📣 2026 Student Summer Internships are OPEN for applications! We’re recruiting SEVEN interns across our National Capability programmes at our Bangor, Lancaster & Wallingford sites. Superb opportunity for hands-on experience in environmental science & applied research. Details ⬇️ 1/

Work in FE or sixth form? 🌱we’re gathering student views on nature & climate for the National Education Nature Park. Take part by:🧑‍🏫 completing the survey in class💬 discussing as a group + sharing a summary✏️ or completing it independently. Open till end of April ~10 mins survey 👉http://bit.ly/469qXJz

How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.

Depressing confirmation that climate change is speeding up: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

⚡New paper!!⚡A research agenda giving the top 40 questions for UK agroforestry. Expertly led by @milliehood.bsky.social, it was a pleasure to be part of!

Love this from @britishecologicalsociety.org this morning! Science communication is a difficult skill....

⚡New paper! ⚡from my student @ellenknight.bsky.social on how to integrate new land cover classes into ecological models so we can predict the #biodiversity impacts. We illustrate this for UK agroforestry & pollinators 🐝🌳: tinyurl.com/3yp26eu5 @ukceh.bsky.social @uor-research.bsky.social @nhm.org

Agroforestry can benefit the environment & production, so why isn't it more widely adopted?🌳🚜 Knowledge is a major barrier to uptake! We worked with 75 UK stakeholders to identify barriers & co-design solutions doi.org/10.1002/pan3... Tnks @uktreescapes.bsky.social @peopleandnature.bsky.social

Nice posters from two of my current PhD students at #BES2025 😀. 🌳🌾🌳🌾 @ellenknight.bsky.social 's is on pollinators in silvoarable systems. 🦋 Rosa's is from her previous research on butterflies. Check them out!

⚡New paper! ⚡ Nice work from @milliehood.bsky.social in @peopleandnature.bsky.social. 🚜Farmers are dissuaded from planting agroforestry systems 🌳🌱🌳🌱🌳due to... 🕥 time constraints ℹ️ lack of trusted info, particularly about the business impacts 💰 We suggest solutions. tinyurl.com/AF-barriers-... (OA)

🌱✨ We celebrate the launch of Viveiros de Inovação Transformadora! Agroecology Map, recognized as an innovation initiative, is part of this repository strengthening open science, knowledge co-production, and the agroecological transition 🌍🤝 👉 viveirosdeinovacao.com.br #Agroecology #OpenScience

Get your copy of the awesome new guide for ecologists on reproducible code 🖥️, introduced today by @nhcooper123.bsky.social at #BES2025 👏

Having spent long hours sampling farmland soils, wishing there were a better way, this new approach looks amazing 🎉. Easy soil data collection will be a huge boon to research and sustainability, and will improve our ability to estimate soil carbon stocks - congrats to all involved!

We REALLY need a global plastics treaty! tinyurl.com/3b4fjz9j

⚡Cool PhD project applying ecoacoustics 🎤 to study how tree species diversity 🌳🌲affects soil fauna 🪱🦠. Fieldwork in Finland! Deadline December 17th. N.B. to be considered, you need to contact the supervisors (@juliakoricheva.bsky.social) before the closing date. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/nov...

Did you know the #NaturalHistoryMuseum has a climate action tool to help you find ways to be more sustainble 🌍 ? Have a look! www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/fi...

The #NaturalHistoryMuseum is running a ⚡FREE⚡ and awesome-looking course on “Integrative #Biodiversity Discovery". It's designed to introduce field collection, laboratory analysis and phylogenomics skills - run by Museum scientists. Places are limited so sign up soon! www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...

🪸Corals have reached a 'tipping point' and are now in a state of widespread die-off 😭. Other systems - Amazon, ocean currents - will follow suite if we don't act REALLY fast global-tipping-points.org

In his new book The Great Holocene Transformation, Peter Turchin shows that inequality and class conflict dilute social cohesion and increase societies’ vulnerability to external threat. Doesn't sound great for the UK now, does it...

The oceans are dying as humans warm the planet and plunder the ocean polluting and depleting the ocean of marine life World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global analysis indicates that phosphorus limitation on terrestrial primary productivity has become stronger and is increasing more rapidly than nitrogen limitation. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'll be speaking at the Stop Trump demo in Parliament Square today. A fascist autocratic clearly itching to declare martial law is not welcome here. share.google/sWEe8YGl3euj...

