Excited to share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com We synthesize causal discovery & inference approaches across traditions (regression adjustment, quasi-expts, SEMs, Granger causality, convergent cross-mapping, and more) into a unified workflow for ecologists. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

That moment when you teach biology students about indigenous-led conservation and one of them comes see you after the lecture to ask how to get involved 😍 Teaching really gives a soul to academic life.

Full day! BBC Ulster talk show to discuss the validity of the concept of "toxic masculinity", then tonight going deeper in the content in front of a full room as part of the @niscifest.bsky.social. In between, great discussion of the use of geoprofiling in #biodiversityconservation by PhD student

🚀 The 2026 NI Science Festival programme is LIVE + on sale! We’re back 11–22 Feb with big ideas, bold talks, family favourites, late-night labs, and all kinds of curious chaos. Huge shoutout to Hundred Studio for our brand new website! Programme link below nisciencefestival.com/events/

Gore-Tex factory in the US polluting water with pfas, impacting local communities.

In the space of two minutes he confused Greenland and Iceland four times by my count. bsky.app/profile/atru...

The UK Government has just released a report that, if taken seriously, should transform how we think about climate, nature and security 🚨 Its main conclusion is stark: global ecosystem degradation and collapse is a national emergency 🚨 ➡️ www.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/news/nationa...

🚨 new podcast episode! 🦫 this episode explores the story behind the paper, "habitat heterogeneity and food availability in beaver-engineered streams foster bat richness, activity and feeding". 🎙️ listen to the full episode here: buff.ly/AbdBmjW

Common #birds have higher abundances in croplands with lower #pesticide purchases #ProcB #OpenAccess #Ecology royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

CAMPAIGNING RESOURCE ALERT: The Anti- Authoritarian Toolkit is your guide to digital resistance brought to you from D-HUB. There is so much information here from digital comms to narrative and storytelling tactics and innovative movement building. https://wiki.antiauthoritariantoolkit.org/en

The wealth of 3,000+ billionaires ≃ that of ½ of humanity: 4.1 billion "The superrich are increasingly controlling the means of communication, incl. both traditional & newer forms of media. Governments are making wrong choices to pander to the elite & defend wealth while repressing people’s rights…"

Good news - I suspect many other respectable organisations will follow soon.... www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Slovenia is smaller and more densely populated than Scotland. But despite its small size and relatively populous countryside, it's home to nearly 1,000 brown bears, over 120 wolves and a growing population of around 50 reintroduced lynx.

As the climate data for 2025 continues to be released, it's time to update various data visualisations. First - the global climate stripes for 1850-2025. A third darkest red stripe is added. The last 11 years have been the warmest 11 years on record. A sequence that is unlikely to be broken soon.

Not a single day in 2025 was cooler than the 1991-2020 average, on a global scale. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social

Find out how you can help 🔽 raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/15/r...

If Denmark can get farmers to agree to dropping their nitrates derogation, adopting a carbon tax on meat, government promotion of plant-based diets and rewilding a fifth of the country - why can't Ireland? www.irishtimes.com/science/2026...

Do trees have fingerprints? This cool new study uses terrestrial LiDAR to capture features of stems and branches that might allow timber to be identified and tracked from forest to lumberyard. 🧪🌲🌳 academic.oup.com/forestry/art...

I warmly recommend this stunning book by @lesliebarnardbooth.bsky.social as a present to awake an interest in nature and trees in particular. Considering using it as textbook in #forestecology

Animals with misleading names. I'm seeing this go around as part of a viral tumblr thread so I thought I'd reshare it.

🪶🌎🧪 WE'RE HIRING!!! Want to band fabulous birds on a far-flung island in the Western Pacific? We need to fill this position ASAP. More information here: birdpop.org/docs/jobs/Ro...

I love it when a student (who started their PhD two months ago) shares a GIF of their modelling attempts (here a draft of realistic foraging behaviour - more to come). #movementecology #geoprofiling

🌱🌳 This #WorldSoilDay, let's dig deeper. Explore the study and see why soil health is the backbone of resilient forests. doi.org/10.1007/s116... #JFR #Forestryresearch #Envitonemnt 🍁🌺🌱🌿

Article maybe best read here, ad-free: theconversation.com/how-hollywoo... "There is a strong ecological case for reintroducing wolves where they once lived… Our natural landscapes need wolves. And right now, wolves need all the good PR they can get."

