🦇 If you're stuck for gifts for a birthday, a special occasion or if you just want to treat yourself, why not order a bat-themed gift from one of the these small businesses and retailers - www.bats.org.uk/support-bats... From books, homeware, clothing and much more!

#NewSpecies! New crab from the #marianaridge just pinched us: Samadinia quindecimspina Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/E55E156E-... Publication: doi.org/10.11646/zoo... #Zootaxa #SamadiniaQuindecimspina #FAIRdata #taxonomy #biodiversity #wildlife #conservation #animals #crustacea #crab #deepsea

We're entering week 3 of 2026 soon and all of us from BES Conservation Ecology would like to greet you with bright smiles at our first meeting of the year 😊 Follow us on Instagram to see more from us at the link below! www.instagram.com/p/DTkbIVUDKIL/

First global analysis of its kind, led by UKCEH, has shown the impacts of invasive alien species on insects. The study found the non-native animals & plants on average reduce abundance of terrestrial insects by 31% and species richness by 21%. www.ceh.ac.uk/press/insect... 🧪 1/ #biodiversity

#BES2025 is well under way! Join us at the Frankenstein & Bier Keller pub tonight for a fun social with @besmacro.bsky.social 🍺 See you there!

We're growing a Fringe! Are you or do you know an ecologist, not attending #BES2025 but still travelling to Edinburgh to meet up with colleagues?  We'd love to have a chat and find out how we can support you in future years. ✉️ Please drop a line to Karen@britishecologicalsociety.org

We're on the look out for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board! 👀📚 If you'd like to help shape the publishing landscape of the BES journals, find out more below 🌎👇 www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...

🦇 Woodland Symposium 2026 is back! The Woodland Symposium will return on the 25 March and will be held in person at the WWF Living Planet Centre in Woking as well as online via Zoom. Early bat bookings in person tickets on sale now: lnkd.in/e_ireTvU

Over 20 years of bat surveys at the London Wetland Centre vimeo.com/1125888161/c...

3 days till our social at the @britishecologicalsociety.org annual conference! 🍺 Come down to the Frankenstein & Bier Keller pub for a night with us and @besmacro.bsky.social ✨ See you there for friends, fun and lots of games 👀

This is an exciting chance to have a look around this site near Blo' Norton, not normally open to the public. It has been recently purchased by LOHP who are raising funds to pay back the loan used - for more details about LOHP, this site and how to donate see their website www.lohp.org.uk

📖 Published! Trees help break down dead plant material, but not all forests work the same! We found that tree mix and local conditions both matter, especially in cooler, wetter places and forests with conifers. Diversity helps, but context is key! 🌍🌳 Read here:https://buff.ly/YLUFQcD

🚨 Our November #PolicyNews is up on our website! This month, we have a special #COP30 edition. Check out key takeaways including updates on #fossilfuel phaseouts, trade and the landmark #GenderActionPlan 📰 Find out more in the link below: besconservationsig.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/n...

Will we be seeing you during the @britishecologicalsociety.org annual conference? 👀 Come down to the Frankenstein & Bier Keller pub in Edinburgh on 16 Dec 2025 for a social with @besmacro.bsky.social 🍺 There will be snacks, friends, and (loosely!) ecology-themed quiz rounds ✨ See you there!

Did you know? 🐆 Jaguars, symbols of Mesoamerican biodiversity, are listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List, with their population decreasing due to habitat loss, poaching & illegal trade. On #InternationalJaguarDay, let's highlight their plight and the need to protect this iconic species.

🌳Shrubs promote the early-stage development of moss crusts by regulating the soil surface microenvironment in dryland ecosystems Utilizing the microenvironment provided by shrubs and combining it with artificial cultivation measures increases artificial moss development🟢 Read more: buff.ly/NUHSahc

Managing hedgerows for biodiversity: Disentangling the effects of trimming, structure and connectivity on the use of linear features by bats @jappliedecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Looking for your next steps? Check out our collection of #educational and #career resources available on our website! 🌱 besconservationsig.wordpress.com/educational-...

SUFFOLK BIRD GROUP November 27th Indoor Talk #SuffolkBirds

Wetlands are rare and exceptional, even small ones. Intrinsically valuable, they also: 🌱 Offer habitat for plants, insects, amphibians and birds 🌊 Absorb stormwater, buffering against floods 🌍 Filter and reduce pollutants, improving water quality Learn more with the Convention on Wetlands 👇

Reminder that you can catch all of our #PolicyNews updates on our website 📰 Never worry about missing another feature on #ConservationPolicy again! besconservationsig.wordpress.com/conservation...

📖Cover Stories📖 📙Dr Lori Neuman-Lee shares the story behind the cover of Volume 29, Issue 11 of Functional Ecology, published in 2015! 🐍Lori discusses the challenges of snapping snakes in the field (and in the third trimester!) and her research journey since then buff.ly/IycDaiM 🧪🌍

Featured Symposium: Megafauna on the Move — Eastern Tropical Pacific and Beyond 📢 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 🗓 Deadline: Nov 28, 2025 📬 Submit to: [email protected] #MegafaunaOntheMove #SavetheBlue5project #EasternTropicalPacific #whales #dolphins #seaturtles #sharks #rays

🦇 We are currently advertising two vacancies: - Bats in Churches Advisor (Maternity cover) - Deadline 9am, Monday 17th November 2025 - Community Collaboration and Outreach Officer for Connecting People and Landscapes project - Deadline 9am Wednesday 12th November

🦐 Fully funded PhD at the Univ. of Leicester: study how ancestral pollution shapes modern health using Daphnia magna and epigenetics. Apply: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 📷 Per Harald Olsen/NTNU (CC)

📢 Final Call for Abstracts! Don't miss the chance to present your work at #SOTM2026 Deadline: November 10, 2025 Presentation formats: ✅ Oral Presentations ✅ Poster Presentations Submit now! 🔗 www.speciesonthemove.com/abstract/inf...

