Huge congratulations to @rob-marchant.bsky.social & team, including LCAB Director Lindsey Gillson & Fellow @christophlyon.bsky.social, on their new ERC-funded project examining how East African mountain ecosystems & the communities who rely on them interact & evolve. www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...

There are no words for this. My heart goes out to his family and my colleagues at Glasgow. Scottish geography is a small world. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

JUST PUBLISHED – How vulnerable is the UK’s food system? By @aledjonesgsi.bsky.social, @christophlyon.bsky.social, & Elta Smith

When I was a student, I wondered why academics struggled to respond to emails. Now I understand. The firehose of emails, texts, and other comms can be hard to track. Stuff gets missed. Humans haven't evolved to constantly divide our attention across a bombardment of info on multiple screens.

Climate breakdown, biodiversity loss and political apathy put humanity at grave risk, threatens human lives, livelihoods globally. In may seem challenging, but a great article outlines six actions for ecologists in times of planetary crisis @anthropocenebio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Do not miss the chance to submit a session proposal for the 9th European Conference of Tropical Ecology that takes place at the University of Passau, Germany, from 23-27 February 2026 with the motto “Species – Ecosystems – People” gtoe2026-passau.de/call-for-ses...

We are reviewing the current state of scientific publishing, and we want to hear from researchers on their perceptions of publishing in the current context and how it might develop in future. Complete our short survey now:

Historica Canada has just released another Heritage Minute, this one on the first ever Jewish Chief Justice of Canada, Bora Laskin. He's played by Victor Garber. www.historicacanada.ca/productions/...

Okay, let's do this: AMA about the "dire" wolf study. Note: I wasn't involved in the project and have no ties to Colossal. I'm a paleoecologist with expertise on Pleistocene extinctions and their impacts, and the role ice age megafauna played in their ecosystems. I also research rewilding.

Banki Chunwate Thomas on his work researching Historical #forest changes in Nigeria The Future of #Nigeria’s Forests: #Conservation, Community Impact, and Policy @yesiuoy.bsky.social @anthropocenebio.bsky.social @uoyenvironment.bsky.social youtu.be/pSKgJVTU35o

Some things I'm up to....

Many UK #peatlands are degraded due to historical drainage, reduced #biodiversity, #carbon and water storage. New findings show testate amoebae as #bioindicators for tracking habitat peatland and #restoration @yesiuoy.bsky.social @anthropocenebio.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/c/1krTD8g13f...

Magical things here. 👇 www.cam.ac.uk/stories/merl...

If you work on social-ecological systems, resilience, etc. and you *don't* know about SocSES, you do now. Launch even tomorrow. socses.org

How to motivate farmers to participate in cooperative agrienvironmental schemes? - Offer adequate financial compensation - Communicate environmental advances - Invest in building social relationships - Create cooperative governance structures J. Huber et al. #bpbv. doi.org/10.1002/eas2...

4 scenarios for Canada’s future in a Trumpian world theconversation.com/getting-read... "Canadians ...may be confronted with colossal costs where Canada’s options may be limited to a choosing between Cuban or Belarussian outcomes." [I'd like more scenarios than these 4]

Wild. “We are a very research-intensive university—far more research-intensive than most of our size and scale—and achieving a balance to cross-subsidise and support that research intensity has been a challenge for quite a few years,” he said. “We have to address that now.”

New essay from me, @lisgilmore.bsky.social and Rachael Shwom, in the @thebulletin.org's special issue on tipping points: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Accepted manuscript (w/o paywall): www.bobkopp.net/assets/pdf/K...

Canadian metasearch engine platform with no ads, no tracking and no AI. Very clean look with only relevant results. Gear is hosted in Canada. As well as All, Images, News, etc, it also has a subheading just for social media results. #cdnpoli

PDRA textile archaeology www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DME456/p...

Excited to be working on a new project exploring the entwined nature of landscapes, lakescapes and societies. Iconic landscapes, such as the Lake District, have been shaped, and will be shaped, by interactions between land, people and animals. @anthropocenebio.bsky.social @yesiuoy.bsky.social

Correct link (I am becoming such a typo-poster; if you knew my father it won't surprise you for a minute) for the article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Looking forward to this conversation with @kamalkapadia.bsky.social from @terradotdo.bsky.social tomorrow about how apocalyptic optimism can help us process the current moment and channeling our anxiety and outrage into action. For details and to register: www.terra.do/events/Apoca...

