Here's something to brighten your Monday 💛 The comical-looking Canary-shouldered Thorn has pale orange-brown wings with scalloped edges, allowing them to blend in perfectly with the autumn foliage. 📷: Kate Reece, Iain H Leach, Will Langdon #MothMonday #MothsMatter

These results mirror the sparing-sharing debate in conservation, and with similar results. It's better to intensify forest production in some areas while leaving others alone than to have low-intensity systems. 🌏🧪🌳🌲

...but my supervisors didn't agree...🙁Maybe my academic scientific writing was just not quite good enough at that point.

Want to see more butterflies and moths in your garden? 🦋🪴 We’ve teamed up with @gardenorganicuk.bsky.social to share advice on how you can make your garden a haven for butterflies and other wildlife without using synthetic pesticides 👉 butterfly-conservation.org/blog/organic... 📷: Sue Earnshaw

A community ecologist is not necessarily an ecologist who does research with communities. An interesting clash of definitions emerging from a #ClimateCoCentre workshop.

Wish I'd read this a year ago, but then ( apart from the gem on appendices) this was my approach before my viva :-)

I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore. So I wrote a blog about ten things you can do *right now* to help defeat Farage, Musk, and rightwing populism. From scrutinising Reform councillors to demanding the UK Govt leave X - get involved: guyshrubsole.substack.com/p/ten-things...

Richard Gere: «La última vez que estuve aquí, la mayoría de vosotros no había nacido. Esa vez presenté a los Dire Straits en el concierto por Nelson Mandela. Ahora es por nuestros hermanas y hermanos palestinos». #TogetherForPalestine

There were a lot of great speeches and performances at #TogetherforPalestine last night, but no one fired up the crowd like @mehdirhasan.bsky.social

#ThrowbackThursday to June 2024 when the #InterpretationBoard at Aston Rowant that we produced & Made By Landmark designed was installed at the Lena Ward Plots. Learn about the #LTE: https://bit.ly/AstonWLTE @ox.ac.uk @ukceh.bsky.social‬ @naturalengland.bsky.social  🌍

Special thanks to the members of @scientistrebellion.bsky.social who I interviewed, and to the wonderful people who have reviewed the book: @jksteinberger.bsky.social @charliejgardner.bsky.social @wolfgangcramer.net @jenniecstephens.bsky.social @farhanasultana.com @lauralohorn.bsky.social n/n

It is also an exploration of the many ways in which academic institutions today are complicit in colonial and capitalist systems of oppression, and of how academia could be transformed to become an environment that fosters socio-ecological transformation. 4/n

She was also a uniquely talented and pioneering composer. No-one rocks like Hildegard of Bingen.

Welp, it's here! Advanced copies of Science in Resistance have just arrived. Thanks a lot to the team at @ucpress.bsky.social for sending them. www.ucpress.edu/books/scienc... And related news: I'll soon be going on a train tour to give talks and readings of this book - more info below 1/

The book comes out Oct 28th. And from mid-Nov to mid-Dec I'll be participating in book events across Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Switzerland, UK, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and France. I'm so excited to talk about the book with people interested in learning more about scientist activism. 2/n

Twenty years ago we were told that ecological field surveys were all going to be replaced by remote sensing. Now it's going to be sensor arrays with AI processing. We shall see.

We are delighted to see RTÉ are finally listening to those who have been calling to #BoycottEurovision for many years. We believe this decision is long overdue but it is better late than never. You can read their full statement below.

Another example of the potential for "woody" biomass. Bamboo refinery will produce: 49,000 tons of ethanol, 19,000 tons of furfural 11,000 tons of acetic acid 32,000 tons of liquid carbon dioxide. www.etvbharat.com/en/!bharat/p...

Big, blue & beautiful 💙 The Clifden Nonpareil (Catocala fraxini), whose name means ‘beyond compare’, is our Species of the Month 👉 https://butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blog/species-of-the-month-clifden-nonpareil 📷: Peter Maton, Andrew Cooper, Mark Parsons #MothMonday #MothsMatter #TeamMoth

Note this #Observatree volunteers. 🙂

On average, #BigButterflyCount participants recorded 10.3 butterflies per 15-minute count 🦋 While a marked improvement on 2024’s record low of 7.2, it is only broadly average by modern standards, and has done little to reverse longer-term declines. 👉 butterfly-conservation.org/big-butterfl...

Butterflies need two things to thrive: good weather and a healthy environment ☀️🌱 Join us in asking UK retailers to remove synthetic pesticides from sale for a wilder, butterfly-filled future for generations to come 👉 https://butterflyemergency.good.do/rescue-mission/

There are five species of Hairstreak butterfly in the UK, four of which are particularly elusive as they spend most of their adult lives at the tops of Ash, Elm and Oak trees. How many have you been lucky enough to see? Brown Hairstreak (Thecla betulae) 📷: Will Langdon

Update yellow-legged hornet (YLH) W/E 29 Aug 342 sightings 2025 12 more nests discovered Kent Adisham Capel le Ferne Dover Castle Plaxtol Cranbrook Ripple Ospringe Dover Central Ivy Hatch Wittersham, second nest North Yorkshire Langton Cheshire Runcorn 86 nests 2025

📣We offer a #PhDPosition in a trilateral program “Future Proofing #Plants to a Changing Climate" with Martina Ried-Lasi (funded by @dfg.de, @ukri.org-BBSRC, NSF, USDA-NIFA). 🔗More: www.ipb-halle.de/en/career/jo... 📅Apply now! #PlantSci #SciJobs #PlantSciJobs #PhD #PlantBiology #BiologyPhD

A fabulous selection of plants for tonight's #WildFlowerHour, including lots of members of the #DaisyFamily managing to keep on blooming despite the hot dry weather. Many thanks to everyone who shared pix! Have a great week & keep an eye out for the next @wildflowerhour.bsky.social challenge!

🌿☕ Good morning 🌞 Now.. who doesn't need some almost synchronised sheep on their feed?? You are welcome 👏 From the Greek "syn-" meaning together & "khronos" meaning time ⌚ 🐑 🐑 🐑 ⌚

🌿☕ Norwegian views of the evening.. soon be back to Gloucestershire for those impatient for Cheltenham things!! #telemark #gausta #norway An interesting fact.. at the top of this mountain (Gaustatoppen) it is said on a clear day you can see 1/6th of Norway 💕

Leaving areas of long grass, shrubs and ivy is a great way to provide much-needed shelter for these insects. ☂️🌿 If you're planning to take part in the #BigButterflyCount, don't worry! There are plenty of opportunities to get out for the count between now and 10 August.

Today's the day ! It's launch day for the #BigButterflyCount . . . Get out between now and 10th August for 15 minutes and count the butterflies you see & help the great citizen science of @savebutterflies.bsky.social ! Get involved at bigbutterflycount.org

3 days until #BigButterflyCount 2025 lifts off! 🦋 The Large White took the third spot in last year's count with 138,424 sightings, down 38% from 2023. 📷: Mark Searle

You don't need to be a butterfly expert to get involved in the #BigButterflyCount 🦋🔎 Use our free identification guides for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to help you. Download them and take part here 👉 bigbutterflycount.org

The Big Butterfly Count 2025 is here and butterflies need our help 🦋🚨 This isn't just a survey, it's a rescue mission, and we need everyone to get involved. No lab coats. No science degrees. Just 15 minutes of your time. ⏱️ Get out for the count 👉 bigbutterflycount.org

The #MEB2026 conference is opening a call for workshops, taking place on the 5th of June 2026, in the afternoon. If you are willing to lead a workshop - on any topic relevant to the MEB network - please fill out this form: forms.gle/4kS6KJ4YNw75... Deadline: 15th September 2025 ⏱️

Great exhibition 🧪re 125 years of geology teaching &research www.birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/l... Picture of geology fieldwork class, mountains in distance.

📢INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES📢 🌳Are you interested in #treehealth and #forestprotection? Then check out our exciting new internships based at @forestresearchuk.bsky.social and @rbgkew.bsky.social, two of Britain’s leading research institutes! Click on the link below to find out more! #Internships

is this just for surface vegetation, or have you adapted it for trees?🧪

Full statement here: www.ucu.org.uk/article/1410...

Our statement on the Labour government’s escalating authoritarian crackdown on the Palestine solidarity movement. We will not be silenced. We are the majority. We urge you to join us on the streets of London next Saturday (19 July) and march for Palestine.

🧅🌰 It's gooseberry chutney time and I'm crying again.

Check out this blog and video on some recent public engagement by the Aquatic Ecosystems Group at UKCEH. A great way to stimulate community conversations around water quality @ukceh.bsky.social #UKCEH_AquaEco 🧪💦

Day at the @sciencemuseum.org.uk 🧪! A Cray-1 supercomputer! Extremely successful and an iconic design, these were sold for a decade starting in 1975! There's a Cray-2 at the @museeartsetmetiers.bsky.social in Paris that blew me away the first time I saw it!

Excited to lead EXPLORATION, a new 3-year project funded by the Centre for Forest Protection & DEFRA, with UoE and INRAE. We’ll study how mixed species planting can boost drought resilience in forests. More here: gov.uk & forestprotection.uk

This #planthealthweek we are highlighting the experiences of our last cohort of interns. Today is the turn of Katy who worked @forestresearchuk.bsky.social and The Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR) on a bacterial threat to our trees. tinyurl.com/3pfyh52c

#bifor #observatree, may be of interest

May be of interest #BIFoR, @forestresearchuk.bsky.social

#SamDobbie #BIFoREducation might like this.

Surely it is false to say ' PFAS (Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances) can't be avoided in our modern world. '. We should be looking to eliminate or replace with biodegradable alternatives, not pooping them into the wider environment.

www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪Sorry to hear this. #wetlands #forests #CH4 news