Sarah's enthusiasm for her work is always inspiring and we love to hear about it! #Fungi were an under explored part of #alpine #ecosystems that stakeholders were keen to learn more about and her 4th chapter has delivered 🍄

Lindis Kipp gave a brilliant talk about CBT-inspired learning to reduce #climate despair without changing pro-environmental behaviours - incredible science and #communication skills from a BES #undergraduate!

Helen talked about statistical modelling in an impressively entertaining and accessible way, not an easy feat! Great presentation 😃

Doors are open and posters are going up at #SNSC2026 Day 1 kicks off with a warm welcome and message of hope and resilience from Professor Colin Galbraith from @naturescot.bsky.social, followed by a reflection of SNSCs past from University of Stirling’s Professor Kirsty Park (@stir.ac.uk)

We are getting ready for #SNSC2026 Scotland's Nature Student Conference - welcome and arrival tomorrow at the Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling, from 10am! View the programme on our website: scotnsconference.wixsite.com/2026 We look forward to welcoming you to our event!

Huge congratulations to Maud Siebers, who has successfully defended her #thesis on 'Improving forecasts of #phytoplankton blooms using high-frequency #satellite observations' 🎉🎉🎉

This week, introducing @jasubke.bsky.social 🇩🇪 Jens teaches on modules including The Biosphere and has presented his talk "Where has all the carbon gone?" at Stirling's Pint of Science event 🍻 He is also academic lead for carbon in the Scottish International Environment Centre Management Group.

At our most recent external seminar, we were delighted to welcome Sumil Thakrar to discuss his work as a Patience Cowie #research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, assessing the #health impacts of brick kilns in #Bangladesh 🇧🇩 www.sumil.me

This week, we were honoured to have Dr Zoë Fleming visiting to talk to us about her research on environmental #CitizenScience projects in #Chile, including water quality monitoring and perceptions of air #pollution 🇨🇱 Find out more: voluntariosporelagua.cl

Congratulations to Peter Stewart and colleagues on a new publication exploring #pest and disease occurence in UK #treescapes, identifying drivers of pest and disease burdens such as #deforestation and differences in drivers of disease between broadleaf trees and conifers 🌳🌲 doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

This week, introducing Alice Turner! Alice's interdisciplinary work sits between BES and psychology. She is also a #SEPA Project Coordinator for Forth-ERA and also Policy Rep for the @britishecologicalsociety.org #Conservation #Ecology Special Interest Group!

Fab talk this week from Ruth Helmore, based at @hutton.ac.uk in #Aberdeen, about how #Sphagnum reacts to #drought exposure when the water table is at different depths!

Congratulations to BES members Thiago Silva, Kirsty Park, Kevin Watts and Elisa Fuentes-Montemayor and colleagues for a new article in #Forest Ecology and Management on the use of #LiDAR to measure #woodland complexity! 🌳

This week, introducing @dralanlaw.bsky.social! Alan teaches on 'people and the environment's and 'field techniques' modules and is the programme director of the #OutdoorEducation degrees. He also studies beaver wetlands in Scotland and Finland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦫🇫🇮

Thanks @josiesouth.bsky.social for coming to talk to us about #Crayfish invasions in our external seminar! Lots of important take-aways about the health and social implications of changing #freshwater #ecosystems and the importance of sharing data 🎣

The Ecology and #Conservation Science (ECoS) research group met this week for a catch up and a useful introduction to the JASMIN computational #data analysis facility from Dan Chapman 🖥️ JASMIN is available to sign up for those with NERC funding and others working in the #environmental sciences!

Next up: introducing @zarahpattison.bsky.social - a senior lecturer who teaches on biodiversity and plant ecology modules and is the staff representative of the BES social media team! Zarah also completed her PhD in Stirling 🙂

Croy Langlands and Oscar Jessup also gave a fantastic BES seminar recently, introducing their work on #RemoteSensing - they showed fantastic depth of knowledge for students early on in their #PhD #research and presented confidently 👏 Brilliant stuff!

Today's Tuesday seminar was an entertaining and insightful talk from @thisanna.bsky.social about #Amazonian #Wetlands and how to measure the biodiversity within them! 🇧🇷

Thanks @bluecarbonalex.bsky.social for coming to talk to us about #carbon sinks in #saltmarshes at today's external seminar!

In the coming weeks, we'll be introducing some of our BES members! First up is @ruth-wright.bsky.social, who is a BES tutor/demonstrator, the PhD forum part-time rep and part of the social media team!

Journal club had an entertaining discussion today about the meaning of stupidity and what it is to be stupid vs feeling stupid. Thanks to Arianna for the suggestion of this essay by M A Schwartz! journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Plant ecology student field trip to Glasgow Botanics today. Good turn out despite the cold, wet weather! @stir.ac.uk #botanicgarden #plants www.instagram.com/reel/DT0UN3B...

Last week, a group of BES #PhD students attended a @iapetusdtp.bsky.social doctoral training residential at The Sill in #Northumberland 👩‍🏫

Great work from Sarah, who is so passionate about what she does and whose paper about Montane #woodland restoration has just been published!

Today, we met to discuss 2025 Postgraduate Research Experience Survey results. Lots of positives, including the quality of supervision and high confidence in on-time PhD completion 👩‍🎓 We also had great turn-out, increased from last year. Thanks to everyone who came to discuss further ideas for 2026!

#ThrowbackThursday to Neil McDonald's super interactive teaching workshop, 7 weeks ago today! BES #PhD tutors and demonstrators got a lot out of it, including this masterful sculpture of the ideal teacher with flexible tentacles, listening ears and a professional tie...

Our fab #SNSC2026 organisers now have their bios up on the @scotnsconf.bsky.social website! Great work, Alice! scotnsconference.wixsite.com/2026/about Don't forget to check out the website and sign up if you haven't already!

BES Tuesday seminars are starting off 2016 with a splash! Very enjoyable talk from @dralanlaw.bsky.social about the reintroduction of #beavers, their benefits and the people it took too get them there 🦫

Amazing work from #Stirling BES lecturer, James!

We are excited to announce a new paper on the social dimensions and energy justice of #HydroelectricDams, using a case study in 🇮🇳 by #UniversityOfStirling researchers Garima Gupta, Shubham Pawar, Chris Littleboy, Nils Bunnefeld, Jen Dickie and Isabel L. Jones! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The University of #Stirling is excited to be hosting #SNSC2026 😀 The registration deadline for attendance, posters and talks is Wednesday 11th February - can't wait to see you all there! 🏞️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦫🐜🦌🌿

Seasons greetings from BES ☃️❄️🎄 We enjoyed coming together for a delicious Christmas lunch at Five Rivers in Bridge of Allan!

🦫Research on Britain’s beavers gave us lots to chew on at #BES2025 We heard from two ecologists at @stir.ac.uk about their research looking at how land use impacts beaver behaviour and an overlooked nature-based solution these recovering rodents could be providing. (video by Alice Turner)

Great to attend #BES2025 this week, and meet colleagues. Exciting to share the first findings from my PhD, and the Restoring Resilient Ecosystems project! @britishecologicalsociety.org

Congratulations Dr James! 👏

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

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