Not all plants are weeds. Not all introduced species are invasive. And even the so called 'notorious' invasives support native wildlife in the ecologically disturbed habitats of our great cities.

📸 30 MAR 2023 (11:49 hrs.) near #mulund East, #mumbai.

#naturalhistory #MumbaiUnseen #wildlife #invasiveplants #invasives #weedscience

#weedscience is #socialscience
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0286515

Dandelion, refracted. I like this one because it shows an 'old' flower that almost appears to be dreaming of younger days, with the full-bloom flower refracted through the water droplet. I think it might be one of my favorite photos I've ever taken. (though still some technical aspects I'd like to improve upon...) #PhotoMonday #photography #macro #flowers #reflection #water #WSSA23 #weeds #weedscience

Musk thisle at sunset. #photography #PhotoMonday #WSSA23 #landscape #sunset #flowers #weeds #weedscience

On the other hand this global trade in seed carries some biosecurity risks.

#PLOSONE: The phytosanitary risks posed by seeds for sowing trade networks
#IAS #weedscience
https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259912

So that was a round up thread of our latest paper.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on whether this type of thread is useful here on Mastodon and if its the type of thing you'd like more of?
#SciComm #Thread #NewPaper #VegetationScience #WeedScience #DataAnalysis

I'm going to try to make #WeedyWednesday a thing, in an effort to more regularly post something interesting about #weedscience. For the inaugural thread, I'm going to discuss one of my favorite areas of research that I and my students have been working on for ~10 years: shade avoidance.
#plants #plantscience #agriculture #weeds

Great discussion this morning at the annual meeting of the "Arable Weeds and Management in Europe" database. It's lovely to see a group of weed researchers engaged in data sharing and finding new ways to make their survey data more findable and usable by others.

If you don't know about AWME there's some more info here:
https://www.ewrs.org/en/info/Blog/93/Arable-Weeds-and-Management-in-Europe-AWME-A-database-of-weed-survey-data-from-across-Europe

We'd love for more people to get involved

#AWME #FAIRdata #DataScience #WeedSurveys #WeedEcology #WeedScience

#introduction post:

I study weeds! I'm a professor of #weedscience, mostly working in small-ish acreage crops like sugar beet and dry edible beans. My research interests include how plants interact with each other, and evaluating the impacts of weed management practices (like herbicide use). I'm an avid #Rstats user.

I enjoy #photography, especially landscapes and #macro. I spend a lot of my work time AND my free time looking at plants. I've been told I swear a lot.

I'm currently running some simulations to explore how effective #IntegratedWeedManagement systems from one part of Europe might translate into different #agriculturalSystems elsewhere
#IWM #IPM #WeedScience #ProcessBasedModelling #AgriculturalModelling #Agriculture

@hmetcalfe cool! We are starting to populate #mastodon with #weedscience let’s try to bring more of us here!