Looking back on photos from instrumenting the bog this last week, it’s become clear to me that somewhere in the four days of lone working between installing dipwell 1 and dipwell 23, i did in fact lose my mind

Excited to see the DigiBog model, in this case DigiBog_Boreal, used by other research groups: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Absolutely shocking weather but still managed to get some logging dipwells and stilling wells into the bog today. Two sites down, three to go before the end of the week!

Some VERY healthy and happy looking Sitka that were planted on deep peat on a site I work on. I’m of course devastated about it. Check out the cracking on that excavated peat dollop. Hard to even think about the carbon balance for planting on 1m+ of peat when the trees don’t even survive 18 months

EARLY VIEW in IBIS Modelling the national breeding distribution and population size of an elusive forest bird, the Eurasian Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola) | onlinelibrary.wiley.... James O'Neill, Paul Holloway, Jamie Darby, Andrew Hoodless, John L. Quinn | #ornithology 🪶

Why winter sheep grazing on Dartmoor’s commons must end. Bold decisions are needed to ensure new Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier and Landscape Recovery Schemes deliver for nature and protected sites on Dartmoor's precious commons. www.dartmoornature.org.uk/post/why-win...

🚨Funded #PhD opp🚨 in my lab, co supervised by Vincent Maire at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Linking above-and belowground plant #phenology to carbon cycling in #peatlands You can see full advert (in english/french) here: wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com/Opportunitie... Please share!

⏰ DEADLINE APPROACHING We have vacancies on 5 BOU committees, starting July 2026 Nominate yourself or someone you know now! Not sure if it's for you? Why not try our NEW Committee Shadowing Scheme bou.org.uk/about-the... Deadline: 27 Feb #ornithology 🪶

Data from long-term experiments in Finnish peatlands shows that warming induces a metabolic response in boreal Sphagnum peatlands that enhances accumulation of soil carbon, in contrast to the carbon losses in response to warming in boreal forests and tundra 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We were very glad to welcome Country Focus for BBC Wales to our Llwyndewi Nature reserve in Carmarthenshire to show all the work we are doing to restore biodiversity onsite. You can listen here from about 14 minutes in: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Press release by @exeter.ac.uk on our new paper, published today in GCB: "Pan-Arctic Peatlands Have Expanded During Recent Warming". See more: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

@rspb.bsky.social is also seeking a PeacePlus Nature Peatland Conservation Scientist. Fixed-term, until 31st July 2029, full-time, 37.5 hours per week. Location: Flexible in Northern Ireland @rspbni.bsky.social c-js.uk/4agNMwf

🚨 #PhD opportunity 🚨 Disturbance Impacts on swamp and forested peatlands in southern Québec This project will quantify how disturbances affect carbon cycling and hydrology in swamp and forested peatlands of southern Québec More info here: wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com/Opportunitie...

🚨 Our new peatlands paper "Pan‐Arctic Peatlands Have Expanded During Recent Warming" published today in Global Change Biology, led by Josie Handley. Open access and free to all: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨Paper alert🚨 Very happy to see our paper published in @science.org #ScienceAdv. Very greatful to have worked with such a great team @duncanobrien.bsky.social #tomJohnson @robinfreeman.bsky.social #ValentinaMarconi #LouiseMcRae @expecocons.bsky.social 👇Check the main findings below!

Very emo Sphagnum on site today. Must have heard the rumours of a new my chemical romance album this year and (as I’ve been considering) dyed its hair black like it’s 2008 again. Caused by deposition of organic C and humic acids when peaty water evaporates as far as I know #MireChemicalRomance

#peatland job environmentjob.co.uk/jobs/108978-...

#peatland job environmentjob.co.uk/jobs/108978-...

For all the #nightjar enthusiasts out there - www.globalnightjar.org/post/size-ma...

@ogbogdog.bsky.social ear flappometer back my popular demand. Careful out there folks #stormingrid is at least 1-1.5 on the ear flappometer scale.

Very pleased to share #OpenAccess paper, which we think is important to understand woodland bird declines and impact of forestry on native ancient woodland in Britain. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ornithology @ukceh.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @mizpas.bsky.social 🧵1/n

I had a wonderful time looking for chough as part of the @gowerchough.bsky.social project last summer - have a read of Mike’s piece to find out more about the work! (and then please help us find some more funding to do it again this year, thanks)

🤩We’re excited to announce our winner of Capturing Ecology🤩 🐊Zeke Rowe, @zekerowe.bsky.social, with their photo 'Wouldn't hurt a fly'🪰 Taken in Panama, the image shows an American crocodile fixing the camera with its golden eyes, utterly unmoved as blood-sucking horse flies feed on its snout.

Wrote a few words on our @gowerchough.bsky.social survey this summer - mikeshewring.substack.com/p/gower-gold

New National security and global biodiversity loss assessment from uk government. Some stark and scary predictions in here assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...

