Well, there goes my psychic pine tree business. Thanks a lot, science.

Did this paper need to be written? Unfortunately yes, it did. Trees don't collectively anticipate solar eclipses. Occam had something to say about this kind of problem. 🧪🌲🌳

Peter Mandelson stripped of Prince of Darkness title buff.ly/Y0u0AQT

I'm proud of many things in my life - the publications, the projects, the people I've worked with - but sometimes you nail a tricky parking manoeuvre and I feel we don't celebrate those often enough.

The available evidence doesn't justify the bans. www.iflscience.com/review-of-52...

10. My dad's advice for badger attacks.

Postdoc research position in forest inventory and stand assessment using laser scanning data at LignoSilva in Slovakia. @3dforecotech.bsky.social 🌳🌲

I was there in 1996. I saw most of the bands. And I can safely say there are more students wearing Oasis t-shirts now than there were 30 years ago.

"The Distant And Mechanised Glow Of Eastern European Dance Parties" (65daysofstatic)

How much temperate rainforest could there be in the UK and Ireland, and where? Despite campaigns calling for restoration in both countries, these questions have been difficult to answer. In our new paper we assess the evidence base 🌏🧪🌐🌳🌲 1/9

I hope this email doesn't find you. I hope you have broken free and not written an out of office reply. I hope you are fast enough for this email to never catch you. I hope one day you will remember us fondly and, via postcard or carrier pigeon, tell us the secret of your escape.

Just waiting for the first person to tell me that I've now 'ruined' this song for them.

Founders of modern paleontology, and their contributions to systemic racism, classism and sexism (🧵) Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM. Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.

I dearly wish that, in the dark small hours of the night, my mind would not be filled with the songs from KPop Demon Hunters.

I've been out of UoN for a long time but still have many friends there who have been through endless rounds of restructuring and redundancies. This news will only make matters worse.

Very, very, very bad

Climate warming is generally making trees grow faster, but the greater effect is that tree growth is becoming more unpredictable, creating a threat to the stability of forests. New paper by Li & He (2026). 🧪🌏🌐🌲🌳

I'm so glad that I wrote this post, partly because it got the idea out of my head, but mainly because I was lucky to receive thoughtful replies from the real specialists in this field. Read the comments for the actual insights 😁

We've spent more than 10 years promoting 3D forest surveys. So why has uptake been so slow? In our new paper led by Ahmet Öztürk we asked stakeholders what their main barriers are. 🧪🌲🌳 1/5

Motion to stop saying something is going to be a 'five minute job' when it inevitably takes half an hour.

We all have opinions about using genAI, but what happens when our collaborators, students or stakeholders hold different views? I've already run into several of the challenges @manusaunders.bsky.social identifies here.

Remember when science fiction used to explore the really important questions about life?

We express our solidarity with Kurdish communities and call for de-escalation and a durable ceasefire in northern and eastern Syria (Rojava). More from our co-chairs @vulatsetsi.bsky.social & @ciarancuffe.bsky.social here: europeangreens.eu/news/europea...

Lecturer in Ecology and Evolution position available in Biology Department at Stanford University. Apply by April 1, 2026. (Photo by Rick Morris) academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31606

After spending large parts of today rushing to get press releases together, publication of the paper has been delayed. Only a few more days until the great reveal...

New book on rewilding! A curated collection of 27 articles published in British Wildlife over the last 5 yrs So, accessible & nicely produced for a broad readership And I’m one of the authors. Cheap at the price (£16.99)! www.britishwildlife.com/wilding/

Good post. An issue with this field is rhetorical elision of the diff between ecosystem functions vs services. Functions can be measured, but services are what actually matter [ducks for cover 😁] & are so context dependent that even if the BEF link was clear a legitimate response would be 'so what?'

Does greater biodiversity always increase ecosystem functioning? I used to think so, but now I'm not so sure.

Interesting paper. The problem with nature-based carbon offset projects isn't the methods, it's that attribution is challenging. We shouldn't expect a linear relationship between investment and carbon (Rana et al. 2026). 🧪🌲🌳🌏

Fun tool for UK-based researchers to assess the cost/benefit ratio of grant applications.

"If even the security services are gagged when they tell the government what it doesn’t want to hear, perhaps our communication style, or our modes of protest or our dress sense, are not, as we keep being told, the problem."

Fast-growing trees are set to dominate the #forests of the #future — but at a cost🌳 Our Nature Plants (@natplants.nature.com) study shows a global shift toward "sprinter" tree species, while slow-growing, functionally critical #trees face elevated #extinction risk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reminder for all UK dual nationals: As of the 25 Feb 2026, dual nationals will not be able to travel to the UK on their 'other' passport. If, for example, you or your dual citizen children live abroad & currently don't hold a UK passport, you need to get one (for them) in order to re-enter the UK.

Rest of trees laughing at tree brought down by storm buff.ly/tLWaITA

Analysis: EVs just outsold petrol cars in EU for first time ever www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...

Rojava is collapsing, and with it one of the great hopes of the green internationalist left. There was briefly the chance to try something different in northeast Syria.

A reward structure that favours productivity over quality will always incentivise the use of tools that make it easier to generate papers. Who cares if anyone actually reads them?

You think you've got snow? Kamchatka has seen nearly six metres of snow fall in only six weeks. SIX METRES. science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...

Can we all just agree to do this anyway because they're rubbish? And are we still allowed to use Jitsi? (Technically from Europe but now owned by a US company). jitsi.org

Anyone remember MOOCs? There was a time when my former university was pressuring us to develop our courses into MOOCs. I'm glad that I ignored them.

A tree is for life, not just for Christmas.

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

Thrilled to share our new paper on restoring tree diversity in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest!🌳 Our findings are encouraging: restoration shows high diversity, though old-growth-like composition needs more time. Amazing team effort from the Newfor team @ USP & @w-u-r.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Database of ecological restoration projects across Europe compiled from >400 stakeholder surveys by @mndzmery.bsky.social and colleagues 🌏🧪🌐 oneecosystem.pensoft.net/article/1611...

If no-one wants to hear my entomological Dad jokes then I can just leave, it's fine, I don't mind.

sometimes I think about how a professor once said to never put an Xbox in a poem to make sure the poem can be understood by readers in the future and how twenty five years later I remember what he said bc he mentioned an Xbox but I can’t remember his name

Stop press! I have them! I've found the Epstein flies online.

Killarney National Park erect fences to keep deer out, not to keep them in. It's fascinating to see such a complete misunderstanding of conservation management. www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

Could you be our new Conservation Outcomes Manager? 🌳💚 🌰 👇 Check out the link in the comments for details of the role. #TeamTrees #JobOpportunity

Physicists should have biology envy because we're so far ahead of them. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/unifie...