin sitting there. Hope they survive in the heat wave and enjoy the summer! ☀️
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
This evening at East Fork State Park Beach.
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Interesting #fungi! First time seeing these tiny weird fungi. My colleague and I didn't even think they are actually fungi. I said the ones in the first picture look like coral, while iNatualist suggested they are coral slime fungi. Totally make sense! 😆
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Please help support immigrants in Ohio against the discriminatory bills!
Flyer of supporting immigrants in Ohio against the discriminatory bills, HB1 and SB88.
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
NKU REFS Talk & Walk Nature Series events this summer will start next week! Everyone is welcome, including families and friends. Come to enjoy fun with nature science and arts!
Flyer of REFS Talk & Walk Nature Series with a list of all events in summer and registration link and QR code.
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
#Ticks are crazy this year. My kids made a "tick playground" while waiting for me to get back from the fieldwork.😅😬
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Got some fresh #fungi! Driven by students' interests, we started the mushroom survey at NKU REFS last fall. We continued this year and finally got something exciting after the cold weather and severe flooding. Keep learning about them!
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Very cool study using long-term historical documents for biology! Check the beautiful poems if you know Chinese!
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Will report from northern Kentucky and Cincinnati 😀
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Suddenly everything is green including poison ivy 😅
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Happy #EarthDay!
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
The mark of water on the board showed how severe the flooding was at northern Kentucky on April 6th, which put down most of my time-lapse cameras in the field. The spicebush got damaged too as it was totally underwater.
The field station board shows the mark due to severe flooding on April 6th, 2025.A big tree fell in the severe flooding event just beside the spicebush observed for my research. An NKU undergraduate student is getting the damaged time-lapse camera at one of our sites. Leaf damage of a spicebush due to severe flooding. It was totally underwater.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Decades from now, people will pay trillions of dollars every year to get back to the climate that we have today.
nytimes.com
Earth’s 10 Hottest Years Have Been the Last 10 (Gift Article)
A report from the World Meteorological Organization confirms that 2024 was the hottest year on record and the first year to be more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial era.
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
First spring beauty flower seen this year! #spring #phenology
Virginia spring beauty flower
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
First spring beauty flower bud this year! Maples are flowering right now. Invasive plants just start bud break. #phenology #spring
Virginia spring beauty comes out with flower buds.Northern spicebush is ready to bloom soon.Multiflora rose bud breakAmur honeysuckle bud break
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Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Now is the breeding season of amphibians. Unfortunately, poor mice fell in the bucket as a trap in wetland for amphibians. How can we prevent this?
Mating wood frogs and an adult salamander found in a bucket trap.A jefferson's salamander was found in a bucket trap.A mouse was found in a bucket trap.A jefferson's salamander was found in a bucket trap.
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
A call for the United States to continue investing in science 🌐🌾 🧪https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.00648-25
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A call for the United States to continue investing in science | mBio
The U.S. life science research mission is critical not only to human health and understanding the natural world but also to agriculture and food production, technological innovations, socioeconomic pr...
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