🦇 There are more than 80 bat groups in the UK, all run by volunteers and all on the front line of bat conservation. To find your local bat group and get involved see:

Have you gotten our October #newsletter yet? 📰 Including news on how to pitch an article for @britishecologicalsociety.org 's The Niche (deadline is in January!) and details on @reefconservationuk.bsky.social meeting at Bangor University in December, subscribe to our news letter to find out more.

It's that time! Catch our September #PolicyNews up on our website now: besconservationsig.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/s... This month we have a feature on how #BlueCarbon can be harnessed to turn the tide on climate change. Read about this and more #PolicyUpdates on our blog now!

An Etymological Flora of Britain and Ireland, with Mark Duffell The first Botanical Skills Webinar of the Winter 25/26 series, organised by the @bsbibotany.bsky.social - with funding from @daera-ni.gov.uk - is on Tuesday 4 November at 7pm. www.tickettailor.com/events/botan...

📰Published📰Parasitoid development and ladybird recovery are negatively affected by increased temperature🐞 buff.ly/jepfQF3 🧪🌍

Watch Applied Ecology Resources' recent online workshop: 'Biodiversity and Nature Reporting for Complex Global Supply Chains' 🌿 🎥: buff.ly/XtCKGB9 Sign up to our next one on the 4th of November! 👇 buff.ly/yYeouwz 🧪🌍

Thanks so much to Dan @batconservation.bsky.social for a fascinating and informative talk last night! Our winter talks will resume in the new year. Our next event will be our Winter Social book your tickets now: www.trybooking.com/uk/FLOE

If you are new to bats you may find our e-learning resources a great way to get started! Some highlights: - Intro to bats - Bat care for non-bat carers - Bat resources for teachers and youth workers - Bat talks from conferences More here: learn.bats.org.uk/collections/...

Hi everyone, we're the BES ALDER Network 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌳 Follow us for information about upcoming events, opportunities, community stories, & resources Want more info? Join our newsletter? www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/join... @britishecologicalsociety.org

👀Behind the Paper!👀 🌼In this blog post, author Mario Vallejo-Marín explores a striking example of evolutionary convergence in floral form - buzz pollinated flowers🐝 Read it here👇 buff.ly/5dXVFHg @nicrodemo.bsky.social 🧪🌍

🌍✨ Transformative change is urgent — and possible. A new paper, based on @ipbes.net work, co-authored by Karen O’Brien (DAISY Advisory Board Member) shows why incremental fixes aren’t enough. At DAISY, we’re collecting transformative seeds & intervention mixes to help shifts take root. 🌱

RIP #JaneGoodall - one of the modern pioneers of profound interconnections between people, animals and ecosystems. Her life was lived through science, compassion and tireless advocacy for the multiple values of nature - leaving a legacy that will endure for people and planet.

Catch our August 2025 #PolicyNews Updates with Alice's Analysis on our website 📰 Featuring news from the UK and Hawaii and a spotlight on #GoldenEagles, read all about it at the link below: besconservationsig.wordpress.com/2025/09/11/a...

Thanks to Andy for running this workshop - hopefully it will pay off with additional records submitted in the years to come!

Great mentoring opportunity for emerging researchers based in the global south- join the Journal of Applied Ecology editorial board!

🌍 Species on the Move 2026 #SOTM2026 will come to Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan! 🤩This is an amazing conference with themes from ecological mechanisms to social adaptation + great atmosphere + birding, hiking, and hot springs! 👉 www.speciesonthemove.com ✨Abstracts due November 10, 2025 – don’t miss it!

Integrated Nature-Climate Action: what is it? why do we need it? If you are interested in #policy, #synergies, #climateaction and how to improve coordination on the tackling of the nature & climate crises, this #OA paper out today is for you besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🕷️New research reveals how a cunning spider turns its prey into living lures 

Good news! 🐍 The world’s smallest snake, the Barbados threadsnake, has been spotted again! It had been missing from scientific observation for 20 years.🌏🧪 Read more in @mongabay.com 

Check out this Senior Research Ecologist- Bioacoustics vacancy @btobirds.bsky.social britishtrustforornithology.postingpanda.uk/job/734089 #ornithology 🪶

📣 Don’t forget to sign up to our first Quantifying Ecology webinar! 📣 We join Dr James Orr in collab with @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social for: ”Variability of community-level responses contains information about ecosystem functioning and global change impacts” 5th Aug @ 9am BST bit.ly/44SzlwG

Mangroves are incredible! Aside from providing a rich habitat for biodiversity, they provide us with fuel, food, storm protection, carbon sequestration and more.🧪🌏 Let’s conserve them this #WorldMangroveDay and every day! Learn more about this day with @unesco.org : http://bit.ly/4lHbOF9

Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job

Curious about the @ipbes.net self-organized networks and their contributions? 🌍🤝🧪 Don’t miss our latest Stakeholder Spotlight interview with Dr. Matthew Davies, Professor at the University of Cambridge! http://bit.ly/3THnjjx #Biodiversity #SciencePolicy