It's lovely being in Chennai for Pongal - the harvest festival in Tamil Nadu celebrating our farmers & produce with gratitude for the seasonal sun & rain that ensure a good harvest! Happy Pongal everyone!🌽🌾🍯 அனைவருக்கும் இனிய பொங்கல் நல்வாழ்த்துக்கள் 🎋🌾🫜 #Pongal #harvest #farmersday #பொங்கல் #உழவர்திருநாள்

Two funded PhDs wt me @uniofreading.bsky.social, Oct 2026 start, via AI-INTERVENE (research.reading.ac.uk/ai-intervene/) 🌏🐦🌿🐝 UK Wild Bird phenology wt Ken Norris @nhm-london.bsky.social Computer Vision & Plant-Pollinator Networks wt @tomaugust.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social Deadline 12 Jan2026

Studying for an MSc in the UK this year and looking for a research project? 🧪🌍 Check out our list of available MSc projects now live: www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu...

A lovely weekend with @piedflynet.bsky.social on Dartmoor. Walks in nature & talks with friends. Food for the soul❣️ #timewithfriends #ecologistlife #naturetrails 🌿🌏🐦😊

Fully funded PhD for UK students working wt me at @uniofreading.bsky.social, Prof Ken Norris @nhm-london.bsky.social & @btobirds.bsky.social Application deadline 12 Jan 2026 & further details in link below www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #birds 🐦 #phenology🌿🌏 #museumcollections #AI #LLM

Come and work with me in the Open Research team at University of Reading Library jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Funded 4-year PhD available 🎓. Project titled “AI in the Museum” working with historic bird data 🐦 from Madagascar & supervisors at @uniofreading.bsky.social & @nhm-london.bsky.social Deadline 9th Nov 2025. Apply at www.mfccdt.ac.uk/how-to-apply/ #AIinResearch #Ecology #Climate 🌏🌿

Wild honey bee hive in my aunt's garden. I'm not sure if it's Apis indica or Apis cerana (too big & too many tiers for it to be A. florea, me thinks). Abandoned since the monsoon started but isn't she a beauty? 🌏🐝🌿❣️ #beehive #wildhoneybees #gardensurprises #indianhoneybees #simplejoys

My colleagues @uniofreading.bsky.social asked me what I thought of the "Impact" that our research generates. Here's me talking about my experience in this area🌿🌻🐝🦋🌾🌟 youtu.be/9epi_JI1ohw #science ➡️ #evidence ➡️ #stakeholders ➡️ #codevelopment ➡️ #implementation ➡️ #impact

Two months away from my office, I came back to a combination of congratulatory messages on my promotion & condolences for my Dad passing away... and a change on the door. I am overwhelmed with gratitude for the love & empathy from my colleagues. THANK YOU @uniofreading.bsky.social #lovewhereyouwork

Can Nature & People Thrive Together? 🌍🧑‍🌾🌽🌎🌴🐬🌏🚵‍♀️🍄🌐👍 An Aspirational Approach to Planetary Futures @nature.com.web.brid.gy www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌡changes in the city of my birth vs. the town where I now live. Mid summers day🌿 not just the longest but might be the hottest day of the year so far, in England ☀️ Days >30°C, avg for tropical Chennai, are becoming more common in temperate Reading, too! 🌏 #showyourstripes #midsummer #climatechange

🌿 Calling all friends in climate and biodiversity 🌿 We’re hosting a meeting at the @britishecologicalsociety.org HQ on 18 September 2025! Come along to network, hear about current research and policy challenges. Abstract submissions + sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-ch... 👀 🫵 🔜

Am interested in new nerdy ideas for YouTube videos. These either explain a concept in conservation or ecology or explain a conservation project. These have something to show. Please say if at #ICCB2025 and would like to discuss an idea. youtube.com/@bill_suther...

House Martins nest building outside my bedroom. Despite the mess, the window cleaning will now have to wait until the chicks have fledged & flown! Hope it's a good year for their home & family 🌍🐦 #birdsoutsidemybedroom #housemartins #nesting #springtime #simplepleasures

Lovely spring day in Wiltshire helping my PhD student calibrate her radio tracking equipment whilst listening to skylarks, watching corn buntings, meadow pipits & yellow wagtails & soaking up the sunshine. 🌍🐤🌞 It was a day that was very good for the soul! #ecologistlife #dayout #fieldwork 😊

A short but significant report on emerging threats & opportunities for pollinator conservation, we've worked on @uniofreading.bsky.social with Bee:wild is out today in time for #WorldBeeDay 🌍🐝 It's been picked up by @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The weather is a bit mixed this weekend but #pollinator FIT Counts might be possible in sheltered, sunny spots. Here's a Green-veined White butterfly enjoying a rather wind-swept dandelion. This is a target flower for FIT Counts - read more on the PoMS blog ukpoms.org.uk/delightful-d...

