David J Gibson
@davidjgibson.bsky.social
Writer, retired academic, botanist, and plant ecologist. Passionate about #prairies. ☕️🏊♂️🏃🚴✍️. Latest 📕Planting Clues: How Plants Solve Crimes.
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Shanya's Saga is now published! 🍾🎉🎉
Following the struggles of a woman scientist, it's a dystopian sci-fi biomedical thriller with some romance.
Available in print and as an ebook, everywhere. A great Holiday gift.
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Following the struggles of a woman scientist, it's a dystopian sci-fi biomedical thriller with some romance.
Available in print and as an ebook, everywhere. A great Holiday gift.
shorturl.at/eD9CS
amzn.eu/d/5Vtlbso
a.co/d/eGir2ZQ
Publication alert. Just accepted @jpecol.bsky.social
Li, K., Y Wang, X Wang, BS Foster, AJ Wood, DJ. Gibson, G Li.
Li, K., et al. Increasing precipitation exacerbates the negative effect of nitrogen addition on diversity of semi-arid steppe early in the growing season.
Congratulations Kunyu! 🎉
Li, K., Y Wang, X Wang, BS Foster, AJ Wood, DJ. Gibson, G Li.
Li, K., et al. Increasing precipitation exacerbates the negative effect of nitrogen addition on diversity of semi-arid steppe early in the growing season.
Congratulations Kunyu! 🎉
Helpful non-fiction books for crime fiction #writers.
Written by forensic and crime experts and specialists, they’re useful for research and for getting crime scenes, police, forensic procedures and details right.
#authors #amwriting #writerscommunity #crimefiction #Books #BookSky #CrimeWriters
Written by forensic and crime experts and specialists, they’re useful for research and for getting crime scenes, police, forensic procedures and details right.
#authors #amwriting #writerscommunity #crimefiction #Books #BookSky #CrimeWriters
Thanks @scotlandyardcsi.bsky.social for the shoutout!
#authors #amwriting #writerscommunity #crimefiction #Books #BookSky #CrimeWriters #forensics #botany #plants
#authors #amwriting #writerscommunity #crimefiction #Books #BookSky #CrimeWriters #forensics #botany #plants
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Helpful non-fiction books for crime fiction #writers.
Written by forensic and crime experts and specialists, they’re useful for research and for getting crime scenes, police, forensic procedures and details right.
#authors #amwriting #writerscommunity #crimefiction #Books #BookSky #CrimeWriters
Written by forensic and crime experts and specialists, they’re useful for research and for getting crime scenes, police, forensic procedures and details right.
#authors #amwriting #writerscommunity #crimefiction #Books #BookSky #CrimeWriters
Using Local Seeds In Prairie Restoration—data support the paradigm
Choice among local, non-local, and cultivar seeds for restoring native ecosystems is not purely an academic question—it also has practical consequences.In this article we summarize a series of genetic...
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For example, here's an old paper from the lab led by Danny Gustafson.
#restoration #prairie #grassland #seeds
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#restoration #prairie #grassland #seeds
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Can native UK seeds survive - and thrive - in a changing climate?
Why our native grassland seeds - stored, studied and supplied by our Millennium Seed Bank - are able to support restoration in a warming UK.
www.kew.org
It's good to see the 'seed source matters' issue for climate change informed restoration being looked into for UK native plants by Kew @rbgkew.bsky.social.
We've been looking into this topic for big bluestem (Andropogon gerardi) in US tall grass prairies.
www.kew.org/read-and-wat...
We've been looking into this topic for big bluestem (Andropogon gerardi) in US tall grass prairies.
www.kew.org/read-and-wat...
New Year Plant Hunt reveals influence of rising temperatures on British and Irish flora
The New Year Plant Hunt, co-ordinated by the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI), is a survey recording plants in flower around New Year’s Day.
www.metoffice.gov.uk
#Climatechange evidence in your back garden. Great work @bsbibotany.bsky.social
New Year Plant Hunt reveals influence of rising temperatures on British and Irish flora.
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New Year Plant Hunt reveals influence of rising temperatures on British and Irish flora.
www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
Academic frustration…
Journal Editor: your study is within scope for the Special Issue, please submit.
Me: Great, here it is.
Reviewer 2: The paper is out of scope.
