"Because all businesses depend on and impact biodiversity, they have a responsibility to act as agents of positive change."
This is one of the key messages of the IPBES #BizBiodiversity Report.
Explore why the "business of nature" is now everyone’s business: https://ow.ly/1qph50YvOvA
Some great coverage of Annalea Beard’s @annaleabeard.bsky.social PhD research based at @one-cardiffuni.bsky.social, on the foraging journeys of the two seasonal populations of Band-rumped Storm-petrels breeding on St Helena.
Very glad about this new paper by former Cardiff Uni @one-cardiffuni.bsky.social PhD student Annalea Beard @annaleabeard.bsky.social come out in #MovementEcology. Documenting very different foraging behaviours and ranges in cool versus hot season breeding populations #stormpetrels from #StHelena.
#SpringArrivalSpotlights are back, and we’re kicking off with Chiffchaffs!
Flitting back from Southern Europe & North Africa through March-April, their sweet 'chiff-chaff' song is the sound of spring.
Listen for them in parks and hedgerows.
Have you heard one calling near you?
A pleasure to be at CREEM, @uniofstandrews.bsky.social today and yesterday for an invited seminar on quantitative education for ecologists. My first time visiting the Observatory. An energising couple of days! @fergusjchadwick.bsky.social @chrissuthy.bsky.social @talom.bsky.social
Last weekend, The Otter Project was invited to run a session for the "Parent Power" event at Cardiff University. The event aimed to introduce students and their parents to higher education and support widening participation.
Please allow us to share with you a recent update from the FBA Ark!
In September 2025, the FBA concluded a year-long #FreshwaterPearlMussel ‘silo trial’, assessing whether the rivers Esk and Kent would be suitable for population reinforcements of juvenile #mussels. 👇
www.fba.org.uk/articles/sur...
Delighted to see OnE's @steveormerod.bsky.social has been made a Fellow of the British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/anno...
In this review in Fungal Ecology, Håvard Kauserud (@drhyfe.bsky.social) argues that while the ITS region is by far the best DNA (meta)barcoding marker for fungi, we should not use it naively or simplistically doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
Good news! Having been declared critically endangered in 2023, young Atlantic salmon have been spotted in three rivers in north-west England for the first time since 2015, marking a “significant environmental turnaround”. fish
Read more in The Guardian: https://ow.ly/7sjU50XWF6m
Good morning #Wales #morningwalk
Exciting news from OnE! We are very proud that Dr Dave Stanton and team have their research out now in #Science:
Genomic and morphometric evidence for Austronesian-mediated pig translocation in the Pacific | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#ancientDNA #pigs #livestock #ecology
Job opportunity! The Riverfly Partnership, hosted by the Freshwater Biological Association, is looking for a Senior Development Manager to help grow sustainable funding, build strong partnerships, and support one of Europe's longest-running citizen science programmes. If you're passionate about rivers, community science and strategic development - we would love to hear from you! Please note the closing date for applications is 18 January. Find out more and apply: https://www.fba.org.uk/riverfly-partnership-senior-development-manager The Riverfly Partnership is a dynamic network of organisations, representing anglers, conservationists, entomologists, scientists, water course managers and relevant authorities, working together to protect the water quality of our rivers, further the understanding of riverfly populations, and actively conserve freshwater habitats.
Would you like to make a real impact on freshwater conservation?
@riverflies.bsky.social, hosted by FBA, is looking for a Senior Development Manager to support one of Europe's longest-running citizen science programmes.
Closing date is 18 Jan. Find out more & apply:
www.fba.org.uk/riverfly-par...
“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.” 🧪
IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors. 🌍
journalism-school.cardiff.ac.uk/oxygen/2025/...
Amazing work done with the Grangetown community by Dr Amy Baldwin! We need more people engaged with the young generations and the outdoors. Building community, healthy outdoors, next generation
Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.
Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
It's the last day of term here at Cardiff Uni, so we would like to wish all the staff, students and friends of OnE a very happy Christmas!
A figure from the Transformative Change Assessment Summary for Policymakers showing the socioeconomic outcomes and outcomes for nature’s contributions to people with different approaches.
🎯 The evidence is clear: Having a clear vision and including Indigenous & local knowledge leads to better outcomes for both society and nature's contributions to people.
IPBES #TransformativeChange Assessment: https://www.ipbes.net/transformative-change-assessment
Title page for a research paper published in Marine Biodiversity, describing a field observation of a piebald leucistic smallspotted catshark on a baited remote underwater video station in the UK
A little more #sharkscience from my #PhD at @one-cardiffuni.bsky.social - a Short Communication published in Marine Biodiversity by @springernature.com.
A fortuitous finding from #BRUVS sampling in #CardiganBay Special Area of Conservation in the UK - a #piebald leucistic smallspotted #catshark.
Final-year projects already underway with our School of Biosciences: i) using a bioreactor to investigate how global change processes affect algal lipids ii) effects of misconnected sewers and micro pollutants on a small urban stream
It's Geography Awareness Week #geography and GIS Day is Wednesday. A great many activities happening. Check out some of them storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/2426...
🌍 Did you know? Biodiversity loss, climate change, health, water & food security are linked! IPBES #NexusAssessment explores 70+ solutions for a sustainable future.🏡🧪
Discover how interconnected challenges need interconnected actions with UNEP-WCMC https://ow.ly/BXLH50Xpb9C
Two great PhDs on invertebrates being advertised here is OnE!
A few weeks ago The Otter Project was a part of Exploring Bioscience at Cardiff University. We have enjoyed showing the students some of what we do. We went on a walk along the Taff to survey otter spraint and our lead Dr Elizabeth Chadwick performed a post mortem in person for the students.
A vertical split graphic. The left side shows a woodland scene with a tall blue bar labelled “64% want stronger protections for nature.” The right side, showing scrubby ground and a dull riverside, has a tiny blue bar labelled “Only 2% believe protections should be weakened.” The heading at the top reads “Voters”.
The majority of Britons think important places for nature should have stronger protections.
Only 2% think protections should be weakened... yet that’s where ministers keep pushing.
We have had the pleasure of welcoming many fantastic placement students to The Cardiff University Otter Project. They are always eager to offer their help! To all our former students: thank you so much for your hard work! We would love to catch up and hear what you're up to now.
Time to rethink nature conservation?
Ecologists call for an ecosystem approach to halt UK wildlife decline and protect the vital services nature provides us in our new report with @nationaltrust.org.uk
@pettorelli.bsky.social
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
Looking for an undergraduate placement in conservation with a focus on lab work, data analysis, and anatomy?
Our data and samples are used in a wide range of research and help guide conservation.
Apply now to join the Otter Project as a research assistant!
