Gill Petrokofsky
@greenwoodtree14.bsky.social
Oxford-based systematic review researcher, mainly for forestry, land-use and environmental challenges. Also keen on sport and music. They all connect!
Early Access Overview! Haddaway et al synthesise existing reviews on salmon farming to evaluate the scope, quality and findings of the secondary literature on the impacts of Atlantic and Pacific salmon aquaculture doi.org/10.1186/s137... #EvidenceSynthesis, #SciPol, #EnvironmentalEvidence
(2/2) If interested, email journal@environmentalevidence.org with a 1-page CV, a two-sentence statement of interest, and your subject-matter expertise. Experience in systematic evidence synthesis is required. More: link.springer.com/journal/1375...
Environmental Evidence
With unprecedented threats to the natural world, governments and international bodies are drafting and implementing policy to manage the environment ...
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Amazing lunar eclipse, viewed from Headington, Oxford. A truly red moon! #lunareclipse #oxford @headingtonnews.bsky.social
Lunar eclipse - not good puc, but amazing sight even though only 95% or so not totality
Wow! What a resource!
Roger Pielke Jr.@thehonestbroker.bsky.social · 2mo agoHuge news at THB Just launched➡️ THB Global Extreme Weather and Climate Change Dashboard A global dashboard that covers 288 indicators from 57 variables across 8 phenomena and for the entire world and every continent globalextremeweather.thehonestbroker.org
Following further findings of sweet chestnut blight close to the current restricted zone boundary, if you spot anything suspicious, report via: https://treealert.forestresearch.gov.uk/ #CheckaSweetChestnut runs in partnership with the #RoyalHorticulturalSociety & the @forestrycommission.bsky.social
Robust evidence - please take note, Right wing media! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds
Analysis of neighbourhoods in more than 100 US cities finds no evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime.
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Sober stuff from Double Down News showing how this story was shamelessly whipped up by the Right.
Double Down News@doubledown.news · 2mo agoWhat REALLY Happened in Ceuta
ONLINE COURSE: Community Forestry 101. Offered by RECOFTC. 26 Jun-18 Dec 2026. ~ 6–8 hours, fully self-paced. English, Free. Enroll at www.recoftc.org/learning/com... (Scroll down for 2026 version).
Community Forestry 101
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Agreed. And it's delusional to think we are just talking about "hot weather."
Are our ecological conclusions built on shaky foundations? Our latest paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social highlights that Risk of Bias (RoB) assessment, crucial for ensuring the internal validity of research, is almost never used in #systematicreviews in eco & evo 📉 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/2041...
Great article by Meg Gain. Good luck with your letter to the intellectually-challenged Reform councillors, @roaringmeg.bsky.social . Parents are perfectly able to chose and need a range of thought-provoking materials.
Bylines Network@bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 3mo agoReform UK’s Warwickshire library review alarms librarians and readers Reform-led Warwickshire County Council proposes censoring what children read, even if residents don’t agree with them | Meg Gain @roaringmeg.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk
Starmer's nature plan is pathetic. Burnham must do better. I've written about the government's '30by30 Delivery Plan', out today, which isn't a plan & won't deliver 30by30. I suggest some policies Burnham should pursue instead, amidst Blackadder gifs: guyshrubsole.substack.com/p/starmers-n... 1/🧵
Starmer’s nature plan is pathetic. Burnham must do better
Today's 30by30 Delivery Plan isn't a plan, and it won't deliver 30by30.
guyshrubsole.substack.com
Powerful stuff! Extremely alarming.
Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3mo agoNEW: The story behind a silencing. Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn Williams is trapped in a parallel private justice system. I've written about what it tells us about the "post-state" future, a cryptolibertarian dream that's close than we realise. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
I would beg you to read the whole thread, as I think very few people have seen how fast the foundations of democracy are being torn out in the UK, and how far down the road towards authoritarianism we have already travelled. Sorry to pester you, but this could not be more important. Thanks.
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3mo agoFew people understand the scope of the powers UK governments have granted themselves, to criminalise us as terrorists for expressing an opinion. Fewer still understand how illiberal the Court of Appeal judgement is. But @davidallengreen.bsky.social does.🧵 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
This is a great evidence post. Only yesterday, people of a certain age were telling me all about 1976 and how we'd all gone soft in 2026! Convenient right wing myths are strong!
Emma Monk@monkemma.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
Nature Minister @marycreagh.bsky.social announces that the Government Estate Nature Plan will be published today (should be laid before Parliament around midday) - speaking at @cprecountryside.bsky.social’s Land Use Conference in London. I’ll be speaking shortly in response! @wildcard.land
It tells you everything you need to know about Kemi Badneoch and Nigel Farage that as London schools, hospitals and transport networks all buckle under extreme record-breaking temperatures, they gather with fossil fuel lobbyists, climate deniers and the far-right to demand an end to Net Zero
As Extreme Heat Hits London, Fossil Fuel Interests and Global Far-Right Politicians Gather for a 'Glastonbury of Climate Science Deniers'
Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch are both scheduled to address the event, reports Max Colbert
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Ash dieback dynamics 🍂 Schertler and colleagues review recent studies on the resistance and tolerance mechanisms of common ash against the ash dieback pathogen (Hymenoscyphus fraxineus). They also discuss the relevance to ash conservation and breeding programs. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/fore...
Woodland pasture creation and some very moving stories from people remembering loved ones through 'CareMoor for Exmoor'
Warming-driven fecundity declines, suggesting that climate warming has pushed tree populations beyond the optimum of their reproductive niches. However, the study reveals management potential through informed provenance selection❗️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Forest tree fecundity declines as climate shifts - Nature Climate Change
The authors use 34 years of seed harvest data from Poland, covering over 40,000 observations and five common species, to understand the impacts of climate change on tree fecundity. They show reduced f...
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Happy May morning! Oxford looking lovely in the early sun today.
“Drivers of complexity in ecosystem restoration” Waddell 2026 - Journal of Applied Ecology - besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Drivers of complexity in ecosystem restoration
This study shows that ecological complexity is empirically measurable, and its development in restoration can be influenced by key variables, which have mechanistic underpinnings. The foundational ro...
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We all suffer from pressure to publish...and there's plenty of inappropriate requests, but this was so silly, I thought I'd better laugh not get angry with whatever AI has paired my forest and hedgerow work with surgery & anaesthetics!
