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Mark Hovenden
@markhovenden.bsky.social
Dad, lecturer, plant and ecosystem ecologist, committed bicycle commuter.
Applied grassland ecologists! Consider applying for this job at K-State! Faculty position and director of 2 prairie research sites. (photo is one of my fave summer storms at one of the sites where I worked for many years) careers.k-state.edu/jobs/profess...
📢 18-month postdoc in my lab doing drought modelling with either the UK land surface model JULES or machine learning. Up to you which. Please share widely (thanks) www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de... Closes: 18th January
And what better pair of encouraging Aussie botanists could there be to lead the journal?
Hey plant people! Did you know that @jmorganecology and I are Editors-in-Chief of the Australian Journal of Botany (pictured here looking out to AJB's bright future😊)? Come say hi at #ESAus2024 to talk paper ideas or the planned Special Issue on post-fire recovery
Wonderful evening catching up with all the botanically-inclined folk at #ESAust2024 last night! Highlights included convincing Travis to get a Bluesky account!
Here's another great talk from Day 1 of #ESAus2024. Mechanical fuel treatments of shrub-enchroached eucalypt woodlands improve understorey biodiversity Great job, Jamie Burton! Important work. #fireecology
Tasmanian devils can socially distance! 🧪 🤒😈 😈😈😈 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Infectious disease and sickness behaviour: tumour progression affects interaction patterns and social network structure in wild Tasmanian devils | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Scienc...
Infectious diseases, including transmissible cancers, can have a broad range of impacts on host behaviour, particularly in the latter stages of disease progression. However, the difficulty of early di...
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Science friends 🧪🌎🦑, @altmetric.com tracks Bluesky posts now! Quote or reply to this post with a link to the paper you’re best known for or most proud of, and a brief plain-language summary of what you found and why it matters! Let’s fill Bluesky with SCIENCE!
We’re off to Silver Plains this morning and it’s warm and sunny so perfect conditions to see some of these out and about… #fieldecology #tasland
A tiger snake, sunning in perfect snake pose!
🚨 PhD: "Forests on the edge: examining vegetation recovery following climate extremes" at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social with myself, Lina Mercado (Exeter) and Eddy Robertson (UK Met Office). I would REALLY love to find a student for this, please share widely (thanks) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Measuring net ecosystem carbon exchange in peaty grassland at Tasland’s Silver Plains Reserve.