🌿💸 What does wildlife loss have to do with your weekly shop? Join us at Grainger Market for our interactive 'Nature’s Price Tag' stall! 🛒📊 #biodiversity Funded by @ukri.org with @northumbriauni.bsky.social Uni & @newcastleuni.bsky.social 🏫🤝 📅 22 Oct, 11-3pm | FREE! 🔗 festivalofsocialscience.com

🌿💸 What does wildlife loss have to do with your weekly shop? Join us at Grainger Market for our interactive 'Nature’s Price Tag' stall! 🛒📊 #biodiversity Funded by @ukri.org with @northumbriauni.bsky.social Uni & @newcastleuni.bsky.social 🏫🤝 📅 22 Oct, 11-3pm | FREE! 🔗 festivalofsocialscience.com

🍂 That "messy" yard you're looking at? It’s actually a five-star winter resort for wildlife. Leaving the leaves and letting nature breathe isn't council neglect—it's ecological intelligence. Let's ditch the leaf blowers give hedgehogs a cozy, wild winter! 🦔🍁 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Plastic flowers and mowed lawns: the exploration of everyday unsustainability

In human-controlled environments and in cultivated landscapes, the plants accommodate social, cultural and economic needs. This article will focus on the use of plants for agriculture, urban planni...

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The Regeneration Lab

Welcome to The Regeneration Lab. The podcast of the Regenerative Thinking research group at the the Mission Zero centre of expertise at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, where we conduct integ...

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Fireside chat alert 🔥 I'm speaking at the online #SustainabilitySummit for #SMEs on 22 Oct, 9:30am BST, hosted by Sustainability Support Service Ltd. Come and talk #SustainableBusiness, #Biodiversity and what #SMEs can do 👉 tinyurl.com/434hzxsc

Munich-Schwabing with the church of St. Ursula, 1908 #wassilykandinsky #expressionism

🗑️ What does our rubbish say about us? Our 2nd Garbology Walk from #Newcastle to Ryton marked the completion of our BRANCH (Building Resilience Across Newcastle Communities and Habitats) project, we explored local waste and #Community 🚶‍♂️✨ #Sustainability #Waste www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Delighted to share that FIELD (Fostering Interdisciplinary Education for Life and Diversity) has been funded by UKRI! 🎉🌍 Biodiversity pedagogy, with 19 partners across 13 countries. Huge thanks to all involved 🙏 #Biodiversity #ResearchFunding #GrantFunded #EnvironmentalEducation #ECRchat #HEfunding

Delighted to share that FIELD (Fostering Interdisciplinary Education for Life and Diversity) has been funded by @ESRC Connect Awards, part of @UKRI_News! 🎉🌍 Biodiversity pedagogy with 19 partners, 13 countries🙏 #BiodiversityEducation #Ecocentrism #ESRC #UKRI #HigherEducation #ConservationScience

Bornean orangutans are in danger❗Fires in Kalimantan are destroying their habitat at alarming rates. These orangutans are also suffering severe health impacts from smoke inhalation 💔 Bornean orangutans are critically endangered. Another reason to #KeepForestsStanding https://bit.ly/4AdDwB0

Rescuers scramble to save orangutans as El Niño-boosted fires spread across Borneo

BANJARMASIN, Indonesia -- As a strengthening El Niño fuels wildfires across much of Indonesia, NGO and government conservationists are at work in forests here trying to save an increasing number of orangutans from burning landscapes. “Seven individuals ...

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Following weeks of drought, finally rain - mushroom season, Blackhall Mill.

~5,000 scientists from 102 countries have signed the World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Third Notice, declaring a #PlanetaryEmergency from #ClimateChange, #BiodiversityLoss, pollution and crossed #PlanetaryBoundaries. Sign here: forms.gle/BAfifGWesmoY...

Hard to not feel judged when looking at this photo.

30 years. One river catchment. Countless achievements. 💙🌊 Join us on 13 Sept for our Celebration Day featuring inspiring talks, field trips, lunch, cake and plenty to celebrate. Free tickets available now! at 🔗https://loom.ly/d5Mx4g8 #Cumbria #NatureRecovery #riverconservation

Global protein consumption has increased by 1/3 since 1960 More than half of this new growth has come from animal sources, despite plant protein still making up 62% of all protein supply Reversing this trend & being clear on plant protein wins (fibre, planetary health, equal muscle gain) is key

Just discovered that those red things in the rockpools of St Ives are Beadlet Anemones. When the tide goes out, they look like small, soft blobs of dark red jelly stuck to the rocks. When the water covers them, they open up to show many short tentacles.

