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Marcus Collier

@marcuscollier.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Sustainability Science at Trinity College Dublin. PI of NovelEco (www.noveleco.eu) @noveleco.bsky.social ERC Consolodator Award. Research: #naturebasedsolutions #novelecosystems #citizenscience #multispeciesjustice #naturepositive

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An effort to seed a revival of hedgerows in Dublin city “We're going to develop different urban trial hedgerows,” says Sophie von Maltzan. “The edible hedgerow, and the not-so-fast-growing hedgerow, and the thorn-free hedge.”

An effort to seed a revival of hedgerows in Dublin city www.dublininquirer.com/an-effort-to...

24.07.2025 08:39 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

top of the article here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

16.07.2025 12:59 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Global synthesis and regional insights for mainstreaming urban nature-based solutions | PNAS Nature-based solutions (NbS) have emerged as a key strategy for sustainably addressing multiple urban challenges, with rapidly increasing knowledge...

I'm excited to share our Global Synthesis on Urban #Nature-based solutions. A meta-analysis of over 60 review papers combined with review from NBS experts in 7 global regions. See insights as well other articles in this Special Feature in PNAS, an output from NATURA www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

16.07.2025 12:55 — 👍 24    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 0

@marcuscollier.bsky.social @nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social @pabloherreros.bsky.social

16.07.2025 12:55 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

The second ‘Global synthesis and regional insights for mainstreaming #urban #naturebasedsolutions, led by Dr. @timonm.bsky.social‬, can be found here: www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10..... This was a huge effort and a key output from the excellent NATURA Project team! Also #openaccess thanks to the NSF.

14.07.2025 20:24 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

I’m delighted to be part of the writing team for TWO exciting new papers published today as part of the Natura Project Network; #openaccess thanks to the NSF. ‘Nature-based solutions for #urban #sustainability’, led by Dr Elizabeth Cook, is here: www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.... #naturebasedsolutions

14.07.2025 20:24 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Great weather for doing some research on drystone wall ecology. Here, with two recently graduated students working as excellent research assistants, Órla R. Fitzgerald and Evelyn Sweeney, we are collecting some very preliminary data and testing methods.

12.07.2025 06:35 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Leveraging machine learning techniques for image classification and revealing social media insights into human engagement with urban wild spaces Scientific Reports - Leveraging machine learning techniques for image classification and revealing social media insights into human engagement with urban wild spaces

Our latest open-access @noveleco.bsky.social paper is out! 'Leveraging machine learning techniques for image classification and revealing social media insights into human engagement with urban wild spaces'. We scraped social media data to show general attitudes to #urbanwildspaces rdcu.be/evHeW.

10.07.2025 17:25 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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We are hiring!
The School of Natural Sciences in Trinity College Dublin is seeking to appoint a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Environmental Science.
Apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui..., and under 'Department', scroll to The School of Natural Sciences. Deadline: August 15th.

04.07.2025 13:44 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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We're hiring a Teaching Fellow for the next academic year. An applied ecologist with expertise in terrestrial field ecology and contemporary biodiversity loss/policy issues. See the TCD vacancies site or contact me for details. Please circulate, especially to PhD students nearing completion.

27.06.2025 14:52 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Advancing Multispecies Justice via Capability-Based Nature Solutions In an era defined by urgent environmental crises and accelerating urbanization, the quest for equitable and sustainable solutions has never been more pressing. A groundbreaking study led by

Our latest open source publication is making the news!
Advancing Multispecies Justice via Capability-Based Nature Solutions scienmag.com/advancing-mu...

17.06.2025 14:56 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Advancing Multispecies Justice via Capability-Based Nature Solutions In an era defined by urgent environmental crises and accelerating urbanization, the quest for equitable and sustainable solutions has never been more pressing. A groundbreaking study led by

A great write-up on our recent publication led by Melissa Pineda-Pinto

@marcuscollier.bsky.social @noveleco.bsky.social

scienmag.com/advancing-mu...

17.06.2025 09:56 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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🎉 Launch day! #Science2Story is here!

As 21 Biodiversa+ funded research projects wrap up, they’ve teamed up with NBSComics to transform key findings into three powerful long-form comics.

🌍 Dive into the comics 👉 nbscomics.com/science2story/

10.06.2025 10:35 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Extinction of nature’s giants tracks human expansion across the globe Due to their size and abundance, these creatures shaped the ecosystems in which they lived – but today all are nearly gone

Great paper by @jcsvenning.bsky.social and his team discussed in today's @irishtimes.com.
Extinction of nature’s giants tracks human expansion across the globe. www.irishtimes.com/science/2025...

