Thumbnails for two modules in primary and secondary English
English teachers (both primary & secondary), this is for you: UCL's Centre for Climate Change Education has just added new resources for teachers on helping pupils connect with nature via English teaching. They've got loads for other subjects too. Do share!
climateeducation.org.uk/professional...
Job opening: Science Lead in Trees & Forestry Division at DEFRA in the UK. 🌲🌳 www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
Of course UCL is one of these universities... is it 'disagreeing well' if you do it covertly? 🤔
TEN post-doc openings at the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity. Yes, you read that right. TEN.
Map of the UK, showing the huge proportion of land used for beef, dairy and lamb production and the tiny proportion used for crops, next to a plot showing that 68% of UK calories and 52% of our protein come from the plants.
Maybe these need to be put on a few menus/supermarket walls. These are from the UK National Food Strategy, showing the proportion of UK land used for different things (huge for beef/lamb, tiny for crops), & where we get our calories and protein (68% & 52% from plants). The difference is staggering.
Conceptual diagrams comparing two models of xylem architecture in stems and the sampling design used in this study. One diagram illustrates the Widened Pipe Model, showing a constant number of xylem conduits along the stem and progressive conduit widening from the tip toward the base. A second diagram illustrates a furcation-based model, where conduit number increases toward the tip through repeated branching. A schematic of a long, unbranched stem with leaves concentrated near the tip shows the locations of the basal and apical segments that were sampled to test whether conduit number increases toward the stem apex.
Da Vinci’s mischief: xylem conduits in the stems of woody plants do not furcate
Alemán-Sancheschúlz et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Great effort - a really important initiative!
Our new #BIEN biodiversity data workflow paper is out! BIEN is an ecosystem of modular, open-source BIEN tools for collecting, harmonizing, and validating biodiversity data -- and an integrated global database (BIEN db) of plant occurrences, traits & geographic ranges. doi.org/10.1111/2041... 🧪🌐🌾🌵
We have a growing collection of resources for women in ecology that support, celebrate and advocate for women's roles in research and practice.
Check our collection of resources here 👇
https://f.mtr.cool/gtwczvuefr
White text: strange how nobody cares about pedestrian safety until the villainous cyclist shows up
Really interesting - interactions of drivers of mortality in European forests by Gruning et al w @rupertseidl.bsky.social @corneliussenf.bsky.social Climate change will increase forest disturbances in Europe throughout the 21st century www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We've made the logo asymmetric by mistake!
One for the youngsters here - good work James #ref2029
A photo of part of UCL Portico, showing four banners made with the new brand design. The text on the banner on the left reads 'Here, we make buildings more sustainable."
A close up of two banners. The one on the left shows Monty reading a note while Withnail looks on behind him. The text under it reads 'Here hare, here"
Confusing messaging, IMO (from an original idea by @matdisney.bsky.social)
"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"
Extraordinary that the Telegraph is refusing to tell Ipso how its story about imaginary couple Al and Alexandra Moy and their non-existent children Ali, Harry and Barry got published.
Large-scale patterns of tropical forest embolism resistance mapped across space and angiosperm phylogeny.
Combining measurements across the Amazon with 100s of floristic samples, Julia Tavares & colleagues report remarkable variation in vulnerability to drought.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
THE DEATH OF US SCIENCE ☠️
Great Cursus, Stonehenge: A LiDAR image of The Great Cursus (Western side). This huge earthwork, 2.8km long and 90m wide, lies approximately 800m to the north of Stonehenge and consists of a small bank and external ditch.
Can we jointly pursue climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation in European forests?
Only promoting deadwood rather than living carbon stocks!
Not much support for win-win afforestation policies.
Read our brand new article led by #LorenzoBalducci:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
If we have any hope of reviving our rivers, nature-based solutions must be at the heart of government plans.
In the government’s 50 page white paper setting out plans to reform our broken water system, nature-based solutions are mentioned just five times.
A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party
What is a forest? Remarkably we don't have a consistent answer to that question,which is why we don't actually know how much forest there is on Earth or where it is. 🌏🧪🌲🌳
name and shame? If they're happy to send such emails out presumably they wouldn't mind people sharing their business model
Really important for so many things. "The value of patient observation compounds over time but remains invisible to short-term metrics" has profound implications.
cool! Is there documentation of those being original? I ask as we looked at some candidates and it was nearly always anecdotal or indirect (eg garden replanted around 1850). I've been trying to find examples with guaranteed known ages going back that far
They are beautiful but few (definitively) are that old - most of the largest ones with known ages are in the 110-140 y range and then loads in the < 75 bracket. The amazing thing is that they can get so big so fast!
Portrait of Dr. Valerie L. Thomas, the pioneering Black NASA scientist and inventor, smiling warmly at the camera. She has shoulder-length wavy gray hair, wears thin gold-framed glasses, gold hoop earrings, and a light gray herringbone-patterned blazer over a white top with a small pin on the lapel, standing confidently against a neutral gray background.
Valerie Thomas spent 30+ years at NASA helping revolutionize how we see images from space & our own world. #WomenInSTEM
Managed the development of the first image-processing systems for the Landsat program allowing satellites to send the 1st multi-spectral pictures of Earth back to scientists.(1/2)
Questions for the editor and review process here!