📆 interested in #AnimalPolitics & #mutualisms? Check out this exciting conference in Sheffield 8-9 Sept - with a really fascinating set of papers ⬇️ multispeciesmutualisms.org/event-social...
Bob Smith
@anotherbobsmith.bsky.social
Director of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology @dice-kent.bsky.social at the University of Kent and Founder of the Izele online conservation social network.
Quasi-experimental analysis of the effects of Ethiopia’s protected areas on environmental and human wellbeing is combined with surveys of conservation professionals to explore why improving protected area effectiveness may be prioritized over network expansion 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Trade-offs between nature and people in Ethiopia’s protected areas demonstrate challenges in translating global conservation targets into national realities - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Quasi-experimental analysis of the effects of Ethiopia’s protected areas on environmental and human wellbeing is combined with surveys of conservation professionals to explore why improving protected ...
nature.com
This, by @timharford.ft.com feels right on LLMs. One problem with the Turing Test of AI is that convincingly imitating a human doesn't require competence (because humans are often not competent). timharford.com/2026/06/chat...
Chatbots make stuff up. Why do we believe them anyway?
Marathon day. An early train into London, then an unfamiliar journey across a race-disrupted city from Paddington to Blackheath, all in good time for the start of the race. I was nervous, of course…
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🦊 “Longbridge Foxes” — By Annatomix in Longbridge, Birmingham, UK 🇬🇧 Underpasses That Became Secret Art Worlds (12 Photos): streetartutopia.com/2026/05/23/u...
Then there is this study on the national level by @sophiejago.bsky.social and colleagues, including @joelangley9.bsky.social @juliajones.bsky.social @jamesborrell.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Trade-offs between nature and people in Ethiopia’s protected areas demonstrate challenges in translating global conservation targets into national realities - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Quasi-experimental analysis of the effects of Ethiopia’s protected areas on environmental and human wellbeing is combined with surveys of conservation professionals to explore why improving protected ...
nature.com
In fisheries models, natural mortality (M) is often set to 0.2 per year. A detailed derivation of this result was provided by John Pope in 1975, see below:
Ethiopia’s protected areas are working — and that is worth celebrating. Our new paper in @natecoevo.nature.com looks at what Ethiopia’s experience can teach us about the challenges in turning global conservation targets into effective and equitable national action. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Trade-offs between nature and people in Ethiopia’s protected areas demonstrate challenges in translating global conservation targets into national realities - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Quasi-experimental analysis of the effects of Ethiopia’s protected areas on environmental and human wellbeing is combined with surveys of conservation professionals to explore why improving protected ...
nature.com
🚨FUNDED PHD🚨'Economic carrying capacity & the future of rhinos in privately governed OECMs' @dice-kent.bsky.social, UK & International applications welcome - closing date 14th May🦏 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
JOB ALERT: Two 4.5 year postdoctoral positions to work on my Wellcome-funded project 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health'. Please share widely! CLOSING DATE: 23 April (the date on Jobs.ac.uk is apparently incorrect)
We're recruiting a fully-funded #PhD using behavioural sci approaches in community conservation in #Madagascar. Open to international students - #Malagasy speakers especially welcome! Led by @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social Based @ Cardiff School of Psychology www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
A Behavioural Science Approach to Community-Led Conservation at Lake Alaotra, Madagascar at Cardiff University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - A Behavioural Science Approach to Community-Led Conservation at Lake Alaotra, Madagascar at Cardiff University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Fully-funded PhD with me in beautiful North Wales (field work in Sumatra). From conflict to coexistence: how can new biodiversity finance approaches promote elephants and humans living in harmony? With @wwf.org.uk, @bangoruniversity.bsky.social www.bangor.ac.uk/conservation...
PhD project: From conflict to coexistence - How can new biodiversity finance approaches promote elephants and humans living in harmony? | Bangor University
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📖 New paper 📖 #Elephant 🐘 barrier behaviors in response to conflict mitigation fences 🐝 Led by Dominique Gonçalves @anotherbobsmith.bsky.social @dice-kent.bsky.social #conservation doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
Elephant barrier behaviors in response to conflict mitigation fences
Human–wildlife conflict is a major conservation issue, particularly in lower income countries, where it affects marginalized people and leads to the extirpation of threatened species. Managers increa...
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🚨New Paper🚨'Conservation Rangers Urgently Need Mental Health Provision' in @consletters.bsky.social by Soofi et al. inc @drdavidlroberts.bsky.social @dice-kent.bsky.social Great work by Soofi bringing this paper together!!! doi.org/10.1111/con4...
