Impact and insight note from TreE_PlaNat @uktreescapes.bsky.social project is out! Natural colonisation can successfully create structurally diverse woodlands and can be combined with tree planting to reduce the uncertainty of using natural processes alone www.uktreescapes.org/wp-content/u...

🏞️𝐅𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡? Our new study looked at fieldwork policies and risk assessments from 90 UK universities offering environmental science courses. The results are eye-opening: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Really cool story about long-distance pollen transport by migratory hoverflies. The actual research paper is here: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

New in #ProcB - From policy to practice: Progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @eivimeycook.bsky.social tell us more in our blog royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...

📣 Hot off the press at #ProcB! 🔍 Our study checked data/code-sharing policies in 275 eco/evo journals and compliance in Proc B (n=2,340) & Ecology Letters (n=571). Policies exist, but clarity and strictness vary, affecting reproducibility. 🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

We released two preprints describing the JASP Meta-Analytic functionality in detail. Meta-Analysis with JASP, Part I: Classical Approaches (arxiv.org/abs/2509.09845) Meta-Analysis with JASP, Part II: Bayesian Approaches (arxiv.org/abs/2509.09850)

Ivy is in flower in my garden and is attracting clouds of ivy bees and other visitors

What a wonderful gift to come back from holiday to ... 🎁🌱 Our article 'Saplings of significance: Nurturing cultural value of new tree plantings through participatory opportunities' has been published in People and Nature! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

There are a myriad of ways that trees have shaped human behaviour, from shaping sleep to using its products to power our consciousness and societies, as this article shows. In turn, our behaviours can help trees perform vital functions such as pollination. Read the article here:

Our new #TreeDivNet paper led by Hernán Serrano-León is out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social! Using data from 9 forest diversity experiments across Europe, we showed that tree diversity effects on tree growth responses strengthened during consecutive drought years dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Delighted and honoured to be awarded Fellowship of @britishecologicalsociety.org and to be in the first cohort of BES Fellows

3 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen jobbnorge.no/en/available... please repost

Some of the lovely wildflowers I enjoyed seeing this week in Triglav National Park, Slovenia: alpine thistle, silver thistle, fringe-flowered gentian, willow gentian, purple cyclamen, woolly thistle, yellow-flowered monkshood and branched monkshood #wildflowerhour

Pethick et al. Is There a Reproducibility Crisis? On the Need for Evidence-based Approaches www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #OpenScience

Autumn symposium & mixer of @ceevol.bsky.social will take place @lshtm.bsky.social on September 19th. Register here 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for...

📖Published📖 In this review paper, Ferrante and Lövei propose a standardised set of methods to monitor ecosystem functions that underpin ecosystem services and disservices 🌱 🌍 🧪 Read the article here 👇 buff.ly/2rAeHgq

Aliens on Chobham Common - purple pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) and yellow pitcher plant (Sarracenia flava). These carnivorous plants are native to North America and have been introduced to Chobham Common decades ago

Lövei et al. Predation pressure on sentinel prey does not necessarily diminish with advancing urbanization onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #ornithology

Ah, I love this! Great advice from @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social: "don't be afraid to fool yourself... Acknowledge your fears, but don't let them stop you... It’s about being smart enough to know you're fooling yourself, and brave enough to do it anyway"

New #TreeDivNet paper shows generally positive relationships between insect herbivory and tree growth & diversity modulated by leaf traits www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Marsh gentians (Gentiana pneumonanthe) seen in good numbers at both Chobham Common in Surrey and Bartley Heath in Hampshire this weekend 💙 #GentianFamily #wildflowerhour

Lovely exhibition "Naturalists' notebooks" @linneansociety.bsky.social. Notebooks by Carl Linnaeus and Alfred Russel Wallace are on display as well as more contemporary ones by @sandyknapp.bsky.social and @timbirkhead.bsky.social. Loved doodles by Carl Linneaus the Younger! 😃

I made a 20-min 📽 on the relevance of #microclimates for modelling the distribution of #forest species living beneath the 🌳 canopy shorturl.at/zvLm7

A unique opportunity to become a KTP Associate in Applied Plant Science as part of a new Knowledge Transfer Partnership between @royalholloway.bsky.social and Eden Research plc working at the cutting edge of seed technology and sustainable agriculture 🌱 jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

‪First up this month, the Perspective that inspired our cover! Led by @jetkerr.bsky.social this Perspective discusses the extent to which favourable microclimates can facilitate persistence in insects. Web link: https://bit.ly/47sQezI Readcube: https://bit.ly/4fBglGR

📢Save the Date!👩‍🔬 Join us in Berlin, June 8–12, 2026 for the #BE20 Conference: “Emerging Topics in Long-Term and Large-Scale Biodiversity Research” 🦋🌱🌳 📍 Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus, Berlin 🎉 Celebrating 20 years of the #Biodiversity Exploratories! Please RT and share this news! #Research #Conference

Job alert! The Biodiversity and People research group at iDiv and @ufz.de is looking to hire a scientist working on biodiversity, citizen science and school gardens (f/m/n). 📌65% position 📌Limited contract (3 years) 📌Salary up to E13 (TVöD) 🗓️Apply by 1 Sep 2025 www.idiv.de/career/job-o...