06.06.2025 07:37 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Don’t miss this great new paper about Co-creation in urban sustainability transitions just published in Urban Transformations @biomedcentral.bsky.social

02.06.2025 21:58 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

A little less than a week left to apply for these positions! #roots #rootecolology #biogeochemistry #phd

05.06.2025 10:25 — 👍 4    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 2

PhD: Plant-Soil Field Ecology / Ecophysiology -> tinyurl.com/k2ymn5mv
PhD: Computational methods to use our plant-soil image data -> tinyurl.com/4hbcwa8v
Research Assistant/Technician -> tinyurl.com/ydvbpj6n
(links will be updated to my university website once online)

13.05.2025 15:01 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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⏰ I’m advertising not 1️⃣ but 3️⃣ positions!⏰, one RA and two #PhD s (fully funded 4 year EU/UK fees) as part of my team at @tcddublin.bsky.social looking at how roots work in natural ecosystems and influence greenhouse gas fluxes 🌏 🍃 🌲 💻

13.05.2025 15:01 — 👍 8    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 3
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We're looking for TWO lecturers (in Conservation Biology & Evolutionary Ecology) to join us in this beautiful corner of the world! Come join our pretty awesome (if I do say so myself!) department! 💚 @zoologyotago.bsky.social

otago.taleo.net/careersectio...

otago.taleo.net/careersectio...

21.05.2025 20:04 — 👍 66    🔁 74    💬 1    📌 1
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Realizing multispecies justice through a capability approach to promote nature-based solutions - npj Urban Sustainability npj Urban Sustainability - Realizing multispecies justice through a capability approach to promote nature-based solutions

Wonderful new paper from our amazing Dr. Melissa Pineda-Pinto and the NovelEco team: Realizing #multispeciesjustice through a capability approach to promote #naturebasedsolutions. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

29.05.2025 07:17 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

🌱 We argue for the untapped potential of novel ecologies as crucial sites for just a d biodiverse urban futures.

29.05.2025 06:52 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

🌱 Our findings highlight how recognizing more-than-hunan agencies can help identify vulnerabilities and opportunities for multispecies flourishing in urban settings.

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🌱 We use the Capability Approach as a bridge between these frameworks, tested through embodied place-based workshops in novel urban ecologies.

29.05.2025 06:51 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Realizing multispecies justice through a capability approach to promote nature-based solutions - npj Urban Sustainability npj Urban Sustainability - Realizing multispecies justice through a capability approach to promote nature-based solutions

🌱🌱🌱 New Publication 🌱🌱🌱

I'm proud to be a co-author on a paper exploring how multispecies justice can be meaningfully integrated into nature-based solutions in cities.

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

29.05.2025 06:51 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

📣📣 New paper alert 📣📣 on the why, how and whom of co-creation for urban governance 🙌

27.05.2025 21:37 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Premises, practices and politics of co-creation for urban sustainability transitions - Urban Transformations Co-creation is becoming a widely used mode of urban governance and research for city-making and city-transitioning being conceptually entangled with experimentation, innovation and collaboration. In t...

It has taken several years to get this paper published, but finally, thanks to our fantastic lead author, Prof.
@nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social, here it is!
'Premises, practices and politics of co-creation for urban sustainability transitions.' urbantransformations.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

27.05.2025 20:06 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 2
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Beats mine!

08.05.2025 14:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

**Join Our Team! 🚀**
🌟 **Exciting Postdoc Opportunity!** @econovoau.bsky.social 🌍
Dive into groundbreaking research that explores how rising ecological novelty transforms #biodiversity and #vegetation! 🌿 —apply now! 👉 shorturl.at/t45JT #ecology #ecologyjob #macroecology

01.05.2025 15:30 — 👍 9    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 0
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Day 3 of the exhilarating @noveleco.bsky.social workshop on #NovelEcosystems is here! Diving into an engaging session focused on the purpose and innovative revisions of this groundbreaking concept. It has been great to be part of this inspiring discussion!

01.05.2025 13:34 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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How do we move forward with the novel ecosystem concept? Some deep and exciting conversations happening at the symposium hosted by @noveleco.bsky.social #NovelEcosystems

01.05.2025 10:58 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

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