Assessment of trawling impacts on 10 Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem indicator taxa (e.g. cold-water corals) across New Zealand waters show that 30 years of trawling reduced VME area by 20.8 %, with losses up to 40.7 % in some bioregions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Researcher Spotlight Dr Rebecca Jones Food Geographer: Rebecca's research explores the the intersection of food experiences and place-making Read more here research.bangor.ac.uk/en/persons/r... Meet Our Staff

How many mamba species are there? Find out from our new paper: Phylogeny and species delimitation in an iconic snake genus: the African mambas (Serpentes: Elapidae: Dendroaspis) academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

I think that was my favourite as well. I wanted to walk into the painting and live there!

Fab. Looks like a Peter Greenaway prop

Today is launch day for our friend @nicwilson.bsky.social whose fabulous book 'Land Beneath the Waves' is attracting so much interest. Hope you have a great launch event NIc!

Fabulous evening @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social

@bsbibotany.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social @naturelark.bsky.social @nicwilson.bsky.social @chiffchat.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @jillwhitelock.bsky.social @paulcross.bsky.social @amandatuke.bsky.social @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social

Oh my word! Botanist about to explode! Just unboxed my presentation copies of Urban Plants & I’m as giddy as a bee in a bellflower. It’s a beautiful thing, from the gorgeous Carry Akroyd cover to the photos kindly provided by many lovely people. Hope you enjoy it www.bloomsbury.com/uk/urban-pla...

Some of the 100+ Marsh Fritillaries I saw today at Finglandrigg Wood NNR near Carlisle. @savebutterflies.bsky.social

New Queen* in the hive today! A result of supercedure whereby bees select a new queen without swarming. Our Conservation MSc students get to learn about beekeeping and this is the first time we've seen this on a field visit.(*with dot) 👑👩‍🎓 @paulcross.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social

Nice study. A future subject for a book for @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social

What a fabulous outfit of amazing CLM students and @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social

Fabulous final day of fieldwork for MSc Conservation & Land Management students, assessing changes in dune vegetation communities at Aberffraw. Lots of wonderful plants, some swimming, and a bit of a grass-fest @paulcross.bsky.social @bangoruniscience.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social

Bracken control, the field trials, with @paulcross.bsky.social

They also decided to test a novel method of bracken control, concluding that it was very effective, sustainable and fun, if a bit disorienting #students #MenWiilBeBoys #EndOfTerm @paulcross.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social

Students completing a great day in the meadows of @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social Quadrats, sweep netting and beating trays for the MSc Conservation and Land Management. #What'snottolike @bangoruniscience.bsky.social bangoruniversity.bsky.social

Our @bangoruniversity.bsky.social 'MSc Conservation and Land Management' students are on a week's field course. You can't leave them alone for a second! 🤹😂 #learningthroughplay Join us and @paulcross.bsky.social! bangor.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Our postgraduate #Conservation students have completed a grand trip out, not bad eh? Join us! @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @studyinwales.bsky.social bangor.ac.uk/study/postgr... @paulcross.bsky.social @juliajones.bsky.social (thanks Dr Freya St John for vid)

New Primer on Bumblebees now out in Current Biology (with Guillaume Ghisbain & Denis Michez): www.cell.com/current-biol...

Relaxation of management intensity promotes butterfly communities in mountain grasslands... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Paper alert! I'm happy to share that my first research paper has been published! 🐝🌸 Road verges can support #pollinators but their potential for preserving representatively diverse and even communities is limited, due in part to high densities of non-native plants. doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

Fires have destroyed nearly 11 million carbon offset credits in California's program. The buffer pool had only set aside a little more than six million credits to compensate for losses from wildfire. Those six million credits were meant to last for 100 years. carbonplan.org/research/buf...?

Great news! Thousands of miles of footpaths that faced being lost forever could now be saved after the government committed to lifting a deadline for all rights of ways in England to be mapped. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

[new paper] You probably suspected that loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants, but here we quantify it: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here's a wild image from the #Antarctic Peninsula for: #InternationalMountainDay2024 #InternationalMountainDay #IMD2024

By far and away, my favourite thing about this spectacularly dumb post... Is that that's THE MATTERHORN

December 7th is the feast day of St. Ambrose, patron saint of Beekeeping an candle makers. The Latin phrase for “honey” is “Ambrosia” or the food of the gods, thus the origin of St. Ambrose’s name. christianapostles.com/st-ambrose/

“Yes, it’s a genocide. And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.” - Amos Goldberg, Israeli Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Location: Parliament Square, London. Read full statement below)

Today Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. 🧵 How can you support us? SHARE our posts WRITE to [email protected] JOIN US - there's cake!

Some extraordinary photos in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Natural History Museum. Particularly liked this one of Eros blue butterflies in China. Photographer - Haiyong Cai. #nhm #butterflies #wildlifephotography

'Rich need to pay forward for the next kid'.

Yes, and this will also affect our evidence synthesis mechanisms. When AI generated papers (maliciously or otherwise) start making their way into IPBES or IPCC reports, we'll have a credibility crisis that we simply cannot afford. 🧪

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🌱🌎 Soon our volunteers will distribute (for free) 45,000 native trees grown in Ireland to hundreds of people who will plant and care for them. Growing today for a greener tomorrow! freetrees.ie

Congratulations Trevor!!

Hunting - by East Sussex artist and printmaker, Annie Soudain #art #printmaking #owls #birds #birdart #linocut

Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project - "Wildlife can recover, and quickly, if we just give it a little space and let nature work her magic" #RestoreNature www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bum...

Amazing fossil alert. Jurassic salamander from China. You can see the soft tissue of the eye, gills, limbs, even the folds of its tail. And its last meal its stomach… 🧪 #evolution #paleontology

This new study suggests that high-quality old grassland may be particularly good at supporting pollinators because diverse food sources provided by such grassland provide additional health benefits. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... | Pornon et al. @funecology.bsky.social

Quand Didier Raoult est dans le journal *Science* ce n'est pas en tant qu'auteur, c'est en tant que sujet de honte de la recherche française. #JeSuisUnGrandChercheur www.science.org/content/arti...

There are ~22,000 #moths in Australia but only half have been scientifically described to date. Far from being drab or boring, their diversity is amazing as this account will try to show #mothsmatter #teammoth

Painted in 1905, 'View from Lejre,' bears witness to Vilhelm Hammershøi's lesser known fascination for landscape painting. By now living at Strandgade 30, the Copenhagen apartment that was the subject of his most famous interiors, Hammershøi took time to also paint the surrounding countryside.

A really interesting paper. Good work.

'Village on a Hill, Capri,' was painted by Frederic, Lord Leighton when he visited the Italian island in 1871. In the distance are the ruins of the Villa Jovis (the Roman palace, built by Emperor Tiberius in AD 27) and the church of San Michele alla Croce is to the left.

Huge congratulations to Dr. Sabrina Rondeau on winning the Ecology & Environment category of the Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists. Read more about her impactful research in "Digging below the surface: hidden risks for ground-nesting #bees": www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #Pollinators

Sometimes it's instructive, to see the context of where we are now vs the conditions that allowed agriculture and civilization to develop.