Are you looking for a peaty Christmas gift🎁? Or do you simply appreciate the beauty of peatlands? #PeatSky
Order our 2026 #PEATcalendar, featuring 12 stunning photos of peatland wildlife submitted by the peatland community:
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Your purchase will support early career researchers #PeatECR
So excited #PEATcalendar is back for 2026! 🎉
Look at all the animals and critters you can find in a peatland 🐻🐍🦆🦡🕸️
The sea urchin might be a bit surprising? Get a calendar to learn how it ended up in a peatland.
Thanks to everyone who contributed photos for the calendar! #PeatECR #PeatSky
📊 What makes it unique?
✅ 168 peatlands analyzed – an unprecedented dataset!
✅ Full commitment to open science: article + all environmental & vegetation data freely available.
#OpenScience #Sphagnum #peatlands #bryophytes #PeatSky #PeatECR
We are looking for a postdoc to help us develop a novel #Peatland Triage Tool as part of the RESPECT project (gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref...).
More details in the advert below.
Vacancy details | University of Stirling share.google/t3mKgh2EZAmr...
🧪 #PeatSky #Postdoc #AcedemicJobs
🌿 New PERG publication in #RestorationEcology
We tracked 147 restored #peatland sectors over 20 years to assess the Moss Layer Transfer Technique #MLTT.
➡️ Up to 80% success in under 10 years in the St. Lawrence Lowlands region
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PeatSky #PeatECR
🎓 Tons of grad school options… but this one stands out!
Why do your master’s with me?
🌱 Help restore disturbed #peatlands
🌿 Join PERG, global leader in peatland science
🤝 Vibrant team (20+), weekly meetups, great vibes
➡️ shorturl.at/BgIPE
#PeatSky #PeatECR
Logo for Bog Day in lime green and tomato red colours.
#BogDay is fast approaching bringing the opportunity to celebrate bogs, fens, swamps & marshes. The annual event is held this year on 27th July bogday.org
Send details of your events/celebrations to info@iucn.org.uk - we'd love to share your ideas.
#BogDay #CelebratePeatlands #PeatSky
🌍 Big news in peatland science!
5 current & former PERG researchers are in the global top 10 for peatland restoration! 🌿
🏆 Shoutout to Line Rochefort #1 worldwide!
💥 @ulaval.ca also ranks #1 globally!
📖 Read: shorturl.at/uJl6A
#Peatlands #PeatSky
@wetland-ghg.bsky.social @peatofmind.bsky.social
🎙️ A must-listen! 🌿🔥
@peatofmind.bsky.social was recently interviewed on CBC’s Québec AM to discuss the importance of peatland restoration as a nature-based solution to reduce the impact of wildfires.
shorturl.at/nEbt5
#PeatlandMatter #PeatSky #Wildfires #ClimateChange #EcologicalRestoration
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A group photo standing behind the AGU logo
Hey #PeatSky - we're PanAm Peat! We'll be sharing updates here from our efforts to understand carbon and water cycles across tropical peatlands in Central and South America 💧🌴🦠
Some photos from our "kick off" at AGU last December - say hello if you recognize any of the peatland lovers here!
Close up picture of Sphagnum
Happy #WorldPeatlandsDay! How are you celebrating? Let's see your pictures.
Find out just some of the many benefits of this amazing habitat in our leaflet, "What's so special about Peatlands". tinyurl.com/tahhvdha
#Peatsky
Photo: Laurie Campbell, NatureScot
Thanks so much, Alice, for contributing to the session, and making it such an excellent event. The recording c an be watched back here www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzel... #Peatsky #Webinar
PhD student Greg Verkaik's @gregverkaik.bsky.social research is featured in today's McMaster Brighter World article.
#PeatSky #peatlands #wildfire
brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/fie...
