I am absolutely thrilled to share my first chapter, published today in @jappliedecology.bsky.social! Results are summarised in the thread below, or you can read it OA here doi.org/10.1111/1365... @ellileadbeater.bsky.social @rhulbiology.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social @ucl-pnl.bsky.social 1/7 🧪
New PhD position available! For applicants keen to combine evolutionary ecology, neuroscience and animal cognition. Based at UCL with me, @maxreuter.bsky.social, @fcamus.bsky.social and Tamara Boto (Bristol). Directly funded, see here for details and eligibility: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Found in the People and Nature lab garden!
UCL People and Nature Lab are looking for partner organisations from the conservation sector for Nature Smart Challenge 2026! Could you be one of them? Please open the image for info, and share widely! @ucl-pnl.bsky.social
We are looking for partner institutions within the conservation sector for Nature Smart 2026. Could you be one of them? @izzybis.bsky.social
UCL students who love life on Earth take to the stage to perform their first ever comedy sets, under the brilliant guidance of PNL’s Izzy Bishop! youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Would any UK ecology/geosciences colleagues be able to help with this? Please re-post
PNL representatives including MSc Ecology and Urban Engineering student Kei Pang brainstorming Grand Challenge research ideas about planetary health with academics from the Stockholm Trio
Our guest Research Lunch speaker this week was Lily Xu, visiting from Oxford to talk about her fabulous work using AI to predict wildlife poaching patterns and direct rangers to the right places. A really fantastic talk!
Find out what we're all about in the Faculty of Life Sciences at UCL.....
The Faculty of Life Sciences was honoured to welcome Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal to the People and Nature Lab at UCL East yesterday. Find out more about The Princess Royal's visit and the ecological technologies she was introduced to while there: www.ucl.ac.uk/lifesciences...
HRH the Princess Royal visiting the People and Nature lab last week
Do you know of a researcher working in the field of zoology and/or conservation who you think has made an outstanding contribution that deserves recognition? Nominations are due on Feb 25th for the ZSL awards program, which spans all career levels from UG onwards www.zsl.org/about-zsl/aw...
Excited to find out what birds are visiting the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social Garden Lab thanks to @djdunc.bsky.social @raspberrypi.com #AI #BirdNET www.iot.io/blog/2025/02...
A new opportunity to work with our expanding #eDNA and #biodiversity lab as a postdoc looking at human impacts across space and time with terrestrial airborne eDNA. UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship funded opportunity based at the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
The author of a new book on frogs holding a copy, showing the cover which depicts a fantastic poison frog (Ranitomeya fantastica) carrying a tadpole on its back.
The Lives of Frogs — it's real! #frogs #amphibians #conservation #ecology #naturalhistory #biodiversity Available in all good book shops (and probably some bad) from 20th May 🧪 @princetonupress.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
Last week our MSc students learnt about camera trapping in their Technology for Nature lectures, and here they are putting their expertise to work in the QE Olympic Park
Yesterday our PNL MSc students heard guest lecturer Steve Andrews share a CEO perspective on what makes a successful idea in the environmental industry. In universities we often seek originality, but it’s only one part of the puzzle.
Happy to be back in the Mara, training community conservancy rangers to maintain a #cameratrap grid for wildlife monitoring + research. 📸 We’ll soon start pilot testing Akili (projectakili.ai) an open-source, end-to-end conservation data management platform from Wildlife Protection Solutions 🦓📊
Ben behind a TedX logo with a diver in the background
PNL PhD student Ben Williams at TEDx London, sharing insights from his PhD on AI-led monitoring of coral reef habitats. Great example of the many exciting potential applications of AI in conservation, and congratulations on the talk Ben!
"If we actually want to get back to thriving nature ... we also need to change our production, our consumption, our supply chains, we need to restructure the way in which we go about our business as a society." Professor Dame E.J. Milner-Gulland (University of Oxford) speaking at UCL East yesterday.
An ultrasonic depth sensor monitors pond depth on a green roof at UCL East
A new year check of the sensors in the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social nature smart garden - Lora devices all happy and pond is looking full again - wondering if this is rain or manually filled?
The latest from a lab collaboration @ucl-pnl.bsky.social with Molly Williams (Nature Metrics/ UWarwick) and Sam Poultney (West Sutherland Fisheries Trust) - we worked on detections of vulnerable Arctic charr in a rapidly warming landscape: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New paper led by PNL's Izzy Bishop! Citizen scientists- plus PNL's MSc Ecology and Data Science students- are assessing water quality worldwide through #FreshWaterWatch protocols. Check out the results of 30,000+ monitoring events here: doi.org/10.5334/cstp... Spoiler: Europe doesn’t perform well!
Today at 11- join us if you're interested in MSc opportunities!
Job alert! We are looking for researchers interested in the interconnectedness of ecosystems, climate change and human/wildlife health - ‘One Health’ approaches- to join the People and Nature Lab at UCL East. Deadline 4th Feb
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI276/l...
Join us online on Thurs 9th/Tues 14th to hear about our MSc courses in #Ecology and #Biodiversity at UCL, including MSc Ecology and Data Science, MSc Ecology and Urban Engineering, MSc Ecology, Climate Change and Health, MSc Biology and Global Change and MRes Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation 👇
Interested in a PhD in the People and Nature Lab? There's a webinar for potential applicants to the TREES DLA on Friday 20th December. Sign up for updates here: www.trees-dla.ac.uk
PhD position available! Are you interested in how natural selection shapes the evolution of animal memory? Be part of our experimental evolution plans at UCL @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @treesdla.bsky.social , co-supervised by Flo Camus @fcamus.bsky.social. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo...