Paul Caplat 🌲🌳🐦🦋
@paulcaplat.bsky.social
Ecologist at QUB, modelling species dynamics in novel habitats, particularly with trees around. Working for EDI. Long-distance migrant (FR, CAN, OZ, SWE, NI). Part time musician, house renovator, and van lifer. Ice hockey fan. Slave to two dogs. He/him
Unless academia learns to protect itself against AI generated papers and proposals, it will be overwhelmed, polluted and discredited by pure slop. marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/whats-new/ne...
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 receives record number of applications
The 2026 call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 21,627 applications submitted.
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📖 Check out this new article! These findings show that beaver-engineering significantly enhances local biodiversity across aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, even at sites with high land-use intensity 🦫 🌊 🐸 buff.ly/tMRGm82
“Strategically placed greenbelts in the suburbs could cool some of the world’s biggest cities by almost half a degree across at least half their area” 🌎 www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/08/urba...
Urban heat's overlooked fix: Greening the land upwind of cities
A study published in Nature Cities suggests that forests placed strategically outside urban cores can lower temperatures across much of a city.
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Super important work in a great place! Snow is one of these weird drivers that escape most modelling approaches, but are key to mountain and arctic habitat dynamics 🌍
Julia Kemppinen@juliakemppinen.bsky.social · last wk.Open position! Postdoc project on snow modelling and Arctic ecosystems ❄️🌿🌡️💧 3-yr position with assistant prof @niittynen.bsky.social at @oulu.fi ! See the link and apply by 15.10.2026 oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/fi/what:job/...
A short thread on “legitimate concerns”. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: people’s response to the arrival of asylum seekers. Please read whole 🧵before responding - thanks
Are you a #NewPI in Ecology & Evolution? Would you like to meet with peers to chat about work, the future and life as a new PI? 🍪☕️ Then I have the form for you! 📋 Help us gauge interest in a new network/event by filling in this short survey: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/K4wUiuLuFn Please RT! 🙏
GOOD NEWS: Bristol has become the first British city to impose a ban on the advertising of fossil fuels, airlines, cruises, fast fashion, and SUVs, on council-owned advertising space, including billboards, bus stop shelters, print and online. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Bristol becomes first British city to ban advertisements for fast fashion
Green-run council also curbing ads for airlines, cruises, fossil fuels and SUVs on its billboards and bus shelters
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New #ornithology paper out in @ecography.bsky.social! The tendency of birds to return to the same breeding area in different years varies wildly among species. We show that breeding site fidelity is much lower in #shorebirds nesting in the #Arctic tundra than in those nesting in other habitats. 1/n
"SPAIN is leading calls for the EU to tax private jets and the profits of fossil fuel companies to bankroll a Europe-wide climate resilience fund, including extra money to fight wildfires" Excellent idea, and importantly, avoids the Norway problem where widespread fossil $$ makes us ❤️🛢️
Spain wants private jet and fossil fuel tax to fight wildfires
Spain has called for a permanent EU climate emergency response system after a summer marred by extreme heat and wildfires.
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I have seen a great suggestion: replace all mentions of "environment" with "survival of our species" in public discourses. It would be fun to hear politicians say "The survival of our species is important, but not to the detriment of the economy".
We haven’t just changed our weather. We’ve changed the climate in which our weather happens. climatelabbook.substack.com/p/learning-f...
Learning from the summers of 1976 and 2026
We have changed the climate in which our weather happens
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🍁🚣🏼♀️Brown trees and dry riverbeds: WSL Director Rolf Holderegger explains in an interview what needs to be done after the summer of 2026. www.wsl.ch/en/news/the-... #Summer2026 #Drought #Heatwave
'The summer of 2026 could be an eye-opener for society'
Brown trees and dry riverbeds: WSL Director Rolf Holderegger explains in an interview what needs to be done after the summer of 2026.
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We're seeking a Research Ecologist to develop & apply methods for analysing large-scale passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) datasets & to lead work on the collection/analysis of restoration & rewilding data. Apply via www.bto.org/jobs Closing date: 22 September. #Ornithology #bioacoustics
Climate change was the 100% cause behind the Nepal disaster. Watch this excellent video explaining the precise causes of the mountain faults that were kept together with ice acting as cement. This area’s air is warming up 5x faster than global average temperatures, melting this icy cement.
