I suspect this is the largest auditorium I've spoken in. Edinburgh International Conference Centre main theatre. Picture taken before the audience appeared!

There are #PhD opportunities at 2 #LongTermExperiments #LTE: Glen Finglas: bit.ly/4iEgYRB Based at: @newcastleuni.bsky.social ‬| Deadline: 5 January 2026 Tulloch: bit.ly/4avAi18 | Based at: @srucnews.bsky.social | Deadline: 7 January 2025 🌏

What are the perils vs possibilities in working with business & finance to achieve nature recovery? Come to our workshop next week (Tuesday, 13:15) at #BES2025 to explore these issues & share your thoughts @britishecologicalsociety.org @bes-cascade.bsky.social

One week remaining. Applications need to include two references, so don't leave it too late to apply for this @srucnews.bsky.social CASE partnership with @ptes-org.bsky.social. Details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

PhD available! To address the intersection of restoration ecology and biodiversity policy by developing spatially explicit, realistic restoration strategies using scenario-based modelling to generate tools & support effective biodiversity planning www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

New #mammal conservation #PhD: "Understanding and Addressing Rural Hedgehog Population Declines". @srucnews.bsky.social EastBio CASE project in partnership with (and co-supervised by) @ptes-org.bsky.social. Details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Act fast - applications close 15 December. 🦔🦔🦔

📣Job vacancy!📣 Research Fellow in Global Conservation at Leeds, working with Dave Williams (and me, a bit) to assess the impact of conservation initiatives on biodiversity, carbon, and people: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... #ConservationScience 🌍

One of the pleasures of fieldwork in Scotland is the views. Here is Ben Challum today from Glen Lochay. Bit cold as the sun didn't reach us until 10.40.

🐘🌳 Elephants disperse seeds that drive forest diversity & carbon storage—but effects vary across sites. Context matters for linking wildlife recovery to climate & biodiversity goals 📷 © Liam Jasperse-Sjolander vist.ly/4e9hh

The deadline is fast approaching! We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll... Deadline: November 14th.

A nexus approach is essential to tackle the interlinked crises of biodiversity, climate change, food, water, and health. 🌍 The ‘Just Don't Waste!' event hosted by The Royal Society Edinburgh will explore tangible solutions for #TransformativeChange🏡 🧪 https://rse.org.uk/event/just-dont-waste/

#Postdoc in #landscape ecology with me How does plant species traits influence communities responce to environmental change? An unique re-survey data set from the UK will be used to explore & test hypotheses about dispersal and persistence 🧪🌍 Apply 30th of November su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Postdoc Opportunity - Interested in plant scaling, quantitative botany, or theoretical plant biology? join our group to explore how plant form, function & scaling principles connect across levels of organization www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology🧪🌾🌐

Postdoc position in coastal ecology at the University of Oldenburg, suitable for vegetation ecologists, application deadline 28 October uol.de/en/job/postd...

For 101 years, ecologists have sought to explain the 3-4 years multi-annual cycles of voles and lemmings. In our paper, doi.org/10.1073/pnas..., we find that Density-dependent recruitment, but not survival drives cyclic dynamics in a field vole population, overturning accepted wisdom.

We are pleased to officially open abstract submissions for the Tundra Transitions Special Issue at the 22nd ITEX Meeting, organised by @matsbjorkman.bsky.social, @annebeejay.bsky.social and NJB's Subject Editor @robertgbjork.bsky.social !

provost.nd.edu/news/notre-d... An exciting opportunity for postdocs here at Notre Dame. I would excited to mentor anyone outstanding candidate in temperate or tropical forest ecology. Pass along to folks looking for a position in 2026!

We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

Just 1 week left to apply to a 3yr Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen (deadline Oct 1st) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... The postion is part of the Agroecology Partnership project SAFER www.agroecologypartnership.eu/safer Please repost!

Come work with us! In two week's time, application deadlines close for eight fully funded #PhD positions who will be working together on understanding and mitigating global change impacts and feedbacks from mountains: cmt.w.uib.no/open-positio...

Close to my heart as well. Have just signed and hope others do too.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Lots of fruit on the trees in East and North Yorkshire - hips, haws, sloes, crab apples and even pears. Anything with a deep root seems to have had a good summer. Shallower rooted blackberry has lots of fruit but often withered or tiny.

Found #bracken sporing today near Robin Hood's Bay. Only the third time I've seen it in 35 years of working with the plant and obsessively turning over fronds at this time of year. We know high temperatures increase sporing. Is this a response to the warm summer. Anyone else seen it sporing?

Finished back in Scarborough just before the rain arrived. A few hills to start with and then the cinder track (old railway) between Whitby (pictured) and Scarborough. 41 miles today and 253 over the last six.

Just 40 miles today, but lots of steep hills (max 25%) through the North York Moors. Morning was complicated by having to find a way round the World Gravel Bike Championship being held in Dalby Forest which had closed paths and even some road. Only a little rain late on and rarely a headwind.

