Check out the summary of our new research in @jappliedecology.bsky.social led by Patrick Cook with @nigelwillby.bsky.social @dralanlaw.bsky.social @stir.ac.uk phys.org/news/2025-11...

Himalayan balsam is remarkably variable depending where it grows, from thin and spindly to truly giant like. These plants growing on river gravels were the short and chunky kind - only 1-1.5 m tall but a whopping 5cm wide at the base @zarahpattison.bsky.social @lizziekeen.bsky.social

The annual orchid feast on our university campus is the best yet with many hundreds of spikes of common spotted and northern marsh orchids, but I still wasn't expecting to bump into this beauty - Greater Butterfly Orchid. #wildflowerhour

Geum x intermedium (hybrid of water x wood avens) going strong near Doune, including some interesting flower mutations #wildflowerhour

Globeflower and Mountain Sorrel, Ben Ledi, Stirling #wildflowerhour

Sometimes it's your duty, plain and simple #rewilding

The turions (winter buds) of Potamogeton obtusifolius in our pond are now showing signs of life #macrophytemonday

This is the time when wild strawberry 🍓 [left] and barren strawberry [right] flowering overlaps in central Scotland ( F vesca vs F sterilis) #wildflowerhour

Seeing awesome stuff like this could damn near get a person into physical geography 😉

Pleased to report that the Grand Canyon actually is everything it's cracked up to be.

Professor Nigel Willby, @nigelwillby.bsky.social, who co-authored the study, said: “If we want to realise these benefits rather than robbing ourselves of them, we must find better ways to accommodate beavers in our landscapes rather than continually removing their dams.”

Comfortably into double figures now in central Scotland with the addition of coltsfoot and primrose, plus dogs mercury and some early wood anemones #wildflowerhour

There's now a heady 6 flowers out in the 'hood. Don't mock, that's a 6 fold increase in the last month, including the first L Celandines and Barren Strawberries I've seen here before March in 26 yrs #wildflowerhour

Invasion ecology is replete with a body of well-supported yet contradictory evidence for numerous invasion hypotheses, likely as a result of context dependency. Just published in DDI we explore the indirect effects & context dependencies in fish invasions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Reading about new year plant hunts in the south with 60 or 70 odd species may I present pretty much the only plant currently flowering in inland central Scotland 🙂 #wildflowerhour

Feeling bereft now I've finished this amazing book. Brilliant and awful in equal measure.

Well, that'll be the morning sitting and thinking out the window....

Red sky on bluesky. Just stop me here.

Sunshine on Leith - out today with Stirling colleagues and @wolct.bsky.social on Water of Leith, Edinburgh to recce sites for our Methods and Applications in Env Science module

The number 1 freshwater detective agency lab night oot in (possibly) our second favourite habitat (minus Alice Turner and cofounder @zarahpattison.bsky.social for the night)