Delighted to have been named Undergraduate Academic Representative of the Year (what a mouthful!) @uofstirling-bes.bsky.social has been a most supportive department to do all of this work with. I can only recommend involving yourself in academic rep work if you’re just starting your degree!

📣 Fully-funded PhD position at INRAE, within the Eco&Sols unit in Montpellier, France: General principles of detritivore faeces production in temperate ecosystems 📄Full description --> www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/fr028... Please get in touch to apply, or share in your network!

What's the Point Two 2026 'Lime Finishes in a Changing Climate', York on the 14th of April, the LFG collaboration with Historic England, all the in person tickets are sold out & there 7 online places left. If you are planning on joining us do please get a wiggle on and book now. lnkd.in/eYhFa2Ny

The £2m MOT4Rivers research project is investigating how pollutants interact with rivers & ecosystems to devise a system to monitor & measure pollution. Prof Andrew Tyler, University Stirling, will share their progress in a webinar, Thurs 12 Feb, 2pm. Email to join [email protected]

New research into Himalayan balsam from @stir.ac.uk @newcastleuni.bsky.social @forthriverstrust.bsky.social and @teesriverstrust.bsky.social is invaluable to local authorities, conservationists and river managers. #rivers #biodiversity #nature #habitat environmentjournal.online/climate-chan...

Fast-growing trees are set to dominate the #forests of the #future — but at a cost🌳 Our Nature Plants (@natplants.nature.com) study shows a global shift toward "sprinter" tree species, while slow-growing, functionally critical #trees face elevated #extinction risk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Calling Upper Forth farmers & land managers! Don't miss your chance to join the Upper Forth network - let us know your views about the issues that matter to you, share knowledge + expertise, + benefit from site visits, webinars, advice + more. Head to www.upperforthnetwork.org for further details.

The University of #Stirling is excited to be hosting #SNSC2026 😀 The registration deadline for attendance, posters and talks is Wednesday 11th February - can't wait to see you all there! 🏞️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦫🐜🦌🌿

Peaty people: we're hosting a special issue in the Taylor & Francis journal Sustainable Environment. Do consider submitting to it - the scope is broad and multidisciplinary. think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll...

Belem call to action for congo basin forests announced $2.5 billion in funding to protect central Africa’s tropical forests between now and 2030. Brokered by the the Congo Basin Forest Partnership. Funding from World Bank, Germany, Norway, Global Environment Facility, African Dev. Bank and others.

New paper alert! - In very nice new study led Michael Muir, we present a simple technique for citizen science (and beyond) use to quantify DOC in mugs of water with nothing but a smart phone camera! Fully open access. doi.org/10.1039/D5AN...

What to know more about radiocarbon or chronological modelling? Our 2026 short course is now open for registration. 17th - 19th March in Oxford/online. @isotopesuk.bsky.social @philascough.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/shor...

🌿 PhD Opportunity: Healing and Harm 🌍 How do invasive species & climate change impact medicinal plants? What does that mean for conservation in one of South Africa’s most biodiverse regions? 👇 More info below

PhD on carbon and greenhouse gas fluxes in ditches. Supervised by @aquaticcarbon.bsky.social at Uni Glasgow with @peatymike.bsky.social, Amy Pickard (@ukceh.bsky.social ) and me. Get in touch if interested and circulate to potential candidates! 🧪 #GreenhouseGases share.google/lvswIyC9TYg5...

We are looking for a postdoc to help us develop a novel #Peatland Triage Tool as part of the RESPECT project (gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref...). More details in the advert below. Vacancy details | University of Stirling share.google/t3mKgh2EZAmr... 🧪 #PeatSky #Postdoc #AcedemicJobs

Amazing PhD opportunity at the University of Stirling! Don't miss this chance. Amazing supervisors (Arthur Broadbent and @jasubke.bsky.social ) and a strong collaboration team including Lindsay Newbold, @annekempel.bsky.social and myself :) iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

New outreach video from our work on pyrogenic carbon in tropical savannahs. timeforgeography.co.uk/videos-conta...

If you’re a ECR and are keen to be part of the peatlands and wetlands community in the UK (and beyond!) - please think about joining our committee and helping us grow! We have momentum now but we need it to continue!

Survey to better understand public perceptions of freshwater fish and the sustainability of aquaculture. We would like to hear particularly from people not connected to the aquaculture sector. Available in multiple languages (🇬🇧🇫🇮🇵🇱🇸🇪🇵🇹🇪🇸). Please share! www.susaquastirling.net/safe-consume...

1/3 The new Global Methane Budget is now published, open access. essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

⚒️ Article: Soils may release more CO2 under warming when increases in plant productivity mine nitrogen from soil organic matter www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join us in London for an exciting workshop looking at #peatland resilience More information in the link below. Any questions just reach out.