Handling Editor: Reject.
Me: Huh?
Journal Editor: your study is within scope for the Special Issue, please submit.
Me: Great, here it is.
Reviewer 2: The paper is out of scope.
Handling Editor: Reject.
Me: Huh?
Starbucks corporate #greenwashing
It’s difficult for me to accept #Starbucks argument that buying bottled water is a good thing.
It’s difficult for me to accept #Starbucks argument that buying bottled water is a good thing.
David J Gibson
@davidjgibson.bsky.social
· Dec 14
Why we edit proofs...
because the author of the chapter probably didn't mean to say, "prostate plants".
#ImABotanist
because the author of the chapter probably didn't mean to say, "prostate plants".
#ImABotanist
David J Gibson
@davidjgibson.bsky.social
· Dec 12
Routledge Handbook of Grasslands
This comprehensive handbook represents a definitive state of the art overview of grasslands from multiple, interdisciplinary and global perspectives.
Despite the real and intrinsic values that grassla...
www.routledge.com
David J Gibson
@davidjgibson.bsky.social
· Dec 12
Proofing our chapter for our forthcoming Handbook of Grasslands.
Did we really write that?
Did we really write that?
David J Gibson
@davidjgibson.bsky.social
· Dec 12
I’ve tried kernza flour- delicious, whole wheat taste.
Reposted by David J. Gibson
The Guardian
@theguardian.com
· Dec 12
‘Soil is more important than oil’: inside the perennial grain revolution
Scientists in Kansas believe Kernza could cut emissions, restore degraded soils and reshape the future of agriculture
www.theguardian.com
‘Soil is more important than oil’: inside the perennial grain revolution
David J Gibson
@davidjgibson.bsky.social
· Dec 10
Measuring teachers’ motivation, beliefs, leadership engagement, and networks: validation of instruments for teacher education and professional development programs
This paper presents two empirically developed and validated instruments that can be used to conduct quantitative and/or qualitative research on teacher education or evaluate professional developmen...
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Publication alert!
Our latest #NSF #NoyceProgram funded survey instrument
Measuring teachers’ motivation, beliefs, leadership engagement, and networks: validation of instruments for teacher education and professional development programs
doi.org/10.1080/1941...
Our latest #NSF #NoyceProgram funded survey instrument
Measuring teachers’ motivation, beliefs, leadership engagement, and networks: validation of instruments for teacher education and professional development programs
doi.org/10.1080/1941...
📣 Ecologists and evolutionary biologists! Have you ever wanted to be a journal editor? BES journals are having an open call for editors. Details: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl... Happy to answer any Qs! Open to all nationalities. Applications from postdocs welcome :)
Apply to be a BES Associate Editor - British Ecological Society
Help advance outstanding ecological research by joining our Editorial Boards! Applications are now open across all seven BES journals.
www.britishecologicalsociety.org
This is going to be fun. Correcting 582 pages of proofs and writing the index for our new book. 📕
With co-editors Heather Hagar and Jonathan Newman.
@tandfresearch Routledge Handbook of Grasslands.
routledge.com/Routl…
With co-editors Heather Hagar and Jonathan Newman.
@tandfresearch Routledge Handbook of Grasslands.
routledge.com/Routl…
The map shows Newbury Pond in 1890 when it was used as a local swimming hole. The photo is from 2014. I remember the pond being larger when I was growing up in the 1970-80's.
Britain's Ponds are Disappearing.
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I'm seeing this happen around my home village of Cuckfield, West Sussex.
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I'm seeing this happen around my home village of Cuckfield, West Sussex.
Frontiers | Mind the gap: bringing adolescents and young adults and emotional resilience into climate action
Young people around the world are experiencing a range of emotional responses to the climate crisis. While many are organizing for action, most policies and ...
www.frontiersin.org
There's a need to better bring young people's mental well-being into climate action. My daughter, Lacey Ramirez, has been looking into it.
Mind the gap: bringing adolescents and young adults and emotional resilience into climate action.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/cli...
Mind the gap: bringing adolescents and young adults and emotional resilience into climate action.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/cli...
www.preprints.org
Congratulations, Saroj Thapa - PhD manuscript. W/ Ruopu Li.
