Kathryn Flinn

Ecologist | Writer | Educator | Professor of Biology at Baldwin Wallace University. AKA Katie. Find me at @flinnlab.bsky.social

[Kathryn Flinn @FlinnLab]

So proud of my lab's first paper with the first author a @BaldwinWallace undergraduate. Another fruitful collaboration with @clevemetroparks informing forest conservation in northeast Ohio. Congrats Skyanne!
https://t.co/8ixNvFG50d

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

"... I ended up being reluctant to work with undergraduate researchers at all—until a new student helped me realize what is required to mentor undergraduates, and the rewards it can bring." #NationalMentoringMonth https://t.co/8cBpQ1YK1D

[Journal of Vegetation & Applied Vegetation Science @JVS_AVS]

Ecologists seek to understand how species distributions relate to environmental factors, but often these relationships are radically human-altered. @Flinnlab et al use historical data & SDMs to understand the presettlement distributions of forest trees. https://t.co/Ge9O9dUeV5

[Kathryn Flinn @FlinnLab]

Ecologists seek to understand how spp distributions relate to environmental factors, but often relationships are radically human-altered. Our new @JVegSci paper uses historical data in niche models to understand presettlement distributions of forest trees. https://t.co/Xlp6gdNRdv

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

The remarkable story of the dawn redwood – how a living fossil long thought extinct brought humanity together in the middle of a World War https://t.co/9YRGXKvTWC

[James Bullock @JMBecologist]

Biodiversity loss is not only about extinctions

It is also the degradation of ecosystems - supporting a few generalist species, with reduced food webs, & looking the same wherever you go

As seen over much of the UK

[Sophie Yeo @some_yeo]

My first ever opinion piece for the @guardian! In it, I delve into the Wood Wide Web, the rise of scientific myths (including the Great Wood of Caledon), and why we should not fear difficult ideas.
https://t.co/KsuSKwChjr

[Kathryn Flinn @FlinnLab]

Spread the word... All 1938 aerial photos of Cuyahoga County, Ohio are now freely available to everyone in this digital archive: https://t.co/ptRmv3EOrc

[Aisling Irwin @Aisling_Irwin]

Is there a #woodwideweb? For @Nature_news I look at the science behind this idea – and how scientists working in #forestecogy, #soils and #fungi feel about popular claims that trees care for each other via a fungal network in the soil https://t.co/VIlwZXv3fw

[Planthropology Podcast🌵 @Planthropology_]

Here's your friendly reminder that the best time to prune a Bradford Pear is any time your saw is sharp, and the ideal cut is horizontal and 4 inches from the ground. This is mostly for you @drdavecoyle.

[BW Pres @BWPres]

BW faculty and student researching together ~ Cuyahoga County is losing its tree cover. A new study tracks the change https://t.co/TxSIcDJlcE

[Kathryn Flinn @FlinnLab]

Listen for the story about our research today during Morning Edition and All Things Considered on our local NPR station, WKSU 89.7 @Ideastream. Thanks to Ida Lieszkovszky for her thorough reporting! @BaldwinWallace
https://t.co/tRwhe7KyBX

[Shawn Salamone 🪬 @ShawnSalamone]

Cuyahoga County is losing its tree cover. A new study from @BaldwinWallace @FlinnLab tracks the change. Terrific coverage by @Ideastream News 🌳

https://t.co/bb7R6Pp9Oa

[Kathryn Flinn @FlinnLab]

@twkovach Because so many colleges quit requiring them. Now they are realizing that wasn't a great idea.

[Ben Goldfarb @ben_a_goldfarb]

“We soon learned that far greater threat to the land lay in road-building than in logging the timber.”

For the latest @SmithsonianMag, I wrote about the history of public lands road construction and the movement to unmake our infrastructure. #roadecology

https://t.co/wMSYRRd67s

[Kathryn Flinn @FlinnLab]

Great 5-minute video interview of me explaining our latest work on land use change and forest history in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Thanks Liv Ream and
@CoolCleveland!
https://t.co/Zo0KNaYFdZ

[Kathryn Flinn @FlinnLab]

My first research experience was in a herbarium @williamandmary. In fact, I got to visit and exchange specimens with many herbaria for that project. I got drawn in to the potential to study ecological history via collections and never looked back.

[Kathryn Flinn @FlinnLab]

Great new resource for helping you select what species of trees to plant in your yard! Based on height, growth rate, sun/shade tolerance, lifespan, soil type, soil moisture, climate tolerance, stress tolerance.
https://t.co/ikClcCJ31D
Thanks @clevemetroparks!

[Kathryn Flinn @FlinnLab]

Yay for transforming golf courses into wild habitat, like @CVNPNPS and @clevemetroparks is doing!
https://t.co/oMubpgbvTC