Field photo: “It’s time to draw a line in the sand umm errr Sphagnum”
#Peatlands #PeatSky #wildfire
@nobel-water.bsky.social
I feel incredibly lucky that I get to do fieldwork in this incredible corner of the world.
Throwback to yesterday's short pitstop at the Bic national park on the way to a coastal marsh on the Gaspé peninsula #QC 🇨🇦💚
This coastline is incredible even in grey and rainy weather 🏞️🌫️
#PeatSky #PeatECR
#PeatSky - This is cool, @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social bought a mountain and are working towards #peatland restoration & nature reserve creation at #SkiddawForest.
They’re getting close to their target and could gain valuable extra £ through match-funding of any pennies sent their way this month 👇
Any help from the #PeatSky hive mind?
Flyer with gold background and white text advertising an online Sphagnum planting webinar. Flyer has two images - a Sphagnum plug plant in the palm of a person's hand in the bottom left and a tray of Sphagnum plug plants in the top right.
ICYMI, the recording from our #SphagnumPlanting webinar is now available to view on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvxJ...
Many thanks to all our speakers, who made this a really informative and interesting event. #PeatSky
Green road sign advertising job vacancy. Blue sky and clouds in the background.
Three #Peatland roles available with @peatlandcymru.bsky.social. Applications close 26th May
National Peatland Action Programme Team Leader bit.ly/4daaUgG
Peatland Data Support Team Leader bit.ly/4kiSUmU
Survey and Monitoring Team Leader bit.ly/4kdTMsN
#NationalPeatlandAction #PeatSky
Person gesturing towards a scientific poster on a wall.
📣Call for Conference 2025 #Posters. If you would like to present a peatland-themed poster, please send the title of the poster and a short abstract (max. 150 words) to info@iucn.org.uk. Deadline for abstracts - 1st September. Posters should be portrait in format and A0 in size if possible.
#PeatSky
All set up now in the new exhibition space of the Lullymore Heritage & Discovery Park. Come for the RePEAT exhibition, stay to look at some former peat extraction technology, bog cotton and rewetting-in-progress. Our exhibition will be there until 30 May.
#peatsky
It's time for some visuals!!! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 has a cover. Out this fall with @cambridgeup.bsky.social
#envhist #skystorians #PeatSky #energysky
The Okefenokee Swamp, which fyi is effectively storing 120,000,000 metric tons of carbon, is about to be messed with because a chap wants to make fingerpaint. The gov is full of cooked zombies, but how about mercilessly guilt-tripping the business owner? arc-sos.state.al.us/cgi/corpdeta... #peatsky
🌿 New Report Alert! 🌿
D. Campbell and L. Rochefort have published an annotated bibliography covering major stressors and mitigation strategies for #peatlands in the Hudson Bay Lowland and Boreal Shield.
📄 Report rb.gy/qd5au7
📚 Bibliography (Zotero) rb.gy/3lq0fj
🔍 How to use rb.gy/e7492w
#PeatSky
This is a permanent/tenured position, so a fantastic opportunity for an #ECR. Please share around your networks and encourage interested applicants to contact me if they have any questions
#PeatSky #PeatlandsMatter
🎊 Scholastica user spotlight:
We're excited to announce Mires and Peat, published by the International Mire Conservation Group and @peatlands.bsky.social, is now using Scholastica's OA Publishing Platform.
Learn more here: t.co/vUQ1ta1oJV
#OA #PeatlandsMatter #PeatSky
It was a pleasure to have you up in Manchester again. Great to hear about all the #communityscience work you're doing - look forward to see #PeatColours develop over the coming years! #PeatSky #peatlands
Scouting our next CARBONIQUE flux tower site in perfect Quebec winter weather with the best team today ❄️🌲 💚 #PeatSky #PeatECR
Fantastic graphics by the Wildlife Conservation Society on where peatlands are globally, where they're protected, and extent of human pressures on these intensely carbon & biodiversity important ecosystems #peatlands #peatsky
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/3265...
