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This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity!

Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚

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What I’ve learned from studying the wild pigeon The wild rock dove is little understood and largely overlooked by scientists.

Here is a new year read for pigeon lovers! 🕊️🧬

I've written a little piece @theconversation.com about our work in Scotland studying wild Rock Doves: theconversation.com/what-ive-lea...

They survived wildfires. But something else is killing Greece’s iconic fir forests In the Peloponnese mountains, the usually hardy trees are turning brown even where fires haven’t reached. Experts are raising the alarm on a complex crisis

This summer was the first time I'd seen the shocking phenomenon of fir forests in the Peloponnese scattered with brown and dying trees. Sudden changes to once resilient systems as a result of cumulative pressures triggered by a heating climate.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#30DayMapChallenge Day 10 - Air: Common Swift (Apus Apus) sightings in Finland in 2025 from eBird (+one Taylor Swift (Private Jet))

And, thanks go also to @koneensaatio.fi for funding my PhD and thus enabling the completion of this work for me 🙏

This is also the last article of my PhD published, and I feel like the whole bigger project is now complete! 🥳
Thanks for all the work and collaboration on this one Jacqueline Jürgens, Johanna Staerk, @simonbruslund.bsky.social @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social and @andreasantangeli.bsky.social

Trade risk of beautiful birds - how aesthetics drive wild bird exploitation for trade | University of Helsinki A new global study finds that the visual beauty of birds – their colours and shapes – predicts which wild species are traded by people. By analysing data for over 9000 bird species, researchers discov...

Press release: Trade risk of beautiful birds - how aesthetics drive wild bird exploitation for trade www.helsinki.fi/en/news/rese... @nathist.bsky.social @helsinki.fi

Aesthetic values predict bird trade, but the association varies across product types and trade regions Understanding the drivers of wildlife trade is crucial for designing conservation interventions. Animals are traded for various reasons, including the…

🪶New publication out!
🦜Aesthetic values drive the demand of birds in global wildlife trade markets, but this connection is not always consistent across trade markets
🦉Understanding drivers of demand in trade informs early conservation efforts
📖Read more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Two waxwings feeding on berries on a bush with yellow autumn leaves. In the background the blurred building wallmatches the coulours of the birds.

The waxwings have been calling on the treetops in my neighbourhood for a few days already, but only today I had the time to go see if I could get a photo 🧡 This is perhaps not technically perfect in terms of sharpness of the birds, but I love how the background repeats the colours on the waxwings.

Tiedätkö mikä on keikahduspiste?

Se on tilanne, missä joku luonnon järjestelmä romahtaa, ottaa uuden asennon eikä paluu entiseen ole mahdollinen tai ainakin se vie ihmisten näkökulmasta loputtomasti aikaa.

Ilmastokokouksen alla on julkaistu raportti keikahduspisteiden tilasta - ja se on hälyttävä.

It Was Also Sometimes Daylight - UK nature tour. Photograph of Merlyn Driver playing guitar inside a wooden bird hide with a backdrop of green reed beds.

Nature, birds and music! 🪶🎶 If you are in the UK and enjoy music on and with nature go see Merlyn Driver’s ’It Was Also Sometimes Daylight’ UK nature tour which takes place through the country and mainly in nature reserves: www.merlyndriver.com/events Recommended!

Why you should write your PhD thesis backwards By considering the central statement of your entire PhD, you can structure your writing around it, says Tuuli Toivonen.

Struggling with your PhD synopsis? ✍️ Try this - The reverse-order approach! 📚🧠

@tuulitoivonen.bsky.social and @digigeolab.bsky.social have been using the reverse-order approach to structure article-based PhD synopses — and it works!

🔗 Read the full story here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Tutkimus paljastaa - ihminen elpyy tehokkaammin ikärakenteeltaan vanhemmissa metsissä | Helsingin yliopisto Ikärakenteeltaan vanhemmat metsät ovat tärkeitä ihmisen hyvinvoinnille ja etenkin mielenterveydelle, osoittaa Helsingin yliopistossa ja Luonnonvarakeskuksessa tehty tutkimus. Kaikilla tutkimuksen mets...

Ikärakenteeltaan vanhemmat metsät ovat tärkeitä ihmisen hyvinvoinnille ja etenkin mielenterveydelle, osoittaa tuore tutkimus. Kaikilla tutkimuksen metsillä oli kuitenkin elvyttävä vaikutus osallistujiin, mikä korostaa lähiluonnon merkitystä ihmisen hyvinvoinnille.
www.helsinki.fi/fi/uutiset/m...

Illustration for an article titled "Mental health in academia is too often a forgotten footnote. That needs to change" featuring a person overwhelmed by a swirl of papers and books.

"Academics tend to be averse to discussing mental health openly, and higher education’s mental health safety net is patchy—a forgotten footnote that all too often fails its students." #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth scim.ag/4m61iaU

Suomen lintuatlasruutujen selvitysasteet väreillä kuvattuina. Atlasruutu on 10 × 10 km. Selvitysasteluokat ovat erinomainen, hyvä, tyydyttävä, välttävä, satunnaishavaintoja ja ei havaintoja. Välttäviä ja satunnaishavaintojen ruutuja on eniten pohjoisessa ja Itä-Suomessa.

. #atlas-jihuu 🥳 Lintuatlas etenee! Atlakseen on ilmoitettu havaintoja niin, että lisää ruutuja on noussut tyydyttäviksi. Nyt on monen lajin laulukausi, ja pesinnät varhaisilla lajeilla.
Lemmenjoelta poistui yksi nollaruutu, kun joku kävi hiihtäen tai kelkalla havaitsemassa lapintiaisen. 💪🏼 1/2

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

You have to read this article.
"The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants."
By @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Reciprocity towards nature in the biodiversity science–policy interface Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

The idea of reciprocity between humans and the rest of the living world is receiving increasing attention. Sandra Díaz and myself have long discussed about it in the context of the conceptual framing underpinning IPBES assessments.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Näinä aikoina on kyllä vaikea ymmärtää äänestämisen jättämistä väliin. Äänillä voi vaikuttaa, kuten rapakon takaa huomataan. Jokainen vaali on luonto- ja ilmastovaali, mutta myös yhdenvertaisuus- ja arvovaali. Näitä ei voi erottaa toisistaan, vaikka itsekin päätöksessä ympäristöä painotan. #vaalit

Lead author Auke-Florian Hiemstra holds the oldest known caddisfly casing containing microplastic, dating to 1971. Photo: Liselotte Rambonnet.

A caddisfly casing with pieces of blue microplastic, dating 1986. Photo: Auke-Florian Hiemstra

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀

Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯

A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛

Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

Our new paper: How e.g. bird and mammal species influence bird-feeding practices of humans based on a questionnaire in Finland. Thanks for the collaboration @aivelo.bsky.social @informedbirds.bsky.social @katjaronka.bsky.social @andreasantangeli.bsky.social @annaha.bsky.social @flewrabi.bsky.social

Similarly, a number of reasons to reduce feeding in addition to rats such as too picky birds, corvids eating too much, hawks and cats predating, pathogens being spread, worry about messing with nature, municipal or building rules, tits pecking cows' udders, and neighbors shouting over the fence. 6/8

People described a number of reasons to increase feeding such as caring for endangered species, empathy or interest in birds, keeping up traditions, supporting biodiversit or wanting to provide nature connection to children or cats looking behind the window. 5/8

Koirasvarpunen lepäilemässä lautaisen rakenteen päällä. Talvilintulaskentojen 1950-luvulla alkaneen historian alhaisin määrä varpusia laskettiin tänä talvena. Varpuskannan pieneneminen on osa maatalousluonnon yleistä köyhtymistä.

Talvilintulaskennan kevätlaskenta helmi-maalis-vaihteessa:
- paljon mustarastaita, kottaraisia: hyvä marjatalvi
- paljon peukaloisia, puukiipijöitä: leuto talvi
- vähän varpusia, harakoita: maatalousluonto köyhtyy

Kiitos vapaaehtoisille laskijoille!
@nathist.bsky.social
@birdlifesuomi.bsky.social

Kolme viikkoa päättäjien luonto- ja ilmastotenttiin - joko olet ilmoittautunut mukaan?

Lavalla @minjakoskela.bsky.social, @siljamaria.bsky.social, @virtasofia.vihreat.fi, Pauli Aalto-Setälä, Sari Essayah, Tuomas Kettunen ja Nasima Razmyar.

Lue lisää 👉 www.ymparistotiedonfoorumi.fi/paattajien-l...

Cultivating allyship for a diverse, equitable and inclusive academia - Nature Human Behaviour We propose six actionable steps of allyship that researchers, faculty members and educators can engage in to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive academia: listening to marginalized voices, challenging one's own biases, speaking up to include disadvantaged groups, speaking out to confront bias, advocating for inclusive policies and dismantling institutional biases.

The authors of a Comment article in Nature Human Behaviour propose six actionable steps of allyship that researchers, faculty members and educators can engage in to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive academia. #Academicsky 🧪

Suomalaista luontoa voi suojella vain Suomessa, mutta omalla toiminnallaan myös Suomi ja suomalaiset joko suojelevat tai tuhoavat luontoa myös muualla. Herättelevää luettavaa!

The world needs more #WomenInScience! But a lack of female role models makes it difficult for girls and women to envision themselves as leaders in science.♀️🧪

This International Day of Women and Girls in Science, meet our scientists and hear their inspiring stories: https://buff.ly/3WVk4qE

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Luonnon ääni -podcast jakso 13: Miten lintuja kannattaa ruokkia talvella? Podcastissä pureudutaan lintujen talviruokintaa ja siihen, minkälainen tapa ruokkia on koko linnustolle tämän hetken tutkimuksen mukaan paras. Hanne Valtarin vieraaks on saapunut lintutieteilijä Aleks...

Kävin @suomenluonto.bsky.social #podcast issä keskustelemassa lintujen #talviruokinta -asioista. Kuuntele pätkä 👇
suomenluonto.fi/uutiset/luon...

@nathist.bsky.social @helsinkiuni.bsky.social

Special thanks to supervisors @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social & @andreasantangeli.bsky.social for support through the years and @koneensaatio.fi for funding the whole project 🙏