Vote for Claire! Claire Stainfield's PhD investigates tourism interaction with the Ythan estuary Grey Seals. She is shortlisted for the Scottish Graduate School of Social Sciences Impact Competition 2025, and needs your vote. Visit www.sgsss.ac.uk/impact-compe... @mammalsocietyyouth.bsky.social

🐾 Celebrate student-led mammal conservation with us! Join the UMAC 2025 Finale Webinar TOMORROW, 4:30–6pm 🌿 🎉 Inspiring talks 🏆 Winning teams 🧭 Advice on wildlife careers & more Sign up: tinyurl.com/UMACFinale2025 #UMAC2025 #YouthInConservation #UKMammals #Students #Celebration

Recently, our network was treated to a fascinating talk by PhD student, Claire Stanfield, about her work on the Ythan estuary Grey Seals. Read the latest update from Adam Robertson, a student intern helping Claire with fieldwork: www.aberdeenmarinemammals.org/news @mammalsocietyyouth.bsky.social

🏆🐾 UMAC 2025 – March Leaderboard Drop! 🐾🏆 🥇 Lincoln Imps – 9100 pts 🥈 SUCES – 4050 pts 🥉 Mammal Mia – 3950 pts Still climbing? Keep recording – there’s still time to make your mark! 🌿🦡 #UMAC2025

🌙 UMAC Week 8 Challenge: Celebrate Dark Sky Week by raising awareness of nocturnal mammals! 🦉🌌 Host an event, share facts, or create a campaign to highlight the importance of dark skies for wildlife.

🎨🐾 UMAC Week 7: Mammal Art! 🐾🎨 Show off your artistic skills! Create and post original mammal-themed artwork to Instagram for a chance to win exciting prizes! 🏆👉 For full rules & how to enter, head to our Insta @MammalSocietyYouth Deadline: March 21st! #UMACWeek7

🎨✨ Calling all students and young people! Want to try your hand at wildlife drawing but not sure where to start? Join us for a FREE draw-along with wildlife artist Alicia Hayden ! 🖌️🐾 📅 Date: March 20, 2025 ⏰ Time: 20:00 🎯 Subject: Stoat! Sign up: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🐶 UK Dog Owners! We need your help! 🐶 How do you feel about using different scents to guide dogs away from sensitive wildlife areas? 🌲🐦 🐕 Take our quick, anonymous survey & help protect nature while keeping walks enjoyable for your dog! 👉 qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

From tracking mammals to fundraising with bake sales, @lincolnimpsumac.bsky.social are off to a fantastic start in the University Mammal Challenge! 🦊🍪 Check out Georgie's blog on their first month of discoveries, teamwork, and top tips! 🐾 📖 Read more: mammal.org.uk/blog/trackst...

As it’s British Science week, Becky and Georgie visited a local school today to talk about UMAC and the importance of UK mammals. @mammalsocietyyouth.bsky.social

Week 2 of our March transect walks, resetting our footprint tunnels and camera traps. We’ve had a very successful day and have even spotted some roe deer and muntjac. We downloaded over 1000 videos from our camera traps & found a ton of footprints in our tunnels. @mammalsocietyyouth.bsky.social

🚨 UMAC Challenge Week 6! 🚨 This #BritishScienceWeek, visit a school or community group to get them involved & earn bonus points! 🔬 No event? Join the #SmashingStereotypes campaign run by @britsciassoc.bsky.social ! 🧪🎉 Download free #BSW25 activity packs here: www.britishscienceweek.org

🐾🏆 University Mammal Challenge 2025 – Leaderboard Drop! 🏆🐾 🥇 Lincoln Imps – 1950 pts 🥈 Mammal Mia (Here We Go Again!) – 1400 pts 🥉 Salford Stoats – 1100 pts Not on the board yet? There's still time to climb the ranks! Keep tracking & stay in the game! 🦊🐭 #UMAC2025

Are you interested in learning more about the publishing process? I am running two workshops with @mammalsocietyyouth.bsky.social in April and May on reviewing articles and how to publish a literature review. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reviewing-... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-an...

🐾 UMAC Week 3 Challenge: Celebrate Campus Wildlife! 🌿 Host an event or campaign to raise awareness of the mammals on your campus! 🎉 Wildlife walks, social media campaigns, awareness stalls—get creative! 🌟 Bonus points for all teams who take part!🦊🐿️

Who doesn't love examining owl pellets? @mammalsocietyyouth.bsky.social @iucn-small-mammals.bsky.social

Thank you SO much to everyone that donated to us today during our bake sale event - we appreciate it very much and are overjoyed to have raised £200 for @mammalsocietyyouth.bsky.social You can still donate using this link to help mammal conservation in the UK: www.justgiving.com/page/lincoln...