"The South Carolina disaster is the latest high-profile example of compound weather, or two or more concurrent events that collectively yield a result worse than if each had occurred on its own. It’s a global phenomenon ..." www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/...

Economic Policy Uncertainty Index for United States (USEPUINDXD) fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1EfVX The daily news-based Economic Policy Uncertainty Index is based on newspapers in the United States

Economic Policy Uncertainty Index for Europe (EUEPUINDXM) fred.stlouisfed.org/series/EUEPU... News-based index for 5 European economies (Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Spain).

Canada's foreign minister @melaniejoly.bsky.social is a consistently excellent media communicator on our neighbour's actions and Canada's response. #cdnpoli youtu.be/k68QJaK8lpk?...

@ipcc.bsky.social is calling for nominations for authors for the AR7. Find out who your country's focal point is, or if necessary, see whether your institutions can support your nomination. Deadline is 17.4 You can find out more here: www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/...

We’ve got a really cool new job going in nature recovery to help support a new masters in that area (and environment more broadly). Details below. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DME062/l...

“We must be prepared to defend our sovereignty-not just with military spending, but with a population that is engaged, trained and ready.” Great piece by @petermacleod.bsky.social about how Canada needs a Civil Defence Force where every Canadian has a role to play. 🇨🇦💪 thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

New paper! Multi-year controlled #SciComm experiment finds that tweeting about published papers does NOT lead to an increase in citations of those papers. Led by @TrevorABranch https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0292201

Anything is possible at this stage. What is NATO if the US is increasingly open about its alignment with Russia?

My new piece: "What if Generative AI Signals Decline and Stagnation, Not a Productivity Boost?" in TheFutureEconomy.ca thefutureeconomy.ca/op-eds/what-...

"Science fiction lends itself readily to imaginative subversion of any status quo. Bureaucrats and politicians, who can't afford to cultivate their imaginations, tend to assume it's all ray-guns and nonsense, good for children." - Ursula K. Le Guin (2012) [Anthology idea: Ray-guns and Nonsense]

This research centre at the University of Dundee is an asset to Scotland, the UK, and the world. SURELY, the UK or Scottish Governments can find funds... www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

"After helping more than a dozen cities prepare for the challenges of climate change, members of the Urban Resilience to Extremes (UREx) sustainability research network will share what they've learned about scenario planning in an uncertain century."

Exciting new book coming out soon co-edited by Beth and ft. a chapter by @drrenskevisser.bsky.social !

Hope for the future: Sustainability Network Panel Discussion is coming up next month 🌍 Join an online panel of experts in ecology, green technology and #climatejustice to explore why there's still hope for the future: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hope-for-t... #York #sustainability

#Antarctic expedition confirms the spread of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in the Weddell Sea @csic.es phys.org/news/2025-02...

He's given him the login password to NATO too, hasn't he?

I'm reminded of the BBC mini-series '37 Days' for some reason. Historians may differ, though. youtu.be/4B08zSvOJvk?...

Even a 'hothouse Earth' is far more habitable than Mars. We'd be most excited if we found one near a distant star. And spacecraft safety under the gutted and politicised FAA and NASA? Good luck with that.

Multispecies migratory connectivity indicates hemispheric-scale risk to bird populations from global change rdcu.be/eakx0 Data from >329,000 migratory birds shows that connections between breeding regions in Canada and non-breeding regions in South America are at greatest risk from global change

1930s, an observer could see the war coming a long way off. Took years to build forces. Information and communication was slow by print and radio. There was Manchuria. 2020s, things move at the speed of the Internet. Forces in place, at war scale. There is Ukraine. Things are moving very fast.

Today another paper www.researchgate.net/publication/... was published claiming wolves can solve "the deer issue" in Scotland. So, sharing this excellent 🧵 by @adamfsmith.bsky.social on wolves and deer in Ireland 👉https://bsky.app/profile/adamfsmith.bsky.social/post/3liavws4oyk23

The @alterneteurope.bsky.social 2025 conference is coming soon in May - a great venue for pan-european networking developments on socio-#ecological science and management. The theme this year is Transformative change for #biodiversity alterneteurope.eu/conference20... #transformation

Canada-US relations imiating art. Canadian Bacon: youtu.be/VcPyKQIfNSs?...

Just remember - I was talking about the show Yellowstone and did NOT make a cougar joke. Remember that.