My interview with BBC Shropshire Radio was this morning - if you want to hear about walking the River Severn and sturgeon you can listen to it here! (34:15-41:58): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Clare Ashford - 08/09/2026 - BBC Sounds

Clare's here to brighten up your mid-morning with music, conversation and updates.

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The adventure begins! About to catch a train and bus from London to Llanidloes, where I will take off from first thing tomorrow morning for the source of the Severn!

A great write up by @aukwardlucia.bsky.social about her studies on Pelicans in Britain.

Inkcap@inkcapjournal.bsky.social · 3w ago

Pelicans: a magnificent freshwater bird, once native to England, now lost. Today's feature examines when and, crucially, why these birds went extinct – and what it would take to bring them back to our wetlands. By @aukwardlucia.bsky.social. www.inkcap.co.uk/the-bones-of...

Pelicans: a magnificent freshwater bird, once native to England, now lost. Today's feature examines when and, crucially, why these birds went extinct – and what it would take to bring them back to our wetlands. By @aukwardlucia.bsky.social. www.inkcap.co.uk/the-bones-of...

The bones of pelicans past

Part 1: England once had pelicans. When they vanished—and why—is a mystery that Lucia Snyderman is trying to solve.

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Calling all artists! The International Network for Conservation Paleobiology (INCP) is excited to announce its first-ever art competition. Winning designs will be turned into conservation paleobiology-inspired stickers and other swag to help promote the network.

Awesome to see @aukwardlucia.bsky.social’s great piece on sturgeon conservation in the latest @thepalass.bsky.social newsletter 🐟🐟

Do you know we have a newsletter? If you join our network as a member you’ll receive our bimonthly newsletter and see research highlights, palaeo-proxies, practitioner perspectives and more! You can also submit a postcard from the field, introducing yourself and your work (a short blurb and photo).

You can now join the INCP! conservationpaleorcn.org/join-and-don...

International Network for Conservation Paleobiology@cnsrvpaleonetwk.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What is conservation paleobiology? 🦖🧪 CPB is an applied science which uses historical and paleontological data to inform conservation practice for species and ecosystems.

What is conservation paleobiology? 🦖🧪 CPB is an applied science which uses historical and paleontological data to inform conservation practice for species and ecosystems.

If anyone out there works for a museum (anywhere in the world) that would like to have me give a similar talk about extinction & museums with a local twist, please contact me!

Dolly Jørgensen@dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Are you in UK and want to hear about my book Ghosts Behind Glass? 3 public talks in Feb: Cambridge Museum of Zoology, 11 Feb www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk/events/talk-... M Shed Bristol, 12 Feb  www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/m-s... Oxford NatHist Museum, 13 Feb www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/dead-a...

Come to my talk on pelicans, palaeo, and ecological insights for reintroduction tomorrow at #BES2025 in Edinburgh in Lammermuir 2 at 12pm! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦴🧪

Lucia Snyderman@aukwardlucia.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Have you ever wondered what’s in a dead bird bone?! I will be sharing my latest pelican extinction and ecology results at #BES2025! 🧪

I was pleased to present my research on using collections to understand pelican extinction and ecology in England to inform a potential reintroduction #BOUasm25, and I would like to specially thank @bou.org.uk and all the museum curators without whom this research would not be possible >>

British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU)@bou.org.uk · 10mo ago

Our speakers at the #NaturalHistoryMuseum @nhm.org for #BOUasm25 !!

1/ 🧵 I'm at #BOUasm25 A day at the museum to talk about using natural history collections to build inclusive community. Natural history #museums are undergoing a renaissance of novel research. However -who has access to collections? -who is being left out of biodiversity research? #ornithology

Lucia Snyderman finishes off our first session with her presentation “Museum collections reveal Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus) palaeoecology in England and offer reintroduction insights” 💡 @aukwardlucia.bsky.social  #BOUasm25 #palaeontology #palaeoecology

🚨Caribbean mammal PhD opportunity🚨 🧪🌿Reconstructing the trophic ecology of Caribbean mammals: new baselines to understand island evolution, extinction & conservation🐀🌴 @uor-research.bsky.social, @zslofficial.bsky.social, @nhm.org, and with me at Durrell! blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c...

Looking forward to sharing my work on extinct pelicans in England tomorrow and discussing conservation-relevant applications and the future of museum collections! #BOUasm25 🧪

Have you ever wondered what’s in a dead bird bone?! I will be sharing my latest pelican extinction and ecology results at #BES2025! 🧪

On 2 Sept at 7pm, I'll be holding an online @walklistencreate.org writer's salon with Emma Geen (author of one of my all-time favourite sci-fis) on the deeply fascinating question of how to write the worlds of other animals. Book a ticket and join us! walklistencreate.org/walkingevent...

