UCL People and Nature Lab
@ucl-pnl.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary research and teaching partnership at UCL's East Campus, working towards solutions to a more sustainable relationship between People and Nature. Part of CBER, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/gee/people-and-nature-lab
New Summer School for students interested in Biodiversity-based careers! Join us for four days of workshops, next-gen skills training and interactive careers talks this (late) summer
Elli Leadbeater@ellileadbeater.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe've designed a short UCL summer course for students who are interested in future-facing ecological careers and want to learn more about them. If that's you, come and join us in September! www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...
I am absolutely thrilled to share my first chapter, published today in @jappliedecology.bsky.social! Results are summarised in the thread below, or you can read it OA here doi.org/10.1111/1365... @ellileadbeater.bsky.social @rhulbiology.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social @ucl-pnl.bsky.social 1/7 🧪
Resource supplementation later in the colony cycle improves real‐world bumblebee colony survival
Our findings suggest that B. terrestris colonies became food-limited towards the end of their colony cycle in early summer. We suggest ecological intensification through planting native wildflower sp....
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New PhD position available! For applicants keen to combine evolutionary ecology, neuroscience and animal cognition. Based at UCL with me, @maxreuter.bsky.social, @fcamus.bsky.social and Tamara Boto (Bristol). Directly funded, see here for details and eligibility: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
How Memory Evolves: Integrating Cognitive Ecology, Neuroscience, and Experimental Evolution in Drosophila at University College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - How Memory Evolves: Integrating Cognitive Ecology, Neuroscience, and Experimental Evolution in Drosophila at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Found in the People and Nature lab garden!
Leo Fordham@leofordham.bsky.social · 9mo agoDelighted to share this note on only the second British record of the #hoverfly Paragus quadrifasciatus, which @amaeda16.bsky.social, @ellileadbeater.bsky.social, and I found during a #pollinator survey of the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social garden lab. Read and share! 🧪 www.researchgate.net/publication/...
UCL People and Nature Lab are looking for partner organisations from the conservation sector for Nature Smart Challenge 2026! Could you be one of them? Please open the image for info, and share widely! @ucl-pnl.bsky.social
We are looking for partner institutions within the conservation sector for Nature Smart 2026. Could you be one of them? @izzybis.bsky.social
UCL students who love life on Earth take to the stage to perform their first ever comedy sets, under the brilliant guidance of PNL’s Izzy Bishop! youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Sustainable Stand-up - YouTube
UCL students who love life on Earth take to the stage to perform their first ever stand-up comedy sets! Sustainable Stand Up trained students from across UCL...
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Would any UK ecology/geosciences colleagues be able to help with this? Please re-post
Elli Leadbeater@ellileadbeater.bsky.social · last yr.Biology/Geography/Earth Sciences colleagues: can anyone recommend a field centre or similar field course location that works well for students who are wheelchair users? This is a no-fly course so we're trying to find somewhere in the UK or Western Europe
PNL representatives including MSc Ecology and Urban Engineering student Kei Pang brainstorming Grand Challenge research ideas about planetary health with academics from the Stockholm Trio
Our guest Research Lunch speaker this week was Lily Xu, visiting from Oxford to talk about her fabulous work using AI to predict wildlife poaching patterns and direct rangers to the right places. A really fantastic talk!
Find out what we're all about in the Faculty of Life Sciences at UCL.....
UCL Faculty of Life Sciences@ucllifesciences.bsky.social · last yr.Discover how our researchers are creating real-world impact, developing innovative solutions to tackle humanity's most pressing challenges. Watch the full video here: shorturl.at/mYLQV
The Faculty of Life Sciences was honoured to welcome Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal to the People and Nature Lab at UCL East yesterday. Find out more about The Princess Royal's visit and the ecological technologies she was introduced to while there: www.ucl.ac.uk/lifesciences...
Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal visits the People and Nature Lab at UCL East
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HRH the Princess Royal visiting the People and Nature lab last week
UCL Faculty of Life Sciences@ucllifesciences.bsky.social · last yr.During The Princess Royal's visit to @ucl-pnl.bsky.social yesterday, @freshwaterizzy.bsky.social detailed a citizen science project for river water monitoring, led by @thames21.bsky.social and local community groups, to which Her Royal Highness contributed a data set. www.ucl.ac.uk/lifesciences...
