I’m standing for election as a British Ecological Society Trustee. BES members — you should have received your voting email. There are many great nominees, so please take time to read the statements and vote. It’s a privilege to be part of such an inspiring community of ecologists. 🌿

#OTD #OnThisDay in 1974, the Ainsdale Dune Slacks #LongTermExperiment began! This #LTE looks at how rabbit & sheep #grazing affects the #dune slack #ecosystem. It is run by @drjonmillett.bsky.social & @drciaradwyer.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social ‬ Learn more: bit.ly/Ainsdale%F0%...

51 years and still going strong 💪🌼🪻🌱🪱🦠🐇🐑

Ainsdale Dune Slacks, #England is the #LTESiteOfTheWeek. PIs @drjonmillett.bsky.social & @drciaradwyer.bsky.social are looking at how rabbit & sheep #grazing affect the #dune slack #ecosystem. bit.ly/Ainsdale @seftoncouncil.bsky.social ‬ @naturalengland.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social 🌎

'We expect the funding application to take around 2-3 hours to complete' 2-3 months later...

Don’t miss our lunchtime #webinar next Friday when Cicely Marshall from @uniofcam.bsky.social will talk about testing Defra’s #StatutoryBiodiversityMetric using #LongTermExperiments #LTEs #Biodiversity 🌎 Register: bit.ly/ECTWebinarsE...

🌿 Join us to learn about the newly published paper ‘Construction costs and tradeoffs in carnivorous pitcher plant leaves: towards a pitcher leaf economic spectrum’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Kadeem Gilbert. 🧵 (1/6) 👉 doi.org/n986 @mechecolab.bsky.social #AoBpapers

The final blog from MEE as part of #InternationalWomensDay comes from our Associate Editor Graziella Iossa. Read the full post 👇 buff.ly/laKCepR

Calling all botany/ plant science students: Just 24 hours left to get a team together for Botanical University Challenge 2025. #BUC2025 is one of the highlights of the year for students & all plant-lovers who can watch the competition live on YouTube. Don't miss out! @bucbotany.bsky.social

We found that the carnivorous Sundews were more or less carnivorous depending on microhabitat conditions. 🌍🧪 #peatland #carnivorousplant

Spot the incorrect AI 'fact': Bladderworts: turning to algae and pollen as a food source. Round-leaved Sundews: refusing to eat insects and instead suggesting vegetables like Brussels sprouts and kale. Sundews: becoming less interested in eating insects due to increased soil nitrogen levels.

Birthday treat... and a win too 😊

🔊Job offers!📢. We will have a few post-doc and PhD studentship positions to join our research team in Aberdeen. Please apply or disseminate the first one below on: 📢 Soil microbial growth and resilience to environmental change www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Really enjoyed being part of this. Made me think, and made my brain hurt. Expertly lead by Kadeem Gilbert. Please read and comment :) (Don't know if coauthors are on Bluesky. Searching doesn't work, otherwise would tag them) @lborouniversity.bsky.social ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

More Sundew herbarium specimen preparation for future studies... Will be a shame to destroy these, but that's why I made them!

No AI generated art here, just real photos and nice science. Really pleased with this paper 😊

🌍💧 Peatlands in Europe - 3 key facts 1️⃣ Area: 59 million hectares 2️⃣ Coverage: : 6 % of landmass 3️⃣ Emissions: 582 Mt CO2e/year 📚For more info Check Global Peatland Hotspot Atlas moorwissen.de/news-detail/...

This is so vitally important. Policy makers at every level need to read and act on this.

That image 😂

This is such an amazing effort!

On the train home after an awesome #BES2024. So nice to catch up with so many people. Next year I might not leave preparing my talk until the night/morning before... But I did also say that last year 😂

New paper out today with Chris Hatcher in @funecology.bsky.social Sundews change how carnivorous they are depending on microhabitat variation. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@journalofecology.bsky.social What's your email address please... can't find one anywhere. The supplementary material link on this paper is old and no longer works: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Is supp mat not archived?!

Nice little article in Nature on creative solutions for time-starved researchers www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Labour government have failed us on the Environment.

The Faculty of Science at Stockholm University is recruiting up to three Assistant Professors in Biodiversity to tackle the critical global issue of biodiversity loss caused by human-driven factors such as climate change, habitat alteration and pollution. www.su.se/department-o...

📢 PhD opportunity with @georgeholmes.bsky.social, looking at the drivers and motivations, ecological impacts and policy implications of unlicensed and unregulated species translocations. yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/eco...

Interested in a #phd in remote sensing of forests? Want to come work with me in Cambridge using drones and ground-based Lidar and photogrammetry? Check out this funding opportunity for the EPSRC Sensor CDT #phd #forests #remotesensing #lidar 🌳🌲🛰️⚡ www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

Making herbarium sheets for the first time since my degree 30 years ago, to add to some much older than me.

Our Agents for Change series spotlights different scientists and their work. Today meet Francesca Warren, a lab assistant based in our chemical laboratories in Lancaster who is currently working with soil and earthworms! 🪱 👀 campaigns.ceh.ac.uk/agentsforcha...

What do people do with their small pilot studies that have an interesting result but are too small to be a full paper?

We are looking for a dynamic, motivated, interdisciplinary researcher to join our new project RESPECT: Rapid Engagement with Stressed Peatland Environments and Communities in Transformation. Field & lab components working in a cross-disciplinary group. 1/2

Is ecology ready for big code and the errors they hide? dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/10/14/i...

Surely this isn't OK?! Why is this getting through peer review? In a Nature branded journal!

🚨Funded PhD Oct Start🚨 📣Resilient dunes: determining the impacts of winter flooding variability on coastal dune wetland plant communities using remote sensing. Working at the Ainsdale Dunes Living Lab to understand how to manage wetland nature recovery. details here: lboro.ac.uk/study/postgrad…

🚨Vacancy!🚨 Functional Ecology is looking for a new blog #editor, with a broad interest in #animal #ecology, to help us continue delivering high-quality content on our #blog💻 We welcome applicants from any career stage, anywhere in the world!🌍 DL: 17/05/2024⏰ Full details👇 buff.ly/3Q8vR1q

Funded PhD opportunity using remote sensing to better understand restoration and conservation of rare and threatened coastal sand dune wetlands. Please share widely 🙂 www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Herbariums are undervalued. How do we change this?

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