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

If you see this, quote 10 games to get to know you by... 5 videogames: Nethack Zelda - Breath of the Wild XC2 Tetris Civ IV 5 boardgames: Wingspan Race for the Galaxy Terraforming Mars Azul Splendor

@FAO.org is seeking a forest expert for its Halting Deforestation, Degradation and Emissions Team in Rome, Italy. jobs.fao.org/careersectio...

💬“Through citizen science, everyone can contribute to conserving the incredible biodiversity we share.” 🔍 Meet Ayesha Hargey, Associate Programme Officer in our Science team. As #YouthForBiodiversity, Ayesha hopes to put spotlight on citizen science and how we all can play a part #ForNature.

📣 Three open positions to work on the thermal vulnerability of lake communities in the context of climate change (ERC Climate Countdown) with Arnaud Sentis @inrae-france.bsky.social 🧪🌐 🌍 Aix-en-Provence, France 🗓️Start Sept-Nov 2025 👉 Apply before September 9 Please share!

🌊 We're recruiting an MS student! 🌿 Join my lab at Bridgewater State Uni, MA. ✅Conduct your own thesis in Cape Verde’s #marine & #coastal ecosystems ✅ mentor undergrads ✅ RA + #NSF summer stipend @ #ESA2025 come find me or DM—love to chat! 📩 [email protected]

Few weeks left to apply for a fully funded PhD studentship in my lab @rhulbiology.bsky.social as part of new EU project Trees4Adapt 🌲🌳 Fieldwork in forest diversity experiments in Finland www.sataforestdiversity.org 📆 Apply by Sept 8th, start date - Jan 2026 👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🍁🌍🧪

Peatlands in the Congo Basin are more than just carbon sinks. #IndigenousPeoples and #localcommunities heavily rely on these peatland ecosystem services for food, drinking water, wood and fibre. Learn how their knowledge can help protect peatlands and sustain livelihoods: tinyurl.com/2n5c3pet

In most of the world day-to-day weather variations are still much larger than long-term global warming. As a result, both daily record highs and daily record lows remain common. However as the world warms, new daily record highs consistently far outnumber new daily record lows. 🧪

🔈 NOMINATIONS OPEN Know someone in #ornithology deserving of recognition? Nominate them for a BOU award now! 🪶 🥇 Godman Salvin Prize 🥇 Alfred Newton Lecture 🥇 Janet Kear Union Medal 🥇 Early Professional Award Deadline: 15 September 2025 Nominate: bou.org.uk/about-the...

@iucn-orchids.bsky.social is hiring a Programme Officer in Germany. Apply by 20 Sept. www.linkedin.com/posts/amy-hi... #orchids #biodiversity-jobs

Good ‘More or Less’ explaining UK’s high electricity prices (from 12’13”) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Big Butterfly Count 2025 starts today, and we've just done our first count. Join in and help butterflies 🦋 bigbutterflycount.butterfly-conservation.org

Very cool! Leverhulme ‘Space for Nature’ MSc Scholarship - fully funded - particularly targeted towards individuals from under-served backgrounds. Deadline 21 July 2025.

Ongoing academic position lecturer in terrestrial animal ecology at JCU Australia. Deadline 8th August 2025. careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...

Position in ecological modelling in Bonn Germany. Deadline 27 July 2025 Sarmento Cabral [email protected] www.uni-bonn.de/de/universit...

Ten authors by whom I have read more than five books - often many more than five! 1 Douglas Adams 2 Iain / M. Banks 3 Terry Pratchett 4 Patrick Gale 5 Gene Wolfe 6 Ann Leckie 7 Martha Wells 8 Philip K. Dick 9 Kim Stanley Robinson 10 Kameron Hurley + Abercrombie, Mantel, McCaffrey, Willis, Rice +++

About 1500 of the approx. 2300 people that will have lost their lives across 12 European cities last week would still live, if it wasn't for our burning of oil, coal and gas. If we care about the right to life, we need to stop burning fossil fuels. www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

I'm delighted to launch the 2025 Best of British SF/F bundle today! storybundle.com/bestof 10 books for $20! with @aptshadow.bsky.social @adamroberts.bsky.social @carolinehardaker.bsky.social @tomlloydwrites.bsky.social and more! +charity partner @locusmag.bsky.social! Re-posts appreciated!

