🦋🌿Hiring 12 x Botanists or Entomologists for 2026 field surveys in England! 4-month, full-time roles from late April to early September. Field sites in Yorkshire, Devon, Warwickshire, Kent/Sussex, Lincolnshire/Cambridge, Essex/Suffolk. Apply now: ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CEH_Ca... 🧪

Starting a thread of starter packs in nature and clîmate

I am pleased to promote this research - our Congo peatlands research into how to protect the peatlands and the livelihoods they support. My thanks to all the colleagues and stakeholders who made this research possible.

🦇 The application deadline to our current vacancies is TOMORROW, 12 January. We are recruiting: - Head of Fundraising - National Bat Monitoring Programme Volunteer Engagement Officer - National Bat Monitoring Programme Surveys and Training Support Officer More info:

🌺If you're free on 15th January and would like to find out more about our Persian collections, why not sign up for one of our art workshops? More info in the booking links below 👇#KewLA Morning slot: https://ow.ly/x0cl50XMcGy Afternoon slot: https://ow.ly/IvwE50XMcGz

🦇 Do you love bats and enjoy writing? Join us in celebrating bats in creative writing through our Bat's Laureate Competition! A lovely activity for a cosy winter weekend. More information here: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/con... , and deadline is 28 February

🚨 Protected Planet has launched the World Database on Protected and Conserved Areas (WDPCA) - a new and unified database, merging the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) and the World Database on Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (WD-OECM). Learn more here: tinyurl.com/mr649ywy

Please RT: we are looking for a PhD student to work on macrogenetics and quantitative genetics of South African proteas. Amazing collaborative project with @plantecology.bsky.social @debbiemleigh.bsky.social & others, embedded in @terra-cluster.org. Dream project if you love molecular biodiversity!

The programme for #IPBES12 #StakeholderDay is now available! 🌍 Join us: 2 Feb 2026 in Manchester, to explore collaboration & showcase IPBES uptake & impacts. Learn more: https://www.ipbes.net/ipbes12/stakeholder-day#IPBES12#StakeholderDay#IPBESStakeholders

Lovely archaeology & heritage opportunities on South Ronaldsay. Two seasonal rangers and a site manager. 🏺

Happy New Year! A felicitous #bluesky from the last dog-walk of 2025

it's a harsh world out there and not everyone is going to give you credit for all the great stuff you do. but Sandal thinks you have done awesome this year. he doesn't know how you do it. he also doesn't even know how to open the refrigerator but that isn't important rn

My time on the UK Govt's "Expert Committee on Forest Science" is coming to an end, and they are now recruiting for an experienced #forestry sector person to take my place. I am very much not an academic or a scientist, and i'd really encourage people to apply🌲🌳 🪵 www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...

In the UK more cereal crops are fed to livestock than directly consumed by humans. Poor feed conversion ratios mean much of this is not turned into food, which is very wasteful. Shifts to plant-rich diets mean less agricultural land use overall → less risks to birds! (See post below)

🚨Roll up, roll up, fully-funded #PhD deadlines approaching... 6th Jan: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6 8th Jan: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp Social monitoring & manipulation #meerkats #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork #long-termdata @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social @ljnbrent.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

PhDs being offered across the Iapetus DTP for an October 2026 start: www.findaphd.com/phds/program... Please broadcast details of our Diversifying Talent Scholarship scheme too: www.findaphd.com/phds/program... @ukri.org #BlackAFinSTEM #firstgen

Applications closing 5th Jan for Fully funded PhD through @iapetusdtp.bsky.social Studying behaviour and ecology of anemonefishes. Need to be happy to spend lots of time in Papua New Guinea and need to be SCUBA qualified. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

We are recruiting several PhD students. If you are interested in conservation conflicts, population ecology, quantitative ecology, or biodiversity, check these projects out (links in the thread, feel free to reach out):

📢 Competition funded PhD with @iapetusdtp.bsky.social: Occupancy, density & the ecology of terrestrial British mammals - what can years of systematic camera trapping tell us? Apply by 5th January 2026. 👇 iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... @mammalweb.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk #phd

We are hiring! Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Physiology of Calcification in Phytoplankton Please share with your networks! buff.ly/tzfKGID

Mutilated and abandoned - a dog toy is for life, not just for Christmas?

Pack your bags, charge your batteries, #InverteFest begins at midnight your time. If you're going out to spot critters, join our community science project here: www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...

