If you have a few minutes, please consider taking part in my friend’s survey about how childhood experiences of the outdoors shapes us. Open to anyone over the age of 21! Direct survey link is app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/stirling/e...

Aurora!

Navigation, you say?

Friends with proper cameras on walks really makes all the difference 😅

Scotland in winter is just one long golden hour.

The way we all want to be right now.

If you’re in Glasgow and stuck for something to do tonight, head on down to Drygate for some good old-fashioned folk carols!

Hooray! Very glad to see this bill passed - access to Outdoor Education is vital and should not be dependent on socioeconomic status, location or cultural background.

I might not be at the BES conference, but our poster is! Go and chat to Neil today if you’re interested in using skills-based learning to help students with their climate anxiety. We’ve had great participant feedback!

Have reached the stage of adulthood where I’m willing to forego receiving Christmas presents so I can buy a new tumble dryer 😭

This book looks an excellent novel from an up and coming young writer. You should buy it probably.

If you fancy an advent concert from the comfort of your home, our second run is streaming here at 20:00 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfUI...

The places this degree takes me and the things I’m learning to do…

Better late than never, but this #NationalTreeWeek I want to give a shoutout to my favourite tree from this summer’s fieldwork: this absolute unit of an oak. Isn’t she beautiful? I made sure to say hello and goodbye every time I was at that site 😅

Representing my fellow students and working to improve learning and teaching for them and other cohorts to come is something I enjoy immensely. Very pleased with this recognition!

Stressed? I highly recommend going for your first ever sea kayak on Caol Scotnish, but make it a night kayak where the full Milky Way is on display and every paddle splash is an absolute riot of bioluminescence ✨ no pictures so you’ll just have to take my happy face for it

Sometimes you just have to get out and play!

this is a really good point

Excellent fun in a seminar today, planning to restore a fictional estate we inherited from our uncle Lord Farquaad to improve biodiversity. Interactive materials for the win!

"just upload a scanned image of your drivers license no big deal"

Goth mushroom!

One of the coolest jobs I’ve seen advertised in some time - trainee lichenologist! www.asva.co.uk/jobs/trainee...

Pretty good fieldwork views this week!

Watch this - a hilarious, genius sci-fi show that didn’t get the love it deserves.

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And finished! Months of going out, nearly 1000 datapoints, three whole bottles of smidge, swims in Loch Lomond and somehow only one tick later I’ve finished my dissertation fieldwork. Now for a little time off before semester and data analysis begin!

Almost done with fieldwork - painted myself a celebratory plate 😅

The Black Ferns are *demolishing* Spain 😬 Great to see these games sold out as well!

The upside of very early morning fieldwork: beautiful sunrises.

Fieldwork was truly a delight today 😅😬 Not helped by the fact I get stonking allergic reactions to midge bites.

Absolutely perfect hill day. 10/10, no notes.

Beautiful light in the forest making up for long tiring days of fieldwork ❤️

Just out here hugging (read: measuring) some Big Old Trees. I think this one qualifies as an Absolute Unit 🤔

Intriguing eggs(??) in the woods today. Anyone got an idea what may have laid them?

Fieldwork was cancelled due to high winds, but my day was brightened significantly when I found out I’ve been awarded the Al Tajir Trust Prize for Outstanding 3rd Year EnvSci student! I’m delighted and honoured; this’ll really help with summer childcare costs where holidays and fieldwork clash.

It’s World #Rainforest Day 🌳🌧️ Here in the UK we have temperate rainforests in each of the home nations! Home to over 500 species of mosses and lichens they support great biodiversity !

Good Lord. This is a disaster waiting to happen.

It was a lot wetter than predicted, but the Perthshire hills are always a delightful surprise. Could have done without bursting a tyre on the way back at the Lawers Pass with zero phone reception though!

Singing is always special, but there’s something particularly nice about a group of strangers coming together and learning songs. Come to the Madrigirls concert tonight if you missed this WestFest workshop! westfest.uk/event/the-bi...

engage.stirling.gov.uk/en-GB/projects/travel-demand please fill out this survey about public transport options in Stirling Council! Signed, a rural resident 😬

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I’m very glad it’s finally raining, but so are these midgies 😭😭

Really delighted to get the chance to present our research into alleviating climate anxiety among undergraduate students at this ASM. Fantastic welcoming atmosphere and a slew of great talks!

On this day four years ago, when Glasgow decided not to be part of an “island of strangers.” “These are our neighbours. Let them go.” #KenmureStreet

It was beautiful out there today. Played the game of “how many peaks can you name?”

I've argued that the issue facing education due to AI is not figuring out what AI means for assessment, or subjects, but what it means to be us? When AI can do a lot of what we do better, ask what can we do better than it? And teach (and be) that. This says that too but with far more articulacy.

"And in His pain He thought of all Creation as good enough; still good."

Alice Turner from the University of Stirling is the recipient of the Olivia Norfolk Prize for her exceptional poster on 'Human Disturbance Affects Beaver Foraging.'

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