Bck at work after a month off and catching up on the world: this was an interesting read - by Dolors Armenteras - about the continued lack of equity between global north and south in science www.nature.com/articles/d41... #science #equity #globalsouth @

Human-made global heating caused two in every three heat deaths in Europe during this year’s scorching summer, an early analysis of mortality in 854 big cities has found I think the UK is higher up this chart than most people would expect www.theguardian.com/environment/...

One of the best examples of a mature, temperate forest garden is under threat - please sign the Agroforestry Research Trust's petition to try and save it.

Fascinating article about deep sea prospecting.

Noteworthy speech by von der Leyen at the #EU Ambassadors conference 2025 ec.europa.eu/commission/p... "The #phase-out of Russian #fossilfuels must continue." #climate #energy

It must be like living in an alternative reality for #scientists in the #US right now….

National Wildlife Federation urges senators to ensure nominees will respect the rule of law and focus on securing a bipartisan funding agreement. Read our press release for more 📲: ow.ly/WynI50USLvS

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Various animals have achieved fame as 'endlings’ - the last individuals of their species. Can their tragic stories help to protect other threatened species? To unpack this, we talk to @alexanderlees.bsky.social & @joannalilley.bsky.social on #NatureInsight. bit.ly/3Ow0Wef

Interesting-looking talk tomorrow on links between nature and human health.

🌳🌱🦋 If global politics is depressing you right now, here's some positive news to read instead! #EducationNaturePark

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New post on The Climate Brink from Zeke @hausfath.bsky.social about our climate future. With current policies, we’re on track for a bit less than 3C, with 2030 NDCs we’re on track for about 2.5C, and with net zero pledges we’re on track for a bit less than 2C. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/moving-awa...

Interesting and frustrating insight into doing science!

Just finished reading this fab new paper by @andypurvisnhm.bsky.social Bending the curve of #biodiversity loss requires a 'satnav' for nature royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... The satnav analogy helps to focus on forward-looking course corrections to our conservation policy + actions

Fully funded PhD scholarships available for Black British Students Opportunities available within: 🧪 Data Science ⛰️ Earth and Environmental Science 🦤 Ecology and Conservation 🛠️ Engineering 🌍 Geography 🤝 Business School Apply: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 📆 Deadline: 28th Feb #ExeterGSES

Women are more likely to drop out of science than men. From my experience, the postdoc system works against those who can't be flexible about working hours or job location, and who need predictable finances. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (Thank you #NatureBriefing for flagging this article!)

It's confirmed - Earth has breached the 1.5 °C climate limit 😭. No great surprise, but still awful to have it confirmed. What will life be like outside of the #safezone? We've had decades of climate inaction and now people are starting to suffer... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Looking for a PhD? Please apply!

Seddon proposes that the next step from Mace (2014) should be People As Nature, recognising that nature *is* culture #BES2024 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Did you catch our CEO Hazel Norman on BBC Radio Merseyside this morning? Catch up with today's breakfast show to hear Hazel talk about #BES2024 and some of the exciting research on show! 📻 (1:23:00) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 🌍🧪

Please help us to spread the news about this episode of the @ipbes.bsky.social podcast - it is a great resource to help explain and understand the new #NexusAssessment - with some very concrete, remarkable examples and featuring @pammcelwee.bsky.social and Paula Harrison

Great to see two inspirational women opening #BES2024 to a packed auditorium.

Neanderthals and us - separation, speciation, when and why? Patterns of evolution and separation from Homo sapiens explored by @andrameneganzin.bsky.social & @chrisbstringer.bsky.social #NaturalHistoryMuseumLondon doi.org/10.1093/evol...

49 thousand Pink-feet geese leave their roost at dawn on the North Norfolk coast This is 50% of Norfolk’s overwintering population

Exciting PhD opportunity on large-scale insect monitoring using AI ⚡ Based at #ZSL Institute of Zoology with @charlieouthwaite.bsky.social, co-supervised by me, Tom Breeze at #UoR and Tom August at #UKCEH. tinyurl.com/s4sspf26.

The #Ukrainewar is having not only a huge human impact, but a devastating environmental impact too, both incidental and intentional -> see this article from my talented cousin @lukeharding1968.bsky.social‬ and colleagues👇

We must mainstream nature. Economy, security, & health depend on nature but current policy development often overlooks nature's critical roles. Siloed approaches are insufficient-integrated policies that consider the interconnections among policy domains are needed www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...