Ecologist | Writer | Educator | Professor of Biology at Baldwin Wallace University. AKA Katie. Find me at @flinnlab.bsky.social
Joined August 2015
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22 Aug 2025
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!
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25 Jan 2025
"... 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 scim.ag/3Cp5C35
ALT WORKING LIFE Four lessons for being a great mentor to undergrads. Illustration shows two individuals walking through darkness, one using a flashlight that shines a light on various symbols
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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. doi.org/10.1111/jvs.70007
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16 Jan 2025
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. doi.org/10.1111/jvs.70007
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25 Aug 2024
The remarkable story of the dawn redwood – how a living fossil long thought extinct brought humanity together in the middle of a World War themarginalian.org/2023/01/3…
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Kathryn Flinn retweeted
13 Aug 2024
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
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9 Jul 2024
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.
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12 Jun 2024
Spread the word... All 1938 aerial photos of Cuyahoga County, Ohio are now freely available to everyone in this digital archive: libguides.bw.edu/c.php?g=137…
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2 Apr 2024
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 bit.ly/3PNursZ
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3 Mar 2024
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.
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BW faculty and student researching together ~ Cuyahoga County is losing its tree cover. A new study tracks the change ideastream.org/environment-e…
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28 Feb 2024
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
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28 Feb 2024
Cuyahoga County is losing its tree cover. A new study from @BaldwinWallace @FlinnLab tracks the change. Terrific coverage by @Ideastream News 🌳
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19 Feb 2024
“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
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19 Feb 2024
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!
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19 Feb 2024
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.
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18 Feb 2024
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.
treeselector-clevelandmetrop…
Thanks @clevemetroparks!
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16 Feb 2024
Yay for transforming golf courses into wild habitat, like @CVNPNPS and @clevemetroparks is doing!
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15 Feb 2024
Do you know any students or recent graduates interested in exploring park careers? We post paid and unpaid internships at nps.gov/cuva/getinvolved/sup…. We currently have two openings in community engagement and one in our archives. Details are in the link. Photo: NPS/Penny Uhlenbrock.
ALT A young man and woman wearing volunteer uniforms stand behind a pop-up exhibit table by a park trailhead bulletin board.
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