How might spending time in nature affect people with anxiety or depression? Listen to Dr Katie Gibbs talk through the 'Greengage' project on BBC Radio Cornwall, assessing a 6-week programme of "nature-based activities at fantastic sites across Cornwall." ecehh.org/news/nature-anxiety-depression/

Healthy environment a human right, UN court says in landmark climate ruling

A new paper on #MomentsOfChange and #LowCarbonBehaviours has been published, looking at how major life events shape the way we act on climate change, co-led by CAST Director Prof Lorraine Whitmarsh MBE (@lwhitmarsh.bsky.social) & Dr Kaloyan Mitev (@kaloyanmitev.bsky.social). 📣 Key insights thread 🧵

🌿 Exciting Announcement! 🌱 Join us for the Movement and Rewilding Ecology (MoRE) Workshop on September 22, 2025, at BES, 42 Wharf Rd, London! 🌍 Powered by the #BES-rewilding @besmovesig.bsky.social SIGs. Link to Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/more-movem... #BritishEcologicalSociety

📣📣📣 Fully funded MSc scholarships available for this Sept. Short deadline: 21st July Kent are offering fully funded taught MSc in Conservation Science #scholarships @dice-kent.bsky.social For more info: lnkd.in/eiPJG8uE Any questions, then please email: [email protected] #phdchat #funding

1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint. This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.

Applying a combined social science and trait-based ecology approach, the authors identify ecological traits in forests eliciting positive or negative well-being among human participants www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Well done to @jessjessfisher.bsky.social et al for this paper. Living near #CannockChase, I do feel a sense of wellbeing out and about exploring locally and this paper quantifies the connection between wellbeing and diversity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper out today in @natecoevo.nature.com on biodiversity & human wellbeing in UK forests, both seasonally and along a gradient of socioeconomic deprivation Funded by @erc.europa.eu and Woodland Trust 🌳, with lovely @dice-kent.bsky.social team www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in earning £30 to chat about holidays? Of course you are! More details here....

Postdoctoral Research Assistant - Cornwall Badger Project

On Friday, Brock Bergseth gave us a powerful talk, debunking some of the most common myths around changing (environmental) behaviour, and discussing how our inherent social wiring can be leveraged to create meaningful, scalable change. Catch it on our YouTube channel now! @biology.ox.ac.uk

Applications for the @BSECS-Northumbria Fellowship are now open - up to £4,000 to support a visiting scholar to research the culture, history, and identity of NE England & Scottish boarders. Deadline 31 May 2025, details here: www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...

Do you have expertise in UK land use? We want to hear from you! The UK government is currently consulting on the future of land use in England. To ensure the voice of the ecological community is heard, we will be producing a response to this consultation.

Fascinating. Just what we saw when we did our flooding/climate change special

How to spot a #Woodpecker in flight? Look for their special rollercoaster style dipping flight called ‘undulating’ . @btobirds.bsky.social @lesserspotnet.bsky.social Watch the full episode about our three breeding woodpeckers here youtu.be/GEQBrT-587Q?... #animation #birds Please share!

www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan... Research from @dice-kent.bsky.social and Woodland Trust in the headlines today 🌳

On Wed 12 Feb ACCESS Knowledge Exchange Fellow @sarahegolding.bsky.social will be sharing her reflections as a 'more-than-human' health psychologist with examples 💊 #Antimicrobial #prescribing in animals 🍃 #Nature engagement & #wellbeing 🌳 #Biodiversity #conservation rb.gy/xbnh1f

Call for abstracts is still open until 21 February (conbio.org/mini-sites/i...). We have also opened a sign up form for those who want to receive mentorship to prepare and practice English presentations. Pls sign up from the link provided on the registration site. #languagebarriers

Interesting short term conservation data officer vacancy with the FMH project now live: careers.kew.org/vacancy/proj...

One week left to apply…

Spent the week in #Canterbury doing the introduction to data analysis using R course. with thanks to @nicolasjdeere.bsky.social @dave-s.bsky.social @jessjessfisher.bsky.social and @katielspencer.bsky.social for their infinite patience teaching us all 😁@dice-kent.bsky.social

Take part in our upcoming blog series: Field Diaries!📒🌎🧪 Whether you're an undergraduate #ECR or an established practitioner, we're aiming to highlight your fieldwork experiences across the discipline of applied ecology!🌱🏔️❄️ @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social Register your interest here: bit.ly/4hoUUIU

The loss of wildlife means the loss of: 🌾material benefits like food 🐺non-material benefits such as regulating ecosystems 🤗our identity & well-being 📢 New WWF-led research highlights these ‘invisible’ benefits: wwf.panda.org?13195966/wil... #RestoreNature #NaturesTechnicians

Join us! #Academic #job @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social Lecturer/Associate Professor of Biodiversity, Climate Change & Health

