After steady rain, hundreds of white Amanita mushrooms come out at NKU REFS, same as last year! Larger than my hand. Have an unpleasant smell when it starts to decay. Are they North America destroying angel, Amanita bisporigera, one of most poisonous fungi? We got so many!😎

RIP Jane Goodall Full obituary in NYT, gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

My favorite season is here. This year would be spectacular!

Myth #3: Nature is a (trivial) subset of the human economy Reality: The economy is fully embedded in Earth systems Implication: Undervaluing nature erodes our long-term foundation

Check our new publication about shifted spring ephemeral pollination window impacted by flowering time, pollinator occurrence, and canopy closure under climate change! #phenology #springbeauty #phenologicalmismatch #climatechange @parklab.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Good morning! Palm Springs! Look forward to the field trip! #Botany2025

We should talk about global climate change within the context of human history. We aim to protect humans while protecting the environment. Mother nature will be ok eventually, but NOT us. After replying a post from a climate change denier, I realized I should post here so more people can see (1/5).

I've never seen this before! Antlered flutter fly. So cool! Is this a mating dance? Yesterday evening at NKU REFS.

Baby robin! Right in front of my parking space, but I didn't notice until yesterday seeing the mommy robin sitting there. Hope they survive in the heat wave and enjoy the summer! ☀️

This evening at East Fork State Park Beach.

Interesting #fungi! First time seeing these tiny weird fungi. My colleague and I didn't even think they are actually fungi. I said the ones in the first picture look like coral, while iNatualist suggested they are coral slime fungi. Totally make sense! 😆

Please help support immigrants in Ohio against the discriminatory bills!

NKU REFS Talk & Walk Nature Series events this summer will start next week! Everyone is welcome, including families and friends. Come to enjoy fun with nature science and arts!

#Ticks are crazy this year. My kids made a "tick playground" while waiting for me to get back from the fieldwork.😅😬

Got some fresh #fungi! Driven by students' interests, we started the mushroom survey at NKU REFS last fall. We continued this year and finally got something exciting after the cold weather and severe flooding. Keep learning about them!

Very cool study using long-term historical documents for biology! Check the beautiful poems if you know Chinese!

Will report from northern Kentucky and Cincinnati 😀

Suddenly everything is green including poison ivy 😅

Happy #EarthDay!

The mark of water on the board showed how severe the flooding was at northern Kentucky on April 6th, which put down most of my time-lapse cameras in the field. The spicebush got damaged too as it was totally underwater.

Decades from now, people will pay trillions of dollars every year to get back to the climate that we have today.

First spring beauty flower seen this year! #spring #phenology

First spring beauty flower bud this year! Maples are flowering right now. Invasive plants just start bud break. #phenology #spring

Now is the breeding season of amphibians. Unfortunately, poor mice fell in the bucket as a trap in wetland for amphibians. How can we prevent this?

A call for the United States to continue investing in science 🌐🌾 🧪https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.00648-25

Two extremely important articles Why long-term field studies are rare: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... And why field studies are important: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#Amphibians know that #spring is coming! #phenology

A closer look at the extent of sea ice globally that just set a new all-time record minimum, which is due to unusually low sea ice conditions in both the #Arctic & #Antarctic right now. Data from nsidc.org/data/seaice_... 🧪⚒️🥼❄️

Do you still remember any moment in your Ecology labs, like collecting leaf litter and soil samples under snow? We had great fun and enjoyed the beautiful view in nature and a lot more today!! 🤣

I've been seen lots of feckless despair and detachedness among scientists in the US at the moment. How we might live up to this critical moment when things seem the worst. scienceforeveryone.science/p/how-ive-be... 🧪

After staying at Connecticut, Buffalo NY, and Chicago, I really thought I'm finally done with harsh winters when I moved to Cincinnati. Now I learned nowhere is safe under global climate change. 😭

Hope so! 😁

9 inches snow canceled schools but not work 😅 what a good start to the spring semester 2025.