Nearly forgot the Stirling Orchestra concert tonight. Programme of Nordic composers, and they were very good So glad I remembered!

Have you contributed to the public consultation on how biodiversity quantification could be applied in #NatureMarkets under the #WoodlandCarbonCode and #PeatlandCode? Today (11.00 pm) is the last opportunity to add your thoughts bit.ly/40DlYyy

I just learned about the Congo Basin Science Initiative to increase research capacity in the Congo Basin. They're recruiting students from Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon or Republic of the Congo for a bunch of relevant graduate studies scholarships and projects! 🧪🌍

🚨 New competitively funded PhD opportunity! 🚨 Applications are open for a 3 year funded PhD on indoor air quality, behaviour change and health. 🔬 Find out more here: www.stir.ac.uk/research/res... #airquality #airpollution #behaviourchange

Panoramic view from Beinn Eich today.

Check out our website for details of upcoming online and in person #Peatland #Events for the month of January, from #Workshops and #Webinars to #LiveScreenings 👉 bit.ly/3BLJHmB

Did you know? Just before Christmas, we launched a new module in the 𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗟𝗜𝗡 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝘆: freshwaterblog.net/2024/12/18/m...

📣 Our paper on soil carbon response to tree planting is out in J. of Env. Management: 🌲 Temperate grassland conversion to conifer forest destabilises mineral soil carbon stocks Open access ➡️ tinyurl.com/3krerb92 A short thread ⤵️

Do you have a burning question about Earth Sciences? Well Nature reviews earth and environment just launched "Ask and Expert": www.nature.com/articles/s43.... Just fill in this form forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... 🧪⚒️🌊

‼️EGU 2025 - ABSTRACTS‼️ Heterogeneous soil processes and their influence on Biogeochemical cycles. Interested in #soils and #biogeochemistry? Submit to our #EGU25 session! tinyurl.com/mr3af83n @soiltycoon.bsky.social @eurogeosciences.bsky.social

We have an exciting postdoc scientist opportunity in Leipzig: synthesis between economics, climate and biodiversity in terms of natural commons in our research training group "Economics of connected natural commons". See details here: uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/e...

Don’t forget to apply. Deadline for submitting your application ends soon!

Join us in Vienna for EGU with this special session on mycorrhizal fungi!

🚨We are filling a 5-year postdoc/junior lecturer position in Soil Biogeochemistry at the University of Lausanne. Fully-funded, independent, cutting-edge research on microbe-mineral-organic matter interactions, #climate, and #soils. Deadline: Jan 30. Start: Sept 2025. Info👇

Posting on behalf of my colleague Sylvie Quideau. She is offering a funded Ph.D. position in Soil Science- Forest Soil Carbon. See ad below for details. Please share. Thx!

📣New Competition Funded @iapetusdtp.bsky.social PhD Opportunity Deadline: 3rd of January 2025 The project will be co-supervised by myself, @fredworrall.bsky.social and Jessica Elise (Natural England). Project Outline: tinyurl.com/7nvsmc53 How to apply: iapetus2.ac.uk/how-to-apply/

Scientists are expected to do peer reviewing but no one tells you HOW. After talking with several folks about this today at #AGU24 , it seems a good time to link to this presentation I made several years ago -- feel free to use/share! docs.google.com/presentation...

Deadline for applicants is 3rd January 2025 at noon (iapetus2.ac.uk/how-to-apply/). Any questions about the project, applying or the DTP just drop me an email.

Great to see the EGU #biogeoscience division have moved to @egubg.bsky.social

❗️The abstract submission and registration for Rhizosphere 6 is now open! 🌾🌿 www.rhizo6.org/home please join us in Edinburgh next year for what should be an exciting meeting. @hutton.ac.uk #rhizosphere6

Fully funded PhD w me and @kungphil.bsky.social looking at the structure & function of urban forests in 3D using ground data, lidar, modelling, all the fun stuff. Check it out and get in touch if you're interested www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/qua...

Still time to apply for a PhD investigating soil carbon outcomes of agroforestry. With me, Yit Arn Teh (Newcastle, bsky.app/profile/newc...) and Stuart Smith (JHI, bsky.app/profile/hutt...). Deadline is 3rd of January, but get in touch sooner! More here: iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...

Really nice article from the University of Plymouth about my Tracking the Colour of Peatlands citizen science project - I’m so pleased how this project has grown! www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/citizen...

Leipzig, heute. Mehr als 60.000 Menschen. Das ist ein klares Signal.

So pleased and grateful that so many fellow Hamburgers turned up to take a stand against AfD and other right wing ideology that seems to be on the rise in Germany. This gives me hope!

The application deadline for these PhDs funded through our DTP has been extended to the 8th of Jan 2024. See details below and please share with any interested parties. We are accepting applications from overseas candidates and our funding includes payment of fees (EU students pay UK fees).