Luke Flory
@lflory.bsky.social
Professor and Associate Chair, University of Florida. Community, ecosystem, and global change ecology. Invasive species, climate change, emerging pathogens, urbanization, fire, forest ecology, agroecology. (he/him/his)
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Excellent new paper out this week led by former postdoc (now NC State Assistant Professor) @aceraceae.bsky.social. "Local adaptation of both plant and pathogen: an arms-race compromise in switchgrass rust." nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Local adaptation of both plant and pathogen: an arms‐race compromise in switchgrass rust
In coevolving species, parasites locally adapt to host populations as hosts locally adapt to resist parasites. Parasites often outpace host local adaptation since they have rapid life cycles, but ho...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Excellent new paper out this week led by former postdoc (now NC State Assistant Professor) @aceraceae.bsky.social. "Local adaptation of both plant and pathogen: an arms-race compromise in switchgrass rust." nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
First lectures and tasting of traditional foods for our study abroad program UF in Croatia: Food and Global Change
May 30, 2025 at 9:12 AM
First lectures and tasting of traditional foods for our study abroad program UF in Croatia: Food and Global Change
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
May 26, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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
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.
May 26, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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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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
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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May 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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
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.
May 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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.
Our local brewery First Magnitude knows what’s up! Huge supporters of conservation.
May 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Our local brewery First Magnitude knows what’s up! Huge supporters of conservation.
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My god this is horrifying. 💔
World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...
World Central Kitchen | WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out
After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.
wck.org
May 8, 2025 at 12:48 AM
My god this is horrifying. 💔
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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
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
a netflix ad shows a woman talking to another woman at a vending machine
ALT: a netflix ad shows a woman talking to another woman at a vending machine
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May 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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
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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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...
More details here:
emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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...
emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com
May 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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...
More details here:
emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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🌸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...
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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...
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April 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🌸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) 🌐🧪🌱🌍
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) 🌐🧪🌱🌍
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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/...
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/...
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...
www.science.org
April 25, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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/...
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/...
Wow. Check this out!
“…science no longer an obstacle to the justiciability of climate liability claims.”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
“…science no longer an obstacle to the justiciability of climate liability claims.”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability - Nature
A transparent and reproducible scientific framework is introduced to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel companies, whi...
www.nature.com
April 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Wow. Check this out!
“…science no longer an obstacle to the justiciability of climate liability claims.”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
“…science no longer an obstacle to the justiciability of climate liability claims.”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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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.
April 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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.
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
April 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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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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!
Thanks to @idiv-research.bsky.social for supporting our sConsume working group!
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…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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!
Thanks to @idiv-research.bsky.social for supporting our sConsume working group!
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Orkney’s curlew population back on the rise as charity removes invasive species
Source: London Evening Standard
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Source: London Evening Standard
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Orkney’s curlew population back on the rise as charity removes invasive species
The curlew population had declined by more than 50%, according to statistics obtained by a wildlife charity.
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April 22, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Orkney’s curlew population back on the rise as charity removes invasive species
Source: London Evening Standard
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Source: London Evening Standard
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🚨 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.
🌎🌾🧪🌱🌿🍁💻🔥📈
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.
🌎🌾🧪🌱🌿🍁💻🔥📈
Research Scientist I
jobs.colorado.edu
April 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
🚨 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.
🌎🌾🧪🌱🌿🍁💻🔥📈
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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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
Web link: go.nature.com/4l4wcQs
Readcube: rdcu.be/eh0wE
April 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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
Web link: go.nature.com/4l4wcQs
Readcube: rdcu.be/eh0wE
Check out this new blog post where lead author Maggie Simon explains our new paper that is out now in @journalofecology.bsky.social
jecologyblog.com/2025/04/15/p...
jecologyblog.com/2025/04/15/p...
Plants with higher biomass accrual rates drive infectious disease outcomes in multi-host annual plant communities
Margaret W. Simon, University of Kansas, USA, discusses her article: Fast-growing annual plants drive disease spillover in multi-host communities Infectious plant diseases affect hosts in natural, …
jecologyblog.com
April 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Check out this new blog post where lead author Maggie Simon explains our new paper that is out now in @journalofecology.bsky.social
jecologyblog.com/2025/04/15/p...
jecologyblog.com/2025/04/15/p...
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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."
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"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."
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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.
wapo.st
April 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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
"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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Online panel discussion: Trees in the Grasslands: Three Perspectives. Thursday, April 24, 2025 5:30pm to 6:45pm events.k-state.edu/event/trees-...
Trees in the Grasslands: Three Perspectives
events.k-state.edu
April 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Online panel discussion: Trees in the Grasslands: Three Perspectives. Thursday, April 24, 2025 5:30pm to 6:45pm events.k-state.edu/event/trees-...
Sketching some research ideas with PhD student Yukti Taneja. Makes sense, right?
April 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Sketching some research ideas with PhD student Yukti Taneja. Makes sense, right?