Do you know of a researcher working in the field of zoology and/or conservation who you think has made an outstanding contribution that deserves recognition? Nominations are due on Feb 25th for the ZSL awards program, which spans all career levels from UG onwards www.zsl.org/about-zsl/aw...
Awards | ZSL
ZSL's programme of science and conservation awards recognises outstanding contributions
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Excited to find out what birds are visiting the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social Garden Lab thanks to @djdunc.bsky.social @raspberrypi.com #AI #BirdNET www.iot.io/blog/2025/02...
A new opportunity to work with our expanding #eDNA and #biodiversity lab as a postdoc looking at human impacts across space and time with terrestrial airborne eDNA. UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship funded opportunity based at the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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The Lives of Frogs — it's real! #frogs #amphibians #conservation #ecology #naturalhistory #biodiversity Available in all good book shops (and probably some bad) from 20th May 🧪 @princetonupress.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
Last week our MSc students learnt about camera trapping in their Technology for Nature lectures, and here they are putting their expertise to work in the QE Olympic Park
Yesterday our PNL MSc students heard guest lecturer Steve Andrews share a CEO perspective on what makes a successful idea in the environmental industry. In universities we often seek originality, but it’s only one part of the puzzle.
Happy to be back in the Mara, training community conservancy rangers to maintain a #cameratrap grid for wildlife monitoring + research. 📸 We’ll soon start pilot testing Akili (projectakili.ai) an open-source, end-to-end conservation data management platform from Wildlife Protection Solutions 🦓📊
PNL PhD student Ben Williams at TEDx London, sharing insights from his PhD on AI-led monitoring of coral reef habitats. Great example of the many exciting potential applications of AI in conservation, and congratulations on the talk Ben!
"If we actually want to get back to thriving nature ... we also need to change our production, our consumption, our supply chains, we need to restructure the way in which we go about our business as a society." Professor Dame E.J. Milner-Gulland (University of Oxford) speaking at UCL East yesterday.
A new year check of the sensors in the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social nature smart garden - Lora devices all happy and pond is looking full again - wondering if this is rain or manually filled?
The latest from a lab collaboration @ucl-pnl.bsky.social with Molly Williams (Nature Metrics/ UWarwick) and Sam Poultney (West Sutherland Fisheries Trust) - we worked on detections of vulnerable Arctic charr in a rapidly warming landscape: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
From anecdotes to evidence: Environmental DNA detection of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus L.) at the southern limit of its circumpolar range
The urgency of rapid species monitoring is at an all-time high due to the increasing threat of climate change to global ecosystems, in particular freshwater habitats. Fish such as Arctic charr, Salve...
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New paper led by PNL's Izzy Bishop! Citizen scientists- plus PNL's MSc Ecology and Data Science students- are assessing water quality worldwide through #FreshWaterWatch protocols. Check out the results of 30,000+ monitoring events here: doi.org/10.5334/cstp... Spoiler: Europe doesn’t perform well!
Today at 11- join us if you're interested in MSc opportunities!
UCL People and Nature Lab@ucl-pnl.bsky.social · 2y agoJoin us online on Thurs 9th/Tues 14th to hear about our MSc courses in #Ecology and #Biodiversity at UCL, including MSc Ecology and Data Science, MSc Ecology and Urban Engineering, MSc Ecology, Climate Change and Health, MSc Biology and Global Change and MRes Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation 👇
Job alert! We are looking for researchers interested in the interconnectedness of ecosystems, climate change and human/wildlife health - ‘One Health’ approaches- to join the People and Nature Lab at UCL East. Deadline 4th Feb www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI276/l...
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Join us online on Thurs 9th/Tues 14th to hear about our MSc courses in #Ecology and #Biodiversity at UCL, including MSc Ecology and Data Science, MSc Ecology and Urban Engineering, MSc Ecology, Climate Change and Health, MSc Biology and Global Change and MRes Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation 👇
UCL Faculty of Life Sciences@ucllifesciences.bsky.social · 2y agoWe have an exciting range of postgraduate programmes in the fields of #Ecology and #Biodiversity that will prepare you for careers in #conservation and a vast range of other areas. Join us on 9 and 14 January to find out more. Book your place here: app.geckoform.com/events-embed... #UCLMastersMatter
Interested in a PhD in the People and Nature Lab? There's a webinar for potential applicants to the TREES DLA on Friday 20th December. Sign up for updates here: www.trees-dla.ac.uk
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