🔎 We are looking for new associate editors to join our Biological Flora team!🌷 🌲Do you have expert knowledge of one or more aspects of diverse species of vascular plants either in Britain and Ireland or in other regions globally?🌺 👉 More info: buff.ly/rmzadTG

Beautiful Carline thistles (Carlina vulgaris), Martin Down National Nature Reserve #DaisyFamily #widlflowerhour

Hemp agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum) with Scotney Castle in the background #DaisyFamily #wildflowerhour

Central florets of wild carrot (Daucus carota) flowers are often dark purple, but why? Turns out they can act as an insect mimic and may attract pollinators to the flower (doi.org/10.1111/j.14...) as well as reduce parasitisation by the gall midges (doi.org/10.1111/j.14...) #wildflowerhour

Nice day at Martin Down National Nature Reserve this week with @naturetrek.bsky.social. Lots of chalk hill blue butterflies and some Adonis blue as well

🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24... Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵

Applications for the 2026 New Phytologist #TansleyMedal for excellence in #PlantScience are now open! It's a global competition for early career researchers with 3-5 years' experience post-PhD. Deadline: 1 November 2025. 👉 newphytologist.org/tansleymedal #ESA2025

Watch this detailed video explainer of the latest research in forest diversification management techniques, including continuous cover, natural regeneration and enrichment planting, and the complexities within each of them. #forestry #biodiversity 🌐

Encouraging diversity within forests has important payoffs for #climate resilience and #biodiversity. However, how to go about creating this is not a simple matter. Our new research note looks at species diversity, genetic diversity & epigenetic influences 🌐 Read the Note here 👉 buff.ly/FQR0wGX

Few weeks left to apply for a fully funded PhD studentship in my lab @rhulbiology.bsky.social as part of new EU project Trees4Adapt 🌲🌳 Fieldwork in forest diversity experiments in Finland www.sataforestdiversity.org 📆 Apply by Sept 8th, start date - Jan 2026 👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🍁🌍🧪

I never paid close attention to the flowers of dark mullein, but they are quite something! Yellow petals, purple filaments with dense hairs and orange anthers #wildlfowerhour

Hoverflies on creeping thistle - Volucella pellucens and Epistrophe grossulariae(?) x 2. Plus a 7-spot ladybird on wild parsnip #pollinatorpals #wildflowerhour

Seems to be a good year for oak #galls at Chobham Common: lots of knopper galls (Andricus quercuscalicis), silk button spangle galls (Neuroterus numismalis), common spangle galls (Neuroterus quercusbaccarum) and artichoke galls (Andricus foecundatrix)

🚨 Proceedings B is recruiting new Data Editors! Join our editorial board to help ensure data/code transparency across biology. 🗓 Term: 3 yrs from Jan 2026 📩 Apply by 30 Sep 2025 with a 2-page CV + cover letter: [email protected] 🔗 Info: [email protected] /[email protected]

🔎 We are looking for new associate editors to join our Biological Flora team! 🌱 Do you have expert, comparative knowledge of one or more aspects of diverse species of vascular plants? 📑 Can you provide detailed & authoritative reviews of submissions? 👉 More info: buff.ly/ulefHX6

Tree growth thrives on diversity – especially in wet forests #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth

🎉New preprint! "TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing" tinyurl.com/8rmnwjrk We present simple guidelines to help researchers of all coding levels improve the transparency and reproducibility of their analytical code, TADA! Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated.

Job opening: lecturership (research & teaching) in forestry or agroforestry at Bangor University. This is probably the best forestry programme in the UK and a great place to work. Deadline 1 Sep. More here: 🌳🌲🌏

📷 The 2025 SORTEE conference program is now online! Visit sortee.org/upcoming/ to register and explore the exciting lineup of various sessions. #SORTEE2025 If you know a great open science project, now is the time to nominate it for a SORTEE Award www.sortee.org/awards/

We are doing a Hackathon! 💻 Together with senior editor @nhcooper123.bsky.social , we'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible... (1/2)

We're seeking a new Senior Editor! ⏰ Are you... 👉intrigued by the interface between ecology & biological resource management? 🌎 👉a clear communicator who enjoys working as part of a team? 💬 👉committed to maintaining high editorial standards? 🧪 More info 👇 bit.ly/4lPzaIx

"Diversity is a fundamental part of the advancement of science. Evidence shows that the current lack of social diversity, including gender, race, and ethnicity, in academia represents a highly inefficient equilibrium" #scicomms www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The Chemical Lives of Trees: Why No Two Are Exactly Alike Every tree is a living pharmacy mixing its own cocktail of defensive chemicals and survival compounds. No two trees make the same blend. wp.me/pdRZhH-mbW #Botany #PlantScience