I'm guest editing a Special Collection in @springernature.com BMC Zoology! Do you have #citizenscience or #communityscience research looking for a home? We seek studies on participation, engagement, and collaborative practices in wildlife monitoring and conservation. Learn more: bit.ly/4qDrKdh

This is such a great move from the @britishecologicalsociety.org👏 Contribute to the special issue in Ecological Solutions and Evidence inviting 'Unexpected, Failed, and/or Neutral Results in Applied Management'. More of this = reduced #publicationbias in evidence syntheses. tinyurl.com/2rerpfep

Ecological Solutions and Evidence Call for Proposals: Unexpected, Failed, and/or Neutral Results in Applied Management

<em>Ecological Solutions and Evidence</em> is an open access journal covering all areas of applied ecology that communicate key findings related to practical environmental management.

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‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

📣 2026 Student Summer Internships are OPEN for applications! We’re recruiting SEVEN interns across our National Capability programmes at our Bangor, Lancaster & Wallingford sites. Superb opportunity for hands-on experience in environmental science & applied research. Details ⬇️ 1/

Work in FE or sixth form? 🌱we’re gathering student views on nature & climate for the National Education Nature Park. Take part by:🧑‍🏫 completing the survey in class💬 discussing as a group + sharing a summary✏️ or completing it independently. Open till end of April ~10 mins survey 👉http://bit.ly/469qXJz

How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.

Depressing confirmation that climate change is speeding up: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Climate change is speeding up — the pace nearly doubled in ten years

Earth is now warming at a rate of around 0.35 ºC per decade, fresh analysis finds.

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⚡New paper!!⚡A research agenda giving the top 40 questions for UK agroforestry. Expertly led by @milliehood.bsky.social, it was a pleasure to be part of!

Amelia Hood@milliehood.bsky.social · 6mo ago

And in the next project output, we share a research agenda with the top 40 questions for UK agroforestry👩‍🔬🌳🔬 This was co-designed w 156 stakeholders, incl. @organicrescent.bsky.social @forestresearchuk.bsky.social @sylvanfarm.bsky.social @uniofreading.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Love this from @britishecologicalsociety.org this morning! Science communication is a difficult skill....

⚡New paper! ⚡from my student @ellenknight.bsky.social on how to integrate new land cover classes into ecological models so we can predict the #biodiversity impacts. We illustrate this for UK agroforestry & pollinators 🐝🌳: tinyurl.com/3yp26eu5 @ukceh.bsky.social @uor-research.bsky.social @nhm.org

Integrating new land cover classes into ecological models to predict their biodiversity impacts

As the need for sustainable agroecosystems gains recognition, new land cover classes are increasingly emerging in temperate landscapes. Process-based …

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Agroforestry can benefit the environment & production, so why isn't it more widely adopted?🌳🚜 Knowledge is a major barrier to uptake! We worked with 75 UK stakeholders to identify barriers & co-design solutions doi.org/10.1002/pan3... Tnks @uktreescapes.bsky.social @peopleandnature.bsky.social

Identifying knowledge barriers to agroforestry adoption and co‐designing solutions to them

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Nice posters from two of my current PhD students at #BES2025 😀. 🌳🌾🌳🌾 @ellenknight.bsky.social 's is on pollinators in silvoarable systems. 🦋 Rosa's is from her previous research on butterflies. Check them out!

⚡New paper! ⚡ Nice work from @milliehood.bsky.social in @peopleandnature.bsky.social. 🚜Farmers are dissuaded from planting agroforestry systems 🌳🌱🌳🌱🌳due to... 🕥 time constraints ℹ️ lack of trusted info, particularly about the business impacts 💰 We suggest solutions. tinyurl.com/AF-barriers-... (OA)

Identifying knowledge barriers to agroforestry adoption and co‐designing solutions to them

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🌱✨ We celebrate the launch of Viveiros de Inovação Transformadora! Agroecology Map, recognized as an innovation initiative, is part of this repository strengthening open science, knowledge co-production, and the agroecological transition 🌍🤝 👉 viveirosdeinovacao.com.br #Agroecology #OpenScience

Get your copy of the awesome new guide for ecologists on reproducible code 🖥️, introduced today by @nhcooper123.bsky.social at #BES2025 👏

Natalie Cooper@nhcooper123.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

Having spent long hours sampling farmland soils, wishing there were a better way, this new approach looks amazing 🎉. Easy soil data collection will be a huge boon to research and sustainability, and will improve our ability to estimate soil carbon stocks - congrats to all involved!