Words to Light the Dark: Writing the worlds of other animals

How do we bridge the experiential gap between that of humans and other animals with writing that feels intelligible to us, while reaching for the differences in how other animals sense, think, and act...

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Thrilled to share our new paper, led by @jonscibulski.bsky.social, on the rich 16kyr-long history of human-ocean interactions along the Pacific coast of Panama and Costa Rica. Inspired by the late Richard Cooke MBE and beautifully illustrated by his son, @cookedillustrations.com #PaleoSky

Jon Cybulski@jonscibulski.bsky.social · last yr.

🌊Just out! We reviewed the history of human-ocean interactions, focusing on the Pacific coast of the Southern Central Asmerican Isthmus (Panamá and Costa Rica). Over 16K years of stories on culture, environment, and ecology! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.... Illustration: Madeline Dall

I had an amazing time presenting my preliminary PhD research on pelican palaeoecology at the @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social in Zurich! Saw fascinating presentations, learned a lot, and met many inspiring people working to bridge the gap between palaeontology, ecology, and conservation!

Come to my talk about pelican palaeoecology tomorrow at 14:30!

Lucia Snyderman@aukwardlucia.bsky.social · last yr.

Cannot wait to share my isotope data on pelican palaeoecology and its relevance for informing species reintroductions at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social in Zurich this summer! Hope to see you there :)

WOW it was a joy to co-organise (with the lovely @juliettewaterman.bsky.social & @aukwardlucia.bsky.social ) the ICAZ Stable Isotope Working Group conference this year with the fun (and important) theme "Back to the Future"! HUGE thanks to everyone who joined in-person or online you're all amazing

The greatest threat to ocean biodiversity in the past 50 yrs—more than climate change or plastic pollution—is unsustainable fishing. So countries around the world have been creating marine protected areas. But in the US, 47 is undoing marine protection. A marine biologist explains, No pay wall.

Trump is stripping protections from marine protected areas – why that’s a problem for fishing’s future, and for whales, corals and other ocean life

America’s marine protected areas help fish populations thrive. Trump’s plan to open them to industrial fishing may ultimately harm the fishing industry itself.

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Join us at 7:30pm 19 May at Park House for @pintofscience.uk #Pint25 to hear about: 🕷️Why spiders deserve saving - even if they scare you! 🦴How the buried secrets of sickness can aid modern environmental health issues 🧪And a special panel of women in STEM Get your tickets here! 🔗 rdg.ac/42spFXl

Bugs, Bones and Conservation Goals

Archaeological scientists are experts at using the past to help us understand the modern world. So come along to find out how ancient DNA and diseases can …

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I’m excited to co-coordinate and contribute to this year's @pintofscience.uk 🧪 festival in Reading! We've organized three nights of science talks in Park House on the University of Reading campus from 7-9:30pm May 19-21. #Pint25 Book tickets here: lnkd.in/gA3K_uQ7

Today I visited the collections at the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery to sample historical cormorants for stable isotope analysis, which will allow me to contextualize the data I have generated for extinct pelicans in England and determine their past ecology/diet to inform a potential reintroduction.

Cannot wait to share my isotope data on pelican palaeoecology and its relevance for informing species reintroductions at @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social in Zurich this summer! Hope to see you there :)

🔬 Exciting news! Join us on 8 May for the Battarbee Lecture 2025, featuring @meljleng.bsky.social on the power of stable isotopes in environmental science. 🔗 Register now! #UCLGeography #ScienceTalks

Recent Advances in the use of Stable Isotopes in Environmental Science

Professor Melanie Leng presents the Battarbee Lecture 2025 on advances in stable isotopes and their applications in environmental science.

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This is excrutiating for us to watch back, but was fun to film and I hope will be of use more broadly. Let us know if you use it for teaching etc.! archit.web.ox.ac.uk/radiocarbon-...

The Radiocarbon Dating Process - the Journey of a sample

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Upcoming conference alert from one of our Stable Isotopes Working Group! Check out more info and abstract submission in the link provided.

Juliette Waterman@juliettewaterman.bsky.social · 2y ago

Please join us in Reading for the ICAZ Stable Isotopes Working Group meetup in June! More details and submit your abstracts here: zooarchisotopes.com/back-to-the-... @icaz-news.bsky.social #zooarch #archaeology