Everything We Know About Nepal's Flood - And What Everyone Got Wrong
YouTube video by Critical Latitude
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Pesticide Action Network study finds 402-433mn cases of unintentional acute pesticide poisoning of farmers & workers every year, incl 11,000 deaths Doesn't include longer term health issues from chronic poisoning Global pesticide use has doubled since 1990 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Almost half of world’s farmers poisoned by pesticides every year, experts find
Study reveals that pesticide poisoning kills 11,000 people each year, with India accounting for nearly 60% of fatalities
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Some photos of the #Gironda fire (42 000 ha) in #Bordeaux I've just received from a friend. A large part of the area were homogeneous Pinus pinaster plantations. In the 21st-century climate, forest plantations need rethinking On the legacy of pine plantations doi.org/10.1111/1365... 🌍🔥🌳🔥🍁 wildfire
juli g pausas@jgpausas.bsky.social · 2mo agoForest plantations sustainable under the 20th‑century climate may become unsustainable in the 21st-century climate One of Europe's largest pine plantations (Pinus pinaster) is burning in West Bordeaux ( #Gironda, #Biscarrosse) 🌍🔥🌳🔥🍁 wildfire besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I don't often do this, but we are a bit desperate. Our beautiful Duna, who we adopted a month ago, needs urgent care and we need help with that. gofund.me/48a7152fe
Donate to Help us save Duna, organized by Paul Caplat
Hi, we are Paul & Francesca. Early July we adopted beautiful Duna, a 10-yo English Setter. She soon be… Paul Caplat needs your support for Help us save Duna
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Check the beautiful first PhD paper by Elouise Mayall, on goshawk dispersal. doi.org/10.1111/ibi....
Variation in forest area influences post‐fledging development and dispersal onset in the Eurasian Goshawk (<fi>Astur gentilis</fi>)
Natal dispersal is a key ecological process influencing gene flow, population connectivity and individual fitness. In altricial birds, the transition from fledging to natal dispersal is mediated by t...
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Global problems are rarely solved by one person or invention — no matter how much they go viral. The Ocean Cleanup didn’t work, for the reasons experts said it wouldn’t. What can we learn from this? therevelator.org/why-ocean-cl...
Why The Ocean Cleanup Hasn’t Solved the Plastic Pollution Crisis • The Revelator
Global problems are rarely solved by one person or invention. The Ocean Cleanup didn’t work, for the reasons experts said it wouldn’t. What can we learn from this?
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Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
Fellow ecologists, any of you feel like the (depressingly) novel interest for things environmental in society make for a new race amongst ecologists to make their voice heard, even on topics they don't master? I disliked the publish or perish race, I hate the "hear me hear me hear me" talent show 🌲🌎
If you say “I support Palestine Action”, they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on TV.
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3mo agoBoth the government and the Court of Appeal now treat protesters as terrorists and terrorists as protesters. It's hard to accept that a "Labour" government is imposing rightwing authoritarianism on the UK, but please read this column to see what's happening.+🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If you damage the weapons being used to commit a genocide you can be sentenced as a terrorist, despite not having been charged or convicted as such, while those actually committing the genocide face no accountability. The world is completely upside down. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Pro-Palestine activists sentenced as terrorists over damage at Israeli arms factory in UK
Four found guilty get tougher conditions as judge says actions were ‘designed to intimidate the UK government and a section of the public’
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Anaka do amazing work - support if you can. Support people and groups impacted by racist attacks chuffed.org/project/1854...
Support people and groups impacted by racist attacks
We are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast.
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Amazing really to think just how much trouble Tommy Robinson or Farage would be in if they had called for people to sit down peacefully or spray paint a lawn to protest climate change.
People are organising in Belfast to support those effected by last night’s racist violence. Whether you are near or far, please consider donating! chuffed.org/project/1854...
Support people and groups impacted by racist attacks
We are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast.
chuffed.org
In a functioning democracy, politicians fueling such violent hatred should be brought to justice. There's a political colour responsible in NI, and a F responsible on the next island (not to mention the T of the afforementioned colour across the ocean). Plus the work of masculinists of all kinds...
Belfast Telegraph@belfasttelegraph.co.uk · 4mo agoMorning readers, here's a look at Wednesday's edition of the Belfast Telegraph 🗞️ Stay with us for all your breaking news throughout the day. Today's front page: tinyurl.com/3m6tvrdh
Many Griffon vultures, one bearded vulture, one red kite and an unidentified falcon. Not bad for a 2h walk. Orchids and incredible landscapes, too.
