Grazing cattle at low intensities could sustain biodiversity on modern farms: new paper out in AGEE doi.org/10.1016/j.ag... www.helsinki.fi/en/news/envi... @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social @irinaherzon.bsky.social @johanekroos.bsky.social @andreasantangeli.bsky.social et al.

The 8th European Congress for Conservation Biology will take place in Leiden, NL! They will explore how #biodiversity can be safeguarded effectively in the long term. First call is open now! Check out: eccb26leiden.eu/calls/ for more info, we are looking forward to your contributions!

🚨 First call! 🚨 European Congress for Conservation Biology (Leiden, the Netherlands in July 6th to 10th 2026) is open for proposals: symposia, panels, workshops & training on effective biodiversity conservation. Deadline Oct 31st 2025 👉 eccb26Leiden.eu #ECCB2026

🌿 SCB Europe Region seeks nominations for its Board (8 seats, 3-year term starting January 2026). We're especially looking for people to lead membership and education committees. Open to SCB members in Europe, apply by October 15th! For more information, see conbio.informz.net/InformzDataS...

SCB Europe Region's Policy Committee in @peopleandnature.bsky.social: Science played a key role in EU debates on nature and agrochemical laws but misinformation & economic interests shaped outcomes. E.g. open letter from 6000 scientists helped pass Nature Restoration Law. doi.org/10.1002/pan3...

Just a bit over a year until the next ECCB, put the dates in your calendar ✍

Stephen Venn joins the SCB Europe Board! Thank you to all members who voted in the election for the open seat in the SCB Europe Board. Stephen @stiivi1.bsky.social is affiliated with the University of Lodz (Poland) & University of Helsinki (Finland) and will start as board member in August 2025.

We received exceptional applications for the 2025 SCB Europe Early Career Conservation Award and decided to award two candidates. Congratulations to the winners Dr Hanna Pettersson (University of York UK) and Dr Volen Arkumarev (Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds / BirdLife Bulgaria) 👏🥳

📣SAVE THE DATE📣 The European Congress of Conservation Biology (ECCB) 2026 will be held in Leiden, 6–10 July! The theme of the conference is “Effective Conservation Science”. Join global experts to explore effective conservation science through keynotes, workshops, field trips, and more.

Led by @guypeer.bsky.social‬, we published a piece in @peopleandnature.bsky.social on the role of #scientists in the discussion about the European Nature Restoration Regulation (approved) and the Sustainable Use Regulation (rejected). besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Neues Papier, geleitet von @guypeer.bsky.social über die Rolle von Wissenschaftler:innen in umweltpolitischen Debatten: Der Fall der Nature Restoration Regulation u der EU-Verordnungen über Agrochemikalien ➡️ Eine Widerlegung falscher Narrative besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Published in @peopleandnature.bsky.social: "The Role of Science and Scientists in Public Environmental Policy Debates: The case of EU agrochemical and Nature Restoration Regulations". We reflect on how to debunk misinformation and help depolarize heated debates. 👉 doi.org/10.1002/pan3...

🦋 Why count butterflies? They’re key indicators of ecosystem health! 🏞️ Join the #ButterflySurvey – it’s fun, easy & takes just 15 min. Help us track biodiversity in fields & meadows. 🌿 🔎 Info & app: www.agroecology-transect.net/resources/bu... #CitizenScience #Butterflies #Agroecology

Several members of the @btobirds.bsky.social Surveys Team, including James Heywood, the BBS National Organiser, have attended the European Bird Census Council (EBCC) ‘Bird Numbers 2025’ Conference this week. More details about EBCC here: www.ebcc.info #EBCC #BirdNumbers2025 #Ornithology

Solar radiation affects birds elevational distributions but not shifts. Great talk by @josephinecouet.bsky.social in #birdnumbers2025 @hkilabornithology.bsky.social @nathist.bsky.social @helsinki.fi

'Differing population trends in birds and butterflies in boreal agricultural landscapes'. A great talk by Sarella Arkkila @hkilabornithology.bsky.social in #birdnumbers2025. @nathist.bsky.social @helsinki.fi

SCB Nordic Chapter's 2025 Annual Meeting will take place online on March 24, 12.00-13.00 (CET). Please email [email protected] to receive the Zoom link. Hope to see you there (Photo: E. Orlikowska)

There is still time to submit your abstract - by March 31st, 2025 for the 2nd Nordic Student Conference on Conservation Science. 18-22 AUGUST 2025, NORDENS ARK, SWEDEN Decisions concerning abstracts: April 7th, 2025 Registration: April, 1st-30th, 2025 More information at conbio.org/mini-sites/s...

@scbnordicchapter.bsky.social @scbeurope.bsky.social 2025 SCCS Cambridge (Student Conference on Conservation Science) 1-3 April 2025. Join online, 1-3 April 2025 - great conference for MSc, PhD students @camzoology.bsky.social Dept. of Zoology, Univ. of Cambridge. www.sccs-cam.org/the-conferen...

Ongoing @scbeurope.bsky.social Policy Committee workshop in #Lübeck Germany. Creative process with brilliant minds to (re)define SCB and PC goals, outcomes, outputs and activities ✨ Kindly hosted by @naturwald.bsky.social

We want to acknowledge the work of early career conservationists from diverse backgrounds (e.g. in terms of geographic area, ethnic heritage, field of study/work, gender, age, and socio-economic background) and therefore especially encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.

