This paper has been a real labour of love - many years in the making and a huge team effort.

PNAS – From data to decisions: Toward a Biodiversity Monitoring Standards Framework by Andrew Gonzalez, Tom August, Sallie Bailey, et al. Read now!

A new PNAS Perspective from the 2025 US–UK Scientific Forum proposes a global Biodiversity Monitoring Standards Framework to make data more consistent and actionable for policy.

Read the Perspective: https://ow.ly/fj2A50Yvic4

Learn more about the forum: https://ow.ly/LqV550Yvic5

It was a real privilege to work on this paper - some important messages for the world here. Thanks @pnas.org @billsutherland.bsky.social

🐝 The @biggive.bsky.social’s #ChristmasChallenge is LIVE!

🌎 This #GivingTuesday, donate once to Zero Hour and make twice the impact.

🎁 From 2-9 December, every £ you donate to help build our urgent climate and nature campaign will be DOUBLED!

💚 Donate here 👉 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

#PhDOpportunity #Ecology #Conservation #Pollinators #Biodiversity #CitizenScience #DataScience #EnvironmentalScience #PhDLife
@drnickisaac.bsky.social @clairecarvell.bsky.social

Applying genomic approaches to understand bat population declines. NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry at University of Exeter on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Applying genomic approaches to understand bat population declines. NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry at University of Exeter, listed on FindAPhD.com

Come to do a PhD with me, @bfraser.bsky.social and
@batconservation.bsky.social at the University of Exeter on using genomics to understand bat population declines under global environmental change 🦇🧬🌍🌐🧪
Application deadline 8 January 2026 ⚠️⚠️⚠️

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

An exciting new era at UKCEH

Without forward-looking models, biodiversity policy risks missing the road to recovery.
Our new PNAS article calls for predictive tools and a World Biodiversity Research Programme to guide global action.

👉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
#Biodiversity #Conservation #PredictiveModels #PNAS

How do we measure life on Earth? 🌍🌱 The new summary report from the 2025 US-UK Forum on Measuring Biodiversity, hosted by the NAS and @royalsociety.org, explores tools, challenges, and solutions for tackling the #biodiversity crisis.

Read here: bit.ly/460RB7R

Screenshots of parts of the PoMS e-newsletter, with examples of charts and images of bees on Ivy

The latest PoMS e-news went out yesterday, with updates on FIT Counts in 2025; news of a new UK butterfly; research on plants for pollinators; PoMS local projects; & some great forthcoming events. If you missed it you can read it at mailchi.mp/e73193cb8054... & subscribe at ukpoms.org.uk/subscribe

African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks continent’s size Member states back Correct the Map campaign that urges governments and organisations to use more accurate map

Non euro-centric maps. We can but hope ...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Attending the @britishecologicalsociety Annual Meeting? If so, consider also attending the 2nd National Environmental Monitoring Conference (same venue, different day) www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/nati...

The remarkable rise of “greenhushing” Businesses once trumpeted their climate goals. Now they are quietly plugging away

A rare bit of good news:
The remarkable rise of “greenhushing”
www.economist.com/business/202...

Sometimes I wonder. Certainly @waspwoman.bsky.social has waspish tendencies.

What to do when wasps crash your picnic – a scientist’s guide to dining safely with these insects Did you know wasps switch from ham to jam foraging during the late summer?

Dont be a badger when wasps come visiting
theconversation.com/what-to-do-w...

Session 1: What Are the Problems - 2025 US UK Forum on Measuring Biodiversity YouTube video by National Academy of Sciences

I spoke on the Four Problems of Biodiversity Monitoring. You can view the talk here, from 14 minutes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VJp...

US-UK Scientific Forum on Measuring Biodiversity for Addressing the Global Biodiversity Crisis – NAS May 21-22, 2025 Washington, DC Forum Program Assessing biodiversity is fundamental to understanding the distribution of biodiversity, the changes that are occurring and, crucially, the effectiveness o...

Last month I was privileged to attend a meeting of @nasonline.org about biodiversity monitoring. The proceedings are now online for all to view: www.nasonline.org/event/us-uk-...

Yesterday I spent a fantastic day hiking through the forests, meadows and swamps of southern Maryland. So much wildlife!
I moved very slowly all day, inspired by @yutoriwalking.bsky.social

ChatGPT Is Everywhere — Why Aren't We Talking About Its Environmental Costs? One estimate found that a single ChatGPT search uses 10 times the energy of a normal Google search.

We should be talking about the environmental costs of AI being shoved into every aspect of our online lives

www.teenvogue.com/story/chatgp...

Britain's universities were pushed - forced, really - to make themselves completely dependent on international students. Now they are about to have the rug finally pulled from under them. There is not a single word British central government could say that I would ever trust again.

A graphic for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), showing a historical portrait of Marie Skłodowska-Curie overlaid with an image of four young researchers walking down a hallway. The European Commission logo is in the top left. Text reads: "Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – €404.3 million to support postdoctoral researchers”

Choose Science. Choose Europe.

A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.

With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.

Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

The Globe Big Audio Dynamite · Album · 1991 · 10 songs

Fyi
open.spotify.com/album/7bhRil...

Sitting quietly with a glass of rum and an LP I've not heard for 20 years 👌
#friday

I am excited to announce that I am taking up the position of Head of Biodiversity Monitoring and Analysis here at @ukceh.bsky.social. I look forward to supporting this impressive group of scientists create the highest quality data and information products to address the biodiversity crisis.

Spring reminder, as people start to think about gardening: NEVER buy compost with peat it in (inexplicably still on sale). If it does not say "peat free" in big letters, do not buy it. Peat is incredibly valuable in peat bogs, for rare biodiversity and as a carbon store. Don't put it on your garden!

Here’s how to create a more nature-literate society Nature literacy has inspired creativity and innovation for thousands of years.

How do we increase nature literacy among society? Some thoughts from @waspwoman.bsky.social
theconversation.com/heres-how-to...

I'm thrilled to share our new review paper with the world.

Clockwise from top left: Tenthredo sawfly, mantid, cockroaches, dragonfly

NEWS: Despite fears about insect declines, we know very little about 99% of species globally 🌍📉.

Scientists are proposing a new approach to get a more complete picture of insect populations and analyse how they are responding to threats.

Read more: www.ceh.ac.uk/press/some-i... 🧪

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Career development - British Ecological Society Career development - BES is the largest scientific society for ecologists in Europe. We're working towards a world in which nature and people thrive.

@britishecologicalsociety.org currently has vacancies for Policy Committee and chair Macroecology SIG. Both were fantastic learning experiences that really helped my career - please consider applying!
(There have other great opportunities too)

www.britishecologicalsociety.org/topic/career...