International Symposium Evidence-based Rewilding & Launch Rewilding Expertise Centre
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Insightful series on how to build a research profile and use it effectively.

Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points

“The climate scientists we surveyed were unambiguous: current economic models can’t capture what matters most – the cascading failures and compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world – and could undermine the very foundations of economic growth.”

Should be the top story everyday.

Can @gaia.eco stop their harassment for building their following. I wasn't interested in this slop the first time they followed me. Even less so the 20th time or more.

I was asked this week who are my ecologist heroes

I said no one. Academia does not need heroes

It needs collaborative, systematic, and non-hierarchical working

A Christmas lesson from plant ecology: why plants like holly and mistletoe may not be as well defended as we think Christmas is a time of expectations, when we assume that familiar traditions will work as they always have. Some traditions are associated with plants such as holly and mistletoe. In ecology, we ma…

A Christmas lesson from plant ecology: why plants like holly and mistletoe may not be as well defended as we think:

jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/12/24/a...

Merry Christmas everyone!

#ecology #biodiversity #Christmas

Qesser Zuhrah and Amu Gib have been on hunger strike for 46 days.

They are at serious risk of death.

They are in prison because the UK would prefer to lock up young opponents of mass murder than stop facilitating genocide.

The Home Secretary must intervene.

Please sign this letter

Calling for a government-backed televised briefing on the climate & nature emergencies

We must raise awareness about the massive threats that we face

UN environment report 'hijacked' over fossil fuels - top scientist The US and other governments derailed an agreement on a global environment study, its co-chair says.

bbc.com/news/article...

tinyplot: convenient and customizable base R plots - Grant McDermott YouTube video by useR! Conference

Nice. Looks like my `tinyplot` talk from userR! 2025 is up on YouTube. youtu.be/MOB-QS-vMeY?...

#rstats

Haunted lately by @galaxyproject.bsky.social CO₂e estimates for jobs. This one MEGAHIT assembly: ~450g CO2e. I've run this ~150k times on HPC, ~75 tonnes of CO2e 😬. Perhaps ARC/NHMRC would accept Australian Carbon Credit Units as part of the grant cost for offset? What others are doing in AUS/INT?

Increasing canopy cover elevates vehicle collision risk for barbastelle bats (Barbastella barbastellus) at roads - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Increasing canopy cover elevates vehicle collision risk for barbastelle bats (Barbastella barbastellus) at roads

📢 New paper from my PhD! 🦇

Using 3D reconstructions of barbastelle bat flight paths over roads, we found that increasing canopy cover leads to lower flight heights, elevating collision risk.

@vincentwt.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk
#PhD #Bats #Ecology #Conservation

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Denmark has banned 8 more #pesticides containing #PFAS

The main reason: these pesticides can break down into #TFA a small chain PFAS scientists are increasingly concerned about.

Fidra research earlier this year found #TFA widespread in UK rivers 💧

Read more ▶️ www.pan-europe.info/blog/denmark...

“if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy”

The Battle of Cable Street - Historic UK On 4th October 1936 the people of the East End of London halted the march of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts through Stepney, in what became known as The Battle of Cable Street...

“as the number of fascists was growing, so too was the opposition against them”

Almost exactly 89 years ago, the Battle of Cable Street - against fascists who were supported by the police & right-wing press
www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Hi...

Image of a deceased Puffin lying on the ground. White wording on an orange background reads: Please report sightings of dead birds.

⚠️ Please report sightings of dead birds for possible testing for Avian Influenza. ⬇️

📌 In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/...
📌 In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/...
📌 In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.serv...

#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland

Our newest paper is out in Methods in Ecol Evol @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social :) amazing team effort - we show that the traditional way of analyzing comparative data lacks finesse. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/oidcS... w/ @itchyshin.bsky.social Yefeng Yang, Losia Lagisz & Ayumi Mizuno

We’re delighted to announce the 2025 #WainwrightPrize Winners!

From powerful storytelling to vital conservation work and bold illustration, this year’s winners reflect the richness, urgency, and joy of writing about the natural world.

wainwrightprize.com

#StoriesThatConnect

Banksy satirised the state silencing those opposed to Israel’s genocide.

The state then inadvertently made his artwork genius.

Timing shapes flyway selection in juvenile white storks at the European migratory divide - Journal of Ornithology Migratory divides are junctures where populations of the same species following different migratory routes intersect. In white storks (Ciconia ciconia), migration strategies differ between the western...

Now online in Journal of #Ornithology

Timing shapes flyway selection in juvenile white storks at the European migratory divide

Open access

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This survey on the current state of freshwater monitoring in the UK is still open.

Have your say, and please share...

💦🧪 #freshwater #monitoring #UKCEH_AquaEco #data #evidence

Police cover up a Banksy image of judge beating a protester faster than you can say "one of the many Boris Johnson Downing Street parties during covid restrictions which the Met police ignored"

Palestine flag flown alongside Irish flag, as seen in many places in Rep of Ireland.

A hugely refreshing and too short time away from UK's insanity. Not everything is green in Rep of Ireland, but the people and government do have some decency.

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)

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

The Washington Post just published the names of more than 18,500 children in Gaza killed by Israel.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Looking forward to speaking at the event - I've found Wikipedia really useful in my Hons. class to help the students select important information from published papers and synthesis it as Wikipedia entries - we have been slowly ticking off all the African Raptor species, which often lack good info.

System: a set of things working together as parts of an interconnecting network

Ecosystem: a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment

There is no need for other sectors to appropriate & redefine ‘ecosystem’ in an affected way

‘System’ does the job fine.

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Attend ISEC* when it's local to you, for a lightning tour of the state of the art across the breadth of statistical ecology.
(*or similar)

NERC policy on resubmissions This policy only applies to research grant applications.

Really disappointing new policy from NERC banning resubmissions of grant applications

Many of us, including me, have won grants on resubmission,

using the reviews to improve the application

This is is neither fair nor productive
www.ukri.org/councils/ner...