Conservation abandonment is a policy blind spot. #ICYMI, read the article here: rdcu.be/eQpdN #OpenAccess #nature #climate @catalyzconserv.bsky.social

Excited to be trailing FreeStations - accessible environmental pollution equipment - at our @dice-kent.bsky.social campus next week Huge thanks for Prof Mark Mulligan from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social for building them with us! Read more here: blogs.kent.ac.uk/dice/2025/09...

Excellent advice from Hugh Possingham on monitoring conservation projects and why most Monitoring and Evaluation is flawed. youtu.be/qa6Ewt-W5mU?...

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

And that’s a wrap! This week, authors of the #SpatialPlanningConnectivity Assessment met for the first time to explore biodiversity-inclusive spatial planning and ecological connectivity.🌍 Thank you to @iiasa.ac.at 🇦🇹 for being excellent hosts! 🧪 www.ipbes.net/spatial-plan...

There are over 18,000 types of lichen in existence. My personal favourite is ‘village bench lichen’, which devotes its entire existence selflessly to gradually making communal public seating more furry and comfortable.

This feels like the perfect post to reply to and announce this - but my book, Endemic: Exploring the wildlife unique to Britain, which includes a chapter on the No Parking Whitebeam, comes out a week today. share.google/Rgyzzyr777Hi...

📣📣📣 Fully funded MSc scholarships available for this Sept. Short deadline: 21st July Kent are offering fully funded taught MSc in Conservation Science #scholarships @dice-kent.bsky.social For more info: lnkd.in/eiPJG8uE Any questions, then please email: [email protected] #phdchat #funding

Job alert: 2.75 -3 yr postdoc in Mathematical ecology/epidemiology or Decision Sci at the University of Queensland on the value of information for decisions with @hugepossum.bsky.social @katehelmstedt.bsky.social Katriona Shea & myself #MathSky 🌍 uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo... please share

Please share: PhD scholarship opportunity in mathematical ecology on the value of information for improving ecological management, open to international students, with a great team @hugepossum.bsky.social, Katriona Shea, Kate Helmstedt, & me at UQ, Australia 🌍 🧮, study.uq.edu.au/study-option...

*New postgraduate studentship*! ⚠️⬇️ We are now offering fully funded taught MSc in Conservation Science studentships at the University of Kent, particularly targeted towards individuals from underserved backgrounds. Apply here: ➡️ www.kent.ac.uk/durrell-inst... #postgraduatescholarships

👋 Hello BlueSky! I’m Dr Stephanie Brittain, a Lecturer in Conservation Science at @dice-kent.bsky.social & a Research Fellow @iccs.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk. I’m also President of the SCB SSWG (Social Science Working Group) @society4conbio.bsky.social scbsocialscience.org #ConSocSci

Please come along to our #ICCB2025 symposium on "Future pathways for area-based conservation" tomorrow, Tues 17, from 3:15 to 4:15 pm in Mezzanine Level Meeting Room M3. We have a set of excellent speakers talking about how and whether different types of conservation areas fit within GBF Target 3.

Come join us at the Conservation Biogeography Lab @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social and carry out work on megafauna in Europe pages.cms.hu-berlin.de/biogeo/websi...

Rebuilding Nature launched today and aims to create a UK Strategic Nature Network by 2030. The group includes National Highways, Network Rail and more. Its key focus is re-connecting fragmented landscapes to allow the free movement of plants & wildlife and provide resilience against climate change.

Still can't believe we got onto the cover of Science! Across 11 reserves and 7 years, we found that dehorning achieved large reductions in poaching, but it's not a magic bullet Full article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Popular version: www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Really looking forward to #BioBlitz 2025 at @dice-kent.bsky.social tomorrow! There’s still time to book yourself onto free walks and surveys that are running all day tomorrow 👇 🦅 🦇 🐞 🐝 🌱 🌻 🦔

DEADLINE APPROACHING. There are only 5 days left to apply for a fully-funded PhD on "Understanding and optimising local nature recovery networks in England". The project is open to home students and the deadline is this Sunday (May 11th). More details are here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Join @dice-kent.bsky.social for #BioBlitz 2025 on the 17th May 🌱 🪲 🐸 🐝 🦡 🌺 This is a family friendly event where we try to record as many species as possible! We’ve lots of free events! Find them all and sign up here 👉 lnkd.in/e5kjJRmd Why not join me for a walk to learn about #soundscapes? 🐦🔉

Two fully-funded PhD scholarships @BangorUni in conservation social science. Deadline 5th May. If you have conservation scientists, geographers, economists, sociologists in your network do share. Details in thread below (1/3) www.bangor.ac.uk/conservation...

Different land uses often overlap, but we often ignore this in #conservation planning. Here is how we can change that --> paper in One Earth by Marie Pratzer and #SystemShift team doi.org/10.1016/j.on... @oneearthofficial.bsky.social @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

I am advertising two PhD studentships (part of the six that DICE is currently advertising). PhD 1: Understanding and optimising local nature recovery networks in England. Deadline 11/05/25. www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Supervised by Bob Smith and Zoe Davies, funded by UKRI E3.