Always a relief to see the Welsh Bird Report arrive with all the pages in the right order and the photos reproduced well. Diolch Caxton Press @birdsinwales.bsky.social members also get the latest papers in Issue 2 of Milvus in the same post, thanks to editor @fidhw.bsky.social #BirdingWales (1/2)

🦋 Save the Small Blue at Cwm Tips 💙 We’ve launched a crowdfunder to restore flower-rich grasslands at one of the South Wales Valleys’ most important wildlife sites. Help us remove invasive scrub and safeguard rare butterflies, bees and grassland wildlife. 👉 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-s...

Delighted to begin this term's seminars with Malcolm Burgess @piedflynet.bsky.social from @rspb.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social on Migration behaviour, demography & phenology of declining migratory birds. Seminar at 3.30 on 16 Jan in LT1 in the LaMB @biology.ox.ac.uk: all welcome - see details ⬇️

Make a difference! Can you turn complex ecological data into clear insights for Wales Peatland Action? Become our Specialist Peatland Biodiversity Metric & Reporting Advisor! £42K-£46K+ Closes 28/01/26 swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/vacancyinfor... #jobs @natreswales.bsky.social #HighNatureLowCarbon

It always feels a bit sacrilegious to me to dig trial pits in the bog but needs must to check how deep in the peat the oxidation was at the upper Cwmparc peat site and if we can actually make the bunds we proposed. Several pits and von posts later, I think we can. Here’s the upper 20-30cm ish ⬇️

My good friend and collaborator (and now colleague!) talking about his work tracking Leach’s Storm Petrels on their incredible journeys at sea.

If you want to check out the NESO data tables for yourself, here’s the link: It’s this link: www.neso.energy/docu... On this page: www.neso.energy/publ... /ENDS 10/10

🧵A political/media guide to the "truth" about net-zero 1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system 2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free 3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us" 4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous 5) That's it! 1/10

It supports 1000s of migratory birds, but never before has a Lesser Yellowlegs graced the Clwyd estuary. Recent sightings in #NorthWales, ice-effects linger after snow recedes but summer birds are weeks away. #BirdNotes 📷 @millstonegrit.bsky.social #BirdingWales www.birdnotes.wales/blog/rhyl-or...

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

Fantastic Data job, making a difference! Go for the Data and GIS Officer role for NPAP, the Programme that coordinates Wales Peatland Action. £37K- £41K+ p/a. Deadline 01/02/2026. Go for it! swyddi.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/VacancyInfor... @natreswales.bsky.social #jobs #greenjobs #environment #GIS

Six roles with @rspbcymru.bsky.social to survey breeding waders in #Wales in March/April, with a particular focus on #Curlews. Closing date is 25 January. #ConservationJobs app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

Another important reality is that Greenland holds major potential for future peat accumulation and carbon sequestration. Where will the bogs of tomorrow be? Not Canada. Not Siberia. But definitely Greenland.

Pleased to see this new paper with Dylan Young published: "Understanding the Carbon Balance of Peatlands: A Comment on Heinemeyer et al. (2025)". See: www.mires-and-peat.net/article/1547...

We'll be looking at ways, past and present, that #Manx people value #peatlands

Fascinating paper on ecological time lags and extinction debts besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#HappyNewYear! Onwards and upwards as we upscale capacity and triple peatland restoration by 2030! Thanks to all for your efforts in protecting peatlands and the support to #WalesPeatlandAction cdn.cyfoethnaturiol.cymru/av3hhxjt/npa... #HighNatureLowCarbon @natreswales.bsky.social

A member of the public took a photo of the #peatland at Castell Nos in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 every Sunday this year and even sent me this video he made! I really love how people have embraced #PeatColours across the world

@bes-peatlandsgroup.bsky.social Anyone planning on participating in the Defra peatland evidence review? www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/get-involved...

#Writing and #Research 2025: My biographical research into the international #freshwater career of Dr. Kathleen Carpenter featured in @kickasswomenof.bsky.social #podcast while we resampled her Welsh study sites 100 yrs later. @aberdlsagb.bsky.social #envhist #Wales www.podbean.com/ew/dir-84shh...

New #peat paper by Caroline Daun et al. from @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social on the climate effects of removing agricultural topsoil for establishing Sphagnum in paludiculture or bog restoration: -Rewetting agricultural topsoil leads to substantial methane emissions likely above the natural reference /1

Take home message for #paludiculture and bog #restoration: Get rid of the agricultural topsoil, conserve intact peat layers. @terhorab.bsky.social @tannebergerf.bsky.social

Cool paper doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Who should pay when commercial forestry creates conservation problems? New analysis shows 200,000-971,000 ha of UK peatland at risk from conifer invasion. Based on our @iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social poster. #peatlands Link - tinyurl.com/yc3b2s9h Feedback/ comments welcome—not my usual writing style!

A decade ago, we published our highly cited "Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands" paper in Ecohydrology. Today the sequel just dropped! "Hydrological Feedbacks in Northern Peatlands 2: Peat Depth as a Control on Peatland Resilience" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 1/3