@siucarbondale.bsky.social #remotesensing #ClimateChange #EcosystemServices
Forest Transition Under Climate Pressure: Land Use Land Cover (LULC) Change in the Greater Shawnee National Forest (GSNF)
www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
@siucarbondale.bsky.social #remotesensing #ClimateChange #EcosystemServices
Forest Transition Under Climate Pressure: Land Use Land Cover (LULC) Change in the Greater Shawnee National Forest (GSNF)
www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
David J Gibson
@davidjgibson.bsky.social
· Nov 30
Release countdown...
Shanya's Saga - a dystopian sci-fi biomedical thriller, with a romantic undertone.
eBook preorder now. a.co/d/6qH…
Print - Monday, December 1st.
Shanya's Saga - a dystopian sci-fi biomedical thriller, with a romantic undertone.
eBook preorder now. a.co/d/6qH…
Print - Monday, December 1st.
Natalie Cooper
@nhcooper123.bsky.social
· Nov 27
Apply to be a BES Associate Editor - British Ecological Society
Help advance outstanding ecological research by joining our Editorial Boards! Applications are now open across all seven BES journals.
www.britishecologicalsociety.org
📣 Ecologists and evolutionary biologists! Have you ever wanted to be a journal editor? BES journals are having an open call for editors. Details: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl... Happy to answer any Qs! Open to all nationalities. Applications from postdocs welcome :)
David J Gibson
@davidjgibson.bsky.social
· Nov 26
davidjgibson's 2025 iNaturalist Year in Review
David Gibson's highlights and stats from 2025 on iNaturalist
www.inaturalist.org
@inaturalist.bsky.social Personal yearly stats are out. I added a few more observations on some interesting taxa, mostly plants, of course.
How about you?
www.inaturalist.org/stats/2025/d...
How about you?
www.inaturalist.org/stats/2025/d...
David J Gibson
@davidjgibson.bsky.social
· Nov 26
S4 EP198: David J. Gibson, Author of the Dystopian Fiction Novel Elite Memories - Book Banter with Dianne Burckhardt - Book Talk Podcast
Hello My Happy People,Dr. David Gibson is back on the show, and this time he’s traded forensic botany for a dystopian adventure. The longtime scientist and professor known for Planting Clues: How Plan...
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Listen to my latest podcast on Book Banter with Dianna Burckhardt. We had a great chat about #writing, #books, and my #novels.
#expatlife
Listen here: tinyurl.com/David-J-Gibs...
#expatlife
Listen here: tinyurl.com/David-J-Gibs...
David J Gibson
@davidjgibson.bsky.social
· Nov 19
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David J Gibson
@davidjgibson.bsky.social
· Nov 19
How dead pigs are helping in the search for missing victims of Mexico’s drug wars
Tens of thousands of families are desperately searching for loved ones ‘disappeared’ by the country’s drug cartels. Now, pigs, drones and AI are being used to find clandestine graves
www.theguardian.com
Great example of using pig cadavers to learn how colonizing plants can be used to find clandestine graves.
I discuss similar examples in Chapter 3 of my book, Planting Clues: How Plants Solve Crimes (OUP, 2022).
#forensics #botany #cadavers #clandestinegraves
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
I discuss similar examples in Chapter 3 of my book, Planting Clues: How Plants Solve Crimes (OUP, 2022).
#forensics #botany #cadavers #clandestinegraves
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
David J Gibson
@davidjgibson.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Dive into autumn leaves with today's @theguardian.com country diary by Phil Gates.
#countrydiary #naturewriting
#countrydiary #naturewriting
Country diary: Autumn is a time to rake in the wildlife | Phil Gates
Crook, County Durham: There’s a contemplative pleasure to gathering up the leaves this time of year, and it’s a benefit to legions of invertebrates and toadstools too
www.theguardian.com
Leave the leaves.
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Nic Wilson
@nicwilson.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Country diary: Autumn is a time to rake in the wildlife | Phil Gates
Crook, County Durham: There’s a contemplative pleasure to gathering up the leaves this time of year, and it’s a benefit to legions of invertebrates and toadstools too
www.theguardian.com
Dive into autumn leaves with today's @theguardian.com country diary by Phil Gates.
#countrydiary #naturewriting
#countrydiary #naturewriting