Happy #PolarPride 2025! Celebrate diversity and the contributions of LGBTQIA+ people to polar science!

Happy #PolarPride2025!! As always a really important day in the polar calendar for inclusion and celebration. Unfortunately it is looking like I won’t be able to make the celebrations in person @geogdurham.bsky.social but hoping the rest of the dept has a great day celebrating!! 🐻‍❄️🐧🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Mark your diaries - It's Polar Pride on November 18th! Celebrate the achievements of LGQBTIA+ people in STEM and in polar science, and work to make work places more inclusive and supportive, and to challenge barriers and discrimination #polarpride #LGBTQinSTEM

Excited to have travelled to Greenland for the first time! I have landed in Sisimiut for the first part of Greenland Science week as part of the IASC Terrestrial Working Group funded project CONTACT. I’ve literally never been before so it’s been really fun visiting Sisimiut so far!

🚨Calling all U.K. Arctic terrestrial scientists. "UK Arctic terrestrial science strengths and priorities workshop" to discuss and then produce a prospectus outlining the UK’s “Strengths & Priorities” in Arctic terrestrial research. Info and registration link here 👇 drive.google.com/file/d/1HV0c...

Interested in doing an internship with us? Let us know! Find the application details here: betweenthefjords.w.uib.no/internships/

Really fun to participate in this last week and looking forward to seeing what comes from it!

🌲 Boreal-tundra species drive Arctic plant borealization 🌲 Our new study in #EcologyLetters quantifies tundra plant borealization, assesses its main drivers and identifies the species & traits contributing to borealization. doi.org/10.1111/ele.... 🧵 (1/6) 🌐🧪🌱🌍

Job alert 🚨 Technician post in soil carbon at the University of Sheffield @sheffieldpps.bsky.social supporting natural capital assessment in South Yorkshire, UK jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...

Will you be the next #NordBorN #postdoc? #NTNU University Museum is looking for an ambitious young researcher to fill this role nordborn.lbhi.is?p=415 #NordForsk Deadline for applications is Aug 31!

Few updates from the field! Found 3/4 original DART (?) OTC plots. No. 4 has been loosely identified so will track that down. Both supervisors came out to see all the work I’ve been doing in Abisko! I gave a tundra talk and an outreach talk at Naturum Abisko! I got a lovely book as a thank you.

Had basically all the weather possible in Abisko including the most amount of waterlogged tundra I’ve ever seen but very special to find these trees near the treeline limits.

After an absolutely heroic 38 hr journey up to Abisko we have finally made it! Looking a lot cooler than last time I was here! 🌲❄️🌳

Can’t believe it has all come around so quickly! Big thank you to the Andrew Croft Memorial fund, @rgsibg.bsky.social, and Durham for funding this trip! 🌲🌳🛰️

And we are headed to Abisko! Excited to be going back up and catching up with people from last year. Also very excited to meet all those new! I’ll be giving a Tundra talk on the 17th June at ANS and an outreach talk on the 21st at Naturum Abisko!

The first paper of my PhD (and my first first-author paper!) is out now in Marine Biology 🌊 🎆 We tracked snow petrels in a season of extreme weather and little sea ice in east Antarctica❄️ read more on our #ANTSIE webpage here: www.antsie.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/06/06/snow-petrel-tracking/

Hot off the press! A new study on snow petrel tracking from coastal Droninng Maud Land, Antarctica, by the wonderful @elliehonan.bsky.social! Read the paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1... And a summary here(including an epic fieldwork video): antsie.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/06/06/s...

What do sea-ice associated seabirds do during a season with little sea ice? Results from GPS tracking on snow petrels is now published, led by @elliehonan.bsky.social funded by @erc.europa.eu @leverhulme.ac.uk details here: www.antsie.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/06/06/snow-petrel-tracking/ 🧪🐙

Do you have a background in vegetation mapping from satellite and drone images and you have experience conducting fieldwork in the Arctic? Apply for this amazing position with #GINR by June 9! 🌿🗺️https://herbivory.lbhi.is/2025/06/05/job-opportunities-with-ginr/

Please share widely! We have been running this course for 3 years now, and this is our fourth iteration! We also offer a mini grant program and mentorship opportunities! Check it out and sign up here: evobiocrashcourse.github.io

Not thrilled about the mosquitos 🦟🦟 but very excited to be heading back to Abisko this summer to start the field season in a month!

This season absolutely wouldn’t be possible without the support of Durham Biosciences, @geogdurham.bsky.social, Pro:NE, @rgsibg.bsky.social, and Millie’s longest term fieldwork funder/supporter (has been funding her fieldwork since her masters!) the wonderful Andrew Croft Memorial Fund

Excited to be all confirmed for the 2025 SAFE field season! We will be spending 6 weeks out and about across the Fennoscandia Arctic treeline looking at all things trees and shrubs 🌲🌳🛰️📏 Our team of three will be going out to Abisko, Sweden first and then departing for Norway and Finland!

