📢Please share📢 We have an opening for an exciting fully-funded PhD project on computer vision and machine learning applied to biodiversity monitoring with amazing Serge Belongie @belongielab.org and @aicentre.dk. Application deadline coming up on 15 January! phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...

One of multiple S hemisphere plants in GB that we would like a talented PhD student to study! See link for funded NERC ACCE+ PhD opportunity at Liverpool: www.findaphd.com/phds/project....

Muehlenbeckia complexa in its native range in New Zealand. Identified in our recent Horizon scan as one of the potential top next invaders in Britain - these pictures illustrate why. nonnativespecies.org/non-native-s... @waynedawsoneco.bsky.social

New #GBRedList for vascular plants is published today by a team led by @bsbibotany.bsky.social with partners @naturalengland.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social @naturescot.bsky.social @natreswales.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social @plantlifeintl.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @thebotanics.bsky.social

🎞️ On 27 August, a media feature on the CamAlien was shown on Belgian national television, bringing attention to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the detection of invasive alien species. 👀 Watch the video: www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/ki... 🔎 Read more: onestop-project.eu/news/camalie...

A new article from @theguardian.com explores the spread of invasive raccoons in Europe, featuring research from our journal on their diet of endangered mussels in western Poland. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🌍 For the 1st time, we have a systematic global overview of how #InvasiveAlienSpecies change the environment and people's lives. .—Prof. Sven Bacher Discover GIDIAS: 22,000+ records on IAS impacts, now open to researchers worldwide. Watch the full story! 🎥 📖🧪 More: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Calling young UK-based artists! To celebrate 50 years of CITES 🌍, the Royal Society of Biology @rsb.org.uk is hosting an art competition for 7–18-year-olds to draw or paint an endangered species. 🎨 🧪Find out more: www.rsb.org.uk/get-involved...

🌼 Join us on 11 June for “Turning on Transformation” — an online workshop exploring how to put policy into practice (and practice into policy) through real-world transformative change. 🕑 14:00–15:30 CEST 🔗 Registration open tinyurl.com/zjfwzppz #DAISYProject #PLANET4B #Biodiversity #Transformation

🗓️ On 8 May, during the Iberian Week of Invasive Species, BIOPOLIS-CIBIO are hosting a OneSTOP Living Lab workshop on innovative #IAS management strategies. 👽 🔜 Learn more: onestop-project.eu/news/onestop... #SEI2025 #Bioinvasions @eualiens.bsky.social @invasionscience.bsky.social

A new paper by Yitbarek Weldesemeat, who recently completed his PhD at CAWR, highlights the importance of community involvement in tree planting initiatives. Yitbarek investigated 13 tree planting schemes in Ethiopia: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Join us at Wyken Croft Nature Park on Friday 25th of April, 11am-1pm for the City Nature Challenge. Sign-up here: bit.ly/3GgCxby

🎉 Officially introducing the first version of our website! 🎊 Explore resources on invasive alien species management via onestop-project.eu #InvasiveAlienSpecies #IAS #Bioinvasions

One of my favourite events of the year: the @warwickshireccc.bsky.social annual biological recorders meeting. Amazing venue, also recruiting for our OneSTOP invasive species Living Lab

Looking for a PhD in biological invasion? Come and join us at Coventry University @coventrycawr.bsky.social this September to study emerging invasive plants. Project in collaboration with @bsbiscience.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social and linked to @onestop-project.eu.

Immigration’s a hot topic – and it applies to non-native plants, animals and insects, all over the world | Tim Blackburn

Just a reminder about the postdoc position in the post quoted below, applications close 7th March! 👇 Also colleagues are advertising another similar one, on using large data sets to investigate the drivers of pest and pathogen outbreaks in agriculture: www.slu.se/en/about-slu... (closes March 19)

Part-time postdoc position available in my group to work in the @onestop-project.eu and @daisyproject.bsky.social projects testing novel invasive species detection and monitoring tools in living labs. 1 year initially, but potential to extent.

You can now register and attend remotely on 📆 26 February 2025, 9am - 1pm (CET) the #PlantHealth Panel Plenary Meeting, to learn more about #RiskAssessment and especially #Commodity Risk Assessment in relation to plant health. Please register by 21 Feb 2025 → www.efsa.europa.eu/en/events/13...

🌼 Introducing Horizon Europe DAISY 🌼 DAISY will identify and test innovative socio-technological interventions, assess key enabling factors through case studies, and provide policy recommendations to advance biodiversity and equity. Led by #CoventryUniversity, funded by the #EuropeanUnion.

Results of our 14th #NewYearPlantHunt are out! >3K hunters, 647 wild & naturalised species in bloom, c25K records: plans afoot to extend the Hunt across rest of year. Huge thanks to all plant hunters! Summary/ press release here: bsbi.org/download/45297 Longer report here: bsbi.org/download/45290

As we approach the end of day 3️⃣ of our joint #GuardiasOnestopKickoff here are some afternoon session highlights: 📌 Stakeholder interview implementation on different levels 📌 Citizen science involvement through Sentinel garden schemes for #IAS 📌One-Biosecurity integrated governance for invasions

We found good governance practice is important to achieve sustainable outcomes from tree planting schemes. New paper with results from Yitbarek's PhD:

Union members have threatened strike action after Coventry University announced plans to make nearly 100 academics redundant and to transfer others to a subsidiary company. Juliette Rowsell reports bit.ly/4ghVhVv

I have an open position (fully funded for 4 years) for a PhD candidate in a project on pollinator communities and populations in relation to forest structure and microclimate. See more, and apply here: www.slu.se/en/about-slu....

This would not have been possible without citizen scientists.

#GuardIAS (Guarding European Waters from IAS) is a new Horizon Europe project aiming to offer solutions that address every phase of the invasion process (pre-border, border, post border). This is the official BlueSky account of the project. #bioinvasions #MarineEcology #AquaticEcology #Science 🧪

Join us at Coventry University this Wednesday when @jan-honza-pergl.bsky.social will talk about invasive species in the Czech Republic.

What makes a plant beautiful?🌹🌺🌼 I hadn't thought about it until I was asked if I'd do this 5 minute survey for a research project www.biodiful.org#/plantiful_en #biodiversity

Two unique opportunities for fully funded interdisciplinary PhD research on #biodiversity #conservation @Uni_of_Essex, blending #ecology with #sociology and #business as part of the @leverhulme.bsky.social Sustainable Transitions programme jobs.ac.uk/job/DKT611/p... jobs.ac.uk/job/DKT503/p...

Follow us on blue sky to find out more about what we do at IRIS 🌱👽🇪🇸 & Check out our new website iriseeza.com 🥳 @iris-eeza.bsky.social @ananovoaperez.bsky.social