New article in Business Strategy and the Environment: doi.org/10.1002/bse.... Leader-Member Exchange, compliance & sustainability performance in carbon-market governance: a #GlobalSouth perspective, looking at Uganda's #CarbonMarkets #Sustainability #ClimateChange #SustanableBusiness #ESG

The real butterfly effect… A global study of 1,758 species of butterflies across 105 countries found that nearly 80% of documented range shifts are linked to climate change and extreme weather. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Extensive climate-induced range shifts in butterflies across the globe - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Insects are increasingly pressured by climate change. Here the authors compile global evidence of range shifts in butterflies and call for more co-ordinated efforts in documenting such trends across c...

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First in our Reece Foundation series: Food Waste, Socioeconomic Inequality, and Household Consumption, a #Garbology study in Newcastle w/ Van Tran, Mark Goddard, Cheng Siew Goh. We sorted bins, not surveys, to see how #FoodWaste differs by income. doi.org/10.1080/00664677.2026.2673519

What our rubbish reveals: food waste and inequality in Newcastle households

We examined household rubbish across richer and poorer parts of Newcastle to see how income shapes food waste and consumption habits, combining bin analysis with interviews to understand what gets thr...

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New commentary is out: "Why pronatalism fails the planetary health test." Falling birth rates aren't the crisis, ignoring planetary boundaries is. doi.org/10.3197/whpj... #Pronatalism #PlanetaryHealth #PopulationAndSustainability #ReproductiveRights #EcologicalOvershoot #Biodiversity

Today was supposed to be my ECCB 26 @society4conbio.bsky.social keynote in Leiden. eccb26leiden.eu/interview-wi... Unfortunately, I am still waiting on my Indefinite Leave to Remain, can't travel until it's decided. Applied in January. Still nothing. Fingers crossed something moves before Thursday.

Absolute privilege to give a keynote at the "Foundational Issues in #BiodiversityFinance" workshop. Can you put a price on #wetland, #pollinator, or #ecosystem, without either overselling nature's financial "value" or reducing it to a spreadsheet item? philevents.org/event/show/1...

I'm pleased to announce that the Fair Trade Advocacy Office and Newcastle Business School are offering a fully funded PhD entitled "Peak Fair Trade? Reimagining the future of the Fair Trade movement". Happy to discuss the project with potential applicants. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Peak Fair Trade? Reimagining the future of the Fair Trade movement (Ref: RDFC26/SC/NBS/PRICE) at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Peak Fair Trade? Reimagining the future of the Fair Trade movement (Ref: RDFC26/SC/NBS/PRICE) at Northumbria University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Precisely 30 years ago I started working on my PhD dissertation, which later became my first book, East to West Migration, exploring #Migration policy and practice. Presently I seem in the middle of it lnkd.in/eM34B8hE

Yolo the baby king vulture has the cutest freckles going on. 🪶 It takes king vultures 5-6 years to go from baby to full color glow-up, and during that time there's a constant transition of in between stages. Its so fun to see him evolve!

When everything is violence, nothing is violence — new paper challenges claim that peer criticism and methodological disagreements constitute "epistemological violence." Robust debate is how science improves. doi.org/10.1111/cobi... #ConservationBiology #AcademicFreedom #ResearchEthics #Pluralism

When everything is violence, nothing is violence: Response to Koot et al. (2020)

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Mobile Labour? Lost keynotes. Frozen fieldwork. Blocked international research. 5 months waiting for a UK residence permit-no travel outside UK. Feels like under #HomeOffice arrest. Reality for thousands academics. Raised it with @cmckinnellmp.bsky.social Now raising it here. #GlobalTalent

New paper on extinction accounting & urban biodiversity governance in Hong Kong, out in AAAJ: doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ... #ecocentrism #sustainability #ESG #KunmingMontreal #GBF #30x30 #NaturePositive #KunmingMontreal #sustainability #SustainableBusiness #Rewilding #Biodiversity

Food Waste, Socioeconomic Inequality, and Household Consumption: A Mixed-Methods Garbology Study in Newcastle upon Tyne www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #sustainability #waste #foodwaste #inequality #consumption #food #poverty

Food Waste, Socioeconomic Inequality, and Household Consumption: A Mixed-Methods Garbology Study in Newcastle upon Tyne

Food waste represents a defining paradox of contemporary consumption: UK households discard approximately 6.4 million tonnes of food annually, of which 73% is edible, while an estimated 7.5 million...

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