Only a few more days to apply to join our committee! See below for details:

Meet the #BES2025 SIGs on floor -1! We’ll be heading to our social at Frankenstein later too! Come say hi to some of our committee:
@inesismartins.bsky.social
@bethanyjallen.bsky.social
@lauraloubio.bsky.social

Day one of #BES2025 has been great so far! Looking forward to meeting some new people at the meet the SIGs session and the @besmacro.bsky.social and @bes-conservation.bsky.social joint social later on today!

Will we be seeing you during the @britishecologicalsociety.org annual conference? 👀

Come down to the Frankenstein & Bier Keller pub in Edinburgh on 16 Dec 2025 for a social with @besmacro.bsky.social 🍺

There will be snacks, friends, and (loosely!) ecology-themed quiz rounds ✨ See you there!

Are you attending #BES2025 this week & looking for some tips to help get your research published? 🤔🧪

Come along to one of our two sessions with @nordicoikos.bsky.social & @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social where we'll be discussing each step of the academic publishing journey! 📑🌏

Job advertisement

We have 1 open PhD and 1 postdoctoral researcher position to work with terrestrial carbon cycling in abrupt #permafrost thaw features in the Arctic.

More information here:
www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

@cenunihh.bsky.social

Wrapping up day 1 of the Bolin Days 2025 with a conference dinner in Koppartälten, where we enjoyed some food & drinks with live entertainment from the amazing Stämbröderna! And then we of course ended the night with a ceilidh. 🤩

Thanks everyone, and see you tomorrow!

A beautiful day out on the famous Mer Bleue bog

Impacts of Global Change on Polar Terrestrial Biodiversity This collection examines how human activities and global change stressors are transforming the composition and functioning of terrestrial Arctic and Antarctic ...

Extended deadline! Submissions welcomed until 1st December to the npj biodiversity collection: Impacts of Global Change on Polar Terrestrial Biodiversity 🐻‍❄️🐧 Edited by: @annebeejay.bsky.social, Daly Noll Vergara, Luis Pertierra and me www.nature.com/collections/...

How do we measure #CO2 and #CH4 exchanges from alpine-Arctic #tundra #ecosystems...

... when the weather changes so fast? ⛅

Here is how, in a control plot and a passively warmed plot of a dry heath at #Latnjajaure field station, 100m a.s.l. near Abisko, Northern Sweden, on July 26th, 2025.

The landscape of more southerly Northwest Territories, with a winding river and many small lakes, seen from our plane window

Moose hoof prints in the gravel road north of Inuvik

A single white root visible in the cracked frozen soil core removed from the ground. The frozen soil is dark in colour, suggesting high organic content.

A blurry gray face of a wolf peeking through the scrub at the side of a gravel road. Their dark nose, eyes, and inner ears stand out in the green and gray.

We also saw lots of wildlife, including snowy owls and an arctic fox, all in the middle of changing to their winter coats, and a (blurry) wolf. We also got up close with the permafrost! To find out more the nature and people of the region see: www.gwichin.ca/publications...

Flowering paintbrush/ prairie fire species Castilleja, I think, not sure which one!

A yellow orange sky under heavy cloud lit from behind, with shrubs and tall, skinny spruces in the foreground.

Up close look at the bright red, orange and green leaves of the dwarf shrub mid-autumn senescence. Betula glandulosa, łuu t’an in the Teełit dialect, can be used as flooring/ insulation.

A pale yellow/pink cloudberry or salmonberry (nakál or nakal in Gwichya and Teetłit dialects) framed by its leaves, changing from green to bright red, and surrounding Rhododendron tomentosum (formerly Ledum palustre, lidii maskeg/maskig/masgit in both Gwich’in dialects) and Vaccinium vitis-idaea (Natł’at in Gwichya and Teetłit dialects). Info from Gwich’in ethnobotany. Very tasty

I am very grateful to have been able to work in and explore the landscape around Inuvik, in the traditional land of the Inuvialuit, Gwich’in and Metis peoples. The tundra colours always take my breath away and I was excited to learn a bit about the traditional names uses of some plants too.

