🎧 Ep 218 of Jo Durrant’s Beautiful Universe podcast is out now: @adamhartscience.bsky.social returns to myth busting - we look at hibernation, how & why it happens + which animals 🦔 Plus hedgehog at John Moore Museum 📲 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j... 💻 jodurrantsbeautifuluniverse.libsyn.com

📆 Incoming Diary Dates! I’m delighted to share my first three on stage events for 2025: 🎭 Fri 24 Jan: Dr Chris Laoutaris @stationerscomms.bsky.social 🦁 Sat 15 Feb: @adamhartscience.bsky.social at John Moore Museum 📗 Mon 24 Feb: @kate-werran.bsky.social at Portsmouth Book Fest jodurrant.co.uk

#ICYMI: My special guest in Ep 218 of Jo Durrant’s Beautiful Universe podcast is @adamhartscience.bsky.social who busts myths on hibernation. 🦔 Plus we learn about hedgehog hibernation at John Moore Museum. 📲 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j... 💻 jodurrantsbeautifuluniverse.libsyn.com

Someone asked me today who from history I most admired. No question This man en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_W...

I see eating kangaroo anus in Gregg Wallace's future

Clifford Chance, elevating the Streisand Effect into true artistry.

We got lucky with the weather again! Lovely morning recording a new myth busting episode of Jo Durrant’s Beautiful Universe podcast with @adamhartscience.bsky.social - coming early in 2025!

We got lucky with the weather again! Lovely morning recording a new myth busting episode of Jo Durrant’s Beautiful Universe podcast with @adamhartscience.bsky.social - coming early in 2025!

With legislation planned to ban trophy imports to the UK, it's time to realise real world conservation is complex, evidence needs to lead, & we need to listen to those nations that do "rather better" than us at conservation. I'm quoted in this Voice of America piece www.voanews.com/a/southern-a...

Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project - "Wildlife can recover, and quickly, if we just give it a little space and let nature work her magic" #RestoreNature www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bum...

Often see videos of people getting close to hippo. I see it IRL too. A quick visual reminder of why it's best to keep your distance...

But every time from now on that they say "the UK public wants this import ban" (and they say this a lot) they should be reminded that the UK public also wants an export ban. So if they're going to use the UK public as their main reason to push for bans, they shouldn't get to pick and choose.

This is one of them, and it tells us (1) that most UK respondents don't care much about African jobs and (2) they are just as much - or more - against domestic trophy hunting and UK trophy exports as they are against it in Africa and the imports.

I've made threads on X about all other trophy hunting surveys so far, so might as well keep it up and try it here. This survey is from July 2024, but I hadn't noticed it until now. Thread. 1/11 www.resourceafrica.net/wp-content/u...

A fascinating story of interactions, problems and solutions www.forbes.com/sites/scottt...

Wishing the Elsevier editors who desk-accepted this all the best for their next career moves. doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

The ultimate guide to #SciComm on Bluesky 🧪 #AcademicSky Use the feed to talk *about* SciComm, not to *do* SciComm. If you have an astronomy or ocean fact to share: neat! But the ppl who want to engage w you are not on the feed. Feed ppl are talking shop 1/🧵 bsky.app/profile/did:...

Where's the starter pack for inaturalist contributors? I need an injection of citizen science

Hello birders! I'm looking for a British hawfinch expert to talk to for an ecology outreach project with the Universities of Edinburgh and York. Is there anyone here willing to chat to me about hawfinch monitoring and conservation? #ukbirding #ornithology #birds #birdingwales #birding #ukbird

First quick draft of a list with people I've seen here who I know to have valuable knowledge and experiences with hunting. go.bsky.app/E8snieN

It's Friday, which means it's Wildlife Crime day @uniofglos.bsky.social - a new module this year and one that I'm hugely enjoying. Today, we're joined by a former student here who worked with the police and is now a lecturer and researcher on wildlife crime in the UK. And then we learn about ivory.

