🪂Species reintroductions have a radical history; in the UK, where official rewilding remains tightly regulated, a covert counterculture has emerged🐗 🦅Glentworth et al. explore guerilla rewilding: unlicensed releases reshaping landscapes and challenging norms🦫 📰 lnkd.in/dw7EVA5n 🖥️ lnkd.in/dxJK4Wy6

Great to see our new guerilla #rewilding #paper out in Oryx Available #openaccess here 👉🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S003... 🌍🧪

Considering the value that history and other disciplines outside of the natural sciences offer for rewilding efforts.

📣 Super important paper 📣 It explores what's needed to ensure placemaking, the built environment, & transport can play a role in health creation & overcoming inequalities. Systems thinking is vital: foster the right leadership, collaborate across disciplines, and empower. (HT @sfrost.bsky.social)

Our new #rewilding #paper is Open Access and free to view 🌎 👇

Louise Fitzgerald & I are hiring an 18 month postdoc and 18 month research assistant (no PhD required) for a project on the political ecology of land ownership in Ireland. 2 weeks to apply. DM for any questions. 🧵 Link to DCU website: www.dcu.ie/people/jobs

When she was just 26 Florence Merriam wrote the first guide to birding with binoculars in 1889. And she slipped in this incredible feminist gem:

Fantastic 🤩 👏

1/ 📄New paper! Alison Hutchinson @georgeiorda.bsky.social Teresa Lappe-Osthege & myself have developed a new harms-based #PoliticalEcology as a way of understanding the #WildlifeTrade published in @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social ⬇️ beastlybusiness.org/2025/07/23/n...

Plus a jargon-free Plain Language Summary explaining how using #socialscience in #rewilding benefits #nature and #people 🔗👉 relationalthinkingblog.com/2025/07/15/p... 🌍

POLLEN 2026 is happening in Barcelona 🌅 The call for panels is open and closes on July 31st. See here for more information: tinyurl.com/5b8c5w7j Spread the word.

Perhaps a survey is needed by @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social to keep up the momentum following the Climate & Sustainability Assembly on this topic 🌳🚲🐦📒

OUT NOW: The laid-out version of the FULL @ipbes.net #TransformativeChange Report 💥 Explore how fundamental change can halt biodiversity loss and secure just and sustainable futures for all. 🌏🧪 Access the full report in English⬇️ https://www.ipbes.net/transformative-change-assessment

Working on #EnvironmentalJustice topics in Central and Eastern Europe? Then you might want to send an abstract for the conference 'The Greyzone of the Green Transition' that I'm co-organizing with my colleagues from Sibiu next year in Romania (18-19 May 2026). Participation is free of charge!

Thanks George!

📢 Our new #rewilding #paper is now out in @peopleandnature.bsky.social We show how #interdisciplinary critical #socialscience can help enhance social and environmental #justice in #conservation Available FREE #openaccess here 👉 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/pan3... 🌎🧪

Would more people get to enjoying active travel and time outdoors if they had better route information? Do you use a wheelchair, scooter or pushchair and feel limited by a lack of good information on accessible paths? We've got a plan. Please look and share! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways ⭐🐌

Looking for a research associate to explore societal engagement with forest restoration on digital media – with @lboungr.bsky.social @wildflyingpanda.bsky.social @gabrielecolombo.bsky.social & more. Grateful for help sharing with those who might be interested! jonathangray.org/2025/05/31/s...

Sustain responds to Land Use Framework consultation ▶️ 21 organisations sign joint response coordinated by Sustain, highlighting key oversights in the government's proposed framework, intended to guide future decision making about land use in England.

📢FREE online course on Biodiversity Finance! Learn to develop financially sound conservation solutions, conduct needs assessments & create effective finance plans. ➡️Adopt tools to make stronger business cases for biodiversity & nature.💼🌍🧪 Learn more: www.learningfornature.org/en/courses/b...

Closes today! ⬇️

Survey: The #UK’s global #research priorities on nature The UK government is seeking insights on its research priorities for nature and environment in #ODA (Official Development Assistance) settings. An online survey is open until 4 April. universityofsussex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

We have a vacancy for a 3 year full time postdoc position to: ➡️ research bottom up and transformative initiatives for biodiversity and climate ➡️ develop innovative knowledge and governance infrastructure ➡️ collaborate with societal actors to create space for just and sustainable futures

🚨 Great news! Dr. @amandastronza.bsky.social & Dr. @helinajolly.bsky.social published an article in @society4conbio.bsky.social 📖✨ It explores #human-wildlife coexistence through Indigenous knowledge & relational perspectives. 🌿🦌 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #TAMUECCB #ecology

Just a reminder to anyone reading this PR piece - true wild camping is covered under access rights in Scotland and does not require paying a membership fee or any fee to landowners. Official government advice on where/how to wild camp responsibly here: www.outdooraccess-scotland.scot/doc/camping-...