We’re hiring! Join us at maraujo lab as a #PhD candidate to model species abundances using cutting-edge ecological and statistical tools. Based at @mncn-csic.bsky.social @mncn-bgcg.bsky.social and @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. 🔗 www.maraujolab.eu/2025/07/04/p... #SpeciesDistributionModels

“We can’t know what we don’t measure.” @iea.org’s 2025 Global Methane Tracker underscores why a full picture of emissions is key to #CutMethane. 🛰️ like @methanesat.bsky.social fill the data gap — finding methane emissions est. ~80% higher than reported. www.corporateknights.com/category-cli...

UNEP is hiring a journalist to develop climate and biodiversity content (six months consultancy in Nairobi) careers.un.org/jobSearchDes...

#Mountains are changing, so are the patterns and intensity of challenges. If your work relates to #migration or #displacement in the mountains, we want to hear from you. Deadline for abstract submission extended till 15 July 2025.

Systematic conservation planning (SCP) has been established as key approach to identify where conservation efforts are to be prioritized. But how can they be assessed, compared or interrogated 🧐 Here we present ODPSCP, a new open protocol for the intercomparison of SCP doi.org/10.1111/csp2... (1)

Deadline 30 June 2025 - Peterborough or Aberdeen!

I know it's hot, but please don't let your dog swim if you have treated it with a spot-on flea treatment in the last 28 days www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/v...

📣UNEP-WCMC delegates Shena Garcia Rangel and Val Kapos join climate change negotiators gather today at the annual Bonn Climate Change Conference for their midyear discussions. See our priorities in 📸⤵️ #ClimateChange #COP30 #BonnConference

Introducing this year's Benjamin Zephaniah Future Writers Judges! 🤩 Find out more and enter the competition today! ✨ www.bcu.ac.uk/future-writers ✨

Today I discovered that you can use black tahini and black beans to make black hummus. Well, dark grey hummus. Black tahini by itself tastes a lot like halva - recommended!

It’s time for decriminalisation. 👇 Ask your MP to back @stellacreasy.bsky.social 's amendment to the Policing Bill. goodlaw.social/f2eef3

1/2 Sidney's cockatoos have learned to use drinking fountains It's a tricky mechanism that requires turning and holding a handle. They've figured out how to do it using their own weight, and now it's cultural : ) (paper) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... by @lucymaplin.bsky.social‬

Join us as a #fulltime Associate Programme Officer! UNEP-WCMC seeks a highly motivated candidate to join our Nature Conserved team and work closely on our flagship initiative, protectedplanet . Apply here ➡️ www.unep-wcmc.org/en/vacancies... before 2nd July 2025! #environmentjob

the new developments on inat inspired me to make a diagnostic thread for every insect order because there's only like 30something of them. going to try and avoid exceptions and extremely technical characteristics when possible. 🧵

iNaturalist is hiring a Senior Staff Mobile Engineer www.inaturalist.org/pages/jobs

I am starting a PhD and am looking for grassland restoration/rewilding sites in Northern Ireland! Please forward this flier to anyone who might be interested in having their land surveyed for fungi!

Our latest research shows spot-on flea treatments on dogs are released into water when dogs swim even 28 days after treatment - in contrast to the label which suggests dogs can safely swim 48 h after treatment. www.newscientist.com/article/2482...

Please share to let young people and teachers know that they (or their pupils) can submit pieces for the @theguardian.com Young Country Diary. Some great tips on #naturewriting here and published YC diarists will be paid! #countrydiary