📢Please share📢 We have an opening for an exciting fully-funded PhD project on computer vision and machine learning applied to biodiversity monitoring with amazing Serge Belongie @belongielab.org and @aicentre.dk. Application deadline coming up on 15 January!
phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...

‘It’s an open invasion’: how millions of quagga mussels changed Lake Geneva for ever The molluscs are decimating food chains in Switzerland, have devastated the Great Lakes in the US, and this week were spotted in Northern Ireland for the first time

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

One of multiple S hemisphere plants in GB that we would like a talented PhD student to study! See link for funded NERC ACCE+ PhD opportunity at Liverpool: www.findaphd.com/phds/project....

Muehlenbeckia complexa in its native range in New Zealand. Identified in our recent Horizon scan as one of the potential top next invaders in Britain - these pictures illustrate why. nonnativespecies.org/non-native-s... @waynedawsoneco.bsky.social

New #GBRedList for vascular plants is published today by a team led by @bsbibotany.bsky.social with partners @naturalengland.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social @naturescot.bsky.social @natreswales.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social @plantlifeintl.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @thebotanics.bsky.social

Snelle camera's met AI helpen invasieve exoten langs de waterkant te bestrijden | VRT NWS: nieuws Altijd op de hoogte van het laatste nieuws uit binnen- en buitenland dankzij de betrouwbare en diepgaande berichtgeving van VRT NWS.

🎞️ On 27 August, a media feature on the CamAlien was shown on Belgian national television, bringing attention to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the detection of invasive alien species.
👀 Watch the video: www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/ki...
🔎 Read more: onestop-project.eu/news/camalie...

Pot-plant trade is ‘hitchhiker pathway’ for invasive flatworms, say UK experts Rise in sightings prompts call for ban on soil imports, to prevent entry of more species that eat earthworms and degrade soil

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Rampaging raccoons: how the American mammals took over a German city – and are heading across Europe Many in Kassel have embraced the animal but the EU classes it as an invasive species and ecologists are divided about what to do next

A new article from @theguardian.com explores the spread of invasive raccoons in Europe, featuring research from our journal on their diet of endangered mussels in western Poland.

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🌍 For the 1st time, we have a systematic global overview of how #InvasiveAlienSpecies change the environment and people's lives.

.—Prof. Sven Bacher

Discover GIDIAS: 22,000+ records on IAS impacts, now open to researchers worldwide. Watch the full story! 🎥

📖🧪 More: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

BioArtAttack 2D BioArtAttack 2D is a drawing and painting competition for children aged 7-18 years old to draw or paint their favourite animal, plant or fungi. The Nancy Rothwell Prize is now a sub-category for speci...

Calling young UK-based artists!

To celebrate 50 years of CITES 🌍, the Royal Society of Biology @rsb.org.uk is hosting an art competition for 7–18-year-olds to draw or paint an endangered species. 🎨

🧪Find out more: www.rsb.org.uk/get-involved...

🌼 Join us on 11 June for “Turning on Transformation” — an online workshop exploring how to put policy into practice (and practice into policy) through real-world transformative change.
🕑 14:00–15:30 CEST
🔗 Registration open tinyurl.com/zjfwzppz

#DAISYProject #PLANET4B #Biodiversity #Transformation

🗓️ On 8 May, during the Iberian Week of Invasive Species, BIOPOLIS-CIBIO are hosting a OneSTOP Living Lab workshop on innovative #IAS management strategies. 👽

🔜 Learn more: onestop-project.eu/news/onestop...

#SEI2025 #Bioinvasions @eualiens.bsky.social @invasionscience.bsky.social

A new paper by Yitbarek Weldesemeat, who recently completed his PhD at CAWR, highlights the importance of community involvement in tree planting initiatives. Yitbarek investigated 13 tree planting schemes in Ethiopia: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Join us at Wyken Croft Nature Park on Friday 25th of April, 11am-1pm for the City Nature Challenge. Sign-up here: bit.ly/3GgCxby

🎉 Officially introducing the first version of our website! 🎊

Explore resources on invasive alien species management via onestop-project.eu

#InvasiveAlienSpecies #IAS #Bioinvasions

One of my favourite events of the year: the @warwickshireccc.bsky.social annual biological recorders meeting. Amazing venue, also recruiting for our OneSTOP invasive species Living Lab

Looking for a PhD in biological invasion? Come and join us at Coventry University @coventrycawr.bsky.social this September to study emerging invasive plants. Project in collaboration with @bsbiscience.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social and linked to @onestop-project.eu.

