On May 11th, the @bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social will host policy and advocacy lead Charlotte Maddix @cwmaddix.bsky.social from @rewildingbritain.org.uk, speaking about a rewilding guide for community groups 🦫🌳🦬
Register for the webinar here:
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/rewi...
Big news for UK biodiversity science 🧬
A new Frontier Economics report out today finds the Darwin Tree of Life Project could generate £3 billion for the UK economy
🎓 THREE fully funded PhDs at DICE 👇
Three fully funded PhDs as part of the Leverhulme *Space for Nature* Doctoral Scholars programme, starting Sept 2026 @dice-kent.bsky.social
More info & apply: lnkd.in/eAS5W-rE
📅 Deadline: 14 May
#PhD #Conservation #DICE #FullyFunded #Research #Biodiversity
Come do a PhD on ecological restoration and multifunctional landscapes in the UK at DICE @dice-kent.bsky.social, focussing on food, health, and nature 🦌🌱🪸🍗🫀
Fully funded🚨, with both UK and international applicants welcome... Deadline 14th May 23:55!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
How can #rewilding contribute to global commitments to protect, conserve, and manage 30% of the world’s land and sea by 2030? Join the @bes-rewildinggroup.bsky.social on 24th September at ZSL as we host discussions to learn more 🌎 Book your ticket: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/rewi...
Ahead of ZSL's 200th Birthday on 29th April, this virtual issue celebrates the scientific work of Joan Procter (1897-1931): Herpetologist, Artist, Designer and ZSL’s Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians - FREE to read jzoblog.wordpress.com/2026/04/10/j... #ZSL200 #womeninSTEM @zslofficial.bsky.social
Fewer than 30 Asiatic cheetahs remain in the wild, all in Iran.
While the subspecies has been protected since 1959, war and sanctions are now disrupting vital conservation efforts, leaving the world’s rarest big cat on the brink of extinction.
@ayleighk.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay.
Big news to bring you from the beavers at Holnicote...
📖 New paper 📖
#Elephant 🐘 barrier behaviors in response to conflict mitigation fences 🐝
Led by Dominique Gonçalves
@anotherbobsmith.bsky.social @dice-kent.bsky.social
#conservation
doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
📖 New paper 📖
#Elephant 🐘 barrier behaviors in response to conflict mitigation fences 🐝
Led by Dominique Gonçalves
@anotherbobsmith.bsky.social @dice-kent.bsky.social
#conservation
doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
How can understanding the connections between ecosystems, animals and humans help us to safeguard the future of our planet? Join us on 19th May for our next #ZSLWildTalks event, hosted by Dr Chris van Tulleken, to find out. Book your free ticket now 👇
Home page for available jobs at NINA with a photo of a red fox
Three PhD positions are open at NINA: seabird ecology in a changing arctic (25 mar), areal planning and land use change (15 apr) and geospatial AI tools for fine-scale ecosystem accounting (15 apr). Study applied ecology at a major research institute in Norway! nina-english.attract.reachmee.com/jobs
What are the health risks of eating wildlife & how well do we actually understand them? 🦌
Check out our new paper, "Challenges in understanding & communicating the risk of zoonotic disease spillover from wild animal meat"
📖 Available OA: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... @dice-kent.bsky.social
We've published a paper on a key conservation issue - ranger mental health.
Frontline rangers face extreme stress—but support is still lacking. This has real consequences not just for individuals, but also for conservation outcomes.
#MentalHealth 🌍 #conservationscience
@dice-kent.bsky.social
It is completely mad that the government is expelling high flying Sudanese students from British universities - from a scheme that is explicitly aimed at the future leaders of countries.
You also committed ecocide through widespread destruction of Iranian oil reserves with likely long lasting and widespread consequences for the environment and human health
Cracking article, including on constitutional elements of Trump and Maga.
Contains wonderful line: “Regime change was the plan, but Trump finds it easier to change plans than regimes.”
“Ecocide” means unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts
- consensus definition for proposed inclusion of Ecocide as international crime in Rome Statute
Three year postdoc fellowship working with bats in Mexico 🦇🦇(with fieldwork)
Project title: Quantifying the socio-economic consequences of losing bat guano services
Led by: Dr Veronica Zamora-Gutierrez
www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...
Yup, LLMs are so woefully bad at history, so I'm never trusting them with anything else... but I keep meeting smart people who "ask ChatGPT" for so many things, and it's driving me to despair
In case you weren't able to join us live for our fist Wild Talks event of the year, you can now watch the full event, on demand, on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5t5... #ZSLWildTalks #ZSL200
Fully support this + also chasing anyone from the room who has 'more of a comment than a question'
#AcademicSky
This year, we’re celebrating our origins in scientific debate with our Wild Talks Lecture Series – six special evenings celebrating two centuries of scientific discovery, while looking ahead to the next 200 years #ZSLWildTalks
Otter watch!
This curious character was spotted taking a dip in a lake at Cragside by Ranger, Nick.
We can't wait for our first Wild Talks event in a week's time! Join us on 3rd Feb for Trailblazers & Pioneers: 200 Years of Wildlife Science to hear how ZSL has been at the heart of scientific breakthroughs for two centuries. Hosted by @adamrutherford.bsky.social 🔬🐸🌊 1/2
Mitcham hedgehog project caught this hedgehog utilizing a hedgehog highway to move between habitats. By creating a small 13×13 cm opening in garden fences, you can help maintain habitat connectivity and support local hedgehog populations! ⭐🦔
@zslofficial.bsky.social @zslscience.bsky.social
![What, if anything, is Trumpism?
There is not really any rhyme: there is no consistency or predictability in what he does. His actions in situation [A] will tell you little or nothing about what he may do in situation [B].
There are, at a general level, certain themes: he is indifferent to norms, he is cunning, he likes leverage, he will renege on deals, he has a sense for ratings, he will often back down. But these are tactics and improvisations: they say little or nothing about which subjects he will engage with next.
And nor is there is much reason: little or nothing he does makes sense, at least for the reasons he gives – or for the reasons his partisan supporters come up with to justify his actions and inactions.
It would be fair to say there is neither rhyme nor reason.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nx2kxyxako6sobj4g4pdkl6s/bafkreiht5hm2c5ywad6s6pn3zttwxw2hxnvdvmhokkfoyz4o6zmy3p6myi)
What, if anything, is Trumpism? There is not really any rhyme: there is no consistency or predictability in what he does. His actions in situation [A] will tell you little or nothing about what he may do in situation [B]. There are, at a general level, certain themes: he is indifferent to norms, he is cunning, he likes leverage, he will renege on deals, he has a sense for ratings, he will often back down. But these are tactics and improvisations: they say little or nothing about which subjects he will engage with next. And nor is there is much reason: little or nothing he does makes sense, at least for the reasons he gives – or for the reasons his partisan supporters come up with to justify his actions and inactions. It would be fair to say there is neither rhyme nor reason.
NEW
“…neither rhyme nor reason.”
We are currently in a situation where precedents and norms and laws and rules and theories offer no assistance.
By me.
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/neither-rh...
Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2026/01/neit...
Beautiful and incredible scenes from the centre of the Netherlands, a country with 1.5 times the density of people in the UK. A pack of 11 wolves roaming through the snow!
Clear out toys now!
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
Fantastic opportunity for a PhD in #TeamWildDog, please share widely www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/man...