Today between 16:15 - 18:00 I’ll be presenting my poster on climate change impacts on the Fennoscandian treeline! Come along to hear all about the trees and shrubs 🌲🌳🛰️🗾

🌸Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic 🌸 Our new study @nature.com analysed plant diversity change in >2000 tundra plots over 4 decades. We found that plants changed unevenly, mostly driven by warming and biotic interactions. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵 (1/7) 🌐🧪🌱🌍

Summer 2024 was the first season of my PhD fieldwork in Kevo/Abisko (@safe-treeline.bsky.social) and it was beyond anything I’d ever experienced in the subarctic or anything my supervisor had any experience of!

Excited to share that our new paper “Summer 2024 in northern Fennoscandia was very likely the warmest in 2000 years” has been published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science! See the open-access paper from doi.org/10.1038/s416... Short thread 👇

Excited for my first time at #EGU25 and come see my poster!! 🌲🌳 Climate change impacts on the Arctic forest-tundra ecotone - present and future 📅 Thursday 1st May, 16:15-18:00 (CEST), Hall X1, X1.5 Abstract: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-...

FULLY-FUNDED residential insect ID and field surveying summer school, organised by @oxfordconted.bsky.social, @morethanadodo.bsky.social and @biology.ox.ac.uk, for PhD students or early career researchers. 📅14-18 July 2025 Apply by 9 May: www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/inse... 🧪 🌍 #academicsky 🐝

We are currently offering offer up to five Student Support Scholarships of £1,000 each for applicants beginning a Masters (MA or MSc) by Research ('MRes') degree in the Department in 2025/26. For more details👉 tinyurl.com/yf5k7d47

First circumpolar maps of aboveground tundra biomass at 30 m resolution 💪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... These new estimates show that in total tundra plants (above-and belowground) store around 8 Pg C while the upper 30 cm soils store ca 53 Pg C.

Bonanza Creek LTER is seeking a post-doctoral fellow! The position focuses on synthesizing long-term ecological data to study alternate successional trajectories in the boreal forest and explore their implications in a changing climate. Find out more and apply at careers.alaska.edu/jobs/post-do...

We started fieldwork last summer in Abisko, Sweden where we sampled an elevational gradient from the forest edge but missed out on getting to the treeline edge!

Finally recovered from a full on 3 days of all things arctic vegetation science at the CAVSI workshop! Great to meet loads of other ECR’s working on similar things and looking forward to the next steps #ASSW2025

Thanks for booking with Vega-C, Biomass, your flight details are confirmed! #VV26 🚀

Throwback to spending 3 weeks sampling around Kevo, Finland as part of my 1st field season for SAFE which was very kindly funded by INTERACT TA and helped by the lovely @thale.bsky.social Also learnt that 30’C was possible at 70N! 😱😱

🌳 Ready for the final checks! 🌳 #Biomass is now in the cleanroom at Kourou, French Guiana, where preparations are under way for its launch at the end of April. 🌳 @esaearth.esa.int’s forest mission will provide invaluable insights into Earth’s forests and the carbon cycle. 🧪🌍

This work is lead by @millicentharding.bsky.social and is her PhD work at Durham University across Biosciences and Geography The first field season of this work was funded by INTERACT Transnational Access, the Andrew Croft Memorial Fund, and the Alpine Garden Society

Please go follow @safe-treeline.bsky.social to see what myself/my lovely field assistants get up to! This is mainly the work from my PhD I will also be posting some content from last years field season in the meantime 🌲🌳🛰️

Our much-anticipated Undergraduate Summer School is back! If you are an undergraduate student studying an ecology-related degree and enrolled in British or Irish Universities, join us in Surrey for an activity-packed programme that will help you develop essential, practical ecology skills.

Our new paper and software tool PointsToWood is out! Led by Harry Owen and Targeted at high performance for small branches, PointsToWood performs #deeplearning enabled leaf-wood semantic segmentation of high resolution #TLS point clouds. 🌿 🌲 🌳 👇performance on unseen tropical data

I'm #hiring: PDRA to join my #ukriflf project to understand how forest structure, function and dynamics are linked in Europe, using high resolution remote sensing data (TLS, UAV-LS). Based in Cambridge. Please share! 🌳⚡🛰️🌲 Full details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50447/ #pdra #forests #lidar

Come join us at @rbgkew.bsky.social for a *paid* summer internship. You will be estimating the aboveground biomass 🌳🌳🌳 at the beautiful Wakehurst. careers.kew.org/vacancy/summ...

‘Diversity’ is not to blame for the world’s problems. It is part of the solution. If you'd like to add your name below, let me know. We write in solidarity. www.antarcticglaciers.org/2025/02/pola...

Hi y'all! Are you interested in learning more about various #polar #careers outside of academia!? If yes, you're in luck!! PSECCO and COLDEX partnered on creating this 'Polar Careers Outside of Academia' profiles resource for all to explore: psecco.org/polar-career...

❄️ Postdoc position in Arctic terrestrial ecology ❄️ If you're interested in Arctic plants, fieldwork and multi-site syntheses, please apply! You'd be replacing me and joining a lovely and dynamic team at University of Edinburgh. DM me with any questions! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Are you an ECR working on #Antarctic contribution to sea-level change? The @scar-antarctic.bsky.social INSTANT research programme has a fellowship for ECR scientists from regions currently under-represented in INSTANT. Applications close 7 January! www.scar-instant.org/index.php/fe...