Bake sale right now in Minerva, raising funds for the Mammal Society! If you can't make it but would like to support us in the University Mammal Challenge, please donate here: www.justgiving.com/page/lincoln... @mammalsocietyyouth.bsky.social

🎨 Want to start wildlife drawing but not sure how? Join our FREE Stoat draw-along with artist Alicia Hayden! 🦦✏️ 📅 Mar 20, 2025 | ⏰ 20:00 No experience needed—just grab your pencils & join in! Sign up here 👉 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #WildlifeArt #DrawAlong #UMAC

A question for ecologists/zoologists/conservationists. Did field courses propel you towards your career? They were critical for me: sad to see many universities cancelling them to cut costs. Still core in my @sussex.ac.uk teaching #ecology @cieem.bsky.social @mammalsocietyyouth.bsky.social #students

Today we walked our 4 transects, reset our footprint tunnels and moved our camera traps. @mammalsocietyyouth.bsky.social #umac #umac2025 #lincolnimps #mammals #conservsation

🏆 UMAC Week 3 Challenge Winners! 🏆 Congrats to @lincolnimpsumac.bsky.social for logging 103 sightings & winning mammal-themed goodies from Rie Designed! 🎉 Top mammals spotted: 🐿️ Grey squirrel, 🐰 Rabbit, 🦤 Mole, 🦌 Muntjac deer, 🐇 Brown hare. Thanks to all 8 teams—190 sightings logged! 📲

🌟 UMAC WEEKLY CHALLENGE ALERT: Storytelling! 📖 Write and share a fictional or real story featuring a UK mammal. How to enter: 1️⃣ Write your story 2️⃣ Share via email or socials (tag us) 3️⃣ Earn bonus points for your team! #UMACChallenge #MammalStory #UKMammals #WildlifeStory #BonusPoints

Meet Ambassador, Anali! We asked her about some questions about AFC's #SummerCamps, so if you want a sneak peek of what's in store check out her answers in the thread below! 🌼 🧵1/3

🚨 Week 3 Challenge: Mammal Mapper! 🦊🐾 Log the most mammal sightings using the Mammal Mapper app (15th-23rd Feb)! The winning team gets pocket notebooks & mammal-themed goodies from Rie Designed! Don’t forget to add your team name in the comments of sightings! #MammalMapper #WildlifeChallenge

This week we’re sharing our love for UK mammals 🥰 Next up is Lucy’s pick 🦇 What’s your favourite UK mammal? Let us know in the comments. #umac #umac2025 #lincolnimps #brownlongearedbat #bats #bat #conservation #mammals #valentines 📷 @mammalsocietyyouth.bsky.social

Come join us for a great afternoon helping mammal conservation! Everything provided -1:30pm start @mammalsocietyyouth.bsky.social

Mammal of the Week. This week featuring the Harvest Mouse.

So excited to be leading a team for the Univeristy Mammal Challenge - ‘The Brighton Beavers!’ Looking forward to boosting mammal monitoring on our campus and seeing what we get up to over the next 12 weeks! #umac2025 #universitymammalchallenge2025 @mammalsocietyyouth.bsky.social

💖🐾 UMAC Weekly Challenge: Week 2! This week, earn BONUS POINTS by showing your love for UK mammals! ❤️🐿️🦡 Create a fun Valentine’s campaign or event celebrating our furry friends. Get creative & share your efforts on social media or email us!

Just a few spaces remaining on these courses! #students #mammals #mammaltracking #training

Come along to the premiere of my upcoming documentary ‘Conservation: the Next Generation’ in collab with @btobirds.bsky.social at the David Attenborough Building in Cambridge! Followed by a Q&A. Tickets are free here: www.bto.org/community/ev... 😊 Trailer here: youtu.be/Fop-NhoKm-c?...

🌼 Meet Ambassador Aliyah! We asked her about her experience on last year's Summer Camp, check out her answers below ⬇️ 💬What would you tell other young people who are nervous about applying for camp? "Be yourself, there will be amazing people around you. Apply with a friend!" 🧵(1/3) #AFCSummerCamp

🐾 Students only! Learn to identify UK Mammal Tracks and Signs 🦊🦡 Join expert David Wege for an exclusive online session on identifying mammal tracks & signs. 🎟 FREE for UMAC Teams (get the link from your team lead) 🎓 Students: £5 📅 Book now! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1216492615...

