I'll be asking my ecology students this summer to make short TikTok videos to illustrate ecological concepts (or Instagram reels, or a written report with photos). Here's my model for them. I'm sure they will do better than me! www.tiktok.com/@davidbotani...

I'm really excited about this paper that Greg Cheplick and I have written. Coming out soon: Population and Ecotypic Differentiation in the Poaceae: Past and Present Approaches The Botanical Review @springer.springernature.com @nybg.bsky.social

Woodland forget-me-not (Myosotis sylvatica) at Nymans Gardens, West Sussex. Planted or self-sown? #wildflowerhour #hedgerowchallenge

Honesty (Lunaria annua) and Garlic mustard (Aliaria petiolata) self seeding in the garden hedge. Mid-Sussex #wildflowerhour #hedgerowchallenge

Some wonderful Ramsoms (Allium ursinum) along the base of this hedgerow in Cuckfield, West Sussex. #wildflowerhour

One more #Brassicaceae for #wildflowerhour Alliaria petiolata - garlic mustard

Mid-Sussex wildflowers in good form today. #wildflowerhour Arum maculatum, Crataegus monogyna, Hyacinthoides non-scripta, Anemone nemorosa.

Cardamine pratensis - Cuckoo flower today and 49 yers ago that I collected for my undergraduate botany degree. #wildflowerhour #Brassicaceae @bsbibotany.bsky.social

We find that diversity-productivity relationships are not as simple as a unimodal relationship. Ren et al. Ecotypic Identity and Manipulated Rainfall Modulate Diversity-Productivity Relationships Across a Precipitation Gradient. @ecol-evol.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

【🎉Latest accepted article】 #IncreasingPrecipitation exacerbates the negative effect of nitrogen addition on diversity of semi-arid steppe early in the growing season #CommunityComposition | #FunctionalDiversity | #Grassland | #NitrogenDeposition @mapjournals.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...

Latest lab pub. Congrats Saroj Forest Transition Under Climate Pressure: Land Use Land Cover Change in the Greater Shawnee National Forest #Climatechange is projected to disrupt recovery from past forest decline, pushing transitions toward mixed and evergreen forests. www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/18...

Oh, I so wish I were going to this rendez-vous avec l'Ina in Lyon. Scroll down to : Mercredi 1er avril 2026 - 18h, Soirée Edmond Locard. #forensics #truecrime archives.rhone.fr/page/rendez-...

It's exciting to see more #herbarium specimens digitized. We can now link vouchers to papers directly. For example. Here's the link to the papers and the vouchers for my study of the rare grass Festuca longifolia. The paper: shorturl.at/9hHMO The vouchers: shorturl.at/vVUJe Below is one of them

Is there a downside for authors to S2O? royalsociety.org/news/2026/02...

Did you catch the poisoning scene from #Hamlet (Act 1, Scene 5) in the movie version of #Hamnet? I talk about this forensic botany example of deliberate poisoning in crime fiction in my short book "Juice of Cursed Hebenon". a.co/d/08T1N7ie

𝐒𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐦 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤. Did you know that forensic botany evidence was key to his conviction? I talk about this evidence on pp 78-79 in my book 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐶𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠: 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑆𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑒 𝐶𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠. doi.org/10.1093/oso/... www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03...

Grasslands are important in so many ways and their loss to agriculture is unappreciated.

I hope I'm wrong about the future. See my Memory Transfers two-book #dystopian #science-fiction series. Shanya's Saga books2read.com/ShanyasSaga Elite Memories books2read.com/EliteMemories

There's some interesting botanical forensic evidence in this video. What is/are the plants? (prob. something growing close by) If they were grabbed from the yard, then did the suspect leave footprints in the soil? #forensicbotany #botany #forensics

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! 🎉

Thanks @scotlandyardcsi.bsky.social for the shoutout! #authors #amwriting #writerscommunity #crimefiction #Books #BookSky #CrimeWriters #forensics #botany #plants

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...

#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. 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?

Starbucks corporate #greenwashing It’s difficult for me to accept #Starbucks argument that buying bottled water is a good thing.

Why we edit proofs... because the author of the chapter probably didn't mean to say, "prostate plants". #ImABotanist

Proofing our chapter for our forthcoming Handbook of Grasslands. Did we really write that?

‘Soil is more important than oil’: inside the perennial grain revolution

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...

Apply! Every journal has a great team. My fav… @journalofecology.bsky.social

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…

Britain's Ponds are Disappearing. theconversation.com/britains-pon... I'm seeing this happen around my home village of Cuckfield, West Sussex.

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...

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...

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. shorturl.at/eD9CS amzn.eu/d/5Vtlbso a.co/d/eGir2ZQ

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.

@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...

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...

You've got to admit this is cool research! 'Mosses in space'. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

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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...

Leave the leaves.

I hope this plant biology program can be retained. c.org/ycyKPXsb6y

This is important reading if you have concerns about #AI. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Save the date and time! I'm excited to see my talk scheduled in the Wild Things 2026 program. 1:00 pm, Jan 31, 2026, O'Fallon, IL. Planting Clues: How Plants Solve Crimes. I'll be talking about #forensic #botany and #landmanagement. wildthingscommunity.org

ARC opportunity! 🎉 Are you ready to be an ARC reviewer for my forthcoming dystopian science-fiction romance, Shanya's Saga? This exciting stand-alone novella is the prequel to my full-length novel Elite Memories (books2read.com/Elite…). Note: Unpaid opportunity. Apply here: forms.gle/1n6p3���

Excited to review proofs of our upcoming article today. #TeamEffort #STEM #ScienceEducation #NSFNoyce Ekmekci et al., in press. Measuring teachers’ motivation, beliefs, leadership engagement, and networks: validation of instruments for teacher education and professional development programs.

Here I am settled in to @barnesandnoble Galleria #SaintLouis ready to sign books and meet you from 11 to 2 pm. It’s raining outside so now is a great time to come in and shop for books.📚

I'll be signing copies of two of my biology books tomorrow 11-2, in the Galleria @barnesandnoble.com #bookstore in #SaintLouis. Stop by and chat with me about #forensicbotany #forensics #TrueCrime #botany #dogs #dystopia #sciencefiction #mindtransfers. #IAmABiologist #BiologyWeek @rsb.org.uk

Authors - how excited do you get when your book is published? I'll never forget the excitement from three years ago when my Planting Clues was the number one 'hot new release'. It's still available and currently discounted at $16.95. a.co/d/0N3Zoyt #truecrime #forensics #botany