Tomorrow marks two years since the Israeli military killed beloved Palestinian professor, writer, and activist Refaat Alareer in an airstrike on his sister’s home.

Happy 5th December, World Soils Day!! Please take a moment to think about your local patch of soil - whether it's your garden, a local park or even a nearby forest. Is the soil is being looked after well there? If not, what can you do to protect it for future generations? 🧪🪱 #Soil #WorldSoilDay

Another attempt to explain "the hostility to wolves by segments of agribusiness & the general public... given that wolf predation is not responsible for a large number of cattle & sheep losses, with only a very modest economic effect on the livestock industry." In US but valid for UK: see next post!

Interested in #RaptorResearch and #MovementEcology? 🧪 The #AnimalEcology Lab at @utu.fi has an open #PhDposition! We’ll be tagging WTEs with cutting-edge #GPS devices to study their early-life journeys. Curious to learn more? See the advert: shorturl.at/HMZ84 #PhDOpening #PhDChat #BioLogging

And in the 7 years I've been back in London I've seen a big increase in lights being left on all night - outside and inside buildings, including homes, as well as in streets and parks. It's maddening!

Let's not. Let's also not underestimate the effect of inflation of loud, charismatic, egotistic voices in every aspect of academia, where a few (often lazy, almost always male) are getting the attention of managers because they sound nice.

I love larches. A conifer that's deciduous deserves attention. An orange tree in the autumn deserves love. A natural fire break deserves consideration. A great source of construction timber & food for wildlife, deserves respect. Also, I grew up in a larch-made log cabin.

It's that time of the year again! Spotify wrap. I wrapped it a few months ago, when I had enough of the horrible treatment of artists, the planet, democracy that the company delivers. I switched to Qobuz, and loved it. Much more ethical, good library, cheaper, and with better sound quality.

His voters got what they wanted : a president who isn’t woke. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I just saw this on Instagram and I just had to share it here.

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On Tuesday we (with @emagorrian.bsky.social and Paul Armstrong from the Woodland Trust) hosted a workshop to discuss what future NI forests could look like. Fantastic turnout and great conversations, looking forward to a second one on mapping opportunities! @daera-ni.gov.uk

The allocation of unlimited resources to capitalism's fatal priorities, at the great expense of humans and the planet, is impossible to ignore. #aifraud

Granger et al. Multispecies sensory networks and social foraging strategies: Implications for population decline in procellariiform seabirds www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #ornithology #seabirds

Which bird disperses which plant? What does bird dispersed fruit look like? Why do fruit sizes differ between regions? Why does ivy fruit in winter? How can we identify the disperser and distance carried from droppings? How did this collaboration arise? youtu.be/4vZ0w97ffRM?...

Still a chance to return to 1.5C climate goal, researchers @climateanalytics.org say - Report calls for scaling-up of renewable energy and electrification of key sectors to limit peak of global heating #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Do you like forests and computer models? 🌳🧑‍💻 Within the Future Forests excellence cluster, we are hiring two modellers for 7 year (!) positions here in Freiburg. A scientific coordinator role: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004... And and a scientific programmer role: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...

🌳 Our research in Nature Communications! Converting coniferous to broad-leaved forests in Europe could cut summer hot extremes by up to 1 °C — boosting climate effectiveness. Read more 👇 🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64580-y #ForestNavigator #ClimateScience #Forestry #NatureComms

😢 "Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"

NEW PAPER in #ornithology shows that some #raptors switched foraging strategy when #COVID19 lockdowns reduced the availability of #roadkill: buff.ly/jUug7Yj

*rant on* The UK academic world is dying from its own form of capitalism. We are so busy that time for the community is almost impossible to find. Being a journal editor is mad (finding reviewers), supervising a PhD is fun until you need to find an external examiner... * rant off ** (* never off)

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