Excited to be back at Cedar Creek ESR for my third field season with @AlienImpacts! Already met some new friends, including an adventurous bull snake and a mamma bird who decided to nest directly under one of my plants…

Cedar Bog Lake Cedar Creek ESR looking lovely and reflective in the afternoon sun!

Help required plz! Any protocols on phytohormone (JA, SA, ABA) extraction using dried plant material (i.e. air-dried or in oven, NOT using liquid N to snap-freeze?) Getting liquid N will be challenging at field site, hoping to be able to dry and grind leaves & extract later!

Arrived in LA for #ESA2024 where I’ll be talking about the role of assembly history in driving beta diversity during grassland succession. Talking Monday 4:15pm in Communities: Succession 2 in room 202A @AlienImpacts

Have had some gorgeous friends join percent cover work recently at Cedar Creek ESR

A lovely Sorghastrum nutans seedhead captures the morning sun - have watched this plant grow from a seedling I planted two years ago! Cedar Creek ESR @AlienImpacts

My quirkiest research article on conservation conflicts between wild #peregrines, racing #pigeons and #falconry in the UK is out now on People and Nature!🧵 doi.org/10.1002/pan3.1…

You know the smell of sewage on the Strand is bad when you deliberately walk through someone’s vape cloud for a bit of relief

So she was first author on his key paper - in fact she's on most of his key papers, yet she didn't get the Nobel Prize, in spite of the fact they could have given 3 awards, not just 2. Explain to me how STEM is not institutionally sexist.

If anyone is still on here, very pleased to have played a small part in this paper about sampling mass mortality events now out Methods in Ecology and Evolution (using freshwater mussels as an example) - something regrettably gaining more and more relevance! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Going to start making the transition - find me on the other side Dr Josh Brian.bsky.social

V. pleased to see this in Ecosphere! Priority effects are important in determining host-parasite dynamics in natural systems. Here, I show there are different types of priority effect, and they have very different consequences for host populations... esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Pleased that my 2023 paper on enemy release was one of the top-10 cited articles in Ecology Letters from that year! If you missed it, check it out again here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

So excited to see my paper on the shortlist for the Harper Prize, amongst some amazing work!! (Definitely lots to add to my reading list!) (You can find my paper here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…)

The blog about our Harper Prize-shortlisted paper is now up Journal of Ecology! Read on for a summary of what we found, and what got me into (and keeps me in) ecology! jecologyblog.com/2025/03/26/jos…