Immigration’s a hot topic – and it applies to non-native plants, animals and insects, all over the world | Tim Blackburn Biodiversity is great in theory, but there are reasons to fend off invasive alien species and the knock-on effect of their presence, says professor of invasion biology Tim Blackburn

Immigration’s a hot topic – and it applies to non-native plants, animals and insects, all over the world | Tim Blackburn

Just a reminder about the postdoc position in the post quoted below, applications close 7th March! 👇

Also colleagues are advertising another similar one, on using large data sets to investigate the drivers of pest and pathogen outbreaks in agriculture: www.slu.se/en/about-slu... (closes March 19)

Part-time postdoc position available in my group to work in the @onestop-project.eu and @daisyproject.bsky.social projects testing novel invasive species detection and monitoring tools in living labs. 1 year initially, but potential to extent.

You can now register and attend remotely on
📆 26 February 2025, 9am - 1pm (CET)
the #PlantHealth Panel Plenary Meeting, to learn more about #RiskAssessment and especially #Commodity Risk Assessment in relation to plant health.

Please register by 21 Feb 2025 → www.efsa.europa.eu/en/events/13...

🌼 Introducing Horizon Europe DAISY 🌼
DAISY will identify and test innovative socio-technological interventions, assess key enabling factors through case studies, and provide policy recommendations to advance biodiversity and equity. Led by #CoventryUniversity, funded by the #EuropeanUnion.

Dan and Ada found 3-cornered leek on their New Year Plant Hunt

20-month old Evri and her NYPH spotter sheet

Finding a Hellebore in bloom during a group hunt on the south coast

Results of our 14th #NewYearPlantHunt are out!
>3K hunters, 647 wild & naturalised species in bloom, c25K records: plans afoot to extend the Hunt across rest of year.
Huge thanks to all plant hunters!
Summary/ press release here: bsbi.org/download/45297
Longer report here: bsbi.org/download/45290

As we approach the end of day 3️⃣ of our joint #GuardiasOnestopKickoff here are some afternoon session highlights:

📌 Stakeholder interview implementation on different levels
📌 Citizen science involvement through Sentinel garden schemes for #IAS
📌One-Biosecurity integrated governance for invasions

Investigating tree planting in Ethiopia and the extent to which scheme implementation aligns with good governance practices Tree planting schemes are implemented to achieve social, cultural, economic, and environmental goals. Various frameworks and guidelines outline good g…

We found good governance practice is important to achieve sustainable outcomes from tree planting schemes. New paper with results from Yitbarek's PhD:

Coventry to axe 92 jobs and transfer academics to subsidiary firm Remaining staff will lose access to Teachers’ Pensions Scheme as union attacks ‘Scrooge playbook’ cuts

Union members have threatened strike action after Coventry University announced plans to make nearly 100 academics redundant and to transfer others to a subsidiary company. Juliette Rowsell reports
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I have an open position (fully funded for 4 years) for a PhD candidate in a project on pollinator communities and populations in relation to forest structure and microclimate.
See more, and apply here: www.slu.se/en/about-slu....

Rapid spread of bee-killing Asian hornets halted in UK Action helps thwart advance of invasive yellow-legged hornet that can kill 50 bees a day and has devastated honeybee colonies in France and Italy

This would not have been possible without citizen scientists.

The structure of the GuardIAS project in Work Packages linked to the stages of the invasion process.

#GuardIAS (Guarding European Waters from IAS) is a new Horizon Europe project aiming to offer solutions that address every phase of the invasion process (pre-border, border, post border). This is the official BlueSky account of the project.
#bioinvasions #MarineEcology #AquaticEcology #Science 🧪

Invasive species in the Czech Republic: lessons for prevention and management There are different approaches to minimise the negative impact of invasive alien species.

Join us at Coventry University this Wednesday when @jan-honza-pergl.bsky.social will talk about invasive species in the Czech Republic.