Congratulations! 🎉🤱

This academic year, we were delighted to welcome visiting #RemoteSensing #PhD students Marcela, Fabio and Lorena from Brazil 🇧🇷 to study with us in Stirling for several months! They finished up their time here with some fascinating presentations about the work they've been doing 😀

The Ecology and Conservation Science research group had a useful session about impactful research with talks and discussion 🧫🔬🧬 Thanks to everyone who contributed!

The Ecology and Conservation Science #Research Group recently welcomed Jazz Rhoades of @btobirds.bsky.social, Rachel Cooper-Bohannon of Bats Without Borders and Robbie Whytock of Okala to discuss #careers 👩‍🔬 thanks for joining us!

At the BES Symposium, first year #PhD student Marie Beltran presented an informative poster 👏 about her work on #insecticide resistance in the #mango cecid fly and how it threatens food security 🥭🪰

Well done to @drheatherprice.bsky.social who has been chosen as one of Scotland's 13 most promising academics to join the Royal Society of Edinburgh's new Research Leadership Scheme! 👏 www.stir.ac.uk/news/2026/ap...

Huge congratulations to Daniel Atton Beckmann who successfully defended his #PhD thesis in his viva yesterday 🎉 Daniel studied #Phytoplankton using #RemoteSensing, funded by the Hydro Nation scholars programme 🎓

BES PhD researcher @rabernethy.bsky.social recently appeared on BBC #Landward 📺 to tell the public about his #fieldwork on Ben Ledi ⛰️ in the #Trossachs! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Catch up with Rory's work here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Congratulations to BES researcher Al Jump and colleagues for publishing their article on reinterpreting genetic offset in the face of #ClimateChange in #EvolutionaryApplications 🎉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Good morning from the Soutpansberg,South Africa, where we are running an undergraduate field course for environmental sciences students. Always a privilege to take students to my home country & be part of so many of their1st time experiences in the field 🇿🇦❤️ @uofstirling-bes.bsky.social @stir.ac.uk

Congratulations to BES colleagues Brad Duthie, Nils Bunnefeld & @isabel-jones.bsky.social & coauthors for their new article in #Conservation #Biology about the Ecological Knowledge Games Project 👏 🎮 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Congratulations to BES colleagues David Oliver & @jendickie.bsky.social & coauthors including @tonyrobertson82.bsky.social (previously of University of Stirling) who have published a new paper on blue spaces and bathing waters 🏊‍♀️ 🚰 👏 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

First year #PhD researcher @oscarjessup.bsky.social presented a great poster on his #research about #mycoforestry 🍄🌲 at the BES Symposium 👏

At the BES Symposium, first year #PhD student James Jesty presented a poster on his research into #heatwave impacts on the microbial communities 🦠 of intertidal mudflats 👏

Delighted to have had the opportunity to present some of my work analysing the drivers of internet search interest in 🇬🇧 biological invasions 🐜🐚🦀🌿 at the International Young Researchers Conference on Invasive Species #IyrCIS youtu.be/xVmFDupFvdM?...

At the BES Symposium, first year #PhD student @croylanglands.bsky.social presented a great poster outlining his #research into #drought vulnerability in the #Amazon 🌳🪾

At the BES Symposium, first year #PhD student Vainqueur Kilindo 🇨🇩 gave an overview of his work on using #ecoacoustics to monitor #gorilla populations 🦍 at larger scales while causing them limited disturbance 👏

Where should I put my acoustic monitor? If you're looking to study #biodiversity using #ecoacoustics, #PhD researcher @ecologybarnett.bsky.social can advise! Here he is talking at the BES Symposium 🔊

Lara, a #PhD student based at @ukceh.bsky.social in Lancaster gave a fascinating talk at the BES Symposium about using #eDNA to investigate freshwater #parasites living 'rent free' on #zooplankton in the Lake District 🏞️

We enjoyed the opportunity to #Chile out and listen to #PhD student Pablo's stories of #fieldwork adventures at the BES Symposium 🇨🇱 We're loving the hat, Pablo! 🤠

#PhD student Nicola Horsburgh gave a super interesting talk about her research into coastal #erosion and #flooding at the BES Symposium, explaining how local-scale and national-scale risk mapping relate to each other 🌊

Alex Turner demonstrated her unique combination of ethnographic understanding of her home in #Aberdour, #Fife 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and #environmental science research knowledge in her BES Symposium talk 👏

An entICEing glimpse into the world of mapping past ice sheet melting and sea level change in the Outer Hebrides from Anna Kurop at the BES Symposium 🥶

#PhD student Rory Abernethy's talk on sitka #spruce colonisation in the UK was a RORYing success at the 2026 BES Symposium 🌲 @rabernethy.bsky.social

a MOSSt excellent talk about #sphagnum #drought tolerance from #PhD student Ru Helmore at BES Symposium 2026 🪏