Quick thread on some new papers on the science of impacts of bird feeding since the publication of our papers here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... and here britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti... #Ornithoogy #UKBirding🧵 1/

The #ProtectedPlanet Report 2024 is the first report that fully assesses the global status of protected & conserved areas in the context of #Target3 of the #GBF. Find all the key findings & recommendations from the report 📑➡️ : https://buff.ly/3Ak8rBr @protectedplanet.bsky.social

1-year funded fellowship for conservation social scientists to consolidate work from their PhD! Internal deadline end of Jan so get in touch soon! My interests are impact evaluation, nature markets, reconciling development (including mining) & conservation.... (thread) lnkd.in/eC2RWb7i

#neuroscience #metasci #science 📢 Calling all early-career scientists who are trying to change the culture of science and promote more rigorous research practices: The NINDS Office of Research Quality just launched the NINDS Early-Career Rigor Champions Prize: www.challenge.gov?challenge=ni...

And this quote: ‘The agency also wants to work with social scientists who can then help convert the findings into policy recommendations.’ Yeah, that’s not how social science works. We don’t take natural science findings and convert them to policy. We also do research.

Churchyards found to be rich in biodiversity; all nature needs is a bit of peace and quiet! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Fantastic opportunity to join the @instituteforgov.bsky.social as a researcher - please flag to all the brilliant people you know! www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/about-us/car...

Visit nature 'yesterday' and all your troubles will seem a little further away 🐞 ✔️Residential #nature availability showed little association with any wellbeing outcome, whereas visiting green and coastal locations ‘yesterday’ was associated with better hedonic #wellbeing. doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

New year, new job? If you're looking for a #postdoc role, this one closes in Jan-2025 👇 @accessnetwork.bsky.social @eprg-surrey.bsky.social www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Very clear article summarising the IPBES Nexus assessment by @carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/ipbes-nexus-...

A major challenge in restoration ecology is the widespread belief that there is a correct natural community for any given location, and that identifying it is the first step in recreating it. 1/6

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

Opportunity to join @dice-kent.bsky.social as a funded PhD student working on wild pigs and the impacts of African Swine Fever in Indonesia. 🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗

Just published! The positively majesterial "Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Mental Health and Wellbeing" with chapters on everything from green social prescribing to geographies of panic and distributed assemblages of cognition: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

Any other DICE members or alumni out there who have just joined BlueSky? Let me know & I'll add you to the DICE Starter Pack @dice-kent.bsky.social

Digital technologies such as camera traps, drones and acoustic monitors have incredible conservation value as tools to collect data for improved decision making. However, they come with risks for people - particularly if human data are collected, either accidentally (human bycatch) or deliberately.

Call for mentors! Join our Mentorship Program to help mentees refine their English presentations for #ICCB2025 + help them build their confidence while you build your leadership skills. Mentors earn a certificate from SCB! @iccb2025.bsky.social #languageaccessibility 🌍 conbio.org/mini-sites/i...

RE-STORYING THE SUSSEX WEALD GARDEN: #EXOTICS, #EMPIRE & #ECOBIOGRAPHY @CHASE_DTP PhD with @SussexUni & @kewgardens.bsky.social supervisors: Margaretta Jolly, Vinita Damodaran & @alanlester.bsky.social @rhulgeography.bsky.social @nationaltrust.bsky.social Details: www.chase.ac.uk/cdas/re-stor...

I haven't seen a conservation social sciences starter pack so I decided to make one #ConSocSci #MarSocSci I am sure that I have missed people... please help me identify more people to add and let me know if you'd like me to add you! go.bsky.app/AdXdpZd

I've written a blog on the background to our new Sharing Space for Nature project and why we need more ambition in conservation. As part of this I discuss the Lawton review, a key influence on conservation in England, and how its central mantra is often misquoted. blogs.kent.ac.uk/dice/2024/11...

Fascinating and ecologically informed read in @theguardian.com about the pathways ecosystems take following rural land abandonment, and how the presence of people can sometimes help nature recovery more than inhibit it www.theguardian.com/news/2024/no...

This starter pack is open to all current & former students & staff of the Durrell Institute of #Conservation & #Ecology (DICE) @dice-kent.bsky.social go.bsky.app/5tT1i8y

We evaluated a nature-based health intervention for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in Edinburgh Open access in Health & Place, led by Charlotte Wendleboe-Nelson, with support from @ritasousasilva.bsky.social, @melissamarselle.bsky.social, and others 👏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 new paper alert! 🧪 Discussing how the language we use informs our understanding of the current biodiversity crisis. We also raise consider how we communicate science to the public & funders, & how we use language to shape awareness and leverage action. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Interested in #wetlands and human culture? In our new paper we report a systematic review of the cultural ecosystem services provided by wetlands. Clear evidence of how much people need wetlands! Delighted to see this huge collaborative effort online: authors.elsevier.com/a/1k0257szSJ... 🌍 🧪 🦤