Excited to get started! ☺️
Tag me/ @besmacro.bsky.social if you have info to share with the @britishecologicalsociety.org macro ecology community!

Happy field team with a active layer stick and mosquito proof gear in the sunny birch shrub tundra

Posing in mosquito proof gear with a lovely chunk of soil like a prize fish

Coring into the sedge tundra soil under a gray cloudy sky

Two figures, one with a soil corer over their shoulder, in the distance walking away over the autumn-gold sedge tundra

Finally feeling recovered after the field and lab crash! Our field sites cover different vegetation types in the tundra, and we have been sampling to see what’s going on below the ground. We’ve been in the lab processing some samples since we got back; I’m excited to get on with the analysis now…

A full suitcase of field gear

Smiley plane passengers!

It’s been a month since I started working with the Wild lab at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social and we are heading out to the field! We’re heading up to Inuvik to see what’s going on under the tundra 👀🌿🍄‍🟫 w/
@larissafrey.bsky.social and Lewis!

Our manuscript on #Arctic root exudation of functionally different and dominant #tundra plants is out in SBB!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Many people have highlighted the need for integrated approaches to find solutions to these huge global challenges, of which the rhizosphere can play a significant role. A very insightful meeting, lots to think about and apply to new research questions…

Amazing last day at #rhizosphere6! Some wonderful talks, and I loved this quote from Jennifer Pett-Ridge @jeffinerca.bsky.social: “Whatever discipline you come from, whichever goddess you relate to, be it physics, biology, poetry… you can be a rhizosphere researcher”.

Craig presenting to #rhizosphere6 some of the fantastic research and facilities here at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social this morning!

Presenting some data from multiple field sites and multiple bits of my thesis, looking how root traits vary within and across Arctic and alpine sites and with methodologies. Come say hi! #rhizosphere6

Revisiting the root economics space—its applications, extensions and nuances advance our understanding of fine-root functioning - Plant and Soil Background and aims Fine roots and their traits determine resource uptake from the soil, thus being fundamental for plant and ecosystem functioning. It has been five years since the concept of the roo...

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Yes I said excited and exciting and used multiple exclamation marks! I am compensating for a lack of coffee that is now being rectified! Also I have mushrooms on trousers and I’m excited about that too!! 🍄🍄‍🟫

School’s out and I’m at #Rhizosphere6 in Edinburgh! Excited to hear some exciting research!

First look at preprint of the AMAP Arctic Climate Change Update 2024 report www.amap.no/documents/do... and Chapter 4 on #Arctic & high-latitude #wildfires with thanks to co-authors @jmccartygeo.bsky.social Juha Aalto @morganahcrowley.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social & @mikeflannigan.bsky.social

Personally I am disappooffed

I want to connect with and highlight more trans voices working with plants, wildlife, and the natural environment so I've created a starter pack!

If this sounds like you, introduce yourself by quote-posting this skeet and I'll add you to the list 🏳️‍⚧️

How to find fun data Learn about 3 different ways to find datasets to play with

You can’t learn #rstats just by reading books or watching videos of other people writing R code. You will learn faster if you find some data that you are curious about and use your new coding skills to answer a question about it.

How to find fun data to play with....

I was feeling pretty rubbish this morning (my hockey teams both lost last night and I have killer hay-fever), but I read a really great essay from one of my tutees that engaged in all the things we’ve discussed this term, and it’s genuinely made my day! ☺️😌 feels like a rare teaching win #academicsky

Of course.

Special shoutout to my colleagues who thought "diversity had gone too far," especially the ones who pretended that diversity statements were oppression.

Just ten years ago the UK was top of the list - the best place in Europe for LGBT rights. We are now 22nd

The only country to drop faster in one year than us is Hungary

The government needs to act in a major way before this becomes their entire legacy