This instance hasn't been discussed much in the European sphere, but it is pretty wild - a group of scientists write a unassuming exploration of some issues around rewilding in Argentina, and get sued by a very large and influential NGO. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Threatened conservation scientists: The aftermath of an eye-opening publication on rewilding
‘Rewilding’ is a nature conservation strategy gaining prominence worldwide. Established in the Northern Hemisphere, rewilding initiatives have increas…
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How do you know whether or not your conservation monitoring program is helping you to deliver outcomes? We have made a checklist of 15 distinct reasons - some more directly connected to outcomes than others.
Royal Society Publishing@royalsocietypublishing.org · 8mo ago2025 Georgina Mace Review now out in #ProcB - How monitoring matters for nature #conservation: 15 reasons framed in a theory of change #OpenAccess royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Conservation abandonment is a policy blind spot. #ICYMI, read the article here: rdcu.be/eQpdN #OpenAccess #nature #climate @catalyzconserv.bsky.social
Conservation abandonment is a policy blind spot
Nature Ecology & Evolution - Amidst the collective push to establish nature conservation initiatives, little attention has been paid to ensuring that they persist over time. The abandonment of...
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Excited to be trailing FreeStations - accessible environmental pollution equipment - at our @dice-kent.bsky.social campus next week Huge thanks for Prof Mark Mulligan from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social for building them with us! Read more here: blogs.kent.ac.uk/dice/2025/09...
Excellent advice from Hugh Possingham on monitoring conservation projects and why most Monitoring and Evaluation is flawed. youtu.be/qa6Ewt-W5mU?...
Why most conservation projects fail to learn
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...
And that’s a wrap! This week, authors of the #SpatialPlanningConnectivity Assessment met for the first time to explore biodiversity-inclusive spatial planning and ecological connectivity.🌍 Thank you to @iiasa.ac.at 🇦🇹 for being excellent hosts! 🧪 www.ipbes.net/spatial-plan...
There are over 18,000 types of lichen in existence. My personal favourite is ‘village bench lichen’, which devotes its entire existence selflessly to gradually making communal public seating more furry and comfortable.
This feels like the perfect post to reply to and announce this - but my book, Endemic: Exploring the wildlife unique to Britain, which includes a chapter on the No Parking Whitebeam, comes out a week today. share.google/Rgyzzyr777Hi...
Endemic
Meet the rare, obscure and utterly British species found nowhere else on earth.Around 70,000 species call Britain home, but how many of them can be found here a…
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Ian Parsons@ianparsons.bsky.social · last yr.This Whitebeam tree species, is found in just one Devon valley. That's its ENTIRE global distribution. It has a brilliant name, but nobody, including naturalists, ever talks about it... 🌳🌍 #LoveTrees @iand777.bsky.social @guyshrubsole.bsky.social @patrickbarkham.bsky.social @nicwilson.bsky.social
📣📣📣 Fully funded MSc scholarships available for this Sept. Short deadline: 21st July Kent are offering fully funded taught MSc in Conservation Science #scholarships @dice-kent.bsky.social For more info: lnkd.in/eiPJG8uE Any questions, then please email: lhscholars@kent.ac.uk #phdchat #funding
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
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Job alert: 2.75 -3 yr postdoc in Mathematical ecology/epidemiology or Decision Sci at the University of Queensland on the value of information for decisions with @hugepossum.bsky.social @katehelmstedt.bsky.social Katriona Shea & myself #MathSky 🌍 uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo... please share
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Mathematical Ecology and Environmental Decision Science
School of Mathematics and Physics Full-time, fixed-term position for up to 2 years and 9 months with the possibility up to 3 years, depending on funding availability. Base salary will be in the range ...
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Please share: PhD scholarship opportunity in mathematical ecology on the value of information for improving ecological management, open to international students, with a great team @hugepossum.bsky.social, Katriona Shea, Kate Helmstedt, & me at UQ, Australia 🌍 🧮, study.uq.edu.au/study-option...
The value of information for ecological management
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*New postgraduate studentship*! ⚠️⬇️ We are now offering fully funded taught MSc in Conservation Science studentships at the University of Kent, particularly targeted towards individuals from underserved backgrounds. Apply here: ➡️ www.kent.ac.uk/durrell-inst... #postgraduatescholarships
Leverhulme ‘Space for Nature’ MSc Scholarship
Join the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology as a Leverhulme 'Space for Nature' scholar.
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👋 Hello BlueSky! I’m Dr Stephanie Brittain, a Lecturer in Conservation Science at @dice-kent.bsky.social & a Research Fellow @iccs.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk. I’m also President of the SCB SSWG (Social Science Working Group) @society4conbio.bsky.social scbsocialscience.org #ConSocSci
SCB Social Science Working Group – Strengthen conservation social science and its application to conservation practice
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Please come along to our #ICCB2025 symposium on "Future pathways for area-based conservation" tomorrow, Tues 17, from 3:15 to 4:15 pm in Mezzanine Level Meeting Room M3. We have a set of excellent speakers talking about how and whether different types of conservation areas fit within GBF Target 3.