👆 Fully-funded #PhD opportunity as part of the @WGSSSDTP researching the social and economic aspects of restoring the Celtic rainforests. Would particularly suit a Welsh-speaking researcher! bangor.ac.uk/conservation...

April's DICE Talk was from Dr Gail Austen, the Leverhulme Support Officer for DICE. Dr Austen started at DICE in 2013 as a PhD student researching accuracy, error and bias in species identification. youtube.com/watch?v=MVBp...

Congratulation @nevilleash.bsky.social and a lot of success in this „turbulent“ times!

📢 The Galapagos rail has been rediscovered on Floreana Island in the Galapagos after almost two centuries! Long-term monitoring programs are ESSENTIAL for the conservation and recovery of endangered species. 🌍🪶🧪 #ornithology @darwinfoundation.bsky.social www.darwinfoundation.org/en/news/all-...

New publication in TREE @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social Given the political momentum for greater nature protection and restoration articulated in the targets of the Global Biodiversity Framework, we assessed the state-of-the-art of Systematic Conservation Planning. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Just published in TREE! Advances in systematic #ConservationPlanning to meet global #biodiversity goals. 💡New tools improve resource allocation & decision-making, but trust-building is key for adoption. Future SCP must address trade-offs & uncertainties. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... 🌍🌐🧪 #MarinePlan

This story is well worth your time 👇

Charismatic species get attention from the public and scientists alike. But what about less attractive species? In this episode Simon Watt and @anotherbobsmith.bsky.social explore the beauty of 'ugly’ species. Tune in: natureinsight.podbean.com

Interestingly, European #bison were positively associated with both, forests and openland – showing that we should move beyond debating whether they are a forest or grassland species (more analyses on this coming soon). #wisents

Charismatic species like lions 🦁 steal the spotlight, but what about the underdogs of nature? Simon Watt & Prof. Bob Smith join #NatureInsight to discuss the “ugly” species we ignore—and why they deserve a second look. 🌍💔 🎙️ Episode 4 is NOW out: natureinsight.podbean.com

We are proud to announce the publication of a collaborative research project in Nature Sustainability. The paper used wildmeat.org to better understand the regional patterns of wild animal hunting in African tropical forests: doi.org/10.1038/s418... Congratulations to all parties involved!

Very much enjoying my first week as a Sharing Space for Nature Research Fellow at Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (@dice-kent.bsky.social). In the theme of new pastures, I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to switch over to here!

Concluding my substack year with a longer (free to read) post sketching a viable future for towns, particularly those outside the London commuter belt. I hope you enjoy it, and I wish you all a very happy Christmas. open.substack.com/pub/timleuni...

Are you interested in Biodiversity Credits? Read the inaugral Georgina Mace Review in @royalsociety.org: 'What is a unit of nature? Measurement challenges in the emerging biodiversity credit market' out today. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

you don’t write to make an argument, you write to find an argument. If I’m not finding the argument why would I even bother

Not sure who made this & when but fittingly came across it in my downloads folder today:

🆕 New Technical Guide! “Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures” are one of two classifications (with protected areas) of in-situ conservation sites defined by the UN as eligible towards the #30x30 #biodiversity target. Both should have positive conservation outcomes—OECMs by definition. 🧵

Please share with likely candidates: Iapetus Doctoral Training Partnership-Diversifying Talent Scholarship Scheme (via @ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social) Part of the DTPs ongoing commitment to Equality Diversity and Inclusion. 🌍🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

In 1992 I discovered a Thomas Mapfumo vinyl in my university library & it blew my mind open to Zimbabwean chimurenga music, which brings ancient sonic patterns into contemporary Africa Here's Shumba, a breakthrough track from 1981 #adamwelzsmusicthread www.youtube.com/watch?v=feOy... #Zimbabwe

I am looking for a PhD student to work with me and @dzchilds.bsky.social on biodiversity indicators www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Here’s the playlist for the 42 ecological and conservation concept videos. Perfect for falling asleep at night. Enjoy! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

we are recruiting a PhD student to work on illicit and unregulated conservation translocation (e.g. #beaverbombing, unregulated release of 'native' butterflies), particularly the conservation and policy aspects. Funded by NERC, in collaboration with Natural England. yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/eco...

I've written a blog on the background to our new Sharing Space for Nature project and why we need more ambition in conservation. As part of this I discuss the Lawton review, a key influence on conservation in England, and how its central mantra is often misquoted. blogs.kent.ac.uk/dice/2024/11...

I have a few competition #fundedPhD opportunities to advertise, co-supervising with various colleagues. Maybe there's one for you here? If so, please apply! 1st, this project with Piran White & colleagues at CEH & the Forestry Commission on woodland nature & deer. www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🌏🧪

The excellent Chester Zoo (North of England Zoological Society) is looking for a Chief Conservation Officer/Deputy CEO. Like all progressive conservation organisations the job description includes evidence use. www.saxbam.com/appointment/...

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Delighted to be able to share the final part of our research into the laundering potential of the #ostional #turtle Egg Project. Here are the links for the two papers that detail our findings. If you just want a snapshot, please enjoy my infographic. doi.org/10.1111/csp2... & doi.org/10.1016/j.en...