Have your say on the future of environmental science! NERC have launched a community consultation on their Forward Look, setting the direction for environmental science over the next decade.

1/ 📣 Big news! For the next 5 years I’ll be working with this amazing team @evahaifa.bsky.social Alasdair Cochrane & Bob McKay on the @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded Multispecies Mutualisms project wellcome.org/grant-fundin...

📢Are you an expert in biodiversity? @ipbes.net is looking for Experts and Fellows to produce the 2nd Global Assessment This will provide the best available scientific evidence to support global agreements such as the @unbiodiversity.bsky.social #CBD, inc assessing progress made against its targets

‘There’s an urgent housing crisis, we need to build more homes at staggeringly low densities!’

Superinspiring talks at 'Rethinking Wild Europe' conference. Highlights for me included #wolves in NL by @martindrenthen.bsky.social, conservation frontiers of Europe by @georgeiorda.bsky.social, the 'king and queen' of UK rewilding by @researchrestore.bsky.social #envhist #envhum

10/ Day 2 of Rethinking Wild Europe workshop @univie.ac.at starts with a fascinating keynote by @martindrenthen.bsky.social on the strategies for dealing with the recent dispersal of #wolves into 🇳🇱. He unpacks the 🗝 question - what is really at stake in the Dutch wolf debate?

Excited to do the first keynote lecture for the conference Rethinking Wild Europe tomorrow cetep.eu/rethinking-w... #envhist #envhum

Great to share my ideas on #rewilding knowledge & decisions at day 1 of the Rethinking Wild Europe conference in #Vienna. Looking forward to more discussions today on day 2! #wilderness #ethics #decisions

In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts. The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails. The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.

1/ There is a stunning disconnect between what we know is needed to conserve nature and what nature’s appointed defenders advocate for Unless it's addressed conservationists aren't really working to prevent the global collapse of nature, but only to delay it for a bit 🧵

Remember this one? Before & after of a brain after a 20 minute walk — why walking to work, or school, or just to get the intellectual juices flowing, is linked to better creative & intellectual performance. Among MANY other benefits to you and to society. Design and build more walkable cities.

“The three yachts of the Walton family, heirs of the Walmart retail chain, had a combined carbon footprint in one year of 18,000 tonnes – an amount similar to that of 1,714 Walmart shelf-stackers.”

"Social values and interest affect two kinds of representation decisions: (1) *what* to represent– what entities to include in the model; (2) *how* to represent." Few quotes 👉

Why are 'messy gardens' contentious? Is messy nature beautiful? Why does it even matter for #NatureRecovery? Debates about what nature recovery looks like are vital for tackling biodiversity loss & climate change, say Flurina Wartmann & @jlorimer.bsky.social www.biodiversity.ox.ac.uk?p=10662

Projects are "NG2505: New nature markets at sea: evaluating stakeholder attitudes to guide policy and practice" which I'm co-supervising, led by Dr Flurina Wartmann at Aberdeen netgain.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/phd-projects/

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

New Build Cycle Lane Checklist. Round the Back✅ Not Overlooked✅ Intermittent Lighting✅ Excludes those who wouldn’t feel safe✅ Circumnavigates the development - the Jules Verne test✅ Not Direct✅ Shitty afterthought, behind parking, vehicle access & fucking bin lorries ✅

Job alert! Our climate team are looking for a Research & Campaigns Intern - is that you? Deadline Jan 5 https://buff.ly/3BfysCB

Highly recommended! Met some great people and had some excellent discussions 🤓👇👇

Delighted to have won 🏆 #bestpaper in the @ScotSAGES Graduate School 'Best Publication 2024' competition under the Transformations in Society and Environmental Policy Theme! 🔗You can read about #rewilding in #policy here: tinyurl.com/e9mr86tw

📢✨🌏New paper investigating how #emotions shape #attitudes to #wolf #conservation #management in the Italian #Alps #OpenAccess here🔗➡️ lnkd.in/ehZYcBs9 Implications for navigating #co-existence with #carnivores in #cultural #landscapes & social #acceptance of recovered species 📸🙏Claudia Wartmann

📢 Seminar Series: Born to Rule: Is today’s #BritishElite still shaped by Eton and Oxford? @aaronreeves.bsky.social & @samfriedman.bsky.social examine the propulsive #PowerAndPrivilege of top private schools and the changing nature of elite culture🎩🏛️ Dec 11, 3-4:15pm: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...

🚨 OUT NOW 🚨 📚 The @ipbes.bsky.social #NexusAssessment Summary for Policymakers is now available! ➡️ Explore the most comprehensive assessment ever of the interconnections between biodiversity, water, food, health & climate. 🌏 Options for a just & sustainable future! www.ipbes.net/node/85582