My constant companion since the summer of '09. Road trips wt friends & field trips wt colleagues, this little car has taken me across the length & breadth of Great Britain. I'll miss you, my friend. Safe travels wt new friends on your future adventures! #goodbyesarenevereasy #endofanera

Exciting news! We're launching the Tyler Prize to support early career researchers. #ECRs Four awards of £10,000 each will be given annually across our Research Themes, accelerating the development of research leadership, collaboration and innovation. More info: rdg.ac/3FF89Yk

🥇#1 - The QS World University Rankings 2025 has put us @uor-research.bsky.social in the world's Top20 & UK 1️⃣ for Agriculture & Forestry 🌍 Fantastic news & great recognition of our efforts within the School and University 🍾🥂🥳 www.reading.ac.uk/news/2025/Un... #lovewhereyouwork 🌟

🌱The new #HorizonEurope project, #AGRI4POL, aims to assist the transition of #agriculture from being a pressure on #pollinators to becoming a positive force for #biodiversity, crop pollination services, #ecosystems and people. 💻Read the full press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

In our new paper in @science.org, we show that tropical forests are changing over time, but too slowly to track climate change. Our article, led by @jeaggu.bsky.social just out: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @naturerecovery.bsky.social @forestplots.bsky.social

Study documents significant decline in butterflies in the US over the last two decades #butterflies #insect #decline 🌎🦋⬇️〽️❗️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Calling citizen scientists in Britain to contribute once more to data on Fruit tree flowering phenology ⚘️🪻🌸🌍 at fruitwatch.org. Fruitwatch is back!

How long after boarding the #Eurostar do you think this photo was taken? Less than 5 minutes!!! Classic shot of a bunch of academics on a work trip #ecologistlife 🌍 #academiclife From @valor-project.eu to @agri4pol.eu

Excited to be at the kick-off of this new Horizon Europe VALOR project. Follow our progress over the next few years on @valor-project.eu

Another opportunity for a PhD. with me & @drunkennorris.bsky.social at Reading University & @nhm-london.bsky.social on combining AI & museum specimens to contribute to biodiversity conservation. Check link below & apply if interested www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PhD #AI #Biodiversity

My first experience of a PhD. defence in Sweden as an "opponent" was hugely interesting & intellectually stimulating. I met very cool scientists; reunited with a friend after more than 10 years & celebrated the new Dr's success in a lovely winter wonderland location. I even survived -9 degrees!!! 🥶

#PhD alert! 📢 Interested in combining natural history data with AI techniques to assess species distribution & ranges under past, present & future conditions? Apply to work with Prof. Ken Norris & I. Details below www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #biodiversity #AI #naturalhistory #birds #Madagascar

First time since 2019 that I haven't attended a #UNFCCC #COP in person. Virtual participation great to reduce emissions, but lacked opportunities for impromptu conversations & unplanned meetings with people from all over the world #climate #nature #biodiversity #food #COP29 youtu.be/CQoV0H-Ckyk?...

How can the social sciences best contribute to the challenge of nature recovery? Panel discussion this Friday with a stellar cast. All welcome in person or online.

Senior figures suggest steps to COP reform in open letter to the United Nations clubofrome.org/cop-reform-202…#COP292#UNFCCCC#ClimateEmergencyc#TimeForChangege

First paper from fruitwatch.org project published today. Good example of #PhD research using #citizenscience data on fruit tree flowering #phenology supported by Oracle for Research academic.oup.com/hr/advance-a... @herbarium.bsky.social

I love this time of year when my apple & cherry trees start to blossom. If you have fruit trees please take a few minutes to upload your blossom records to fruitwatch.org. It helps us track climate change impacts on life history events like flowering phenology #Fruitwatch #climatechange #phenology

A fantastic week visiting field sites, partners, & local communities in the Nilgiris & Erode districts. Thank you, Keystone Foundation, for being marvellous hosts. We hope our inputs were useful & look forward to our collaboration flourishing!

Office for this week. Enjoying the opportunity to step away from city life & be able to pause, breathe, reflect & enjoy nature. #workperks of visiting a partner organisation on a GCRF UKPACT project. The 10 hour road trip to get here was also fun!

20 years since my MSc Ecology & Conservation @ueaceec.bsky.social & I'm really looking forward to returning for #CEEC24. Thanks for the invite! Will miss @jengill.bsky.social & Bill Sutherland & playing laser quest 😀 but excited to talk about my research and what I've been up to at Reading Uni.

The back-from-hibernation #CEEC24 programme is live: 2 days of talks, posters and quizzery. Join us in person from 9.00am Thursday 07/03 to late on Friday at the Scholars lounge. Please note the new venue: Sportspark 1.27 or follow here on Bluesky

Come back from Friday lunch (08/03, 13.45) for Deepa Senapathi (@deepasena.bsky.social, Reading), whose research encompasses vital monitoring of the effects of climate and land-use changes on ecosystem services and biodiversity loss, exploring how land can be better managed for humans and wildlife.

Watched this programme this evening and was blown away by the sensitive, perceptive, informative insight into the lives of people who live every day with different variations of autism. iPlayer it - it is well worth watching if you have a spare hour. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Do floral interventions boost beneficial insects & help pest regulation? The answer depends on agrochem input & landscape context! Our new paper in collaboration with MSSRF India out today resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

WEBINAR: Unlocking the power of engagement for nature recovery & nature-based solutions 🗓️Tuesday 20th February ⏲️10:00-11:00 GMT. The session will cover strategies & insights applicable to a broad spectrum of initiatives aimed at benefiting both people & nature. bookwhen.com/oxfordbiodiv...

PhD opportunity - application deadline 25th Feb. Part of University of Reading, UK & Natural History Museum, London partnership with Prof. Ken Norris & I as supervisors. AI, birds, phenology & climate change. What's not to love? Check link below & apply www.findaphd.com/phds/project...