Updates

February 2026
– New paper out in Ecology Letters on urban metacommunity dynamics – titled “Re-Thinking the Urban Biotic Homogenization Hypothesis“. Something Monika & I have been thinking about for a while now – give it a read here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ele.70342

January 2026
– Lydia Paradiso has officially joined the lab as a postdoc! Lydia comes up to Ithaca from NYC where she recently completed her PhD at the New York Botanical Gardens. Woo!!

October 2025
– Thanks to Drew Gardens for hosting us!! The amazing Drew Gardens on the Bronx River in NYC hosted the lab to talk about wild pollinators in cities and how to support them in our green spaces. Great crowd and a lovely way to wrap up the 2025 field season.

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July 2025
– Officially moved to Ithaca to get started at Cornell!
Will miss the team in Munich (Monika Egerer’s lab), but we’ll continue to work together and I’m excited to get started here. We have some field work going on in NYC (stay tuned for updates), and otherwise getting settled in.