Super excited to share that my latest paper from my PhD is now published! 🎉 If you're into camera traps, citizen science, animal individual ID or pine martens this ones for you! 😆 doi.org/10.1002/rse2... Big thanks to my co-authors and everyone who in the MammalWeb community who contributed! 📷

Citizen Science for Individual Identification of Pine Martens Martes martes From Camera Trap Footage

Camera traps generate large volumes of wildlife footage, but identifying animals to the individual level remains challenging and time-consuming. Using European pine martens in the Forest of Dean as a....

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🌿Paid Summer Placement Opportunity 🌿 Interested in a career in environmental science? Apply for a paid 6-week placement at UKCEH exploring tropical tree genetic diversity in SE Asia to support conservation & restoration strategies. 📅 Deadline: 10 July 📧 More info: iapetus.applications@durham.ac.uk

Congratulations to Hakan Hazzard (winner of Best Talk) and Hiromi Beran (winner of Best Poster)—both outstanding! And a huge well done to everyone else; the standard was incredibly high across the board. #Iapetus #StudentConference

It was a wonderful #ceilidh - an energising end to a full conference day and a chance to build lasting #Iapetus connections and memories. 💃🕺 🎶

@ruth-wright.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The @iapetusdtp.bsky.social conference #ceilidh was SO much fun - what a great way to get everyone interacting and show the students from English universities some Scottish culture! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Thanks for organising 😊

A massive shout-out to our incredible #Iapetus DTP #StudentConference organisers - @fawnholland.bsky.social @fredmaerk.bsky.social @opheliasfritsch.bsky.social, Manel, and Emma. You were amazing - thank you for such a fantastic event!

Looking back on last week’s #Iapetus DTP #StudentConference at St Andrews—what a fantastic experience! Great conversations, inspiring research, and a brilliant atmosphere throughout. Here’s to doing it all again next year in a new setting!

Had an amazing couple of days at St. Andrews for the @iapetusdtp.bsky.social conference, chatting with folks and hearing about the cool range of work everyone does!

Wrapping up with the last set of #StudentConference talks - ending on a high! #Iapetus

We launched into the final day with another line-up of great doctoral speakers #Iapetus #StudentConference

In day 2, we had two insightful talks in the afternoon, followed by some brilliant lightning talks from our Year 2s

The second session of the morning saw more excellent talks at the #Iapetus #StudentConference

Kicking day two off of the #Iapetus #StudentConference

And more great talks in our second session of the first day! Looking forward to Day 2 today … #Iapetus #StudentConference

Great first session in our first day at the Iapetus Student Conference yesterday, hosted by our St Andrews students. We enjoyed some excellent presentations from our students!

📃 The first paper from my PhD has just been published in JGR: Earth Surface, detailing insights into Arctic glacial history from morphometry and machine learning.❄️ 🛰️ doi.org/10.1029/2025... Co-authors @polarguy.bsky.social, @drfionaclubb.bsky.social and Neil Ross. @iapetusdtp.bsky.social

Congrats Dr @lizziekeen.bsky.social

DrZP@zarahpattison.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Huge congrats to the new Dr @lizziekeen.bsky.social who passed her PhD viva! Thx to examiners Prof W Dawson &Dr R Sanderson.Lizzie's research, funded @iapetusdtp.bsky.social Woodland Trust, focused on understanding the impact of Himalayan balsam (Impatiens glandulifera) on ancient woodland habitats.

Applications closing 5th Jan for Fully funded PhD through @iapetusdtp.bsky.social Studying behaviour and ecology of anemonefishes. Need to be happy to spend lots of time in Papua New Guinea and need to be SCUBA qualified. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Predator defence in anemonefishes

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1 week left to apply for this PhD. ✅ Field surveys ✅ Cutting-edge modelling ✅ Collaboration with @ptes-org.bsky.social 🗓 Deadline: 5-1-26 #PhDOpportunity #Ecology #Conservation #CitizenScience #WildlifeMonitoring @prof-r-hill.bsky.social @ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social @chrissuthy.bsky.social

Philip Stephens@ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📢 Competition funded PhD with @iapetusdtp.bsky.social: Occupancy, density & the ecology of terrestrial British mammals - what can years of systematic camera trapping tell us? Apply by 5th January 2026. 👇 iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... @mammalweb.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk #phd

We are recruiting several PhD students. If you are interested in conservation conflicts, population ecology, quantitative ecology, or biodiversity, check these projects out (links in the thread, feel free to reach out):

📢 Competition funded PhD with @iapetusdtp.bsky.social: Occupancy, density & the ecology of terrestrial British mammals - what can years of systematic camera trapping tell us? Apply by 5th January 2026. 👇 iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... @mammalweb.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk #phd

PhDs being offered across the Iapetus DTP for an October 2026 start: www.findaphd.com/phds/program... Please broadcast details of our Diversifying Talent Scholarship scheme too: www.findaphd.com/phds/program... @ukri.org #BlackAFinSTEM #firstgen

Looking forward to #BES2025 this week! If you're interested in restoration, complexity and ecoacoustics you should definitely check out my talk on Thursday 🌳🌲🌳🐦🐦‍⬛

I'll be presenting some stuff about bugs in restored landscapes, and how they might have more in common with wolves than you might think. Anyone around? #BES2025

Linking persistence, predictability and extremes in a changing climate PhD project through @iapetusdtp.bsky.social with me, @drmichaelbyrne.bsky.social, Nick Dunstone (Met Office) & Chris Taylor (CEH) iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Linking persistence, predictability and extremes in a changing climate

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Want to get better at reviewing & classifying camera trap footage? 📹 Join our webinar on 19 Mar 2026 (£12.50) with Dr Sammy Mason ( @mammalweb.bsky.social ) covering species ID, using MammalWeb, data processing + sharing results. Book: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1818786642...

Classifying Camera Trap Footage

Learn to review, identify and classify footage, manage data, and share camera trap findings through MammalWeb.

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How are movement patterns affected by energy expenditure & gain, and what does it mean for fitness? This @iapetusdtp.bsky.social PhD opportunity will use data on movement & demography of kittiwakes & spatio-temporal food abundance across their range iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... #ornithology

Anyone interested in a PhD project modelling resilience of dryland ecosystems in a changing climate, led by @ecogeo.bsky.social and with @blindmath.bsky.social, Denis Patterson and Roy Sanderson, please apply to our @iapetusdtp.bsky.social PhD position iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

#PhD #Job Alert! Interested in #sedimentary processes & #turbidity currents? ..then consider applying for this exciting post as a part of @iapetusdtp.bsky.social, based in @newcastleuni.bsky.social. For more details visit - iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... or Dr Sanem Acikalin

Super interesting talks by Sonam Rinzin and Mark Pitt at this week's @iapetusdtp.bsky.social seminar! Lovely to hear from colleagues about completely different environmental topics :)

We're advertising an @iapetusdtp.bsky.social PhD position on modelling ecosystem resilience/vegetation patterning with @ecogeo.bsky.social, Denis Patterson, Roy Sanderson, and John Wainright! Keen to chat with anyone trained in geography/maths/ecology/physics etc. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Mathematical modelling of Ecosystem Resilience in a Changing Climate

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