Forgot two sets of thanks for yesterday's ride. First to whoever flailed the hedge next to the cycle path into Driffield and covered it in thorns🤬. Second and a proper thanks to the owner of the Cheeky Squirrel cafe in Driffield who saw us pondering where to chain the bikes and came out to help.

Sunny morning followed by some short sharp showers. Wind was in front, from the side or behind as we zigzagged through the East Yorkshire countryside. Pretty villages but fairly dull farmland except for a short bit through the Wolds. 46 miles.

Day three. 42 miles. First part down to Spurn but not all the way to the point as there is no road. Headwind for this bit, but then alternating crosswind and tailwind for the end of the day. Stayed dry, though a fee miles north got drenched.

Yorkshire seems to be shrinking here on Holderness. 36 miles today as accomdation lacking further south. Relentless headwind again.

First day od our autumn bike trip Scarborough to Skipsea, 48 miles. As is traditional for our cycling holiday, a headwind was arranged for us. However, it was sunny from Scarborough - pictured - all the way to the end.

New paper from our excellent student Noemi Naszarkowski dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3... Wildfires have much more and longer standing effect on dry heaths than on wet heath or bog vegetation.

Great news! From 1 January 2026, Nordic Journal of Botany will be a fully #OpenAccess journal! We are pleased to make NJB content freely accessible and increase the visibility of your published research! Read more here: vist.ly/3n8zh4q @nordicoikos.bsky.social

Been listening to the football whilst driving home - Wales vs the Netherlands. Really struggling mentally with Holland playing against the Dutch.

We are preparing for 2 new #VR #LTE experiences this year! One is the Glen Finglas LTE where @robinjpakeman.bsky.social ‬@hutton.ac.uk is looking at the effects of sheep & cattle #grazing on grassland #biodiversity. bit.ly/Gfinglas We will be visiting the site in 2 weeks to film for it 🌎

Few days left to apply! Arctic vegetation mappers don't miss this amazing opportunity to work in #Nuuk with a great team! 🇬🇱👇

NEW ISSUE: SPECIAL ISSUE Exploring karst biodiversity: ecological, evolutionary, and conservation perspectives. Guest Editor: Meng Li, Nanjing Forestry University. Twelve exciting articles on karst environments! vist.ly/3n5xx8k @nordicoikos.bsky.social #specialissue #karst #biodiversity

Just to prove we made it to the North Sea.

Day 7. Final day from Norham to Eyemouth, then Berwick to get the train to Edinburgh. 57 km under blue skies and a headwind for the morning. Most stressful part of the journey is the train travel- terrible facilities on trains unless you have a small road bike. Total distance 479 km.

Day 6, Melrose to Norham. Only 61 km today of rolling countryside, mostly using back roads a few miles north of the Tweed. Brilliant sunshine but a nagging headwind again.

Day 5 of the Kirkpatrick Way, Newcastleton-Melrose. 73km, more than expected as the gpx route took us to a locked gate on a boggy and tree invaded railway line. Long climbs in the morning followed by rolling hills for the afternoon. The easterlies have become northerlies as we turned north!

Day 4, Annan to Newcastleton, and past the halfway mark. Headwind all day bit relatively easy roads. Only 49 km as accommodation options are limited for the next 40 km. Very much border country and passed the famous Gretna Green blacksmith shop. Now entering the hills.

Day 3 of the Kirkpatrick Way. 70 km from Castle Douglas to Annan. First half through rolling hills with the odd cheeky climb, second half on the flat into a headwind. We lunched with Scotland's favourite poet and had good views of the Lake District. Finally, a shot of a #heron for heron lovers.

Some wind sculptured trees near Kirkcudbright. 77 km today through gently rolling hills.

One from yesterday I forgot to post. This is Luce Bay site #1 in the Scottish Coastal Survey. We repeated the survey mainly in 2010 and 2011, but this site had to wait until 2013 to get safe access to do the repeat at the same time of year as it was done in 1976.

Day 1 of the Kirkpatrick Way, Portpatrick to Newton Stewart. 77km of rural quiet roads through Galloway. Hardest thing was finding the velocipede sculpture at the official start in Stranraer. Gratuitous sea kale piccie to show how close to the sea we were at times.

End of day zero of the current bike trip. Only 12 miles so not a proper day. Most of day taken up with three trains to get from Edinburgh to Stranraer including two hours on Ayr station. View is of Portpatrick harbour - extreme SW Scotland.

NEW ISSUE: The NJB May issue is out! The cover shows the locus classicus of Astragalus tangeh-zendanensis sp. nov. (Fabaceae), north of Damghan, Iran. Photo and article by Reza Naderi et al. vist.ly/3n3tdgr @nordicoikos.bsky.social

3 year postdoc position on this coming up here in beautiful Bergen - if interested keep your eyes peeled! 👀

NEW PAPER: A case study on structural development and ecological services of restored mangroves in Adyar Estuary, India by Viswanathan et al. The illustration shows the ecological significance of afforested mangroves in Adyar Estuary, Chennai. #mangroves @nordicoikos.bsky.social