Turgeon: dynamics of small pops of mountain ungulates. One of the most satisfying papers I've ever contributed to. > 100 pop-years of data in 3 pops, > 2K marked bighorn sheep, mountain goats. Cougar predation, pneumonia override density-dependence 🧪 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Funding available The Gunduwa Regional Conservation Association welcomes applications for funding to conduct biodiversity conservation & sustainability projects in the Gunduwa region. For more details, visit the GRCA website, and download the GRCA 2024–30 Prospectus: gunduwa.org.au/gunduwa-pros...

The soil carbon market is going to collapse - and that's a good thing. One of the issues I explore in this week's column, about the dreamworld of climate fakery our legislators have created. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Important context here: ● over half of farms are less than 49 acres (20 hectares) ● "a big farm" is 217 acres. Now let's see who's angry: ● Clarkson farm is 1,000 acres ● Lloyd Webber farms 4,000 acres ● Viscount Rothermere (Mail owner) 4,700 acres ● Dyson owns 36,000 acres

Hard frost this morning as I start my 33rd driving winter defrosting car with warm water. I'm still waiting for the disaster that apparently will befall me... It's quick and easy. UK winters fairly mild. Car glass very tough. Even 1980s mini metro glass survived.

I saw this earlier. It's not news to most of us I'm sure but it never hurts to reinforce the fact that our "usual" world view is very wrong! I don't know the source so apologies for reusing without credit

@adamhartscience.bsky.social This will complement my copy of #TheDeadlyBalance, and it is only $16.95. You can’t get a better deal about this controversial topic. Two thumbs up 👍👍 for making it available at such a low price.

Continuing a run of fantastic guests, the @uniofglos @uglosbioscience module Wildlife Crime was joined by @UniofOxford @DanChallender to talk about pangolins, illegal trade and solutions. It was a fascinating session- thanks Dan!

If you ever considered buying mine and @adamhartscience.bsky.social's book but didn't, it's only EUR15 right now for the softcover version: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

@nikolaj-bi.bsky.social here I am

Pleased to finally be allowed to reveal that "Trophy Hunting" by me and @adamhartscience.bsky.social is the British Ecological Society Book of the Year for 2023. www.britishecologicalsociety.org/trophy-hunti...

Seems like a decent occasion for a first post on this platform. Great review of @adamhartscience.bsky.social and my book is just published. "As a study in discussing the parameters of an applied conservation topic, there are few texts that can match it."

Glorious morning in Gloucestershire today. Undeniably autumnal, clear blue skies, damp but fresh. A good time for spider watchers. A bad time for arachnophobes!

Just been sent yet another harrowing video showing the remains of a man half eaten by a tiger in India. A more than daily occurrence, as are leopard deaths. I explore why, and what we can do about it, in The Deadly Balance www.bloomsbury.com/uk/deadly-ba...

Pot of gold in this case is a local school - pretty sure this rainbow ends at the science labs

A weird thing that keeps happening (for 15+ years now) is people contacting me and saying "I want to help raise awareness of ocean conservation through social media. But I don't know anything about ocean conservation, or have a social media audience. What should I do?" Maybe...do something else?

Updated with new Web link www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023...

🧪 Some room for optimism regarding rhino, but the overall increase is still set against a background of intense poaching spilling out from SA into Namibia & Botswana. Private rhino owners bear a huge and often unacknowledged cost for antipoaching measures www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023...

A big welcome to everyone new to What's Science! 🧪 There is getting to be A LOT of us and all I can really do to vet people is look at their bio & google them so please help keep an eye out for anyone spreading misinformation, or, even worse, not having fun in the feed 😤

Some room for optimism here regarding rhino, but the overall increase is still set against a background of intense poaching spilling out from SA into Namibia & Botswana. Private rhino owners bear a huge and often unacknowledged cost for antipoaching measures www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023...

Hi everyone! New to here but same account name as Twitter. Follow me for SciComm, conservation, insect science, citizen science and general "stuff".