Introducing the Lincoln Imps - from left to right we have Lucy, Becky, Sam, Tom and Georgie. Ready to find some mammals and really excited to complete our first transects tomorrow! @mammalsocietyyouth.bsky.social

🚨 UMAC 2025 starts TOMORROW! 🚨 Weekly challenge 1: Introduce Your Team! 🦊📸 Tell us who you are & why you're excited to take part! 🎉 PRIZE ALERT! Complete this challenge & enter a draw to win a 2025 "Crap Calendar" for your team! 🏆📆 Use #UMAC2025 & tag @MammalSocietyYouth by midday, 7th Feb! 🐾

🐾 Thinking about signing up for #UMAC2024 but not sure where to start? We've got loads of ways to help your team succeed! 💡🦔 From handbooks & expert webinars to physical resource packs & exclusive workshops, we’ll guide you every step of the way! 🚀 🔗https://tinyurl.com/UMAC2025

Really interesting talk this evening from @charlotteesharpe.bsky.social about her Master's project, using camera traps to investigate the status of Greater White-toothed Shrew. Some fantastic #SmallMammal #CameraTrap images. @iucn-small-mammals.bsky.social

Gearing up for the start of the University Mammal Challenge 2025 - we'll be posting everything we do here. Today we worked out four transects and planned where to put footprint tunnels and camera traps. Also found a LOT of scat. A LOT. Looking promising! @mammalsocietyyouth.bsky.social

A Water Shrew at a Water Vole latrine in a reedbed at night in January @sussexwildlife.bsky.social Rye Harbour @mammalsocietyyouth.bsky.social

Last chance to sign up for tomorrow evening's online talk by @charlotteesharpe.bsky.social Learn about using #CameraTraps to record small mammals and how the approach has helped with monitoring a newly arrived mammal in Britain. @iucn-small-mammals.bsky.social @mammalsocietyyouth.bsky.social

Top 10 Mammals to Spot on Campus! 🦊 🦔From the curious red fox to the elusive hedgehog, university and college campus' are full of amazing wildlife just waiting to be discovered! 👇🧵

Calling residents close to Hampstead Heath and in the boroughs of Kingston & Ealing! We're gathering data on wildlife in your area🦔🦊🦡 Help us to map mammal distribution by filling in our 2 minute survey 👉 rb.gy/i7gucc

🌟 5 Reasons to Join the UMAC 2025 🌟 🦡🐾What’s #UMAC2025? It’s the Mammal Society’s annual competition for UK university & college students to monitor mammals, gather vital conservation data, & inspire action in their communities. Here’s why you should join #UMAC2025 🧵⬇️

🚨 Don’t miss our FREE webinar on the University Mammal Challenge 2025—TOMORROW @ 4 PM Discover how YOU can: 🌿 Monitor mammals on your campus 📚 Gain valuable conservation skills 🏆 Win exciting prizes 🌍 Make a real impact on mammal conservation 👉 Secure your spot now: tinyurl.com/UMAC25Webinar

🌟 Youth Opportunities Round-Up: January 2025! 🌟 This month, we’ve got incredible chances to celebrate, compete, and learn with The Mammal Society. Follow this thread to explore the opportunities! ⬇️ #students #youngconservationists #mammals #UKmammals #training #conservation #conservationcareers

⏰Free Publishing Workshop!⏰ 💻Join our Senior Editor, Professor Emma Sayer, for a powerful webinar on mastering core writing skills #ScientificWriting Register here👇 buff.ly/4af0Th3 🧪🌍

Passionate about wildlife conservation? Join our FREE webinar to learn about the University Mammal Challenge 2025! Wednesday 22nd Jan @ 4pm Discover how you can monitor mammals, gain skills, earn prizes, & make a real impact. 👉 tinyurl.com/UMAC25Webinar #UMAC2025 #Conservation #Students

I've made a starter pack for all things conservation, wildlife, ecology and landscapes in the UK. By no means exhaustive, so if I've missed you or someone you think should be on here then reply below and I'll get you on here! #ecology #nature #wildlife #biodiversity go.bsky.app/LNv5K8h

⏳ Less than 2 weeks left! Nominate your #MammalChampion for the 2025 awards! 🦊🐿️ Celebrate those protecting & raising awareness of UK mammals. Categories: adults, under 18s & groups. Deadline: 9am, Jan 20th. Enter here: tinyurl.com/MammalChampi... 💚 #WildlifeHeroes #Conservation #Volunteers