Jeff Corbin

New paper! Do #bioinvasions exert a legacy after they are removed? My study in a NY pine barren found that yes, they do - though those legacies lessen over time. Exotic species can influence the pathway of ecosystem #restoration. 🌎🧪🌐 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Where better to see your first spotted lanternfly than at an invasive species conference?!? #NAISMA2026 (I did smush it.)

Everyone in the country should listen to this. It crystalizes so many things happening today.

No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky in your camera roll.

Good, NY loosens its deer hunting regs to reduce herd sizes and save forests. It will be easier to harvest does now - they drive pop growth. www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...

Trump celebrating Balogun’s eligibility to play for Team USA when his administration would strip Balogun’s citizenship tomorrow if he didn’t play world class soccer is really a chef’s kiss.

Someone has been projecting images all over D.C. “It’s swampier than ever.” The Kennedy Center one is pretty hilarious. 😂😂😂

Read this. Especially administrators.

My favorite baseball writer wrote my favorite article ever. #LGBTQIA+ www.nytimes.com/athletic/735...

I wrote an OpEd for my local paper about the importance of restoration- including tree removal - for biodiversity of a very unique habitat. #PineBarren 🌎 🧪 🦋 🌲 www.dailygazette.com/opinion/gues...

Status update: Chilling in Santa Cruz. Ah, sabbatical…

Ahhh, Week 2 of sabbatical. Chilling in Toronto visiting our daughter for a few days. Starting west today to spend the rest of the spring in Santa Cruz.

How do we know the extend of biological invasions? Is it a large invasions? A small one? How do we compare invasions of tiny organisms (e.g., ants) and of larger ones (e.g., rabbits)? How do we quantify objectives, or efficiency of management? See our new paper in BioScience! 👇 tinyurl.com/ynuk8cm7

Costa Rica, what an amazing trip. #PuraVida indeed!

I was honored to be part of this webinar: A critical view on global initiatives on plant conservation. My contribution: Confronting invasive species @~19’ 🌎 #speciesinvasions m.youtube.com/watch?v=k98d...

Paul Ehrlich, Population Crisis, R.I.P www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/b...

. @noahkahanmusic.bsky.social needs to wrote a follow up to Stick Season called Mud Season.

I’m in my happy place. (Santa Cruz, CA)

I'm a paper about giant hogweed control, and a casual conversation with a neighbor turned me onto this 1971 Genesis song - The Return of Giant Hogweed - which is basically a case study of invasive plant ecology! It is also Peak ProgRock. #InvasiveSpecies 🌎 www.youtube.com/watch?v=99JQ...

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Researchers challenge claim of a strong Yellowstone trophic cascade after wolf reintroduction 🌎 phys.org/news/2025-10...

Super fun day sampling leaves of red maple trees in Schenectady, NY for my student’s @unioncollege.bsky.social thesis about genetic diversity of urban trees.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

As one can imagine, I have some thoughts. Here’s a thread no one asked for: 1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature. 2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…

My new @science.org editorial on the role of scientists in defending democracy is out today. As authoritarianism takes hold in the US, we must fight for the democratic principles that enable a free society and scientists have a key role. I hope you'll join us. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hello Toronto!

So, my college is considering whether to stop pursuing NSF and NIH grants. (Faculty grants too, of course.) Because we can’t abide the DEI certification. Decision to be made quickly, after discussions.

Restoration of native saltmarshes enhances carbon sequestration & mitigates warming effects following Spartina alterniflora removal 🌊🧪 Suggests future restoration programmes should prioritise multifunctional outcomes 💭🌏 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Springer Nature--pioneering the new world of science where facts can be made up and citations generated to support them

To put it another way, it takes the approach of actively penalizing the technologies of the 21st century and subsidizing the technologies of the 19th century. As solar, batteries, and electrification are rapidly adopted by the rest of the world, we are stepping backwards.

The US is falling behind the curve on solar power – a key energy source of the 21st century. We are losing our edge to China on the technology that we originally invented. Now Senate republicans want to take out our solar industry at the knees in their "Big Beautiful Bill":

New paper! "Why are non-native plants successful? Consistently fast economic traits and novel origin jointly explain abundance across US ecoregions" in @newphyt.bsky.social. Another great paper by my amazing collaborators. 🌎🧪 #bioinvasions nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

What is the Human Shield Hypothesis, how do we test it and what do those tests find? New paper out in Ecology Letters today asking these questions. Thanks to @kaitlyngaynor.bsky.social and Mike Noonan for having me. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Does anyone know when we're getting our speaking slots for #ESABaltimore? The last email (a month ago) said "by the end of May". @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social

Just accepted a request to review today, as a matter of fact.

Bhattacharya : Lists all of the amazing advancements of the NIH. Then he says that the public doesn't trust the NIH... (evidence does not support this) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My dog is a pretty effective seed disperser today!

Exclusive: Confusion over new DEI language from NSF and NIH leads Williams College to be first institution to pause accepting any grants www.science.org/content/arti...

The US National Science Foundation could lose more than half its budget https://go.nature.com/4dMdIAZ

I let my Intro Bio students vote on the topic for the last lecture of the term - Climate change, conservation, or invasive species. To my modest surprise, they picked invasive species!

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.