🏆 NOMINATE YOURSELF FOR OUR EARLY CAREER AWARD 2025 🏆 Conservationist within 6 years since latest degree & based in Europe/working on European ecosystems? Highlight your achievements in conservation research/practice/policy/education & apply for the award by April 14th! conbio.org/groups/secti...

Open letter by scientists: 31 organizations and 2262 individual signatories call EU policymakers to Revive the Green Deal. The planetary crisis risks millions of people in the EU, billions globally. Weakening a key instrument to tackle the crisis is unwise! Read here: zenodo.org/records/1486...

Abstract submission for SCCS 2025 Sweden is now open! Come participate in a friendly student conference on Conservation Science in Sweden, 18-22 August

Happy International Day for Women and Girls in Science! Fantastic women scientist are working in the my research group @nathist.bsky.social @helsinki.fi! Please have a look at what kind of research topics they have: youtu.be/ugiyHy86taw It is a privilege to work with you! #womeninscience #minätutkin

Happy International Day for Women in Science! I am studying elevational shifts of birds across European mountains 🏔️ I work with incredible women working on different topics linked to birds and climate change, check out what we are doing in @hkilabornithology.bsky.social ⬇️ @nathist.bsky.social

The web-pages of our research group @hkilabornithology.bsky.social @nathist.bsky.social @helsinkiuni.bsky.social have been updated, incl. a video about our work. Please have a look! www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg... youtu.be/ugiyHy86taw

Good news from India. And reminder that vulture killer Diclofenac is still authorised for veterinary use in Europe despite the evident risk to wildlife. www.birdlife.org/news/2025/01...

Deadline prolonged to 31.1.2025: please help us distributing this call for a postdoc, to help improve the policy tools that can then support the restoration of landscape features in agricultural lands. Thankx!

Sirke Piirainen from HelLO defended her thesis entitled 'Modelling changes in occurrence probabilities and abundances of species in the Antropocene based on multi-source environmental data'. Download the thesis from: helda.helsinki.fi/items/c9c94a... @nathist.bsky.social @helsinkiuni.bsky.social

Silmästä silmään! / Take a good look at the spider's eyes! Portraits of spiders are on display in the café of the Natural History Museum. www.helsinki.fi/fi/luomus/uu...

Dear President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu & EVP @teresaribera.bsky.social, Scientists are deeply concerned about the gradual rollback of the Green Deal. On behalf of >2000 scientists, please see our Open Letter calling to restore its ambition: zenodo.org/records/1427... Please could you meet us?

🌍 Calling all early-career researchers! Join the Conference of Society for Conservation Biology - Italy Chapter! L'Aquila (IT) 6-9 May 2025 🗓 Don't miss this chance to share your research and make new connections! 🌱 Full details: scbitaly.org/ecr-2025/ #ConservationBiology @scbeurope.bsky.social

EC turns #GreenDeal into Grey Deal? 🧐 Deregulations of #CAP, dropping #SUR (Pesticide Regulation), and recent amendments of #DeforestationRegulation,... (list goes on) Join our Open Letter to reinstate a true Green Deal now: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Link to sign is in letter Please share

🐦 communities also shift slower than the climate warms, causing climatic debt. ➡️local climatic conditions may become unsuitable for some birds that simultaneously can't shift to better suited areas as the obstacles block the way. Such communities may face extinction.

Join SCB and our network of passionate individuals committed to safeguarding wildlife and wild places. Create meaningful connections, get reenergized and inspired and broaden your views through engaging with fellow conservationists. conbio.org #biodiversity #scicomm #conservationscience #consci

#Climatechange causes species to shift towards poles, what is best known for the breeding season. But what happens in #winter, and are shifts similar across different habitats? Our #NewPaper tackles these questions: rdcu.be/cQFIJ @yanjiexu.bsky.social Purabi Deshpande @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social

We looked into the effects of habitat area, fragmentation and vegetation density on insect communities in vineyards and found that habitat area and local vegetation density outweigh fragmentation effects 🪲🐝🪳🍇🌿 @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#birds got smaller under #climatechange during past half century - but patterns vary along spatioclimatic gradient: Birds got smaller at higher latitudes due to stronger T increases - but S birds adapted faster to T #warming read full text: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Happy Women's Day 2024 🤍 BES journals are celebrating their female AE: International Women’s Day 2024: Ecological Solutions and Evidence appliedecologistsblog.com/2024/03/08/i... @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social #naistenpäivä #WomensDay2024

EC turns #GreenDeal into Grey Deal? 🧐 Deregulations of #CAP, dropping #SUR (Pesticide Regulation), and recent amendments of #DeforestationRegulation,... (list goes on) Join our Open Letter to reinstate a true Green Deal now: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Link to sign is in letter Please share

In our STOTEN_journal paper we show how landscape structure mediates #bumblebee colony viral dynamics🐝🗺️ ➡️landscape heterogeneity lowers viral loads ➡️habitat diversity & connectivity support colony development read full OA article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Importing some old posts from you-know-where to this space as a way of introducing what my research is about ⬇️ ⬇️

More research news from earlier this year: What does climate change do to ecological communities? 2/3 of European 🐦 communities shifted to cooler areas during the last 30 years and large obstacles, e.g. 🏔️s & 🌊s, guided these shifts. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Pic by @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social

New paper out on arctic & common terns in Finnish archipelago @Ornis Fennica Enzo Degot did a fantastic job monitoring tern breeding success & predation pressure during his internship! ➡️full text: ornisfennica.journal.fi/article/view/1… @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social , R Wistbacka, K Kaasalainen

We are excited to be joining the conservation community on Bluesky. Regular news on European conservation research and policy will follow, stay tuned!