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 9mo ago

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We REALLY need a global plastics treaty! tinyurl.com/3b4fjz9j

How extreme weather is making plastic pollution more mobile, more persistent and more hazardous | CNN

Microplastics are already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up, they are becoming a much bigger and more hazardous problem, according to a new analysis

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⚡Cool PhD project applying ecoacoustics 🎤 to study how tree species diversity 🌳🌲affects soil fauna 🪱🦠. Fieldwork in Finland! Deadline December 17th. N.B. to be considered, you need to contact the supervisors (@juliakoricheva.bsky.social) before the closing date. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/nov...

Did you know the #NaturalHistoryMuseum has a climate action tool to help you find ways to be more sustainble 🌍 ? Have a look! www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/fi...

The #NaturalHistoryMuseum is running a ⚡FREE⚡ and awesome-looking course on “Integrative #Biodiversity Discovery". It's designed to introduce field collection, laboratory analysis and phylogenomics skills - run by Museum scientists. Places are limited so sign up soon! www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...

Integrative biodiversity discovery | Natural History Museum

An introduction to field collection, laboratory analysis and phylogenomics.

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🪸Corals have reached a 'tipping point' and are now in a state of widespread die-off 😭. Other systems - Amazon, ocean currents - will follow suite if we don't act REALLY fast global-tipping-points.org

Global Tipping Points | understanding risks & their potential impact

Harmful tipping points in the natural world threaten humanity by disrupting life support systems and societal stability.

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In his new book The Great Holocene Transformation, Peter Turchin shows that inequality and class conflict dilute social cohesion and increase societies’ vulnerability to external threat. Doesn't sound great for the UK now, does it...

The oceans are dying as humans warm the planet and plunder the ocean polluting and depleting the ocean of marine life World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life www.theguardian.com/environment/...

World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life

Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed

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Global analysis indicates that phosphorus limitation on terrestrial primary productivity has become stronger and is increasing more rapidly than nitrogen limitation. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Phosphorus constrains global photosynthesis more than nitrogen does - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Nitrogen and phosphorus limitations are both key to spatial patterns and temporal trends in primary production. This global analysis indicates that phosphorus limitation on terrestrial primary product...

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I'll be speaking at the Stop Trump demo in Parliament Square today. A fascist autocratic clearly itching to declare martial law is not welcome here. share.google/sWEe8YGl3euj...

Trump Not Welcome | 17 September 2025

Stop Trump Coalition

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Bck at work after a month off and catching up on the world: this was an interesting read - by Dolors Armenteras - about the continued lack of equity between global north and south in science www.nature.com/articles/d41... #science #equity #globalsouth @

Equity in science is a beautiful lie — and I’m done pretending

Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.

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Human-made global heating caused two in every three heat deaths in Europe during this year’s scorching summer, an early analysis of mortality in 854 big cities has found I think the UK is higher up this chart than most people would expect www.theguardian.com/environment/...

One of the best examples of a mature, temperate forest garden is under threat - please sign the Agroforestry Research Trust's petition to try and save it.

Dave Goulson@davegoulson.bsky.social · last yr.

The Dartington Forest Garden is threatened with destruction by landlords the Dartington Trust. It took >30 years to grow, and is a wonderful example of a radically different approach to food & fibre production. Please sign the petition, and share. www.agroforestry.co.uk/save-darting...

Fascinating article about deep sea prospecting.

Krista Langlois@cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 2y ago

. @rebekahwhite.bsky.social with the deep-sea worm butt facts you didn't know you needed, along with a really fascinating story about how multinational companies are making big profits off publicly-funded research expeditions www.biographic.com/the-three-wa...

Noteworthy speech by von der Leyen at the #EU Ambassadors conference 2025 ec.europa.eu/commission/p... "The #phase-out of Russian #fossilfuels must continue." #climate #energy

Speech by President von der Leyen at the EU Ambassadors Conference 2025

Dear HR/VP, my dearest Kaja, Secretary-General, Ambassadors, Allow me to start with a very warm welcome and thanks to each and every one of you for your service to Europe. Many of you have supported a

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