Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026One of the most beautiful sunsets here. It's still warm like summer and trees are still green. 010
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Okay, 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🥱 000
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026My kids got great books from Dolly's Imagination Library and enjoyed them so much! The letter is full of love!❤️🙏 010
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026www.climate.us/news-feature...climate.usClimate.us launches independent website for trusted climate informationBuilt 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 ... 000
Reposted by Yingying Xie 谢莹莹Nature @nature.com · 18/06/2026Evidence suggests that AI-driven ‘deskilling’ is starting to happen in medicine, computer science and other fields go.nature.com/4vtwEN1go.nature.comIs AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not goodReliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show. 29871
Reposted by Yingying Xie 谢莹莹Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 13/06/2026For 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. 7360154
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 02/06/2026I’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 120
Reposted by Yingying Xie 谢莹莹c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Magnolias 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.comMagnolias Are So Old That They’re Pollinated by BeetlesWhy beetles? You'll need to read to beelieve it. 181058287
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Indeed 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.☹️ 020
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Excited 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! 1101
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Happy Easter from NKU REFS with the hope of #pawpaw fruits🤤. But watch out! It's the time that poison ivy is out almost everywhere😅. 010
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Perfect 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! 091
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Snowed on Monday, then summer comes on weekend... crazy spring weather❄️🌞 170
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 20/03/2026So excited to work on this project with our awesome group members!🌳🌲🌿 010
Reposted by Yingying Xie 谢莹莹Theresa Crimmins @theresacrimmins.bsky.social · 17/02/2026The @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... 072
Reposted by Yingying Xie 谢莹莹闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Here comes the year of horse!!!!! Let’s go, fight, thrive!!!! 🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎 #chinesenewyear #lunarnewyear #yearofhorse 1332
Reposted by Yingying Xie 谢莹莹Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 24/01/2026I 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/...pnas.orgThe intensification of the strongest nor’easters | PNASNor’easters are coastal extratropical cyclones that feed upon both thermal contrasts (meridional and land-ocean) and oceanic latent heat release, c... 10683296
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Happy 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 151
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 12/11/2025When fall🍁 meets winter💦. After the first snow at NKU REFS on Nov. 11, 2025. 010
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Some foliage colors at NKU REFS on Oct. 28 2025. More colors are coming. 040
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Brilliant 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 😁 140
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 16/10/2025A spotted cucumber beetle on a New England aster. We are having a really warm #fall. 010
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 09/10/2025After 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!😎 030
Reposted by Yingying Xie 谢莹莹Simon Hedges @simonhedges.bsky.social · 01/10/2025RIP Jane Goodall Full obituary in NYT, gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...nytimes.comJane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91 1218
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 02/09/2025My favorite season is here. This year would be spectacular! 020
Reposted by Yingying Xie 谢莹莹The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Myth #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 3219
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Check 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... 1114
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 27/07/2025Good morning! Palm Springs! Look forward to the field trip! #Botany2025 1132
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 11/07/2025We 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). 110
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 03/07/2025I've never seen this before! Antlered flutter fly. So cool! Is this a mating dance? Yesterday evening at NKU REFS. 010
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Baby 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! ☀️ 010
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 16/06/2025This evening at East Fork State Park Beach. 030
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Interesting #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! 😆 020
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Please help support immigrants in Ohio against the discriminatory bills! 020
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 28/05/2025NKU 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! 010
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.😅😬 000
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Got 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! 010
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Very cool study using long-term historical documents for biology! Check the beautiful poems if you know Chinese! 010
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Will report from northern Kentucky and Cincinnati 😀 120
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Suddenly everything is green including poison ivy 😅 040
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 20/04/2025The 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. 030
Reposted by Yingying Xie 谢莹莹David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Decades from now, people will pay trillions of dollars every year to get back to the climate that we have today.nytimes.comEarth’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. 31959322
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 12/03/2025First spring beauty flower seen this year! #spring #phenology 030
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 07/03/2025First spring beauty flower bud this year! Maples are flowering right now. Invasive plants just start bud break. #phenology #spring 030
Yingying Xie 谢莹莹 @yingyingxie.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Now 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? 000
Reposted by Yingying Xie 谢莹莹Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 01/03/2025A call for the United States to continue investing in science 🌐🌾 🧪https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.00648-25journals.asm.orgA call for the United States to continue investing in science | mBioThe 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... 27421