"Learning from the past to inform future seabird conservation (PASTBIRD)" An eclectic mixture of etnography, inorganic chemistry and seabird/island ecology. In 2026 we will be looking for a PhD student in AU in Denmark, and a PostDoc in the Faroes. Please share! dff.dk/hvad-har-vi-...

IUFRO Task Force 57 was established in 2025 to rescue old forest data from boreal🌲, temperate🌳, subtropical🌵 and tropical🌴 regions. We will focus on numerical data, but other ‘data’ such as old photos, maps, and "lost" reports are also important. We´ll present an interesting selection here...

To learn more about OECMs for #biodiversity conservation, see this webinar Tues 9 Dec 2025, 10:00 CET. Including info from @unepwcmc.bsky.social @protectedplanet.bsky.social iucn.org/events/webin...

🚨 New brief! What are Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs) and how are they important to businesses? 🏞️ Our experts have developed a brief, introducing OECMs for a business audience. Download the full document here 📑 : tinyurl.com/3bs4fy7t

Open-access paper, 15 emerging issues in #biodiversity conservation - some familiar and some brand new stuff for me (light penetration into the oceans is decreasing?)

Prints are available. Everything currently 50% off on Redbubble, apparently. You would also be helping to recompense the Temu theft since I can't do anything about it (I can't even get the relevant page to load, perhaps owing to some regional restrictions). 🥲 www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/5918...

Only hours left to help @derbyswildlife.bsky.social purchase Middleton Moor and restore it for wildlife and people. Please chip in or share if you can.

Come and join us here in Cambridge! Applications open for a new faculty position, for a researcher in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...

Interested in doing a PhD on #zoonotic diseases & #wildlife trade within a #politicalecology approach? Look no further, @geofrancismasse.bsky.social seeks a potential candidate to be based at @durham.ac.uk 👇

Installed Pathos - Nethack Codex. Several late nights later, uninstalled. Way too good an implementation!

You can read the Business and Biodiversity Assessment Primer in all UN languages! 🏡🌍 The #BizBiodiversity Assessment will provide critical information to best measure the dependencies and impacts of business on nature. 🧪 👉 Read it here: https://ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG

🤖 If you use LinkedIn, please be aware that they automatically use your profile to train their GenAI. To turn off, go to Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Gen AI improvements.

The IUCN tulip specialist group are volunteers working to assess conservation status of these excellent flowers. They'd like your help to buy some badges. #tulips #iucn #redlist gofund.me/af025b34c

MSc internship / Field Assistant position available in our group! Impact of urbanisation on avian reproduction 🐦🏙️ 🌳 Deadline: 7 Nov 2025 All details 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/... Please share it around!

🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

NEW: Something remarkable happened recently and hardly anyone noticed – GB electricity demand was 100% covered by clean power We took a look at the data and this has happened for a record 87 hours in 2025 to date, twice as often as ever before 🧵 www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/7

The Global Framework on Chemicals Fund will launch its second call for applications on 30 September 2025. Join the event to learn more about the #GFC & its Fund, priorities, application forms & other guidance. ▶️ 30 September, 10:00 CEST 📆 tiny.cc/GEN30Sep25

Want to do a postdoc with our group on something related to biodiversity conservation, policy, and the environment? Reach out - applications are open for the Donnelley fellowship! yibs.yale.edu/donnelley-fe...

The Pollinator Academy is an online platform that provides tools and training to help strengthen your knowledge of the taxonomy of European pollinators. Follow us and visit our website to find out more! #PollinatorAcademy #Pollinators #Taxonomy #Bee #Hoverfly #Butterfly Pollinatoracademy.eu

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers! This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Unexpected decline in the ocean carbon sink under record-high sea surface temperatures in 2023 Müller et al 2025 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Spogomi! Finally a sport I could get behind. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...

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The magic of a resurrected #ghostpond just 3 years on. Nearly 30 wetland plants & Great Crested Newt where there was ploughsoil. This lost #pond was filled in >100 years ago but still had a viable seedbank 1.5 m below the field surface. The most successful form of ecological restoration known?

NEW: Ash dieback and other tree diseases are resulting in significantly more greenhouse gas emissions than previously thought because a large amount of carbon is escaping from woodland soils, a study has found. 🎞️ Hear from lead author @fionaseaton.bsky.social 🌳🧪 1/

Europe is heading for a sad record: the largest burned area in decades. www.climatechangepost.com/news/europe-...

Microraptorians were among the most interesting dromeosaurs. Most were small, but some like Changyuraptor got to roughly turkey sized, which is not small at all for an animal that was likely gliding/flying #paleoart #dinosaurs #sciart