"No one will protect what they don't care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced." - David Attenborough, on the challenge of rallying public support to protect the natural world. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thank you, David Attenborough, for 100 incredible years of life on Earth | Jess Harwood

As a kid I would do his voice, put on my dad’s work shirt and host my own nature documentaries in the backyard

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A study from colleagues in SNES and @uniofgalway.bsky.social analysing over 500,000 tweets from 2006 to 2021 found that public discourse on invasive species heavily favours charismatic animals over ecologically harmful plants 🐱 www.ncl.ac.uk/nes/news/new...

What half a million tweets revealed about invasive species

A study analysing over 500,000 tweets from 2006 to 2021 found that public discourse on invasive species heavily favours charismatic animals over ecologically harmful plants.

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From habitats to hashtags: examining online discussions about invasive species – new paper by @scanavan.bsky.social et al. now published in #EcologyandSociety doi.org/10.5751/ES-1... #alienspecies #invasivespecies #digitaldata #socialmedia #conservationculturomics

What a great day at #ICCB2025, I really enjoyed presenting my latest work among such an interesting group of researchers!

I will be presenting “Do Changes in Threat Intensity Result in Genuine Changes in Species Extinction Risk?” at 3:34pm on Monday, room P5 😁

Society for Conservation Biology Oceania@scboceania.org · last yr.

Who else is presenting at #ICCB2025 ? So many exciting talks and posters in the program! Repost this slide and let us know when / where to find you!

Super happy to announce that the first of my PhD chapters has been published in Ecology and Evolution ✨🥳 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

To What Extent Can Life History Strategies Inform Reptile Conservation Planning?

Conservation planners must effectively target interventions to reduce the extinction risk of species. If we can use a species' life history strategies to predict their responses to interventions, thi...

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Such a lovely surprise to end the academic year with — I’m so glad our work with the wonderful SNES team has been recognised at such a high level! 💐

School of Natural and Environmental Sciences@sciencesncl.bsky.social · 2y ago

Congratulations to Sophia Long and @emastevenson.bsky.social on their success at the Student Rep Awards, winning in the category 'PG School Rep of the Year'. Both have put so much work into improvements for the PG community on top of their own studies - Well done! 🎓🌟#WeAreNCL

This International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we’re celebrating the incredible women in our community! From research labs to to the field, they’re shaping the future and paving the way for more to follow 🔬✨ #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM #WeAreNCL

What a lovely week at #BES2024, so many amazing people and talks! Thoroughly enjoyed presenting my first phd chapter in the poster session as well, but my personal highlight was definitely the party Cèilidh 😁💃🏼

“Our current economic system is investing in its own demise.” Professor Nathalie Seddon discusses the future of nature-based solutions and points honestly to the root of many of our problems. #BES2024

And speaking of- here's the link to said preprint: Exploring how life history data could be used to support conservation planning! 🐢🐍🦎🐊 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

To what extent can life history strategies inform species conservation planning?

Global policy aims to prevent species extinctions; to support these aims conservation planners must effectively target interventions to reduce the extinction risk of species. However, there is often a...

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What a week this is setting up to be! Preprint: approved ✔️ Manuscript: submitted ✔️ Poster: printed ✔️ Train to #BES2024: imminent! ⌛🚄🥳

an elderly woman in a pink sweater says " let 's roll "

ALT: an elderly woman in a pink sweater says " let 's roll "

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