A fabulous talk from Alice Turner about human-beaver coexistence at today's BES #PhD Symposium showcased her signature stunning slide design 🦫

Huge congratulations to Callum Dunleavy (@messyecologist.bsky.social) who has passed his viva today for his #PhD thesis investigating the role of #beavers in #rewilding freshwater habitats! 🎉🦫🎓

Next in our BES intros series is @bb-phd.bsky.social, a lecturer and ultimate frisbee fan! Becky was previously a BBSRC Discovery Fellow working on FeminEvo, a project that uncovered unexpected sexual reproduction in wasps thought to be asexual. She now runs an ADHD support group in BES! 🐝

Huge congratulations to Ebenezer Essien, who has passed his #viva for his #PhD thesis on understanding physiological wear-and-tear using an #intersectionality lens! 🎉🎉🎉

Considering studying for an #MSc in Environmental Management? Join us at University of Stirling, where we take your learning beyond the classroom and into the heart of #Cairngorms National Park 🐿️ www.stir.ac.uk/courses/pg-t... Video credit: Allan Audsley

Delighted to have been named Undergraduate Academic Representative of the Year (what a mouthful!) @uofstirling-bes.bsky.social has been a most supportive department to do all of this work with. I can only recommend involving yourself in academic rep work if you’re just starting your degree!

Anna Kurop gave a lovely seminar on research into #Quaternary sea level changes in the #OuterHebrides this week! It was especially nice to see Anna's personality and enthusiasm shining through when talking about #FieldWork experiences 👏

Happy #InternationalBeaverDay! 🦫 Here's why beavers are such an important part of Britain’s landscape👇 🧵1/6

Our #PhD forum recently ran a seminar in response to feedback that members of BES would like to know more about what we do! Thanks to everyone who engaged - we had some interesting discussions about interaction through the social committee 🍻, use of the coffee room ☕ and the role of remote working 👩‍💻

This week's internal seminar was a fascinating insight into Arthur Broadbent's #research on understanding the combined effects of winter thawing and summer droughts on #soil fungal communities and carbon storage in the 🇦🇹 #Alps 🏔️

Delighted to share our review in @natrevmicro.nature.com! Here, myself and @richard-quilliam.bsky.social synthesise current knowledge on the aquatic #plastisphere, and assess the evidence for #plastics being #pathogen and #AMR reservoirs @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @uofstirling-bes.bsky.social rdcu.be/fbm6N

Massive thanks to Guillaume Latombe from @edinburghuni.bsky.social for a thought-provoking seminar about #modelling #BiologicalInvasions scenarios and considering what kind of future we want to build to minimise #InvasiveSpecies spread alongside trade and ethical development!

New 🦫 paper out by @dralanlaw.bsky.social and @nigelwillby.bsky.social on the #biodiversity benefits of #beaver #wetlands! Read all about it: brnw.ch/21x14OW

Our most recent internal #seminar was from Esther Folorunso, who did a great job of explaining how her #research had evolved to reflect the discrepancies between theory/policy and real life scenarios of chemical #pollutants and the 'cocktail effects' produced by multiple contaminants!

Today's PhD #journal club meeting discussed an article about acoustic signalling of ants 🐜 and caterpillars 🐛 We enjoyed chatting figures, #GraphicalAbstracts and further #research 📝 nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Huge congratulations to the BES researcher @jendickie.bsky.social and colleagues in the Scottish #Research Alliance for #Energy, Homes and Livelihoods for their Scottish Knowledge Exchange Heroes 2026 award! 🏆 www.linkedin.com/posts/jendic...

Ross @ecologybarnett.bsky.social gave a fantastic seminar last week about his #research into dawn chorus #soundscapes in #woodlands with different canopy structures and noise pollution levels 🌳🐦‍⬛ His use of audience members' pets to explain AI models was such a fun way to increase engagement!

Well done Alice, your presentation design is always a delight 🦫 Enjoy your prize!

myself and the giant sampling spoon! thanks @britishecologicalsociety.org

Congratulations to Mahtab Yaghouti and colleagues for their new paper on #ClimateChange will affect #oxygen in #lakes 🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The BES social committee organized a sports afternoon where pickleball and badminton brought joy to all who attended! 🏸

To celebrate #internationalwomensday Stirling Uni alumni hosted a panel discussion with some women academics and let me talk about some of my favourite research (and other) topics #wasps and #TaylorSwift. Watch online here www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBRv...

Staff at @naturescot.bsky.social fed back that they enjoyed Rory's talk on sitka #spruce and how much potential they have to colonise across #Scotland 🌲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The increase in the species' #non-native range over the last 100 years was remarkable!

Great to get some perspective on the #WrEN project and hear about how BES #research collaborations have built up over time from @kirstyjpark.bsky.social 🌳

Cake in the coffee room today to celebrate #InternationalWomensDay thanks to @jendickie.bsky.social 😋🍰